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Harmon fails to address questions about controversial Exxon Agreement

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Harmon fails to address questions about controversial Exxon Agreement

The State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) is currently investigating the awards of the Kaieteur and Canje blocks, by former President Donald Ramotar, to virtual unknowns, made just days before the May...

Dismissals at Dept. of Public Service may be linked to scholarships -Probe to start Monday

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Dismissals at Dept. of Public Service may be linked to scholarships -Probe to start Monday

Minister of Public Service, Tabitha Sarabo-Halley recently dismissed three officials from the Department of Public Service, which falls under the Ministry of the Presidency. Opposition Leader,...

Procurement of Feasibility Study for Demerara River Bridge was legal – SOCU

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Procurement of Feasibility Study for Demerara River Bridge was legal – SOCU

The investigation by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) has been concluded, and it has been determined that there was no wrongdoing in the procurement of consultancy services for the feasibility...

Biker dies after horrific collision with minibus near Botanical Gardens

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Biker dies after horrific collision with minibus near Botanical Gardens

A gruesome accident involving a route 40 minibus and a motorcycle, which occurred in the vicinity of the Botanical Gardens, at the intersection of Regent and Vlissengen Roads yesterday afternoon, has...

CARICOM reiterates condemnation of US embargo against Cuba

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM reiterates condemnation of US embargo against Cuba

The Caribbean Community has unequivocally condemned, once again, the embargo that the United States of America has placed on the Republic of Cuba. This was iterated during the Sixth Meeting of...

Sherod Duncan ‘still dismissed’

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Sherod Duncan ‘still dismissed’

Fired Chronicle General Manager Sherod Duncan is still not reinstated, according to Director General at the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon. That’s despite reports that Duncan went back...

GPL to approve power purchase with Giftland

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GPL to approve power purchase with Giftland

With the recent and constant power outages having an adverse effect on the citizenry, as well as on production, the Government of Guyana has recently been able to secure power purchasing agreements...

We are prepared for whatever the CCJ decides – Govt. spokesperson

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on We are prepared for whatever the CCJ decides – Govt. spokesperson

Come next Tuesday, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is expected to hand down its decision on several matters, one of the most important being whether the opposition’s No-Confidence motion was...

How to be honest in a dishonest world

Jun 15, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on How to be honest in a dishonest world

A young policeman was explaining how difficult it is to be an honest officer in an organisation in which corruption is rife. He asked you to imagine you’re working with others as part of a team but...

Fisherman’s fingers chopped off during argument over cigarette

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fisherman’s fingers chopped off during argument over cigarette

A 53-year-old fisherman is currently a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital after his fingers were chopped off during an argument with a drinking buddy on Wednesday. Hospitalised is Ramnarine...

Domestic worker charged with $5M jewellery theft – placed on $250,000 bail

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Domestic worker charged with $5M jewellery theft – placed on $250,000 bail

A domestic worker was yesterday released on $250,000 bail by Senior Magistrate Leron Daly after she was read a charge in which she is accused of stealing over $5M in jewellery from her employer....

National footballer gets six months in prison for wounding cop

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on National footballer gets six months in prison for wounding cop

Jobe Caesar, a 19-year-old national footballer, was yesterday sentenced to six months in prison by Senior Magistrate Leron Daly who found him guilty of wounding a policeman. The accused was on trial...

E’bo youths march against Child Labour

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo youths march against Child Labour

In observance of World Day Against Child Labour, held every year on June 12, the Ministry of Social Protection will be embarking on a nu mber of activities across the country, during this month. A...

Suspect in fatal Charity hit-and-run in custody

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Suspect in fatal Charity hit-and-run in custody

Police on the Essequibo Coast have confirmed that 16-year old Renalzo Adams died as a result of a hit-and-run incident on the Charity Public Road on Wednesday night. The teen’s body was picked up...

New schools and IT Lab commissioned in Regions Five and Six – Over $128M expended

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on New schools and IT Lab commissioned in Regions Five and Six – Over $128M expended

Minister of Education, Nicolette Henry, and the Departments of Education for Regions five and six, yesterday commissioned four new schools and one Information Technology laboratory. The schools in...

Witness unable to identify men who escaped after Sophia bread vendor was shot

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Witness unable to identify men who escaped after Sophia bread vendor was shot

Prosecution witness Paulburn David said he was unable to make out the facial features of two men, both of whom hopped onto a motorcycle and made good their escape, after 42-year-old Sophia bread...

GFF-KFC National U-20 Championships Playoffs kick off this weekend at NTC

Jun 15, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF-KFC National U-20 Championships Playoffs kick off this weekend at NTC

The playoffs of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) in partnership with fast food giant KFC, National Under-20 club championship, gets under way this weekend with round-of-sixteen action at the...

Don’t tek Guyana fuh granted

Jun 15, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Don’t tek Guyana fuh granted

There is a saying dat people never miss de water till de well run dry. Recently, when dem boys sit down to talk dem realize how much people miss Guyana. These are de same people who announce how dem...

National Pool Team completes successful tour of Trinidad & Tobago

Jun 15, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on National Pool Team completes successful tour of Trinidad & Tobago

The Guyana National Pool Team has just completed their tour to Trinidad & Tobago with the series Drawn 2-2 and have returned home following the outing. The Tour kick-started with a victory for...

KFC Senior Nat Squash C/Ships All top seeded Ladies win on Thursday night

Jun 15, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on KFC Senior Nat Squash C/Ships All top seeded Ladies win on Thursday night

The 2019 KFC Senior National Squash Championships continued on Thu rsday evening at the Georgetown Club squash courts with play in the Men’s Open, Women’s Open and Men’s Over-50 categories. The...

Man delivers wife in Kwakwani trail

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man delivers wife in Kwakwani trail

Vanessa Courtman, an Arima, Kwakwani woman, reportedly delivered her baby in the middle of a trail on Thursday morning last at around 03:00hrs. An eyewitness, 69 year old Angela Roberts, who was...

GMR&SC Drag Championship round 2 IBet Supreme is the official betting partner of event

Jun 15, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC Drag Championship round 2 IBet Supreme is the official betting partner of event

Ibet Supreme is the latest entity to join the sponsorship team for the highly anticipated Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) Drag Championship 2019; round two. Billed for the South...

GCA’s Captains workshop set for this morning at MYO

Jun 15, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA’s Captains workshop set for this morning at MYO

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) will hold a Cricket Development Programme for Captains and Coaches today from 09:00 hrs to13:00hrs at MYO ground in Woolford Avenue. All Coaches and Captains...

Minister still to provide court with facts on govt.’s takeover of Berbice Bridge – PCCL

Jun 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Minister still to provide court with facts on govt.’s takeover of Berbice Bridge – PCCL

Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson is still to provide the court with facts on the Toll Order for government’s takeover of the Berbice River Bridge, despite being ordered to do so....

GBTI Open Defending Champion Fraser win Thursday under lights

Jun 15, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBTI Open Defending Champion Fraser win Thursday under lights

As the Guyana Bank of Industry and Commerce (GBTI) the tenth annual Open Lawn Tennis Tournament heads into the weekend which will see a ll day action on the Court today, defending Champion Kalyca...

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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