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Guyana’s Local Content Policy remains bound by confidentiality provisions

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s Local Content Policy remains bound by confidentiality provisions

By Kiana Wilburg A preliminary review of Guyana’s Local Content Policy shows that some key recommendations which were made, have been ignored. The draft report which was done by UK Consultant, Dr....

Guyanese expertise to be included in completion of second FPSO

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese expertise to be included in completion of second FPSO

The completion of the Liza Unity, the second Floating Production Storage and Operating (FPSO) to operate in the oil-rich Stabroek Block, will see the use of local expertise. This was recently...

CJ dismisses challenge to Minister Trotman’s issuance of oil exploration licences

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CJ dismisses challenge to Minister Trotman’s issuance of oil exploration licences

Chief Justice Roxane George has dismissed the legal challenge to Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman over the issuance of exploration licenses to subsidiary oil companies to carry out...

Pilot survives after crop-dusting plane flips while landing

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pilot survives after crop-dusting plane flips while landing

A pilot conducting crop-dusting for rice farmers in the Mahaicony area, is lucky to be alive, after the aircraft flipped while landing at Burma. In a private hospital up to last evening was...

Cops smash Belle West burglary gang

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cops smash Belle West burglary gang

– ‘mastermind’ allegedly hired ‘junkies’ to break into homes Police have reportedly smashed a Belle West, Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara burglary gang, which allegedly included...

Petition to liberalise telecoms sector sent to 11 political parties

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Petition to liberalise telecoms sector sent to 11 political parties

A petition from more than 5,400 citizens has been sent to 11 political parties to help up pressure for the liberalisation of the telecoms sector. The ‘LiberalisationNOW’ petition, backed by...

US$75M, 150-room AC Marriott Hotel for Ogle

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US$75M, 150-room AC Marriott Hotel for Ogle

– Trinidadian businessman John Aboud is investor – NICIL There will be the turning of the sod this afternoon to start the construction of a US$75M, 150-room hotel at Ogle, East Coast...

One newspaper want stop de Mayor siren

Feb 13, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on One newspaper want stop de Mayor siren

Old people got a saying about monkey when it ain’t got nutten to do. It does use a perfume bottle and everybody know de size of de bottle mouth. De Mayor, who is de most important man in de city,...

Love is Free

Feb 13, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Love is Free

E-mails are the in-thing these days. The only mails I get in my letter box, which is nailed onto my gate, are bills – water, electricity and telephone. This is quite unlike my e-mail inbox, which...

Hung jury in rape trial of bus conductor

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Hung jury in rape trial of bus conductor

A retrial is pending for 37-year-old rape accused Dexter McIntosh after his trial ended in a hung jury yesterday. McIntosh had been on trial for the offence before Justice Jo Ann Barlow and a 12...

15 years for man who chopped neighbour to death

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 15 years for man who chopped neighbour to death

A Williamsburg, Corentyne man has been jailed for 15 years for killing his neighbour. Vejai Rickbarran, 31, admitted to killing Muhamed Assad Abdul , on October 29, 2017 in the aforementioned...

Teen among two brothers held for Giftland Mall robbery – hunt continues for third man

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Teen among two brothers held for Giftland Mall robbery – hunt continues for third man

Police have detained an 18-year-old, a day after arresting his 21-year-old brother for last Monday night’s robbery at the GTT booth located inside the Giftland Mall. Both youths reside in the...

Child Welfare Officer’s face slashed during attempted robbery

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Child Welfare Officer’s face slashed during attempted robbery

Forty-one year-old Robeena Zaman will forever carry a mark on her face, reminding her of a terrifying experience in which she was attacked by a knife-wielding bandit. The woman, a Child Care...

Sod turned for new Gold Board HQ, Health Ministry lab at Liliendaal

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Sod turned for new Gold Board HQ, Health Ministry lab at Liliendaal

The Ministries of Public Health and Natural Resources yesterday hosted a ceremonial sod-turning for the new Epidemiology and Entomology Lab and the Guyana Gold Board’s (GGB) Head Office Building...

GPHC CEO refutes claims of suspected Coronavirus case at hospital

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC CEO refutes claims of suspected Coronavirus case at hospital

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), retired Brigadier George Lewis, is refuting all claims regarding a diagnosed case of Coronavirus at the city...

Windsor Forest A overcome All Youths A, Singh slams ton, Rajpat, Shun bag 5

Feb 13, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windsor Forest A overcome All Youths A, Singh slams ton, Rajpat, Shun bag 5

Windsor Forest CC A defeated All Youths B by six wickets when the West Demerara Cricket Association (WDCA) Beacon Café 50 overs competition continued on Sunday last. In a game which was reduced to...

Trial of accused in murder of Haslington fisherman ongoing

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Trial of accused in murder of Haslington fisherman ongoing

Errol Khan, the man who is accused of hacking fisherman Chetram Bharrat to death, is presently on trial for murder before Justice Brassington Reynolds and a jury at the High Court in Demerara. Khan,...

Wellman Masters claim Mommy’s Corner T20 softball title

Feb 13, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wellman Masters claim Mommy’s Corner T20 softball title

Wellman Masters defeated Fisherman Masters by seven wickets to win the final of the Mommy’s Corner T20 softball tournament which was contested on Sunday last at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara....

RFA kicks off 56-Team 2020 Champions League Season GFF President and Lethem Mayor, officiate

Feb 13, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on RFA kicks off 56-Team 2020 Champions League Season GFF President and Lethem Mayor, officiate

Being encouraged to stick together so that the Rupununi Football Association (RFA) can achieve greater heights in the sport, their 2020 season by way of the 5th edition of their Champions League,...

Teen remanded on armed robbery charge

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Teen remanded on armed robbery charge

Nineteen-year-old Kevin Williams who is charged for robbery under arms, yesterday appeared before Principal Magistrate Faith McGusty in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where he was remanded to...

Action on in Forbes Burnham Foundation AL Sport & Tour Promotions Windball Cricket

Feb 13, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Action on in Forbes Burnham Foundation AL Sport & Tour Promotions Windball Cricket

Results in the Forbes Burnham Foundation – AL Sport & Tour Promotions “Hit It For 50” Schools Windball Cricket played at the National Gymnasium organised by Sports Officer A...

MVP Sports backs Magnum Mash Cup

Feb 13, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on MVP Sports backs Magnum Mash Cup

MVP Sports has thrown their support behind the organisers of the third annual Magnum Mash Fustal competition. The tournament is set to continue on Saturday with semi-final action. MVP Sports has...

National oil spill contingency plan in operation

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on National oil spill contingency plan in operation

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) has begun the operationalisation of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan, with the hosting of a simulation exercise to test Guyana’s response capability....

Flying Ace Cycle Club holds another Awards Ceremony

Feb 13, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Flying Ace Cycle Club holds another Awards Ceremony

The Flying Ace Cycle Club (FACC) of Berbice recently hosted its 21st Annual Awards Ceremony at the New Amsterdam Town Hall. During the awards ceremony the outstanding cyclists of the club were...

Man gets two months for damaging car windscreen

Feb 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man gets two months for damaging car windscreen

Thirty-seven-year-old Jason Stephens was yesterday sentenced to two months’ imprisonment after he opted to change his plea and admitted to damaging the windscreen of a woman’s car. Stephens was...

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The GRA is batting out of its crease

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again demonstrated a perplexing propensity... more