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Contract for Crude Marketer… Thorough background checks will be carried out on all oil bidders – Energy Dept.

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Contract for Crude Marketer… Thorough background checks will be carried out on all oil bidders – Energy Dept.

In its pursuit of a Marketer for Guyana’s share of the Stabroek Block oil, the Energy Department will be doing a thorough background check on all bidders. This was noted in the Expression of...

‘Crime Chief targeting me’— Roger Khan … files complaint with Police Complaints Authority

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Crime Chief targeting me’— Roger Khan … files complaint with Police Complaints Authority

Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan has filed a complaint against the police Crime Chief, Michael Kingston, claiming harassment. According to attorney-at-law, Glenn Hanoman, the complaint results from what...

Container trucks should be confined to designated roads – City Mayor

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Container trucks should be confined to designated roads – City Mayor

Mayor of Georgetown, Ubraj Narine, is in support of calls to have heavy-duty vehicles particularly container trucks confined to using designated roads in the city. In response to concerns about the...

Jagdeo agrees with decision to reduce private polling places … as long as there are public buildings

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo agrees with decision to reduce private polling places … as long as there are public buildings

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo agrees that private polling places should be reduced. He just wants to ensure that the reductions are not unfair, or done in places where there aren’t sufficient...

Woman shot dead, ex-cop ‘Spoil Child’ wounded in attack at Linden house

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Woman shot dead, ex-cop ‘Spoil Child’ wounded in attack at Linden house

Ex-policeman Teon Allen, called ‘Spoil Child’, was once again at the receiving end of a brutal attack by gunmen, who shot his reputed wife dead and left Allen reportedly critical. The shooting...

Crane crashes into Municipal Abattoir

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Crane crashes into Municipal Abattoir

A crane owned by John Fernandes Ltd yesterday fell onto the Municipal Abattior located at Water Street, Georgetown. As a result, the kitchen area and sections of the roof of the building have been...

US$20M loan for oil sector… Energy Dept open to complaints on spending

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US$20M loan for oil sector… Energy Dept open to complaints on spending

The Department of Energy is in the process of implementing a World Bank funded Project titled: “Guyana Petroleum Resources Governance and Management Project” which aims to support the enhancement...

Rose Hall businessman’s bound, battered body on farm

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Rose Hall businessman’s bound, battered body on farm

– safe stolen, 3 in custody – unlicensed gun found in home It was just around 7:30 am yesterday when two construction workers made a grisly discovery on the Sha’veh farm property, which...

Wife chops husband to death

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Wife chops husband to death

Police in Berbice are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 41-year-old man who was chopped by his 52-year-old wife on February 24, last. Dead is Anthony “Banks” Permaul, a...

Lie, lie and more lie… politicians lie

Feb 28, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Lie, lie and more lie… politicians lie

Politicians does lie like when horse trotting. Every step dem mek is a false step. When dem open dem mouth every word dem talk is a lie. Dem boys know dat Jagdeo is one man who does lie without...

Guyana has capacity to teach other countries about forest monitoring – Norway report

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana has capacity to teach other countries about forest monitoring – Norway report

A mid-term report by Norway has lauded Guyana on its increased capacity to monitor its forests. The report by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), has been prepared by LTS...

Guyana is not prepared for the coronavirus

Feb 28, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyana is not prepared for the coronavirus

There is something much more serious than the threat of violence should the loser in next Monday’s general elections not accept defeat. The discovery of the first case of the coronavirus in the...

Driver implicated in teen’s death turns self in – vehicle was stashed in container

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Driver implicated in teen’s death turns self in – vehicle was stashed in container

Balram Nellie, who was implicated in the hit-and run death of 17-year-old Kwon Trotz, turned himself over to police yesterday, mere hours after police issued a wanted bulletin for him. Police said...

Windsor developer pays $900M for 30-acre Ogle plot

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Windsor developer pays $900M for 30-acre Ogle plot

An ambitious second-phase development at Ogle, East Coast Demerara, cost the developers of Windsor Estates $900M. According to Danny Sawh of Navigant Builders Inc., the development will see a...

43 joint services ranks will vote on Monday …due to failure of aircraft to land

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 43 joint services ranks will vote on Monday …due to failure of aircraft to land

Several members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) are set to vote on Monday, March 2, 2020. Thirty-five police officers and eight soldiers will be flown to their...

Gary Best to be slapped with DUI, dangerous driving charges – DPP recommends

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Gary Best to be slapped with DUI, dangerous driving charges – DPP recommends

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that former Chief-of-Staff and Ret’d Rear Admiral, Gary Best, be placed before the court for causing the February 8, 2020 death of cyclist Jude...

Fisherman, wife bedridden after LBI accident

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fisherman, wife bedridden after LBI accident

Almost one month after they were struck down by an ex-policeman on the La Bonne Intention (LBI) public road, 23-year-old Naresh Chunilall and his 20-year-old wife, Priya Mangra, are now bedridden due...

CEO of ERC resigns

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CEO of ERC resigns

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), Yvonne Langevine, has resigned from her post as the head of that constitutional agency. The Commission confirmed Langevine’s...

11 witnesses to testify in Christmas Day stabbing

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 11 witnesses to testify in Christmas Day stabbing

Eleven witnesses will be called on to testify when the preliminary inquiry (PI) begins into the murder of Latoya Haywood, who was fatally stabbed on Christmas Day, last year. Twenty-three year-old...

2020 Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship

Feb 28, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2020 Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship

Guyana’s ‘Lady Jags’ go down to Mexico; focus now turn to round-of-16 Guyana’s ‘Lady Jaguars’ went down to group winners Mexico by a 0-3 margin last night at the Olimpico Felix Sanchez...

Elections Day declared National Holiday

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Elections Day declared National Holiday

Monday, March 2, 2020 the day designated for National and Regional Elections, has been declared a public holiday. This was on February 25, officially gazetted under the Public Holidays Act (CAP...

Porkknocker’s partly decomposed body found floating in Konawaruk River

Feb 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Porkknocker’s partly decomposed body found floating in Konawaruk River

The partly decomposed body of a porkknocker was discovered floating in the Konawaruk River, Essequibo, on Wednesday. Dead is 30-year-old Cecil Marco, of Moruka, North West District, Region One....

2020 Concacaf Men’s U-20 Championship Guyana’s performance hailed as best ever

Feb 28, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2020 Concacaf Men’s U-20 Championship Guyana’s performance hailed as best ever

By Zaheer Mohamed Despite five of its players being denied entry into Nicaragua the Guyana male Under-20 team had a commendable outing in the 2020 Concacaf Men’s U-20 Qualifying championship,...

Justice Claudette Singh needs to safeguard her integrity ASAP

Feb 28, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Justice Claudette Singh needs to safeguard her integrity ASAP

I refer readers to my column titled, “Claudette Singh, Lennox Shuman, GECOM and tragic Guyana” of Saturday, February 1, 2020. In that piece I wrote the following; “I have always had a good...

Regional Four-Day Championship Permaul rips apart Scorpions to give Jaguars edge

Feb 28, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional Four-Day Championship Permaul rips apart Scorpions to give Jaguars edge

Florence Hall, Jamaica, CMC – Veerasammy Permaul’s 28th five-wicket haul in first class cricket helped cripple Jamaica Scorpions on the opening day of the sixth round encounter here yesterday....

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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