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RHTYSC cricket teams’ honours five retired senior teachers

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Five retired educators, with a combined total of 185 years of teaching experience, were honoured recently by the cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) at the...

Surujpaul leads E’bo to victory against Berbice at Anna Regina

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Essequibo defeated Berbice by 61 runs in the third round of the Castrol U-15 Inter-County 50 overs cricket competition played yesterday at the Anna Regina Ground on the Essequibo Coast. Berbice won...

High investor-interest in Guyana at international aquaculture show

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Representatives of the National Aquaculture Association of Guyana (NAAG) were recently in Seattle, Washington to attend Aquaculture America 2009, where leading professionals in the field pointed to...

All is not well at the Kintyre/Borlam NDC

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SEAWELL, CORENTYNE – All is not well with residents of the Kintyre/Borlam Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) and their councillors. There appears to be a communication problem as was...

Khan smashes 68 for MMZ Sports Club

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By Sean Devers The 2008 Barakat Brothers 20/20 cricket competition in West Demerara continued over the weekend with three matches. At Meten-Meer-Zorg West, hosts Meten-Meer-Zorg Sports Club ‘A’,...

Love-seeking man lands in jail for drugs

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Jermaine Haywood, 28, of Lot 1 Grove Housing Scheme, who was charged for possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking, will have to remain in jail until Friday. The accused on February 25...

Scotsburg & Rose Hall Pepsi ‘A’ to play final

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Scotsburg Cricket Club of Corriverton hammered Rose Hall Canje by 60 runs in the lone semi-final of the Gilgeous Pawn Shop under-19 twenty20 cricket competition and will face Rose Hall Pepsi ‘A’...

Maintenance of Number 63 Beach lacking

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Maintenance and upgrade of the facilities at the No.63 beach on the Corentyne Coast – long pointed to as a major tourism hotspot for development – is severely lacking despite promises by...

GCB congratulates Sarwan

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The Guyana Cricket Board congratulated Guyanese Ramnaresh Sarwan for his impressive double century performance in the just concluded test match against England in Barbados. Here is the full text of...

Linden farmer accuses Govt official of assault, misappropriation

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“Imagine I turn up at the Lands and Survey Commission Office to make queries about my land title, and instead of a favourable answer, I was physically manhandled, thrown to the ground, and...

‘Obama youths’ assist Habitat home partner

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It was a fulfilling experience last Saturday when the youths of the Obama Youth Organisation offered their time and energies towards the construction of a home for a Habitat for Humanity Inc. home...

Boodhoo (5-37) spurs Zeelugt to victory against Zeeburg

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Eighteen-year-old medium pacer Naresh Boodhoo snatched 5-37 in a winning effort for Zeelugt as the 2008 A. Khan Lumber Yard 40-overs under-19 cricket for teams in West Coast Demerara continued with...

Focus on literacy as National Library celebrates 100 years

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The desire to read books has notably diminished over the years among young children, but is a practice that must be reinforced. This is according to employee of the National Library, Margaret...

Guyana’s Blyden, Baker shine

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As RSSC reach T&T 20/20 cricket finals Transport Sports Club’s and Demerara all-rounder Travis Blyden and his countryman GNIC’s Elton Baker continued their impressive debut season in the...

Cancer teen accused of rape

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NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Eighteen-year-old Paul Remington of Lot 40 Stanleytown was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl from the said community. He was reportedly arrested on Friday and...

Murder accused freed after three years in prison

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Orette West, 21, of Tucville, East La Penitence, was yesterday freed of a murder charge after nearly three years in prison. Freeing the man was Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton. West was arrested and...

Intended stint in Jamaica for Morgan did not pan out – Yassin

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By Rawle Welch Athletic Coach Leslie Black, under whose guidance leading female distance runner Alika Morgan has honed her skills in an invited comment with Kaieteur Sport yesterday, said that no...

Legless seaman rejects Noble House’s $1M offer

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by Michael Jordan Disabled seaman, Russell Cornelius, has flatly rejected a reported $1M that Noble House Seafoods has offered him as compensation for the loss of his legs. Cornelius’s...

In light of the CLICO fiasco, we must remain immune to propaganda

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Dear Editor, After reading the statement by the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, my confidence has been confirmed that the interests of Guyanese are being properly and vigilantly monitored...

2K9 Mash results bring mixed feelings for many

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The results for the 2009 Mashramani competitions are out and, while some are ecstatic about the readings, there are disappointments and perplexed feelings in some Mash camps. In the Children’s...

US President’s change of withdrawal from Iraq justified

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Dear Editor, I wish to respond to Mr. Federick Kissoon’s column of February 27 titled: “Is President Obama Wavering”? Mr. Kissoon chided US President Barack Obama for the shifting of his...

Cocaine swallower excretes more pellets

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Hospital officials have confirmed that Jamaican national, Richard Gayle, was still excreting packets containing cocaine up late press time yesterday. Kaieteur News understands that the man excreted a...

Sports Ministry donates gear to Mahdia community

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Parliamentary Secretary with in the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports, Steve Ninvalle, made a presentation of sports equipment on the ministry’s behalf during a visit to the Mahdia community...

Another police rank charged for collecting bribe

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Another serving member of the Guyana Police Force has being charged for accepting a bribe. It was alleged that Sherwin Cummings, 23, of 22 Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara, on December 27 last, at the...

Trotman challenges Jagdeo on drug allegations

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…as matter is referred to CANU, DEA for investigation Alliance For Change Leader, Raphael Trotman, said yesterday that his party viewed with disgust, the totally false and reckless statements made...