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Shocking twist in Bartica massacre trial…‘Fine Man’ gang member pleads guilty to murders

Nov 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Shocking twist in Bartica massacre trial…‘Fine Man’ gang member pleads guilty to murders

More than eight years after two separate massacres- at Bartica and Lusignan- stunned the nation to the core, it appears that families of the victims will finally receive some justice. This is because...

Special task force, with powers to arrest, to clamp down on illegal mining activities

Nov 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Special task force, with powers to arrest, to clamp down on illegal mining activities

The Ministry of Natural Resources will soon establish a task force with policing powers to tackle illegal activities in the extractive sector. The task force will be “a corps of wardens who will...

Truck driver gets 3 years for causing cyclist’s death

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Truck driver gets 3 years for causing cyclist’s death

A truck driver was yesterday jailed for three years after he was found guilty of causing the death of 60-year-old pedal cyclist Ramdoolar Dhanraj by dangerous driving on November 15, 2014. The...

CARICOM launches online skills movement applications

Nov 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM launches online skills movement applications

In what is being viewed as a major development for the region, CARICOM is today expected to start the implementation of an online system that will dramatically improve the applications for free...

Kara Kara toll booth officially reopens

Nov 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Kara Kara toll booth officially reopens

The controversial Kara Kara toll booth in Linden, was yesterday officially reopened for business by Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Basil Williams, who posited that its return symbolised...

Clerk of Works, contractor implicated in construction fraud

Nov 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Clerk of Works, contractor implicated in construction fraud

– cause Education Ministry to pay more for inferior items Fingers have been pointed to the Clerk of Works and a contractor in a matter that saw the Ministry of Education making payments for...

Acting Top Cop uses stats to signify crime not at its worst

Nov 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Acting Top Cop uses stats to signify crime not at its worst

Acting Commissioner of Police, David Ramnarine, yesterday used crime statistics from 2002 to 2007 to lash out at critics who say that crime is currently at its worst throughout the country. In fact,...

Delays in EBD expansion project cost extra US $1M in supervisory fees alone

Nov 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Delays in EBD expansion project cost extra US $1M in supervisory fees alone

Delays in the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C)-initiated East Bank Demerara Four-Lane Extension Project have proved very costly to the nation. While the project has finally been completed,...

Govt. gets 10 days to file affidavit in Carvil Duncan matter

Nov 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. gets 10 days to file affidavit in Carvil Duncan matter

The respondents in the matter that Chairman and appointed Member of the Public Service Commission, Carvil Duncan took before the High Court, have been given 10 days’ leave to file an affidavit in...

De Commissioner got to shut he mouth

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De Commissioner got to shut he mouth

Most times it does pay to shut you mouth. De Police Commissioner is a nice boy; he like talk but dem boys believe he talking too much. De last time he meet de press he tell dem that crime on de...

Terrence Ali National Open Boxing Championships…Guyana Defence Force retains dominance

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Terrence Ali National Open Boxing Championships…Guyana Defence Force retains dominance

Coach, Terrence Poole, boxers, Joel Williamson, Akiel Mounter the best in their categories Three nights of fistic fury reached a delectable climax with several action packed duels and when the smoke...

Calvin Ming victorious in F4 Nacam action

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Calvin Ming victorious in F4 Nacam action

Autodromo Hermanos Rodrigues, Mexico – Round 2 of the F4 Nacam kicked off in grand style in the double-header weekend. Calvin Ming, an overseas-based Guyanese piloted his #4 Ram Racing car powered...

Brathwaite puts Windies in sight of lead

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brathwaite puts Windies in sight of lead

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Phlegmatic opener Kraigg Brathwaite marched to within touching distance of his fifth Test hundred as he spearheaded a West Indies fightback against Pakistan on...

GFF HOSTS CONCACAF D. LICENSE COURSE FROM TODAY

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF HOSTS CONCACAF D. LICENSE COURSE FROM TODAY

Georgetown: The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will host a CONCACAF D. License course for approximately twenty-five (25) coaches from both Elite Clubs and Member Associations of the GFF a release...

