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Money laundering investigations…Rasul’s transactions reveal he struck a rich gold vein at Gold Board

Apr 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Money laundering investigations…Rasul’s transactions reveal he struck a rich gold vein at Gold Board

A mining company under scrutiny for questionable transactions with the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) sometimes visited the offices as many as seven times a day. Those multiple visits should have raised...

Tender Board cancels opening of bids for Sheriff Street/Mandela Avenue expansion

Apr 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Tender Board cancels opening of bids for Sheriff Street/Mandela Avenue expansion

During the opening of tenders at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), tenders were open for the design of a new sanitary landfill at Bartica. A financial proposal was...

Youth drowns at Parika while taking girlfriend for a swim

Apr 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Youth drowns at Parika while taking girlfriend for a swim

Police yesterday recovered the body of a 20-year-old man at an East Bank Essequibo foreshore, a day after he drowned while taking his girlfriend for a swim. The victim, identified as Richard...

Three families get new, furnished homes

Apr 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Three families get new, furnished homes

-call it an “Easter blessing” A couple with 10 children, a single mother who had been living in a shack on swamped lands, and a differently-abled woman whose home was reduced to ashes, were all...

2017 NGSA commences today

Apr 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 2017 NGSA commences today

Pupils across the country will from today commence the 2017 sitting of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA). The scheduled assessment will be conducted today [Wednesday April 12] and tomorrow...

Speeding car kills Bush Lot lad

Apr 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Speeding car kills Bush Lot lad

A 15-year-old student from Bush Lot Secondary School yesterday afternoon died on the roads. Dead is Luke John, of Lot 208 Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice. The dead lad’s sister, Wanita Ramjit,...

Husband stabs man to abdomen for taunting his wife…court hears

Apr 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Husband stabs man to abdomen for taunting his wife…court hears

A man is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation after he was stabbed to the abdomen by another man who accused him of taunting his wife. Yesterday, Leeland Marco appeared before...

Opposition denies role in foreign currency shortage

Apr 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition denies role in foreign currency shortage

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has denied allegations to the effect that the shortage of United States dollars on the local market and consequent depreciation of the Guyana dollar was orchestrated...

Guyanese want live like Yankee but…

Apr 12, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Guyanese want live like Yankee but…

Everybody does know how Guyanese in authority does behave like pigs. If a policeman stop somebody he better watch how he talking to dem. If he talk too strong or if he only grab dem is because he is...

Infantino leads sod turning ritual at Guyana’s FFP National Training Centre

Apr 12, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Infantino leads sod turning ritual at Guyana’s FFP National Training Centre

By Franklin Wilson After touching down in the Land of Many Waters at around 08:30hrs yesterday, President of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Mr. Gianni Infantino made...

Brighto Paints Q-Mobile ODI Series…Malik’s unbeaten 100 and Hafeez’s 81 give Pakistan 2-1 series win

Apr 12, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brighto Paints Q-Mobile ODI Series…Malik’s unbeaten 100 and Hafeez’s 81 give Pakistan 2-1 series win

By Sean Devers Pakistan’s two most experienced batsmen, Mohammed Hafeez and Shoaib Malik, with a combined age of 71 and 420 ODIs between them, shared in an important 113-run fourth wicket stand to...

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ East Coast of Demerara segment…Fifteen matches highlight tonight’s commencement

Apr 12, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ East Coast of Demerara segment…Fifteen matches highlight tonight’s commencement

Defending champion Beterverwagting (BV) ‘B’ will open up the defence of their title when they face Golden Grove South in the second fixture of a 15-match programme as action in the 5th edition of...

Grove Hi Tech duo signs with Grenades FC for CFU Club Championship Finals

Apr 12, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Grove Hi Tech duo signs with Grenades FC for CFU Club Championship Finals

Lloyd Matthews and Denzil Crawford joins GFC’s Curtez Kellman Following on the heels of club mate Domini Garnett signing with Trinidad and Tobago’s Neal and Massy Caledonia AIA, Grove Hi Tech...

