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Gold slide… Mining operations drop 40 percent, equipment sales decline – GGDMA

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Gold slide… Mining operations drop 40 percent, equipment sales decline – GGDMA

Guyana’s biggest money earner – the gold sector – is indicating a massive 30 percent drop in business in equipment sales and fuel, with operations scaled back as much as 40 percent....

Alleged torture in Sparendaam lock-ups… Criminal charges likely for Constable, Inspector

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged torture in Sparendaam lock-ups… Criminal charges likely for Constable, Inspector

Two police ranks, including an Inspector, could appear before the court this week if the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) follows the recommendations of the Chairman of the Police Complaints...

OP staffer for court on theft charges

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on OP staffer for court on theft charges

Azeem Khan, an assistant to Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon, and a staff member at the Office of the President (OP) should be heading to the court today. Khan, who was in police custody at the...

Body of unidentified man found in cemetery

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Body of unidentified man found in cemetery

With the word, “Praises” tattooed on his left hand along with the face of a lion, and “Smile now” inked on the other, the body of a man of African descent was found in a clump of bushes at Le...

Rodney COI…No incentives were offered to me – Gates

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rodney COI…No incentives were offered to me – Gates

By Latoya Giles Witness Robert Gates, who goes by several other aliases, yesterday denied that he was a witness of convenience and that he was given incentives to come to the Walter Rodney Commission...

Guyana govt. joins call for release of journalists jailed in Egypt

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana govt. joins call for release of journalists jailed in Egypt

The Government of Guyana has joined in calls by the international community for the immediate release of three Al Jazeera journalists who are presently in an Egyptian prison. The journalists –...

GPL completes project to connect Demerara, Berbice

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPL completes project to connect Demerara, Berbice

In one of its most significant developments, the state-owned power company yesterday announced that it has finally completed works to connect Berbice and Demerara. In effect, the cable across the...

State-owned GUYOIL enters aviation fuel business

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on State-owned GUYOIL enters aviation fuel business

– to open farm at CJIA in October By Zena Henry Recognizing the importance of a growing aviation sector and the prospective need for aviation fuel, the state-owned Guyana Oil Company Limited...

Competition offences in Guyana…Regulators probing several cases of bid rigging – Ramesh Dookhoo

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Competition offences in Guyana…Regulators probing several cases of bid rigging – Ramesh Dookhoo

In April 2006, Parliament passed a Competition and Fair Trading Act, which targets offences such as price fixing, conspiracy, bid rigging, misleading advertisements, anti-competitiveness, abuse of...

UG looks to recruit Master’s Degree holders to lecture

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on UG looks to recruit Master’s Degree holders to lecture

– as moves are made to augment its coffers As part of efforts to improve the quality of education delivered at the University of Guyana (UG), moves will be made from next year to ensure...

Dem boys seh…Donald can sing fuh de dinner

Jun 25, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Donald can sing fuh de dinner

When dem boys was in nursery school, dem had a rhyme that talk about a boy who use to sing for he supper. Dem had other people who try and end up hungry because dem couldn’t sing. But Donald is a...

PAHO Representative lauds Guyana’s HIV/AIDS gains

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on PAHO Representative lauds Guyana’s HIV/AIDS gains

– prepared to support fight against stigma and discrimination With a one percent Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence, Guyana has done an admirable job in managing its national...

Finance Ministry outlines purpose of Contingencies Fund

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Finance Ministry outlines purpose of Contingencies Fund

After noting that there has been a misunderstanding over the purpose and use of the Contingencies Fund circulating in the media, the Ministry of Finance sought to make several clarifications via a...

Defending Reg. 6 champs NATI advance

Jun 25, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Defending Reg. 6 champs NATI advance

It was a case of goalkeeping blunders and questionable refereeing decisions, but in the end defending Region 6 champions New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) defeated Berbice Educational...

Digicel Schools Football Championships Friendship overcome Dora on PKs; IBE swamp Shivitas Business College 25-0

Jun 25, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Schools Football Championships Friendship overcome Dora on PKs; IBE swamp Shivitas Business College 25-0

Friendship Secondary School defied a spirited first half attack by Dora Secondary School and staged a remarkable comeback to first equalize the situation before clinching victory by the penalty route...

NCN secures injunction against Moviestar

Jun 25, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on NCN secures injunction against Moviestar

The National Communications Network Incorporated (NCN Inc.) yesterday June 24, 2014, secured an interim injunction in the High Court of Guyana against local cable service provider Moviestar, for the...

Nothing preventing establishment of local DEA office – US envoy

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Nothing preventing establishment of local DEA office – US envoy

By Zena Henry The establishment of an office of the United States (US) Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) here in Guyana is still very much a consideration. According to outgoing United States Ambassador...

Defending champions Mae’s, Redeemer register wins

Jun 25, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Defending champions Mae’s, Redeemer register wins

Defending champions Mae’s Boys and Redeemer Girls recorded wins on the opening day of the 17th Annual End of School Year Primary Schools Overhand Windball Cricket Champions Trophy Georgetown Zone...

Women’s team CBC participation in limbo -Men assured of competing

Jun 25, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Women’s team CBC participation in limbo -Men assured of competing

By Edison Jefford President of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF), Nigel Hinds has said that they have available funding to the send the men’s basketball team to the Caribbean...

National U-17 cricket trials postponed

Jun 25, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on National U-17 cricket trials postponed

The two 50-over Under-17 cricket trials scheduled for yesterday and today at Bourda have been postponed due to the inclement weather. The National Junior Selectors were planning to use the matches to...

The Opposition Leader got it wrong

Jun 25, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Opposition Leader got it wrong

Opposition Leader David Granger said that he thinks that the PPP is preparing for a snap poll. Mr. Granger has read the vibes wrongly. Even among the present crop of PPP leaders, there is some...

GOA ‘Discover’ Open Badminton tourney Narayan Ramdhani and Nicholas Ali capture the Men’s doubles title

Jun 25, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GOA ‘Discover’ Open Badminton tourney Narayan Ramdhani and Nicholas Ali capture the Men’s doubles title

The GOA ‘Discover’ Open Badminton tournament which started on Saturday June 21 last at the Queen’s College Badminton Courts continued on Monday June 23 and is one of a series of events the GOA...

Ticos top group with England draw

Jun 25, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ticos top group with England draw

Costa Rica have secured top spot in Group D after a 0-0 draw with England in Belo Horizonte’s Estadio Mineirao. Roy Hodgson’s Three Lions created the better chances in the match, but they...

City money-changer fined for counterfeit $$$

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on City money-changer fined for counterfeit $$$

…exonerated on two other charges A 65-year-old America Street money changer who was last year arrested by the police during a sting operation was yesterday fined by a city Magistrate for being in...

Ganja in Camp Street jail…Prison officers interdicted, to be investigated departmentally

Jun 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ganja in Camp Street jail…Prison officers interdicted, to be investigated departmentally

The two prison officers who were questioned last week about the discovery of a quantity of marijuana in the Camp Street jail, have been interdicted from duty pending the outcome of an internal...

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Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more