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Hikers’ juniors finish fourth in U-16 category

Apr 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Hikers’ juniors finish fourth in U-16 category

-Assanah voted MVP Despite securing the Most Valuable Player of the Under-16 category award through the consistent performances of Shaquelle Assanah, Hikers juniors ended fourth in the Trinidad and...

Over 70 competitors confirmed for May 3 Meeting

Apr 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Over 70 competitors confirmed for May 3 Meeting

-Teams expected from USA, Canada, T&T, Suriname Teams from the USA, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname have already confirmed participation in the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club...

Netballers continue preparations

Apr 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Netballers continue preparations

War of Words as GASP stages Nationals Preliminaries

Apr 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on War of Words as GASP stages Nationals Preliminaries

Twelve of the countries top scrabble players will match wits this morning at the Malteenoes Sports Club when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) stages an ‘A’ Level tournament for...

Crandon hits unbeaten 65 on return to Guyana team

Apr 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Crandon hits unbeaten 65 on return to Guyana team

Host reach 208-6 on rain hit opening day By San Devers Royston Crandon celebrated his return to the Guyana team with a confident unbeaten 65 against Barbados on the rain-hit opening day of their...

Straker strikes gold for Guyana

Apr 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Straker strikes gold for Guyana

– Martin (silver), Jonas (bronze) also medal Guyana’s Under-17 middle distance star, Tutorial’s Jevina Straker, struck gold in the 1500 metres at the 2009 Junior Carifta Games which is...

Regatta 2K9 Power Boat racing to be best ever

Apr 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Regatta 2K9 Power Boat racing to be best ever

Sports Organiser – Calmeth Young The eagerly anticipated Power Boat races, one of the major highlights of the Bartica Regatta, are expected to be the biggest and best ever according to Sports...

Georgetown finish unbeaten, could play W/Dem in final

Apr 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Georgetown finish unbeaten, could play W/Dem in final

National under-19 opener Trevon Griffith led from the front with an attractive 50 to lead Georgetown to an 87-run victory against East Bank at Lusignan yesterday as the City side finished unbeaten in...

South defeat Central E’bo in latest play

Apr 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on South defeat Central E’bo in latest play

South Essequibo defeated Central Essequibo by 43 runs when the Banks DIH Xtra White 40 overs first division cricket competition continued in zone A Essequibo recently. Played at the Anna Regina...

The Jagans served a higher religious order

Apr 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The Jagans served a higher religious order

Dear Editor, Former President Janet Jagan died in the most auspicious time of Navratri in the Hindu calendar. Neither Janet nor her husband, the late Cheddi, were religious people in the sense of...

Reading Contest is a brilliant idea

Apr 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Reading Contest is a brilliant idea

Dear Editor, As we journey through life, it’s the small tools which we may stumble on that truly contributes significantly to the shaping of our well being and moulding. Fortunately for me, I have...

Freddie should have chosen a different topic

Apr 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Freddie should have chosen a different topic

Dear Editor, I am an avid reader of Freddie Kissoon’s column but I think that for his essay on Good Friday he should have chosen a different subject. By his own admission he is on shaky ground as...

Ms. Lowden’s conclusions are perplexing and illogical

Apr 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Ms. Lowden’s conclusions are perplexing and illogical

Dear Editor, This letter is in response to Ms. Marissa Lowden’s letter in the Guyana Chronicle titled “Brain drain versus brain gain.” (April 10, 2009). I was very disappointed in the tone of...

Evaluation of President Jagdeo’s Mid-East tour

Apr 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Evaluation of President Jagdeo’s Mid-East tour

Dear Editor, Guyana’s membership in the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) since 1998 and participation in the Arab-South American Summit forum has draw this small English-speaking country...

NDIA does not have the data to estimate the 10 000-year storm

Apr 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on NDIA does not have the data to estimate the 10 000-year storm

Dear Editor, The CEO (ag), NDIA, Lionel Wordsworth must be commended for his letter on the Hope canal design, which he circulated to all the leading newspapers in Guyana, namely Guyana Chronicle, SN...

Real Wealth

Apr 12, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Real Wealth

The financial crisis roiling through the world’s economies has plunged them into what the World Bank predicts will be at best a cessation of growth and at worst a full-blown depression. The...

Radika, ah beggin’ yuh

Apr 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Radika, ah beggin’ yuh

The Parrot loves music. Let me put that in perspective; I like good music. I am not oblivious of the cliché, “one man’s meat is another man’s poison” as it relates what’s bad for me may be...

Alpha’s lost was historical

Apr 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Alpha’s lost was historical

Although Alpha United lost 2-nil to Tempete FC of Haiti, the Guyanese club was the first Football team from the Land of Many Waters to represent the Golden Arrow Head in the French speaking Island....

The Baccoo speaks

Apr 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

It is not by accident that this is the time when traveling on the waterways could be problematic because the elements have combined to produce conditions that are far from normal. The high tides...

Woman attacked and robbed twice in two days at exact location

Apr 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Woman attacked and robbed twice in two days at exact location

The phrase ‘double dilemma’ was apt to describe the double robbery of a young woman on two consecutive days at the exact location. On Thursday, around 22:30 hrs, Keneisha Duke (former Kaieteur...

GRA hopes that new electronic licensing system will curb illegal activities

Apr 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GRA hopes that new electronic licensing system will curb illegal activities

Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, in a press statement, has said that once the newly implemented electronic motor vehicle licensing system has been...

G20 Summit did nothing for the Caribbean: Developing countries failed to act collectively

Apr 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on G20 Summit did nothing for the Caribbean: Developing countries failed to act collectively

By Sir Ronald Sanders Throughout the Caribbean the effects of the global financial meltdown are being seen in a human face – people are losing jobs; many are in danger of losing their homes from...

Roads closed for kite flying

Apr 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Roads closed for kite flying

The Guyana Police Force is notifying the public that in order to facilitate the flying of kites in Georgetown, the following roads will be closed to vehicular traffic from 08:00 hrs. to 20:00 hrs on...

Self-interest or greed?

Apr 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Self-interest or greed?

The great US ex-slave Frederick Douglass once observed pithily that crops can never be produced without first breaking apart the earth nor can the life-giving rains come without thunder and...

Indigenous leaders of the Guianas meet in Georgetown

Apr 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Indigenous leaders of the Guianas meet in Georgetown

…to discuss threats to them and their environment Elected indigenous leaders of French Guiana, Suriname and Guyana (countries making up the “Guianas Shield) along with non-governmental...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-If you had asked me ten years ago what I wanted for Guyana, I would have said a few things:... more