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Citizens show disinterest as turnout estimated below 50%…Near empty polling stations tell story of Local Government Elections

Mar 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Citizens show disinterest as turnout estimated below 50%…Near empty polling stations tell story of Local Government Elections

The turnout at varying constituencies on the Essequibo Coast was reportedly low on Friday as Guyana conducted Local Government Elections 21 years later. Throughout all of the Polling Stations, there...

GEA board, GuyOil investigate PetroTrin fuel shipments

Mar 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GEA board, GuyOil investigate PetroTrin fuel shipments

The questionable acquisition of fuel for the Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) is continuing to engage the attention of authorities. Yesterday, Lance Hinds, Chairman of Guyana Energy Agency (GEA), the...

Government’s first priority is to uphold the rule of law – Ram

Mar 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Government’s first priority is to uphold the rule of law – Ram

-Must have a united position on revoking radio licences Chartered Accountant, Christopher Ram, has decried the inconsistency of the Government’s position on the granting of radio licences,...

Corruption scandal…Brazil judge blocks Lula appointment to govt.

Mar 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Corruption scandal…Brazil judge blocks Lula appointment to govt.

Brasília (AFP) – A Brazilian Supreme Court judge blocked ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from becoming presidential chief of staff and sent the corruption case against him back to...

Suspects confess to Soesdyke remigrant’s murder

Mar 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Suspects confess to Soesdyke remigrant’s murder

– Likely to make court appearance on Monday The three suspects in the brutal murder of Soesdyke-based Agriculturist, Anthony Breedy are likely to make their first court appearance on...

Camp Street prisoners update Facebook page daily, access narcotics

Mar 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Camp Street prisoners update Facebook page daily, access narcotics

The last two testimonies from prisoners at the Commission of Inquiry (COI) that cell phones and narcotics do not exist within the prison were largely contradicted by prison inmate Owen Belfield...

Slow response to LGE at West Demerara Polling Stations

Mar 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Slow response to LGE at West Demerara Polling Stations

The long overdue Local Government Elections which got underway countrywide, yesterday, was not met with enthusiasm. Like most parts of the country, the response of voters in several sections of the...

Linden records less than one per cent voter turnout

Mar 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Linden records less than one per cent voter turnout

Yesterday was an historic day in Guyana as Local Government Elections (LGE) were held for the first time in 22 years. In Linden voter turnout was extremely poor with only about 1,000 persons voting...

2016 Scotiabank CFU Men’s Caribbean Cup…

Mar 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2016 Scotiabank CFU Men’s Caribbean Cup…

Golden Jaguars commence training ahead of Anguilla clash By Franklin Wilson With the aim of qualifying for the CONCACAF Gold Cup for the first time, Guyana’s ‘Golden Jaguars’, the flagship...

Milo U-20 Schools Football Competition … Battle lines drawn for today’s final showdown

Mar 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milo U-20 Schools Football Competition … Battle lines drawn for today’s final showdown

By Rawle Welch Today’s final of the Milo Under-20 Schools Football Competition between defending champs Chase Academic Foundation and former title holders Lodge provides a fitting climax to almost...

England stun South Africa in highest World T20 run-chase

Mar 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on England stun South Africa in highest World T20 run-chase

MUMBAI (Reuters) England posted the highest successful run chase ever at a World Twenty20 tournament with Joe Root smashing 83 as they overhauled an improbable South Africa total by two wickets in a...

Jagdeo and Lula seeking protection

Mar 19, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jagdeo and Lula seeking protection

Donald Dumb been to de doctor yesterday for a medical checkup after he read de Waterfalls paper. De paper report that he give he close 35 acre of prime property at $500,000 per acre. When he go to de...

PCL First-Class cricket … Jaguars in control against Scorpions

Mar 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on PCL First-Class cricket … Jaguars in control against Scorpions

By Sean Devers Watched by a fair sized crowd equipped with a large Radio to listen to the live commentary, West Indies under-19 Captain Shemron Hetymer stroked an attractive maiden hundred (107),...

