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Noble House Seafoods Handicap Indoor Hockey Competition…Old Fort ‘A’, GCC Spartans claim titles

Sep 21, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Noble House Seafoods Handicap Indoor Hockey Competition…Old Fort ‘A’, GCC Spartans claim titles

By Rawle Welch It was a night of breathtaking hockey that produced two of the finest goals scored in recent memory, but at the end of it all only one team could have carried home the coveted prize...

19-year-old Greaves destroys rivals at Laparkan cycle meet

Sep 21, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on 19-year-old Greaves destroys rivals at Laparkan cycle meet

Laps entire field to underline number 1 status By Franklin Wilson He is certainly still the man to beat on the circuit and streets in Guyana. National cycling king and Carlton Wheelers...

Our society has become numb

Sep 21, 2008 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Our society has become numb

By Sheila Holder TOLERANCE LEVELS It has struck me that as a people we are behaving very much like the laboratory frog in the experiment in which scientists placed a frog in water that they heated up...

The Caterpillar

Sep 21, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Caterpillar

Reports of them having hairs that could sting so severely they could be lethal to humans is just as true as those reports that suggest that they can transform into one of the most interesting...

GCA Pepsi 1st division cricket (1st round)…Sarwan (104*), Johnson (61) spur GCC to victory

Sep 21, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GCA Pepsi 1st division cricket (1st round)…Sarwan (104*), Johnson (61) spur GCC to victory

By Sean Devers Former Guyana under-15 player Ravi Sarwan celebrated his debut selection for the Demerara senior team with a fluent unbeaten century, while West Indies ODI left-hander Leon Johnson...

THE GROUSE SEASON BEGINS IN GUYANA

Sep 21, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on THE GROUSE SEASON BEGINS IN GUYANA

The media eat themselves. Wherever they are. There’s no better story than a hack against the wall. In Scotland, they have a Grouse season. Shooting begins on the ‘Glorious Twelfth’ of...

Mackeson senior league…Plaisance blank Black Stallion in latest match

Sep 21, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Mackeson senior league…Plaisance blank Black Stallion in latest match

Plaisance rebounded from their opening defeat of the 2008 East Demerara Football Association / Mackeson senior league to blank Black Stallion 3-0 on Friday evening at Plaisance Community Centre...

Can Guyana benefit from a third term for Mr. Jagdeo?

Sep 21, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Can Guyana benefit from a third term for Mr. Jagdeo?

Just when you thought it was safe to think about the new PPP leader who will emerge in the next two years or how the PPP will lose the 2011 poll, Mr. Raphael Trotman, AFC leader, has put the...

Johnson to captain Demerara in El Dorado Inter-County tourney

Sep 21, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Johnson to captain Demerara in El Dorado Inter-County tourney

Carmichael, Carew & Sarwan are new faces in team Former Guyana under-19 player Kellon Carmichael, former national under-15 batsman Ravi Sarwan and Dion Carew are the new faces in the 14-man...

Memorex Enterprise Softball Cricket continues today

Sep 21, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Memorex Enterprise Softball Cricket continues today

More play in the Memorex Enterprise 15-overs softball cricket competition organized by the Guyana Softball League is set for today at various venues. In Zone ‘A’ from 09:00pm; Avenash XI vs....

Indian Demonisation and Shame

Sep 21, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Indian Demonisation and Shame

It did not surprise me that Mr Frederick Kissoon ignored the main point I made in my article, “Shame and the Public Intellectual”. In his riposte “Shame and the psychiatrist’s couch”, he...

VENEZUELA POSES NO THREAT TO GUYANA

Sep 21, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on VENEZUELA POSES NO THREAT TO GUYANA

It is not in Guyana’s national interest to become embroiled in the differences between the George Bush administration and the Hugo Chavez government of Venezuela. Guyana would be best advised not...

Local athletics coaches benefit from clinic

Sep 21, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Local athletics coaches benefit from clinic

Local athletics coaches yesterday benefited from a clinic that the German Olympic Sports Confederation facilitated at the Young Men’s Christian Association. The workshop was organised as part of...

Banks DIH keep perfect score in Tapeball Cricket encounters

Sep 21, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH keep perfect score in Tapeball Cricket encounters

Beverage giants Banks DIH Ltd. cricketers pulled off another exciting victory over their counterparts from furniture giants Courts by five wickets in a match of the giants in their feature 20-over...

America’s backyard in trouble

Sep 21, 2008 knews Peeping Tom Comments Off on America’s backyard in trouble

Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Chairman, Vision Guyana INTRODUCTION Last week in my Sunday column, I discussed the aggression by Venezuela both on Guyana and the United States. Our President said he...

Legal Opinion: “Goods Only” EPA consistent with WTO rules

Sep 21, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Legal Opinion: “Goods Only” EPA consistent with WTO rules

By Sir Ronald Sanders Dr Lorand Bartels, a Lecturer in International Law and Fellow of Trinity Hall at Cambridge University, has advised that it is possible for all, a few, or even one, of the...

ET in Cummings Lodge?

Sep 21, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on ET in Cummings Lodge?

The Parrot loves science fiction movies. Sometimes it’s difficult to differentiate between fact and fiction whilst viewing one. If you are a creationist, then it’s much easier to dismiss what...

Roger Khan saga…

Sep 20, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Roger Khan saga…

Simels indicted by grand jury to stand trial …remaining attorneys may bail out Attorney Robert Simels, who has been accused of attempting to “eliminate” the main witness against his client,...

Inmate’s death…

Sep 20, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Inmate’s death…

Senior prison officers charged with manslaughter – granted $500,000 bail Senior prison officers Kurt Corbin, 30, and Gladwin Samuels, 26, were yesterday charged with manslaughter in connection...

“FineMan”/”Skinny”reward…

Sep 20, 2008 knews News Comments Off on “FineMan”/”Skinny”reward…

Giving incentive to Joint Services will create bounty hunters – Norton For the Government to offer some of the $60M reward that was being offered for the capture or killing of wanted men Rondell...

Cop nabbed in blackmail racket

Sep 20, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Cop nabbed in blackmail racket

– beaten unconscious while attempting to collect money from victim’s wife A police constable from the New Amsterdam station was caught red-handed yesterday in an extortion racket involving a...

Businessman robbed of $2.9M near Harbour Bridge

Sep 20, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Businessman robbed of $2.9M near Harbour Bridge

-cops questioning porters Two bandits snatched $2.9M yesterday after holding up a businessman and two porters near the Demerara Harbour Bridge. The businessman, Bhagwandatt Jones, of Anna Regina,...

Skeldon factory delay…

Sep 20, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Skeldon factory delay…

Worst case scenario, GuySuCo will have to be compensated – Jackson In a worst case scenario with the Skeldon Sugar Factory being delayed beyond the September 23 date, there is a compensatory...

Hundreds clamour for free IT training programme

Sep 20, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Hundreds clamour for free IT training programme

Over six hundred persons turned up yesterday morning at the Mark Benschop Foundation office on Robb Street to sign up for a free computer course. In an interview with this newspaper, Benschop, the...

Torture report ultimatum…

Sep 20, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Torture report ultimatum…

Name implicated army officers, or we will — PNCR The long-awaited torture report, which was compiled following investigations into allegations of torture by ranks of the Guyana Defence Force,...

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“One Guyana” is no less a national slogan than “Green Guyana”

Kaieteur News- The notion that “One Guyana” is a partisan slogan is pure poppycock. It is a desperate fiction... more