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AFC calls for a reduction in gas prices …points to incremental decrease

Oct 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on AFC calls for a reduction in gas prices …points to incremental decrease

The Alliance For Change yesterday called on the Government to reduce the price of gasoline at the pumps from its current $1,000 per gallon. This, the party says, is in response to the marked decrease...

Laing Avenue execution…

Oct 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Laing Avenue execution…

Main witness declines to testify The preliminary inquiry into the Good Friday murder at Laing Avenue recently took a dramatic turn. During a hearing, the main witness, who is said to be the dead...

Sylvan Gardner for Muscle Mania Superbody in New York

Oct 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Sylvan Gardner for Muscle Mania Superbody in New York

Hugh Ross makes good on promiseGuyana’s Internationally renowned Professional Bodybuilder Hugh Arlington Ross has made good on a promise to the Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation...

Linden TV woes for National Assembly

Oct 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Linden TV woes for National Assembly

For decades, Lindeners have been complaining for greater access to more television stations. Now the issue has been taken to the highest forum in the land — the National Assembly. A motion has been...

Not the time for exaggeration

Oct 12, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on Not the time for exaggeration

Serious as it is, political leaders need to be careful in their assessment of the global financial crisis. Exaggerating the extent of the problem could but only cloud our judgement and leave us...

Basketball player laid to rest

Oct 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Basketball player laid to rest

– competition to be named in his honourBy Edison Jefford The Courts Pacesetters basketball player, who collapsed and died on Burnham court on Sunday, was laid to rest yesterday after a...

‘Battersea Bomber’ wages spiritual warfare against ‘Sixhead’

Oct 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on ‘Battersea Bomber’ wages spiritual warfare against ‘Sixhead’

By Michael Benjamin As the clock tolls away the hours in the run-up to his middleweight clash with Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis on October 25, Howard ‘The Battersea Bomber’ Eastman has waged a...

Taking the Government for granted

Oct 12, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Taking the Government for granted

People often take the Government for granted, and this is largely the reason for Governments being bad at business. People gain employment in a Government agency, and being guaranteed of a salary,...

Berbicians are stuck in the medieval age of television viewing

Oct 12, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Berbicians are stuck in the medieval age of television viewing

DEAR EDITOR, I am indeed glad that a corporate entity has come to the fore in offering another option of television viewing in Guyana. Movie Star Guyana must be commended for wanting to expand its...

Cellink Premier League…Sunburst Camptown blank Uprising, Fruta Conquerors, Santos battle to exciting draw

Oct 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Cellink Premier League…Sunburst Camptown blank Uprising, Fruta Conquerors, Santos battle to exciting draw

By Franklin Wilson As the 2008 edition of the Cellink Premier League eases to and end, the battles on the field just keeps getting better all the time. In Friday’s feature clash, Fruta Conquerors...

WHOSE ROLE IT IS?

Oct 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on WHOSE ROLE IT IS?

Parliamentary Secretary within the Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport Steve Ninvalle is up in arms about the relationship his Ministry and the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) are having right...

Grave consequences await Guyana if it does not sign the EPA

Oct 12, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Grave consequences await Guyana if it does not sign the EPA

DEAR EDITOR, In July, I wrote a letter published by the Kaieteur News, which said if Guyana refuses to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), we have to pay taxes on our products going into...

DCC face off with TSC for Beharry Cup today at Bourda

Oct 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on DCC face off with TSC for Beharry Cup today at Bourda

Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Transport Sports Club (TSC) will face off today from 09:30hrs at Bourda in the final of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Beharry Cup second division cricket...

The ‘J’s have it

Oct 12, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on The ‘J’s have it

DEAR EDITOR, In SN of the July ’08, B. SINGH mentioned a litany of persons to succeed President Jagdeo, and finally said: “Dr Singh is a true and tried academic who I know is doing an honourable...

GCA’s DeSinco Cup Under-19 cricket…Esau’s unbeaten 97 spur MSC to victory against GNIC

Oct 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GCA’s DeSinco Cup Under-19 cricket…Esau’s unbeaten 97 spur MSC to victory against GNIC

On a day in which their senior team was hammered by GNIC, the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) under-19 side avenged that loss by beating host GNIC by five wickets in their De Sinco Cup 40-overs under-19...

Lusignan hosts Eid Fest 2K8

Oct 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Lusignan hosts Eid Fest 2K8

Thousands flocked the tarmac across the road from the Lusignan Market as the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC), along with the wider Muslim community of Guyana, hosted what was dubbed Eid Fest 2008, in...

Pepsi Cup 1st division cricket…GNIC hammer MSC by five wickets

Oct 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Pepsi Cup 1st division cricket…GNIC hammer MSC by five wickets

Malteenoes Sports Club’s (MSC) disappointing batting continued when they crashed to a five-wicket defeat to GNIC in the lone game played yesterday in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Pepsi...

The crude, unwise and insensitive outbursts of a son of Guyana speaking abroad

Oct 12, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on The crude, unwise and insensitive outbursts of a son of Guyana speaking abroad

DEAR EDITOR, I attended the opening ceremony of the recent Seventh Biennial Delegates Congress of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) held in Bridgetown,...

When dollars make no sense – market crisis in progress

Oct 12, 2008 knews Clarence E. Pilgrim, Features / Columnists Comments Off on When dollars make no sense – market crisis in progress

By Clarence E. Pilgrim While a Four Seasons hotel offers a room for US$30,000 a night, many anguished souls who are casualties of today’s global financial markets crisis, are burning many hours...

AAG South American 10k trial misses mark

Oct 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on AAG South American 10k trial misses mark

– Johnson, D’Andrade disappointed but Morgan elatedBy Edison Jefford Seasoned male distance runners, Lionel D’Andrade and Kelvin Johnson are disappointed with the organisation of...

Medical University gets new lease on life

Oct 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Medical University gets new lease on life

New management of the Greenheart Medical University, which had encountered several problems since its establishment in 2005, has promised a completely restructured school and a medical programme in...

Guyanese Literature Junction

Oct 12, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Guyanese Literature Comments Off on Guyanese Literature Junction

by Petamber Persaud World Poetry Day was originally set for October 15 and it was so for many decades. However, in 1999 UNECSO declared March 21 as World Poetry Day. World Poetry Day has its genesis...

Plaisance Inter-Block Football Tournament…Front Side and Goedverwagting clash in final today

Oct 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Plaisance Inter-Block Football Tournament…Front Side and Goedverwagting clash in final today

Front Side and Goedverwagting will collide in the eagerly awaited Plaisance Inter-Block Football final today, at the Plaisance Community Centre ground. The two teams who reached the final after...

RHTY&SC launch Patricia Moniz Memorial Educational Awards Programme

Oct 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC launch Patricia Moniz Memorial Educational Awards Programme

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) Farfan and Mendes under-15’s along with the Pepsi under-19’s and Mrs. Nadine Budhoo of Canada on Thursday last launched the Annual...

We never know how good freedom is

Oct 12, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on We never know how good freedom is

I have never been in jail although on a few occasions cell doors slammed behind me, locking me in a cell and again on some occasions when I entered the Camp Street jail and had the horrible...

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Protest against Commissioner of Information continues today

Kaieteur News- A protest organized against the Office of the Commissioner of Information, Charles Ramson SC, will continue... more