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$100M purchase of 50 radio sets…Items cost $300,000 each, but GECOM paid seven times more

Sep 06, 2016 KNews News 1

As state auditors continue to probe the purchase of 50 communication radios last year by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), there are serious concerns about the high acquisition costs. The...

Leaked embassy documents…BaiShanLin refused to provide evidence workers returned to China

Sep 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Leaked embassy documents…BaiShanLin refused to provide evidence workers returned to China

In the last five years or so, Chinese logging company, BaiShanLin International Forest Developments Inc., applied for visas for hundreds of workers from China. In 2013 alone, up to October, the...

Ministers at odds over SOCU‘s protocol

Sep 06, 2016 KNews News 1

Just two years after the Special Organised Crime Unit, (SOCU) was established as a mechanism to combat money laundering and other financial crimes, there appears to be some level of uncertainty among...

Guyana needs an Engineers Act

Sep 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana needs an Engineers Act

…to ensure competent professionals undertake Govt. contracts – Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Guyana, Bruce Haynes, believes...

Dredge owner succumbs after chopped by father and son

Sep 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Dredge owner succumbs after chopped by father and son

A 32-year-old father of four died at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Sunday morning, two days after he was attacked and chopped by a father and son at a backdam in Port Kaituma, Region One. The...

Woman convicted for trafficking niece

Sep 06, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News 1

“Trafficking in persons is a crime that inflicts harm on the most vulnerable in society. It is an example of modern day slavery which cannot be tolerated.” This was the stern rebuke delivered by...

Albouystown kidnapping…Victim reportedly stole diamonds, cash from abductors

Sep 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Albouystown kidnapping…Victim reportedly stole diamonds, cash from abductors

An Albouystown man, who was dragged out of his home last Wednesday by a group of men, reportedly stole a quantity of diamonds and cash from his abductors. The man has been identified as Ryan Khan, a...

Berbice businessman murder PI…Main witness ordered into custody to facilitate further cross-examination

Sep 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice businessman murder PI…Main witness ordered into custody to facilitate further cross-examination

The main witness in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of businessman Shameer Ali-Mursalin, was ordered to remain in police custody to facilitate further cross-examination, when the matter...

Berbice Regional Chairman blasts contractors for “pussyfooting” with school furniture

Sep 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice Regional Chairman blasts contractors for “pussyfooting” with school furniture

With the reopening of Government Schools in Guyana yesterday, some East Berbice/Corentyne (Region Six) schools are yet to receive their full complement of furniture. Regional Chairman, David Armogan,...

Mixed results at Round 3 of CMRC at Bushy Park

Sep 06, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mixed results at Round 3 of CMRC at Bushy Park

Bushy Park Circuit, Barbados – Guyana’s Superbike riders Elliott and Matthew Vieira dominated the category to head to the final leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) slated for...

Ruby Cummings outspells Yvonne Murray to claim scrabble goodwill trophy

Sep 06, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ruby Cummings outspells Yvonne Murray to claim scrabble goodwill trophy

Months of staunch application and acute perseverance has eventually borne fruit for veteran scrabble player, Ruby Cummings, who turned in a masterful display to dethrone Yvonne Murray and cart off...

GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power Nat. U-17 League….EDFA to resume matches this weekend

Sep 06, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power Nat. U-17 League….EDFA to resume matches this weekend

Another of the associations which was severely affected by consistent rain over the past two months is set to resume matches in the GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power National Under-17 Intra...

Little Diamond Int’l Martial Arts Academy Instructors officially authorised to teach

Sep 06, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Little Diamond Int’l Martial Arts Academy Instructors officially authorised to teach

On August 15, 2016 after nine (9) months of careful observation by Grandmaster Abdool Nazim Yassim of the Shin-Kai-Ryu system of martial arts and the Little Diamond Int’l Martial Arts Academy...

