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No alternative to renegotiation

Aug 28, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on No alternative to renegotiation

Exxon says it is amenable to a review but not the renegotiation of its contract. It says that renegotiation would compromise the principle of sanctity of contracts, which is critical for investment...

Exxon’s threat to take investment elsewhere shows how worried it is

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon’s threat to take investment elsewhere shows how worried it is

– Guyana has no reason to be afraid-Dr. Mangal Upon noting the recent comments of ExxonMobil Guyana’s President, Alistair Routledge, to the effect that the company would take its money...

GECOM IT Technician arrested as probe continues

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM IT Technician arrested as probe continues

– Mingo remains in custody By Shikema Dey As the probe into the protracted March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections continues, investigators have moved to arrest Enrique Livan, the Guyana...

T&T Prime Minister shows Guyana renegotiation is possible, in changed situations

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on T&T Prime Minister shows Guyana renegotiation is possible, in changed situations

– Gets more than crumbs for T&T’s oil assets Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Keith Rowley, has never been shy about demanding that country’s fair share of its patrimony. Under...

Ex T&T Energy Minister, local content expert, among six on Local Content advisory panel

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ex T&T Energy Minister, local content expert, among six on Local Content advisory panel

President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced his appointment of six individuals to an advisory panel on local content. The list is constituted by Trinidadian energy strategist, Anthony Paul; former...

SOCU’s head submitted certificate signed by dead man

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on SOCU’s head submitted certificate signed by dead man

Former acting head of the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU), Althea Padmore, is alleged to have submitted a forged university degree to obtain her position at the unit. That unit, which falls under...

Phase 2 of Eccles dump-site building without HDPE liner

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Phase 2 of Eccles dump-site building without HDPE liner

– Minister unaware of changes to contract By Shikema Dey Worrying reports have emerged that cell sites at the Haags Bosch Industrial Landfill site at Eccles, East Bank Demerara, are being...

Bandits stick-up man in shower, cart off $1.8M

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits stick-up man in shower, cart off $1.8M

Three men yesterday entered the shop of a businessman, held him at gunpoint while he was taking a shower and carted off $1,800,000 in cash. The robbery tool place at around 06:30hrs at Kanawaruk,...

EPA Head dropped from Payara review, sent on leave

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on EPA Head dropped from Payara review, sent on leave

Head of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Vincent Adams, confirmed last evening that he has been instructed to proceed on 126 days leave which ultimately removes him from being part of the...

Alleged Ponzi schemers remanded after slapped with multiple charges

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged Ponzi schemers remanded after slapped with multiple charges

Yuri Garcia- Dominguez and his wife, Ateeka Ishmael, who are said to be a part of a multi-billion Ponzi scheme, were yesterday slapped with 19 fraud charges before two separate magistrates. The duo...

De Exxon deal wuss dan a Ponzi scheme

Aug 28, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De Exxon deal wuss dan a Ponzi scheme

Dem boys Seh… A man was passing by the Vigilance Police Station yesterday when he see a protest. He jump off he bicycle, pick up a piece of cardboard and start to shout! “Free Mingo now, Free...

Priya’s problems

Aug 28, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Priya’s problems

Priya Manickchand has returned to the Ministry of Education. Her previous stint there was conspicuous for its underachievement. The Minister of Education is best remembered for two incidents, one of...

12th Parliament to convene on Tuesday

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 12th Parliament to convene on Tuesday

The 12th Parliament is set to convene on Tuesday, September 1, 2020, with the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) government, leading the house with 33 seats. Yesterday, President Irfaan Ali,...

47 new cases as COVID-19 death toll rises to 32

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 47 new cases as COVID-19 death toll rises to 32

Guyana yesterday recorded its latest COVID-19 death, bringing the total death toll to 32. The deceased is a 52-year-old male, Alfred Humphrey, who was a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit...

Manoj Narayan appointed as Govt, Commissioner on GECOM

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Manoj Narayan appointed as Govt, Commissioner on GECOM

– Ganga Persaud to serve on Public Service Commission President Irfaan Ali yesterday administered the Oath of Office to Manoj Narayan, who will serve as a Government-nominated Commissioner to...

Elections petition to be filed Monday – Harmon

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Elections petition to be filed Monday – Harmon

The A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition will file its elections petition of the March 2nd General and Regional Elections on Monday, August 31, at the Supreme...

CH&PA reviewing questionable allocations of houselots

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CH&PA reviewing questionable allocations of houselots

The Ministry of Housing and Water yesterday announce that it has commenced a review exercise for questionable allocations made, following complains by allottees that they feel duped out of their...

Body of miner in boat mishap found

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Body of miner in boat mishap found

Police, on Wednesday last, found the body of the miner who disappeared after an aluminum boat sunk Tuesday at Gatie Falls, Semang Creek, Mazaruni River in Region Seven. The remains, identified to be...

Protestors burn tyres, picket at Belladrum for the release of Mingo

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Protestors burn tyres, picket at Belladrum for the release of Mingo

Several residents of Belladrum, Paradise, West Coast Berbice yesterday afternoon converged to protest the release of Region Four’s Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo. Mingo is currently under...

EPA lacks equipment to measure noise nuisance

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on EPA lacks equipment to measure noise nuisance

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently not equipped to measure noise nuisance. This state of affairs was brought to the fore after residents of D’Aguiar Park and Houston Gardens,...

Man throws ganja bag over fence, runs away from cop

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man throws ganja bag over fence, runs away from cop

A man, on Wednesday last, threw his shopping bag with suspected cannabis over a fence and ran away after he noticed a policeman following him. Police said that the man had stepped out of a motorcar...

Fumigation of city continues

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fumigation of city continues

In light of the novel Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) continues to fumigate and sanitize the city in order to safeguard the citizens. According to the City...

Future financial support for municipalities hinges on accountability

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Future financial support for municipalities hinges on accountability

– Local Gov’t Minister Future financial support for municipalities hinges on the ability of each council to account for their expenditure of the sum dispersed. This is according to Local...

Old age pension payments to commence Tuesday

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Old age pension payments to commence Tuesday

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security yesterday announced that payment of old age pension will begin on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at post offices countrywide. “The Ministry is...

U-turn by drunken bus driver sends motorcyclist to hospital

Aug 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on U-turn by drunken bus driver sends motorcyclist to hospital

A motorcyclist is currently in hospital nursing a fractured leg after he collided with a minibus driven by a drunken driver on Wednesday last along the Lethem Public Road, Region Nine. The serious...