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WCUA sends condolences to Persaud family

Mar 27, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on WCUA sends condolences to Persaud family

The Wakenaam Cricket Umpires Association (WCUA) has send condolences to the family of the late umpire Bhawanie Persaud who passed away recently after suffering from illness on the Essequibo Coast....

Alkins, Dodson spur Social Sciences to 4-wkt win in UG Inter-Faculty t20 cricket

Mar 27, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alkins, Dodson spur Social Sciences to 4-wkt win in UG Inter-Faculty t20 cricket

The University of Guyana (UG) Inter-Faculty T20 cricket competition bowled off yesterday at the UG ground, Turkeyen with defending champions Faculty of Social Sciences beginning their title defence...

Bharatt Taxi Service supports Grove Hi Tech FC

Mar 27, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bharatt Taxi Service supports Grove Hi Tech FC

East Bank Football Association club side; Grove Hi Tech has been boosted with the donation of a set of equipment by the owner of Bharatt Taxi Service, Mr. Bharatt Narine, a resident of Grove who...

ECB expresses gratitude to Guyana Beverage Co

Mar 27, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on ECB expresses gratitude to Guyana Beverage Co

The Essequibo Cricket Board has expressed gratitude to the Guyana Beverage Company for once again sponsoring their 50 overs festival under the brand Busta. The tournament was won by East Bank...

Beckham has successful interface with NGSS students

Mar 27, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Beckham has successful interface with NGSS students

Hugh Ross Classic Guest Poser, IFBB Pro. Jeff ‘Classic’ Beckham held a successful session with students of the North Georgetown Secondary School (NGSS) yesterday, accompanied by Hugh Ross. Both...

National Budget 2014…$1.9B for sea and river defence upgrade

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on National Budget 2014…$1.9B for sea and river defence upgrade

Government has allocated $1.9B in this year’s National Budget to ensure the further strengthening of the sea and river defence infrastructure. Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh, during his...

City Hall apologises, begs residents for patience

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall apologises, begs residents for patience

While an elaborate multi-million-dollar plan has been rolled out by the Administration to clean up the central city and its environs, City Hall has apologized to residents in the group seven and...

Guyana’s export earnings dipped in 2013

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s export earnings dipped in 2013

…Foreign Direct Investments also plummets – Dr. Singh Guyana’s earnings last year from the items it exported, dipped by 2.8 per cent to US$1.4B according to Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni...

Guyana external debt stands at US$1.2B

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana external debt stands at US$1.2B

Guyana at the end of last year had a total external debt stock of US$1.2B, according to Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh. The Minister said that the final sum was a reduction of 8.3...

Budget 2014…$6B allocation for GuySuCo is not for bailout – Agri. Minister

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Budget 2014…$6B allocation for GuySuCo is not for bailout – Agri. Minister

Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has said that the $6B budgetary allocation for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is not intended to bail out the ailing industry. A Partnership for...

Family grieves over home lost in Wakenaam fire

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Family grieves over home lost in Wakenaam fire

By Sunita Samaroo – “If we had a fire engine it would have saved my home, even a part of it” – Yvette Kumar, fire victim For 28 years there was a little two-storey home in Free and Easy...

Commotion erupts at GPHC over “demons”

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Commotion erupts at GPHC over “demons”

The usual loud screams and cries filled the environs of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday, but it was not because somebody had died. In fact, a family was fighting over a...

Robert Corbin’s injunction against ERC dismissed

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Robert Corbin’s injunction against ERC dismissed

An injunction that was filed against the former Chairman and Commissioners of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) by the former leader of the People National Congress Reform (PNC/R) Robert Corbin...

$6.6B voted for CJIA expansion

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on $6.6B voted for CJIA expansion

With work ongoing on the expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Budget 2014 has allocated a total of $6.6 billion for works on this project that has the potential to...

US$10M engineering design for Linden to Lethem Road imminent

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on US$10M engineering design for Linden to Lethem Road imminent

The construction of the Linden to Lethem Road as a link to neighbouring Brazil is tied to the feasibility of the Upper and Middle Mazaruni Hydropower stations. However, the Governments of Guyana and...

Family confused over unlicenced shotgun death

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Family confused over unlicenced shotgun death

Family members of 34-year-old Eldon Gaime, the logger, whose firearm reportedly went off and struck him in the chin, killing him in the process, have indicated that they are at a loss as to his...

Police owe $$million to interdicted ranks

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police owe $$million to interdicted ranks

Another national budget has been presented and desperate former policemen and their counterparts in the other Disciplined Services are still wondering if or when they will receive benefits due...

Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case…Court allows defence to amend case, stay granted for plaintiff’s appeal

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case…Court allows defence to amend case, stay granted for plaintiff’s appeal

The High Court case involving former president Bharrat Jagdeo, Kaieteur News columnist Frederick Kissoon, the newspaper’s publisher Glenn Lall and its Editor-in-Chief Adam Harris has been suspended...

Guyana battling to achieve elusive MDGs

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana battling to achieve elusive MDGs

– launches MICS to garner crucial information Although Guyana has already achieved several Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and is well on its way to achieving several more, there are...

More advancements for tourism sector this year

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on More advancements for tourism sector this year

Committed to accelerating the growth of Guyana’s buoyant tourism, industry and commerce sector, the government will be rolling out a number of programmes with specific focus on institutional...

Labourer jailed for hitting wife with bicycle bar

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Labourer jailed for hitting wife with bicycle bar

A labourer who faced the city court for hitting his spouse with a bicycle bar and assaulting the two police ranks who tried to arrest him was yesterday sentenced to prison after he confessed to a...

Guyana’s poverty is measurable

Mar 27, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Guyana’s poverty is measurable

The boast that a country is experiencing economic health is often supported by many facts. For one, there is an increase in employment, there is a construction boom and above all, the country...

Top Cop pays farewell visit to Essequibo

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Top Cop pays farewell visit to Essequibo

Commissioner of Police Leroy Brumell at a ceremony held for him by the Commander and ranks of “G” Division, Essequibo, said that he is proud to be leaving the force at a time when the force has...

State of Mind: Notes on Fazal Khan

Mar 27, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on State of Mind: Notes on Fazal Khan

I was in the UG bus in the early seventies, and as it came to the stop sign at Lamaha Street and Vlissengen Road, I saw this young man in short pants asking the occupants if they would like to buy a...

Woman on trial for female lover’s murder…

Mar 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Woman on trial for female lover’s murder…

Police witnesses deny knowledge of murder weapon Police witnesses, who testified in the trial, of 22-year-old Albouystown woman, Tiffney Clarke, called ‘Tiffany’, do not know the whereabouts...

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