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GCB squad for Women’s Super50 named

Apr 13, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB squad for Women’s Super50 named

The Guyana selectors have named the 14-member squad to represent the country in St. Vincent and the Grenadines from Sunday to Monday May 1 in the West Indies Cricket Board’s Women’s Super50...

Foreign Affairs ministry dominoes set for today

Apr 13, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Foreign Affairs ministry dominoes set for today

The Foreign Affairs Ministry will be hosting a four –game knock out dominoes competition today at the Ministry of Agriculture canteen starting at 16:00hrs. Entrance fee is $2,000 per teams. Among...

N&M Trucking Service joins Banks DIH, Trophy Stall for Guyana Cup Fever meet

Apr 13, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on N&M Trucking Service joins Banks DIH, Trophy Stall for Guyana Cup Fever meet

Entries were expected to be closed yesterday the N&M Trucking Service of West Berbice has come forward with massive sponsorship for the seventh annual Guyana Cup Fever Horserace meet. With only a...

EDFA Senior League 2016/17 ….Buxton and Golden Stars battle to draw; Ann’s Grove by WK from BAPSC

Apr 13, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on EDFA Senior League 2016/17 ….Buxton and Golden Stars battle to draw; Ann’s Grove by WK from BAPSC

The winning streak of Buxton Stars was halted when they were held to a 2-2 draw by Golden Stars as rivalry in the East Demerara Football Association 2016/17 Senior League continued at the Golden...

Scott’s Jewellery offers support to Boyce and Jefford Relay Festival

Apr 13, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scott’s Jewellery offers support to Boyce and Jefford Relay Festival

Scott’s Jewellery and Variety Store continued a tradition yesterday when it sponsored the Boyce and Jefford Relay Festival and Family Fun Day, scheduled for April 30 at the Police Sports Club...

Woopecker Products Women’s First Division League…Gordon’s four-goal spree leads Pizza Hut GCC to win

Apr 13, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Woopecker Products Women’s First Division League…Gordon’s four-goal spree leads Pizza Hut GCC to win

National player Aliyah Gordon continued her goal-scoring form when she slammed in four goals in Pizza Hut GCC’s 7-0 triumph over GCC Spartans as play in this year’s Woopecker Products Women’s...

Athletics team depart for CARIFTA Games

Apr 13, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Athletics team depart for CARIFTA Games

Guyana’s representative team for the 2017 Flow CARIFTA Games departed yesterday afternoon for Curacao, where they will compete against the Caribbean’s best youth and junior athletes over this...

Hooper appoints fresh faces to new Georgetown basketball Executive

Apr 13, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hooper appoints fresh faces to new Georgetown basketball Executive

A breath of fresh air swept over the basketball landscape in Georgetown yesterday when Adrian Hooper, the new Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) President, appointed the new Executive...

NSC on board Super 4 Massive Easter Sunday Football

Apr 13, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC on board Super 4 Massive Easter Sunday Football

Committed to working with communities towards the enhancement and development of sports across the spectrum, the National Sports Commission (NSC) has once again proven that they are going to also...

Florida to host four 2017 CPL matches

Apr 13, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Florida to host four 2017 CPL matches

ESPNcricinfo – Four Caribbean Premier League games will be played in the USA this year, as Florida’s Central Broward Regional Park has been approved by the ICC to host the T20 league’s...

SUV with false number plates seized from gold dealer’s home- former CJ Chang comes out of retirement to prosecute $950M bank fraud

Apr 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on SUV with false number plates seized from gold dealer’s home- former CJ Chang comes out of retirement to prosecute $950M bank fraud

The troubles of Bartica gold dealer, Saddiqi ‘Bobby’ Rasul yesterday continued with enforcement officials of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) seizing a high-end Toyota Sports Utility Vehicle...

