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Brothers charged after stolen Marriott lights surface on Facebook

Brothers charged after stolen Marriott lights surface on Facebook

Feb 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Brothers charged after stolen Marriott lights surface on Facebook

Two men were yesterday arraigned before a City Magistrate for allegedly stealing a quantity of lights valued at $677,000 from Marriott Hotel. Adrian Foster, 20, and Andre Foster, 19, both of Lot 10...

Zipper remanded in Campbellville cocaine bust

Zipper remanded in Campbellville cocaine bust

Feb 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Zipper remanded in Campbellville cocaine bust

Several months after he was on placed on the wanted list of the Police Customs Anti Narcotics Unit, (CANU), Campbellville-based businessman, Andre Gomes, was yesterday arraigned on a charge of...

Implementing reforms for Public Financial Management… Limited Capacity at Finance Ministry, other line agencies, will pose significant challenges –IMF

Implementing reforms for Public Financial Management… Limited Capacity at Finance Ministry, other line agencies, will pose significant challenges –IMF

Feb 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Implementing reforms for Public Financial Management… Limited Capacity at Finance Ministry, other line agencies, will pose significant challenges –IMF

Strong Public Financial Management (PFM) systems are essential for any country to ensure effective and sustainable economic management and public service delivery. Guyana has been carrying out...

Critics of this appointment are living in the past

Critics of this appointment are living in the past

Feb 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Critics of this appointment are living in the past

Quite a few Guyanese are upset over the appointment of a foreign national as the Chief Executive Officer of Guyana Power and Light Incorporated. Unpublishable adjectives were used to describe the...

Men accused of driving through roadblock charged with ganja trafficking

Men accused of driving through roadblock charged with ganja trafficking

Feb 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Men accused of driving through roadblock charged with ganja trafficking

A West Coast Berbice duo was on Wednesday remanded to prison for possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. Leon Burnett, 22, a labourer of Lot 5 Onverwagt Village, West Coast Berbice;...

Region Two now back to frequent power outage

Region Two now back to frequent power outage

Feb 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Region Two now back to frequent power outage

The blackout woes seem to be back on the Essequibo Coast, as frequent power outages continue to plague the region. Residents claim that the service provided by the Guyana Power and Light [GPL], has...

Bel Air Park playfield … Council seeks to have Court Order set aside

Bel Air Park playfield … Council seeks to have Court Order set aside

Feb 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bel Air Park playfield … Council seeks to have Court Order set aside

The Georgetown Mayor and City Council,(M&CC) has approached the Court in a bid to have a ruling by Justice Gino Persaud pertaining to a plot of community land located at Bel Air Park, Georgetown,...

Banks DIH E’bo Branch records $12.2M increase in profits

Banks DIH E’bo Branch records $12.2M increase in profits

Feb 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Banks DIH E’bo Branch records $12.2M increase in profits

The year 2017 can be deemed a productive year for Banks DIH, Essequibo Branch. The branch concluded its year with increased profits of over $12.2 million. This announcement was made last Sunday by...

GWI commits to improving water quality at Sheet Anchor

GWI commits to improving water quality at Sheet Anchor

Feb 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GWI commits to improving water quality at Sheet Anchor

– addresses concerns of high meter readings Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), the nation’s supplier of water and sanitation services, has pledged to review and address complaints of high meter...

Sheep thief jailed for six months

Sheep thief jailed for six months

Feb 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sheep thief jailed for six months

Rawle La Fleur, 24, who is well known to the police and had an arrest warrant out for him on an earlier charge of simple larceny, was captured and jailed for six months on another charge of larceny...

GTT ‘high-speed’ internet service criticised by Essequibians.

GTT ‘high-speed’ internet service criticised by Essequibians.

Feb 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GTT ‘high-speed’ internet service criticised by Essequibians.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph company [GTT], is once again been pilloried by its Essequibian customers. The company, about one year ago, unveiled in Essequibo for the first time its LTE 4G...

A missing page, justice and a failed state

A missing page, justice and a failed state

Feb 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A missing page, justice and a failed state

Aren’t the people with power watching? Aren’t they worried about justice contortions and justice corrugations in such a small population like Guyana where everyone knows about all the unlawful,...

