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Two weeks before 2015 elections…Valmiki Singh took $9.6M in annual leave payment –Forensic audit

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Two weeks before 2015 elections…Valmiki Singh took $9.6M in annual leave payment –Forensic audit

…No records to verify his annual leave claim Based on its examination of the employees’ personal records at the National Frequency Management Unit (NFMU), forensic auditors found that there was...

Walkout from D’Urban Park…Opposition MPs created conditions to embarrass state—Minister Henry

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Walkout from D’Urban Park…Opposition MPs created conditions to embarrass state—Minister Henry

Statement by Nicolette Henry, Minister within the Ministry of Education on the Opposition Walkout at Independence Flag-raising ceremony Background – The Parliamentary Opposition was invited to...

Ex-GMC head seeking legal advice to respond to audit report

May 28, 2016 KNews News 1

In the wake of the forensic audit conducted into the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC), former General Manager, Nizam Hassan, has expressed confidence that there is no fraud. He is also seeking...

No evidence 35,000 water meters ever installed

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on No evidence 35,000 water meters ever installed

…entity’s water losses at alarming 70 percent- GWI forensic audit A critical forensic report on the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) has called on that state-owned entity to pull out all stops to bring...

City Hall moves to seize, sell properties of defaulting taxpayers

May 28, 2016 KNews News 1

As part of an intense campaign to collect revenues owed to the Municipality, the Georgetown Mayor and City Council, (M&CC) is moving to seize and sell properties of defaulting of rates and...

GWI Audit finds…US$12M water treatment plant defective before going into operation

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GWI Audit finds…US$12M water treatment plant defective before going into operation

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Guyana will be made to repay yet another loan for monies spent on projects that are of little or no benefit to the people. The People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C)...

Donald and Sam refuse to follow Jagdeo

May 28, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Donald and Sam refuse to follow Jagdeo

There is more in de mortar than in de pestle. De walkout was not because dem didn’t get seats. Seat was never a problem. Dem boys know dem go to D’Urban Park premeditate to create a stir. De...

NSC/GASA Independence Swim Meet…Simmons, Persaud, Grant, Noel, Mahaica, Hackett, Cole, Carter and Rodrigues are early standouts

May 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC/GASA Independence Swim Meet…Simmons, Persaud, Grant, Noel, Mahaica, Hackett, Cole, Carter and Rodrigues are early standouts

When the National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) Independence Swim Meet splashed off yesterday at the National Aquatic Centre, encouraging performances...

Ex Guyana youth player Kevin George enjoy success in T&T cricket

May 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ex Guyana youth player Kevin George enjoy success in T&T cricket

Former National youth off-spinner Kevin George was in Trinidad this season where he played for Glenora Sports Club in the North zone Premiership League which commenced in January and concluded on the...

GCB regrets the passing of Umpire Sukdeo

May 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB regrets the passing of Umpire Sukdeo

The executives and staff of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) have learnt with great sadness of the passing of Guyana and regional umpire, Gayanana Sukdeo on May 24, 2016. We extend our condolences to...

Mayor’s Cup action continues today and tomorrow

May 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayor’s Cup action continues today and tomorrow

Play in the Annual Mayor’s Cup football tournament continues this weekend at two venues with double headers. The action this weekend start today at the Den Amstel ground on the West of Demerara and...

Jubilee boxing card set for this evening at CASH

May 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jubilee boxing card set for this evening at CASH

Boxing promoter and businessman Seon Bristol has teamed up with the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) and a few former stalwarts to bring off a card for Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary. The...

Intermittent rainfall not affecting preparations – Sims

May 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Intermittent rainfall not affecting preparations – Sims

-lucky turfite to win return trip compliments of Fly Jamaica Promoter of tomorrow’s Georgetown Turf Club (GTC) Horserace Meet Michael Sims in an invited comment yesterday said the intermittent...

Country’s top distance athletes confirmed for tomorrow’s ‘Golden Mile’

May 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Country’s top distance athletes confirmed for tomorrow’s ‘Golden Mile’

Most of the country’s top distance runners are confirmed to race in the Professional Key Shop ‘Golden Mile’ which is scheduled to be staged tomorrow, starting from 16:00 hrs. Speaking with...

GFF TO HOST ORDINARY CONGRESS

May 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF TO HOST ORDINARY CONGRESS

Joseph “Reds” Perreira To be Guest Presenter Georgetown: The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will host its Ordinary Congress today and a fundraising dinner tomorrow. This Congress, scheduled for...

Golden Jaguars shortlisted squad named… to face Curacao and USVI

May 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golden Jaguars shortlisted squad named… to face Curacao and USVI

Head Coach of the Men’s National Team (Golden Jaguars), Jamaal Shabazz, has named a 19-man squad to face off Curacao and the United States Virgin Islands (USVI) in the second leg of the Caribbean...

Trophy Stall backs GSCL Inc/NSC independence Cup

May 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall backs GSCL Inc/NSC independence Cup

Trophy Stall has thrown its support behind Georgetown Softball Cricket League Inc/National Sports Commission for the staging of the Independence T20 tournament which commences today at the Everest...

Gaulding Place to host Wiltshire / Joseph Playoffs tomorrow

May 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gaulding Place to host Wiltshire / Joseph Playoffs tomorrow

Gaulding Place which has become the major venue for dominoes in Georgetown is expected to come alive tomorrow when the playoffs of the Mark ‘Jumbie’ Wiltshire / Faye Joseph Tournament continue...

Professional Boxers at the Olympics – A Dangerous Gamble

May 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Professional Boxers at the Olympics – A Dangerous Gamble

AIBA (L’Association Internationale de Boxe Amateur) is accredited as an International Sports Federation (IF) by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to govern boxing at the Olympic Games and...

16-year-old Linden girl goes missing

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 16-year-old Linden girl goes missing

Sixteen-year-old Zhané Gray, called Ashanti, of 10 Fair’s Rust, Mackenzie, Linden, has gone missing. The girl, who is of mixed race and dark in complexion is 5ft 11ins tall and of slender built....

Supporting Guysuco impacts public servants pay hike

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Supporting Guysuco impacts public servants pay hike

Finance Minister Winston Jordan, on Monday, stated that had not the government injected resources into projects like the Skeldon Factory and the Enmore Estate, it would have “comfortably” met...

GMC office const…Payments depended on engineer certifying the work– Hassan

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GMC office const…Payments depended on engineer certifying the work– Hassan

The forensic audit conducted into the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) had reported on what was described as collusion between a foreign building contractor and the Board of Directors, in...

Robbery/home invasion on Land Court Judge…Magistrate sets June date for ruling

May 28, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Robbery/home invasion on Land Court Judge…Magistrate sets June date for ruling

—following closing arguments by Prosecutor The case of the five men accused of robbing and feloniously wounding Land Court Judge Nicola Pierre will conclude on June 10, with a ruling from...

FREENESS LEADS TO CONFUSION

May 28, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on FREENESS LEADS TO CONFUSION

There was no walkout by the opposition at the flag- raising ceremony of last Wednesday. The opposition parliamentarians and their spouses left as any decent person would do after it was clear that...

M&CC demolition…Dread Shop proprietor claims $20 million in damages

May 28, 2016 KNews News 1

Proprietor of the recently demolished premises popularly known as the “Dread Shop” situated at ‘A’ Water Street, Russell Square, Stabroek Market is claiming damages to the tune of $20M from...

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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