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Penultimate day nicely poised

May 30, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Penultimate day nicely poised

An interesting second round is in the making when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) National Open Championship resumes today, at the Bank of Guyana. The tournament, which already has...

World 20/20 won’t repeat mistakes of World Cup

May 30, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on World 20/20 won’t repeat mistakes of World Cup

West Indies battle Aussies next Saturday ICC’s tournament director Steve Elworthy believes that the allure of international competition will enable next month’s World 20/20 to rise above the...

Trophy Stall 15-over cricket continues tomorrow

May 30, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall 15-over cricket continues tomorrow

Play in the knockout stage of the Trophy Stall sponsored Guyana Softball League 15 overs cricket competition continues tomorrow. In the West Demerara zone: At the Leonora Primary School Ground: 10:00...

Teenaged bandits rob Sophia internet cafe

May 30, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Teenaged bandits rob Sophia internet cafe

Two teenaged bandits attacked an internet café at Dennis Street South Sophia shortly after 21:00 hours Thursday night and made off with $60,000 in cash and a laptop computer. The two men, according...

East Bank E’bo are Banks DIH X-tra White champs

May 30, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on East Bank E’bo are Banks DIH X-tra White champs

East Bank Essequibo won the Banks DIH X-tra White 40 overs cricket competition, defeating South Essequibo by one wicket in the final, played last Sunday at the Wakenaam Community Centre Ground in...

Tractor pins, kills another operator

May 30, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Tractor pins, kills another operator

Jethrown Persaud, 16, was killed on Thursday when he was pinned by a tractor he was driving at Wauna Hill, North West District. A police press release said that Persaud was driving the motor tractor...

GAPSO Handgun Shoot set for today at TSU Range

May 30, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on GAPSO Handgun Shoot set for today at TSU Range

14 teams expected to participate A keen and exciting time is expected when the Guyana Association of Private Security Organisations (GAPSO) Handgun Shoot is held this morning at the Tactical Services...

Guyana prepares to highlight dangers of smoking

May 30, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Guyana prepares to highlight dangers of smoking

One may not be exposed to passive or second-hand smoking by choice but such smoking has the potential to harm. This notion has been emphasised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and was pointed...

IPA supports Yamaha Caribs

May 30, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on IPA supports Yamaha Caribs

IPA Group of Companies presented Yamaha Caribs Rugby Club with a quantity of medical and pharmaceutical supplies during a simple ceremony, held at the entity’s Main Office on Camp Street yesterday....

Campaign soon to address marine litter

May 30, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Campaign soon to address marine litter

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), yesterday, said that it has formulated public awareness and education programmes to ease the problem of marine litter. This type of litter, presents a...

Champions to be crowned tonight

May 30, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Champions to be crowned tonight

The champions of the 2009 Cheddi Jagan Memorial football tournament organised by the Berbice Football Association will be crowned tonight following the final at the Skeldon Community Centre ground....

Guyana gets $6M for suicide prevention

May 30, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Guyana gets $6M for suicide prevention

As the Ministry of Health struggles to deal with the increase in the number of suicide cases in the country, the Ministry from June 1 to June 5, will work along with Dalhousie University in Canada,...

Questions about pig-rearing nuisance must be answered

May 30, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Questions about pig-rearing nuisance must be answered

Dear Editor, I wish to refer to my article which was published in the letter column of Stabroek News dated 3rd March, 2009, in which I posed the undermentioned six questions for the Honourable...

Dictatorship and the silence of the lambs

May 30, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Dictatorship and the silence of the lambs

DEAR EDITOR, In the annals of history it is well documented that a government without flaw remains a non-existent entity. On the other tier, it is well noted that a government which is apologetic in...

Moves afoot to scrap Orealla/Siparuta Toshao elections

May 30, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Moves afoot to scrap Orealla/Siparuta Toshao elections

Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai,will be sending a team to investigate a recent Chairman of Village Council election held in Orealla/Siparuta Mission, following reports of...

Father frustrated at causing death trial

May 30, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Father frustrated at causing death trial

Mr. Randolph Martinborough, the father of the late Runako Martinborough, who lost his life tragically to an accident almost two years ago, on the Queenstown Public Road, is frustrated in the manner...

Kudos for the Ex-GDF Association

May 30, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Kudos for the Ex-GDF Association

DEAR EDITOR, I wish to commend the Executive of the Ex-GDF Association of Guyana for excellent voluntary work being done in the interest of the less fortunate former soldiers. I attended its last...

Local government elections must be held this year

May 30, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Local government elections must be held this year

Dear Editor, I do not know Mr. Keith Burrowes but from what I have been reading in the press he has hit the hammer on the right nail at the Georgetown City Council. A local government election is a...

The writing is on the wall

May 30, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The writing is on the wall

DEAR EDITOR, The media, not only the Government-controlled, speak of the disintegration of the PNC and have written off their leadership. The view is strongly conveyed that there is no hope for the...

THAT BARBADOS DEBATE

May 30, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THAT BARBADOS DEBATE

The unfair treatment being meted out to Guyanese in Barbados and in Antigua should be condemned in the strongest manner by all right-minded persons within the Region. In condemning what is taking...

Waiting in vain

May 30, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Waiting in vain

In last Sunday’s Kaieteur News, I published a letter in response to Ms. Gitanjali Persaud’s observations about democratic centralism and other negative manifestations in the PPP. Ms. Persaud’s...

Security reform imbroglio

May 30, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Security reform imbroglio

Against a background of violent assaults on citizens and the Police starting in 1998, the need for reform of our security sector has been conceded by all – including the government. The need had...

Stallholder hospitalised after shopping mall attack

May 30, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Stallholder hospitalised after shopping mall attack

A female stallholder at the Magic Mall, La Grange, West Bank Demerara was admitted a patient at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre after two bandits ran amock in the establishment Thursday afternoon....

Dr Luncheon offers to quit after collapse of UK/Guyana security reform pact

May 29, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Dr Luncheon offers to quit after collapse of UK/Guyana security reform pact

…Jagdeo refuses resignation The British proposal on the Security Sector Reform Action Plan totally disregarded Guyana’s sovereignty thus leading to the fall out on the project, Head of the...

Scotiabank contributes to road safety

May 29, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Scotiabank contributes to road safety

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Police in the Ancient County have been able to enhance road safety awareness, compliments of a banking institution. On Independence Day, the Manager of the New...

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Guyanese boxers shine at T&T National Boxing Championships

A warning to President Ali on U.S. Overtures

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- It remains unknown what President Ali told the U.S. Secretary of State during their recent... more