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Global Witness Investigation reveals… EXXON COMPLICIT IN OIL SECTOR CORRUPTION IN LIBERIA

Apr 01, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on Global Witness Investigation reveals… EXXON COMPLICIT IN OIL SECTOR CORRUPTION IN LIBERIA

A new Global Witness investigation released a few days ago, has uncovered that US oil giant ExxonMobil has been complicit in oil sector corruption in Liberia, with the purchase of an oil block the...

Documents burnt after audit ordered on Corentyne Water Users Association

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Documents burnt after audit ordered on Corentyne Water Users Association

The Number 52/74 Water Users Association (WUA) office at Number 63 Village is out of electricity after a section of the building was burnt, causing damage to several important documents in the...

Granger, Jagdeo converge in East Berbice kite distributions

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Granger, Jagdeo converge in East Berbice kite distributions

Children across Berbice were yesterday sent home smiling after they received kites, compliments of the Head-of-State David Granger, and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo at their separate initiatives....

Milo Schools’ Under-18 Football tournament … Zion Gray’s hat-trick fires Sir Leon Lessons to 1st championship title

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milo Schools’ Under-18 Football tournament … Zion Gray’s hat-trick fires Sir Leon Lessons to 1st championship title

The grand finale of the Milo Schools’ Under-18 football tournament which was supported by the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) through the theme ‘Stop Gender Based Violence’ turned out to be...

Guyanese man killed in Nevis

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man killed in Nevis

St Kitts and Nevis- Nevis has marked its third homicide for 2018 with the death of a Guyanese national who was found dead in Hamilton area yesterday morning. The Observer was informed that the victim...

Drug-related corruption evident in criminal justice system – U.S report

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Drug-related corruption evident in criminal justice system – U.S report

…says Govt. has demonstrated strong political will to combat trafficking Drug-related corruption is evident in the country’s criminal justice system and other sectors, according to a recently...

NGO’s support to help operationalise Region Three TB facility

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on NGO’s support to help operationalise Region Three TB facility

A Tuberculosis [TB] Step Down Care Unit at the West Demerara Regional Hospital will soon become operational. The facility, according to Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Karen...

‘Lightning’ Allicock to strike as flyweight at 2018 Commonwealth Games

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Lightning’ Allicock to strike as flyweight at 2018 Commonwealth Games

Caribbean bantamweight champion ‘Lightning’ Keevin Allicock will strike one division down when contesting the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast. The intended strike was divulged by President...

Measures in place to prevent dispensing of expired drugs

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Measures in place to prevent dispensing of expired drugs

The possibility of expired drugs being dispensed at the West Demerara Regional Hospital or any other health facility might be a near impossible undertaking. At least this is according to information...

Guyana Sports Hall of Fame launched at Umana Yana

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Sports Hall of Fame launched at Umana Yana

By Sean Devers The Umana Yana, a Wai-Wai word meaning “Meeting place of the people’ was the venue for last Thursday night’s launching of the Guyana Sports Hall of Fame (GSHF) but there were...

GCA’s NY Tri State U-19 Cricket… NY Tri State scores record 406-8 against GNIC -Wins for NY Tri State, MSC, TSC & DCC

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA’s NY Tri State U-19 Cricket… NY Tri State scores record 406-8 against GNIC -Wins for NY Tri State, MSC, TSC & DCC

In sweltering heat yesterday the second round of the GCA’s New York Tri State 50-overs U-19 tournament was contested at four venues and the North Americans feasted on a hapless GNIC attack to...

BCB Cricket Development receives major boost from Food-for-the-Poor (Guy)

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB Cricket Development receives major boost from Food-for-the-Poor (Guy)

Plans by the Executives of the Berbice Cricket Board to return Berbice Cricket to its glory days were boosted by a donation of cricket gears to the Berbice Cricket Board on Tuesday last. The gears...