INTERNATIONAL CRICKET CHANGES ON TOP OF AGENDA

Sep 06, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on INTERNATIONAL CRICKET CHANGES ON TOP OF AGENDA

St John’s, ANTUGUA – Cricket and its place in the Summer Olympic Games, Test Cricket for 4-Days, Two-tier system for Test playing nations and Women’s Cricket in the 2022 Commonwealth Games are...

East Bank Table Tennis Coaching Programme a success

Sep 06, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on East Bank Table Tennis Coaching Programme a success

International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Level-One Coach Candacy McKenzie contributed to the expansion of the Sport of Table Tennis in Guyana by hosting the ‘’Breaking Down Barriers with...

Wolf’s Challenge Softball Cup…Yusuf, De Monick slam centuries

Sep 06, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wolf’s Challenge Softball Cup…Yusuf, De Monick slam centuries

By Zaheer Mohamed Centuries by Yunnis Yusuf and Roxanne De Monick highlighted the latest round of matches in the Wolf’s Challenge Softball Cup which concluded on Sunday. Yusuf struck 120 to help...

Englishman Ian Greenwood appointed new TD of the GFF

Sep 06, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Englishman Ian Greenwood appointed new TD of the GFF

To commence duties on October 8 The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has announced that Englishman Ian Greenwood is the new Technical Director (TD) of the federation replacing Canadian based Guyanese...

RHTYSC, MS Town Week Celebration…Poonai, Anamayah, HC Alphonso, Harris Paint, Ministry of Business, OP on board

Sep 06, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC, MS Town Week Celebration…Poonai, Anamayah, HC Alphonso, Harris Paint, Ministry of Business, OP on board

Plans for the hosting of the best ever Town Week celebration in the history of Guyana gained momentum during the last week as more sponsors came on board to support the Rose Hall Town Youth and...

Woman’s mutilated corpse…Relative confesses, cops seek accomplice

Sep 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Woman’s mutilated corpse…Relative confesses, cops seek accomplice

A young relative of Anita Mohan, the woman who was slain Sunday in her Cummings Lodge home, has reportedly confessed to playing a part in her murder. Kaieteur News understands that the relative...

Prince Harry to visit Guyana later this year

Sep 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Prince Harry to visit Guyana later this year

British High Commissioner Greg Quinn announced yesterday that Prince Harry will be visiting Guyana shortly. The Prince will be on an official visit to the Caribbean on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II....

President Youth Award programme continues to impact young Guyanese

Sep 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on President Youth Award programme continues to impact young Guyanese

Since 1998, the President Youth Award Republic of Guyana (PYARG) has been impacting on the lives of thousands of Guyanese between the ages of 14 and 25. The Award has been engaging young Guyanese in...

90 children benefit from school supplies as school reopens

Sep 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 90 children benefit from school supplies as school reopens

Local charity organisation, the Bri-Bac Foundation, partnered with several other entities and individuals to donate school supplies to 90 children from the communities of Tucville, Meadow Bank,...

Gunmen rob grocery store at Parfait

Sep 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen rob grocery store at Parfait

Five bandits carried out a daring mid-morning robbery of a grocery store at Onderneeming, Parfait Harmonie, yesterday. According to reports, the incident occurred around 10:30 hrs when a male...

Ramon/Raymond Gaskin and the hypocrisy of Guyana

Sep 06, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ramon/Raymond Gaskin and the hypocrisy of Guyana

With each passing day, this country throws up more and more incredible dimensions of human behaviour that could only be found here. If you live in Newfoundland and know absolutely nothing about...

Commuters must reprimand speeding drivers

Sep 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Commuters must reprimand speeding drivers

– West Dem. Road Safety Assoc. As the new school term begins, the West Demerara Road Safety Association is pleading with commuters to raise their voices against drivers of public transportation...

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Sometimes the best of leaders fail

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Jimmy Carter’s presidency fell victim to global and domestic upheavals. His single term... more