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GCCI and GMSA unaware of members unable to get same tax breaks as foreign companies

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GCCI and GMSA unaware of members unable to get same tax breaks as foreign companies

– Promise to undertake review By Kiana Wilburg In the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) signed between Guyana and ExxonMobil, there is a provision which states that subcontractors and...

RUSAL selling electricity to businesses at commercial rates

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on RUSAL selling electricity to businesses at commercial rates

…company also selling electricity at commercial rates to businesses—Lewis Revelation that the Russian-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BCGI) is selling excess electricity generated from its...

Carter Centre accredited for 2020 elections

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Carter Centre accredited for 2020 elections

The Carter Centre has been accredited to observe the 2020 elections, an official of the Guyana Elections Commission, (GECOM) confirmed yesterday. Kaieteur News understands that the Carter Centre team...

Boy, 7, dead, family hospitalised after driver ploughs into pedestrians

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Boy, 7, dead, family hospitalised after driver ploughs into pedestrians

A seven-year-old boy is dead, his mother, sister and two other persons including another child are hospitalised after a reckless driver ploughed into them while they were standing along the Bush Lot,...

GNBA mulls regulatory framework for internet broadcast

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GNBA mulls regulatory framework for internet broadcast

– Promises Collaborative approach for monitoring elections Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) announced yesterday that the authority has kicked off its Citizen Monitoring Programme,...

Angry parent assaults primary school teacher

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Angry parent assaults primary school teacher

A grade one teacher attached to the Winfer Gardens Primary School was on Wednesday morning attacked by an angry parent who accused her of beating her child. The injured teacher, Yolanda Jackson, said...

Witnesses fearful of testifying against suspected gang members

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Witnesses fearful of testifying against suspected gang members

Witnesses have conveyed to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) that they are fearful of testifying against two men who are currently on remand for attempting to murder Teon “Spoil Child”...

Is sheer madness

Nov 28, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Is sheer madness

When de police ketch dem criminals and when de judges and magistrates send dem to jail de people does glad. Yesterday, people start to find out dat de people who controlling de jail don’t want some...

GECOM needs to get its house in order

Nov 28, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GECOM needs to get its house in order

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is in a mess. The problems which the Commission and its Secretariat are encountering reflect a palpable lack of understanding of data science. If GECOM wishes...

Three charged for gun possession following Agricola Raid

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Three charged for gun possession following Agricola Raid

Following a raid that was conducted in Agricola last week, three people faced gun-related charges. They were all remanded to prison. The men who were charged individually are Gregory Boyce, 31, of 39...

Corentyne’s businesses help former reporter with brain aneurysm

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne’s businesses help former reporter with brain aneurysm

The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC), in keeping with one of its corporate responsibilities to assist those in need, has made a monetary contribution to ruptured brain aneurysm patient,...

Houston, E.B.D. roadblock drama…

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Houston, E.B.D. roadblock drama…

One of captured men was released from long prison stay just three months ago Jason Burnette, one of the three men who was captured last Tuesday at a Houston, East Bank Demerara roadblock, was only...

Grandfather gets 19 years for killing reputed wife

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Grandfather gets 19 years for killing reputed wife

Leonard Allan, 64, a pensioner of Burnham Avenue, Rosignol, West Coast Berbice, who earlier pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter for killing his reputed wife has been jailed for 19...

DPP recommends wounding charge instead of attempted murder charge for Kitty resident

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on DPP recommends wounding charge instead of attempted murder charge for Kitty resident

A mason, who was facing an attempted murder charge two months ago, now has to make his court appearance for the lesser consequential charge of felonious wounding. Quincy Evans, a 24-year-old mason,...

Man who allegedly wounded colleague, caught three years later

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man who allegedly wounded colleague, caught three years later

After three years of evading the police, Ryan Lowe was on Tuesday brought before the court to answer to an attempted murder charge. The defendant appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the...

Traffic cops freed on bribery charge

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Traffic cops freed on bribery charge

Senior Magistrate Leron Daly yesterday dismissed a bribery charged level against traffic ranks Chris Brown and Mark Collins. The Magistrate upheld a no-case submission made by the men’s lawyer....

Wanted bulletin for suspect in AK-47, drugs find in Sophia

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Wanted bulletin for suspect in AK-47, drugs find in Sophia

Police are seeking Steve Richard Bacchus in connection with last Monday’s North Sophia raid that netted an AK-47 assault rifle, a handgun and narcotics. A bulletin issued, yesterday, stated that...

Open Doors capture Windball Cricket, Football titles at annual Special School Games

Nov 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Open Doors capture Windball Cricket, Football titles at annual Special School Games

Open Doors captured this year’s Windball Cricket and Football titles in the National Sports Commission Sponsored 4th Annual Special School Games played at the National Gymnasium. Open Doors...

Family offers reward for info on Bourda woman’s murder

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Family offers reward for info on Bourda woman’s murder

Almost two months after 67-year-old Marva Oudkerk was found dead in her Lot 241 Bourda Street, Georgetown home with a mosquito net tightly wrapped around her neck; the victim’s daughter, Makada...

North R/veldt Multilateral gets Lawn Tractor from Old Students’ Association

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on North R/veldt Multilateral gets Lawn Tractor from Old Students’ Association

The Old Students’ Association (comprising chapters from the USA, Canada and Guyana) of North Ruimveldt Multilateral Secondary School made a timely donation of a John Deere E140 Lawn Tractor last...

MMZ Future Youths are Bibi Farida Asgarally Memorial 25-over champs

Nov 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on MMZ Future Youths are Bibi Farida Asgarally Memorial 25-over champs

Meten-Meer-Zorg Future Youths beat Meten-Meer-Zorg senior team by 42 runs when the teams collided in the final of the Bibi Farida Asgarally Memorial 25 overs cricket match, played at the West...

High intensity battle expected as Rio Indoor Streetball continues tonight

Nov 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on High intensity battle expected as Rio Indoor Streetball continues tonight

The National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue will be the battleground tonight when the fate of the several high profile community teams will be decided in the final group stage round of the inaugural Rio...

Oil industry is unforgiving; we must get it right the first time

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Oil industry is unforgiving; we must get it right the first time

– Energy Dept. official tells leadership conference Guyana’s oil sector will not wait for Government to manage it right. It is an unforgiving sector, so it is important to get it right the first...

GTM/RCCI/RFA U-17 male and female Tourney

Nov 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTM/RCCI/RFA U-17 male and female Tourney

Guyana Rush Saints emerge as champions Guyana Rush Saints male and female teams emerged as the respective champions when the inaugural GTM Insurance Company sponsored Under-17 tournament under the...

Scrap iron galore as GPL decommissions Versailles, Anna Regina power plants

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Scrap iron galore as GPL decommissions Versailles, Anna Regina power plants

Scrap iron from two decommissioned power plants are up for grabs. Earlier this week, the state-owned Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) in an advertisement published in Kaieteur News announced that...

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The tirade against the independent media continues unabated

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- In every democracy worth its salt, the press serves as the watchdog, the thorn in the side... more