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Local businesses should be given tax waivers to compete with foreigners – Africa Energy CEO

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Local businesses should be given tax waivers to compete with foreigners – Africa Energy CEO

Ghanaian businessman, Kwame Jantuah, is the most recent person to join calls for local companies to be given first consideration for duty free waivers which will to help them be more competitive with...

Ballast water to be dumped into Ocean from Liza Phase One Project an environmental threat — Int’l Lawyer

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Ballast water to be dumped into Ocean from Liza Phase One Project an environmental threat — Int’l Lawyer

ExxonMobil’s Liza Phase One Project which is expected to produce at peak, 120,000 barrels of oil, will lead to a number of harmful fluids making its way into the ocean. The Environmental Impact...

Bedridden man travels miles to prove to NIS that he’s alive

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bedridden man travels miles to prove to NIS that he’s alive

… Pleads for scheme to visit remote areas A 76-year-old bedridden Sebastian Edmund pleaded with authorities of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) yesterday to visit remote areas. Edmund fell ill a...

Duo found guilty of killing guard during 2013 robbery at Lethem Post Office

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Duo found guilty of killing guard during 2013 robbery at Lethem Post Office

Alvin Kissoon and Calvin King were yesterday further remanded to prison after being found guilty of the January 2013 murder of security guard, John Friday, who was shot and killed during a robbery at...

Opposition: Total collapse imminent at GWI

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition: Total collapse imminent at GWI

…PPP affiliated organisations should pay their bills- Van West Charles The state-owned Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) is facing imminent collapse unless immediate actions are taken. Yesterday, former...

Police find AK-47, pistol, ammo, drugs in North Sophia raid

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Police find AK-47, pistol, ammo, drugs in North Sophia raid

A joint intelligence operation lasting for more than seven hours unearthed a large cache of cannabis, foreign and local currency and two weapons. Two persons, a construction worker and his wife, have...

Guyanese pirates handed heavy jail sentences in suriname

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese pirates handed heavy jail sentences in suriname

Seven pirates sentenced to 35 years imprisonment in Suriname Seven pirates will each have to serve 35 years for the deadly piracy act committed on the High Seas in April 2018. Twelve fishermen are...

Europe’s first ‘narco-submarine’ with 3,000 kilos coke believed made in Guyana

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Europe’s first ‘narco-submarine’ with 3,000 kilos coke believed made in Guyana

Spain (elpais.com)- Two crew members were arrested and a third got away during the joint operation on Sunday in the northwestern Galicia region. For Spanish narcotics officers, it had become...

Jordan is public enemy

Nov 26, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Jordan is public enemy

De worse thing anybody can do is to keep back people pay. Tell some people dat dem gon be paid weekly and dem gon smile. Change de pay day to monthly and you gon have a riot pon dem hand. Jordan tell...

THE WPA WILL ACCEPT THIS LATEST HUMILIATION IF ONLY TO REMAIN IN GOVERNMENT

Nov 26, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE WPA WILL ACCEPT THIS LATEST HUMILIATION IF ONLY TO REMAIN IN GOVERNMENT

Guyanese are experts at making up excuses. Whether it is cricket, football, boxing, politics or governance, Guyanese can concoct reasons to excuse their poor performance. A few years ago, a Guyanese...

Businessman charged for attempting to export $7.3M in raw gold

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman charged for attempting to export $7.3M in raw gold

– Being investigated for money laundering Businessman, Vibert Marks, yesterday found himself before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer to a charge in which he is accused of attempting to...

Tabatinga Creek Murder

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Tabatinga Creek Murder

Murdered Venezuelan identified but was buried immediately A few weeks ago, a Venezuelan national who was murdered and dumped into the shallows of the Tabatinga Creek near the Brazil-Lethem border,...

Trigger happy security arrested – Other colleagues likely to face dismissal

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Trigger happy security arrested – Other colleagues likely to face dismissal

The Sheriff Security Services guard who was recorded shooting his work-issued shotgun into the air has since been arrested. According to police sources, the man was arrested on Monday and police are...

City Hall seizes expired goods in Stabroek Bazaar

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall seizes expired goods in Stabroek Bazaar

More than 30 market vendors at the Stabroek Bazaar were beyond their wits yesterday morning when officials from City Hall invaded the market square and removed a number of expired good. Kaieteur News...

CJIA’s washrooms were closed for mandatory disinfection

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA’s washrooms were closed for mandatory disinfection

The closure of the washrooms at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, Friday evening for several hours, was a planned affair. According to the Ministry of Public Infrastructure...

Elderly man struck down by speeding pick up, dies on spot.

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Elderly man struck down by speeding pick up, dies on spot.

An elderly man met an untimely demise early yesterday morning, after he was fatally struck down by a speeding pickup, on the Coffee Grove Public Road, Essequibo Coast. The now dead man has been...

Agricola execution…Relative of injured teen denies altercation allegations

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Agricola execution…Relative of injured teen denies altercation allegations

…Claims grandson was innocent bystander The grandfather of the 15-year-old injured in Saturday’s execution-style killing of an Agricola resident has denied that the teen was involved in any...

Did Finance Minister Jordan mislead the nation?

Nov 26, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Did Finance Minister Jordan mislead the nation?

Someone wrote a reply to the following statement by Finance Minister, Winston Jordan; “By the time we are finished with salaries for this year, I can guarantee you that between July 1, 2015, and...

Norton Street murder PI… Victim’s sister cross-examined by defence lawyer

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Norton Street murder PI… Victim’s sister cross-examined by defence lawyer

The sister of Marlon Seon Rodney, called ‘George’, was yesterday cross-examined by the defence lawyer in the murder Preliminary Inquiry (PI) of her brother’s death. Rodney was shot and killed...

GCCI slams Govt. over policy imbalance favouring foreigners

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GCCI slams Govt. over policy imbalance favouring foreigners

…says clear advantage to GTT, T&T operators shows need for local content laws By Gary Eleazar The inability of local companies—large and small—to effectively compete with the plethora of...

Colonial Medical Super50 Cup

Nov 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Colonial Medical Super50 Cup

Patel’s 85, Netravalkar, Theron send Jaguars packing WIEP clinch last semi-final spot By Sean Devers in Trinidad In a game which was delayed by 30 minutes due to morning rain and three more...

Renewable Energy Statistics Workshop brings curtain down on CARICOM Energy Month

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Renewable Energy Statistics Workshop brings curtain down on CARICOM Energy Month

The final activity to mark CARICOM Energy Month, the Caribbean Renewable Energy Statistics Workshop, will be held in Bridgetown, Barbados. It will be convened from November 27 at the Accra Beach...

Palmer hundred in vain as Marooners sign off with defeat

Nov 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Palmer hundred in vain as Marooners sign off with defeat

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Paul Palmer’s maiden List A hundred went in vain as reigning champions CCC Marooners said goodbye to the Regional Super50 Cup, with a 51-run defeat to minnows Canada...

Port Kaituma protests electricity crisis

Nov 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Port Kaituma protests electricity crisis

Residents from Port Kaituma, North West District (NWD) demonstrated, yesterday, in front of the Port Kaituma Power Station over electricity crisis. Angered persons were seen marching with placards...

Victory Valley Royals win GABF U-18 3×3

Nov 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Victory Valley Royals win GABF U-18 3×3

The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) hosted the 2019 boys’ under-18 3×3 one-day tournament at the Burnham hard court on Sunday night to select the team that will represent Guyana at...