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BaiShanLin: A track record of wrongdoing

Sep 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on BaiShanLin: A track record of wrongdoing

One day after Government announced that it was seizing the forest concessions of BaiShanLin International Forest Development Inc. for failing to honor commitments, there is news that the Chinese...

Guyanese horror story at Barbados airport

Sep 08, 2016 KNews News 3

In the wake of recent allegations by a Jamaican of mistreatment at the hands of immigration officers while detained at Barbados’ Grantley Adams Airport, a pregnant Guyanese has said she suffered...

Massive gold production masking Guyana’s economic decline – Opposition

Sep 08, 2016 KNews News 1

The gold sector has delivered a remarkable performance thus far for 2016. In fact, a holistic view of that sector along with other revenue earners would give the impression that the economy seems to...

Ministry of Foreign Affairs launches probe into ambassador’s background

Sep 08, 2016 KNews News 3

Following reports that Guyana has appointed a convicted felon as Ambassador to Kuwait, Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge has said an investigation has been launched to ascertain the accuracy...

SARA’s powers to snoop around citizens’ private accounts worrying

Sep 08, 2016 KNews News 2

– Agency poses danger to Constitutional rights – Private Sector Ensuring that citizens’ banking information is protected and only seen by the authorized bodies has been an issue of...

Disabled man, 64, burns to death; mother, 95, rescued in Canje fire

Sep 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Disabled man, 64, burns to death; mother, 95, rescued in Canje fire

A fire of still unknown origin on Tuesday evening took the life of a 64-year-old disabled man who lived with his 95-year-old mother at Adelphi Village East Canje Berbice. The elderly woman was...

Father remanded for murder of dredge owner

Sep 08, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Father remanded for murder of dredge owner

Shurland Mohan, of Albouystown, Georgetown, was yesterday remanded to prison for the murder of Ryan English – who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Sunday- two days after the victim was...

Watch out fuh some deal or de other

Sep 08, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Watch out fuh some deal or de other

As old people does seh, “De longest rope got an end.” BaiShanLin was a long rope, but de end reach de other day when Soulja Bai tek a decision to tek back all dem lands that BaiShanLin get by...

Disputed ‘Medical School’ not registered, should not have begun enrolment

Sep 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Disputed ‘Medical School’ not registered, should not have begun enrolment

– Nat’l Accreditation Council The North Shore Medical Institute, which is located on Lamaha Street, Georgetown, is now under intense scrutiny since the Administrator – who goes by several...

Rio Paralympics 2016: Brazil president booed at opening ceremony

Sep 08, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rio Paralympics 2016: Brazil president booed at opening ceremony

BBC Sport – Brazilian president Michel Temer was booed as the 2016 Paralympic Games opened in Rio de Janeiro to a backdrop of colour, music and a powerful message of inclusivity. Thousands of...

Proposed two-tier Test structure scrapped

Sep 08, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Proposed two-tier Test structure scrapped

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC- A proposal to split Test cricket into a two-tier structure was withdrawn on Wednesday during a meeting of the chief executives’ committee (CEC) of the...

Port Mourant Training Centre wins another competition under lights at D’ Edward

Sep 08, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Port Mourant Training Centre wins another competition under lights at D’ Edward

The Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) on Sunday last once again successfully completed another volleyball tournament with the playing off of the Three Door Strikes one day Volleyball extravaganza...

Spartons win semi final encounter

Sep 08, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Spartons win semi final encounter

Spartons marked 71 games to win the semi final of the Pieces Dominoes tournament which was contested on Monday night at Dynasty Sports Bar. C7 finished second with 66 games, while Frankies placed...

Warriors destroys Humanitarians

Sep 08, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Warriors destroys Humanitarians

The New Amsterdam Warriors showed no mercy to the hapless new comers Guyana Humanitarian Development Centre (GHDC), pounding them into submission when play continued in the A. Ally and Son’s First...

Champion of Champions dominoes commence on Sunday

Sep 08, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Champion of Champions dominoes commence on Sunday

The Champion of Champions dominoes tournament is set to commence on Sunday at 1223 Gaulding Place, South Ruimveldt. Entrance fee is $12,000 and double six time is 15:00hrs. The winning team will take...

National Intermediate boxing …GDF coming in force for Republicans

Sep 08, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on National Intermediate boxing …GDF coming in force for Republicans

All is set for the Lennox Blackmoore National Intermediate boxing competition which starts at the National Gymnasium tomorrow. Action commences at 7:00pm and fans can be assured of an entertaining...

Baird’s scholarship illustrates Yassin’s deficiency in the study of Sport

Sep 08, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Baird’s scholarship illustrates Yassin’s deficiency in the study of Sport

By Rawle Welch Upon reading an article captioned ‘GOA pledges $1M yearly for Baird’ in the Guiyana Chronicle dated Wednesday, September7, 2016, I immediately realised why President of the Guyana...

Questions must be raised about the process

Sep 08, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Questions must be raised about the process

The Head of the National Aids Programme Secretariat (NAPS) has resigned. She is to be replaced by someone whom we are told is to be seconded from her present job at the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Envoy urges Government to finance execution of modern drainage model

Sep 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Envoy urges Government to finance execution of modern drainage model

…as Dutch University students present report The Government of Guyana yesterday received a modernized hydraulic drainage model, from the team of seven Dutch Master’s students of Delft...

West Demerara School defaced on first day of new term

Sep 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on West Demerara School defaced on first day of new term

Imagine the shock and disgust of students and teachers of the Saraswat Primary School when they showed up for the new school term on Monday morning only to be greeted with graffiti-covered walls...

Alleged cop bribing case…Statements to be filed in three weeks

Sep 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged cop bribing case…Statements to be filed in three weeks

City Magistrate Judy Latchman instructed that the prosecution serve statements on the defence, in the matter for which city hotel owner Veersammy Narine is accused of bribing a detective attached to...

Visually impaired pensioner spared on damage to property charge

Sep 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Visually impaired pensioner spared on damage to property charge

A remorseful Randolph Hubert, who is visually impaired, walked out of court a free man yesterday, after he was spared by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on a charge of damage to property. The pensioner...

Back to square one

Sep 08, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Back to square one

In Guyana, it seems that the people’s right to know is no longer paramount, even though the government promised to be transparent and accountable. In the past year, the government has become very...

Police issue wanted bulletin for murder suspect

Sep 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police issue wanted bulletin for murder suspect

The Guyana Police Force has issued a wanted bulletin for a suspect, almost six months after the decomposed body of a Brazilian woman was found in a shallow grave at Muruwa Backdam, Konawaruk River,...

Cummings Lodge murder…Victim died from multiple injuries – PM

Sep 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cummings Lodge murder…Victim died from multiple injuries – PM

A Post Mortem examination performed on the remains of Anita Mohan, whose body was discovered in a pool of blood in her Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara home on Sunday, revealed that the woman died...

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The wait is over, all roads lead to KMTC for their Grand Boxing Day Horse race meet

Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals!

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Ah, Christmas—the season of goodwill, good cheer, and, let’s not forget, good riddance!... more