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No cash transfers in the absence of detailed studies- President Granger

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on No cash transfers in the absence of detailed studies- President Granger

The Coalition Government is cautious about committing to introduce any programmes that will see citizens receiving cash transfers from oil proceeds. In a few months time, ExxonMobil will start...

Assets declared to Integrity Commission should be made public – IMF

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Assets declared to Integrity Commission should be made public – IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) urged Government, during its latest Article IV Consultation in Guyana, to make asset declarations to the Integrity Commission public. In a report, the IMF noted...

Govt. invites bids for security cameras at CJIA – Chinese contractor gets paid $80M for same project

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. invites bids for security cameras at CJIA – Chinese contractor gets paid $80M for same project

The Government has released an invitation for seal bids from companies for the supply of CCTV IP Network Cameras to be installed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). Kaieteur News...

21 army ensigns receive paratrooper’s wings

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 21 army ensigns receive paratrooper’s wings

Chief-of-Staff, Brigadier Patrick West, yesterday presented 21 ensigns of the Standard Officer Course 51 with their Certificates of Completion and Paratrooper’s Wings, after they successfully...

Majority of fires recorded in Berbice during past 2 years were “deliberately set” – Fire Service

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Majority of fires recorded in Berbice during past 2 years were “deliberately set” – Fire Service

The first nine months of the year 2019 has been deemed to be “significantly busier” for the ‘B’ Division (Berbice) of the Guyana Fire Service than last year. The Fire Service has recorded a...

Region mulls production of plantation white sugar

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Region mulls production of plantation white sugar

Regional sugar producers believe that they have an answer to problems besieging the industry. They are seriously considering producing plantation white sugar on a large scale to replace the refined...

One Charged but Police continue to explore Leads In Haslington Murder

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on One Charged but Police continue to explore Leads In Haslington Murder

On Tuesday a young man by the name of Rollan Abrams aged 19, appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore, at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court on a murder charge. The charge was in relation to the...

If Soulja Bai slip Guyana would get nuff poor people

Oct 10, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on If Soulja Bai slip Guyana would get nuff poor people

Ever since Professor Clive talk about giving every poor household US$5,000 a year from de oil money dem have people who planning to stop wukking and sit down whole year. Politicians all over de world...

Parking and Politics

Oct 10, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Parking and Politics

Even if there were the best of intentions, those now seem suspect. Nobody is listening. Rational questions arise about the motivations, the real objectives behind the parking confrontations. The...

Man, 44, now awaits sentencing for raping girl, 6

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man, 44, now awaits sentencing for raping girl, 6

Stating that he really has nothing to say in relation to being found guilty by a jury of raping a six-year-old girl, 44-year-old Selwyn Lancaster was yesterday remanded to prison and returns to court...

Mother of Kaieteur News’ grenade attack accused, charged with ganja possession

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of Kaieteur News’ grenade attack accused, charged with ganja possession

In a search for 36-year-old Alfie Garraway at his mother’s resident some policemen discovered firearm, ammunitions and a quantity of cannabis in a bedroom. The police have since charged his mother,...

Rights of a suspect… Police should caution suspects before arrests

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Rights of a suspect… Police should caution suspects before arrests

According to Ganesh Hira, Attorney-at-Law in a segment of a Kaieteur Radio programme on Tuesday evening, it is required in procedure of arresting suspects to verbalize the caution. Hira highlighted...

$8M upgrade for La Penitence Market

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on $8M upgrade for La Penitence Market

A newly constructed Revenue Office and renovated City Constabulary outpost are among the upgrades to the La Penitence Market. These rehabilitative works are estimated at more than $8M. On Tuesday, a...

Man who used Pepsi bottle to beat, rob woman, granted bail

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man who used Pepsi bottle to beat, rob woman, granted bail

A labourer, who the court heard followed a woman from one place to another and successfully robbed her on his second attempt, was yesterday granted bail for the offence. Travis Allen, of Lot 9 Front...

Linden gets PUC office

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Linden gets PUC office

The Public Utilities Commission, (PUC) yesterday, commissioned its spanking new office, in the upper flat of the Linden Enterprise Network building, on Republic Avenue, Linden. Cutting the ceremonial...

“Overpass Elevators Require Skilled Technicians Which Guyana Doesn’t have”- Charles Sohan

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on “Overpass Elevators Require Skilled Technicians Which Guyana Doesn’t have”- Charles Sohan

In a letter published in the Monday Edition of this newspaper Charles Sohan wrote concerning the overpass elevators located on the East Bank of Demerara. In his letter titled “Installation of...

NIS marks 50th anniversary with over 50,000 pensioners

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on NIS marks 50th anniversary with over 50,000 pensioners

Guyana’s premier social security institution, the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is celebrating its 50th anniversary and has proudly announced that it has 52, 944 pensioners on roll. This is...

Commander Lord Gives Donation To Flood Victims

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Commander Lord Gives Donation To Flood Victims

‘D’ Division Commander, Linden Lord, yesterday spearheaded a distribution of cleaning supplies to six households at Zeelugt East Bank Essequibo, an area within his jurisdiction, who were affected...

Emotional Bar admittance for Sophia Findlay

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Emotional Bar admittance for Sophia Findlay

Sophia Findlay knew she wanted to become an Attorney-at-Law from a very tender age. In fact, she was identified by an elder as the one in her family to pursue this noble profession because of some of...

Who are riding bicycles to school in the city?

Oct 10, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Who are riding bicycles to school in the city?

The APNU+AFC seems determined to lose the next elections. You would have presumed that since a date for elections has been named, that the government would have been more circumspect in its actions...

Courts PeeWee Football Round-of-16 to begin this weekend

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Courts PeeWee Football Round-of-16 to begin this weekend

Last Saturday marked the final day of play in the group round-robin stages of the 2019 Courts Under-12 PeeWee football tournament that is being contested at the Ministry of Education (MOE) ground on...

30 percent of patients learn they are diabetics after suffering a heart attack – Interventional Cardiologist

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 30 percent of patients learn they are diabetics after suffering a heart attack – Interventional Cardiologist

About 30 percent of patients who are rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation [GPHC] with a heart attack are also diabetics. What is however interesting to note is that these patients...

Untreated damaged tissues in the eyes can lead to blindness – Ophthalmologist

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Untreated damaged tissues in the eyes can lead to blindness – Ophthalmologist

On Monday’s Edition of Kaieteur Radio’s “Your Health Matters”, Ophthalmologist, Dr. Celeste Hinds, said that the most common cause of blindness seen at the Georgetown Public Hospital is as a...

Atasha Pantlitz wins inaugural Miss Skeldon Heritage Resort pageant

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Atasha Pantlitz wins inaugural Miss Skeldon Heritage Resort pageant

After some three hours of intense competition and sizzling entertainment last Saturday it was 19-year-old Atasha Pantlitz who walked away with the inaugural crown of the 2019 Miss Skeldon Heritage...

Guyana grapples with sub-standard drugs entering the market

Oct 10, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana grapples with sub-standard drugs entering the market

In its pledge to providing safe drugs, the Ministry of Public Health has begun consultations on strengthening its regulatory systems. The two-day workshop, held at the Pegasus Hotel, is aimed at...

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Guyana’s oil bonanza is being squandered by political duels

Kaieteur News – In Guyana, politics and economics have always danced an ill-fated tango. It is difficult to say which... more