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Republic Bank halts GuySuCo’s bond financing over misuse of funds

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Republic Bank halts GuySuCo’s bond financing over misuse of funds

A commercial bank that played a critical role in negotiating a $30B (US$150M) bond facility to help finance capital works for the three-estate Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has halted any...

Waste in Government spending costs Latin America, Caribbean as large as $220B per year – IDB finds

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Waste in Government spending costs Latin America, Caribbean as large as $220B per year – IDB finds

Guyana fails all eight evaluation areas A landmark analysis by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) into Government spending in Latin America and the Caribbean reveals widespread waste and...

Subryanville hotel owner manslaughter charge upgraded to murder

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Subryanville hotel owner manslaughter charge upgraded to murder

One month after the owner of the Tourist Villa Hotel was charged with manslaughter for shooting his neighbour, he was yesterday charged with murder and remanded to prison. The murder charge was...

Royston King leases out NICIL riverfront to shipping company

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Royston King leases out NICIL riverfront to shipping company

A plot of riverfront land, reportedly not the property of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council, (M&CC), was leased to a shipping company by Town Clerk, Royston King. King has reportedly been...

Uitvlugt Hit & Run driver remanded

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Uitvlugt Hit & Run driver remanded

Zameer Alli, a 25-year-old resident of Tuschen Old Road, East Bank Essequibo (EBE), appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, to answer seven charges in relation to a hit and run...

High Court grants injunction against Region Five REO

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on High Court grants injunction against Region Five REO

The High Court has granted an injunction against Region Five Executive Officer, (REO) Ovid Morrison, in a case filed by a group of cash crops farmers. Three cash crop farmers had taken the REO to...

US$16M contract awarded for Region One ferry

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on US$16M contract awarded for Region One ferry

A $3.2Billion (US $15.6Million) contract was awarded for construction and supply of a passenger and cargo ocean ferry vessel and associated equipment that will ply the North West route from Parika to...

Dem boys seh …Royston and Jagdeo should be in jail

Sep 25, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh …Royston and Jagdeo should be in jail

Not everybody should get power on de earth. De Clown Clerk is one of dem. Imagine he so powerful that he tek state land and rent it out. Nobody don’t know if he pay in de money. His action mirrors...

Since April, over 2200 Venezuelans migrants arrived in Guyana

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Since April, over 2200 Venezuelans migrants arrived in Guyana

The National Multi-Sectoral Coordinating Committee continues to work to find ways and means to lend greater support to Venezuelan migrants in Guyana. The Immigration Department has informed that...

Essequibo man gets free life-saving cardiac care at GPHC

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo man gets free life-saving cardiac care at GPHC

The efficiency of medical workers within the Accident and Emergency Department [A&E] and the Cardiac Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation [GPHC] has helped to save the life of a...

2018 Heritage Games… Guyana Rush Saints and Paruima win football titles

Sep 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2018 Heritage Games… Guyana Rush Saints and Paruima win football titles

Three days of fun filled activities at the 2018 Amerindian Heritage Games, coordinated successfully by the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs concluded on Sunday night at Everest Cricket Club...

South Ruimveldt woman jailed for forging court cheques

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on South Ruimveldt woman jailed for forging court cheques

A woman who inflated three cheques issued by the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts was yesterday sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment after she was found guilty of the offence. Joanna Beckles, of...

GCI/GCB Jaguars 50-over Franchise League… Barnwell, Johnson, MoM Torrington spearhead GT to win over West Demerara

Sep 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCI/GCB Jaguars 50-over Franchise League… Barnwell, Johnson, MoM Torrington spearhead GT to win over West Demerara

By Sean Devers An entertaining 143-run fourth wicket stand between Leon Johnson and Chris Barnwell was followed up by a four-wicket haul from pacer Qumar Torrington as defending champions Georgetown...

Guyana off to a slow start at 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia

Sep 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana off to a slow start at 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia

The Guyana Chess Teams got off to a slow start as both teams drop their opening games when the 43rd World Chess Olympiad, hosted by Batumi, started yesterday with the first symbolic move made by the...

BCB/Ramnaresh Sarwan/Fitness 53 U-17 Final… RHT Bakewell defeat Albion CCCC in a thriller to become champions

Sep 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Ramnaresh Sarwan/Fitness 53 U-17 Final… RHT Bakewell defeat Albion CCCC in a thriller to become champions

Rose Hall Town and Albion Community Centre over the past 15 years have dominated Berbice Cricket and in the process has established a rivalry that leaves cricket fans begging for more. Albion...

Police: Guyhoc man dumps gun in front of Albouystown night club

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Police: Guyhoc man dumps gun in front of Albouystown night club

Ranks of a police mobile patrol in ‘A’ Division, said that they have arrested a Guyhoc man for the illegal possession of a gun. According to the police, acting on information received, ranks...

Cabinet greenlights appointment of high commissioners and ambassadors

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet greenlights appointment of high commissioners and ambassadors

Minister of State, Mr. Joseph Harmon, announced that Cabinet at its Tuesday, September 18, 2018 meeting, consented to the appointment of several High Commissioners and Ambassadors to Guyana. The...

Minister Greenidge Attends Unveiling of Nelson Mandela Statue at UN Headquarters

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Greenidge Attends Unveiling of Nelson Mandela Statue at UN Headquarters

Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl B. Greenidge, joined Heads of Government attending the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York for the unveiling of the...

Limacol Football 2018… Knockout action kicks off tonight at MOE ground

Sep 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Limacol Football 2018… Knockout action kicks off tonight at MOE ground

Twelve teams have been reduced to eight following the completion of the round-robin phase of the 2018 Limacol Football Tournament being contested at the Ministry of Education (MOE) ground and...

Banks DIH/GABA Leagues… Kobras sting Eagles; Guardians stop Pacesetters

Sep 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH/GABA Leagues… Kobras sting Eagles; Guardians stop Pacesetters

The Burnham Hard Court saw one of the better turnout of spectators on Sunday night last to witness two more matches in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA)/Rainforest Water/Malta...

NDIA opens new $100M central office at LBI

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on NDIA opens new $100M central office at LBI

-Rice Board, Marketing Corporation to also be relocated there The central operations of the National Drainage and Irrigation (NDIA) have been moved from the Ministry of Agriculture’s head office to...

State moves to repossess 34 acres on Hogg Island

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on State moves to repossess 34 acres on Hogg Island

The Lands and Surveys Commission is looking to repossess vast amount of lands across Guyana. Already, the Commission has given notice of its intention to repossess 34 acres on western Hog Island. A...

GHB Development League… GCC Bingo Spartans clinch Female U-19 Title

Sep 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GHB Development League… GCC Bingo Spartans clinch Female U-19 Title

Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Bingo Spartans were crowned the 2018 Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) Development League Female Under-19 champions following their final round win over St. Joseph’s at the...

Blairmont workers protest payment through the bank

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Blairmont workers protest payment through the bank

Several workers of Blairmont Estate, West Berbice, took part in a picketing exercise at the estate’s order line to demonstrate their strong disagreement with the decision of the Guyana Sugar...

Two freed of aiding in drug trafficking

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Two freed of aiding in drug trafficking

Magistrate Esther Sam sitting at the Charity Magistrate’s Court dismissed and freed Ian Mathias and Troy Piper who were charged with Aiding the Commissioning of Trafficking in Narcotics....

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Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more