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Woman’s bound remains found in shallow grave near husband’s business place

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Woman’s bound remains found in shallow grave near husband’s business place

As she lay in hospital with a blackened eye and swollen face, 36-year-old Zaila Sugrim told a young Kaieteur News reporter last December that her husband had threatened to kill her and leave her...

Aurora Gold sells plane contracts local aircrafts to provide charter flights

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Aurora Gold sells plane contracts local aircrafts to provide charter flights

AGM Inc. and Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) have reached an agreement in which the local aircraft company will provide flights to the mining operations at Aurora in the Cuyuni River, Region Seven. The...

CJIA renovation adds another $122M for parking lot

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA renovation adds another $122M for parking lot

Four key facilities were omitted from the original US$150M design for the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) by the Jagdeo-led People’s Progressive Party (PPP) in 2011. One of those, the...

Exxon’s helicopter service provider, Bristow, files for bankruptcy protection

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon’s helicopter service provider, Bristow, files for bankruptcy protection

A Texas-headquartered helicopter company that is integrally involved in Guyana’s swiftly evolving oil and gas sector has filed for bankruptcy protections. However, it is unlikely that the...

Dual citizen ex-ministers rehired in same ministries

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Dual citizen ex-ministers rehired in same ministries

Three of the four Cabinet ministers who resigned last month in keeping with a number of ground-breaking court decisions on dual citizen ship of parliamentarians, have been appointed to new positions...

Foreigners tekking over Guyana

May 15, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Foreigners tekking over Guyana

Guyana deh in a position wheh everybody looking at it. A British reporter come and spend couple days. When he lef he write how Guyana can be de richest country in de world. And from de time people...

Gay teen granted bail on simple larceny charge

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Gay teen granted bail on simple larceny charge

Denzel Benjamin, a 19-year-old unemployed youth who lives with his aunt at Robb Street Lacytown, yesterday appeared before the Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts...

Lawyers granted time to file submissions in Irfaan Ali Pradoville matter

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Lawyers granted time to file submissions in Irfaan Ali Pradoville matter

The parties involved in the case for which People’s Progressive Party, Civic (PPP/C) Presidential candidate, Irfaan Ali, was charged for the sale of lands, have been given more time to file...

Local musical composer found not guilty of rape

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Local musical composer found not guilty of rape

A local musical composer is counting his lucky stars. He was acquitted of a rape charge at the High Court yesterday. Cliff Semple was found not guilty of rape by a mixed 12-member jury at the Sexual...

Window-crasher

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Window-crasher

Do you know this man? A man, dressed in Muslim clothing, was caught on camera, recently breaking the showcase windows of an East Coast Demerara clothing store. According to the owner, the man came...

Ministry of Communities rolls out multiple projects

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry of Communities rolls out multiple projects

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday opened tenders for a range of projects. The Ministry of Communities had quite a number of projects being tendered for such...

Prison chief proud no Guyanese in St. Lucia jail

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Prison chief proud no Guyanese in St. Lucia jail

St Lucia (St. Lucia Times) – Guyana’s Acting Prison Director, Gladwin Samuels, who is currently in Saint Lucia, says he is proud to know that none of his countrymen is incarcerated at the...

Conflict in Region Two RDC triggers third adjournment in three months

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Conflict in Region Two RDC triggers third adjournment in three months

There appears to be an increase in tension between the Regional Executive Officer [REO] of Region Two, Denis Jaikaran, and Councilors of the Regional Democratic Council [RDC]. The RDC statutory...

UG Council payment in lieu of leave for Vice-Chancellor

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on UG Council payment in lieu of leave for Vice-Chancellor

At the April 15, 2019 meeting of the University Council, the subject of the treatment of the Vice-Chancellor’s leave was considered. The Council agreed that the Vice-Chancellor should be formally...

Second defendant charged for Norton Street murder

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Second defendant charged for Norton Street murder

A second man has been charged for the murder of Marlon Seon Rodney, called ‘George’. Yesterday, Osafa Grundell, called ‘Safo’, was arraig ned in the Georgetown...

FIFA Development Conference facilitated by GFF, first of its kind in GuyanaTwenty-eight nations represented

May 15, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on FIFA Development Conference facilitated by GFF, first of its kind in GuyanaTwenty-eight nations represented

By Franklin Wilson It was another watershed moment for the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) yesterday when for the first time it its history, a FIFA Conference has been hosted here. The...

Phone found guilty of manslaughter in Black Bush truck driver trial…Sentencing deferred

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Phone found guilty of manslaughter in Black Bush truck driver trial…Sentencing deferred

Murder accused, Navendra Basdeo, called ‘Phone’, 24, of 14 Johanna North, Black Bush Polder,who was on trial for the unlawful killing of Karan Sukhdeo was on Tuesday found not guilty of murder,...

Post kidney transplant patients voice concern over ‘revocation’ of isolated space at GPHC–in wake of suspected infection-related death

May 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Post kidney transplant patients voice concern over ‘revocation’ of isolated space at GPHC–in wake of suspected infection-related death

Although it isn’t unusual for a patient to die while undergoing medical care, some people are of the firm belief that measures should always be in place to avoid, as far as possible, a renal...

Woodpecker Products Junior National Squash Tournament commences

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D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life with Region 3 Jamboree

Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more