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Govt. pays $265M in rent for $25M Sussex Street drug bond

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. pays $265M in rent for $25M Sussex Street drug bond

After promising to cease rental of the controversial drug bond at Sussex Street, Albouystown, the Ministry of Health continues to utilise the facility and has racked up millions of dollars in...

Lotto Fund probe… Suspect skips country one day ahead of wanted bulletin

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Lotto Fund probe… Suspect skips country one day ahead of wanted bulletin

A suspect whom investigators wanted to question in an ongoing investigation of the Lotteries Commission is believed to have skipped the country a day before a wanted bulletin was issued for him. The...

Special Prosecutors paid $20,000 per hour; plus $2M in retainer fees

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Special Prosecutors paid $20,000 per hour; plus $2M in retainer fees

Each of the five special prosecutors hired for fraud cases involving former Government officials, received a retainer of $2M, according to information disclosed by Attorney General and...

Bandits rob Diamond couple then goes to ATM and withdraw

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits rob Diamond couple then goes to ATM and withdraw

victim’s cashGunwattie Sirpaul and Totaram Sadeek are still waiting to get justice after they were beaten and robbed at their 13th Street Diamond, East Bank Demerara, home on May 13. The couple’s...

Govt. pays $850,000 monthly in rent despite Law Reform Commissioners still to be named

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. pays $850,000 monthly in rent despite Law Reform Commissioners still to be named

The Government has agreed to pay $850,000 per month to rent two floors of a three-storey building on Robb Street, Bourda, to house the Law Reform Commissioners who are yet to be appointed. According...

Guyana gets US$35M World Bank loan for fiscal system in preparation for oil

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana gets US$35M World Bank loan for fiscal system in preparation for oil

The World Bank has approved a US$35 million Development Policy Credit to Guyana. This sum is expected to support Guyana’s efforts to strengthen financial sector development and fiscal management to...

Businessman fights off gunmen with coconut branch, taxi driver implicated

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman fights off gunmen with coconut branch, taxi driver implicated

Gowkarran Persaud, a businessman of 16 Section ‘C’ Cumberland, East Canje Berbice, is counting his blessings after being attacked by four bandits armed with cutlass and gun at his home on Sunday...

Dem boys seh Buy a drug bond fuh $25M and mek $250M profit in two years

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Dem boys seh Buy a drug bond fuh $25M and mek $250M profit in two years

Lloydie got to be de greatest investor in de whole world. He better than Donald Trump and fuh sure he mek Bill Gates look like stupidness. All dem inventors like de man who mek Facebook or de people...

Arson suspected in blaze that leaves West Berbice family homeless

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Arson suspected in blaze that leaves West Berbice family homeless

A couple and their three-year-old toddler were left without a home after the building went up in flames sometime around 2:00 am Sunday at Yank Dam, D ‘Edward Village, West Coast Berbice....

Several Rupununi villages cut off, families evacuated amid flooding

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Several Rupununi villages cut off, families evacuated amid flooding

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) in collaboration with the Ministries of Public Health and Public Infrastructure and the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo...

Stolen cash was not found at my home – says sister of robbery accused

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Stolen cash was not found at my home – says sister of robbery accused

Janelle Austin, the sister of Junior Stuart, one of the three men accused of carrying out a multi-million-dollar robbery at the Princess Casino, was called to testify yesterday when a trial...

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Competition… Trafalgar new champs of B/ce Zone

Jun 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Competition… Trafalgar new champs of B/ce Zone

After knocking out former champs New Amsterdam Kings in the quarter-finals, West Berbice’s Trafalgar was in no mood to accommodate any resistance in the final as they romped to a lop-sided 4-0 win...

CBC men’s championships… Captain Fantastic, Stanton Rose, marshals Guyana to double overtime victory over SVG

Jun 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on CBC men’s championships… Captain Fantastic, Stanton Rose, marshals Guyana to double overtime victory over SVG

By Calvin Chapman in Suriname in association with Mohamed’s Enterprise, Bounty Farm and Hopkinson Mining Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) played what may turn out to be the most...

