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Norton Street murder trial… Key witness and car missing on way to court – says Mom

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Norton Street murder trial… Key witness and car missing on way to court – says Mom

A key witness, in relation to the murder of Marlon Seon Rodney, called ‘George’, is now missing before he could appear in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to complete his evidence into the...

US lawsuits against ExxonMobil raise serious questions for Guyana

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on US lawsuits against ExxonMobil raise serious questions for Guyana

By Kemol King ExxonMobil has been alleged to have facilitated a wide-ranging deception in a landmark lawsuit brought against it by the State of New York. The company stands accused of misrepresenting...

Report reveals: ExxonMobil encountering sizeable gas resources

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Report reveals: ExxonMobil encountering sizeable gas resources

By Kiana Wilburg Significant oil offshore Guyana is not all ExxonMobil is discovering. The American oil giant is also uncovering sizeable gas resources. This is according to Canaccord Genuity Group,...

T&T trapped in years of declining growth

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on T&T trapped in years of declining growth

By Kiana Wilburg Despite its best efforts, the economy of Trinidad and Tobago is still struggling to find its way back to sustainable positive growth. In fact, the country has been trapped in...

Get rid of colonial era laws – Harvard paper

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Get rid of colonial era laws – Harvard paper

Guyana’s legal books are replete with laws placed there by its former colonial masters. While those countries are now developed and have had much more access to resources needed to identify and...

Ease of doing business… Processing of construction permits should be done by a single entity

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Ease of doing business… Processing of construction permits should be done by a single entity

Processing a permit to construct a building for businesses is a long and onerous process. So says Deodat Indar, former Private Sector Commission (PSC) Vice Chair and former Georgetown Chamber of...

Body found wrapped in sheet, jersey around neck

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Body found wrapped in sheet, jersey around neck

The body of an unidentified man was found yesterday morning at Baramita, North West District, Region 1. According to reports, the discovery was made by residents who were walking through a bushy...

High tide hits coastal Guyana

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on High tide hits coastal Guyana

High tides have been devastating coastal Guyana. Families living near the shore are struggling to keep their belongings from being damaged by water that has breached the shore. The Ministry of Public...

Don’t try to build a house in GT

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Don’t try to build a house in GT

Don’t try to build any building in GT. Dat gon be de most difficult thing anybody can do. Dem businessmen does be cussing till dem tun blue. Nuff of dem does get rob because dem does pay over money...

Guinness Bar destroyed by fire, neighbours save landlady

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guinness Bar destroyed by fire, neighbours save landlady

Dianne Adolphus was in her house with her daughter and other family members when a fire erupted in the bottom flat of her two-storey property at 19:00hrs. The bottom flat of the property is home to...

Guyanese man gunned down in French Guiana

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man gunned down in French Guiana

A Guyanese man was shot to head by another on Sunday morning with whom he was having a dispute at the time. According to reports, Robert Anthony St. Hill, called “Gully Bobb” was at a party when...

Pesticide Awareness Week… Agri-Minister calls for a reduction in chemical usage

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Pesticide Awareness Week… Agri-Minister calls for a reduction in chemical usage

The Pesticides and Toxic Control Board (PTCB), under the Ministry of Agriculture is aiming at discontinuing the use of all pesticides and toxic chemicals in Guyana. This information came from a...

Erratic driver turns Diwali joy to horror at Alexander Village

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Erratic driver turns Diwali joy to horror at Alexander Village

Drivers and passengers left Sunday night’s Diwali celebrations at the Vishnu Mandir, Alexander Village, with laughter and chatter. Not long after one group was left in a state of shock and...

Dem boys hear suh!

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Dem boys hear suh!

A few weeks ago, a short biographic sketch of a professional was published in the newspapers upon that person being inducted into her new profession. It mentioned the schools which she had attended,...

Guyanese engineers wanted in oil industry

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese engineers wanted in oil industry

SBM Offshore is looking for recently graduated engineers to join its Engineering Development Programme. This programme will rotate between various departments, projects and locations to become fully...

Signboards on GPL poles against the law

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Signboards on GPL poles against the law

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has issued a public notice on the illegal placement of signs on the utility poles. This notice was made two weeks ago. The Ministry of Public Infrastructure recently...

Team Guyana Robotics wins Albert Einstein gold medal – ranked 39 out of 190 countries at First Global Challenges

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Team Guyana Robotics wins Albert Einstein gold medal – ranked 39 out of 190 countries at First Global Challenges

“The experience I had this year at the competition was an amazing one, from the beginning right up to the end,” a participant who represented Guyana at the First Global Robotics Challenges, in...

President Granger not pleased with corruption court cases being thrown out

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on President Granger not pleased with corruption court cases being thrown out

By Trishan Craig In a podcast hosted by journalist Gordon Moseley, President David Granger was asked for his view on corruption cases making it to the courts and being thrown out for simple reasons....

Guyana continues to dominate Regional First – Class cricket; But few Guyanese are going on to International success

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana continues to dominate Regional First – Class cricket; But few Guyanese are going on to International success

By Sean Devers Guyana continues to dominate Regional First-Class cricket and have won every First Class titles since 2015 to reconfirm they are the best ‘Red Ball’ team in the Caribbean but only...

WDFA Senior League Uitvlugt Warriors and Crane Rovers trounce opponents

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on WDFA Senior League Uitvlugt Warriors and Crane Rovers trounce opponents

A brace from Senior ‘Golden Jaguar’ Trayon Bobb helped to cement a 3-0 win for Uitvlugt Warriors over Western Pumas when play in the West Demerara Football Association Senior League continued on...

Foundation hands over scholarship cheque to 2018 top student – pledges to revamp science lab at alma mater’s graduation

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Foundation hands over scholarship cheque to 2018 top student – pledges to revamp science lab at alma mater’s graduation

By Malisa Playter-Harry Launched in 2018 for the sole purpose of assisting the less fortunate youths who have done well at the Skeldon Line Path Secondary School, the Dr. Amarnauth Dukhi Foundation...

Savory hoping to capitalise on chances at Regional Super 50

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Savory hoping to capitalise on chances at Regional Super 50

By Zaheer Mohamed Essequibo wicket-keeper batsman Kemol Savory will be looking to put his best foot forward in the upcoming Cricket West Indies Colonial Medical Insurance Super 50 which starts on...

Ricardo and Anthony Adams – surprise omissions from Guyana Jaguars Super 50 side

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Ricardo and Anthony Adams – surprise omissions from Guyana Jaguars Super 50 side

By Zaheer Mohamed The recently concluded CGI/SBF Petroleum Franchise League was used as a bench mark to select the Guyana Jaguars squad for the CWI Colonial Medical Insurance Regional Super 50 which...

2018 Deadly Piracy Attacks… Lack of sufficient evidence forces extension of CoI

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 2018 Deadly Piracy Attacks… Lack of sufficient evidence forces extension of CoI

The Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the 2018 deadly piracy attacks on Guyanese nationals off the Atlantic Coast of the Republic of Suriname has been extended by President David Granger. The COI is...

Daughter testifies in trial of accused wife killer

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Daughter testifies in trial of accused wife killer

As the trial of 62-year-old Randolph Tahal continues in the Berbice High Court, the daughter of the accused and deceased has testified. Tahal is on trial for murdering his wife, Janet Tahal, before...

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CWI Cricket West Indies suspends Alzarri Joseph for two matches

A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more