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Kaieteur Falls benefit from Carifesta X

Sep 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Kaieteur Falls benefit from Carifesta X

…work being done to improve facilities The number of visitors to Kaieteur Falls per month doubled during Guyana’s hosting of Carifesta X. The ten days period saw about 500 persons visiting the...

Chubby Under-14 Tournament…Beacon beat Fruta Conquerors on penalty kicks to make it 2 in a row

Sep 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Chubby Under-14 Tournament…Beacon beat Fruta Conquerors on penalty kicks to make it 2 in a row

By Franklin Wilson Beacon Football Club (BFC), led by Best Goalie of the tournament Devon Charles, has once again underlined their class at the junior level by lifting the Chubby under-14...

NBS 2008 40 overs Second Division Cricket launched in Berbice

Sep 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on NBS 2008 40 overs Second Division Cricket launched in Berbice

The 2008 New Building Society (NBS) second division 40 over cricket competition for teams in Berbice was launched on Friday last with an investment of $500,000 by the sponsors at a simple ceremony...

Linden Railroad Yard a possible tourist attraction

Sep 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Linden Railroad Yard a possible tourist attraction

By Enid Joaquin The Railroad Yard in Linden, which some decades ago used to be a hive of activity, is presently reduced to a sort of “graveyard” for the locomotives and ore cars that traversed...

Race walkers vie for top honours

Sep 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Race walkers vie for top honours

Race walkers will contest for honours this morning when the Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club stages a race walk in commemoration of the Amerindian Heritage month. The race commences from the Kitty Pump...

GABA President appeals for visa consideration for India-bound boxers

Sep 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GABA President appeals for visa consideration for India-bound boxers

By Michael Benjamin Over five months of intense training will finally culminate when four boxers leave these shores to participate in the 3rd Commonwealth Youth Championships slated for India in...

Education Month…Cleveland Thomas: A Shining Example

Sep 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Education Month…Cleveland Thomas: A Shining Example

Chief Education Officer Genevieve Whyte-Nedd, in a recent interview on NCN at the launching of Education Month affirmed that, “teaching is no easy task, and to run a school is no easy task.”...

BFA Coca Cola Senior League continues today

Sep 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on BFA Coca Cola Senior League continues today

NA United, Monedderlust & Real Union are latest winners Rivalry in the Berbice Football Association (BFA) Coca Cola Senior League is set to continue today with four matches in the Ancient County....

McCain’s Palin and the EPA

Sep 07, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on McCain’s Palin and the EPA

The Parrot, like millions of male Parrots, is still dumbstruck by John McCain’s bombshell VP choice, Sarah Palin. Out from obscurity, as the media there are saying, and out from the freezing cold...

Providence Bridge still unfinished

Sep 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Providence Bridge still unfinished

More than one month has passed since the New Providence Bridge collapsed, with one man losing his life and another being injured, and the bridge is still yet to be completed. Despite this, workers at...

LABA Basketball Festival…Kings, Pistons collide in tonight’s final

Sep 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on LABA Basketball Festival…Kings, Pistons collide in tonight’s final

By Edison Jefford A gripping rematch of last year’s national Division One final is set to take place tonight at the Mackenzie Sports Club court, Linden. The two teams are familiar foes and will...

Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport Inter-Block Football Tournament…Middle Walk Back crowned champs

Sep 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport Inter-Block Football Tournament…Middle Walk Back crowned champs

– Moffat voted MVP Junior Lewis’ 53rd minute strike from close range was what separated the two teams in the final of the Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport-organised Buxton Inter-Block...

Yasin, Rose esteem Pompey’s Olympic performance

Sep 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Yasin, Rose esteem Pompey’s Olympic performance

Aliann Pompey By Edison Jefford President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), Juman Yasin stated yesterday that an effective schools’ sports programme is the way forward for the development...

The Baccoo speaks

Sep 07, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

The day comes when people believe that they have their lives in their control, but this is not the case. Fate reposits in destiny as this is going to be proven often enough as the year draws to a...

My trip to Kaieteur Falls

Sep 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on My trip to Kaieteur Falls

By Tusika Martin The excitement of visiting arguably our country’s most recognizable landmark, Kaieteur Falls, led to me having a sleepless night last Tuesday. Like a school child excited to dress...

Carifesta opens new horizons for St. Lawrence resident

Sep 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Carifesta opens new horizons for St. Lawrence resident

By Sharmain Cornette Although the Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta) has come to an end, the memories and of course the experiences gained by some individuals will forever live on. This notion is...

POETIC VOICES FROM THE ARAB WORLD

Sep 07, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, The Arts Forum Comments Off on POETIC VOICES FROM THE ARAB WORLD

Cultural freedom is the right of individuals and communities to define themselves and to protect traditional values and diverse ways of living threatened by conservatism, fundamentalism, materialism,...

D’Andrade, Johnson enjoy good results in T&T

Sep 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on D’Andrade, Johnson enjoy good results in T&T

Guyana’s most durable distance campaigners, Lionel D’Andrade and Kelvin Johnson had top three finishes yesterday at the HIV and AIDS Awareness 10Km road run in Trinidad and Tobago, with both...

EU and the Caribbean: A “Goods” Agreement?

Sep 07, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on EU and the Caribbean: A “Goods” Agreement?

By Sir Ronald Sanders A national consultation in Guyana on September 5th to which I was invited to participate as a panelist with representatives of the European Union (EU) and the Caribbean Regional...

Energy – From Babble to Action

Sep 07, 2008 knews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Energy – From Babble to Action

Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Chairman, Vision Guyana Introduction: Guyana needs an energy system that is reliable, resilient, fairly and efficiently priced in the future. Energy efficiency needs to be a...

Teenager remanded for Paradise stabbing death

Sep 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Teenager remanded for Paradise stabbing death

Magistrate Sherdell Isaacs on Friday remanded a 16-year-old Paradise male to prison when he appeared before her at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court on a murder charge. The teenager is accused of...

Indigenous Peoples’ Politics

Sep 07, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Indigenous Peoples’ Politics

In the five years I spent in Parliament between 2001 and 2006 as the representative of ROAR, I was seated next to the representatives of the GAP-WPA coalition, respectively Shirley Melville and...

Cabinet to review CARIFESTA X

Sep 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Cabinet to review CARIFESTA X

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon has revealed that Cabinet has unanimously retreated to fully examine the success of the recent hosting of CARIFESTA X in Guyana, and to...

EXPOSE THEM!

Sep 07, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on EXPOSE THEM!

The President of Guyana made certain statements in the past which conveyed the distinct impression that there was footage available of the members of the ‘Fine Man’ criminal gang consorting with...

Is GECOM prepared to successfully hold Local Govt. Elections?

Sep 07, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Is GECOM prepared to successfully hold Local Govt. Elections?

DEAR EDITOR, The debate continues between the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) and the main parliamentary opposition, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), over the vital...

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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