MAKING GUYANA GREEN

MAKING GUYANA GREEN

Feb 02, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on MAKING GUYANA GREEN

President David Granger has pledged to eradicate the harmful effects on the environment and transition Guyana to a green state. The goal is to provide green and well-paying jobs, economic...

Venezuela rejects referral of border controversy to Int’l Court

Venezuela rejects referral of border controversy to Int’l Court

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuela rejects referral of border controversy to Int’l Court

-insists on political negotiations Neighbouring Venezuela has backpedaled on its recognition of the United Nations’ authority to determine the next step on territorial controversy with Guyana....

Despite IMF’s advice… Trotman says Petroleum Commission will still meddle in revenue collection

Despite IMF’s advice… Trotman says Petroleum Commission will still meddle in revenue collection

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News 1

Even though the International Monetary Fund (IMF) suggests otherwise, it appears that the government is still going to maintain that the Petroleum Commission be given fiscal powers. This was recently...

Bandits hold blind victims at gunpoint after invading Institute

Bandits hold blind victims at gunpoint after invading Institute

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits hold blind victims at gunpoint after invading Institute

– Take laptop, but return cash Four masked bandits invaded the Guyana Society for the Blind on Tuesday night and held six visually impaired persons along with the only sighted individual at...

Retired Judge to oversee Lindo Creek CoI

Retired Judge to oversee Lindo Creek CoI

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News 1

Retired Judge, Donald Trotman was yesterday sworn in as a Commissioner to investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths of eight miners, which occurred at Lindo Creek in June 2008. Trotman...

Lindo Creek CoI… Appointment of Minister’s father as sole commissioner deeply worrying

Lindo Creek CoI… Appointment of Minister’s father as sole commissioner deeply worrying

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Lindo Creek CoI… Appointment of Minister’s father as sole commissioner deeply worrying

… Govt. hell-bent on going after security forces – PPP The main opposition, People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday withdrew its earlier support and cooperation with Government’s decision...

Unstamped liquor will be seized from next month

Unstamped liquor will be seized from next month

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Unstamped liquor will be seized from next month

Wholesalers and retailers of imported liquor are being granted a grace period. According to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), it is giving importers and others until the end of this month to apply...

27 expressions of interest in GPL’s natural gas power plant

27 expressions of interest in GPL’s natural gas power plant

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 27 expressions of interest in GPL’s natural gas power plant

– Chinese, South American firms lead the way At least five Chinese companies are among 27 firms which have expressed interest in operating the Guyana Power and Light (GPL)’s natural gas-fired...

DPP recommends rape charge for Turkeyen cops

DPP recommends rape charge for Turkeyen cops

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on DPP recommends rape charge for Turkeyen cops

The two constables who allegedly raped a woman at the Turkeyen Police Station on New Year’s Day are to be charged. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) handed down the recommendation yesterday...

Pastor wife keep he mouth running

Pastor wife keep he mouth running

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh Comments Off on Pastor wife keep he mouth running

Dem boys seh A Pastor go to the dentist for a set of false teeth. De first Sunday after he get he new teeth, he talk for only eight minutes. De second Sunday, he talk for ten minutes. De next Sunday,...

Regional Super50 Festival Shiv, Permaul, Bishoo, Shepherd spearhead Jaguars to 35-run win over Kent

Regional Super50 Festival Shiv, Permaul, Bishoo, Shepherd spearhead Jaguars to 35-run win over Kent

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional Super50 Festival Shiv, Permaul, Bishoo, Shepherd spearhead Jaguars to 35-run win over Kent

By Sean Devers in Antigua In association with Vnet Communications, Bounty Farm, Noble House Seafoods & Playter’s Enterprise Four-time Regional Four-Day defending Champions Guyana Jaguars beat...

United We Stand CC equip members for 2018 season

United We Stand CC equip members for 2018 season

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on United We Stand CC equip members for 2018 season

Members of United We Stand Cycle Club were recipients of a number of items in time for the start of the new cycling season which pedaled off last weekend with races on Saturday and Sunday. President...

RHTY&SC congratulates quartet on Berbice Under-15 Selection

RHTY&SC congratulates quartet on Berbice Under-15 Selection

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC congratulates quartet on Berbice Under-15 Selection

‘The Management and Members of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS with great pride would like to congratulate our four members who were selected on the Berbice Under-15 Team for the...

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