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National Printers overseas-based chairman orders payments via phone-three containers of books sole-sourced from T&T for the year

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on National Printers overseas-based chairman orders payments via phone-three containers of books sole-sourced from T&T for the year

Despite burning questions over the questionable procurement of exercise and textbooks to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars overseas, the Guyana National Printers Limited (GNPL) has...

Mining companies refuse to come clean–but bash ‘inaccurate’ GYEITI Report

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mining companies refuse to come clean–but bash ‘inaccurate’ GYEITI Report

During the preparation of Guyana’s first report for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), 19 mining companies refused to come clean about the names of persons who benefit from...

Govt. engages ‘corrupt’ Petrobras to help with offshore development

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. engages ‘corrupt’ Petrobras to help with offshore development

By Kiana Wilburg Even though Brazil’s state owned oil company, Petrobras, was implicated in one of the biggest corruption scandals in the history of Latin America, this did not stop the APNU+AFC...

PPP hires US lobbying firm for Russia-style meddling in Guyana elections – Ramjattan

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on PPP hires US lobbying firm for Russia-style meddling in Guyana elections – Ramjattan

Alliance for Change (AFC) Chairman and Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, has said that the hiring of the US lobbying firm, Mercury Public Affairs LLC, by the People’s Progressive...

Fly Jamaica to pay off tickets debts by July 1

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fly Jamaica to pay off tickets debts by July 1

Fly Jamaica has committed to pay off some 46 complainants by July 1. The cash-strapped airline, which sent home staffers earlier this year, committed to work with the Competition and Consumer...

Judges need specialized training to handle contracts oils – Former CFAFT Executive

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Judges need specialized training to handle contracts oils – Former CFAFT Executive

OWING to the complexity of oil contracts, judicial officers particularly judges will need to undergo training specifically to understand the terms and conditions governing such arrangements....

$100M EBD overpass elevators to be operational before May 26— Minister Patterson

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on $100M EBD overpass elevators to be operational before May 26— Minister Patterson

More than a week after of trying to get a response, this publication finally received word, yesterday, from Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, that the elevators at the overpasses...

Ram Jattan got nuff ambition

May 05, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Ram Jattan got nuff ambition

Everybody got ambition. When you small and all you want to do is pitch marble you parents does tell you how you don’t have ambition. When dem boys use to go to school everybody think dem had...

Offering unmatched dental health services, Cobeer ‘Anand’ Persaud, is a ‘Special Person’

May 05, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Special Person Comments Off on Offering unmatched dental health services, Cobeer ‘Anand’ Persaud, is a ‘Special Person’

“I always tell my staff, we have to respect customers and I respect my customers tremendously, because no matter how big a business you have, if you don’t have customers, you will have no...

Worst fears confirmed as toddler’s body found

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Worst fears confirmed as toddler’s body found

The body of a two-year-old girl who went missing last Thursday, was recovered late yesterday afternoon. The body was spotted in the Lower Pomeroon River, Region Two. The girl is believed to have...

Cops probe property dispute, several leads in murder of former NIS official

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cops probe property dispute, several leads in murder of former NIS official

The circumstances surrounding the death of Godfrey Branch, 73, the re-migrant Guyanese whose body was found face up in his house wearing pants and rain boots with five stab wounds, have left...

CCJ denies GECOM’s application in no-confidence motion case

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ denies GECOM’s application in no-confidence motion case

The Caribbean Court of Justice, in an order on Friday, denied an urgent application of the Guyana Elections Commissioner to submit oral evidence in the no-confidence matter involving...

Guyanese man who hammered wife, dumps body, denied parole again

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man who hammered wife, dumps body, denied parole again

Mississauga, Canada (www.thespec.com)- On a June evening 18 years ago, Mohan Ramkissoon surely felt confiden t he was home free, moments before boarding a flight to South America at Pearson...

Bishops’ High School hosts Annual Caricom Project

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bishops’ High School hosts Annual Caricom Project

The Bishops’ High School on Friday hosted its annual Caricom Project. This is a project that third form students of the school do every year. The project entails every class being given a member or...

Govt. not playing musical chairs…dual citizenship issues prompted shake-up – Public Security Minister

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. not playing musical chairs…dual citizenship issues prompted shake-up – Public Security Minister

Khemraj Ramjattan, Minister of Public Security, has responded to the accusation of Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo that the government is engaged in musical chairs while the Guyanese people are...

Prisoner who picks handcuffs to escape police custody jailed

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoner who picks handcuffs to escape police custody jailed

An unemployed man on Friday found himself in a prison cell after he admitted to picking a handcuff to escape police custody where he was under arrest for simple larceny. Roy Abrams, 48, was arraigned...

UG Celebrates 10 years of online service

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on UG Celebrates 10 years of online service

On April 19, the University of Guyana (UG) celebrated 10 years of offering online services through the Student Records Management System (SRMS) which opened for online applications in 2009....

Life is not easy for those in power

May 05, 2019 KNews My Column Comments Off on Life is not easy for those in power

The year began with a furore about holding elections. Of course, there was the no confidence vote in the National Assembly. The vote sent many rushing to the constitution, where they found that...

Public tendering is mandatory

May 05, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Public tendering is mandatory

The revelation that the Ministry of Education does not have any arrangement for procuring exercise and text books from Trinidad and Tobago has not allayed the concerns about the sidestepping of local...

Whitney Houston’s female lover and the MI5 files on the PPP

May 05, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Whitney Houston’s female lover and the MI5 files on the PPP

There were seven of us. I was the last for my parents, so there was a gaping age gap between the second child, Harold (Lightweight) and me. Of the seven siblings, none of us went beyond primary...

Enmore Village: a picturesque alcove where the races unite in merriment

May 05, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Enmore Village: a picturesque alcove where the races unite in merriment

By Alex Wayne I approached the East Coast Bus Park with mixed feelings as I did not have much of an insight into the making of the village which I was visiting. Naturally I did a little sleuthing of...

Hand-in-Hand 3-day U-19 Inter-County cricketRoberts, Persaud leave Essequibo in control despite Sinclair’s 50

May 05, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hand-in-Hand 3-day U-19 Inter-County cricketRoberts, Persaud leave Essequibo in control despite Sinclair’s 50

On a day when two sessions were lost to rain, off-spinners Lance Roberts (3-14) and Amit Persaud (3-53) left Essequibo in the asce ndency despite Junior Sinclair’s 50 when the truncated opening day...

Our Guyana, Our Caribbean and Our Forbes Burnham

May 05, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Our Guyana, Our Caribbean and Our Forbes Burnham

I was recently berated by an old comrade for what he referred to as my sanitizing of Forbes Burnham. I sought to explain that over time, I have come to realize that there is no line between our...

GFF/KFC U20 Independence KO Cup –EBFA LegTimehri Panthers and Grove Hi Tech advance to semis; Diamond United into round 2

May 05, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/KFC U20 Independence KO Cup –EBFA LegTimehri Panthers and Grove Hi Tech advance to semis; Diamond United into round 2

Timehri Panthers behind doubles each from Tyrone Burnette and Ishmael Pulsuram eased to a solid 6-0 win over Herstelling Raid ers to ease into the semi finals of the inaugural GFF/KFC U20...

Everything should not be a partisan battle, wearing our people down

May 05, 2019 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Everything should not be a partisan battle, wearing our people down

We find ourselves, for some time now, living in a society where many are caught up in the political power struggle and are failing to recognise the importance of the collective labour...

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The PPP/C also drank the IMF/ World Bank Cool-Aid

Kaieteur News – The curious thing about politicians is how easily they forget their own past while presenting a revisionist... more