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Court halts $4.6B GPL contract to Chinese firm

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Court halts $4.6B GPL contract to Chinese firm

The High Court has ordered the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) and Government to explain how a Chinese company ended up with a multi-billion-dollar contract to install more than 25,000 smart meters...

Trio burnt to death… Jilted man might have poisoned partner, daughter before torching house

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Trio burnt to death… Jilted man might have poisoned partner, daughter before torching house

Investigators are said to be looking at a theory which suggest that 34-year-old Leonard Pollard might have poisoned his estranged partner and one-year-old daughter before setting his house on fire at...

Smart City Solutions given the best deal in the world on parking meter – contract

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Smart City Solutions given the best deal in the world on parking meter – contract

In a response to an article published in the February 12, last, edition of Kaieteur News, Smart City Solutions has tried to discredit the factual reporting of this media entity. SCS in an official...

Zoning takes spotlight…Atlantic Gardens family battles Massy over noise

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Zoning takes spotlight…Atlantic Gardens family battles Massy over noise

As the new administration continues to grapple with decades-old problems of zoning in the country, at least one East Coast Demerara family is battling with a multi-national company over noise. The...

GPL battles two shutdowns within hours

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPL battles two shutdowns within hours

At approximately 19:58 hours Sunday evening, the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System experienced a shutdown, following a trip of a transformer at the Kingston Power Plant and feeders supplying...

Chief parking meter director, Kamua Cush, was jailed for grand larceny

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Chief parking meter director, Kamua Cush, was jailed for grand larceny

Days after he came under fire from the Guyanese public for his disparaging remarks, embattled parking meter advocate, Ifa Kamua Cush is once again facing the heat. This time, Cush who emerged on the...

Dataram’s wife walks free on passport felony charge

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dataram’s wife walks free on passport felony charge

Anjanie Boodnarine, 21 of Lot 79 Patentia Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara, the reputed wife of self-confessed and convicted drug lord, Barry Dataram, yesterday walked free on a charge of...

De council people should go to jail

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De council people should go to jail

When City Hall sign de Parking Meter deal dem didn’t sign it fuh benefit de people of Guyana. Dem sign it to benefit demself, dem children and dem grandchildren. De contract stink way past heaven....

B’dos International Beach Soccer Showcase…Jaguars end Tourney with 4-3 win over Antigua

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on B’dos International Beach Soccer Showcase…Jaguars end Tourney with 4-3 win over Antigua

By Sean Devers in Barbados On the back of a couple of goals from Jamal Haynes and goals from Jermaine Grandison and Skipper Deshawn Joseph, Guyana’s Golden Jaguars ended the three-night Barbados...

Limacol Round Robion / Knockout Football Competition…Quarter-finalists decided after Round Robin phase ends

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Limacol Round Robion / Knockout Football Competition…Quarter-finalists decided after Round Robin phase ends

-Three teams from Mining Town make it A fair-sized crowd that converged at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in Linden on Sunday saw all three teams from the Mining Town that took to the starting line...

Milo 18 and under Schools Football Competition…Former champs Lodge impress

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milo 18 and under Schools Football Competition…Former champs Lodge impress

-Morgan’s Learning Centre hit 5 past Small Lessons Lodge, champions of 2014, got their campaign in this year’s Milo 18 and under Schools Football Competition off to a positive start with a 3-1...

‘Jaguars still have a lot of work to before Bahamas’ says TD

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Jaguars still have a lot of work to before Bahamas’ says TD

By Sean Devers in Barbados In a tournament which was used as a yard stick to measure their preparedness for next week’s COCACAF Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers in the Bahamas, Guyana’s Golden...

Nets fire on offence to trap Eagles

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nets fire on offence to trap Eagles

-Colts win again Republic Bank Nets finally got it together offensively to trap Eagles for a morale boosting win in the Division I category of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA)...

Sensei Williams conducts Texas Referee Clinic

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sensei Williams conducts Texas Referee Clinic

Sensei Darryl Williams conducted a successful Referee course for members of the Texas branch of the USA Karate International (USAKI). Williams is the referee coordinator for the World United Karate...

LABA/ Hamid U-23 basketball…Bulls, Jets, Kwakwani and Raiders start on winning note

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on LABA/ Hamid U-23 basketball…Bulls, Jets, Kwakwani and Raiders start on winning note

National shooting guard Terron Welch led all scorers with a 31 point performance as top ranked Half Mile Bulls knocked off the challenge of Block 22 Flames 85-53, but second ranked Victory Valley...

GCB/DMLAS/MOE/NSSCL commences today

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB/DMLAS/MOE/NSSCL commences today

Last year’s nationwide champs Chase Academy seeks to repeat The 2016/2017 GCB/DMLAS/MOE National Secondary School Cricket League commences its Inter Zone Winners’ phase, where the zone winners...

70 percent of corneal transplant patients recovering well – Dr. Sugrim

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 70 percent of corneal transplant patients recovering well – Dr. Sugrim

–possibility of eye-bank still on the cards Seventy percent of corneal transplant patients who were operated on at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) during the past two years...

Say no to civil disobedience!

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

The government undertook two reviews of the parking meter contract. The details of the contract which are now being made public would have therefore caught the attention. It is surprising,...

President Granger’s civil war theory

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on President Granger’s civil war theory

President David Granger should think long and hard before he makes complex political statements on the body politic of Guyana. Such ill-thought out deliveries can play straight into the hands of his...

Cops await enhanced surveillance footage to probe Saffon Street robbery

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cops await enhanced surveillance footage to probe Saffon Street robbery

The police are waiting on enhanced surveillance footage to determine the identity of the suspect in last Thursday’s robbery at Saffon Street, Charlestown. The robbery took place opposite La...

Parking meter fees to be slashed by weekend

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Parking meter fees to be slashed by weekend

– Free parking for banks and utility companies -Special rates for taxis and businesses By: Brushell Blackman The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is to slash parking meter fees by 50 percent...

SOPHIA WOMAN FEARS JILTED EX LOVER

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on SOPHIA WOMAN FEARS JILTED EX LOVER

-‘Turpin’ on the run after torching house The beginning of this year has not been kind to Younette Roberts. Back in January, she lost her ‘A’ Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown home, in which...

Guyanese family returns overseas in fear

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese family returns overseas in fear

…after home attack by man of unsound mind Even as the Guyana Government is calling on persons living overseas to return home and help develop Guyana, a number are leaving in fear after being the...

Tenders invited for construction of Mahdia radio station

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Tenders invited for construction of Mahdia radio station

Invitation to bid for the establishment of yet another hinterland radio station has begun. The Office of the Prime Minister, which has responsibility for the public information sector, is inviting...

Parents protest dismissal of Common Entrance teacher

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Parents protest dismissal of Common Entrance teacher

– But CEO insists action was warranted Protest action outside the Providence Primary School yesterday followed the termination of a teacher said to be the school’s “best Common Entrance...

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The tirade against the independent media continues unabated

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- In every democracy worth its salt, the press serves as the watchdog, the thorn in the side... more