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Dying e-governance project to be resuscitate – Dr. Luncheon

Dec 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Dying e-governance project to be resuscitate – Dr. Luncheon

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, denies that the approximately US$32M Brazil/Guyana fibre optic cable venture has collapsed. Dr. Luncheon preferred to say that the cable...

Locals want $8M Marriott equity

Dec 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Locals want $8M Marriott equity

With a lucrative offer of owning 67 per cent of the US$58M Georgetown Marriott Hotel by investing only US$8M, there are local businessmen who have expressed an interest in participating in the...

Government responds to Int’l Human Rights body on protection of KNews staff – Silent on details

Dec 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Government responds to Int’l Human Rights body on protection of KNews staff – Silent on details

Government’s Chief Whip, Gail Teixeira, has responded to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, (IACHR) which had ordered the current administration to provide within 15 days, measures it...

DNA test confirms Turkeyen body is missing teacher

Dec 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on DNA test confirms Turkeyen body is missing teacher

They waited five months to confirm the fate of their beloved one and when confirmation finally came yesterday, the relatives of school teacher Nyozi Goodman could hardly accept that she was dead....

GPL loses $$millions annually through cable operators, GT&T

Dec 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPL loses $$millions annually through cable operators, GT&T

Guyana Power and Light (GPL), in addition to the billions of dollars lost through technical and commercial losses, continue to lose millions of dollars each year as a result of cable operators and...

Brassington refuse locals in Marriott deal

Dec 11, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Brassington refuse locals in Marriott deal

Scampishness is nah you mattie. Old people seh suh. Old people also seh that mouth open and story jump out. Since last year Brassington seh that he was looking fuh investors who coulda put in de...

Guinness ‘Greatest of de Streets’ Futsal Competition…Warriors, N/Ruimveldt too stubborn for favourites

Dec 11, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness ‘Greatest of de Streets’ Futsal Competition…Warriors, N/Ruimveldt too stubborn for favourites

– Leopold Street, Sparta Boss play for third Festival City Warriors and North Ruimveldt produced dogged performances, before holding their nerves in the penalty shootout to boot favourites...

Pepsi Hikers Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival champs

Dec 11, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pepsi Hikers Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival champs

PEPSI Hikers returned to former glory with a win in the men’s division of the Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival, beating a determined Old Fort 5 – 0 last Sunday at the...

SA Invitation XI v West Indians…Cottrell grab 5-16 before Samuels (103) and Smith (83)

Dec 11, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on SA Invitation XI v West Indians…Cottrell grab 5-16 before Samuels (103*) and Smith (83*)

Set-up dominant day for visitors If South Africa’s Test outfit thought taking on West Indies was going to be easy, Stiaan van Zyl will tell them it might not quite so simple. He was the only member...

Pepsi Hikers Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival champs

Dec 11, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pepsi Hikers Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival champs

PEPSI Hikers returned to former glory with a win in the men’s division of the Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival, beating a determined Old Fort 5 – 0 last Sunday at the...

WICB Four-Day Franchise Cricket…Jaguars roared proudly in first phase

Dec 11, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on WICB Four-Day Franchise Cricket…Jaguars roared proudly in first phase

Tournament not properly promoted By Sean Devers The Guyana Jaguars played consistently good cricket in every session except for that one unforgettable morning of the final day of their third round...

Meet Team Bond

Dec 11, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Meet Team Bond

On Saturday, Team Bond will take on Team Toney in Respect the Game Inc., Charity Basketball Event at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall from 7pm; we introduce some of the local celebrities and...

BCB/NBS building 40-Over second division cricket final…D’Edward rally to take championship

Dec 11, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/NBS building 40-Over second division cricket final…D’Edward rally to take championship

D’Edward Cricket Club of West Bank Berbice are the champions of the New Building Society Second Division 40–Over Cricket Competition for teams, after holding their nerve to win an exciting final...

Mackeson ‘King of the Rim’ 3×3 Basketball Championship…Den Amstel ‘A’ to represent West Coast in Super Eight Final

Dec 11, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mackeson ‘King of the Rim’ 3×3 Basketball Championship…Den Amstel ‘A’ to represent West Coast in Super Eight Final

Den Amstel ‘A’ team will represent West Coast Demerara next week Friday at California Square, East Ruimveldt in the Mackeson ‘King of the Rim’ 3×3 Basketball Final after bouncing away...

GRFU outlines road map for further success

Dec 11, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GRFU outlines road map for further success

– Union needs US$50,000 Riding high on the wave of success, the Guyana Rugby Football Union held a Press Briefing at Olympic House yesterday to report on the team’s outstanding performance...

Rohan, Ramchand Auto spares softball cricket Over-40 and Female Champions

Dec 11, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rohan, Ramchand Auto spares softball cricket Over-40 and Female Champions

Floodlight beat Mike’s Wellman by eight wickets in the over-40 final after dismissing Wellman for 131 all out despite 26 from Terrence Daniels and 23 from Hardat Heranadan last Sunday at DCC....

Hing, McKinnon win GNRA Yearend Practical Pistol Championships

Dec 11, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hing, McKinnon win GNRA Yearend Practical Pistol Championships

National Smallbore Captain Dale Hing and leading hand gun shooter Ryan McKinnon won the Production and Stand divisions respectively when the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) Smallbore section...

2015 Budget preparations ongoing – Finance Minister

Dec 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 2015 Budget preparations ongoing – Finance Minister

Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh yesterday said that despite the lack of dialogue with the political opposition, preparations for Budget 2015 which are constitutionally due by the end of the first...

Cultural survival of forest-dependent peoples at risk due to deforestation

Dec 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cultural survival of forest-dependent peoples at risk due to deforestation

Forest-dependent peoples face grave threats from deforestation and other depredations, warns a new report that urges greater recognition of traditional land use and support of community-led...

Father of two pickets Housing Ministry over “faulty” structure

Dec 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Father of two pickets Housing Ministry over “faulty” structure

A frustrated father of two yesterday staged a one-man protest outside Ministry of Housing in rejection of what he said is the faulty home which the Ministry sold him. Thirty-five year old Gilbert...

Police arrest gunman on Corentyne

Dec 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police arrest gunman on Corentyne

…dragnet led to the arrest of three others More praise is being showered on the Berbice police for arresting four men and confiscating a gun that the men were carrying. An alert policeman was able...

734 Guyanese deported by Trinidad

Dec 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 734 Guyanese deported by Trinidad

Trinidad (Trinidad Express) -Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has described as “mischievous, malicious and very dangerous” charges of racial and religious discrimination in the arrest of people or...

Electrocution of Plaisance man …My son’s life is worth more than $400,000 and baby milk – mother

Dec 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Electrocution of Plaisance man …My son’s life is worth more than $400,000 and baby milk – mother

Relatives of Leroy Francis-Harris, the father of one, who was electrocuted two Wednesdays ago when he came into contact with a live wire while working on a three-storey building in Evans Street,...

Most troubling communicable disease facing health sector is Malaria – Dr. Edwards

Dec 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Most troubling communicable disease facing health sector is Malaria – Dr. Edwards

While there have been noticeable gains recorded, the challenge of Malaria still exists and perhaps surpasses that of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Tuberculosis (TB). This assertion was...

Teen labourer dies after falling from scaffold

Dec 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teen labourer dies after falling from scaffold

By Rabindra Rooplall An 18-year-old labourer who fell from a scaffold at his worksite A. Forrester Lumber Yard Stewartville, West Coast Demerara was yesterday pronounced dead after being rushed to...

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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