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US red-flagging containers shipped from Guyana

Mar 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on US red-flagging containers shipped from Guyana

– local rice miller said he was forced to stop US ports are reportedly red-flagging Guyanese containers and at least one businessman from Guyana says that he was forced to stop shipping...

Jagdeo orders compliance, delinquents’ names will be published

Mar 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo orders compliance, delinquents’ names will be published

… $201M unaccounted advances Head of State, President Bharrat Jagdeo, has ordered that delinquent officials who have received conference advances and have not cleared these with the Finance...

More Joint Services raids target hot spots

Mar 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on More Joint Services raids target hot spots

Yesterday, ranks of the Joint Services swooped down on the Stabroek Market area where they conducted a massive cordon and search exercise. The entire area was cordoned off by ranks from the Guyana...

US company awarded US$15 million Amalia Falls road project

Mar 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on US company awarded US$15 million Amalia Falls road project

U.S. company Synergy Holdings has been awarded a US$15 million project to build roads and bridges necessary for the start-up of the Amalia Falls Hydro project, Head of the Privatisation Unit, Winston...

400 Diamond cane cutters request severance pay

Mar 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on 400 Diamond cane cutters request severance pay

– refuse to work on East Coast Some 400 workers of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) are asking to be let loose after talks failed over the proposed shifting of the Diamond workforce to...

Nightclub owner charged with human trafficking

Mar 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Nightclub owner charged with human trafficking

Owner of popular nightspot, ‘Hollywood Bollywood’, Irene Gooding, 60, was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail after she pleaded not guilty to trafficking in persons, when she appeared before Acting...

Dem Boys Seh… Robert learning tricks in Israel

Mar 27, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Boys Seh… Robert learning tricks in Israel

Is confusion at de Government Quarters. People now thiefing current like dem head ain’t good, because dem claim how somebody set de precedent. That is why Henry Rodney move in after some mad lady...

Jagdeo insists his travel expenditure is minimal

Mar 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo insists his travel expenditure is minimal

…says he worries for Guyana if AFC gains power Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo is insisting that the annual cost of the travelling for the entire Government is on average $200M. He said that it is not...

Jagdeo says Caribbean headed for ‘bankruptcy’

Mar 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo says Caribbean headed for ‘bankruptcy’

President Bharrat Jagdeo says the regional trade and integration bloc CARICOM is heading for “bankruptcy” with many islands in the 15-nation group unable to pay debts and meet recurrent costs....

Overhauled Brickdam lockups commissioned

Mar 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Overhauled Brickdam lockups commissioned

– regarded as one of the best in the Caribbean A Commission of Inquiry some years ago had regarded it as a ‘dungeon horrible’. A visiting British jurist proclaimed that it should be locked...

Former Attorney General threatens to sue Clico (Trinidad)

Mar 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Former Attorney General threatens to sue Clico (Trinidad)

– over insurance claim Former Attorney General, Doodnauth Singh, is threatening to sue CLICO Trinidad unless proceeds from an insurance policy worth TT$500,000 is paid within two weeks. Singh,...

Local Govt. Elections in April impossible

Mar 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Local Govt. Elections in April impossible

… concerned over GECOM’s procurement methods -Jagdeo Whilst conceding that he did not want to get into a tit for tat with the opposition on the issue of the Local Government Administration,...

Takutu Bridge spurs major growth in Lethem – RCCI

Mar 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Takutu Bridge spurs major growth in Lethem – RCCI

The Rupununi Chamber of Commerce of Industry (RCCI) says that the opening of the Takutu Bridge linking Brazil and Guyana has spurred major growth in the area, especially at Lethem. Prior to the start...

US company awarded US$15 million Amalia Falls road project

Mar 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on US company awarded US$15 million Amalia Falls road project

GBTI sees $991M in profits for 2009

Mar 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on GBTI sees $991M in profits for 2009

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Ltd. (GBTI) has enjoyed increased profits in 2009 over 2008, albeit significantly less than the $150M average increase in annual net profits that the bank has...

French Guiana puts on impressive show

Mar 27, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on French Guiana puts on impressive show

– as IGG officially opens at Baduel Stadium By Edison Jefford in French Guiana In association with YK Investments and Fon-J Cycle Store The 2010 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) was officially opened...

Wounded man denies that he was stealing

Mar 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Wounded man denies that he was stealing

– claims that he saved a woman “Meh worship how is it possible for me alone to carry away all these things, then get shoot four times and still able to jump over a fence?” asked Roger...

Suriname’s Walking Boys edge GDF 2-1, face ‘The Hammer’ tomorrow

Mar 27, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Suriname’s Walking Boys edge GDF 2-1, face ‘The Hammer’ tomorrow

By Franklin Wilson A brace of first half goals by the visiting Walking Boys of Suriname was all that they needed to take full points and pole position in Group ‘D’ of the Caribbean...

Zebulun de Counselor is coming home

Mar 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Zebulun de Counselor is coming home

The artiste Zebulun de Counselor might not be among the more popular names announced, following a selection on local radio but it certainly is a name getting recognition internationally in the reggae...

Flood lights cricket set for Lusignan on April 3

Mar 27, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Flood lights cricket set for Lusignan on April 3

The Lusignan Sports Club present a grand BBQ and Flood lights cricket match on Saturday April 3 at the Lusignan Community centre and the winner of the 20-team cricket competition is set to take away...

Lack of information from education districts could lead to sanctions – Baksh

Mar 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Lack of information from education districts could lead to sanctions – Baksh

Insufficient flow of information from the various education districts to Central Ministry has been recognised as one of the major shortfalls within the education sector, a development that could...

Spready’s Bakery Under-19 Berbice Cricket starts today

Mar 27, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Spready’s Bakery Under-19 Berbice Cricket starts today

The Berbice Spready’s Bakery Under-19, 50-Over Cricket Competition gets started this weekend with the first and second rounds and all matches commence at 09:30hrs. A record forty four teams are...

CYP strategic plan launched

Mar 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on CYP strategic plan launched

The Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) on Thursday evening presented the Strategic Plan for Youth Development 2008-2012 to the Government of Guyana. Present to hand over the plan was the Deputy...

Survivor stable, claims to know attacker

Mar 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Survivor stable, claims to know attacker

Twenty-nine year-old Quacy John, who was shot in his head on Thursday evening last, is currently in a stable condition and resting at the Georgetown Public Hospital. John said that he has a fair idea...

Guyanese doing well in T&T cricket

Mar 27, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese doing well in T&T cricket

Several Guyanese continued to perform well in Trinidad’s domestic cricket over the weekend. In the Championship 2-day league former Guyana under-19 all-rounder Kellon Carmichael and First-Class...

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Morally Right. Legally wrong

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