New National Basketball Champion emerges tonight

Mar 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on New National Basketball Champion emerges tonight

-Will it be Linden’s Retrieve Raiders or Georgetown’s Colts? By Edison Jefford After what is expected to be an entertaining National Basketball Final tonight at Cliff Anderson’s Sports Hall,...

EBFA / Ralph Green U-11 … Herstelling and Agricola in crucial clash

Mar 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBFA / Ralph Green U-11 … Herstelling and Agricola in crucial clash

Two more matches will be contested today in the East Bank Football Association (EBFA) / Ralph Green sponsored Under-11 league at the Grove Playfield. In the day’s feature game, defending champions...

Shomari Wiltshire records upset in Kraft Toucan Industries Junior Skill level Tournament

Mar 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shomari Wiltshire records upset in Kraft Toucan Industries Junior Skill level Tournament

The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) in collaboration with its corporate sponsor Digicel is holding the Kraft Toucan Industries Junior Skill level tournament, its first Junior tournament for...

Sunburst renews sponsorship for Badminton champion Narayan Ramdhani

Mar 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sunburst renews sponsorship for Badminton champion Narayan Ramdhani

Continental Agencies Ltd. [CAL] through its lead brand Sunburst Juice has continued its partnership with Narayan Ramdhani as one of its Sunburst Brand Ambassadors. This was evident at a presentation...

Buxton Carl Hooper Cricket Club celebrates 12th Anniversary tomorrow

Mar 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Buxton Carl Hooper Cricket Club celebrates 12th Anniversary tomorrow

The Buxton Carl Hooper Cricket Club will be celebrating its 12th Anniversary with a grand 4 way Cricket Competition and Hot Dog Sale tomorrow, Sunday March 20th, 2016. Participating teams include;...

STAG Elite League FINALE … Slingerz and Alpha flawless on the night

Mar 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on STAG Elite League FINALE … Slingerz and Alpha flawless on the night

Slingerz FC continued their march towards championships honours in the STAG Elite League FINALE which would see them claiming the historical double having won the GENESIS with another clinical...

Barama’s Parent Company accused of boycotting sawmill industry in New Zealand…

Mar 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Barama’s Parent Company accused of boycotting sawmill industry in New Zealand…

Malaysian timber giant, Samling Global Limited– the parent company of Barama Company Limited in Guyana, may lose its Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard, after the company allegedly boycotted...

City Council wins $100M judgement against 13 defaulting taxpayers

Mar 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on City Council wins $100M judgement against 13 defaulting taxpayers

– 22 more targeted The Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown (M&CC) was granted judgement in the High Court in relation to outstanding rates owed to the Georgetown Municipality. ...

NO EXCUSE!

Mar 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NO EXCUSE!

The IMF report on Guyana indicates clearly that the APNU+AFC government inherited a very strong economy. It also confirms that the Budget deficit has been reduced. The IMF which is very rigorous in...

Guyana urged to guard against economic pitfalls of oil industry

Mar 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana urged to guard against economic pitfalls of oil industry

A leading Caribbean business executive is urging Guyana to guard against possible economic pitfalls that accompany the commercial production of oil. Addressing the opening of Massy’s Supermarket at...

Rose Hall Estate strike, protest…Workers being ‘severely misled’ – GuySuCo

Mar 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Rose Hall Estate strike, protest…Workers being ‘severely misled’ – GuySuCo

With the protest and industrial actions being carried out by approximately 735 workers of the Rose Hall Sugar Estate, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) said yesterday, that the workers are being...

Those vendors’ stalls are too small

Mar 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Those vendors’ stalls are too small

I went to buy at the weekly Thursday market that is held at Merriman Mall. The vendors moved back to their original spot between Cummings Street and Orange Walk. City Hall has drastically reduced the...

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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