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Foreign currency stabilized

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign currency stabilized

-Central Bank reports excess in the system After several media reports of a shortage, Central Bank has been able to successfully stabilize the foreign currency system. Officials at the Bank told this...

Large quantities of dangerous drugs stolen from state

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Large quantities of dangerous drugs stolen from state

– Pethidine, Morphine included Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, has her work cut out for her. It has become obviously urgent that Lawrence needs to put strict measures in place to...

Man admits to beating son, causing his death

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Man admits to beating son, causing his death

Investigators in ‘C’ division have managed to secure a confession from a 40-year-old man whose son died one day after his father struck him to the head during an argument at their Better Hope,...

Customs officials ordered to stand down from seizing SUV with false plates

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Customs officials ordered to stand down from seizing SUV with false plates

The David Granger administration entered office in May 2015, vowing to weed out corruption and abuse of office. Billions of dollars were being lost because of tax evasion and other weaknesses in the...

Attack on British Parliament sparks heightened security around Parliament

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Attack on British Parliament sparks heightened security around Parliament

There was widespread confusion Monday due to several city roads being closed. The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has confirmed that due to the 2017 Westminster Attack outside of the United Kingdom House...

Nagamootoo denies Govt. ever promised $9,000 per bag of paddy

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nagamootoo denies Govt. ever promised $9,000 per bag of paddy

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has vehemently denied that his government ever promised rice farmers that a bag of paddy would be bought at a price of $9,000. The Prime Minister made this declaration...

Seven months on…Guyana still without an Ombudsman

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Seven months on…Guyana still without an Ombudsman

-Kissoon, Arjoon cases still await justice It has been over seven months now, and one of Guyana’s most crucial Constitutional Offices—the Office of the Ombudsman—remains headless. The...

Sports Commission Director responds to misappropriation allegations

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Sports Commission Director responds to misappropriation allegations

In light of allegations leveled against the Director of the National Sports Commission, Christopher Jones, he has refuted the article in this newspaper. The full statement below: It is never my...

Dem boys seh…Kak wuk mek big man cry

May 10, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Kak wuk mek big man cry

Thing fuh laugh does mek big man cry. A man tek on a job to build a monument. Is nuff money so de man got to smile because as old people seh, is nice to smile all de way to de bank. People develop de...

Windies eye ‘perfect game’ as rare series victory beckons

May 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windies eye ‘perfect game’ as rare series victory beckons

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – West Indies enter the decisive third Test against Pakistan at Windsor Park here today chasing the “perfect cricket game” as they seek to notch their first series win...

Phantom win semi final encounter

May 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Phantom win semi final encounter

Phantom chalked up 81 games to defeat C7 and Unity when the semi final of the Boyce and Jefford Dominoes competition was contested on Monday night at Dynasty sports bar. Orin Favourite led...

Agricola is Boyce and Jefford Five-A-Side Football Champs

May 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Agricola is Boyce and Jefford Five-A-Side Football Champs

Agricola Champion Boys came from behind Sunday at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary in the final of the Boyce and Jefford Five-A-Side Football Competition to eventually beat Broad Street...

Guyanese Travis Blyden leads from the front

May 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese Travis Blyden leads from the front

UWI take first TTCB North/East 50-over League title UWI’s Player/Coach and Captain, 27-year-old Guyanese Travis Blyden, led from the front in his first season for the St Augustine based team after...

GCB presents brush cutter to EBDCA

May 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB presents brush cutter to EBDCA

The Guyana Cricket Board through its structural development programme recently presented a Honda Brush Cutter to Mr. Rohan Sarjoo, Vice President of the East Bank Demerara Cricket Association. As is...

Local boxing referee/judges receive AIBA certificates

May 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local boxing referee/judges receive AIBA certificates

Local referee/judges Ramona Agard and Richard Braithwaite were recently officially welcomed to the AIBA One Star ranks. The two received certificates and One Star badges from president of the Guyana...

Blairmont CC holds Fundraiser for GCUC members on Sunday

May 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Blairmont CC holds Fundraiser for GCUC members on Sunday

Somwaru, Nicholls among six to travel to Jamaica The Blairmont Cricket Club in East Bank Berbice will be hosting its inaugural ‘UMPIRES CUP’ fundraiser this Sunday at the Blairmont Estate...

Newly-elected GNDF President has great plans for sport

May 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Newly-elected GNDF President has great plans for sport

She is considered to be one of the persons responsible for the elevated status of Dominoes in this country. Newly-elected President of the Guyana National Domino Federation (GNDF) Faye Joseph...

Joseph elected as GNDF president

May 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Joseph elected as GNDF president

Faye Joseph was recently elected president of the Guyana National Dominoes Federation (GNDF) when the body held its annual general meeting and elections at Gaulding Place, South Ruimveldt. Gladstone...

STAG ELITE LEAGUE CONTINUES TODAY

May 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on STAG ELITE LEAGUE CONTINUES TODAY

The Stag Elite League (Season 2) will continue today with one match, Match 18, which was originally scheduled for April 2 but was not played due to logistical challenges experienced by one of the...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Drubahadur Must Publicly Account For His GCB Stewardship

May 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Drubahadur Must Publicly Account For His GCB Stewardship

“Who Holds The Berbice Cricket Board Shares In Guyana Cricket Inc?” Dear Sports Editor, Drubahadur’s recent public announcement of his resignation as President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)...

School boy robbed at knife point in minibus

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on School boy robbed at knife point in minibus

It was during the morning rush hour, Aaron Sookwah, was sitting in the back seat of a route #41 minibus, all prepared for classes. His stop to the recently relocated Brickdam Secondary School was...

Cotton Tree duo sentenced after beating, robbing fellow villager

May 10, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cotton Tree duo sentenced after beating, robbing fellow villager

Two young men , Tharam Persaud, 21, and a 16-year-old, of Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice, have been handed custodial sentences after they were found guilty of assault with intention to rob....

CH&PA seeking more support for Housing Expo 2017

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CH&PA seeking more support for Housing Expo 2017

The government is seeking increased support from corporate Guyana, not only to partner with the agency, but to showcase their products and services. Public Relations Officer (PRO) attached to the...

Nagamootoo denies Govt. ever promised $9,000 per bag of paddy

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nagamootoo denies Govt. ever promised $9,000 per bag of paddy

Trial into murder of Pike Street businessman underway….Cop recounts collecting blood samples, bullet from crime scene

May 10, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Trial into murder of Pike Street businessman underway….Cop recounts collecting blood samples, bullet from crime scene

A Crime Scene Investigator testifying in the trial of Travis Mc Dougal, yesterday recalled that a bullet and samples of blood were collected from the vicinity where Pike Street Businessman, Ashok...

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Let us not be silent witnesses!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Ray Daggers walked from Corriverton to Charity. It was a journey so epic it might have... more