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Sigma Labs certified by GNBS

Jun 11, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Sigma Labs certified by GNBS

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has announced that Sigma Labs has been certified according to regulations. The certification of Sigma Labs brings the total number of labs certified by...

Davo Lumber Yard and East Coast Select XIII Triumph at Ogle

Jun 11, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Davo Lumber Yard and East Coast Select XIII Triumph at Ogle

Softball cricket fans turned out in large numbers to watch two exciting matches at the Ogle Community Centre last Sunday. The games, which were held as a fund raiser by the Floodlights Squads,...

West Berbice, Rising Sun Farms 20/20 competition starts today

Jun 11, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on West Berbice, Rising Sun Farms 20/20 competition starts today

The inaugural 2008 West Berbice Cricket Association Inter-club 20/20 cricket competition gets underway today with three first round matches. The competition, which is sponsored by Rising Sun Farms,...

Herstelling acid-tossing trial begins… Victim testifies of unprovoked attack

Jun 11, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Herstelling acid-tossing trial begins… Victim testifies of unprovoked attack

A young barber who was burnt with a corrosive liquid, allegedly by a former customer and his mother, yesterday testified about a series of events which led to an unprovoked attack. Komal Persaud and...

Guyana Softball League/Banks DIH 15-overs cricket…Rangers, Leonora, La Grange record victories

Jun 11, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Softball League/Banks DIH 15-overs cricket…Rangers, Leonora, La Grange record victories

Rangers, Leonora Youths and La Grange all recorded wins in latest matches of the Guyana Softball League Banks DIH sponsored 15-over Softball Cricket following play last Sunday. At Den Amstel Ground:...

Peeping Tom – Freddie is losing his groove

Jun 11, 2008 knews Peeping Tom 7

Freddie Kissoon is falling apart. Confronted by his own intellectual fragility, contradictions within his writings and the contrasting and often febrile positions he has taken on issues, the...

Man jailed for attempting to steal from church yard

Jun 11, 2008 knews News 1

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday sentenced a man to one year in prison after he pleaded guilty to an attempt to commit a felony charge. The accused, 28-year-old Royston Forde,...

Escapee recaptured, remanded

Jun 11, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Escapee recaptured, remanded

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday remanded Oswald Rambarran to prison after he was charged with escaping from lawful custody. On June 3rd, Rambarran allegedly escaped from the...

‘Golden Jaguars’ touch down in Suriname tonight

Jun 11, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on ‘Golden Jaguars’ touch down in Suriname tonight

Bishop to miss 1st match, Codrington and Richardson are back By Franklin Wilson Guyana’s flagship football team the ‘Golden Jaguars’ will touch down in Suriname tonight as they begin their...

More should be done to protect women and girls in our society

Jun 11, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on More should be done to protect women and girls in our society

Dear Editor, It would appear as though many Guyanese have become unconscious fans of a spiralling crisis, which continues to be treated as a ‘dark secret’ in our society. By this, I mean violence...

Laparkan makes scholarship awards

Jun 11, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Laparkan makes scholarship awards

The Laparkan Una Clarke Caribbean-American Scholarship Committee (LUCCASC) recently presented Eboni Blenman, Kalila Nichols, Dena Cox, Patrice Bailey, Yesenia Francisco and Yamilca Rosa their awards...

Freddie Kissoon – Is the PPP trying to provoke ‘mo fyaah’?

Jun 11, 2008 knews Freddie Kissoon 5

Quite a few things from the Jagdeo presidency are not making sense in the context of the traditional fragility of Guyana’s political structure. Guyana has not had any sustained period of political...

Blame the Government – Intelligence-led operation is paying off

Jun 11, 2008 knews Peeping Tom 1

The Joint Services scored limited success over the weekend by once more disrupting the lives of the members of the so-called Buxton gang and killing one of the members. This time the operation took...

Banks DIH Coca Cola Football in Berbice…NA United stun front runners Mahaicony

Jun 11, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH Coca Cola Football in Berbice…NA United stun front runners Mahaicony

New Amsterdam United Football Club opened their campaign in this year’s Banks DIH Coca Cola division one competition for teams in Region 5 and 6 on a winning note. In a lone game which was played...

It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad Guyana

Jun 11, 2008 knews Letters 1

Dear Editor, The backwardness in Guyana continues as newer encounters continue to amaze me more and more. The most recent is the inability to provide change to ticket buyers at the Transport and...

The letters of T. King are all appalling

Jun 11, 2008 knews Letters 1

Dear Editor, There isn’t a time that I am not appalled when reading letters written by T. King. It happened again when I read a letter captioned “Opposition groups are trying their best to bring...

Bring the criminals in alive or dead

Jun 11, 2008 knews Letters 3

Dear Editor, Now is not the time to celebrate and praise the Joint Services, because one criminal was killed and others may have been wounded. Now is the time to tell the Joint Services to keep the...

GT&T sponsors pre-Father’s Day Golf tourney

Jun 11, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GT&T sponsors pre-Father’s Day Golf tourney

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) will sponsor this weekend’s pre-Father’s Day Medal Play Golf tournament on Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Course. The local telephone company disclosed...

The Parrot Speaks – Keeping a poker face

Jun 11, 2008 knews Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Parrot Speaks – Keeping a poker face

The Parrot has decided after looking at international news two days ago, to keep a “poker face”, not that I am playing the game. I just don’t want anyone to be able to “read my face”...

Let the lawmen share the $50M reward on offer

Jun 11, 2008 knews Letters 1

Dear Editor, I am sure most of us have given up on the Joint Services’ operation to catch ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins and his notorious gang. I myself agreed our men in uniform are no match for these...

Humans are inclined to use scripture to justify bias and ignorance

Jun 11, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Humans are inclined to use scripture to justify bias and ignorance

Dear Editor, The recent letter published in the Guyana Chronicle, entitled “Islam and Homosexuality,” acknowledges the existence of Muslims and scholars in the religion who have evinced a more...

DDL continues support for Pepsi Sonics

Jun 11, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on DDL continues support for Pepsi Sonics

Demerara Distillers Limited through its Pepsi brand last Monday renewed its sponsorship to Pepsi Sonics Basketball Club when they handed over a cheque valued in the region of $400,000 for the...

The Agriculture Investment Forum

Jun 11, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on The Agriculture Investment Forum

The two-day “CARICOM Agriculture Investment Forum” ended last Sunday and the CARICOM Secretariat has informed us that some “twenty-five projects ranging from food production to ethanol...

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The wait is over, all roads lead to KMTC for their Grand Boxing Day Horse race meet

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