Ministry provides technical assistance to Moruca farmers

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry provides technical assistance to Moruca farmers

Minister within the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, Valerie Garrido-Lowe, led a team to Moruca Sub-district, Barima/Waini, Region One, for a Technical meeting with close to fifty...

Windies v Sri Lanka 3rd Test… 20 Wkts tumble on day of inapt batting Windies crash to lowest total at Kensington

Jun 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windies v Sri Lanka 3rd Test… 20 Wkts tumble on day of inapt batting Windies crash to lowest total at Kensington

By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Carib Beer, Noble House Seafoods, Vnet Communication’s & Bounty Farm Twenty wickets tumbled for 229 runs on a day off poor batting by both side as...

Grade Six results out on Thursday

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Grade Six results out on Thursday

The results of the 2018 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) will be announced on Thursday, June 28, 2018 by the Minister of Education, Nicolette Henry. According to the Ministry yesterday, the...

Ninvalle for AIBA Abu Dhabi EC meeting

Jun 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ninvalle for AIBA Abu Dhabi EC meeting

President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association Steve Ninvalle will depart Guyana next week to attend an AIBA Executive Committee (EC) meeting in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The meeting was...

NCERD collaborates with STARR Computer to develop ‘Modern classrooms’

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on NCERD collaborates with STARR Computer to develop ‘Modern classrooms’

The Ministry of Education has moved one step closer to connect schools and classrooms in real-time across Guyana through the use of innovative technology. The National Centre for Education and...

Twenty more Cricket Clubs receive Cricket balls from Berbice Cricket Board – 70 Clubs benefit to date with $800,000 worth of balls

Jun 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Twenty more Cricket Clubs receive Cricket balls from Berbice Cricket Board – 70 Clubs benefit to date with $800,000 worth of balls

A committment to assist every cricket club in the Ancient County with cricket balls came closer to being fulfilled as another twenty clubs on Saturday last received their balls from the Berbice...

GFC beat GCAA in Foreign Affairs Tapeball final

Jun 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFC beat GCAA in Foreign Affairs Tapeball final

The Guyana Forestry Commission defeated the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority to win the final of the Foreign Ministry Sports Committee Tapeball final which was contested on Sunday at Durban Park...

Guyanese engineering company enters major agreement with Fugro, Worley Parsons

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese engineering company enters major agreement with Fugro, Worley Parsons

Guyana-based Ground Structures Engineering Consultants Inc. (GSEC) has entered a major agreement with Dutch multinational company, Fugro, and Australian professional services firm, Worley...

Flying Stars overcome Farm to claim GSL Unity Cup final

Jun 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Flying Stars overcome Farm to claim GSL Unity Cup final

Flying Stars defeated Farm to win the final of the Guyana Softball League Unity Cup which was contested on Sunday at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara. Batting first, Flying Stars managed 36-8 off their...

Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh Coaching Programme… Fifty six spinners benefit from Spinners’ Clinic

Jun 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh Coaching Programme… Fifty six spinners benefit from Spinners’ Clinic

The Berbice Cricket Board on Saturday last hosted a highly successful Coaching Clinic for young spinners as part of the countywide Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh Coaching Programme. A massive turnout of 56...

Pharmacists urged to strengthen relationship with consumers

Jun 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Pharmacists urged to strengthen relationship with consumers

In a call for a strengthening of the bond between pharmacists and customers, Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, has stressed that the former’s intervention are pivotal to the patients’...

BCB President, First Division Teams host successful meeting – Umpires and Clubs receive donations

Jun 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB President, First Division Teams host successful meeting – Umpires and Clubs receive donations

Newly elected President of the Berbice Cricket Board Hilbert Foster accompanied by Berbice Cricket Board Secretary Rabindranauth Saywack hosted a highly successful Pre-season Meeting with First...

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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