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Why do people protest?

Sep 13, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Why do people protest?

Protests for justice are always justified when conducted peacefully and lawfully. Protests arise because of injustice. People will protest when they feel they are wronged or treated unfairly. The...

ExxonMobil to wipe out half of Payara reserves in six years on poor contract terms

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil to wipe out half of Payara reserves in six years on poor contract terms

ExxonMobil is set, following approval of the Payara Field Development Plan (FDP), to extract half of the Payara reserves in just six years, under the terms of an internationally condemned Production...

Policy to control ExxonMobil’s rate of extraction has fallen by the wayside

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Policy to control ExxonMobil’s rate of extraction has fallen by the wayside

IDB US$11.6M loan… By Kiana Wilburg In December 2018, Guyana had taken a loan from the Inter-American-Development Bank (IDB) to improve its capacity to effectively manage the oil sector. A...

Wife, son arrested after bandits barge through opened back door, kills businessman

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Wife, son arrested after bandits barge through opened back door, kills businessman

A 44-year-old woman and her son, 16, are in police custody assisting with investigations in connection with the chopping death of her husband at Experiment, Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice. Dead...

Govt. to remove all shops, bars, paddy-drying, other encumbrances from East Bank main road

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to remove all shops, bars, paddy-drying, other encumbrances from East Bank main road

The Ministry of Public Works has launched an aggressive campaign to remove all shops, bars and other encumbrances from along the East Bank of Demerara passageways to the main access road. According...

Police continue investigations as teens laid to rest today

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Police continue investigations as teens laid to rest today

Teenaged cousins, Joel, 19, and Isaiah Henry, 16 who were slain one week ago at Cotton Tree backdam, West Coast Berbice (WCB), Region Five, will be laid to rest today as police continue investigation...

Contracting firm avoids justifying abandoning of construction of St. Rose’s High

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Contracting firm avoids justifying abandoning of construction of St. Rose’s High

By Mikaila Prince Local civil engineering company, Courtney Benn Contracting Services Limited, has avoided justifying the reason(s) for abandoning the construction of the $352M St. Rose’s High...

Miner abandoned by taxi driver after beaten, robbed by protesters

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Miner abandoned by taxi driver after beaten, robbed by protesters

A miner who was oblivious of the West Coast Berbice riots over the gruesome slaying of two teenagers, Isaiah and Joel Henry, was on Monday beaten and robbed by protestors and then left for dead by...

Taxi driver runs for life after being stabbed by passenger

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver runs for life after being stabbed by passenger

Days after a pensioner was killed on the Train Line at Port Kaituma North West District (NWD), Region One, a taxi driver on Friday last ran for his life after he was stabbed to the neck in his car,...

US Secretary of State to visit Guyana this week

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US Secretary of State to visit Guyana this week

A September 11, 2020 correspondence between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Guyana Defence Force has made its way into the public and it indicates that the United States Secretary of State,...

Miner fined $12M for damaging Cuyuni River; another gets jail time for breaches

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Miner fined $12M for damaging Cuyuni River; another gets jail time for breaches

GGMC gets tough… As part of a renewed strategic vision for the extractive sector, particularly mining, the Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat has mandated the Guyana Geology and Mines...

Everybody protesting!

Sep 13, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Everybody protesting!

Dem boys seh… Everybody protesting. Dem boys see a deaf man protesting. Dem boys ask he wuh he protesting about. He seh, “I am not hearing what I want to hear!’ Dem boys see a blind man...

God has given each of us a brain for a purpose

Sep 13, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on God has given each of us a brain for a purpose

Those who instigated the protesters by telling them they were doing the right thing seem to have overlooked the coronavirus regulations which prohibit such gatherings. The protests have endangered...

ERC supports Pres. Ali call to crackdown on race hate on social media

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ERC supports Pres. Ali call to crackdown on race hate on social media

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has thrown their support behind the vow made by President Irfaan Ali to ensure that those who spew race hate on social media will face the full brunt of the law....

Schools will re-open when Health Ministry gives the green-light

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Schools will re-open when Health Ministry gives the green-light

– safety remains paramount – regional assessments underway On Friday, Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, said that works are ongoing to ensure that schools are equipped with the necessary...

What’s Hitting The Shelves? New High Quality Drink Mix!

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on What’s Hitting The Shelves? New High Quality Drink Mix!

Sueria Manufacturing Inc. is thrilled to introduce yet another high quality product – Rasna Drink Mix! This delicious drink mix is endorsed by Brand Ambassadors including international cricket...

Cotton Tree: So Many Mysteries, So Much Madness

Sep 13, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Cotton Tree: So Many Mysteries, So Much Madness

We say it straight: nothing can justify the killings of the two young men of Cotton Field, West Coast Berbice. And if they were killed for coconuts, then that only makes the crime immeasurably worse....

FACETS OF AMERINDIAN HERITAGE MONTH

Sep 13, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, News Comments Off on FACETS OF AMERINDIAN HERITAGE MONTH

CONSUMER CONCERNS: By Pat Dial In 1995, when Dr. Cheddi Jagan designated September as “Amerindian Heritage Month”, he did so to promote the interests and enhance the image of the...

GNBS calibrates thermometers for accurate temperature readings

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on GNBS calibrates thermometers for accurate temperature readings

STANDARDS IN FOCUS… The accurate measurement of temperature is vital across a broad spectrum of human activities, including industrial processes (e.g. making steel), manufacturing, monitoring (in...

Amidst the crisis and fear, a passport to the future

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Amidst the crisis and fear, a passport to the future

(Message by Mr. Manuel Otero, Director General, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA on the occasion of World Agriculture Day – June 11, 2020) In many countries, it has...

The Church’s history and the critical role of the family in society

Sep 13, 2020 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Church’s history and the critical role of the family in society

(A review of David Granger’s The Holy family: Adventism and the family.) David Granger’s The holy family: Adventism and the family reveals a softer and deeply religious side of the former...

An elucidating journey into eastern healing and medicine

Sep 13, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on An elucidating journey into eastern healing and medicine

Book review… Book: Ancient Secrets of a Master Healer – A Western Skeptic, An Eastern Master and Life’s Greatest Secrets Author: Clint G. Rogers, PhD Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Dr....

Reopening of sugar estates was not a political gimmick – Min. Mustapha

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Reopening of sugar estates was not a political gimmick – Min. Mustapha

– $5 billion assigned to GuySuCo – closed estates to reopen, jobs to be created – $18.4 billion allocated to agriculture sector The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) will be...

Coronavirus: A strong, prepared immune system is our best bet

Sep 13, 2020 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Coronavirus: A strong, prepared immune system is our best bet

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center It’s been more than six months and we are still waiting on the miracle cure for the COVID-19 infection. It...

Venezuela: President Maduro says US spy seized near oil sites

Sep 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuela: President Maduro says US spy seized near oil sites

Venezuela (BBC)- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says a “US spy” has been captured near two oil refineries in the country’s north-western state of Falcón. In a televised...

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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