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Int’l help kicks in for SARA’s probe of Canje, Kaieteur blocks

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Int’l help kicks in for SARA’s probe of Canje, Kaieteur blocks

The State Assets Recovery Agency’s (SARA) probe of how former President, Donald Ramotar, signed away two key oil blocks to four inexperienced firms will benefit from international help. This was...

GRA unearths skulduggery in ‘G series’ vehicles; closes loopholes

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GRA unearths skulduggery in ‘G series’ vehicles; closes loopholes

Years of abuse into the importation and use of certain categories of vehicles has been arrested by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). As of July 1, 2019, the authority says, it will not be...

ExxonMobil’s Stabroek block contract not being investigated – Phillips

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil’s Stabroek block contract not being investigated – Phillips

By Kiana Wilburg Even though Transparency International Guyana Inc. (TIGI) recently raised concerns about the deal ExxonMobil struck with the Granger administration, deeming it to be fraught with...

Two cops promoted for bravery

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Two cops promoted for bravery

Two courageous policemen who were injured during the course of their duties on Monday, February 18, and on Thursday, May 30, 2019, respectively, and whose heroic acts have been widely publicized,...

Tender board procurement officer accused of documents tampering back on job

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Tender board procurement officer accused of documents tampering back on job

A Senior Procurement Officer of the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) who was sent on leave earlier this year after being accused of tampering with bid documents, is back...

Grant no further concessions for oil companies …until model PSA is finalised – Jagdeo

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Grant no further concessions for oil companies …until model PSA is finalised – Jagdeo

Government shouldn’t be granting concessions to oil companies in the near future. If concessions are to be granted, let them be guided bythe Model Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) after it is...

Toddler begs for food, mom allegedly brands her with hot spoon

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Toddler begs for food, mom allegedly brands her with hot spoon

A mother was yesterday remanded to prison by Senior Magistrate Leron Daly after she denied a charge of allegedly burning hertwo-year-old daughter on the buttocks with a hot pot spoon. The 21-year-old...

Trinidad successfully renegotiates gas deals

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Trinidad successfully renegotiates gas deals

Trinidad Guardian Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has walked away from his two-week long trip to the US, Netherlands and the UK with favourable terms for the country’s energy...

GPL got blackout, can’t collect light bill money

Jun 08, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on GPL got blackout, can’t collect light bill money

Every now and then de people who running de electricity company does announce that blackout done. Dem does use nice words—‘Blackouts are a thing of de past.’ West Demerara was always in...

Labourer, 17, remanded for murder of E’bo teen.

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Labourer, 17, remanded for murder of E’bo teen.

A 17-year-old labourer was last Wednesday remanded to prison for the murder of Clive Osborne, another 17-year-old of Supenaam, Essequibo Coast. The accused, Richard Harrichand, of Lot 15, Ogle, East...

Siblings conflict Lands brother in Court – gets four charges

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Siblings conflict Lands brother in Court – gets four charges

Two siblings yesterday appeared before a city magistrate after a three-month dispute concluded with the brother being slapped with four charges. Daniel Boutrin, 19, appeared in the Georgetown...

Half naked man found floating in trench aback of Providence

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Half naked man found floating in trench aback of Providence

Shocks waves rippled through Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD) when a partially decomposed body of a man was found arou nd noon yesterday in a trench that runs through the village. Students...

DEMTOCO rakes in $2.9B in profits despite tougher tobacco regulations

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on DEMTOCO rakes in $2.9B in profits despite tougher tobacco regulations

The Demerara Tobacco Company which is charged with providing marketing support to the British American Tobacco Group brands sold in Guyana recently recorded $2.9 billion in pre-tax profits. According...

No-Confidence Motion appeal… CCJ petitioned to hear new evidence on Charrandass Persaud

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on No-Confidence Motion appeal… CCJ petitioned to hear new evidence on Charrandass Persaud

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has concluded hearing arguments in the consolidated appeals in the no-confidence motion cases. However, the CCJ in an order granted on Wednesday indicated that...

‘Undetermined’ cause of death for man fished out of Pomeroon.

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Undetermined’ cause of death for man fished out of Pomeroon.

Last Wednesday a postmortem examination was carried out by Doctor Nehaul Singh, on the body of Malandru, called ‘Warrau,’ at the Suddie Public Hospital mortuary. The pathologist said that the...

Homeless man pickets labour department for pay allegedly owed.

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Homeless man pickets labour department for pay allegedly owed.

This man, Randolph McAdams, has resorted to picketing the Department of Labour, pleading for help to claim funds he said are owed to him. Adams told Kaieteur News that, from August 2016 to February...

Prosecution closes case into Dutty” and “Guitar murder trial

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Prosecution closes case into Dutty” and “Guitar murder trial

The prosecution has closed its case after calling its last four witnesses in the murder trial of the two men who are accused of the 2016 killing of Caitanya Kishundyal, called “Haribol”, of Lot...

Drug dealers nabbed, one pleads guilty, jailed for three years

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Drug dealers nabbed, one pleads guilty, jailed for three years

A woman, her son, daughter, her son in law and a family friend were on Wednesday nabbed by police with a quantity of narcotics at their home. The house which is a known drug block was placed under...

GBTI Open servers off at their Court Tournament to run from June 7 – 23

Jun 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBTI Open servers off at their Court Tournament to run from June 7 – 23

By Sean Devers The tenth annual ‘GBTI Open Tennis tournament began with the opening ceremony yesterday at Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Lawn Tennis Court in Bel Air Georgetown and runs from...

Accused serial bandit freed of robbery charge

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Accused serial bandit freed of robbery charge

An accused serial bandit yesterday walked out of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts smiling after he was freed by the Acting Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus on a robbery charge. Mark...

Objective achieved even as Guyana go down to Bermuda 1-0

Jun 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Objective achieved even as Guyana go down to Bermuda 1-0

Despite going down to host Bermuda by a 0-1 margin at the National Sports Centre on Thursday night, Head Coach of the Golden Jaguars, Michael Johnson has disclosed that the objective of getting a...

Berbice woman still missing after husband dragged her from friend’s home

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice woman still missing after husband dragged her from friend’s home

A Warren Village, East Coast Berbice woman is still missing after her husband reportedly dragged her out of a friend’s house on Tuesday. Still missing is Dhanmattie “Jenny” Sumara, who...

Sinclair strikes second consecutive ton

Jun 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sinclair strikes second consecutive ton

Kevin Sinclair struck his second consecutive century when the West Berbice Cricket Association, Anil Lalsa Construction Company two-day tournament continued recently. Batting first at Bush Lot, Bath...

Sheltez Tennis Club hosts fourth Annual Junior Independence Tournament

Jun 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sheltez Tennis Club hosts fourth Annual Junior Independence Tournament

National Coach Shelly Daly and the Sheltez Tennis Club hosted the fourth edition of the Junior Independence Tournament. The tournament ran from May 3rd, to June 2nd. The tournament featured four...

$71M in equipment donated to maternity ward at GPHC

Jun 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on $71M in equipment donated to maternity ward at GPHC

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), as a loan to the government, on Thursday, handed over equipment totaling $71M, to the Maternity and Pediatric Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital...

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Waramuri stuns Vreed-en-Hoop 7-1, as Bush Lot topple Ann’s Grove

Development for whom?

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Vice President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, has declared with great confidence that there... more