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Local Junior Badminton players cop 19 medals in Suriname

Nov 19, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Local Junior Badminton players cop 19 medals in Suriname

The Guyana Badminton Association Junior Team returned to Guyana with 19 Medals; 4 Golds, 5 Silvers & 10 Bronze from the Suriname Junior International Badminton Championships which took place in...

Soesdyke claim area Inter-Block football title

Nov 19, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Soesdyke claim area Inter-Block football title

Soesdyke captured the Inter-Block football tournament staged in their area and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports last weekend at Soesdyke. The competition, which featured three...

13-man squad selected to represent Old Fort

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Old Fort Hockey Club recently named a strong 13-man squad along with a Coach and Manager to prepare for the 2008 Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Competition which runs from November 27-30,...

Barbados-based Guyanese musician for guest appearance at Accolade Awards

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You would definitely want to experience first-hand the flavour and fervor of ‘Accolade – The Music Awards of Guyana’, with the homecoming of Don Trent, Barbados-based Guyanese musician....

Barefaced thief awaits sentencing

Nov 19, 2008 knews News 1

“I tek de money and spend it out” were the words of Adrian Duncan who pleaded guilty to simple larceny, yesterday. The accused made his appearance before Magistrate Nashaya Williams-Hatmin, where...

GNRA Handgun team turn in creditable performance in Suriname

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The Guyana National Rifle Association Handgun team returned to the international scene after a long hiatus having taken part in the recently concluded Suriname Shooting Federation (SSF) IPSC event....

Reid (61), Devers (4-23) see GYO to victory against TSC

Nov 19, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Reid (61), Devers (4-23) see GYO to victory against TSC

Carols Reid stroked seven fours and three sixes in an entertaining 61 while National under-17 player Ricardo Devers grabbed 4-23 to spearhead GYO to a five-wicket victory against TSC at the GYO...

Global financial situation high on CARICOM Bureau’s agenda

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As individual member states assess the implications of the current financial situation, the Bureau of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will consider the global economic and...

Exciting day of races planned for Norman Singh Turf Club

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The Norman Singh Turf Club has had more than its fair share of excitement after organizing horse race meets that provided top class entertainment for Turfites. Once again, organizers have planned...

Cyclist’s gear up for Cadbury night meet on Friday at Everest

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The Everest Cricket Club ground will be set ablaze with cycling come Friday evening when a 16-race meeting organised by National Coach Hassan Mohamed and sponsored by Geddes Grant under their Cadbury...

Residents express dissatisfaction with City Hall’s services

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During a recent meeting between the Mayor and City Council and some citizens of Georgetown, on Friday, the citizens expressed their dissatisfaction with the service meted out to them by the Council....

Guyoil cannot enforce any fuel price – AFC, Vision Guyana

Nov 19, 2008 knews News 2

The forcible readjustment of gasoline prices at the Chicoramas Fuel Station at Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara, by Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL) personnel, who were accompanied by four men armed with...

JONESTOWN REVISITED: Reflections on The 30th anniversary of a ‘people’s’ tragedy

Nov 19, 2008 knews News 2

Lear Matthews On the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown (People’s Temple) tragedy in Guyana, South America, and after the exhilarating election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United...

Body of knowledge

Nov 19, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 6

We know more about people when we do research on the things that they have said and done in the past. The last two weeks have seen an outpouring of deserved eulogies for David De Caires, who died at...

Help the Blind Mice Band

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The Parrot remembers a childhood song. No, it’s not “insy bitsy spider” which is popular even among adults; it’s “three blind mice”. Somehow this song sprang to mind whilst looking at the...

Crime prevention strategy discussed at 17th COHSOD meeting

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As earlier indicated by CARICOM Assistant Secretary General for Human and Social Development, Dr. Edward Greene, the development of a crime prevention strategy was discussed at the seventeenth...

The government’s rhetoric on torture – does it add up?

Nov 19, 2008 knews Letters 7

Dear Editor, Thursday 23 October 2008 should be declared the darkest day in the history of our nation. This was the day when one of Guyanese most basic human rights was unrepentantly dismissed by the...

GPL, VAT & FARES

Nov 19, 2008 knews Features / Columnists 8

Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA INTRODUCTION A modern market economy cannot exist in a vacuum. U.S. President Lyndon Johnson said “You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is...

COTED to look at EPA implementation

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The Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Integration (COTED) will be held next Monday and Tuesday (24 – 25 November) at Le Meridien Pegasus. The implementation of the...

What criteria were used to nominate these artistes?

Nov 19, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on What criteria were used to nominate these artistes?

Dear Editor, I am very much surprised at the nominations for the Accolade (the music Awards of Guyana) in the Chutney category. What happened with Mahendra Ramkellawan, Harresh Singh and Girley...

The PNCR finds fault where there is none

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It is amazing how people simply wish evil on others when many of them profess to be good, faithful religionists. Sometimes such feelings come about because of envy but more often than not the reason...

Executive hypocrisy

Nov 19, 2008 knews Letters 13

Dear Editor, I was traumatized when I read in the media that President Bharrat Jagdeo endorsed the Presidential Candidate in the free world, when in his own home ground over which he rules, he...

Budram Laldas is best graduating student from Essequibo Technical Institute

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Eighty-eight Essequibo Technical Institute graduates are today better equipped with varied technical knowledge. The batch of students attended classes over the period 2006-2008. Eighteen-year-old...

PAY THE MAN HIS MONEY!

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Kaieteur News ran one of its usual excellent editorials last Sunday. This one made the point that we should not wait until a man dies before we sing his praises. I could not agree more. Why is it...

Vryman’s Erven Secondary needs urgent help

Nov 19, 2008 knews Letters 4

Dear Editor, I am a young teacher — started teaching just six years ago — but it feels as if I’ve been teaching for 60 years! I love teaching; I love children — that’s why I entered the...

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The PPP has started the intimidation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In politics, as in life, what goes around comes around. The People’s Progressive Party/Civic... more