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UK timber procurement restrictions threaten local forestry export

Oct 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on UK timber procurement restrictions threaten local forestry export

-high level meeting tomorrow to discuss matter By Leonard Gildarie Local logging companies are deeply worried about a major development that threatens its export market to the United Kingdom (UK)....

$$Multi-billion IDB/EU project…Seven months after tenders opened, GPL still to announce winner

Oct 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on $$Multi-billion IDB/EU project…Seven months after tenders opened, GPL still to announce winner

A major project to install smart meters and rehabilitate the medium and low voltage distribution for the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) is facing hurdles. Seven months after the tenders were...

Brothers killed in horrific accident

Oct 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Brothers killed in horrific accident

Two young brothers were killed in a horrific accident yesterday afternoon on the Friendship, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road. The accident occurred shortly after 14:00 hrs. The dead brothers...

Motorcyclist shoots young couple; male in mouth, female in neck

Oct 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist shoots young couple; male in mouth, female in neck

A young couple was last evening shot in the Shirley Field Ridley Housing Scheme as they made their way to the home of a close relative. According to information reaching Kaieteur News Troyan Barton,...

Govt. seeks new drugs bond

Oct 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. seeks new drugs bond

…to discard controversial Albouystown facility Media operatives and Junior Minister of Public Health Dr. Karen Cummings, were on Friday given a tour of the Diamond Supplies Chain Management Complex...

GFC responsible for decline in nation’s forest wealth –Bulkan

Oct 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GFC responsible for decline in nation’s forest wealth –Bulkan

By Kiana Wilburg For years, members of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) and even the political opposition boasted that Guyana enjoys a high standing on the global platform for its low...

GECOM misled Tender Board on $100M radio order

Oct 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM misled Tender Board on $100M radio order

-key procurement staffer listed as living at contractor’s Kitty property Procurement documents of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) pertaining to a controversial $100M purchase of high...

BK and Toolsie stones inadequate

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on BK and Toolsie stones inadequate

When you eye pass people is a bad thing. It even more bad when you eye pass people wid small eye and Guyana got nuff small eye people. Soulja Bai know some of dem. When de airport project come on...

Enterprising educator, Henry Chase, is a ‘Special Person’

Oct 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Enterprising educator, Henry Chase, is a ‘Special Person’

By Rehanna Ramsay As a pioneer for promoting education simultaneously with sports, Mr. Henry Harding Chase has contributed more than two decades of his life to moulding the minds of Guyana’s youth....

CHEC sourced stone from Suriname company because local prices were too high – Patterson

Oct 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CHEC sourced stone from Suriname company because local prices were too high – Patterson

China Harbours and Engineering Company (CHEC) that is currently carrying out the expansion works at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), was prompted to purchase stone from a Suriname...

Housing Authority to halt violation of zoning laws

Oct 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Housing Authority to halt violation of zoning laws

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) is moving to bring back something that has been absent for quite some time in the City – Zoning. Zoning...

Scotiabank CFU Men’s Caribbean Cup 2016 …Golden Jaguars name 22; 5 newcomers included

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scotiabank CFU Men’s Caribbean Cup 2016 …Golden Jaguars name 22; 5 newcomers included

Five newcomers are in a Golden Jaguars shortlist of twenty-two players of which twenty will be selected for the upcoming Scotiabank CFU Men’s Caribbean Cup 2016 engagements against Suriname...

Hamilton storms to pole in Malaysia

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hamilton storms to pole in Malaysia

SEPANG, MALAYSIA (Reuters) World champion Lewis Hamilton seized a dominant pole position in qualifying for the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix with a storming lap yesterday that was almost the...

GCF Junior Chess championships …Top players register wins as chess players commence intense battle for vacant crown

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCF Junior Chess championships …Top players register wins as chess players commence intense battle for vacant crown

The battle for honours has begun and several players have registered wins in their quest for the Junior Chess title when the first of the seven rounds tournament concluded at the National Resource...

WDFA/Stag Senior League …Pouderoyen and Young Achievers flay their opponents, Beavers and Wales

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on WDFA/Stag Senior League …Pouderoyen and Young Achievers flay their opponents, Beavers and Wales

When the Stag sponsored West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) Senior League continued yesterday at the Den Amstel Community Centre ground, the teams from Pouderoyen hammered their fellow West...

3rd Annual Bakewell Junior Tennis Open serves off

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on 3rd Annual Bakewell Junior Tennis Open serves off

The Guyana Tennis Association (GLTA) launched the third edition of the Bakewell Junior Open in the presence of several of its top junior players and officials of the association and Bakewell. The...

Ansa McAl through Stag Beer on board with 5/5 sponsorship

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ansa McAl through Stag Beer on board with 5/5 sponsorship

The Ansa McAl Trading Company through its Stag Beer Brand has jumped on board with the Kendall’s Union Sports Club to sponsor the one day 5/5 cricket competition. The event, which will be played...

An account of Yassin’s failure at G.O.A

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on An account of Yassin’s failure at G.O.A

By Edison Jefford It is not sufficient to announce the failure of the Guyana Olympic Association (G.O.A) President, K. A. Juman Yassin to get Guyana on the Olympic medals podium without also...

Plaisance claw back to edge Golden Stars; BA Paradise SC beat BV Triumph United

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Plaisance claw back to edge Golden Stars; BA Paradise SC beat BV Triumph United

GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power Nat. U-17 League – EDFA Plaisance FC showed impressive maturity against home team Golden Stars, erasing a one goal deficit to walk away winners after two...

Let’s Remember Eric Norton when the Inter-Guiana Games Basketball Series Commence

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Let’s Remember Eric Norton when the Inter-Guiana Games Basketball Series Commence

Statistician Charwayne Walker reminisces that the first time Guyana won the Jules Sedney Trophy was September 1975. This prestigious Trophy named after the late Prime Minister of Suriname, proved...

GCB Jaguars 3-day League …Fudadin follows up 1st inns 92 with unbeaten 101

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB Jaguars 3-day League …Fudadin follows up 1st inns 92 with unbeaten 101

By Sean Devers Assad Fudadin followed up his 92 in the first innings with an unbeaten 101 on day two of the sixth round of the GCB Jaguars three-day Franchise League yesterday at Everest to leave...

A. Ally and Sons Basketball final on today under lights in Berbice

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on A. Ally and Sons Basketball final on today under lights in Berbice

All is set for the final of the inaugural A. Ally and Sons first division inter club Basketball competition for teams in Berbice between top teams New Amsterdam Warriors and Rose Hall Town Jammers....

Lyght brilliant hundred keeps Georgetown well set for outright win

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lyght brilliant hundred keeps Georgetown well set for outright win

West Berbice shows fight in second innings A brilliant hard hitting century by the pugnacious Andrew Lyght Junior and half centuries by Sunil Singh and Robin Bacchus have taken Georgetown on the...

Best of the Best President Cup Horserace meet on today at Port Mourant

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Best of the Best President Cup Horserace meet on today at Port Mourant

By Samuel Whyte With the Government renewing its commitment towards the development in sports in all forms a number of senior government functionaries expected to be among the thousands who will...

Persaud century, Ramcharran 5 for highlight day two at Tuschen

Oct 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Persaud century, Ramcharran 5 for highlight day two at Tuschen

A courageous 165 by West Demerara skipper Akshaya Persaud and a five-wicket haul by Lower Corentyne off-spinner Sharaz Ramcharran highlighted day two action when the sixth-round Guyana Cricket Board...

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Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more