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Messy situation at City Hall…Council paying $82,000 each monthly for portable toilets

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Messy situation at City Hall…Council paying $82,000 each monthly for portable toilets

– March bill close to $2M Despite claiming to be “cash-strapped” and rolling on battered bearings, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is serving up enormous chunks of money to private...

CHEC uses substandard cement blocks for Airport Project

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CHEC uses substandard cement blocks for Airport Project

China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is using low grade blocks for the expansion works that are being done on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). Kaieteur News has been able to access...

GRA sends mixed signals on false number plate issue

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GRA sends mixed signals on false number plate issue

Recent actions by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) have left some critics wondering whether the entity is sending mixed signals on the issue of false number plates. It was last Thursday that GRA...

Region Ten Chairman allegedly threatens transfer if ranks disobey him

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Region Ten Chairman allegedly threatens transfer if ranks disobey him

– says he is the boss for Linden Region Ten Chairman, Renis Morian, has once again found himself in the news but this time for the wrong reasons. Several reports surfaced, recently, of him...

GRA has no authority to grant tax waivers on vehicles- lawyers

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GRA has no authority to grant tax waivers on vehicles- lawyers

Legal minds are contesting claims by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) that it has the power to grant duty free waivers on vehicles. A number of lawyers yesterday insisted that in 2003, amended laws...

Full investigation ordered into Skeldon sugar project

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Full investigation ordered into Skeldon sugar project

– damaged co-gen plant requires US$17M fix A recent visit to the Skeldon Estate with officials from the Skeldon Energy Inc (SEI), Minister within the Ministry of Finance Jaipaul Sharma, and...

GRA zeroes in on huge tax evading businesses

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GRA zeroes in on huge tax evading businesses

-Billions of dollars already collected The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been focusing its efforts on how it can maximize revenue collection. In this regard, the organization has been checking...

Confusion surrounds discharge of Crum-Ewing’s alleged killer

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Confusion surrounds discharge of Crum-Ewing’s alleged killer

While the Director of Public Prosecutions, (DPP) is empowered under Sections of the Criminal Law Procedure Act to direct a Magistrate to commit an accused to stand trial, this directive must be given...

G/T got a shitty counshle

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on G/T got a shitty counshle

In Jagdeo time was a shad, shad shisuashion. Mitta Sharma did seh suh because de city was very dutty, and smelly. As soon as Soulja Bai tek affice de coalition govt start a countrywide cleanup. De...

RAN 15s Competition…Another day of gloom for T&T ruggers as Guyana win 24-17

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on RAN 15s Competition…Another day of gloom for T&T ruggers as Guyana win 24-17

-Green Machine move on to play Mexico By Rawle Welch It was another day of gloom for Trinidad and Tobago national ruggers against Guyana’s ‘Green Machine’ who condemned them to another defeat...

Ostapenko roars back to upset Halep in French Open final

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ostapenko roars back to upset Halep in French Open final

PARIS (Reuters) Jelena Ostapenko produced an astonishing fightback to overpower favorite Simona Halep 4-6 6-4 6-3 in the French Open final yesterday and become the first Latvian grand slam champion....

Independence Draughts competition set for next Saturday

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Independence Draughts competition set for next Saturday

The Guyana Draughts Association would be holding its National Independence ‘B’ Class tournament on Saturday 17th June. Then on Sunday June 25th the National ‘A’ Class competition would be...

Alysa Xavier – star hockey player with eyes on the prize

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alysa Xavier – star hockey player with eyes on the prize

The term ‘Guyanese Girl rocks’ can be aptly ascribed to Alysa Teresa Xavier a star Goalkeeper whose eyes are on the prize academically as well as on the Hockey field. Age 24, this former Queen...

Rising Sun Turf Club to host meet on June 25

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rising Sun Turf Club to host meet on June 25

The Rising Sun Turf Club in collaboration with the Guyana Association of Women Police will be hosting a grand one day horserace meet on June 25 at their West Coast Berbice track. Six races are carded...

No play on second day

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on No play on second day

The second day of the second round Guyana Cricket Board Hand-in-Hand three-day inter county U19 tournament was rained out without a ball being bowled yesterday. The Demerara and Guyana select U17...

Trophy Stall Annual Independence Badminton tournament 2017…Competitive play highlights first day action

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall Annual Independence Badminton tournament 2017…Competitive play highlights first day action

The Guyana Badminton Association’s Trophy Stall Annual Independence Badminton Tournament started on Friday at the National Gymnasium. The tournament started out with the Open Men and Ladies Singles...

MOE/NSC cricket coaching clinic concludes at Port Mourant

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on MOE/NSC cricket coaching clinic concludes at Port Mourant

The Ministry of Education National Sports Commission three-day coaching clinic concluded recently at Port Mourant. The programme saw 24 participants from the East Berbice Corentyne area attending the...

Deion Nurse and Colin McKoy cop gold in Pan Am Masters weightlifting championship

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Deion Nurse and Colin McKoy cop gold in Pan Am Masters weightlifting championship

They arrived in the Dominican Republic merely one day prior to the start of the competition but veteran weightlifters, Deion Nurse and Colin McKoy turned in commendable performances to capture gold...

Excitement brewing ahead of CARICOM Day Cuff Out Boxing

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Excitement brewing ahead of CARICOM Day Cuff Out Boxing

Villages along the West Coast of Demerara and beyond have already began to talk about the inaugural Slingerz Family Entertainment/Vergenoegen Boxing Gym CARICOM Day Cuff Out Amateur Boxing Tournament...

The State’s role in the development of sports is non-existent

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on The State’s role in the development of sports is non-existent

By Edison Jefford The invisibility of a definitive presence in the administration, organisation and nurturing of sports in Guyana continues to undermine real growth and development, notwithstanding...

Windies hoping to level series tonight after embarrassing loss to Afghanistan

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windies hoping to level series tonight after embarrassing loss to Afghanistan

By Sean Devers in St Lucia In association with Vnet Communications Noble House Seafood, Baksh Travel Service, Payless Varity Store & Golden Arrow Inn in St Lucia The riot act must surely have...

An amicable resolution to impactful fallout

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on An amicable resolution to impactful fallout

By Sharmain Grainger Purported differences that existed between the Ministry of Public Health and the US-based International Children Heart Foundation had essentially threatened the continuance of a...

Kidney patient in desperate need of transplant

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Kidney patient in desperate need of transplant

After being convinced ten years ago by doctors that a successful kidney transplant would have improved her well being, Reena Sultan, a 31-year-old mother of one, is once again seeking the assistance...

US$46.8M West Dem. Road Expansion Project…Contractors have eight months to complete remainder

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US$46.8M West Dem. Road Expansion Project…Contractors have eight months to complete remainder

The US$46.8M West Demerara Road Expansion Project is currently 75 percent complete. This was revealed last week during an engagement among the Region Three (Essequibo Islands/West Demerara)’s...

GPHC Matron finally gets marching orders

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC Matron finally gets marching orders

Months after a Commission of Inquiry [COI] recommended her termination, the administration of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation [GPHC] has decided to part ways with its substantive Director...

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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