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Guyana Government should train 500 students for the oil industry

Sep 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana Government should train 500 students for the oil industry

Dear Editor, Literally, thousands of foreign investors and persons of interests are flocking to our shores to get their piece of our oil reserves. And these people are not petroleum neophytes; the...

Vice Chairman of Parliament’s Sector Committee, Natural Resources, clarifies

Sep 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Vice Chairman of Parliament’s Sector Committee, Natural Resources, clarifies

Dear editor Members of a government in any society who blatantly practice the art of sophistry, where truth becomes collateral damage to expediency will always precipitate pre-conditions to eventual...

How do we break racism in Guyana?

Sep 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on How do we break racism in Guyana?

Dear Editor, We know that racism exists in the world and in Guyana? How do we break it down? How do we get people to trust each other when they have been conditioned into believing their race is...

The PNC was rebuilt with a little help from the imperialists

Sep 23, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 2

Supporters of Forbes Burnham believed in him. They saw him as a political saviour. Most believed his every word and would follow him to the ends of the world. Even when he decried imperialism and...

Harmon throws support behind Patterson’s controversial ‘oil blocks’ claim

Sep 22, 2017 KNews News 2

–says Minister was referring to “offshore” oil concessions By: Kiana Wilburg All of Guyana’s oil blocks have not been given away. However, more than half of its available offshore oil...

New Dem Bridge… Opposition demands investigation of $146M contract to Dutch firm

Sep 22, 2017 KNews News 1

Patterson insists procurement procedures followed The Opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has called on the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) to investigate the handling of...

Second NBS sacked manager gets his day in court

Sep 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Second NBS sacked manager gets his day in court

Former New Building Society (NBS) Manger, Kent Vincent, is set to have his day in court six years after filing a wrongful dismissal lawsuit against the financial institution. Vincent had faced...

Nand Persaud to build rice mill in Cuba

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News 2

Spanish team here to finalise first shipment in 40 years Nand Persaud and Company Limited, producers of Karibee rice brand, is planning to build a rice milling plant in Cuba free zone. The company...

Diamond to Ogle road critical to reduce congestion on new Demerara River bridge – feasibility study

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News 2

A key report on a new crossing for the Demerara River has pointed to the importance of constructing a new road connecting Diamond, East Bank Demerara to Ogle, East Coast Demerara, as a means to ease...

Venezuela’s claims a threat to Caribbean’s zone of peace – Granger to UN assembly

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuela’s claims a threat to Caribbean’s zone of peace – Granger to UN assembly

President David Granger told the United Nations General Assembly, Venezuela remains a threat to peace in the Caribbean. The President’s address to the UNGA, in New York where world leaders...

Guyanese man who almost beheaded wife with kitchen knife jailed for 21 years

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man who almost beheaded wife with kitchen knife jailed for 21 years

QUEENS — A man who attacked his wife last December on a Richmond Hill Street, almost decapitating her with a kitchen knife, has been sentenced to 21 years in prison, prosecutors said Wednesday....

Two detained after lad, 13, goes missing

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Two detained after lad, 13, goes missing

A 13-year-old Overwinning Primary School student of Brother’s Village, East Bank Berbice went missing on Sunday. The lad, Leonard Archibald, reportedly left home with his sisters for a birthday...

Body of fisherman discovered in shallow drain

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Body of fisherman discovered in shallow drain

– Driver nabbed after mirror with registration number found at scene A 61-year-old fisherman was killed in a hit and run accident somet ime around 04:00 hrs yesterday on the Meten-Meer-Zorg,...

Caretaker jailed for damaging Minister Harmon’s property

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Caretaker jailed for damaging Minister Harmon’s property

A man who claimed to be mentally unstable was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment for damaging Minister of State, Joseph Harmon’s building. Samuel Green, 36, of Lot 99 Guyhoc, Georgetown...

