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What more must Bramble do to gain ‘A’ selection asks Sean Devers Top bowler Permaul also ignored

What more must Bramble do to gain ‘A’ selection asks Sean Devers Top bowler Permaul also ignored

Jan 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on What more must Bramble do to gain ‘A’ selection asks Sean Devers Top bowler Permaul also ignored

The Windies selection panel headed by Barbadian Courtney Browne which also includes former Guyana and West Indies batsman Travis Dowlin has named five Guyanese in the preparatory squad for Windies...

Govt. has no intention to review agreement with Exxon – Minister

Govt. has no intention to review agreement with Exxon – Minister

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News 1

Despite extensive criticisms about the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) that Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman signed with ExxonMobil, Government has not seen the need for any...

NUMBER PLATE RACKET!!! Crashed vehicles will be taken off records -GRA, Insurance Companies to start consultations this year

NUMBER PLATE RACKET!!! Crashed vehicles will be taken off records -GRA, Insurance Companies to start consultations this year

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News 1

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is expected to meet with several insurance companies and the Commissioner of Police this year, in an effort to remove the number plates of crashed vehicles from its...

BaiShanLin has absolutely no presence in Guyana – Trotman

BaiShanLin has absolutely no presence in Guyana – Trotman

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on BaiShanLin has absolutely no presence in Guyana – Trotman

BaiShanLin Forest Development Inc. is no longer operating in Guyana. This is according to Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman. The Minister made the assertion during a brief interview...

Security forces probe illegal road to Venezuela -presence of foreign ‘Sindicato’ gangs in hinterland

Security forces probe illegal road to Venezuela -presence of foreign ‘Sindicato’ gangs in hinterland

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Security forces probe illegal road to Venezuela -presence of foreign ‘Sindicato’ gangs in hinterland

Government has confirmed that it is investigating the extent of organized crime from neighbouring countries in the country’s hinterland area. This was after a reported beheading of a man, said to...

Army to undergo ‘significant restructuring’ within days

Army to undergo ‘significant restructuring’ within days

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Army to undergo ‘significant restructuring’ within days

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will undergo a significant restructuring programme in the coming days to allow for a greater level of efficiency in the execution of its mandate and to ensure maximum...

Brazil escapee captured at Lethem -sent back to homeland

Brazil escapee captured at Lethem -sent back to homeland

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Brazil escapee captured at Lethem -sent back to homeland

The Canadians like to say of their Mounted Police that “the Mounties always get their man.” On Wednesday, ranks from the Guyana Police Force Mounted Branch did just that, capturing a notorious...

Media walk out of GDF Officers’ Conference – GPA chides Army

Media walk out of GDF Officers’ Conference – GPA chides Army

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Media walk out of GDF Officers’ Conference – GPA chides Army

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday said that it stands firmly with media workers who walked out of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Headquarters yesterday, following what can be described as...

Dem boys seh People protesting fuh de wrang reason

Dem boys seh People protesting fuh de wrang reason

Jan 26, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh People protesting fuh de wrang reason

Now-a-days since you miss is a protest, but wha people should really protest about dem don’t. When Jordan try to mek people pay dem tax, de people who had to pay start a protest. People come out...

Brathwaite, Roach recalled but quartet snub selectors

Brathwaite, Roach recalled but quartet snub selectors

Jan 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brathwaite, Roach recalled but quartet snub selectors

St. John’s, Antigua, CMC – West Indies have selected their 15-man squad for the crucial ICC World Cup qualifiers without a ball bowled in the Regional Super50, recalling all-rounder Carlos...

GFF commission’s Rupununi FA’s Office in Lethem

GFF commission’s Rupununi FA’s Office in Lethem

Jan 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF commission’s Rupununi FA’s Office in Lethem

Yesterday, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) made another positive step towards the development of the sport locally with the historic commissioning of the Rupununi Football Association’s...

Teenage Baramita housewife died from blows to the head -PM

Teenage Baramita housewife died from blows to the head -PM

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Teenage Baramita housewife died from blows to the head -PM

Lorinda Thomas, the 18-year-old housewife who died at the Baramita Health Centre on January 17, had sustained blows to the head. Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh who conducted the post mortem...

Cops detain two in Albouystown shooting

Cops detain two in Albouystown shooting

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cops detain two in Albouystown shooting

Police have detained two men, including a member of the joint services, in connection with a shooting incident yesterday at Lot 138 Victoria Street, Albouystown, that left one person wounded. A...

100 staffers gone: Zero tolerance at GRA for corruption

100 staffers gone: Zero tolerance at GRA for corruption

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 100 staffers gone: Zero tolerance at GRA for corruption

It is confirmed. The axe at the government’s main revenue collection agency has not only been falling on delinquent businesses, but also big time on corrupt staffers. Following a story broken by...

Berbice Carpenter murder PI… Datadin withdraws appearance from case

Berbice Carpenter murder PI… Datadin withdraws appearance from case

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice Carpenter murder PI… Datadin withdraws appearance from case

With the Preliminary Inquiry continuing into the murder of Number 72 Village Carpenter, Faiyaz Narinedatt, more surprising events took place yesterday at the Number 51 Magistrate Court after...

