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Investigate all World Bank funded projects –Int’l Lawyer, Melinda Janki

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Investigate all World Bank funded projects –Int’l Lawyer, Melinda Janki

International Lawyer, Melinda Janki, has called on the President of the World Bank, Mr. David Malpass, to immediately investigate all contracts that fall under the US$20M Guyana Petroleum Resource...

“End the kabuki dance with maximum speed!” – Nigel Hinds to Claudette Singh

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “End the kabuki dance with maximum speed!” – Nigel Hinds to Claudette Singh

Chairman of Change Guyana, Nigel Hinds, has issued a call for the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Ret’d Claudette Singh, to bring a speedy end to the political “kabuki dance”...

Elections 2020 – Day 50 Recount start date depends on CARICOM team’s arrival

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Elections 2020 – Day 50 Recount start date depends on CARICOM team’s arrival

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is expected to announce a start date for the national recount soon, which will depend on the arrival of the CARICOM high level team. The team will be granted a...

Bauxite shipping company calls it a day; 132 workers affected

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bauxite shipping company calls it a day; 132 workers affected

Since 2005, Oldendorff Carriers Guyana Inc. (OCGI) has been performing a barging and transshipment operation for bauxite exports on the Berbice River. However, the decade and a half service is...

34 companies bid to market Guyana’s crude

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 34 companies bid to market Guyana’s crude

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday opened ¬¬¬¬¬67 bids for three major governmental projects at their Ministry of Finance office situated at Main and...

Some bars still operational despite COVID-19 orders – Police to ensure strict compliance – Ramjattan

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Some bars still operational despite COVID-19 orders – Police to ensure strict compliance – Ramjattan

In the COVID-19 orders issued by Public Health Minister, Volda Lawrence, it was clearly statedthat “no person shall host, attend or visit a private party, recreational event along with a bar or rum...

Prison brawl leaves one dead

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Prison brawl leaves one dead

A 31-year-old shopkeeper of Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara was killed last evening after a brawl at the Lusignan Prison. The victim has been identified as Jason Dundas. According to information...

Farmer missing after Coast Guard vessel slams into his boat

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Farmer missing after Coast Guard vessel slams into his boat

By Romario Blair A 32-year-old man is missing and feared dead, after a coast guard vessel collided with his boat Monday night in the Pomeroon River. The missing man has been identified as Ryan...

Wife dead, husband critical after road accident

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Wife dead, husband critical after road accident

A 68-year-old woman is dead and her 58-year-old husband in a critical state following a motorcycle/car collision along the Number 71 Public Road, Upper Corentyne, Berbice. Dead is Lalita Rambaran of...

Local documentary highlights danger of sea level rise

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Local documentary highlights danger of sea level rise

“When we think about ecosystems, we often imagine pristine places deep within the hinterland region, far away from our urban cities. But right along our coastline is a constantly changing and...

Dem boys seh… Mingo used to bring fuss in Maths

Apr 22, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Mingo used to bring fuss in Maths

A father died and in his will he lef 5 cows to be equally divided between he two sons. De eldest son tun to de youngest and say, “me guh tek four cows and you guh tek one.” De youngest son said,...

THE OLD BAG OF TRICKS

Apr 22, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE OLD BAG OF TRICKS

The problems with the 1997 elections were linked to the results of District Four. There has never been an investigation into why some of the ‘runners’ for District Four ran off with the results...

Former MP responds to blood bank’s dire need

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Former MP responds to blood bank’s dire need

In answer to the call by the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) Director, Dr. Pedro Lewis, former PPP/C Member of Parliament (MP), Harry Gill, yesterday decided to donate blood at the New...

Impact of COVID-19… Guyanese students in Cuba request to return home

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Impact of COVID-19… Guyanese students in Cuba request to return home

– Govt. reaffirms commitment to providing support Medical students and doctors on scholarships currently studying in Cuba are making a desperate call to the authorities in Guyana to return...

Guyana records 67th COVID-19 case

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana records 67th COVID-19 case

The Ministry of Public Health announced yesterday that Guyana has recorded its 67th case of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Up to press time yesterday, the deaths remained at seven. These cases have been...

Borders remain closed but… Suriname agrees to ease restrictions on Corentyne River for riverain residents

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Borders remain closed but… Suriname agrees to ease restrictions on Corentyne River for riverain residents

– Region 1 continues struggle to curtail illegal crossings As critical supplies run low in some Berbice hinterland areas, Suriname authorities have agreed to ease the current COVID-19...

Guerrilla warfare inside the PNC intensifies

Apr 22, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guerrilla warfare inside the PNC intensifies

I am not going to allow autocrats in the PNC and AFC to sue me. I am familiar with the saying of the older folks whom I grew up in front of in Wortmanville. It goes like this; “I am too old to...

Mommy’s Corner gives support to GPHC Janitors

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mommy’s Corner gives support to GPHC Janitors

As Guyanese adjust to the changes due to the novel Coronavirus (Covid19) outbreak, Mommy’s Corner, a charitable organisation, has helped to make things less complicated for a number of families....

N/A man charged with possession of 13,000 grams of ganja

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on N/A man charged with possession of 13,000 grams of ganja

A man who was arrested on Saturday last with a quantity of marijuana (ganja) in a car he was driving has since been charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. Allowie Angel,...

Measures in place to assist frontline workers – DCMO

Apr 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Measures in place to assist frontline workers – DCMO

By Shivanie Rampersaud In wake of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), frontline workers within the local health care system have been put to the test. Being required to work under such pressure has...

Daren Sammy to Captain St. Lucia Zouks in 2020

Apr 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Daren Sammy to Captain St. Lucia Zouks in 2020

Daren Sammy will return as captain of the St. Lucia Zouks for the 2020 season. Sammy has just finished a coaching stint in Pakistan and he will be back in his playing shirt this season. He will be...

What cricket means to West Indians (Part 9) Lara breaks Sir Garry’s record at ARG

Apr 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on What cricket means to West Indians (Part 9) Lara breaks Sir Garry’s record at ARG

Lara, who later that year scored the highest individual score in a first class-match (501*) for Warwickshire vs Durham in England) broke Sobers’ 59-year-old record of 365 with a sensational innings...

Grim inter-related oil and virus realities

Apr 22, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Grim inter-related oil and virus realities

More and more the deepening gloom of the collision (in some sense, it may be the combination) of oil and coronavirus brings overwhelming fear and great psychological consternations. This applies when...

An open letter to Khemraj and Moses

Apr 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on An open letter to Khemraj and Moses

Dear Gentlemen, It is with great sadness that I choose to write to you this letter regarding the delay of the publishing the election results. I along with many others have fought too hard for...

A thousand masks

Apr 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A thousand masks

DEAR EDITOR, In the ’70s, there was a famous Mexican professional wrestler known as Mil Máscaras, the man of a thousand faces, in Guyana we have David Granger. The supposed emasculation of...

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CWI inducts first West Indies Men’s Academy Cohort to be based in Antigua & Barbuda full-time

TOTALTEC to open hospitality complex in Houston

Kaieteur News – TOTALTEC Inc., a provider of services to the energy and construction sectors here on Monday announced... more