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Exxon is a freeloader!

Sep 29, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Exxon is a freeloader!

Exxon is saddling the Guyanese people with hundreds of millions of US dollars in PRE-CONTRACT COSTS. Even before, Guyana earned a single dollar from the company’s operations, it was billed US$460...

Guyana should look to Mexico for crucial lessons on regulating oil sector – IDB report

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana should look to Mexico for crucial lessons on regulating oil sector – IDB report

– North American nation did “severe reforms” to avoid conflict of interest, ensure highest levels of transparency and accountability By Kiana Wilburg While Guyana is considered to be in a...

Foreign investigators arrive in Guyana to assist with case

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign investigators arrive in Guyana to assist with case

Gruesome murder of Berbice teens… A team consisting of five investigators from the Regional Security System (RSS) arrived yesterday to assist the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in finding the killers of...

Third developer returns five acres to Government

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Third developer returns five acres to Government

Coalition’s giveaway of prime ECD lands… Corum Group Inc, the developer with plans to construct a Holiday Inn Hotel at Ogle East Coast Demerara has relinquished the five acres of prime lands...

Panel for election COI could be drawn from CARICOM, OAS, Commonwealth – President Ali

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Panel for election COI could be drawn from CARICOM, OAS, Commonwealth – President Ali

The panel for the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the protracted March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections may very well emerge from those organisations who championed democracy during the...

Five regions have new chairpersons

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Five regions have new chairpersons

Woman takes helm on E’bo Coast; former army captain to lead Region Four Region Eight process suspended as two Councillors test positive for COVID-19 Nine of the 10 administrative regions of Guyana...

Driver caught after slamming into 6-year-old, speeding away

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Driver caught after slamming into 6-year-old, speeding away

Police have apprehended a driver who fled the scene Sunday last, after slamming his car into a six-year-boy on the Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara Public Road. The child is currently hospitalized at...

Winston Brassington fails to establish case of libel against Kaieteur News – Defence lawyer

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Winston Brassington fails to establish case of libel against Kaieteur News – Defence lawyer

Nineteen libelsuits filed against KNews… Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes, has said that the libel suit brought against Kaieteur News by former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial...

When Lil Boys pee froth dem does feel dem is big man!

Sep 29, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on When Lil Boys pee froth dem does feel dem is big man!

Dem Boys Seh… Dem Boys nah like involve lil children in Dem Boys Seh. But deh gat some presumptuous children who smelling them own sweat and peeing froth so much so dat dem feel dem can dabble in...

The private sector and the government need to come up with a plan

Sep 29, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The private sector and the government need to come up with a plan

Yesterday’s COVID-19 dashboard was not interesting, not by what is revealed but by what was hidden. Of the total of 247 tests which were reported on, there were zero positive cases in Region Four....

Man confesses to killing miner following card game row

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man confesses to killing miner following card game row

A suspect, 25, has reportedly confessed to killing a miner on Saturday last at Big Creek Backdam, North West District (NWD), Region One, following a row over a card game. According police reports the...

David Armogan back as Region Six Chairman; Zamal Hussain is Vice-Chairman

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on David Armogan back as Region Six Chairman; Zamal Hussain is Vice-Chairman

– Vickchand Ramphal and Rion Peters to head Region Five David Armogan of Coburg Street, New Amsterdam was yesterday re-elected Chairman of the Region Six Administration, while Zamal Hussain...

AFC General Secretary, David Patterson, resigns

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on AFC General Secretary, David Patterson, resigns

Former Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, has resigned from the position of General Secretary of the Alliance For Change (AFC). According to a letter that Patterson wrote to AFC...

Home isolation contributing to increase in COVID-19 cases- Volda Lawrence

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Home isolation contributing to increase in COVID-19 cases- Volda Lawrence

By Sueann Wickham Former Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, is of the firm belief that persons with COVID-19 being isolated within their homes are a major contributing factor to the surge in...

Sleepy Sanitary Pads Congratulates its Third $100,000 Winner!

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Sleepy Sanitary Pads Congratulates its Third $100,000 Winner!

Sleepy’s All-Natural Sanitary Pads is excited to congratulate Ms. Shavaani Sookraj of Lusignan, East Coast Demerara for being the third $100,000 Winner in the ‘Sleepy Monthly Promotion’. The...

Adequate chicken available for Christmas season – Poultry Producers assure

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Adequate chicken available for Christmas season – Poultry Producers assure

The Guyana Poultry Producers Association (GPPA) yesterday assured that there will be adequate supplies of chicken for the Christmas season. The body, in an update yesterday, disclosed that over the...

Use Heart to Beat Cardiovascular Disease

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Use Heart to Beat Cardiovascular Disease

World Heart Day 2020 Message from the Minister of Health Hon. Dr. Frank Anthony Today, September 29, 2020, the Ministry of Health and indeed all of Guyana is joining the international community to...

Learning materials handed over to several hinterland communities

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Learning materials handed over to several hinterland communities

Dealing with the pandemic… Last weekend, Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, visited Baramita, Matthew’s Ridge, Port Kaituma, Mabaruma and Moruca in Region One (Barima-Waini). In a release,...

In the diaspora, in the circus, in the gutter

Sep 29, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on In the diaspora, in the circus, in the gutter

In the Stabroek News, there is a weekly column captioned “In the Diaspora” in which guest writers from outside of Guyana, living in the diaspora, pen the columns that are featured. “In the...

VRHTYSC MS 30TH Anniversary Celebrations 1990-2020

Sep 29, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on VRHTYSC MS 30TH Anniversary Celebrations 1990-2020

Cricket teams in massive public beach cleanup in Rose Hall Town-Donates to orphanages The ten cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club MS on Sunday last joined hands with the Mayor...

Creating More and Better Jobs, the Challenge of the Hour in Latin America and the Caribbean

Sep 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Creating More and Better Jobs, the Challenge of the Hour in Latin America and the Caribbean

By Carlos Felipe Jaramillo (World Bank Regional Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean) Latin America and the Caribbean is the region most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the world,...

Khalifa Hale gives updates on Haledino Sports Initiative

Sep 29, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Khalifa Hale gives updates on Haledino Sports Initiative

In a release to the media, Cadet Officer Khalifa Hale, who is the founder of the Haledino Sports Initiative, which is about large scale job creation to benefit investors through franchise sports,...

Great words Mr. President, now deliver, please

Sep 29, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Great words Mr. President, now deliver, please

The caption should captivate every angry, disgusted Guyanese: “President announces terms and conditions review of existing civil works contracts -contractors, supervisors, project units to be held...

Glowing tributes paid as hundreds attend funeral of former cyclist Wilbert Benjamin

Sep 29, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Glowing tributes paid as hundreds attend funeral of former cyclist Wilbert Benjamin

Hundreds, including numerous former and present cyclists, motorbike riders, family, friends and well-wishers joined the funeral proceedings of the late national cycling champion Wilbert (“Willy”,...

I write in support of the Guyana Bar Association

Sep 29, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on I write in support of the Guyana Bar Association

Dear Editor, I was utterly shocked when I read the profound statement released by the Guyana Bar Association. I commend these young professionals for their bold, courageous and informed position,...