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Extra US$8M spent on GPL V/Hoop plant

Jan 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Extra US$8M spent on GPL V/Hoop plant

…CEO says dumped sand disappeared overnight in swamp, and this continued for months Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and top brass of the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) yesterday toured the...

Businessman blasts gunman in home invasion – guns recovered

Jan 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman blasts gunman in home invasion – guns recovered

A bandit is now fighting for his life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) following a 20 minute gun-battle between him and an Annandale, East...

Father, son killed in E’bo road accident

Jan 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Father, son killed in E’bo road accident

The Essequibo Coast recorded its first road fatality Friday afternoon, when a father and son were killed on the Land of Plenty Public Road whilst attempting to cross. Dead are Muntask Baksh, 72, and...

GDF promotes 88 officers, 260 ranks

Jan 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GDF promotes 88 officers, 260 ranks

Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Brigadier Mark Phillips, has announced the promotions of 88 Officers and 260 Other Ranks effective from January 1, 2014. According to the GDF...

Dem boys seh…Brazzy gone wid $8 million more

Jan 18, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Brazzy gone wid $8 million more

De good book seh that a wise man build he house on solid ground but a fool builds on sand. From de evidence GPL got to be a bunch of fools and dem boys seh that wid Brazzy as de Chairman dem...

World Boxing Council President, Jose Sulaiman takes final count

Jan 18, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on World Boxing Council President, Jose Sulaiman takes final count

GBBC President/WBC executive relay sympathy A pall has enveloped the boxing family worldwide following the sad news that President of the World Boxing Council (WBC), Jose Sulaiman, has...

Arjoon opens Pro career in Australia

Jan 18, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Arjoon opens Pro career in Australia

Former junior standout and current national Squash player Alexander Arjoon is set to join the professional circuit very shortly following in the footsteps of Nicolette Fernandes, Sunil Seth, Richard...

Mayweather: Last fight will be in September 2015

Jan 18, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayweather: Last fight will be in September 2015

Johannesburg (AP) – Floyd Mayweather Jr. says he’ll fight for the last time in September next year. Mayweather told guests at a gala dinner in South Africa yesterday that he remembers his...

GVF to host FIVB Beach Volleyball Course

Jan 18, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GVF to host FIVB Beach Volleyball Course

The Guyana Volleyball Federation {GVF} in collaboration with the world governing body for Volleyball, the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) will be hosting a six-day Beach Volleyball...

Sixteen year-old Dwayne Griffith wins GFRC Raffle

Jan 18, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sixteen year-old Dwayne Griffith wins GFRC Raffle

MCYS donate shirts to officials Ticket holder 1716, Dwayne Griffith of William Street, Kitty won the first prize of a 150cc Titan Motor cycle at the drawing of the Guyana Football Referees...

Shewdas’ coach, Jackson wants WADA to back off

Jan 18, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shewdas’ coach, Jackson wants WADA to back off

-says anti-doping body is “judge, jury and executioner” By Edison Jefford Gumendra Shewdas’ coach, Egbert Jackson wants the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to back off with its testing...

Bravo, Gayle accept retainer contracts

Jan 18, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bravo, Gayle accept retainer contracts

Port of Spain, Trinidad – After years of refusing offers, senior West Indies players Dwayne Bravo and Chris Gayle players have decided to once more sign West Indies Cricket Board retainer...

GFF Referees Department to conduct 5-day Beginners Course

Jan 18, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Referees Department to conduct 5-day Beginners Course

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will be conducting a Referees Beginners Course from February 7-11, at the GFF Secretariat on Dadanawa Street, Section ‘K’, Campbellville. According to a...

GFF Congress inflict hefty suspensions on UDFA executive

Jan 18, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Congress inflict hefty suspensions on UDFA executive

Football in the Linden community hit the crossroads yesterday when the majority of members of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Congress which is the highest decision making component of the Body...

Lennie Shuffler 75th birth anniversary volleyball set for Feb. 9

Jan 18, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lennie Shuffler 75th birth anniversary volleyball set for Feb. 9

The 75th birth anniversary of Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) President would be celebrated in grand style when the local governing body brings off the fourth annual Lennie Shuffler birthday...

Pan Am Indoor Hockey Cup…National Men’s Hockey squad reduced to 24 players

Jan 18, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pan Am Indoor Hockey Cup…National Men’s Hockey squad reduced to 24 players

The Guyana Hockey Board over the past weekend reduced the national men’s hockey squad from 38 to 24 players. The squad has spent the past five weeks of training with a focus on physical preparation...

Legislators approve laws to reduce real estate fraud

Jan 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Legislators approve laws to reduce real estate fraud

The Deeds Registry (Amendment) Bill, which was tabled and debated in the Parliament in 2012, but was subsequently sent to a Special Select Committee, was finally passed on Thursday. The Bill seeks to...

Cutlass attack leaves victim and alleged perpetrator injured

Jan 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cutlass attack leaves victim and alleged perpetrator injured

An alleged cutlass attack early yesterday morning from a jilted West Coast Berbice man has left one other injured while up to last evening he (perpetrator) was receiving treatment at the Georgetown...

APNU says it’s being sidelined from Budget consultation…Will force implementation of reforms if concerns not taken on board

Jan 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU says it’s being sidelined from Budget consultation…Will force implementation of reforms if concerns not taken on board

The opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) says that it remains hopeful that consultation with government over the 2014 budget would be reached. However hope is rapidly...

Food and Drug Department warns of bogus margarine on local market

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Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more