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Claims and Objections…35 days stands … Opposition Commissioners allege rogue elements attempted to extend period

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Claims and Objections…35 days stands … Opposition Commissioners allege rogue elements attempted to extend period

Despite the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) agreeing to have Claims and Objections be conducted over 35 days a September 26, 2019 publication of the National Registration (Residents) Order 2019...

After being blocked, Scotiabank abandons plan to sell local operations

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on After being blocked, Scotiabank abandons plan to sell local operations

Canadian-owned ScotiaBank has abandoned plans to sell its local operations to Republic Bank from Trinidad. The announcement came days after the Bank of Guyana confirmed that it had rejected an...

Guyanese – born pilot jailed 13 years for coke trafficking, money laundering

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese – born pilot jailed 13 years for coke trafficking, money laundering

A Guyana-born, Passaic County, New Jersey-based man was sentenced yesterday to 156 months in prison for trafficking hundreds of kilograms ofcocaine into New Jersey and New York and then laundering...

Afternoon fire destroys elderly woman’s home

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Afternoon fire destroys elderly woman’s home

A 68-year-old woman, her brother and their nephew are homeless and in a state of distress, after a fire destroyed their 3403 North Ruimveldt home, yesterday afternoon. The victims have been...

CANU sacks officer caught in shakedown video

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CANU sacks officer caught in shakedown video

A Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officer has be en sacked after a shocking video surfaced this week in which he is being accused by an outgoing passenger of planting ganja in her luggage....

Race on to save crew caught in Atlantic hurricane

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Race on to save crew caught in Atlantic hurricane

Martinique (https://www.rivieramm.com) – It is a race against time to rescue a crew of 14 on an offshore anchor handling and supply tug that ran into trouble in an Atlantic hurricane. Bourbon...

Politics has not hindered work of Energy Dept. –Dr. Bynoe

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Politics has not hindered work of Energy Dept. –Dr. Bynoe

The political developments, particularly the recent announcement by President David Granger that General and Regional Elections will be held as early as March 2, 2020, has not impacted the work of...

Rape convict moves to CCJ

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Rape convict moves to CCJ

Linton Pompey, whose conviction for raping an underage girl, and the 37-year jail sentence which has been affirmed by the Court of Appeal, has now moved to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) where...

US, UK, EU welcome March 2 elections date -offer help

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on US, UK, EU welcome March 2 elections date -offer help

Western diplomats appear to be at ease with the fixing of an elections date. Yesterday, the United States, United Kingdom and European Union offered monitoring and other assistance. The statement...

Caretaker Cabinet appoints several boards of directors … in “arrogant defiance of Constitution”

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Caretaker Cabinet appoints several boards of directors … in “arrogant defiance of Constitution”

– says former Attorney General The A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Cabinet has appointed five boards of directors, a move that has been criticised as an...

China lift 700M out of poverty, Guyana can’t lift 700,000

Sep 28, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on China lift 700M out of poverty, Guyana can’t lift 700,000

China got de most modern, de most extravagant airport in de world. It so big that in one day it can land and take off more planes than some countries can’t even land and take off in a year. When...

Chinese store owner’s neck slashed during robbery

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese store owner’s neck slashed during robbery

A Chinese businesswoman, 25-year-old, Lie Yang, of Seaforth Street Campbellville, is now nursing a cut to the neck after she was attacked by bandits around 17:45 hrs yesterday afternoon. According to...

The Hong Kong protests

Sep 28, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Hong Kong protests

“What’s at stake in the Hong Kong protests?”That was the question posed by the New York Times editorial of September 3. According to the Times, the goal of the Hong Kong protesters is not some...

ORSCA’s 9th Cricket T20 Grand Finals Masters overcome Jaguars by four wickets

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ORSCA’s 9th Cricket T20 Grand Finals Masters overcome Jaguars by four wickets

Ontario Round Arm Softball Cricket Association staged its T20 softball “Grand Finals” at the picturesque Lancaster Park field in Mississauga last Sunday. The large crowd of vocal and supporting...

Man gets community service after fleeing with $5000, beer bottles

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man gets community service after fleeing with $5000, beer bottles

A resident of Alexander Village, Georgetown, was yesterday ordered to perform three months of community service after admitting to a fraud charge. Joel Ramsingh, 46, appeared in the Georgetown...

Inquest to commence into 2017 Rockstone drowning of man and his niece

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Inquest to commence into 2017 Rockstone drowning of man and his niece

An inquest will commence on Friday, October 11, into the deaths of 13-year-old Kimeanda Prince and her 50-year-old uncle Gavin Moses who both drown while the teen was celebrating her birthday at the...

Burning of couple in mining camp… Brazilian woman succumbs, lover still hospitalized

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Burning of couple in mining camp… Brazilian woman succumbs, lover still hospitalized

Maria Pereira Da Silva, the Brazilian woman who was set alight last month in a Mazaruni mining camp, succumbed on Thursday even as her lover remains critical and their attacker remains unidentified....

Finance Minister endorses monthly financial grants for Berbice High students

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Finance Minister endorses monthly financial grants for Berbice High students

Minister of Finance, Mr. Winston Jordan, has endorsed a move by the National Industrial and Commercial and Investments Limited (NICIL/Special Project Unit (NICIL/SPU) to fund the schooling expenses...

Sophia man jailed for robbing nurse, escaping from custody

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia man jailed for robbing nurse, escaping from custody

A man who was hauled before the court in April was yesterday sentenced to serve a total of three years’ imprisonment after being found guilty of five charges. Twenty-seven-year-old Sean Lampkin, of...

Clive Thomas: Atavism or pappy show?

Sep 28, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Clive Thomas: Atavism or pappy show?

On Monday afternoon, David Hinds called me to inquire if I would be at the symposium on cash transfer from oil revenue hosted by the WPA at Critchlow Labour College. I told him no. I was not...

Number of drug dealers jailed in Berbice

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Number of drug dealers jailed in Berbice

Peter Loo, 24, a labourer of Timmers Dam, Angoys Avenue, New Amsterdam, Berbice, was arrested on June 19 at a Police roadblock on the Weldaad Public Road with 1361 grams of cannabis in a black and...

Colonel Morgan among others remembers sterling contributions Patsy Russell

Sep 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Colonel Morgan among others remembers sterling contributions Patsy Russell

Canada-based former president of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF), Colonel (Rt.) Carl Morgan, is among those overseas past basketball administrators who distinctly remember the late...

Man charged for forging audit reports

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man charged for forging audit reports

Thirty-one-year-old Jamal Gilbert, of 8 ‘A’ Ogle Front, East Coast Demerara was yesterday released on bail after being slapped with five charges which included the forging of audit reports. The...

“I did not breach the court order”- says Former PS

Sep 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on “I did not breach the court order”- says Former PS

BY Trishan Craig “I did not breach the court order,” were the words of former Permanent Secretary (PS) of Ministry of the Presidency, Omar Shariff, during the continuation of his trial before...

Upper Corentyne Cricket Association U-17 Inter School cricket Latchman’s blistering century propels Skeldon Linepath Secondary School to victory

Sep 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Upper Corentyne Cricket Association U-17 Inter School cricket Latchman’s blistering century propels Skeldon Linepath Secondary School to victory

A blistering century by Skeldon Line Path Secondary’s (SLPS) Victorie Latchman enabled his school to inflict a massive innings and 169 runs victory over a hapless Black Bush Polder Secondary...

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What Guyanese leaders can learn from Donald Trump

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-There is little dispute that Donald Trump knows how to make an entrance. He does so without... more