April 13, 2010

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$300M fraud uncovered at Customs

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on $300M fraud uncovered at Customs

Details of massive internal fraud resulting in the loss of over $300M at the Customs and Trade Administration were uncovered by the Auditor General’s office in their Audit of the Public Accounts...

Guyana awards US$15M contract to US tax delinquent

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana awards US$15M contract to US tax delinquent

With all of the brouhaha surrounding the most recent contract awarded in Guyana namely with Synergy Holdings Inc, new information surfacing will certainly put that company under the microscope....

Guyanese scammed by cruise ship job offers

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese scammed by cruise ship job offers

A number of Guyanese nationals appear to be victims of an apparent scam involving the promise of a so called employment agency in Barbados to get them jobs on cruise liners and freighters. The Guyana...

Former GRA employee is first convicted for money laundering

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Former GRA employee is first convicted for money laundering

Former Guyana Revenue Authority employee, Michelle Fraser, has been sentenced to seven years jail and fined $250,000 after she was found guilty of money laundering, yesterday. The woman became the...

Guyana gears for expanded paediatric surgeries

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana gears for expanded paediatric surgeries

Paediatric open heart operations continued incident-free yesterday at the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI), taking the number of procedures completed so far to five. Bharrat Narine of Anna Catherina,...

Murder accused alleges sodomy

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Murder accused alleges sodomy

One day after allegedly killing Michael Kissoon, murder accused, Waynewright Telford called ‘Baker’, 48, of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam yesterday was remanded by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo...

Drunk driving sparks two-vehicle collision

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Drunk driving sparks two-vehicle collision

Alcohol was blamed for a two-vehicle collision on West Bank Demerara, some 50 feet from the Junction at the entrance to the Demerara Harbour Bridge. According to reports, one of the cars involved in...

Dem Boys seh… Customs got nuff money fuh thief

Apr 13, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Boys seh… Customs got nuff money fuh thief

Stricter de government wiser de population. Imagine de government taxing people and de people who collecting de tax thiefing de money. If de Auditor General didn’t open he mouth nobody woulda know...

Good giving is divine says Philanthropist George Subraj

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Good giving is divine says Philanthropist George Subraj

“I believe that good giving is divine and before I leave this planet I have to give back something,” said Mr George Subraj, owner of Zara Real Estate in Queens, New York. Subraj, a Guyanese by...

Guyana could be a major player in the uranium market

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana could be a major player in the uranium market

– exploration company projects finding 50 million pounds by 2014 With the demand for uranium expected to increase by 2014, Guyana is poised to be a major player in the supply chain with...

GFC completes workshop

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GFC completes workshop

…90 per cent increase in forestry association The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FOA) has embarked on a National Forest Programme...

Public health sector mandated to provide equitable health care

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Public health sector mandated to provide equitable health care

The public health sector is mandated to deliver proper health care to all citizens and even overseas visitors. Thus, there should be no evidence of discrimination on the part of any level of worker...

SPL, CCWU sign new labour agreement

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on SPL, CCWU sign new labour agreement

Sterling Products Limited (SPL) on Friday signed a Collective Labour Agreement that will see key employees benefiting from salary increases over the next two years. At the event Chief Labour Officer,...

Men on attempted murder charge out on bail

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Men on attempted murder charge out on bail

Two men were yesterday granted $250,000 bail each, when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrates Court. The men, Denzil Kistoo and Tito Gowen, are...

Study: Delta at the bottom of annual airline quality rankings

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Study: Delta at the bottom of annual airline quality rankings

Washington (AP) — Hawaiian Airlines did the best job for fliers last year, closely followed by low-cost carrier AirTran, according to an annual study released Monday that rates the nation’s 18...

Berbice sugar workers hospitalized after lorry slams into horses

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice sugar workers hospitalized after lorry slams into horses

Two Berbice sugar workers were yesterday hospitalized after their lorry slammed into two horses and ended up in a trench. According to a statement from the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo)...

National programme in 2011 to celebrate people of African descent

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on National programme in 2011 to celebrate people of African descent

The government says that it will roll out a national programme next year to celebrate people of African descent in keeping with the United Nations declaration of 2011 as the International Year for...

Hope Canal closer to reality

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Hope Canal closer to reality

The technical phase of the Hope/Dochfour Relief Channel is over, excavation of the channel will begin shortly and the tender requests for construction of the necessary structures along the route of...

Rampaging Republican quartet ensure Champion Gym honours shared with GDF

Apr 13, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Rampaging Republican quartet ensure Champion Gym honours shared with GDF

By Michael Benjamin The rampaging quartet of Republican boxers, junior/flyweight Danishwar Narine, lightweight, Nankumar Singh, junior/welterweight, Denroy Nero and heavyweight Trelon Monroe,...

Brickdam Health Fair to foster model communities

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Brickdam Health Fair to foster model communities

As part of World Health Day activities, the Ministry of Health and the Private Sector, displayed a collection of booths pertaining to the environment and to health issues on Sunday. At the event the...

Man survives collision with Bedford truck

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Man survives collision with Bedford truck

A 22-year-old man is counting his lucky stars after he rode into the path of Bedford truck, and walked away with minor injuries yesterday afternoon. The man, Vishal Rampargass, of 91 A Group...

GDF take pole with 2-0 win over Seawall; Kings soften Liquid Gold 5-1

Apr 13, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on GDF take pole with 2-0 win over Seawall; Kings soften Liquid Gold 5-1

The Guyana Defence Force have assumed the lead in the Guyana Football Federation Super League competition following their 2-0 win over West Demerara’s Seawall on Sunday evening at the GFC...

EMPRETEC supports entrepreneurship in women

Apr 13, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on EMPRETEC supports entrepreneurship in women

EMPRETEC Guyana Inc Women in Business, a non profit organisation based on the internationally renowned EMPRETEC model of entrepreneurship development, honoured three of its entrepreneurs Friday....

IPA, Nigel’s Supermarket & H. Mohamed General Store add muscles

Apr 13, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on IPA, Nigel’s Supermarket & H. Mohamed General Store add muscles

As preparations continues to heighten ahead of the Second Edition of the Hugh Ross Classic (HRC) Bodybuilding & Fitness Championship, the organisers have received added assistance to ensure a...

Local schools get 4,800 ICC T20 tickets

Apr 13, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Local schools get 4,800 ICC T20 tickets

– after successful negotiations By Edison Jefford With just 17 days before the start of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) World Cup T20 competition, 245 schools across Guyana were...

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Carty, Hope, Joseph pilot Windies to empathic 7-wicket win

Jul 12, 2026

2026 New Zealand tour of West Indies ODI series… …draw first blood at Providence By Clifton Ross Kaieteur Sports – Cracking half-centuries from Keacy Carty and skipper Shai Hope, reinforced...

Standardised scores are not the same as examination marks

Jul 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Every year, when the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) results are announced, many parents and students naturally ask the same questions. How were the scores calculated? Did the students who tied for first all receive the same examination marks? And how can several students...

The Vulgarity of Asking the Enslaved to Pay

Jul 12, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Suella Braverman is a former Conservative Party British government minister who turned coat and is now a vocal member of the far‑right political party, Reform. She is the child of Indian parents from Mauritius and Kenya, yet, like many other...

Cuba to Guyana, a peek in migrant’s world

Jul 12, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Rain or shine, they are out there before first light. Cubans. In ones and twos and threes. Walking abreast. Waiting at an unmarked bus stop. Cubans and more Cubans. The number of them that is around in Guyana, the government is not saying. ...

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