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Jagdeo used luxury jet, not air ambulance for medivac

Mar 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo used luxury jet, not air ambulance for medivac

When former President, Bharrat Jagdeo, was airlifted to the United States destined for a Florida hospital recently, he used a private luxury Learjet instead of an air ambulance. An air ambulance are...

Select Committee to probe sale of Govt. shares in GT&T

Mar 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Select Committee to probe sale of Govt. shares in GT&T

…insider information being used to create capitalists-Ramjattan The ruling Administration under the Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) has abused the laws of Guyana, together with insider...

Man stabs wife several times, hangs self

Mar 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Man stabs wife several times, hangs self

By Rabindra Rooplall After being stabbed over two dozen times by her husband who eventually hanged himself yesterday, 29 year- old Tamika Miller Patterson of Lot 18, Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara...

PM’s son on conditional bail for abusive assault

Mar 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on PM’s son on conditional bail for abusive assault

Samuel Hinds Jr., son of the Prime Minister, was yesterday granted conditional bail by a city Magistrate after he was hauled before the courts, on the strength of an arrest warrant, to face charges...

Parliamentary body urges tighter measures to protect integrity of $2B Old Age Pension scheme

Mar 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Parliamentary body urges tighter measures to protect integrity of $2B Old Age Pension scheme

Government’s $2B Old Age Pension (OAP) Scheme may be heading for an overhaul with disclosures yesterday of an intention to do away with the current coupon system. Instead, senior citizens will have...

Dem boys seh…GT&T getting push out

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…GT&T getting push out

All de talk and all de promotion that GT&T got bout talk fuh two and get de rest free gun done just now because GT&T going out of business. Bobby pushing dem de out of business. And is Jagdeo...

Queen’s Baton Relay ignites Georgetown

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Queen’s Baton Relay ignites Georgetown

– symbolic of Commonwealth Games The Queen’s Baton Relay, which is symbolic of the advent of the Commonwealth Games, ignited Georgetown yesterday after several sport disciplines transported...

Pacesetters set up quarterfinal showdown with Ravens

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pacesetters set up quarterfinal showdown with Ravens

– GABF ‘Road to Mecca’ gets bumpy this weekend By Edison Jefford The smooth journey on the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) ‘Road to Mecca’ is expected to end this weekend...

Webster wins ECI Golf Tourney

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Webster wins ECI Golf Tourney

Shonel Webster took first prize in the ECI Engineering Services sponsored golf tournament held Saturday at Lusignan Golf Club. Playing off a 34 handicap, the rapidly improving Webster shot a net 63,...

‘Padlock’ locks off Courts/Flying Ace Mashramani cycle road race

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Padlock’ locks off Courts/Flying Ace Mashramani cycle road race

By Samuel Whyte Andre ‘Padlock’ Green of the Trojan Cycling club put a lock on the rest of the field to ride away with top honours in the Courts sponsored feature Mashramani 40 miles cycle...

Special presentation ceremony held for young cyclist

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Special presentation ceremony held for young cyclist

In an effort to encourage cycling and have more persons, especially youths, participate in the sport, the sponsor and coordinator of the recently concluded Benjamin Sports Store cycle race, former...

Boxing coaches exude confidence as charges depart for overseas engagements

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxing coaches exude confidence as charges depart for overseas engagements

By Michael Benjamin Having completed several weeks of intense training, the three boxers identified to represent this country at the South American Boxing Championships in Chile between March 7-18...

Focus now shifts to March 23 Race Meet

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Focus now shifts to March 23 Race Meet

Now that the Dexterity Race Challenge has come and gone, the eyes of motor racers and fans will be focused on the opening event of Circuit racing as the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club...

Milo/Petra Organisation Schools Football Competition…Chase Academy fires in eleven against St. Winefred’s

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milo/Petra Organisation Schools Football Competition…Chase Academy fires in eleven against St. Winefred’s

-Lodge, Bishop’s High play to pulsating draw It was the most entertaining game of the day as the twenty-two players on the field drawn from Lodge Secondary School and Bishop’s High engaged in a...

