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Funeral parlour, Registrar Office collaborating to sanitise Old Age Pension system

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Funeral parlour, Registrar Office collaborating to sanitise Old Age Pension system

As the Ministry of Social Protection (MoSP) continues its efforts to digitise the old age pension system in coastal Guyana, the exercise will see information technology being utilised to eliminate...

Suspected carjacking ring busted

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected carjacking ring busted

– owner of taxi service held, four cars seized Investigators believe that they might have cracked a carjacking ring with the arrest of a taxi base operator, four of his employees and the...

Brazilian bandits captured after robbing Lethem jeweller, crashing victim’s car

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian bandits captured after robbing Lethem jeweller, crashing victim’s car

Prompt response by police and horrible driving by a bandit, led to the capture yesterday of three Brazilians who had robbed the wife of a Lethem businessman after tying her up at gunpoint. The...

Standoff at NBS over court judgment…Managers, guards arrested as mortgage giant forced to pay $59M to sacked CEO

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Standoff at NBS over court judgment…Managers, guards arrested as mortgage giant forced to pay $59M to sacked CEO

– customers, Court Marshals, lawyer locked in building for several hours It was a case that should have never been. A former chief and two senior managers were in 2007 arrested and...

8th Prabudial “Speedy” Ramdial Memorial Golf Open on this weekend

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on 8th Prabudial “Speedy” Ramdial Memorial Golf Open on this weekend

The 8th annual Prabudial “Speedy” Ramdial Memorial Open golf tournament tees off this Saturday from 12:30hrs at the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) course. The one day tourney will feature...

GRA finds database flooded with dead people, bogus accounts and migrants

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GRA finds database flooded with dead people, bogus accounts and migrants

– to remove over 100,000 accounts by March By Kiana Wilburg The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is set to begin a data-cleansing exercise which will see tens of thousands of accounts being...

Guyana could end up repaying all donations ExxonMobil makes …according to contract

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana could end up repaying all donations ExxonMobil makes …according to contract

The Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) that Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman signed with ExxonMobil, on government’s behalf, makes provision for the possibility of Guyana footing the...

Non-existent Chief Inspector assigned major roles in oil industry

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Non-existent Chief Inspector assigned major roles in oil industry

There are several deficiencies in the existing legal framework that is supposed to govern the developing petroleum industry. However, some of the provisions that are in place to strengthen the...

Not satisfied with loot, bandits stab and chop victims

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Not satisfied with loot, bandits stab and chop victims

-suspect held Masked bandits armed with knives and cutlasses left a Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara grocer and his wife with multiple stab wounds after invading the couple’s shop at around...

People going to jail fuh Jagdeo wickedness

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on People going to jail fuh Jagdeo wickedness

Jagdeo is de only man who give heself a solid pension and he don’t have a chick or a child. He ain’t got a goat in ee yard. But he put two people in de New Building Society fuh punish...

Britain’s Edmund subdues Dimitrov to reach semis

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Britain’s Edmund subdues Dimitrov to reach semis

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Unseeded Briton Kyle Edmund bludgeoned his way to a shock 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over third seed Grigor Dimitrov to reach the Australian Open semi-finals yesterday....

Quarter-final curse fells Nadal again as Cilic advances

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Quarter-final curse fells Nadal again as Cilic advances

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Rafa Nadal’s Australian Open quarter-final curse struck again yesterday, an injury forcing the top seed to retire in the fifth set against Croatia’s Marin Cilic. A...

Five new comers in Super50 squad Focus is on winning the ‘Double’ says Griffith

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Five new comers in Super50 squad Focus is on winning the ‘Double’ says Griffith

By Sean Devers The Guyana Jaguars on Sunday last captured their fourth consecutive Regional four-day title to pocket US $36,000 (US $15,000 for winning the Championship and US $21,000 for winning...

Scrutinise the appointment of educators

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Scrutinise the appointment of educators

Dear Editor, It is my concern of the extremely poor response in dealing with employment and appointment procedures of educators by the Guyana Teachers Union, the Ministry of Education, the Teaching...

Mix Up capture Wiltshire Birth Anniversary Dominoes title

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mix Up capture Wiltshire Birth Anniversary Dominoes title

Mix Up emerged champions of the Mark Wiltshire Birth Anniversary Dominoes competition which concluded recently at Seeram’s Bar Alexander Village.Mix Up win 2 Mix Up chalked up 81 games to beat All...

Upper Corentyne Cricket Association/Roy Baijnauth T20 # 72 All Star, # 68 qualify for quarterfinals

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Upper Corentyne Cricket Association/Roy Baijnauth T20 # 72 All Star, # 68 qualify for quarterfinals

Action in the Upper Corentyne Cricket Association/ Roy Baijnauth sponsored T20 competition continued over last weekend as the second round of the competition gets underway. Matches were played at 5...

Timehri Panthers FC on the rebound again; receive donation from EBFA

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Timehri Panthers FC on the rebound again; receive donation from EBFA

Following a few years of inactivity due to administrative challenges, the Timehri Panthers Football Club (TPFC) is back up and running and set to participate in the East Bank Football Association...

GCB 50-over Franchise Barnwell’s outstanding showing sets up today’s final with GT and E’bo at Providence

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB 50-over Franchise Barnwell’s outstanding showing sets up today’s final with GT and E’bo at Providence

By Sean Devers An outstanding all-round performance from 31-year-old Chris Barnwell powered Georgetown into today’s final of the GCB’s 50-over Franchise League against defending three-day...

Hamilton Green birth anniversary 9-a-side football Fiesta on this Sunday

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hamilton Green birth anniversary 9-a-side football Fiesta on this Sunday

Former Prime Minister, Hamilton Green’s, 83rd birth anniversary inter-ward/village 9-a-side football tournament is scheduled for a two-day action at the Den Amstel community centre ground on this...

Regal All stars overcome Speedboat in consecutive matches

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regal All stars overcome Speedboat in consecutive matches

Regal All stars defeated Speedboat in consecutive softball matches played Sunday at the Everest Cricket Club. Regal All stars took the first match by four runs. Regal All stars batted first and...

Letter to the Sports Editor… GOA’s gesture could not have been timelier

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor… GOA’s gesture could not have been timelier

Dear Editor, First let me offer my sincere congratulations to President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) K.A Juman Yassin for his appointment of being a Senior Counsel. Mr. Yassin like the...

ECB names squad for Inter County U-15 tourney

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on ECB names squad for Inter County U-15 tourney

The Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) selectors have shortlisted a squad of 14 for the upcoming Guyana Cricket Board Inter County U-15 tournament. The squad reads; Ronaldo Scouten, Mahendra Basdeo, Ryan...

Editor’s Note

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Editor’s Note

It was drawn to my attention that a letter appearing in Kaieteur Sports pages on Monday January 22, 2018 on page 28 and signed by the ‘Upper Corentyne Cricket Stakeholders’ was in fact previously...

Cubans caught with fake travel documents jailed for nine months

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cubans caught with fake travel documents jailed for nine months

A Cuban couple is set to serve nine months in prison for fraud. The two persons appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday. The charge which was...

Nothing can compensate my parents for their suffering – NBS CEO’s daughter

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Nothing can compensate my parents for their suffering – NBS CEO’s daughter

She is the baby of the family and one of the country’s scholars, but yesterday, she and her lawyer husband took the battle to the offices of Guyana’s largest mortgage finance entity. And they...

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Mental illness is real and a serious public health concern

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mental illness is a reality we often acknowledge in passing but seldom confront with the... more