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Guyana will guarantee financing for India group – company website claims

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana will guarantee financing for India group – company website claims

– says it was given 60,000 hectares in Canje Basin Indian conglomerate, Ajeenkya DY Patil, says that it has been provided with a 99-year lease on 60,000 hectares of land located in Canje Basin...

Multi-billion$$$ drug contracts for New GPC…Govt. under pressure to scrap ‘biased’ selection process

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Multi-billion$$$ drug contracts for New GPC…Govt. under pressure to scrap ‘biased’ selection process

Weeks after Government announced that it has selected a preferred supplier of drugs for its hospitals, there are now more calls for the decision to be overturned and a fresh selection held....

AFC promises ban on log exports

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AFC promises ban on log exports

“We don’t see the vision in the present policy that allows logs to be shipped out of this country. It is obvious that Guyana needs value added; most other countries have banned exportation...

Teens, bus driver remanded for seawall carjacking

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teens, bus driver remanded for seawall carjacking

Two teenagers and a 29-year-old bus driver accused of threatening a man with a gun and robbing him of his friend’s car were remanded to prison when they appeared in court yesterday. The bus...

Teenage miner survives pit-cave-in

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teenage miner survives pit-cave-in

A teenaged miner is currently nursing a broken leg at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), after a pit caved in on him at a gold mining site in Kuribrong, Potaro-Siparuni, on Monday...

Cummings Lodge woman arraigned for friend’s murder

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cummings Lodge woman arraigned for friend’s murder

A Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara woman has been charged with the murder of her 37-year-old friend whose lifeless body was found with a stab wound to the heart, at the back of her house on Sunday...

Guyana gearing up to put on massive show for CMRA third leg -Persaud voted Most Outstanding Driver in T&T

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana gearing up to put on massive show for CMRA third leg -Persaud voted Most Outstanding Driver in T&T

By Rawle Welch With two legs of the Caribbean Motor Racing Association (CMRA) completed, all eyes will now turn to the Guyana leg of the series which is slated to be staged on November 16, at the...

Seawall body identified as mentally challenged mom of five

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Seawall body identified as mentally challenged mom of five

– was seen walking naked on railway embankment Tuesday When 45-year-old Sharon Forde of West Ruimveldt failed to return home last Monday her neighbour became worried and informed her brother...

BCB Inter-County 50-Over Trials

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB Inter-County 50-Over Trials

The third and final trial to select the Berbice Senior One-Day Team for the 50-over Inter-County Tournament concluded yesterday at Albion with Deonarine’s XI beating Permaul’s XI by six wickets....

GOA acquires FATS for athletics -to be used upon request

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GOA acquires FATS for athletics -to be used upon request

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has acquired Guyana’s first Fully Automatic Timing System (FATS) that records, produces and pronounces on photo-finishes in athletics. According to...

Agriculture Ministry inks $697M in D&I contracts

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Agriculture Ministry inks $697M in D&I contracts

…over $39M for supervisory services By Zena Henry Minister of Agriculture, Leslie Ramsammy, had cause yesterday to urge several contractors who will be taking on $697.3M in drainage and...

Albion are Anirudh Ramcharitar 50-Over champs -defeat Police by 85 runs in final

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Albion are Anirudh Ramcharitar 50-Over champs -defeat Police by 85 runs in final

Albion captured the 2013 Ramcharitar Construction first division 50-over knockout cricket title in Berbice, defeating Police by 85 runs in the final on Sunday last, a game that was reduced to 45...

Dem boys seh…Donald paying fuh de sins of others

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Donald paying fuh de sins of others

All of a sudden de Pee Pee Pee got problems wid de voters list. Dem find that de first President Arthur Chung name still been pun de list. Everybody know that Arthur dead but he name didn’t come...

EBDCA/GRS 40-over tourney on this weekend

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBDCA/GRS 40-over tourney on this weekend

The East Bank Demerara Cricket Association (EBDCA)/Goodwood Racing Service 40-over tournament is set to continue this weekend. Tomorrow, Bayrock will face Providence at Demerara Cricket Club (DCC)...

ACDA to host Five-A-Side small goal football tourney

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on ACDA to host Five-A-Side small goal football tourney

The African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) will be hosting a Five-A-Side small goal football and penalty shoot out competition tomorrow at the Calcutta ground, Mahaicony, East Coast...

EBFA / MCYS Youth Academy deemed a success -Director of Youth Gillian Frank urges participants to aim high

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBFA / MCYS Youth Academy deemed a success -Director of Youth Gillian Frank urges participants to aim high

The one-week youth Academy organised by the East Bank Football Association (EBFA) and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport (MCYS) ended on Friday last at the Grove Community Centre...

Victory Valley Royals’ 20th Anniversary Open KO b’ball commences tonight

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Victory Valley Royals’ 20th Anniversary Open KO b’ball commences tonight

Competition in the Victory Valley Royals 20th Anniversary Open knock-out basketball championship is set to bounce off tonight with a double header at the Mackenzie Sports Club, Hard Court. In the...

Boxing Coach Sebert Blake completes high grade boxing course Has to endure one week wait for results

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxing Coach Sebert Blake completes high grade boxing course Has to endure one week wait for results

A week after leaving Guyana to participate in a one week Extraordinary International Amateur Boxing Association Professional Boxing World Series Boxing/AIBA Professional Boxing/AIBA Open Boxing...

Two- man boxing team departs for Barbados Goodwill tournament

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News, Sports Comments Off on Two- man boxing team departs for Barbados Goodwill tournament

As the executives of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) continue in their developmental drive, two boxers have been selected to travel to Barbados this weekend to participate in a one night Goodwill...

Stag Beer West Side 5-A-Side Football New Road Eagles remain unbeaten; action continues tonight

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stag Beer West Side 5-A-Side Football New Road Eagles remain unbeaten; action continues tonight

New Road Eagles continue to impress and remain the only unbeaten team in the inaugural Ansa McAl/Stag Beer West Side 5-A-Side football tournament which continued on Wednesday last at the Vergenoegen...

No.19 residents voice concerns as ‘old pump’ fails

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on No.19 residents voice concerns as ‘old pump’ fails

Residents of No.19 on the East Coast of Berbice are once again voicing serious concerns as their area has been flooded. The residents who are mostly large scale farmers are blaming the authorities...

Ansa McAl rewards “Ariel Bringing the Games Closer” promotion winners

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ansa McAl rewards “Ariel Bringing the Games Closer” promotion winners

Ansa McAl Trading Ltd. held an award ceremony on Wednesday last at the company’s Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara head office, for the “Ariel Bringing the Games Closer” promotion which...

DeSinco Trading is authorized distributor for premium product for dogs

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on DeSinco Trading is authorized distributor for premium product for dogs

Distribution giant, DeSinco Trading Limited, has added yet another product to its already extensive portfolio. The company has recently been appointed as the authorized distributor of “Command...

Princess Casino manager charged for assaulting businessman

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Princess Casino manager charged for assaulting businessman

A Casino Manager of the Princess Hotel was yesterday placed on $20,000 bail after he was charged for assaulting businessman, Paul James. Forty seven-year-old Muammer Princcioglu appeared before...

High Court upholds CGX injunction blocking Repsol

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on High Court upholds CGX injunction blocking Repsol

CGX Energy Inc. yesterday announced that its local subsidiary, CGX Resources Inc., has obtained an order from the High Court upholding the injunction from the Commercial Court of Guyana restraining...