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Guyana #6 in the world for toxic gas flaring per capita, with just one oil vessel operating

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana #6 in the world for toxic gas flaring per capita, with just one oil vessel operating

… Exxon wants four more added by 2025 By Kemol King ExxonMobil has flared more than 10 billion cubic feet of natural gas since it started producing oil at its Liza Phase One operations, which has...

$790M more to make Ocean View Hospital operational – Minister Edghill

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $790M more to make Ocean View Hospital operational – Minister Edghill

The new administration will have to expend a further $790 million on the Ocean View Infectious Diseases Hospital to make it operable. That large sum comes after the previous A Partnership For...

“It wasn’t me in the Roger Khan sex video” – woman claims

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “It wasn’t me in the Roger Khan sex video” – woman claims

The close female associate of Shaheed Roger Khan fingered in the recent release of his sex video has reportedly denied any involvement in the cybercrime. Her denial comes just one day after popular...

Justice will be swift for slain West Coast Berbice teens, Prittipaul Hargobin – Pres. Ali

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Justice will be swift for slain West Coast Berbice teens, Prittipaul Hargobin – Pres. Ali

President Ali yesterday met with the families of the slain West Coast Berbice teens Isaiah and Joel Henry and Haresh Singh along with the family of Prittipaul Hargobin to personally assure them of...

Guyanese should free themselves from the ‘race trap’ to benefit from oil – Sir Ronald Sanders

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese should free themselves from the ‘race trap’ to benefit from oil – Sir Ronald Sanders

Sir Ronald Sanders is urging that the Guyanese people rid themselves of the trapping division of ‘race’ to ensure they are not robbed of the high quality of life oil and gas production offers. He...

Pres. Ali vows crackdown of race hate on social media

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pres. Ali vows crackdown of race hate on social media

President Irfaan Ali, just over a month in office, has vowed a crackdown on race hate rhetoric on social media. Making it clear that he will not accept the promotion of such rhetoric, he said in a...

Mingo, Lawrence slapped with another electoral fraud charge

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mingo, Lawrence slapped with another electoral fraud charge

Region Four Returning Officer (RO), Clairmont Mingo and former Health Minister and PNC/R Chairperson, Ms. Volda Lawrence, were yesterday slapped with another joint electoral fraud charge. Mingo and...

New date set for Lowenfield case as DPP a no-show

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New date set for Lowenfield case as DPP a no-show

The matter against the Chief Elections Officer(CEO), Keith Lowenfield was postponed until October 9, 2020, after a representative from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), failed...

ERC distances itself from Roshan Khan statement

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ERC distances itself from Roshan Khan statement

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has distanced itself from a statement made by one of its commissioners, Roshan Khan via social media. In a Facebook post, the commissioner said, “Indians in...

Follow which leader?

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Follow which leader?

Dem Boys Seh… Dem boys always seh de Pee N Cee and de Pee Pee Pee are two peas of de same pod. Right now dem trying fuh outdo each other when it comes to leadership. Dem boys know dat we gat...

The case will not be easy to solve

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The case will not be easy to solve

The police may have to try a different angle in their quest to solve the mystery of the deaths of the teenage cousins from # 3 Village, West Coast Berbice. Four of the seven suspects held have been...

Leadership within the current crisis

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Leadership within the current crisis

The past week has been the most taxing, the most straining on the beautiful but tenuous fabric of this society. Buffeted by the post electoral madness, the burgeoning existential threat of COVID-19,...

Man beaten to death by Bath Settlement protestors died from blunt trauma to the head

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man beaten to death by Bath Settlement protestors died from blunt trauma to the head

Prettipaul Hargobin who was beaten to death by protestors on the Bath Settlement Public Road on Wednesday died from blunt trauma to the head and brain haemorrhage compounded by compression injuries...

Man forced to forfeit almost $6.3M in foreign currency seized at backtrack area

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man forced to forfeit almost $6.3M in foreign currency seized at backtrack area

A Guyanese man has lost more than $6M that was seized from him earlier this year at a Berbice backtrack route. According to the Attorney General Chambers, the money Euros 24,530 ($6.3M) was seized...

Teen died from brain haemorrhage caused by blunt trauma to the head.

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Teen died from brain haemorrhage caused by blunt trauma to the head.

Haresh Singh Murder… Seventeen-year-old Haresh Singh, whose unconscious body was found in the Number 3 Village backdam, West Coast Berbice two days ago, died from a brain haemorrhage caused by...

Ministry had failed to include one death in earlier report

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry had failed to include one death in earlier report

Total COVID-19 deaths now at 52 The total number of COVID-19 deaths is now at 52, according to the Ministry of Health. The Ministry yesterday stated that they had failed to include one death in their...

$100M for SBDF to assist prospective small business owners

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $100M for SBDF to assist prospective small business owners

The Small Business Development Fund (SBDF) has been allocated $100 million in the National Budget of 2020 to provide prospective small business owners with loans and grants. This was announced by...

Letter to the Sports Editor Final call for peace

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Letters, Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor Final call for peace

Dear Sports Editor, We have said much in the past few days but the Lusignan Golf Club like other decent minded citizens calls for the restoration of peace in Guyana. The tragic loss of our young...

Guyanese Warriors arrives home today on Charter flight

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese Warriors arrives home today on Charter flight

According to manager of the Guyana Amazon Warriors team, Trinidadian Omar Khan, the Guyanese players in the team which participated in the 2020 CPL T/20 tournament were expected to arrive in Guyana...

COVID-19, protracted elections resulted in a 4.9% decline in non-oil economy — Minister Edghill

Sep 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19, protracted elections resulted in a 4.9% decline in non-oil economy — Minister Edghill

Due to the severe impact of COVID-19 on health, social life and businesses – and further dampened by the protracted March 2020, General and Regional Elections – Guyana’s non-oil economy for the...

Softball fraternity among those that bid farewell to Haslim

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Softball fraternity among those that bid farewell to Haslim

Members of the local softball fraternity were among those that bid farewell to former player Khalid ‘Bilal’ Haslim. Haslim passed away on September 4 at Dr. Balwant Singh’s hospital due to a...

David Granger: The ID kills the EGO and craves basic instincts

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on David Granger: The ID kills the EGO and craves basic instincts

I am saying it again – the election crisis has been a priceless gem for the historian. So many times I have repeated that comment. If we didn’t have the five months saga, we would never have seen...

The entire nation is hurting; not just a single race!

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The entire nation is hurting; not just a single race!

DEAR EDITOR, The senseless, nonsensical and preposterous quagmire that is embroiling in the ancient county of Berbice that popularized Guyana for its hospitality, is entangling the rest of the...

The government has a responsibility to protect all citizens at all times

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The government has a responsibility to protect all citizens at all times

DEAR EDITOR, The government, any government, has a responsibility to protect all citizens at all times. The beatings and damages to property perpetuated during the so called protests are...

A capability problem and lack of consequences

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A capability problem and lack of consequences

DEAR EDITOR, I found the article, “Condemned to be emergency room cases” (KN Sept 10th) spot on. It’s correctly stated that our leaders keep getting bamboozled, in relation to why...

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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