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Govt. signs tough new fishing regulations

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. signs tough new fishing regulations

– $1M fines for illegal fishing; stricter penalties for turtle protection Government has signed new fishing regulations which tout tougher fines and stricter monitoring of high...

Glaring transparency and accountability issues over GuySuCo’s US$150M bond deal – Opposition

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Glaring transparency and accountability issues over GuySuCo’s US$150M bond deal – Opposition

There is need for the Coalition Government to explain several issues, which have emerged in relation to the $150M syndicated bond secured for the four sugar estates which were closed last year. This...

Man threatens to bomb stores, charged with inciting public terror

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Man threatens to bomb stores, charged with inciting public terror

A labourer, who recently posted on his Facebook account that Essequibo belongs to Venezuela and that he will bomb all the stores in Guyana, was yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann...

Female cyclist, Beyonce, loses race with tumor

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Female cyclist, Beyonce, loses race with tumor

It was a tough battle to fight for 15-year-old, Rose Hall Town youth, Beyonce Ross, the teen who made the news after she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She lost the fight to stay alive yesterday....

CHPA staff slapped with house, land fraud charges

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on CHPA staff slapped with house, land fraud charges

A junior staff attached to Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) who allegedly collected money from several individuals, by promising them house and land was yesterday slapped with two...

Tobacco industry gets deadline to comply with new labeling requirements

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Tobacco industry gets deadline to comply with new labeling requirements

Tobacco manufacturers and importers will face heavy fines if they do not comply with new packaging rules established by the Ministry of Public Health. Packaging and labeling regulations for the...

Alert guards stop smuggling into Lusignan jail

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Alert guards stop smuggling into Lusignan jail

It appears that alert security at the Lusignan Prison, East Cost Demerara, has foiled a major smuggling attempt. According to the police, yesterday, the incident occurred shortly after...

De Chat-3 does lie to get in de papers

Jun 12, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De Chat-3 does lie to get in de papers

Some people does do anything just to get in de news. When Jagdeo was president, he know dat he gon always deh in de news; suh he never use to keep press conference. He use to just walk out he...

GRDB fraud case…SOCU hands over audit report to defendant

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GRDB fraud case…SOCU hands over audit report to defendant

The forensic audit report which is the subject of a court matter involving ex-Guyana Rice Development Board, (GRDB) Head, Madanlall Ramraj has been produced. When the court met on June 5,...

Jagdeo expresses worry over absence of GPL Board

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo expresses worry over absence of GPL Board

– Questions, “Who makes the decisions?” Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, has expressed worry over the fact that Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has been operating for almost six...

Nandlall files appeal to overturn CJ’s ruling on GECOM Chairman appointment

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Nandlall files appeal to overturn CJ’s ruling on GECOM Chairman appointment

Concerned that among other things, Chief Justice (CJ) Roxane George-Wiltshire S.C. misconstrued and misinterpreted the role of the Leader of the Opposition in Article 161 (2) of the...

Concrete company offers to train Govt. engineers

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Concrete company offers to train Govt. engineers

The KSM Investments Inc. Concrete Products Factory has offered to train government engineers on better designs which will result in improved infrastructure countrywide. In keeping with the...

Brazilians signs MoU for agri village in Rupununi

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilians signs MoU for agri village in Rupununi

– research institute, soybean and corn farm included A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was recently inked between NF Agriculture Inc. and investors of Lucas do Rio Verde. It will allow...

Eight graduate to work with special needs children

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Eight graduate to work with special needs children

– Diagnostic Centre to be opened for new school year Eight persons graduated yesterday from a three-month training programme which equipped them with the skills to work at the Centre to...

Third Annual Albert Rose Memorial Cycle Road Race Paul DeNobrega, Briton John, Junior Niles, Gordon Spencer and Shenika Teixeira are category winners

Jun 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Third Annual Albert Rose Memorial Cycle Road Race Paul DeNobrega, Briton John, Junior Niles, Gordon Spencer and Shenika Teixeira are category winners

Evolution Cycle Club’s Paul De Nobrega, Briton John (United We Stand CC), Junior Niles (Team Coco’s), Gordon Spencer (Evolution CC) and Trojan CC’s Shenika Teixeira came out as the respective...

Correction: Moonsammy not Munilall

Jun 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Correction: Moonsammy not Munilall

In yesterday’s coverage of the UCCA Awards Ceremony it was mistakenly stated that Chimwala Munilall was inducted into the UCCA’ Hall of Fame along with Sydney Jackman and Imran Jafferali when in...

Tall man gets 10 years for killing wife

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Tall man gets 10 years for killing wife

Desmond August Gordon, called ‘Tall Man’, 52, the cane cutter of Lot 196 Mangrove Street; Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, Berbice who was on trial before Justice Brassington Reynolds and a...

RHTY&SC to host Annual Cricket Academy and Republic Bank Educational Camp

Jun 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC to host Annual Cricket Academy and Republic Bank Educational Camp

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS is preparing for a very hectic July/August, 2018 period when schools across Guyana would be on vacation. Guyana’s most dynamic youth and sports...

Regal upbeat ahead of NYSCL Independence tourney

Jun 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regal upbeat ahead of NYSCL Independence tourney

By Zaheer Mohamed Regal will looking to keep the Golden Arrow Head aloft when they journey to the United States of America to participate in the New York Softball Cricket League (NYSCL) Annual...

GWI workers urged to up competence

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GWI workers urged to up competence

Staffers of Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) are being challenged to pull out the stops to improve their competencies. This was Dr. Richard Van West-Charles’ message to Operations, Sanitation and...

Six-member Grenada team confirmed for Schoolboy boxing tournament

Jun 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Six-member Grenada team confirmed for Schoolboy boxing tournament

Grenada is the first country to officially register boxers for the third annual Caribbean Schoolboys and Juniors Tournament, according to head of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), Steve Ninvalle....

Five policemen graduate from army’s Drill Instructor’s course

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Five policemen graduate from army’s Drill Instructor’s course

The Guyana Police Force is lauding five of its ranks who recently graduated from the army’s Drill Instructors’ Course. The course which commenced on April 18 and concluded on June 8, 2018...

National School’s Cycling Champ Beyoncé Ross dies

Jun 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on National School’s Cycling Champ Beyoncé Ross dies

Fifteen year-old Berbician National School’s Cycling Champion, Beyoncé Ross, slipped into a Coma last Wednesday and never woke up. Beyoncé, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour, was brain dead...

James Lewis’ Pre-fathers’ day domino competition on this Friday

Jun 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on James Lewis’ Pre-fathers’ day domino competition on this Friday

Sports organiser James ‘Kool’ Lewis, who is attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Sports Committee, is set to run off the biggest Inter-Ministries/Government Agencies knockout 20/20...

Betsy Ground man gets 18 years for raping boy, 13

Jun 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Betsy Ground man gets 18 years for raping boy, 13

A man who is well-known to the authorities, and who with his friend ambushed, and raped a 13 years old boy back in 2010, has been jailed for 18 years following the presentation of a probation...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more