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Ministry pays $20,000 monthly to rent portable toilet for guard

Jun 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry pays $20,000 monthly to rent portable toilet for guard

Following a recent exposé by this newspaper over the utilisation of taxpayers’ monies to construct more than a half-million-dollar guard hut at the residence of a Permanent Secretary (PS),...

Man kills neighbour over borrowed cash

Jun 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Man kills neighbour over borrowed cash

The police have issued a wanted bulletin for a 42-year-old man who murdered his neighbour Monday night during an argument over borrowed cash. The suspect is Troy Tasho, called “19” of ‘B’...

Residents shut down Skeldon over planned privatization of sugar estate

Jun 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Residents shut down Skeldon over planned privatization of sugar estate

Over 500 sugar workers, business owners, housewives, pensioners and vendors from the Skeldon/ Corriverton area on Tuesday closed their businesses and took to the streets to protest the planned...

Courtney Crum-Ewing murder…Magistrate declines DPP’s order to commit ‘Grey Boy’ for trial

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Courtney Crum-Ewing murder…Magistrate declines DPP’s order to commit ‘Grey Boy’ for trial

City Magistrate Judy Latchman has declined to carry out an order by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack to commit Regan Rodrigues to stand trial at the High Court for the...

Fishmonger gets 20 years for killing sex worker

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Fishmonger gets 20 years for killing sex worker

After accepting that he shot and killed a sex worker, during an argument over some missing items, Ron ‘Andel’ Forde, a fisherman from Lot 31 Rahaman’s Park, East Bank Demerara, was sentenced to...

Chief Magistrate issues arrest warrant for former GRDB accountant

Jun 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Magistrate issues arrest warrant for former GRDB accountant

On Monday Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lenann issued an arrest warrant for the former accountant of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Peter Ramcharran. One week ago, five charges were filed...

Collapse of $93M Palmyra monument…Investigations find no soil test done; MPI to complete project

Jun 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Collapse of $93M Palmyra monument…Investigations find no soil test done; MPI to complete project

A government investigation into an embarrassing collapse of a monument at Palmyra, East Berbice late April has found several things wrong including the fact that no geo-technical surveys were...

GRA acts condignly on abuse of tax concessions

Jun 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GRA acts condignly on abuse of tax concessions

– Will go as far back as needed By Kiana Wilburg Over the years, there have been several forms of abuse in relation to companies which were granted tax concessions. In some cases, companies are...

Shame on Soulja Bai and Rum Jattan

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Shame on Soulja Bai and Rum Jattan

Dem want Soulja Bai and Rum Jattan fuh know that dem vex. Dem seeing nuff things tekking place wha dem ain’t like and wha use to happen under Jagdeo and Donald Dumb. Under dem crooks from de time...

Impressive England secure semi-final spot

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Impressive England secure semi-final spot

(Reuters) Hosts England became the first team to qualify for the Champions Trophy semi-finals after hammering New Zealand by 87 runs in Cardiff to stay top of Group A yesterday. Eoin Morgan’s side...

Vintage Samuels sees Windies to clean sweep

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Vintage Samuels sees Windies to clean sweep

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Veteran Marlon Samuels dominated with a classy career-best half-century as West Indies brushed aside minnows Afghanistan by seven wickets in the final Twenty20...

Guyana NRA Recorded Shoot …Persaud wins first competitive shoot for 2017; edge Fields in the process on Vs

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana NRA Recorded Shoot …Persaud wins first competitive shoot for 2017; edge Fields in the process on Vs

Guyana National Rifle Association (GuyanaNRA) Fullbore Captain Mahendra Persaud won the first Recorded Shoot for this year on Sunday last at the Timehri Rifle and Pistol Ranges, narrowly ahead of...

Junior Jags performance must assuage fears of major stakeholders

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Junior Jags performance must assuage fears of major stakeholders

– Continued development remains GFF’s priority By Rawle Welch The Junior Jaguars recent historic performance at the Soualiga Football Tournament which was held in St. Martin must assuage the...

Dorado Speed SC claim GASA Independence Anniversary swim meet

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dorado Speed SC claim GASA Independence Anniversary swim meet

Dorado Speed Swim Club chalked up 845 points to win the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) Independence Anniversary swim meet that was held recently at the National Aquatic Centre,...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Devers Responds

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Devers Responds

Dear Editor, I am responding to a letter in the Tuesday (June 06) issue of the Kaieteur News which accuses me of lying about what the Manager of the Demerara under-19 cricket team told me when I...

Trials to select CENTROBASKET Team on this weekend

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trials to select CENTROBASKET Team on this weekend

The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) will host two days of trials on Saturday and Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall to select players to represent Guyana at the upcoming...

Persaud, Hardaiow strike tons as Everest Masters overcome PYO Masters

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Persaud, Hardaiow strike tons as Everest Masters overcome PYO Masters

On a day blessed with glorious sunshine, Everest Cricket Club Masters made light work of their counterparts from the P.Y.O. Masters of Trinidad and Tobago in a 25 overs affair played recently....

LCSS NY committee supports Anderson

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on LCSS NY committee supports Anderson

Recognizing his tremendous talent and his outstanding performances in the recently concluded National School Cricket Championship, LCSS committee of New York, USA and made up of dedicated and hard...

World Boxing Council dispatches gift to WBC amateur boxing series participants

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on World Boxing Council dispatches gift to WBC amateur boxing series participants

Emmerson Campbell benefits from Abdool’s largesse When the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) staged the inaugural MMA boxing extravaganza at the Giftland Office Max Mall, Lilliendaal ECD, the...

Covent Garden overcome Diamond by 33 runs

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Covent Garden overcome Diamond by 33 runs

Covent Garden defeated Diamond by 33 runs when the National Sports Commission Ministry of Education and AL Sport & Tour Promotions 20th Annual Primary Schools Day/Night Windball Cricket Champions...

2017 USA Cycling Masters Road Nationals…Guyanese Aubrey Gordon wins 60-64 Criterium

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2017 USA Cycling Masters Road Nationals…Guyanese Aubrey Gordon wins 60-64 Criterium

USA based Guyanese cyclist Aubrey Gordon continues to represent with success, the latest of his accomplishments being the gold medal at the 2017 USA Cycling Masters Road Nationals Criterium last...

Cyclists getting ready for the Albert Rose Memorial 50-mile race in Linden on Sunday

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cyclists getting ready for the Albert Rose Memorial 50-mile race in Linden on Sunday

With a number of local cyclists presently competing on the USA circuit, those at home will be going all out to outdo each other when the 2nd annual Albert Rose Memorial 50-mile road race, organized...

Wiltshire ‘Champion of Champions’ Domino Competition starts Sunday

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wiltshire ‘Champion of Champions’ Domino Competition starts Sunday

– teams urged to be on time Senior Organising Secretary of the Georgetown Domino Association (GDA) Mark ‘Jumbie’ Wiltshire’s ‘Champion of Champions’ Competition for teams that placed...

Wayne Williams elected Grove Hi Tech FC President

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wayne Williams elected Grove Hi Tech FC President

Grove Hi Tech Football Club (GHTFC), the leading club of the East Bank Football Association (EBFA) has a new president, Wayne Williams, who was elected on Monday evening last when the club also...

Day 2 of GBTI Open 2017 …Action continues as Girls final match-up set

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Day 2 of GBTI Open 2017 …Action continues as Girls final match-up set

Play in the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Open 2017 tournament continued with Day 2 of the competition. In the Boys round of 32: Ridhwaan Kasim fell at the hand of the young Brazilian,...

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A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more