WJ Enterprise backs Guyana Softball Cup 6

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on WJ Enterprise backs Guyana Softball Cup 6

WJ Enterprise of Regent Street, under its Croxley Copy Paper, has partnered with the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) for the staging of the Guyana Softball Cup 6 which will...

PCL Four-Day practice match …Hemraj & Bacchus hit fifties as Barnwell’s X1 reach 273-7 vs Singh X1

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on PCL Four-Day practice match …Hemraj & Bacchus hit fifties as Barnwell’s X1 reach 273-7 vs Singh X1

In fluctuating weather conditions at Everest, Chanderpaul Hemraj (65) and Robin Bacchus (52) led Christopher Barnwell’s X1 to 273-7 against Vishaul Singh’s X1 when the first day of their four-day...

Clown, tamer plenty skills, spills and thrills at Rising Sun Rodeo

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Clown, tamer plenty skills, spills and thrills at Rising Sun Rodeo

By Samuel Whyte The weather was fine and Rodeo fans were out in their numbers on a sun baked day which was filled with plenty of action. There was also plenty of fun, frolic and tumbles at Rising Sun...

Digicel Breast Cancer Awareness Cycle Road Race …Good momentum and smart riding delivered top prize – John

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Breast Cancer Awareness Cycle Road Race …Good momentum and smart riding delivered top prize – John

By Franklin Wilson New Digicel Breast Cancer Awareness Cycle Road Race champion Jamal John has credited his victory to keeping a consistent momentum and smart riding. Commenting after his historic...

Andrews century hands GDF huge victory over Sophia

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Andrews century hands GDF huge victory over Sophia

Opener Leon Andrews struck a fine century and picked up four second innings wickets to hand the Guyana Defence Force an innings and 220-run victory over Sophia when the Georgetown Cricket Association...

GCB/MOE National Secondary School’s cricket …Bookie, Phillips hit tons in yesterday’s action

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB/MOE National Secondary School’s cricket …Bookie, Phillips hit tons in yesterday’s action

By Sean Devers National U-17 player Alphius Bookie stroked a shot-filled 110 for Christ Church Secondary, while Tucville Secondary’s Godfrey Phillips made 103 as action in the GCB/MOE National...

STAG / WDFA Senior League …Uitvlugt Warriors win battle of the titans against Den Amstel

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on STAG / WDFA Senior League …Uitvlugt Warriors win battle of the titans against Den Amstel

Exactly as was predicted, the Uitvlugt Warriors / Den Amstel clash produced the anticipated fireworks when the two rivals clashed in the feature match of as double header on Sunday last at the Den...

GCB/GCUC workshop concludes

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB/GCUC workshop concludes

The Guyana Cricket Board in collaboration with the Guyana Cricket Umpires Council two-day workshop concluded on Sunday at the Union Building Woolford Avenue. The clinic was designed to look at...

Guyanese man killed in TT gas truck explosion

Nov 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man killed in TT gas truck explosion

Trinidad, CMC – Investigations are continuing into circumstances in which a man was killed when a truck reportedly exploded on the compound of a EDASCO – gas transporting business in Chaguanas,...

K/News staffer accuses cops of extortion…File sent to acting Crime Chief for advice

Nov 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on K/News staffer accuses cops of extortion…File sent to acting Crime Chief for advice

– says OPR head After more than two months of investigating a complaint made against five ranks of extorting money from a Kaieteur News staffer, the Guyana Police Force (GPF)’s Office of...

When do the driver’s licences of Jagdeo and Ramotar expire?

Nov 01, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 3

Since the APNU-AFC Coalition came to power, because of a concatenation of mistakes, people would pass me in their cars and yell out; ‘Fredaay, Fredaay, dis government doing wrang things maan.” I...

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D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life with Region 3 Jamboree

Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more