NAWF Girls U17 Inter-Secondary Schools Football…

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on NAWF Girls U17 Inter-Secondary Schools Football…

Two schools added, 8-team competition kicks off Female Inter Secondary School football action returned to the West Demerara yesterday when the National Association of Women Football (NAWF) kicked off...

Sponsors on board for Rising Sun, Shariff Business enterprise $9M Horserace meet

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sponsors on board for Rising Sun, Shariff Business enterprise $9M Horserace meet

Over 65 horses already entered Rising Sun Turf club in collaboration with the Shariff Business entity post Mashramani one day horserace meet is slated for Sunday 9th March at the Club’s racetrack...

Permaul, Mendonca lead Mix Up to Whyte Bar/Wiltshire dominoes title

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Permaul, Mendonca lead Mix Up to Whyte Bar/Wiltshire dominoes title

By Zaheer Mohamed Martin Permaul and Gilbert Mendonca turned in commendable performances to lead Mix Up to victory when the final of the Whyte Bar/Mark Wiltshire dominoes competition was contested on...

Boys’ Town FC arrives in Guyana

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boys’ Town FC arrives in Guyana

Jamaicans to clash with Alpha United, Slingerz FC and Buxton United Not since the days of the Georgetown Cobras, has a Jamaican club team visited Guyana – that’s 21 years ago to be exact and now,...

Stag Beer/EBFA division-one League…Kuru Kururu Warriors & Timehri Falcons notch 2nd victory

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stag Beer/EBFA division-one League…Kuru Kururu Warriors & Timehri Falcons notch 2nd victory

Kuru Kururu Warriors have taken over the lead in the Stag Beer/East Bank Football Association (EBFA) division-one League following their 3-1 win over Mocha Champs when action continued on Sunday last...

Malta Supreme Hugh Ross Classic Body Building Show…

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Malta Supreme Hugh Ross Classic Body Building Show…

John Fernandes Ltd. lends a helping hand With attention now shifted from the Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation Novice championships, which saw Sylvester Andrews crowned the new...

GCB announces changes to Regional 4 day squad…Tagenarine, Hemraj replace Chanderpaul and Sarwan

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB announces changes to Regional 4 day squad…Tagenarine, Hemraj replace Chanderpaul and Sarwan

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) selectors have made two changes to the national team for the second round of the West Indies Cricket Board Regional four day championship. Tagenarine Chanderpaul and...

Regional Four-Day cricket…Jamaica crush Guyana by 7 Wkts

Mar 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional Four-Day cricket…Jamaica crush Guyana by 7 Wkts

By Sean Devers in Jamaica In Association with Sterling Products Ltd, Auto Fashion & Payless Variety Store Jamaica, who won a record five consecutive titles under Skipper Tamar Lambert from 2008...

Former Region One engineer approves $1M overpayment to contractor

Mar 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Former Region One engineer approves $1M overpayment to contractor

-REO refuses to take fall An oversight committee of Parliament with responsibility of the public accounts has denied that it is a toothless poodle with no powers to make changes. The Public Accounts...

Guyana’s Anti Money Laundering deficiencies flagged in Intl Narcotics Report

Mar 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s Anti Money Laundering deficiencies flagged in Intl Narcotics Report

…influence of drug trafficking evident in political, criminal justice systems “Guyana is a party to the Inter-American Convention against Corruption, but has not fully implemented its provisions,...

PPP chides GTUC over its rejection of CLC subvention

Mar 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on PPP chides GTUC over its rejection of CLC subvention

The People’s Progressive Party has responded to the Guyana Trade Union Congress’ (GTUC) rejection of the recent decision by the National Assembly to restore the Critchlow Labour College (CLC)...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more