Berbice Cricket Board launches 2018 Mike’s Pharmacy Inter-Club Under-15 Tournament

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Cricket Board launches 2018 Mike’s Pharmacy Inter-Club Under-15 Tournament

For the first time in several years, Under-15 Cricketers in the Ancient County of Berbice would be able to play against each other at the Inter-Club level. This was made possible as the Berbice...

Berbice and Demerara share spoils again in Volleyball -Players selected to represent Guyana overseas

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice and Demerara share spoils again in Volleyball -Players selected to represent Guyana overseas

Berbice and Demerara again shared the spoils when the two counties met for the second time in male and female volleyball competition. After matching skills in the open court in Berbice, the matches...

Easter Sunday Elite League double header at the GFC ground -Kids and women are free to enter

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Easter Sunday Elite League double header at the GFC ground -Kids and women are free to enter

This evening, all roads will lead to the Mecca of football in the city, Georgetown Football Club (GFC), as the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Elite League continues with an Easter Sunday...

Pooran Singh 50th birth anniversary softball on today at MSC

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pooran Singh 50th birth anniversary softball on today at MSC

The Georgetown Softball Cricket League Inc will be hosting the Pooran Singh 50th birth anniversary softball competition today at the Malteenoes Sports Club starting at 10hrs. The tournament will be...

Lethem to improve sanitation efforts with new garbage truck

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem to improve sanitation efforts with new garbage truck

The Municipality of Lethem is set to improve garbage collection with the acquisition of a brand-new garbage disposal truck and a four-wheel, double cab pick-up truck. Representative of the works...

Guyanese man accused of impersonating cop, asked teen for money, sex

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man accused of impersonating cop, asked teen for money, sex

RICHMOND HILL, Queens — A man allegedly impersonating an NYPD officer in Queens attempted to force a teenage girl to give him money and sexual favors, police said. Devenish Seecharan, 25, had...

President’ Guard, F Division triumph

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on President’ Guard, F Division triumph

President’ Guard, F Division registered victories when the Guyana Police Force Commissioner of Police Inter Division Department T20 tournament continued Thursday at Eve Leary. D Division took first...

65 years’ jail for predator who violated 7-year old

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 65 years’ jail for predator who violated 7-year old

A carpenter who violated a seven-year-old child by having sex with her back in 2014 has been jailed for 65 years. The man Krishna Tulapersaud, 30, a carpenter of Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara was...

Miners appealing for army escort as Venezuelan gangs set up base on Cuyuni River

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Miners appealing for army escort as Venezuelan gangs set up base on Cuyuni River

Authorities have ordered more patrols in the Eteringbang border area after miners complained of being harassed to pay illegal toll to Venezuela gang members called the Sindicato. Miners are also...

Road to Mecca V bounces off Saturday at CASH -$2million in Cash and prizes up for grabs

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Road to Mecca V bounces off Saturday at CASH -$2million in Cash and prizes up for grabs

Bounty Colts will seek to defend their National Club Basketball Championship against nine other top clubs in the country when that tournament, which is being dubbed ‘Road to Mecca V’, tips of at...

Exhibition on the life of the late Cheddi Jagan

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Exhibition on the life of the late Cheddi Jagan

In commemoration of the 100th birth anniversary of the late Dr Cheddi B. Jagan, the University of Guyana (UG) is hosting an exhibition showcasing his life. This roving exhibition will move from...

TO AUSTRALIA: THAT’S DEFINITELY “NOT CRICKET!”

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on TO AUSTRALIA: THAT’S DEFINITELY “NOT CRICKET!”

By Albert Baldeo “It is far more than a game, this Cricket”- Sir Neville Cardus. “The Australian public has a line, too. And with their culture of sledging, whining, hypocrisy and arrogance,...

Hughes says he has two more eyewitnesses to seawall shooting

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Hughes says he has two more eyewitnesses to seawall shooting

– calls for independent investigation Attorney at-law Nigel Hughes says he has interviewed two other eyewitnesses to the March 15 shooting at the seawalls that ended in the slaying of three...

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Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals!

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Ah, Christmas—the season of goodwill, good cheer, and, let’s not forget, good riddance!... more