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After 25 years… Barama pulls out of logging operations

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on After 25 years… Barama pulls out of logging operations

-gives up its 1.6M hectares of forest concessions -to concentrate on plywood manufacturing, sawmilling By Leonard Gildarie The country’s biggest forestry operator, Barama Company Limited (BCL), has...

GRA arrests two staff members for duty free fraud

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GRA arrests two staff members for duty free fraud

Two employees of the Guyana Revenue Authority are in police custody after the authorities detected a forgery in the name of Deputy Comptroller of Customs, Hema Khan. At issue was the importation of...

“Minister’s reaction to AG’s views sets dangerous precedent” – Former Auditor General

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News 1

The recent assertion by Finance Minister, Winston Jordan that the views of Auditor General, Deodat Sharma on the Contingency Fund, do not count, is eliciting cautionary responses from various...

Two brazen bandits walked into bar, rob 10 men

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Two brazen bandits walked into bar, rob 10 men

Less than a month after Commander of ‘D’ Division (ag) Leslie James announced that plans were put in place to combat the increase in criminal activities in Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara...

Only 56% of house lots allocated in last 20 years occupied

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Only 56% of house lots allocated in last 20 years occupied

– Islamic Dev. Bank eyes financing into sector Officials from the Ministry of Communities and the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) on Friday met with a visiting team from the...

Barama smell de rat and running

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Barama smell de rat and running

Barama come to Guyana like a train just as de Pee Pee Pee was preparing to run de country. Some Koreans was looking fuh timber because dem did start a building campaign. Dem was building nuff house...

South Ruimveldt Primary edge West for sixth South Georgetown athletics title

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on South Ruimveldt Primary edge West for sixth South Georgetown athletics title

South Ruimveldt Primary School edged West Ruimveldt Primary in a nail-biting finish yesterday afternoon at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary, to take home a sixth straight South Georgetown...

Hetmyer shines as Windies A makes inroads

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hetmyer shines as Windies A makes inroads

DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka, CMC – Shimron Hetmyer fell agonisingly short of a hundred as he led a solid West Indies A reply on the second day of the final four-day “Test” against Sri Lanka A here...

Simmons sacking led to Windies meltdown, claims Pollard

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Simmons sacking led to Windies meltdown, claims Pollard

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Kieron Pollard has described shambolic behind-the-scenes operations of the West Indies team in the recent Twenty20 and One-Day series against Pakistan, and has argued...

Bharrat Jagdeo is an inveterate liar

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

If there is any Guyanese out there who thinks that if the PPP returns to power their leaders will remove corruptibility, stop political incestuousness and practice the politics of fair, democratic...

Main Street artists seek to enthrall art lovers with exhibition at Umana Yana

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Main Street artists seek to enthrall art lovers with exhibition at Umana Yana

Art lovers are in for a treat when they visit the exhibition currently ongoing at the Umana Yana, and put on by the Main Street Art Group. According to the Public Relations Officer of the Main Street...

GGMC exploring new technology to improve recovery rate

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GGMC exploring new technology to improve recovery rate

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) is testing technologies that will reduce the environmental footprint of mining while improving recovery rates for miners. The Mineral Processing Unit of...

Wrong yesterday, right today

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Wrong yesterday, right today

Two persons at odds with each other can both be right. This is the case in relation to the dispute between the Minister of Finance and the Auditor General over the audit of the public accounts of...

Insurance companies cancel coverage of Gafoor’s Complex

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Insurance companies cancel coverage of Gafoor’s Complex

Three companies offering insurance coverage to the Gafoor’s Houston Complex, have indicated that they will be cancelling the coverage offered to the company. This comes on the heels of two major...

GuySuCo says unable to pay salary, wage increases this year

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo says unable to pay salary, wage increases this year

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) says it is unable to pay any salary and wage increases this year to its workers. This came out of the latest negotiation talks held yesterday between the...

GCCI lobbies for removal of VAT, duty from imported security equipment

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GCCI lobbies for removal of VAT, duty from imported security equipment

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vishnu Doerga said yesterday that his organisation is actively lobbying for the complete removal of Value Added Tax (VAT) and import...

Bartica faces 30-hour outage as generator goes down

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica faces 30-hour outage as generator goes down

– GPL says facing plethora of unfortunate occurrences The woes of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) are continuing. One day after three shutdowns significantly affected both Demerara and...

Dataram, wife “tampered” with passports stolen during robbery – Police source

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Dataram, wife “tampered” with passports stolen during robbery – Police source

Drug convict Barry Dataram and his reputed wife, Anjanie Boodnarine tampered with the passports that they were caught with, and at least one of the document was stolen from a victim during a robbery,...

Brother allegedly steals from brother

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Brother allegedly steals from brother

Andrew Carter yesterday appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer to a charge of break and enter. It is alleged that between September 30 and October 15, last, the 56 year old man broke...

Inoperable $200M cardiac machine at GPHC attracts Auditor General’s attention

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Inoperable $200M cardiac machine at GPHC attracts Auditor General’s attention

…as Ministry urged to follow-up on abandoned works at psychiatric hospital A $200 million cardiac cauterisation machine, which was procured by the Ministry of Health in 2012 to help advance cardiac...

No lead yet in Mahaicony shop owner’s murder

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on No lead yet in Mahaicony shop owner’s murder

Investigators on the East Coast Demerara are still trying to come up with clues that would lead to the identification of the killers of 56-year-old Bibi Nesha Shairoon, whose bound body was found in...

Alleged serial bandit remanded over Parfaite Harmonie robberies

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Alleged serial bandit remanded over Parfaite Harmonie robberies

Andrew Davis Hescott has found himself before the court again, months after he was freed of illegal firearm and ammunition charges by Magistrate Judy Latchman. Hescott, 23, of Middle Road, La...

T&T Coast Guard leads investigation into missing Guyanese fishermen

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on T&T Coast Guard leads investigation into missing Guyanese fishermen

The Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard is currently investigating the matter of two missing Guyanese fishermen who left these shores on September 27, 2016. This is according to Harbour Master of the...

Guyana, Islamic Development Bank explore means for cooperation

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, Islamic Development Bank explore means for cooperation

Guyana and a high level delegation from the Islamic Development Bank recently explored and reviewed ways and means both parties can develop strong and more robust economic development cooperation....

KNews grenade attack PI…Witness testifies to accused giving wanted man grenade

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on KNews grenade attack PI…Witness testifies to accused giving wanted man grenade

It was Alfie Garraway who gave the live grenade to Shemar Wilson, who is still wanted for the June 4, attack on Kaieteur News, and told him that the explosive device is to be thrown at 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