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Marriott racks up $60M loss in three months

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Marriott racks up $60M loss in three months

Three months after Guyana’s flagship hotel opened its doors; it appears that business at the 197-room facility is not doing so well. In fact, Marriott has racked up a $60M loss up to the end of...

GRA to probe former Minister’s luxury vehicle

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GRA to probe former Minister’s luxury vehicle

– Customs duty evasion, fraud charges likely, says Govt. official The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is set to investigate whether fraud was involved in the importation of a recreational...

Stolen goat, sheep lead to high-speed chase, crash

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Stolen goat, sheep lead to high-speed chase, crash

A movie styled mid-morning high-speed chase from Canal Number 1 to Canal Number 2, West Bank Demerara has left four persons nursing different degrees of injuries. The drama, which included armed...

Presidential third term decision… CJ omitted, ignored certain aspects of law in ruling – Christopher Ram

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Presidential third term decision… CJ omitted, ignored certain aspects of law in ruling – Christopher Ram

Chartered Accountant and Attorney- at-law, Chris Ram is convinced that Chief Justice, (Ag) Ian Chang omitted or ignored certain aspects of law, when he handed down a ruling that paves the way for a...

BaiShanLin owes $600M on Cacique Palace

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on BaiShanLin owes $600M on Cacique Palace

A Chinese logging company that had purchased the Cacique Palace and Banquet Hall in Providence still owes around $600M for it. BaiShanLin is facing financial problems and is examining a number of...

Freedom House intruder shot

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Freedom House intruder shot

Doctors were yesterday forced to amputate the left arm of an unidentified man who was shot after scaling the wall of the People’s Progressive Party’s Headquarters in Robb Street and allegedly...

Govt. agencies to start producing performance reports

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. agencies to start producing performance reports

To better assess and monitor the performance of government agencies, a new plan is underway for these entities to start producing report cards. According to Finance Minister Winston Jordan, these...

Dem boys seh…Rohee and Nandlall change up everything

Aug 16, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Rohee and Nandlall change up everything

Some people really showing how much dem use to get from Jagdeo. One of de people who use to get things was C-hicken, de top policeman at de Brickdam Police Station. He never had to beg but Jagdeo...

Govt. announces major policy changes to diversify agriculture sector, increase food exports

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. announces major policy changes to diversify agriculture sector, increase food exports

By Jarryl Bryan The A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) has long called for diversification of Guyana’s agricultural exports, citing the country’s unhealthy dependence...

He’s 80, but retirement is not on Hamilton Green’s agenda

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on He’s 80, but retirement is not on Hamilton Green’s agenda

By Sunita Samaroo It’s not often a journalist gets a straight answer out of Hamilton Green. But, there is one issue on which the 80-year-old is unequivocal: his retirement. Sixty two years after he...

No coming back for Land Registry boss

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on No coming back for Land Registry boss

…new head to be sworn in shortly More than a month after the Head of the Land Registry Juliet Sattaur was sent on leave, it has been revealed that a new head is expected to be sworn in shortly....

Guyana Water Inc operating at a loss

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Water Inc operating at a loss

– Finance Minister While the coalition government may be working to ensure that every Guyanese has access to quality, potable water in every rural and hinterland community, an assessment of the...

Guyanese Restaurateur was deep in debt when she set Schenectady fire

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese Restaurateur was deep in debt when she set Schenectady fire

– US prosecutors NY (Times Union) -The co-owner of a Guyanese restaurant was deep in debt and behind on her taxes when she deliberately set fire to the business in hopes of collecting on an...

Road contractor objects to State committee appointee

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Road contractor objects to State committee appointee

The reshuffling of the members of a number of State boards has been met with objections by road contractors, as calls are being made for the Government to conduct thorough investigations of some of...

CPCE graduate wins Miss Emancipation 2015 crown

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CPCE graduate wins Miss Emancipation 2015 crown

Guyana has added yet another beauty ambassador to its list for 2015 and this time she is a graduate of the Cyril Potter College of Education. Nineteen year old Akeila Day outshone a bevy of seven...

Analysis of CSEC results reveals improvements in Maths & English

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Analysis of CSEC results reveals improvements in Maths & English

The Education Sector has long been struggling to maintain good performances in Mathematics and English. And a round of applause resonated throughout the auditorium of the National Centre for...

Explosive day anticipated today at Guyana Cup Horserace meet

Aug 16, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Explosive day anticipated today at Guyana Cup Horserace meet

The Port Mourant Turf Club at Port Mourant Corentyne, Berbice is the venue where thousands of horserace fans are expected to swarm for the eagerly anticipated ninth annual Guyana Cup meet being...

SAJ Rice Mill sacks 17

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on SAJ Rice Mill sacks 17

– workers protest outside Ministry of Social Protection The Ministry of Social Protection (formerly the Labour Ministry) on Friday morning attracted some of the sacked SAJ Rice Company Limited...

8-year-old author encourages peers to read more

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 8-year-old author encourages peers to read more

By Rehanna Ramsay This week, local media was abuzz with stories about Anaya Lee Willabus, an eight-year-old of Guyanese heritage from New York, who authored and published a book in the United States....

Herath takes seven to spin Lanka to comeback win at Galle

Aug 16, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Herath takes seven to spin Lanka to comeback win at Galle

GALLE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – Rangana Herath picked up seven wickets in a sublime display of left-arm spin bowling to power Sri Lanka to a spectacular comeback win by 63 runs against India on...

SVN principal concerned about students who did not matriculate

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on SVN principal concerned about students who did not matriculate

Although a mere 11 out of 64 students of the Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) Secondary School who wrote the 2015 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) did not matriculate, Principal of the...

GT Beer / Petra Organisation Futsal Competition… Agricola out to prove that recent performance is no fluke

Aug 16, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GT Beer / Petra Organisation Futsal Competition… Agricola out to prove that recent performance is no fluke

– Sparta will have to establish that they are the real kings Fresh off their dream win in the Second Ground Entertainment ‘Ballers in the Summer’ Knockout Competition on the West Side,...

High rent, unemployment push rise in innovative street-side salons

Aug 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on High rent, unemployment push rise in innovative street-side salons

By Sunita Samaroo A casual walk downtown on any given day will reveal women at numerous hair shops along the roadside of busy streets in the heart of the city, sitting comfortably getting their hair...

Stingray

Aug 16, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Stingray

Fishing a stingray out of the sea just off the Crane foreshore is a rather rare undertaking but was however one that occurred this past week. Fishermen from the Crane, West Coast Demerara village had...

Golden Jaguar Beresford targets success in Europe!

Aug 16, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golden Jaguar Beresford targets success in Europe!

By Santokie Nagulendran Despite being disappointingly eliminated in June’s World Cup qualifier against Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, many players in the Golden Jaguars side used the matches to...

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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