FIFA investing more in Guyana’s development – Infantino

Apr 12, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on FIFA investing more in Guyana’s development – Infantino

Aiming to work with Government and CARICOM to build partnership By Franklin Wilson FIFA President Gianni Infantino wrapped up a hectic half day visit to Guyana yesterday touting that the world body...

Super 4 Massive Easter Sunday Football …Perennial rivals to collide at Den Amstel on Sunday following tournament draw

Apr 12, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Super 4 Massive Easter Sunday Football …Perennial rivals to collide at Den Amstel on Sunday following tournament draw

Arch rivals Den Amstel and Uitvlugt Warriors have booked a date in the second semi-final of the Super 4 Massive Promotions annual football fest which is set for the Den Amstel ground this Sunday. The...

Kazi Azaria is back as top horses show good form for Guyana Cup Fever 2017

Apr 12, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kazi Azaria is back as top horses show good form for Guyana Cup Fever 2017

Over the past weeks most of the tracks and open spaces on the coastlands have been fully occupied as trainers, jockeys, grooms and owners’ of the top horses in Guyana were busy whipping their...

Wins for Plaisance, Tutorial, Marian Academy and Bishop’s High in NSBF Georgetown zone

Apr 12, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wins for Plaisance, Tutorial, Marian Academy and Bishop’s High in NSBF Georgetown zone

Plaisance Secondary School, Tutorial High, Bishop’s High and Marian Academy recorded wins on Sunday in the Under-19 Division, when the Georgetown zone of the National Schools’ Basketball Festival...

DMLAS, NAFICO and GPL support RHTY&SC Cricket Teams Say NO Efforts

Apr 12, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on DMLAS, NAFICO and GPL support RHTY&SC Cricket Teams Say NO Efforts

The effort of eight cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS to get over 60,000 youths in Region 6 to Say NO to Drugs, Suicide, Crime, Alcohol and YES to Education, Life, Peace...

Bounty Farm Ltd sponsors Lian Winter

Apr 12, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bounty Farm Ltd sponsors Lian Winter

The 2017 Swimming Championships will be held in Nassau, Bahamas from Saturday to Tuesday. Guyana will be represented by a four person delegation, two pool swimmers and two open water swimmers. Bounty...

RHTY&SC’s Hilbert Foster humbled to be honoured for contribution to Cricket

Apr 12, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC’s Hilbert Foster humbled to be honoured for contribution to Cricket

Long serving RHTY&SC Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster last week was honoured by local sporting group, The EXERCISE for his outstanding contribution to the development of cricket in Guyana. Foster was...

Caribbean Crime Fighter of the Year …Top Guyanese sleuth is runner-up

Apr 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean Crime Fighter of the Year …Top Guyanese sleuth is runner-up

He was at the forefront in solving the Babita Sarjou murder and numerous other cold cases. Now the work of twice-adjudged Best Cop, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mitchell Caesar, is being...

Jagdeo admits PPP’s interference in press freedom but says APNU+AFC overdoing it

Apr 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo admits PPP’s interference in press freedom but says APNU+AFC overdoing it

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has admitted that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), while in Government, was guilty of interfering with press freedom....

Publish that!

Apr 12, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Publish that!

The President of Guyana is correct. The Minister of Communities was only expressing an opinion in his letter to the Editor of the Guyana Chronicle which was critical of the perceived prominence given...

Cops seek help in tracking down driver in fatal hit and run

Apr 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cops seek help in tracking down driver in fatal hit and run

Commander of ‘C’ Division Marlon Chapman is seeking the public’s help to identify the driver who fled the scene after hitting down and killing 23-year-old Corneille Grimmond on Sunday night....

GPHC urged to adopt CICU model to help improve services

Apr 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC urged to adopt CICU model to help improve services

Having observed that the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation utilises an outstanding operational plan, Minister of Public Health, Ms. Volda Lawrence, has...

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Renuka, Mandhana consign West Indies to record loss

Chilling reminders that we are not safe

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Georgetown was plunged into shock and terror last week after two heinous incidents laid... more