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Fresh impetus in fight against climate emergency in the Caribbean

Jan 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fresh impetus in fight against climate emergency in the Caribbean

By Nelson A. King UNITED NATIONS (CMC) –The United Nations has hailed what it describes as “fresh impetus” in the fight against the climate emergency that has had disproportionate, negative...

GTTA National Senior and Junior C/ships set for this month

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA National Senior and Junior C/ships set for this month

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) in collaboration with the National Sports Commission (NSC) and some key sponsors will stage the 2020 edition of the National Senior, Junior and Cadet...

Minister fixes road destroyed by resident

Jan 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Minister fixes road destroyed by resident

Minister within the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI), Jaipaul Sharma, has said that he is very aware that Guyana is losing significant revenue by continuously repairing damaged roads. As...

The Writers’ Corner… Author turned humanitarian shares her goals for 2020

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on The Writers’ Corner… Author turned humanitarian shares her goals for 2020

Interviewer: Glenville Ashby, PhD In her 2014 critically acclaimed, ‘Mek Wi Laugh &Talk: An Anthology of Jamaican Poems,’ Donna Hart bared her concerns over the many shortcomings besetting...

Colvin Heath-London Inter Secondary Schools T20 Cricket Competition set for this month

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Colvin Heath-London Inter Secondary Schools T20 Cricket Competition set for this month

Former National Youth Cricketer and sports fanatic, Colvin Heath -London has indicated that he will be establishing a national Inter Secondary School T20 Cricket competition. The inaugural...

Kaieteur News Cartoon Jan. 05 2020

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Nightmare for a chicken.

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nightmare for a chicken.

Dear Editor, On Jan 1, a Facebook friend forwarded a video (approx. 15 seconds long) of one of the most horrific acts of cruelty I have ever seen. To this day, I think of what this chicken went...

Manna does not fall from heaven anymore.

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Manna does not fall from heaven anymore.

Dear Editor, I am appalled at the consternation shown by one Mike McCormack for the newly elected president of GGDMA, Andron Alphonso’s opening speech, in which Mr Alphonso outlined the...

Freddie Kissoon replies to Nigel Hinds

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon replies to Nigel Hinds

Dear Editor, The prime ministerial candidate for Change Guyana party, Mr. Nigel Hinds, has replied to a statement of mine in my column of December 23 in which I indicated that I have documents on his...

3) Where is the money coming from and who

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on 3) Where is the money coming from and who

are the people behind the money? Dear Editor, I just came off the road and there they were: hanging, staring, bracing. From above and around and below, from everywhere it seems. That would be the...

A unified front and intelligent negotiation

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A unified front and intelligent negotiation

is our saving grace from divide and conquer Dear Editor, I agonised prior to writing this letter as to whether or not the focus should be about Jadgeo, or the giddy exhilaration over ‘First...

Keep the campaign clean and free from intimidation and acrimony

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Keep the campaign clean and free from intimidation and acrimony

DEAR EDITOR, As the campaign for the March 2, 2020 national and regional elections heats up, it is essential that we keep the campaign clean and free from intimidation and acrimony. The emphasis...

Nigeria loses billions in profits to well-connected middlemen in oil sales

Jan 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Nigeria loses billions in profits to well-connected middlemen in oil sales

Oil is arguably Nigeria’s biggest revenue earner. Its federal government regulates the sale of the crude, selling roughly one million barrels per day via the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...

APNU+AFC launches election campaign – “Don’t stop the progress!”

Jan 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC launches election campaign – “Don’t stop the progress!”

The governing coalition, A Partnership for National Unity +Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) held its election campaign launch at D’Urban Park last night, in a parade of green and yellow. Thousands of...

State of mining sector is a nightmare – EPA Head

Jan 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on State of mining sector is a nightmare – EPA Head

By Kiana Wilburg When he considers all that is needed to get the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in order for the petroleum sector, the entity’s head, Dr. Vincent Adams posits that one can...

Former army chief, Mark Phillips, chosen as PPP PM candidate

Jan 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Former army chief, Mark Phillips, chosen as PPP PM candidate

– Juan Edghill steps aside With two months to go before general elections, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has chosen former army chief, Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark A. Phillips MSS, MSc as...

GRA moves to fill more posts in Oil & Gas Dept.

Jan 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GRA moves to fill more posts in Oil & Gas Dept.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) in an effort to boost its capacity in the oil and gas sector is looking to regularise a number of vacancies in its recently established Oil and Gas Department....

Exxon gas project in PNG underscores need to release all economic models

Jan 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon gas project in PNG underscores need to release all economic models

An ExxonMobil-led Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project in Papua New Guinea has failed to provide the projected economic growth for the people of that Asia-Pacific country. One of the failures noted in...

Int’l press body calls on Govt. to review ads distribution

Jan 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Int’l press body calls on Govt. to review ads distribution

The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) has asked Government to review its policy of allocating state ads, following a complaint by privately-owned Stabroek News. Hours after the newspaper wrote...

Authorities foil Camp St. Prison break plot – 2017 escapee among masterminds

Jan 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Authorities foil Camp St. Prison break plot – 2017 escapee among masterminds

Officers of the Guyana Prison Service yesterday foiled an escape plot by several high profile prisoners at the Camp Street Prison. According to a statement released by the Director of Prisons (ag),...

De Bishop get push aside

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De Bishop get push aside

De madness start. Every time elections come around is all kind of things does happen. Dem political parties does try to present dem best image. When Papa Cheddi was going fuh power in 1992, he seh he...

Bandit shot dead during botched Tuschen restaurant robbery

Jan 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit shot dead during botched Tuschen restaurant robbery

– wounded accomplice, two others nabbed in car at roadblock A dramatic face-off last night between a gang of bandits and an armed Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo resident ended with one robber...

Thieves grab motorbike from owner in brazen daylight robbery

Jan 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Thieves grab motorbike from owner in brazen daylight robbery

Thieves no longer roam in the dead of the night but choose to brazenly attack in the light of day, having no regard for authority and forcing persons to be on alert even while carrying out daily...

SPENDING THE EARLY WINDFALL

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on SPENDING THE EARLY WINDFALL

Oil production began on 20th December last year, and not even a photograph was sent to the media by either the government or ExxonMobil of this historic event. As such, Guyanese have no proof that...

Man jailed for damaging sister’s phone, another gets 3 years for ganja

Jan 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man jailed for damaging sister’s phone, another gets 3 years for ganja

A man who was charged for damaging his sister’s cell phone during an argument was yesterday sentenced in absentia, after Magistrate Annette Singh found him guilty of the offence. The matter was...

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Guyana Beverages Inc. partners with GFF for Maid Marian Wheat Up Women’s Cup

Fastest growing economy and an empty stadium

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- It’s a classic Guyanese tale, really. You live in the fastest growing economy in the... more