Enmore liquor shop murder

Apr 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Enmore liquor shop murder

Accused lashed victim about the body rendering him unconscious – eyewitness account An eyewitness account has revealed that accused murderer, Deosaran Bisnauth, used a piece of wood and dealt the...

GECOM appointments… The Carter-Price formula has outlived its usefulness – Report

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM appointments… The Carter-Price formula has outlived its usefulness – Report

By Murtland Haley The appointment of a new chairperson for the Guyana Elections Commission has become a topical issue, particularly in the press. There is a back and forth as to the criteria which...

Cabinet to review VAT on private education tuition at next meeting – PM

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet to review VAT on private education tuition at next meeting – PM

The issue of Value Added Tax (VAT) on private education tuition is expected to be considered at the next Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. This is according to Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo. The First...

Health Ministry working to fine-tune new system to manage drug supplies

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry working to fine-tune new system to manage drug supplies

Amidst scathing criticisms and problems involving supplies of pharmaceuticals to hospitals and health centres, the Ministry of Public Health has announced plans to implement a new management system...

Bureau of Statistics gets permanent home after 60 years

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bureau of Statistics gets permanent home after 60 years

Statistics helps govt craft better policies – Granger By Suraj Narine Since its establishment in 1957, the Guyana National Bureau of Statistics (GNBS) now has a place to call home. The entity is...

Guyanese chef shot dead in Trinidad while hair being braided

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese chef shot dead in Trinidad while hair being braided

Trinidad (Looptt) – According to police reports, about 9:00 pm on Thursday night, Raphael Collins, was at the home of a female companion along Williams Street, Laventille. The young man was...

GPL board member testifies as Carvil Duncan trial continues

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPL board member testifies as Carvil Duncan trial continues

…over theft of $27M from power company Komal Ramnauth, who is a member of the Board of Directors of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), was called to testify yesterday when the trial of Carvil Duncan...

Details of public scholarship awardees should be published – TIGI recommends

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Details of public scholarship awardees should be published – TIGI recommends

A watchdog body has called on Government to publish details of persons who have qualified and granted scholarship awards by the state. According to the Transparency Institute Guyana Incorporated...

Region Ten hosts Regional Tourism Planning Workshop

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Region Ten hosts Regional Tourism Planning Workshop

As part of an initiative to boost tourism and develop hotspots in the Regions, the Department of Tourism in the Ministry of Business in collaboration with the Region Ten Tourism Authority hosted a...

Brazil offers help to ensure Sustainable development initiatives for Indigenous Peoples

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Brazil offers help to ensure Sustainable development initiatives for Indigenous Peoples

The Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs and its partners are on the verge of concluding the final stages of consultations before rolling out the much touted Sustainable Development...

Labour Force, Household Budget surveys, Poverty Unit on the cards – Finance Minister

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Labour Force, Household Budget surveys, Poverty Unit on the cards – Finance Minister

Over the next two years, the Bureau of Statistics (BoS) plans to deliver a Labour Force Survey as well as a Household budget survey. This was according to the Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, during...

Dem boys seh Dem playing people like a guitar

Apr 08, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh Dem playing people like a guitar

Things got to be really bad when de opposition got to pick pun everything to mek a point. Gail complain how a reporter deliberately tell a lie pun she and de party. De truth is that when de reporter...

Rice industry gets lifeline after Dubai company buys Alesie rice group

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Rice industry gets lifeline after Dubai company buys Alesie rice group

Golden Grains Investments announced yesterday that it has reached a purchase agreement that allows that company to acquire all of Alesie Group’s assets in Ruimzeight, Vreed-en-Hoop, Wakenaam and...

Jail time touted as means of tackling shoddy works

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Jail time touted as means of tackling shoddy works

For too long, Guyanese taxpayers are being burdened by footing the massive costs of repairing infrastructural projects that could have been constructed properly in the first place. This is the...

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Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals!

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Ah, Christmas—the season of goodwill, good cheer, and, let’s not forget, good riddance!... more