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City Hall has not been audited in three years – CoI

Oct 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall has not been audited in three years – CoI

The Mayor and City Council has not had financial audits into its affairs for the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. This is according to Internal Auditor for City Hall, Omodele Umoja-Newton, who, yesterday,...

Cash-jet pilot found guilty for cocaine, money laundering – faces life sentence

Oct 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cash-jet pilot found guilty for cocaine, money laundering – faces life sentence

Guyanese-born Khamraj Lall, was convicted this week on several charges ranging from cocaine distribution to money laundering. Lall was found guilty last Thursday of conspiracy to distribute cocaine,...

$2.4B sugar workers severance package for Parliament this month

Oct 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on $2.4B sugar workers severance package for Parliament this month

Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan has assured that Government will be ready to move ahead with the outstanding severance payment for sugar workers when Parliament returns from recess. There have...

Rice body blames Agri Minister, GRDB for rejected Panama rice

Oct 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Rice body blames Agri Minister, GRDB for rejected Panama rice

The Guyana Rice Producers Association (RPA) has laid the blame for the rejected rice blunder at the feet of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB). The association, which has been silent on the...

Badly beaten bandit refused bail on robbery, illegal gun, ammo possession

Oct 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Badly beaten bandit refused bail on robbery, illegal gun, ammo possession

Treon Douglas, who received a sound thrashing from residents of East La Penitence after he allegedly robbed a man of a gold chain, yesterday appeared before a City Magistrate where he was slapped...

Prison guard becomes inmate for allegedly smuggling ganja, cigarettes

Oct 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Prison guard becomes inmate for allegedly smuggling ganja, cigarettes

A prison officer has now become a temporary inmate for allegedly attempting to smuggle marijuana and cigarettes into the New Amsterdam jail. Gladwyn King, 39, a father of six, and of Lot 331 Fort...

Avoid hasty introduction of fuel subsidies when oil comes on stream – IDB warns

Oct 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Avoid hasty introduction of fuel subsidies when oil comes on stream – IDB warns

By Kiana Wilburg The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is cautioning the Government of Guyana to be mindful of any introduction of fuel subsidies when oil production comes on stream. According to...

Juror leaves court to find food, judge orders arrest

Oct 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Juror leaves court to find food, judge orders arrest

Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for a female juror who was supposed to sit in a murder trial, but had left the court before the proceedings began. Her absence...

Guyana’s deforestation rate falls to seven-year low

Oct 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s deforestation rate falls to seven-year low

According to the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), up to last year, the deforestation percent was 0.048; the lowest since 2010. In 2010, it was 0.056%; in 2011 – 0.054%; 2012- 0.079%; 2013-...

De Clown Clerk move from beggar to billionaire in two years

Oct 06, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De Clown Clerk move from beggar to billionaire in two years

When de Mafia use to rule America and Italy everybody understand what was family. All de business was in de family. De Georgetown City Council decide to run business like de Mafia suh all de business...

Region 9 well drilling commences; water discovered at first site

Oct 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Region 9 well drilling commences; water discovered at first site

The well drilling exercise in the South Rupununi, Upper Takutu – Upper Essequibo (Region Nine), where eight artesian wells are being drilled in eight communities has officially commenced....

Regional Super50… Pooran 2nd consecutive fifty and Narine’s 3-28 condemn Jaguars to 35-run loss

Oct 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional Super50… Pooran 2nd consecutive fifty and Narine’s 3-28 condemn Jaguars to 35-run loss

By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with Vnet, Regal, Noble House Seafoods & Cascadia Hotel T&T Red force, with eight West Indies players in their side, showed they are a force to be...

Banks DIH/GABA leagues… Double success for Pacesetters basketball club on Thursday

Oct 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH/GABA leagues… Double success for Pacesetters basketball club on Thursday

The Burnham basketball court on Middle and Carmichael Streets was a hive of activity on Thursday night when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Under-23 and First Division leagues...

Industrial Safety Supply Inc. donates Fire Extinguishers to St. John’s College

Oct 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Industrial Safety Supply Inc. donates Fire Extinguishers to St. John’s College

The aim of St. John’s College to be the best school in the Ministry of Education’s Model Safe School Programme (MSSP) received a huge boost from the Management of Industrial Safety Supply Inc....

2018 Ansa Mc Al Lucozade Handicap Squash Tournament… Joseph, Lewis, Verwey and Pollard win on Thursday night

Oct 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2018 Ansa Mc Al Lucozade Handicap Squash Tournament… Joseph, Lewis, Verwey and Pollard win on Thursday night

The penultimate squash tournament for 2018, the Lucozade Handicap squash tournament, continued at the Georgetown Club courts on Thursday evening with play in both the A and the Open categories. In...

World Bank seeks to ensure Guyana has effective Sovereign Wealth Fund legislation

Oct 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on World Bank seeks to ensure Guyana has effective Sovereign Wealth Fund legislation

experts as part of large team Experts from the World Bank are here to ensure that Guyana has effective draft Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) legislation in place before it can receive critical funding to...

Guyana partnering with Surinamese agencies to strengthen protected areas

Oct 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana partnering with Surinamese agencies to strengthen protected areas

The Protected Areas Commission of Guyana (PAC) is partnering with French Guiana Amazonian Park, the Ministry of Planning, Land and Forest Management and Ministry of Regional Development, Suriname on...

GFG/Health and Fitness Expo 2018 to be launched on Tuesday

Oct 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFG/Health and Fitness Expo 2018 to be launched on Tuesday

The battles would have been many and across various sport disciplines over the years between Guyana and Suriname, that is not about to change but intensify come the weekend of October 13-14 when the...

Duo found guilty of attempted murder of storeowner during brutal robbery

Oct 06, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Duo found guilty of attempted murder of storeowner during brutal robbery

The two persons who brutally beat a storeowner, knocking out her teeth during the attack, were yesterday found guilty of attempted murder and robbery with violence. Marisco George and John Caesar...

The Islamic School Karate team outstanding at Open Martial Arts Tourney

Oct 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on The Islamic School Karate team outstanding at Open Martial Arts Tourney

Lead by Instructor, Master Cheteram Mortley, eight students from the Islamic school in Georgetown turned in a very good performance as new comer at a recently held Martial Arts tournament. The...

Nand Persaud sponsors BCB Female Cricket Tourney and Under-15 trial matches

Oct 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nand Persaud sponsors BCB Female Cricket Tourney and Under-15 trial matches

“When we announced in March 2018, that the Berbice Cricket Board intends to host twenty two Cricket Tournaments at the different levels, critics thought we were crazy. Today, we are on the verge of...

45 years in Health Sciences and Education: Dr. Sarah Gordon to be awarded ─ 93 persons identified to receive National Awards today

Oct 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 45 years in Health Sciences and Education: Dr. Sarah Gordon to be awarded ─ 93 persons identified to receive National Awards today

Dr. Sarah Gordon is among the list of 41 awardees to be conferred with the Golden Arrow of Achievement on October 6, 2018. They are all a part of a list of 93 persons identified to receive National...

GFF presents equipment to Educational Organisations

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Tennis Association applauds historic GYD $8 billion allocation to the sports sector in the 2025 National Budget

‘Govt. must come clean on gas-to-energy project’

– spending US$2B on a project without financial, environmental studies is criminality at its worst – WPA Kaieteur... more