Bandits steal pensioner’s ‘religious work’ money

Bandits steal pensioner’s ‘religious work’ money

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits steal pensioner’s ‘religious work’ money

Police in B’ Division are investigating an alleged robbery committed on a 62-year-old woman at Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice. Ahliyah Kunjbeharry of Lot 270 Ankerville, Port Mourant, was...

GRA records 14% increase in revenue collection for 2017

GRA records 14% increase in revenue collection for 2017

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GRA records 14% increase in revenue collection for 2017

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has reported a 14 percent increase in its revenue collection for 2017 – an estimated $20B more than what it had garnered at the end of 2016. The tax revenue...

Minister defends stewardship of gold sector – Way paved for 800,000 ounces this year

Minister defends stewardship of gold sector – Way paved for 800,000 ounces this year

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Minister defends stewardship of gold sector – Way paved for 800,000 ounces this year

Government has defended its stewardship of the gold mining sector, yesterday announcing an 800,000 ounces target for this year. During a review of the Ministry of Natural Resource work last year,...

BAKEWELL support RHTY&SC Cricket Development Programme

BAKEWELL support RHTY&SC Cricket Development Programme

Jan 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BAKEWELL support RHTY&SC Cricket Development Programme

Long time sponsor of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC), Bakewell, on Wednesday last continued its investment when General Manager Rajin Ganga presented a cheque towards the...

Jaguars batting strong, good investment in youth, but why no Steven Jacobs

Jaguars batting strong, good investment in youth, but why no Steven Jacobs

Jan 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jaguars batting strong, good investment in youth, but why no Steven Jacobs

By Sean Devers The CGI selection panel headed by former Guyana pacer Rayon Griffith this week announced the Jaguars’ 14-man Super50 squad which is aiming to win their tenth title and first since...

Sagga’s murder… Police file completed, PI to commence

Sagga’s murder… Police file completed, PI to commence

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sagga’s murder… Police file completed, PI to commence

One month after Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan was forced to grant an adjournment into the matter of the death of Godfrey Scipio known as “Sagga”, who was shot and killed on October 12, the...

GRA tackling more than 80% of weaknesses identified by IMF – Statia

GRA tackling more than 80% of weaknesses identified by IMF – Statia

Jan 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GRA tackling more than 80% of weaknesses identified by IMF – Statia

By Kiana Wilburg The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently identified a number of weaknesses which exist within the tax systems of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). But the entity’s...

MILO/MOPH/Petra Annual School’s U18 Football set to kick off tomorrow

MILO/MOPH/Petra Annual School’s U18 Football set to kick off tomorrow

Jan 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on MILO/MOPH/Petra Annual School’s U18 Football set to kick off tomorrow

The Sixth Annual MILO/Ministry of Public Health/Petra Organisation Schools Under-18 football tournament is set to kick off tomorrow at the Ministry of Education ground with three matches. At a press...

Clinton Pestano congratulated on National selection by RHTY&SC

Clinton Pestano congratulated on National selection by RHTY&SC

Jan 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Clinton Pestano congratulated on National selection by RHTY&SC

The Management and Members of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) has extended gratitude to their colleague Clinton Pestano on being selected on the Guyana One-Day Cricket Team...

Buddy’s Gym support for GAPLF Novices/Juniors Championship AGM set for tomorrow

Buddy’s Gym support for GAPLF Novices/Juniors Championship AGM set for tomorrow

Jan 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Buddy’s Gym support for GAPLF Novices/Juniors Championship AGM set for tomorrow

The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF) will once again have their annual Novices/ Juniors National Championship at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on February 4th next where Guyana’s...

Sammy to be appointed as West Indies Senior Men’s Head Coach for all formats

Sammy to be appointed as West Indies Senior Men’s Head Coach for...

Dec 17, 2024

SportsMax – West Indies white ball Head Coach Daren Sammy will also take over the role as head Coach of all West Indies Men’s senior teams as at April 1, 2025, Cricket West Indies (CWI)...

Bangladesh hold nerve to defend 148 and take 1-0 T20I series lead over West Indies

Bangladesh hold nerve to defend 148 and take 1-0...

Dec 17, 2024

YBG’s Titan Bowl XIII and Tertiary Knockout feature nail-biting encounters on penultimate day

YBG’s Titan Bowl XIII and Tertiary Knockout...

Dec 17, 2024

Chris Dehring appointed Chief Executive Officer of Cricket West Indies

Chris Dehring appointed Chief Executive Officer...

Dec 17, 2024

Dharry’s Pre-World Title Fight Promises to be Best Boxing Event of 2024

Dharry’s Pre-World Title Fight Promises to...

Dec 17, 2024

Blueberry Hill hold defending champions Milerock to 2-2 stalemate, Botafago thrash silver Shattas 7-0 on opening night

Blueberry Hill hold defending champions Milerock...

Dec 17, 2024

The oil industry is a casino of cash, power and corruption

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in her book, Blowout: “The oil and gas industry... more

Let the asylum seekers go: a first step for Venezuela to rebuild relations in the Americas

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – The government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela has steadfast support from many... more

Not ignorant, but political cormorants

Hard Truths… By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- A few Guyanese have shared with me that they cannot believe that many in Guyana’s... more