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Third World Mentality!

Sep 06, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Third World Mentality!

Same ole, same ole! Going round in a circle from PPP/C to PNCR and AFC. What have we learned from them all? Borrow and pledge to do this and do that, to siphon off a portion of every project! Same...

Guyana should not approve another Field Development Plan until gas master plan in place

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana should not approve another Field Development Plan until gas master plan in place

– industry experts By Kiana Wilburg The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government and American multi-national, ExxonMobil, are currently engaged in ironing out issues pertaining to...

Oil companies often run to politicians to bypass regulators

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Oil companies often run to politicians to bypass regulators

Guyana should beware – Ex T&T gas company head What Guyana faces right now with the Payara project and ExxonMobil is not new to the oil and gas industry. Experiences faced by Trinidad and...

Roger Khan files official police complaint over release of sex tape

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Roger Khan files official police complaint over release of sex tape

Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan has lodged a formal report with law enforcement against a well-known businessman and a close female associate after a short video of him in a sexual act went viral on social...

Demerara Bridge to undergo several days of emergency works

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Demerara Bridge to undergo several days of emergency works

– retraction to halt after today; barge contemplated for heavy vehicles There will be more emergency works on the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) with the last retraction expected today and with...

‘Top Cat’ charged with shooting death of Middle Road man

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Top Cat’ charged with shooting death of Middle Road man

Wayne Castello called ‘Top Cat’ was on Friday charged for the murder of Navindra Samaroo, a marketing agent who was shot and killed in July on Middle Road, La Penitence. The 27-year-old defendant...

17-member CH&PA board sent packing

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 17-member CH&PA board sent packing

The 17-member board of the Central Planning and Housing Authority (CH&PA) were sent packing this past week. According to information published in the Official Gazette, Minister of Housing and...

Justice For All Party leaves APNU

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Justice For All Party leaves APNU

The Justice For All Party (JFAP) has notified Leader of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), David Granger, that it is officially withdrawing from the Coalition. The letter from JFAP General...

Brickdam lock-ups still under repairs

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Brickdam lock-ups still under repairs

After 7 years; 3 administrations: Seven years has passed and a third administration come to power but the Brickdam police lock-ups are still under repairs. The upgrade of what was once deemed the...

Six REOs file court action for wrongful dismissal

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Six REOs file court action for wrongful dismissal

Attorney-at-law, Darren Wade, has filed court action on behalf of six former Regional Executive Officers (REOs) in the High Court, claiming that they were unfairly dismissed. The six REOs include the...

Treatment of arrested GECOM officials will kill community police relations

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Treatment of arrested GECOM officials will kill community police relations

– Khemraj Ramjattan The treatment meted out to the officials of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) by investigators in connection with the probe into the protracted March 2nd elections will...

When will Guyana learn?

Sep 06, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on When will Guyana learn?

Dem Boys Seh… De Waterfall paper bin carrying some advertisements about de oil industry and de bad deal wah Guyana get. Some of de ads end by asking, “When will Guyana learn?’ One man seh...

Parents should have a right to decide on their children’s education

Sep 06, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Parents should have a right to decide on their children’s education

Aunty Priya has done her hair and held her virtual consultations with teachers. The public expectation was that these consultations would have been a forerunner to the rolling out of a major revamp...

43 new COVID-19 cases; 16 in ICU

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 43 new COVID-19 cases; 16 in ICU

Guyana’s COVID-19 numbers has moved to 1,459 of which 43 are new cases and with 16 persons now in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. According to...

Uitvlugt man takes rap for ganja found in pick-up

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Uitvlugt man takes rap for ganja found in pick-up

A miner was on Friday sent to jail for 128 grams of marijuana which he had in his possession two days before. The defendant, Jamaine Jacobs, 21, of Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, appeared at the...

4000 free online courses available to Guyanese

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 4000 free online courses available to Guyanese

— through partnership with Commonwealth —courses offered by top universities —certificates awarded upon completion The Ministry of Education has announced the provision of free access to 4,000...

TH&D Goods Wharf for repairs

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on TH&D Goods Wharf for repairs

An early morning visit by Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill, was conducted yesterday to assess the conditions of the Transport and Harbour Goods Wharf in the city. The wharf is where the North...

Guyana and Suriname Move Even Closer

Sep 06, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, News Comments Off on Guyana and Suriname Move Even Closer

Consumer Concerns: By Pat Dial Among the most important occurrences following President Irfaan Ali’s Inauguration were the unplanned business meetings with President Chandrikapersad Santokhi of...

Gold Seal and Blue Ribbon

Sep 06, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Gold Seal and Blue Ribbon

It is a tale of two stories rolled into one, almost like inseparable Siamese twins. On the one hand, there is Guyana’s oil discoveries again being hailed as among the most “exciting” in years....

Our indigenous people can benefit from available product standards

Sep 06, 2020 KNews News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on Our indigenous people can benefit from available product standards

It is indigenous Heritage Month, 2020. This month is set aside to highlight the contributions of our Indigenous People to Guyana, our homeland. The theme is “Fostering traditional practices for a...

Guyana owes a debt of gratitude to the Congregational churches for pioneering education for Africans

Sep 06, 2020 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Guyana owes a debt of gratitude to the Congregational churches for pioneering education for Africans

(A review of David Granger’s Congregationalism and communitarianism. The Congregational Church in post-Emancipation Guyana.) David Granger’s Congregationalism and communitarianism. The...

Three Guyanese Pals launch Guyana’s first craft beer

Sep 06, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Three Guyanese Pals launch Guyana’s first craft beer

By Kiana Wilburg Since ancient times, beer has been synonymous with tantalizing the senses and holding the power to irrigate the stress of a hard day from one’s soul. Scientifically, it is known to...

Book Review… A journey into Practical Philosophy

Sep 06, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on Book Review… A journey into Practical Philosophy

Book: Theoism – Understanding the Universe Within Author: Theo Chambers Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Insightfully engaging is ‘Theoism,’ the latest work of Caribbean thinker Theo Chambers....

Coronavirus: Health workers are fighting to save your lives; please join our fight

Sep 06, 2020 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Coronavirus: Health workers are fighting to save your lives; please join our fight

By Dr. Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Vanderbilt Medical Center As I’m writing these few lines, our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation...

Interesting Creatures… Glyptodont

Sep 06, 2020 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… Glyptodont

Glyptodontinae (glyptodonts or glyptodontines) is an extinct subfamily of large, heavily armoured relatives of armadillos, members of the mostly South American mammalian superorder Xenarthra. They...

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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