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Tender Board practiced no due diligence to ensure evaluators were qualified – AG Report

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Tender Board practiced no due diligence to ensure evaluators were qualified – AG Report

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) has been found to be in default of not practising due diligence as it relates to ensuring that persons appointed as evaluators had the...

Construction of Diamond overpass to start next year

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Construction of Diamond overpass to start next year

– four lane project nearing completion Government is fast-tracking plans to ease the traffic nightmare at the Diamond intersection, East Bank Demerara. According to the Ministry of Public...

Auditor General trashes Finance Minister’s “criticisms” of report

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Auditor General trashes Finance Minister’s “criticisms” of report

– stresses his office enjoys full independence By Abena Rockcliffe- Campbell Auditor General Deodat Sharma is unfazed by utterances made by Finance Minister Winston Jordan in an attempt...

Cane harvester suspected of killing wife captured in Backdam

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cane harvester suspected of killing wife captured in Backdam

Swift efforts by law enforcement officers in ‘B’ Division have led to the arrest of Winston Benjamin aka ‘Blood,’ who is alleged to have fatally stabbed his reputed wife on Monday. The...

Some people BT cutting spike nail

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Some people BT cutting spike nail

Scampish and thiefing politicians don’t like certain types of people. Dem don’t like media people who criticize and expose dem wrongdoing. Dem don’t like de auditors who got to check dem books,...

“The Town Clerk should be removed immediately” – Deputy Mayor

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on “The Town Clerk should be removed immediately” – Deputy Mayor

…as Audit Report raises questions of mismanagement “The Town Clerk’s incompetence is becoming most taxing on the Municipality and he should be removed immediately.” – Deputy Mayor Sherod...

KNews grenade attack PI…Publisher unaware of any resentment toward him or newspaper

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on KNews grenade attack PI…Publisher unaware of any resentment toward him or newspaper

Glenn Lall, the publisher of Kaieteur News, is unaware if two of the men charged with lobbing a grenade at his Lexus Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), or any other person(s), have hostility against him or...

GuyOil drops gas price by $2 but kero, gasoil go up

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GuyOil drops gas price by $2 but kero, gasoil go up

State-owned Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) has announced a drop in gas price by $2, but prices for gasoil and kerosene will rise. According to GuyOil yesterday in a statement, the adjustments are...

GPL suffers another shutdown

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPL suffers another shutdown

– company urges customers to check website, Facebook for updates The Demerara Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) yesterday experienced three shutdowns between midday and 16:00hrs....

Bartica massacre trial on hold following judge’s ruling

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica massacre trial on hold following judge’s ruling

A ruling handed down in the High Court has resulted in the trial, for which five men accused of killing 12 people in Bartica, being put on hold. Mark Royden, called Durant or Smallie; Clebert Reece,...

GRA accessing suspicious bank accounts

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GRA accessing suspicious bank accounts

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been taking full advantage of the Financial Institutions (Amendment) Bill which gives it the lawful go-ahead to access all suspicious bank accounts. This was...

Pouderoyen woman freed of common-law husband’s murder

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Pouderoyen woman freed of common-law husband’s murder

The 12-member mixed jury yesterday returned a formal verdict, under the direction of Justice Jo-Ann Barlow, finding Nicola Joseph not guilty of the murder of her common-law husband Curtis McKinnon....

Contractors vie for Kaikan strip rehab contract

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Contractors vie for Kaikan strip rehab contract

A total of eight bids were opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday, for the Construction and Rehabilitation of the Kaikan Airstrip, which has an...

Costly mistake for Guyanese

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Costly mistake for Guyanese

Barbados (Barbados Today) – Guyanese national Mohamed Kazim Khan found himself in a heap of trouble for “mistakenly” putting a small bottle of insecticide in his pocket when he went into...

NIS to commence countrywide compliance campaign

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on NIS to commence countrywide compliance campaign

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) will be executing a countrywide campaign in an effort to engage employers, self-employed persons and employees on matters relating to compliance and benefits....

South Georgetown Inter-School Athletics competition commences

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on South Georgetown Inter-School Athletics competition commences

-‘Champions of Champions’ set for later this week The South Georgetown, District 13 Inter-School Track and Field Competition started yesterday at the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) Ground...

GRA: Jamaican poultry feed meets CARICOM criteria for duty free waivers

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GRA: Jamaican poultry feed meets CARICOM criteria for duty free waivers

A quarrel over the importation of Jamaican poultry feed is not likely to see any immediate restrictions by Guyana. This is because Jamaican authorities are insisting that the feed meets requirements...

110 graduate with Masters at Nations

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 110 graduate with Masters at Nations

The fourth annual graduation of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme that the Australian Institute of Business (AIB) offers in collaboration with Nations School of Business and...

Inquiry into former soldiers’ welfare wrapping up

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Inquiry into former soldiers’ welfare wrapping up

Former military ranks are asking to be better reintegrated into civilian society as the Veterans Commission of Inquiry (COI) wraps up. Retired Warrant Officer, Lennox Hardy, told the COI that more...

National Secondary Schools cricket…

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on National Secondary Schools cricket…

Sachin Singh follows up 101 with unbeaten 79 for Chase Academy – Four schools advance to next round By Sean Devers National U-17 opener Sachin Singh hit an unbeaten 79 to follow-up his 101 in...

Education Specialist highlights tactic to improve regional education

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Education Specialist highlights tactic to improve regional education

Members of the Caribbean Community will have to work harder to encourage donors to extend their support. This notion was earlier this week amplified by Caricom’s Education Sector Specialist, Dr....

Major project launched for Rupununi communities to benefit from Norway funding

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Major project launched for Rupununi communities to benefit from Norway funding

WWF-Guianas and the North Rupununi District Development Board (NRDDB), with funding from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), on Monday launched their Opt-in Readiness Project in...

GCF President admits to issues plaguing the body

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCF President admits to issues plaguing the body

– promises to address cyclists concerns amidst plans lift the sport By Franklin Wilson Just over a year into their four-year term, the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) main constituents, the...

E’bo fisherman gets seven years for killing co-worker

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo fisherman gets seven years for killing co-worker

A 39-year-old fisherman who stabbed his co-worker to death while out at sea, has been sentenced to seven years in jail. This was after he pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder, but guilty to the...

Bunbury’s results overshadow many

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bunbury’s results overshadow many

By Rawle Welch Reeling from a shower of stinging criticisms about his performance after twenty-plus years, President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) K. Juman Yassin attempted to answer his...

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The private sector were cheerleaders for foreign investment

Peeping Tom… “The private sector were cheerleaders for foreign investment” Kaieteur News – The cries... more