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Failure to activate all IT modules leads to rampant corruption, billion$ lost – GRA boss

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Failure to activate all IT modules leads to rampant corruption, billion$ lost – GRA boss

By Kiana Wilburg For over ten years, officials within the Ministry of Finance had failed to implement crucial elements/modules of a computerized accounting system from Canada. This programme was...

Private developers still owe million$ for East Bank lands

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Private developers still owe million$ for East Bank lands

– CH&PA lawyer moves to repossess The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has warned that it will soon repossess lands from those private developers and house lot...

Missing pensioner’s car…Con man caught…minus vehicle!

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Missing pensioner’s car…Con man caught…minus vehicle!

O’Neil Simon, the man accused of fleecing 72-year-old Sukdai Ramsammy of her blue Toyota Corolla, HC 5044, was yesterday nabbed by the police, but not with the woman’s vehicle. He is currently...

Estimated $402M pump station for Buxton

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Estimated $402M pump station for Buxton

During the opening of tenders yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), contractors vied for the contract to construct a pump station at Buxton on the East Coast...

Ill-advised PPP projects/loans have reduced room to manoeuvre – Finance Minister

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Ill-advised PPP projects/loans have reduced room to manoeuvre – Finance Minister

By Kiana Wilburg While it is practical to focus on ways in which policy makers need to improve the nation’s debt management practices, Finance Minister Winston Jordan is of the view that key to the...

Cops probe two suspected murders…Bound body of male found in bush – Woman with battered face discovered in rice field

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cops probe two suspected murders…Bound body of male found in bush – Woman with battered face discovered in rice field

Investigators are probing two suspected cases of murder—one involving the bound body of a man and the other being that of a woman whose face had been battered and her body dumped in a rice...

Soulja Bai buying tractor fuh cane

Jun 14, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Soulja Bai buying tractor fuh cane

Soulja Bai believe he gun be a one-term president like Donald Dumb. Dem boys hear he seh suh but he promise that he gun serve out a full term rather than a half term like Donald Dumb. He seh he want...

Warriors ride Durant to beat Cavaliers and clinch NBA title

Jun 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Warriors ride Durant to beat Cavaliers and clinch NBA title

OAKLAND, CALIF. (Reuters) The Golden State Warriors secured their second NBA championship in three seasons with a 129-120 Game Five win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday, capping a near-perfect...

Windies favoured to win series tonight

Jun 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windies favoured to win series tonight

But can Khan spoil their party? By Sean Devers in St Lucia In association with Vnet Communications Noble House Seafood, Baksh Travel Service, Payless Variety Store & Golden Arrow Inn in St Lucia...

Harold ‘Top Gun’ Hopkinson excels at Grenada National HandGun Championship

Jun 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Harold ‘Top Gun’ Hopkinson excels at Grenada National HandGun Championship

Veteran marksman Harold ‘Top Gun’ Hopkinson, returned from Grenada beaming where he represented the Guyana NRA Smallbore Section and IPSC Guyana with distinction, having participated in the...

Packed weekend as GBTI Open 2017 Tennis continues

Jun 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Packed weekend as GBTI Open 2017 Tennis continues

A total of twenty three matches were played over the last weekend at the GBTI Recreational Center in Bel Air Park as the annual tennis tournament eased into the second week of action. The event...

Digicel Schools Football Championship…LTI crush PLI 9-2 to move on

Jun 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Schools Football Championship…LTI crush PLI 9-2 to move on

-more matches scheduled for today Leonora Technical Institute (LTI) inflicted a crushing 9-2 thrashing on Professional Learning Institute (PLI) as play in this year’s Digicel Nationwide Schools...

Guyana NRA Recorded Shoot …Dylan Fields fires his way to outright win

Jun 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana NRA Recorded Shoot …Dylan Fields fires his way to outright win

After taking the runner-up spot behind his Captain, Mahendra Persaud by a pair of Vs in the first recorded shoot for the year, Vice Captain Dylan Fields went all the way alone in the recorded shoot...

GCB/Hand-in-Hand U-19 tourney …Anderson century boosts U-17s, Chatura hits 50, 5-wkt hauls for Sinclair, Simpson

Jun 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB/Hand-in-Hand U-19 tourney …Anderson century boosts U-17s, Chatura hits 50, 5-wkt hauls for Sinclair, Simpson

Middle order batsman Kevlon Anderson struck a fine century to put the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) U-17 select XI in a comfortable position against Essequibo when the third and final round...

Couple accused of hiding wanted man

Jun 14, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Couple accused of hiding wanted man

A couple appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday accused of hiding a wanted man. Duieni Segura and Naiae Nuchan were brought before Magistrate Sunil Scare, and pleaded not guilty...

Bids in…Defunct Hosororo Hydropower Plant closer to being resuscitated

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bids in…Defunct Hosororo Hydropower Plant closer to being resuscitated

Government’s plan to resuscitate the defunct Hosororo hydropower plant in Region One (Barima/Waini) is moving one step closer to being realised. Yesterday, during the opening of tenders at the...

GPHC hard-pressed to manage sickle cell patients

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC hard-pressed to manage sickle cell patients

-gets PAHO support to advance efforts A random estimate suggests that about three percent of Guyanese are affected with sickle cell disease and thalassaemia, which are inherited blood disorders. On...

Consultancy fees rise $60M-plus on East Coast road project

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Consultancy fees rise $60M-plus on East Coast road project

A lengthy delay in a loan agreement has resulted in increased consultancy fees for East Coast Demerara road-widening project. This is according to Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public...

Authorities going after persons with two Govt. houselots

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Authorities going after persons with two Govt. houselots

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has announced a campaign to go after those persons, who, in an attempt to defraud the system obtained more than one government house lot. Based...

Old Linden Hospital building being refurbished

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Old Linden Hospital building being refurbished

… to offer therapeutic, psychiatric services The old Linden Hospital Building in Mackenzie, Linden Region 10 (Upper Demerara/Upper Berbice), will be refurbished to accommodate psychiatry,...

Guyana makes notable strides on debt management with CEMLA

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana makes notable strides on debt management with CEMLA

With the help of the Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA), it appears that Guyana has made some significant strides when it comes to debt management. This is according to Finance...

Officials seize illegally imported horse

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Officials seize illegally imported horse

Customs officers while clearing a loaded ship at the Guyana National Shipping Corporation (GNSC) wharf at Port Georgetown on Tuesday afternoon discovered that an illegally imported horse was on...

Nine arrested; bullet-proof vest, toy guns seized in Sophia raid

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nine arrested; bullet-proof vest, toy guns seized in Sophia raid

Police believe that they have put a dent on crime with a raid in ‘C’ Field, Sophia, yesterday. According to a release from the Guyana Police Force, an intelligence-led operation conducted by its...

Oil and gas development…Draft local content policy offers little or nothing to Guyanese – GCCI

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Oil and gas development…Draft local content policy offers little or nothing to Guyanese – GCCI

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce (GCCI) is of the opinion that the Local Content Policy prepared by the Ministry of Natural Resources leaves much more to be desired....

Restoring image of GPHC among key focus of new acting CEO

Jun 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Restoring image of GPHC among key focus of new acting CEO

– says his role is to manage not administer any injection There exists within the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation [GPHC] a notable breakdown of communication between various levels of...

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D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life with Region 3 Jamboree

Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more