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Richie Rich nominated best local music producer of the year

Oct 08, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Waterfalls Magazine Comments Off on Richie Rich nominated best local music producer of the year

Waterfalls Magazine – Richie Rich is one of the nominees to receive an award for best music producer in Guyana for the year 2023 at the second annual DemRoc Music and Entertainment Awards...

Miss Global International-Guyana Lateefa Forde on a campaign to highlight Guyana’s beauty

Oct 08, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Waterfalls Magazine Comments Off on Miss Global International-Guyana Lateefa Forde on a campaign to highlight Guyana’s beauty

Waterfalls Magazine – Beauty Queen Lateefa Forde is embarking on a campaign to showcase Guyana’s beauty and the reigning Miss Global International-Guyana (MGI-G) says she is excited about the...

Over 100 local agro-processors registered for Agri-expo to date

Oct 08, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Waterfalls Magazine Comments Off on Over 100 local agro-processors registered for Agri-expo to date

Waterfalls Magazine – As preparations for this month’s Agri-Investment Forum and Expo gain momentum, over 100 local agro-processors have already registered to participate in the event. The...

36 prisoners to be trained annually in garment construction

Oct 08, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Waterfalls Magazine Comments Off on 36 prisoners to be trained annually in garment construction

…as FFTP donates sewing machines to GPS Waterfalls Magazine – Food For The Poor (FFTP) Guyana Inc. recently handed over 10 industrial sewing machines to the Guyana Prison Service (GPS) to...

Goblin Shark

Oct 08, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures:, News, Waterfalls Magazine Comments Off on Goblin Shark

INTERESTING CREATURE Waterfalls Magazine – Goblin sharks (Mitsukurina owstoni) are a species of fish that usually live at the bottom of the ocean along continental shelves (or a...

Threats to Democracy: The Erosion of Judicial Independence

Oct 08, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Ronald Sanders, Waterfalls Magazine Comments Off on Threats to Democracy: The Erosion of Judicial Independence

By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth...

GNBS UNVEILS EXCITING CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES FOR NATIONAL QUALITY WEEK 2023

Oct 08, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, GNBS, News, Waterfalls Magazine Comments Off on GNBS UNVEILS EXCITING CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES FOR NATIONAL QUALITY WEEK 2023

GNBS IN FOCUS Waterfalls Magazine – Today, Sunday October 08, marks the beginning of National Quality Week (NQW) 2023, which is spearheaded by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS)....

Cartoon – 08 October, 2023

Oct 08, 2023 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cartoon – 08 October, 2023

Clearing the backlog is not the same as clearing the demand

Oct 08, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Clearing the backlog is not the same as clearing the demand

Kaieteur News – If you are not in line by 5 am each morning outside of the Passport Office, you are not likely to be successful in handing-in your passport application form. The Central...

Paper committal process for duo charged with Dr. Colin Roach’s murder near completion

Oct 07, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Paper committal process for duo charged with Dr. Colin Roach’s murder near completion

Kaieteur News – The paper committal for the two men charged in 2021 for the alleged murder of Dr. Colin Roach is winding down at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Back in November 2021, the...

H@rd Truths by GHK Lall – INVESTIGATION OF CONTRACT AWARD

Oct 07, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on H@rd Truths by GHK Lall – INVESTIGATION OF CONTRACT AWARD

Kaieteur News – I note in the media that Opposition MP, Mr. David Patterson, has written to the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) to investigate the GY$865 million contract award for a pump...

Conservation Starts at the Top

Oct 07, 2023 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Conservation Starts at the Top

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – In the midst of a scorching heatwave, the government has issued a heartfelt plea for the public to conserve electricity. It’s a commendable initiative,...

The report of the investigation needs to be made public

Oct 07, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The report of the investigation needs to be made public

Kaieteur News – The government continues to insist that it is the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) which is the final arbiter in relation to the audits of oil expenses being claimed by the oil...

Court rules EPA decision to grant permit was contrary to law and improper

Oct 06, 2023 KNews Court Stories, ExxonMobil, Features / Columnists, News, Oil & Gas Comments Off on Court rules EPA decision to grant permit was contrary to law and improper

ExxonMobil’s Gas-to-Energy Project… Kaieteur News – Even though the High Court ruled on Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acted ‘contrary to the law’ and...

Lawsuit filed against police officer for throwing away boundary card of cricket fan

Oct 06, 2023 KNews Court Stories, ExxonMobil, Features / Columnists, News, Oil & Gas, Sports Comments Off on Lawsuit filed against police officer for throwing away boundary card of cricket fan

Kaieteur News – A lawsuit has been filed against a police officer for seizing and discarding the boundary cards of a local cricket fan who attended the recently concluded Caribbean Premier...

Teen charged for armed robbery

Oct 06, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Teen charged for armed robbery

Kaieteur News – A 19-year-old man of ‘B’ Field Sophia, Georgetown was on Wednesday charged with two counts of robbery under arms. Mwange Smith appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s...

Friendship charged with assaulting woman

Oct 06, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Friendship charged with assaulting woman

Kaieteur News – A 27-year-old man of Lot 5 Friendship Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara was arrested and charged on October 3, 2023 for allegedly assaulting and using abusive language against...

‘Disrespectful’ Moruca dentex jailed for attempted rape

Oct 06, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on ‘Disrespectful’ Moruca dentex jailed for attempted rape

Kaieteur News – A dental nurse at Moruca, who made several outbursts at the magistrate during sentencing on Monday, was jailed for twelve months for the attempted rape of a woman back in...

Taxi Driver granted bail for assaulting man

Oct 06, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Taxi Driver granted bail for assaulting man

Kaieteur News – A taxi driver appeared on Wednesday at the Diamond/Golden Grove Magistrate’s Court before Senior Magistrate Sunil Scarce to answer to an assault charge. Alton Straker, 27,...

H@rd Truths by GHK Lall – Those who defend Exxon become this

Oct 06, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on H@rd Truths by GHK Lall – Those who defend Exxon become this

Kaieteur News – Guyanese know the slurs, the special labels, for those who betray their country and fellow citizens. In the light of sordid developments with the name Exxon stamped all over...

Life is a numbers game!

Oct 06, 2023 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Life is a numbers game!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – One Opposition politician gat a serious problem with mathematics. She just seem to get kerfuffle with numbers. She is not a numbers lady. But imagine if this...

The PNCR and its Congress

Oct 06, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The PNCR and its Congress

Kaieteur News – Now that the PNCR has found the resources to dispatch a delegation to Washington for a conference and a meeting with the Black Congressional Caucus, it is time for it to find...

High Court dismisses case against EPA over permit that allows Exxon to flare gas

Oct 05, 2023 KNews Court Stories, ExxonMobil, Features / Columnists, News, Oil & Gas Comments Off on High Court dismisses case against EPA over permit that allows Exxon to flare gas

Kaieteur News – The High Court on Tuesday dismissed an application filed against Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to put a stop to flaring by ExxonMobil Guyana Limited in the...

H@rd Truths by GHK Lall – Contributor’s note: this article amends, in parts, its original, as was previously published elsewhere

Oct 05, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on H@rd Truths by GHK Lall – Contributor’s note: this article amends, in parts, its original, as was previously published elsewhere

Kaieteur News – The PNC went to Washington, DC, recently. It should have stayed put, and enjoyed the incinerating heat of Guyana. The PNC team was not James Stewart’s, ‘Mr. Smith goes...

A day in de life of a teacher

Oct 05, 2023 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on A day in de life of a teacher

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – When yuh young, yuh does believe that de life of a teacher is like strolling through a field of daisies. But as yuh get older, yuh realize dat a day in de...