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Government to scrap prequalification of drug suppliers

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Government to scrap prequalification of drug suppliers

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Minister of Health, Volda Lawrence, has promised an end to the controversial system of prequalifying drug suppliers. She made this promise to the Georgetown Chamber of...

Exxon announces US$4.4B Investment after Guyana grants licences

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon announces US$4.4B Investment after Guyana grants licences

By Suraj Narine One day after being granted a production licence by the Government of Guyana (GoG), US oil company ExxonMobil and its partners, are wasting no time. The company, yesterday, announced...

Granger, WPA, AFC to meet today

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Granger, WPA, AFC to meet today

President David Granger is set to meet with leaders of the Working Peoples Alliance (WPA) this morning to discuss, among other things, the ministerial seat for the party. The meeting would come days...

Absolutely no ethnic considerations in choosing Permanent Secretaries – Harmon

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Absolutely no ethnic considerations in choosing Permanent Secretaries – Harmon

Accusation that the administration is involved in ethnic cleansing at the level of its Permanent Secretaries (PS) is absolutely untrue, Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, insisted yesterday. The...

CANU Head removed

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CANU Head removed

James Singh has received notification that he will no longer be the Head of the country’s premier illicit drug fighting agency, the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU). Singh told Kaieteur News that...

GTU told unilateral deduction of teachers’ salaries not permitted

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GTU told unilateral deduction of teachers’ salaries not permitted

…wants REO to retract statement of exhorbitant overpayment A resolution has officially been arrived at to prevent the Regional Executive Officer [REO] of Region Five, Mr. Ovid Morrison, from...

Miner shot dead after refusing to perform oral sex

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Miner shot dead after refusing to perform oral sex

A 40-year-old miner was shot dead around 13:00 hrs on Thursday after he refused to perform oral sex on one of his drinking buddies at Jack and Vieira Backdam, North West District. The victim has been...

RadioShack arrives in Guyana

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on RadioShack arrives in Guyana

RadioShack, the electronics and household giant from the United States of America has descended on Guyana thanks to the Unicomer Group. The local branch which is at the Giftland Mall on the East...

Knack always gat knack back

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Knack always gat knack back

De ABC countries got long memory. When you think dem forget is then dem does strike like two-head snake. Just a few years back, Jagdeo send one of ee kavakamites to cuss de American Ambassador...

Speaker walks out of National Assembly

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Speaker walks out of National Assembly

…as opposition protests ‘gag’ on MP Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Barton Scotland, yesterday vacated the parliamentary chambers after Opposition Parliamentarians protested a ‘gag’ on...

Sparta crush Albouystown 5-1 to make tonight’s final

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sparta crush Albouystown 5-1 to make tonight’s final

-Tucville outlast Sophia to set up rematch By Rawle Welch Could any team really stop them was the question being asked by the large crowd that turned up to witness reigning futsal champions Sparta...

GCF National Championships 2017…Time Trials on today, Road Races take centre stage from tomorrow

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCF National Championships 2017…Time Trials on today, Road Races take centre stage from tomorrow

By Franklin Wilson It’s that time of the year when the most prestigious period on the cycling calendar takes center stage; it’s the National Championships which will be run over three days...

GSCL Inc premier softball tourney set for October

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSCL Inc premier softball tourney set for October

Teams invited to discuss launch today at GNIC SC The Georgetown Softball Cricket League Inc will be hosting its premier softball tournament in October with matches set to be played at several venues...

Almeida upsets Panday, Downes progresses

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Almeida upsets Panday, Downes progresses

Harry Panday is known in local tennis circles as one of the guys you don’t want to play, since he has the ability to retrieve just about every ball if he manages to impose his style of game. On...

Correction

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Correction

In our Thursday June 15, 2017 Edition, Kaieteur News reporting on the National Sports Commission Ministry of Education AL Sport and Tour Promotions 20th Annual Primary Schools day/night Windball...

GFF-NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power National U-17 tourney begins this weekend

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF-NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power National U-17 tourney begins this weekend

Georgetown: The GFF–NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power National U-17 Intra-Association tournament will begin this weekend in three Regional Member Associations (RMAs). This second phase of the...

Basketball set for Berbice this weekend

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Basketball set for Berbice this weekend

For the first time under the stewardship of Mr. Vibert Garrett, the Berbice Amateur Basketball Association will play host to Bartica. The Bartica team is set to compete against opposition from...

Woman, 62, killed in Meten-Meer-Zorg accident

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Woman, 62, killed in Meten-Meer-Zorg accident

A 62-year-old woman was struck and killed in an accident on the Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara (WCD) Public Road around 14:30hrs on Thursday. The victim has been identified as Krishnoucie of...

House passes Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority Bill

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on House passes Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority Bill

After much consideration from both sides of the House, the Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority Bill (Amendment) Bill 2017 was passed in the National Assembly on Thursday. Moving the second...

Bandits cart off $3M

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits cart off $3M

Two armed bandits around 1:00am yesterday tied up a security guard attached to the Ministry of Public Security office at Ogle, East Coast Demerara (ECD) and carted off over $3M worth in items. The...

Moves underway for Govt. officials to have medical insurance

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Moves underway for Govt. officials to have medical insurance

Recent cases of Government ministers seeking treatment as far away as Ireland has not burdened the Treasury, a senior Government officially said yesterday. Responding to questions about permission...

NIS hosted Pension Readiness Programme in Linden

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on NIS hosted Pension Readiness Programme in Linden

During a Pension Readiness Programme in Linden on Thursday members of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) met with the public at the Linden Local Office to iron out issues contributors encounter,...

Cabinet tasks Ministers for expedient resolution of detained Haitians

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet tasks Ministers for expedient resolution of detained Haitians

Cabinet has expressed the need to deal with the investigations into the detention of Haitian nationals who arrived in Guyana last May. Second Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl...

New secondary schools for La Parfaite, Hope

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New secondary schools for La Parfaite, Hope

-no plans yet on old Brickdam school The poor physical condition of the Brickdam Secondary School had prompted the Ministry of Education to close the facility. The student population was then...

Linden man allegedly posts nude photos of ex

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Linden man allegedly posts nude photos of ex

A Lindener yesterday made an appearance before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts and was released on $50,000 bail on an accusation of posting nude photos of his ex...

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Bureaucracy gone bananas!

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