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Gazette shows NICIL manager received State lands days after elections

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Gazette shows NICIL manager received State lands days after elections

Days after the March 2 General and Regional Elections, a senior official of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Inc. (NICIL), a state-owned company that handles privatization for...

ExxonMobil to move ahead with first well in Kaieteur Block

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil to move ahead with first well in Kaieteur Block

In spite of the logistical and economical challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, it appears ExxonMobil will still be moving ahead with plans to drill the first well in the Kaieteur Block....

NICIL’s forceful post-election land deals warrant full investigation – Chris Ram

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NICIL’s forceful post-election land deals warrant full investigation – Chris Ram

– Finance Minister may be directing “mad rush” Anti-corruption advocate Christopher Ram is of the view that the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) should be...

Bar Association condemns attack on CCJ ahead of ruling

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bar Association condemns attack on CCJ ahead of ruling

The Bar Council of the Guyana Bar Association yesterday condemned the attacks on the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ahead of their ruling on the Jagdeo, Ali et al appeal case. With the Caribbean...

New traffic restrictions will hamper rice production – Millers

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New traffic restrictions will hamper rice production – Millers

Rice millers are worried about the new road restrictions that the Guyana Police Force is seeking to implement which will restrict motor lorries and container trucks from traversing the main roadways...

De facto govt. forges ahead with plans for new bridge at Wismar

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on De facto govt. forges ahead with plans for new bridge at Wismar

– to hold virtual public consultation The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) is moving forward with plans for the construction of a brand new bridge at Wismar, Linden, with public...

Two cars with similar number plates; man faces charges

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two cars with similar number plates; man faces charges

A Soesdyke-Linden highway man is likely to face charges after police found a false number plate on his car. According to a Mr. Michel Pereira, he owns a Mitsubishi Galant, bearing licence plate, PJJ...

ERC urges political parties to help reduce tension

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ERC urges political parties to help reduce tension

As a result of the electoral impasse which has grappled the country for over 120 days, the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) is calling on political leaders to reduce the tension and unrest. “The...

Taxes like iron weight pon we shoulder

Jul 07, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Taxes like iron weight pon we shoulder

Dem Boys Seh.. De workers overtaxed. Every month, plenty money coming out of people pay packet. De money going straight to de taxman. De tax burden too heavy. Last year alone de guvment revenues,...

Undermining democracy will result in sanctions

Jul 07, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Undermining democracy will result in sanctions

The United States is on an irreversible course of sanctioning those Guyanese who have been involved in undermining Guyana’s democracy should mischief continue. There will be sanctions if the...

Another COVID-19 death reported, with five new cases

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Another COVID-19 death reported, with five new cases

An elderly Georgetown woman is the latest COVID-19 casualty, bringing the current number of this country’s fatalities from the global pandemic to 16. Additionally, the total number of positive...

COVID-19 a blessings for fruit vendors, businesswise

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 a blessings for fruit vendors, businesswise

Local market vendors have been boasting high sales in fruits since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Guyana on March 11. These high sales in fruits stem from health advisories being shared...

Business woman robbed at knife point in front of parents’ home

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Business woman robbed at knife point in front of parents’ home

A 48-year-old businesswoman, Jennifer Cipriani, was yesterday held at knife point and robbed of her belongings in front of her parent’s home. The robbery took place just after 15:00 hrs at the...

Lockdowns increase road dangers – fatal ones

Jul 07, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Lockdowns increase road dangers – fatal ones

A number of measures deemed mandatory by both public officials, private businesses, and individual citizens, when taken together, have all meant less congested roads. Less traveled and congested...

Rise in sea turtle mortalities worrying- conservationist

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Rise in sea turtle mortalities worrying- conservationist

During the last week, the number of endangered dead sea turtles being washed ashore has become a great concern for the local conservationists and president of the Guyana Marine Conservation Society...

No word on missing cop after three weeks

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on No word on missing cop after three weeks

– As three police departments conduct joint investigations Quincy Lewis, the police officer who went missing three weeks ago is still missing. Lewis, of La Parfaite Harmonie West Bank Demerara...

CLARIFICATION ON TAX COLLECTION

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CLARIFICATION ON TAX COLLECTION

In Monday’s publication, Kaieteur News carried a story with the headline, “Improved tax collection nets additional $240B in 2019.” It was not an additional $240B that was collected but rather,...

Founder of women’s law body, Sheila Chapman, dies

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Founder of women’s law body, Sheila Chapman, dies

Guyana’s legal fraternity was plunged into a state of mourning after the passing of founder member and past president of the Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL), Ms. Sheila Chapman, on...

Bus driver, two others arrested for attempting to pick-up Brazilians at illegal border crossing

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bus driver, two others arrested for attempting to pick-up Brazilians at illegal border crossing

Police swooped down on an illegal Guyana/Brazil border crossing and arrested a bus driver and two of his accomplices for attempting to pick up nine Brazilian nationals. The arrest was made at around...

KFDA continues to assist Covid-19 affected families

Jul 07, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on KFDA continues to assist Covid-19 affected families

Over the last month, the Kingston Football Development Academy (KFDA) reached out to some businesses and Kingston residents near and far on an initiative to help provide COVID-19 relief hampers for...

Shuman asks Court to grant orders against Attorney, Nigel Hughes

Jul 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Shuman asks Court to grant orders against Attorney, Nigel Hughes

Presidential Candidate of the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP), Lennox Shuman has written to the High Court requesting them to grant orders against Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes, following what Shuman,...

How ‘Lady Luck’ missed Ex Inter-County leg-spinner Sammy Boodhoo

Jul 07, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on How ‘Lady Luck’ missed Ex Inter-County leg-spinner Sammy Boodhoo

By Sean Devers Fifty-eight-year old Sammy Boodhoo was one of the best leg-spinners in Demerara in the late 1980s to the mid-90s at a time when Demerara had a strong First Division system in which the...

GOA urging members to donate blood

Jul 07, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GOA urging members to donate blood

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has planned a series of virtual activities to celebrate Olympic Day 2020 which was observed globally on June 23rd last. The first (an exercise challenge) was...

Cricket Administrators among those that bid farewell to Anil Persaud

Jul 07, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cricket Administrators among those that bid farewell to Anil Persaud

Several cricket administrators were among those that bid farewell to former Assistant Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board Anil Persaud. Persaud who resided at Enmore passed away suddenly on...

Desmond Trotman, Westmaas, Bhagwan and the ubiquity of evil

Jul 07, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Desmond Trotman, Westmaas, Bhagwan and the ubiquity of evil

The current attempts to rig the 2020 election, which have gone on for four months now have produced the incredible exposure of certain Guyanese we have long come to admire. These Guyanese have now...

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Boulders, bicycles and motorcycles

Kaieteur News – Fifteen years ago, a child succumbed in hospital after being involved in an accident on a Sunday. According... more