Mad man play steel band pun Li’l Joe glass window

Sep 21, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News 1

Old people see cheapness nah good. You does end up paying nuff more fuh cheapness. Li’l Joe coulda hire a security guard service because he use to mek nuff money when he use to practise law. He...

Jagdeo urges senior cops to petition court over COI findings

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News 1

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is of the opinion that the recently concluded Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the alleged plot to assassinate President David Granger was nothing but a witch-hunt....

Talks with ExxonMobil on Natural gas for electricity, another example of ‘plantain chip vision’- Jagdeo

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Talks with ExxonMobil on Natural gas for electricity, another example of ‘plantain chip vision’- Jagdeo

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell The idiom “don’t put the cart before the horse” is a stark reminder of the statements made by Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, when he spoke of the current...

Six armed robbery charges for bandit who shot ex-cop’s daughter and colleague

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Six armed robbery charges for bandit who shot ex-cop’s daughter and colleague

The gunman, who allegedly shot the daughter of former Deputy Commissioner of Police, George Vyphuis, and her colleague during a two hour spree on Tuesday, is to face six charges of armed robbery. In...

Cabinet approved $809M for NDIA… GNIC to supply $329M dredge; new pump stations for Buxton, Three Friends

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet approved $809M for NDIA… GNIC to supply $329M dredge; new pump stations for Buxton, Three Friends

Over $809M has been approved for the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) to execute critical drainage works. Among those projects, farmers and residents of Region Two will soon benefit...

14 indigenous persons recognised for contributions to Guyana’s development

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 14 indigenous persons recognised for contributions to Guyana’s development

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, on Monday, honoured 14 outstanding indigenous persons who have made significant contributions to Guyana’s development. The individuals who were drawn...

US report: Guyana does not have comprehensive policy to tackle child labour

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US report: Guyana does not have comprehensive policy to tackle child labour

Guyana’s fight to eradicate child labour is gaining ground but much more needs to be done, according to a new Child Labour Report by the US Department of Labor. Yesterday, Sandra Zuniga, Eco...

Army rank robbed, car hijacked

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Army rank robbed, car hijacked

A Guyana Defence Force Lance Corporal is alleging that he was the victim of a carjacking at 20:00 hrs last Friday at Providence, East Bank Demerara. Corporal Pernell Gordon, who resides at First...

Back to North West: Barima sails again

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Back to North West: Barima sails again

Until a new ferry, being funded by India is commissioned, Region One residents will have to depend on rehabilitated MV Barima to serve the route. The vessel set sail on Tuesday afternoon for the...

CANU issues bulletin for ‘Rani’

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CANU issues bulletin for ‘Rani’

The Customs Anti narcotics Unit (CANU) has issued a wanted bulletin for Ron Reid, also known as ‘Rani.’ A release gave Reid’s last known address as Lot 42 Fourth Street, Alberttown,...

Linden PNCR Office undergoing massive rehabilitation to the tune of some $7.8M

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Linden PNCR Office undergoing massive rehabilitation to the tune of some $7.8M

The PNCR’s Region 10 Office is currently undergoing massive rehabilitative works to the tune of some $7.8M. The works are scheduled to be completed in time for the party’s sixtieth...

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Bonofiglio, Bonds demand winning finish

Nov 11, 2026

…Golden Jaguars target Gold Cup qualification By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – Golden Jaguars Head Coach Marco Bonofiglio and captain Elliot Bonds have made their intentions abundantly clear...

The landlord is eating the entrepreneur’s lunch

Nov 11, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Recently, a group of young entrepreneurs decided to pool their resources and embark on a business venture. They were determined to take a chance, invest their savings and build something for themselves. Rather than wait for somebody to offer them employment, they wanted to...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

What the video says?

Nov 11, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Once what is termed the “new video” is confirmed as authentic, a new story emerges. In this, the age of AI, one must be cautious. Until confirmation, it’s just a new video, no more. If confirmed, the saga of the 12th October nighttime gunfight between Senior Supt...

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