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GFC says Bai Shan Lin did no logging at Kwebana in 2014…Photos evidence rubbishes GFC claims

Aug 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GFC says Bai Shan Lin did no logging at Kwebana in 2014…Photos evidence rubbishes GFC claims

– Residents and photos of parked trucks tell totally different story Information provided by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) regarding logging activities by Chinese-owned Bai Shan Lin in...

Opposition unfazed by talk of snap elections

Aug 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition unfazed by talk of snap elections

By Zena Henry A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and Alliance For Change (AFC) have stated that they are preparing for general polls by year-end without the privilege of being able to force the...

Facebook “friend” lures accountant to South, brutalises him, hijacks car

Aug 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Facebook “friend” lures accountant to South, brutalises him, hijacks car

An accountant employed at Humphrey’s Bakery remains hospitalised as a result of being beaten unconscious before his car was hijacked by a bandit in Caneview Avenue, South Ruimveldt, last Wednesday....

Boat strikes rock, Brazilian dead, boy, 5, missing

Aug 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Boat strikes rock, Brazilian dead, boy, 5, missing

…after boat strikes rock, capsizes Up to press time yesterday, a rescue team was combing a river at Dukwari, Cuyuni for five-year-old Bisham Munilall Jr. who disappeared after the vessel he and his...

T&T authorities rescue 14 Guyanese trafficking victims

Aug 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on T&T authorities rescue 14 Guyanese trafficking victims

(Trinidad Express) – The Counter Trafficking Unit (CTU) has advised that human trafficking is a serious crime and should be reported. This follows the discovery of 14 Guyanese nationals at a...

Mahdia youth found dead in trail with stab wounds

Aug 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mahdia youth found dead in trail with stab wounds

Police in the interior are hunting for a Mahdia resident who they believe could shed some light on the murder of his brother, whose body was discovered yesterday along a trail at Blackwater Backdam,...

Vlissengen Road killers caught on camera…Suspected gunman arrested

Aug 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Vlissengen Road killers caught on camera…Suspected gunman arrested

Police have detained the son of a well-known individual in connection with Monday’s brazen killing of dredge owner Ashook Ragghu, and say that images of the gunmen on surveillance cameras appear to...

Dem boys seh…Our leaders clutching at anything now

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Our leaders clutching at anything now

Mouth can seh anything. That is why some people does mek empty statements. Philip Bynoe open he mouth and talk how he bringing 400 people fuh picket de Waterfalls paper. Well dem boys seh that he...

Portland Timbers too good for Alpha United on CCL debut

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Portland Timbers too good for Alpha United on CCL debut

It was double history for US Major League Soccer side Portland Timber who defeated home team Alpha United 4-1 on the CONCACAF Champions League debut at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence last...

Gibson and West Indies part ways

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gibson and West Indies part ways

ESPNcricinfo – Ottis Gibson has officially ended his tenure as West Indies coach with immediate effect. The WICB released a statement on Tuesday night that confirmed the board and Gibson had...

Bangladesh returns to favorite destination for ODI opener today

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bangladesh returns to favorite destination for ODI opener today

West Indies hit by ‘Coach-dispute’ By Sean Devers Since 1973, the West Indies have played 713 ODIs, winning 365, losing 316 with eight Ties and 24 no-results and the home team, reportedly...

Police in Partnership with Youth against Crime holds fun day

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Police in Partnership with Youth against Crime holds fun day

The police continue to use their initiative in their quest to do things differently to foster a better relationship with the community at all levels in Berbice. In so doing, Commander Assistant...

Towering Quincy ‘Biggie’ Small is the latest addition to local amateur boxing

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Towering Quincy ‘Biggie’ Small is the latest addition to local amateur boxing

Quincy ‘Biggie’ Small is the latest addition to the local amateur boxing ranks. Small, who was born in Guyana but lives in the USA, is the younger brother of former World cruiserweight champion...

Maruranau hosts Annual Deep South Rupununi August Games

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Maruranau hosts Annual Deep South Rupununi August Games

Residents of the Region 9 village of Maruranau are gearing up for competitive action when sports administrators of that community stage the Annual Deep South Rupununi August Games at the Community...

Guyana Sport Shooting Federation launched

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Sport Shooting Federation launched

A historic chapter for sport shooting in Guyana saw the Guyana Sport Shooting Federation being duly sanctioned as a sporting federation by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the National...

Warrior’s beat Hardliners in own backyard

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Warrior’s beat Hardliners in own backyard

The New Amsterdam Warriors basketball team made sure their trip across the Berbice River was not in vain as they softened the Ithaca Hardliners, thrashing them 82-48 when play continued in the Legend...

GCA/Hadi’s World Inc first division tourney…Richardson, Osborne, Butts guide GNIC to innings victory

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA/Hadi’s World Inc first division tourney…Richardson, Osborne, Butts guide GNIC to innings victory

MSC overcome GDF in Noble House tourney A fine half century by Quincy Ovid Richardson coupled by five wicket hauls from Christian Osborne and Deswyn Butts guided GNIC to an innings and 95 runs...

Only nine players reportedly turned up for national football training on Saturday

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Only nine players reportedly turned up for national football training on Saturday

Reports are surfacing that on Saturday August 16, the first day of preparation for the 2014 Caribbean Cup qualifiers, only nine players were present for National Team training out of a list of 30...

Boyce & Jefford, patrons make donation to Cassey George

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boyce & Jefford, patrons make donation to Cassey George

The Boyce & Jefford Track and Field Committee on Sunday made a financial donation to Cassey George following the conclusion of the Fifth Edition of their Track and Field Classic, which was held...

41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway…Championships lost but honours gained as local chess players return home

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway…Championships lost but honours gained as local chess players return home

By Michael Benjamin They have had a poor start in their quest to procure honours at the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway after losing to Albania on the inaugural day of the championships....

Hamid makes donation to Meten-Meer-Zorg West CC

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hamid makes donation to Meten-Meer-Zorg West CC

Gamal Hamid, a former member of the Meten-Meer-Zorg West Cricket Club of the West Coast Demerara, recently made a timely donation to the club. Hamid, who now resides overseas, handed over two bats,...

Minibus attack/robbery…Shot passenger remains hospitalised

Aug 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Minibus attack/robbery…Shot passenger remains hospitalised

Almost a month after she was trailed from the city and shot in the stomach at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara (ECD), 40-year-old Bernadette Campbell remains a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Engineering firm in collapsed Omai tailings pond fingered in another failure

Aug 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Engineering firm in collapsed Omai tailings pond fingered in another failure

Canada – The engineering firm that designed the Mount Polley tailings pond containment system that collapsed on August 4, also designed a tailings dam that failed catastrophically in South...

The intimidation of media workers must be condemned

Aug 20, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The intimidation of media workers must be condemned

It is not a case of taking it how you want to take it. In any part of the world, if you tell someone that you are going to “deal with” them, that is a threat. If in Guyana, someone tells you that...

U.S. assists airport personnel with fraud detection

Aug 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on U.S. assists airport personnel with fraud detection

The United States Government, through the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), provided Carrier Liaison Program (CLP) training from August 11-15, 2014 at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport....

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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