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Mervin Moses cops best lifter trophy as five records smashed, one equaled

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mervin Moses cops best lifter trophy as five records smashed, one equaled

By Franklin Wilson Hot and exhausting conditions did not hamper what turned out to be a successful Banks Power Stout/Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) Senior National Championships...

Forde brings home the bacon

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Forde brings home the bacon

– wins third consecutive SA 10k By Edison Jefford Cleveland Forde ran a tactical and well paced race yesterday that brought home the bacon for the third straight year in the International...

GCC ‘A’ set final clash with Hikers ‘A’

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCC ‘A’ set final clash with Hikers ‘A’

All GCC affair in Women’s final After a slow start in the GT&T National Indoor Hockey Championships, GCC ‘A’ stormed back to make it to the final of this year’s competition after...

Jamaica cops $1.6 million 1st prize

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jamaica cops $1.6 million 1st prize

Guyana go down in low scoring final By Sean Devers Guyana did well to restrict the Chris Gayle Jamaicans to 111 on Saturday nigh under lights at the Guyana National Stadium in the final of the Guyana...

Hicks, Bishoo to make National One-Day debuts

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hicks, Bishoo to make National One-Day debuts

Nagamootoo, Christian, Jacobs left out By Sean Devers Wicketkeeper Delbert Hicks and leg-spinner Davendra Bishoo are the only players without Regional One-Day experienced selected on the Guyana...

Creary (91), Braithwaite (48) show form in Windies U-19 practice match

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Creary (91), Braithwaite (48) show form in Windies U-19 practice match

By Sean Devers Jamaican First-class batsman and West Indies under-19 Skipper Andre Creary stroked an elegant unbeaten 91 while consistent Bajan First Class opener Kraigg Braithwaite made 48 as the 2...

Fundraiser held for differently abled persons

Oct 26, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Fundraiser held for differently abled persons

The Diamond Community Center Ground yesterday played host to the first fund raising effort held by the Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons Living with Disabilities. The Council has been in...

Tony Simon finishes 3rd at 9th Elite Caribbean Cycling C/ship

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tony Simon finishes 3rd at 9th Elite Caribbean Cycling C/ship

Guyana’s Tony Simon placed third at the 9th Elite Caribbean Road Race Cycling Championships which was held in Barbados for the first time, yesterday. The 150 kilometre road race which was held on...

Insurance Brokers Guy Ltd helps rugby fraternity

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Insurance Brokers Guy Ltd helps rugby fraternity

Insurance Brokers Guyana Ltd recently presented to Yamaha Caribs trophies for winners of the Covent Garden Secondary School’s Inter-House Tag Rugby Competition. Handing over the trophies was...

800 malaria cases found in Omai

Oct 26, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on 800 malaria cases found in Omai

By Fareeza Haniff As the Ministry of Health continues the struggle in dealing with the malaria situation in the country, almost 800 cases have been found in the Omai area. Up to the end of September...

Prolonged dry season blamed for smaller Berbice rice crop

Oct 26, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Prolonged dry season blamed for smaller Berbice rice crop

BENGAL FARM, CORENTYNE – The prolonged dry season is being blamed for Berbice farmers harvesting less rice in the second crop than in the last crop. President of the Guyana Rice Producers’...

Cops probe death of Melanie mom

Oct 26, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Cops probe death of Melanie mom

Police were late yesterday evening trying to contact relatives of a 30-year-old Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara woman, to ascertain whether her death was the result of foul play. The woman,...

Who is drinking something other than cane-juice?

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Who is drinking something other than cane-juice?

Dear Editor, Not withstanding the already oversized and cost over-run, new factory in Berbice, I find it preposterous that the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) will unscrupulously...

THE ATTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE ATTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE

It is expected that opposition parties are going to take the moral high ground when it comes to abuses of human rights, inclusive of the use of death squads and paramilitary militias to deal with...

Spare no quarters to remove this nastiness of domestic terrorism

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Spare no quarters to remove this nastiness of domestic terrorism

Dear Editor, An enduring criminality stalks the entire Caribbean; the scourge of narco-trafficking, gun running, etc., gains impetus within the context of remote, unpopulated, and porous borders of...

Guyana: Narco-Violence and a Failed State

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana: Narco-Violence and a Failed State

The title of this essay is taken from George Grayson’s forthcoming book; “Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State.” Grayson argues that one of the most important economies of the...

Stunned at PNCR’s gratuitous overtures

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stunned at PNCR’s gratuitous overtures

Dear Editor, The PNCR never ceases to amaze me; this party is actually volunteering witnesses to local law enforcement in the matter of confessed drug kingpin Roger Khan. I am really stunned at the...

ANOTHER FINE CARICOMESS

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on ANOTHER FINE CARICOMESS

A Baptist pastor ran into some good news and bad news. The good news was that church attendance rose dramatically the last three weeks. The bad news was that the pastor was on vacation. I like these...

Freddie Kissoon has become Thomas Beckett to the PPP King Henry II collective

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon has become Thomas Beckett to the PPP King Henry II collective

Dear Editor, As I peruse the contents of the historical exchanges between one of Guyana’s most enduring patriots Kaieteur News columnist Frederick Kissoon and the army of PPP apologists and...

Government is failing to combat ‘dangerous’ squatting

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government is failing to combat ‘dangerous’ squatting

Dear Editor, Dr Luncheon announced at a press conference recently that, the ‘high days’ for squatters has come to an end. The Minister of Housing, Mr. Arfaan Ali has also made noises about...

Road Sense

Oct 26, 2009 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Road Sense

In our Sunday Edition, it was reported that the Government is planning to extend the four-lane highway from the Providence Stadium vicinity to Diamond. The rationale offered was the inordinate delays...

Opening night dampened by crowd trouble as feature game abandoned

Oct 25, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Opening night dampened by crowd trouble as feature game abandoned

3rd Annual NAMILCO Football Festival By Franklin Wilson What was turning out to be an exhilarating night of football on the opening day of the 3rd Annual 2009 NAMILCO Football Festival was dampened...

GECOM ready to roll out ID cards

Oct 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM ready to roll out ID cards

By Gary Eleazar The Guyana Elections Commissions was up to yesterday briefing the staffers who will be producing the new Identification Cards. This newspaper was afforded an exclusive tour of the...

Reepu in pickle

Oct 25, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Reepu in pickle

Jamaicans and Guyanese use to run to de States because dem believe that things easy. Dem family tell dem that once people get a job de sky is de limit. Now de Jamaicans running back home because dem...

Brothers knife man to death

Oct 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Brothers knife man to death

Twenty-four-year-old Mervin “Jess” Boston was yesterday pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after he was stabbed more than a dozen times, allegedly by two...

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Following one’s conscience rather than the crowd

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- “They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect... more