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Three now in custody for brutal slaying of West Coast teens

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Three now in custody for brutal slaying of West Coast teens

– as protests continue Investigators moments ago revealed that three persons have now been held for questioning into the brutal murder of two young West Berbice teens. Among those arrested are...

Guyana remains the last positive growth story Exxon has to sell to investors

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana remains the last positive growth story Exxon has to sell to investors

– Deal so fundamentally unfair that it is free money for oil company By Kiana Wilburg ExxonMobil has claimed that it can take its investments elsewhere if it does not get its way with Guyana...

Papua New Guinea demands 65% from Exxon in new deal

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Papua New Guinea demands 65% from Exxon in new deal

– Also calls for increased local content Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, James Marape recently renewed calls for a better gas deal with ExxonMobil, demanding a bump up from 40...

Missing teenage cousins found butchered in backdam

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Missing teenage cousins found butchered in backdam

– Cotton Tree rice farmer arrested as villages erupt in protest By Malisa Harry Two teenage boys who left their homes at Number 3 Village, West Coast Berbice on Saturday and never returned were...

President, Opposition Leader pledge justice for murdered WCB boys

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on President, Opposition Leader pledge justice for murdered WCB boys

President Irfaan Ali and Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon yesterday pledged to use all resources at their disposal to ensure justice is served for the horrific murders of Joel and Isaiah Henry at...

Efforts underway for appointment of new Judicial Service Commission

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Efforts underway for appointment of new Judicial Service Commission

…After almost three years of absence After close to three years of its absence, steps are being taken to appoint a new Board of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). Attorney General (AG) and...

Emergency budget for Wednesday

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Emergency budget for Wednesday

With just three months left in the fiscal year, Guyana will finally see a 2020 emergency budget being presented at the 2nd sitting of the National Assembly on Wednesday. According to the second Order...

Regional Health facilities to be retrofitted with COVID-19 ICUs — Health Minister

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Regional Health facilities to be retrofitted with COVID-19 ICUs — Health Minister

With Guyana’s only COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) packed to capacity, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony announced that efforts are underway...

Foul air and bad water

Sep 07, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Foul air and bad water

Last week was a bad week fuh ExxonMobil. De company facing some serious backlash from around dem country in which it gat investments. De company gat big investments in Papau New Guinea (PNG). Dat is...

Coalition lost “moral authority” to lecture anyone on board appointments – Gail Teixeira

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition lost “moral authority” to lecture anyone on board appointments – Gail Teixeira

Guyana’s Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Gail Teixeira made it clear that the Opposition APNU+AFC through their own actions have lost the moral authority to lecture the new People’s Progressive...

Attorney General defends claims of convicted Registrar of Deeds’ resumption of duty

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Attorney General defends claims of convicted Registrar of Deeds’ resumption of duty

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall yesterday dismissed a claim about convicted Registrar of Deeds, Azeena Baksh resuming her post. Baksh was charged in 2017 for procuring...

Govt. to use antiviral drug to decrease COVID-19 deaths

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to use antiviral drug to decrease COVID-19 deaths

During a virtual press conference on Friday last, Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony indicated that the government will be using an antiviral drug, Remdesivir on critical patients in an effort to...

Negligence reportedly the cause for Lancaster fire

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Negligence reportedly the cause for Lancaster fire

Negligence is reportedly the reason that the home of a 60-year-old woman was Saturday evening completely destroyed by fire. The blaze which started around 19:00hrs also significantly scorched the...

Cuban nationals force open grill door to contain Charlotte Street fire

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cuban nationals force open grill door to contain Charlotte Street fire

Fourth floor of Kanhai’s building partly gutted Three Cuban nationals, yesterday, forced open a grill door to contain a fire which erupted on the fourth floor of the building which houses...

The PNC/R received wrong advice

Sep 07, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The PNC/R received wrong advice

The PNC/R effectively attempted to do a ‘Zimbabwe’ in Guyana. In 2008, there was a political crisis in Zimbabwe. The ruling Zimbabwe African Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) lost its majority in...

Security guard found soaked in blood told police of his attacker minutes before he died

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Security guard found soaked in blood told police of his attacker minutes before he died

A security guard who was yesterday found soaked in blood and lying on the train line at Port Kaituma, North West District, Region One, had told investigators of his attacker just minutes before he...

La Parfaite man attempts to dump ganja

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on La Parfaite man attempts to dump ganja

A labourer, 23, was on Friday busted at his house with 50 grams of suspected cannabis. Police ranks turned up at the man’s home located at Onderneeming West Bank Demerara after receiving a tip off....

One dead, another injured after incident on Albion Road, Berbice

Sep 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on One dead, another injured after incident on Albion Road, Berbice

Police have arrested two persons in connection with the alleged murder of a 26-year-old carpenter/mason of Lot 500 No.1 Road, Corentyne, Berbice and the wounding of another from the same village. The...

Guyana must bring an end to this ugly masturbation

Sep 07, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana must bring an end to this ugly masturbation

The WPA has pulled out of the APNU. The acerbic contention of the WPA centers on David Granger’s unilateral selection of Tabitha Sarabo-Halley (hereafter referred to as TSH) as the WPA’s...

We have been returned to slavery

Sep 07, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have been returned to slavery

DEAR EDITOR, As a Coalition supporter, I am devastated by the details that are emerging about the oil contract signed by Trotman and Exxon. We have been returned to slavery, albeit by big...

A de facto one-party state

Sep 07, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A de facto one-party state

DEAR EDITOR, I am alarmed. For in watching, I sense developments that are indicative of a sad situation in this country. The more I look, the more I believe that it is not only sad (bad enough) but...

Open letter to the Hon. Zulfikar Mustapha, Minister of Agriculture

Sep 07, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Open letter to the Hon. Zulfikar Mustapha, Minister of Agriculture

DEAR HON. MINISTER, Please allow me to formally congratulate you and your party on a hard-fought victory. His Excellency, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali in his first address to the Nation has been very vocal...

Can President Ali break the Jagdeoites’ puppetry and be his own man?

Sep 07, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Can President Ali break the Jagdeoites’ puppetry and be his own man?

DEAR EDITOR, Let’s be honest: is there any doubt President Ali is the Jagdeoites’ puppet? Everyone knows the farce that was the last PPP party congress led to the Jagdeoites’ domination and...

September: Back to School?

Sep 07, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on September: Back to School?

DEAR EDITOR, As the new school year is upon us in the middle of this global pandemic, I wanted to share my take on the back to school strategy. As a Guyanese living abroad, I have been keenly looking...

Political appointees – some famous last points

Sep 07, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Political appointees – some famous last points

DEAR EDITOR, I think of the firing, which operates under today’s politically correct verbiage of sending home, of Dr. Vincent Adams of Guyana’s EPA, and I remember a couple of points of recent. I...