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Third Annual 2-Million NAMILCO Football Festival unveiled

Oct 21, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Third Annual 2-Million NAMILCO Football Festival unveiled

Kick off this Friday at Tucville ground; Camptown face Uprising, Pele play Flamingo By Franklin Wilson The Third Annual NAMILCO (National Milling Company of Guyana) Football Festival, an annual...

Sankies returned as LGC President

Oct 21, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sankies returned as LGC President

Mel Sankies was returned as President of Lusignan Golf Club at its Annual General Meeting held recently at the Club House at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara. The existing management committee was...

Pioneer Construction hands over prizes to LABA teams

Oct 21, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pioneer Construction hands over prizes to LABA teams

Pioneer Construction last Wednesday handed over to the Linden Amateur Basketball Association $200,000 for the top teams in the LABA’S 2008/9 First Division League championship, at the Mackenzie...

Suriname maintains IGG stronghold

Oct 21, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Suriname maintains IGG stronghold

Retain overall title, sixth consecutive By Edison Jefford The ostensibly indomitable Surinamese kept their Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) stronghold after the completion of the second phase of the...

University of Guyana kicks off sports season with athletic championships

Oct 21, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on University of Guyana kicks off sports season with athletic championships

Merely two weeks into the 2009/10 academic year, the University of Guyana kicks off its sports season with the inter-faculty Athletics championships slated for Friday October 30 at the GDF Sports...

“Natoo” kidnapping PI yet to begin

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on “Natoo” kidnapping PI yet to begin

The preliminary inquiry into the kidnapping of businessman Beharry “Natoo” Dookie’s daughter is still to commence. As the case was called up yesterday before Magistrate Nigel Hawke at the...

Moore is lone Guyanese in CCC Regional One-Day squad

Oct 21, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Moore is lone Guyanese in CCC Regional One-Day squad

Pacer interested in playing for Essequibo By Sean Devers Twenty-seven year-old First-Class player Gilford Moore is the lone Guyanese in the Combined Campuses & Colleges (CCC) 14-man squad for the...

Guyanese fathered child with underaged girl; Pleads Guilty

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Guyanese fathered child with underaged girl; Pleads Guilty

The results came in positive from a paternity test taken to determine whether Dellon Williams, a Guyanese, fathered the baby of a minor with whom he was accused of having unlawful sexual intercourse...

Sonia Noel leads fashion delegation to China

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Sonia Noel leads fashion delegation to China

Guyana Fashion Weekend CEO Sonia Noel is leading a small delegation to the 13th International Fashion Fair in Ningbo, China from October 22. This is one of the biggest fashion fairs in the world and...

Guyana International team picked for Pre-World Cup tournament

Oct 21, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana International team picked for Pre-World Cup tournament

Suriname & Trinidad expected to compete Building off their success in the Turks and Caicos tournament this past June, the Guyana Women’s Football programme is about to take a giant leap forward...

Kwame’s hit and run victim still wants justice

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Kwame’s hit and run victim still wants justice

“I ain’t want to make no handicap child” Thirty-two-year old Yulanda Anthony yesterday expressed her outrage that nothing has so far been done to Kwame McCoy after he allegedly hit her with his...

Berbice High Court fails to get underway

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Berbice High Court fails to get underway

The Berbice Criminal Assizes opened yesterday with Justice Winston Patterson taking the salute. However the list of cases was not submitted thus forcing the closure of the court. This was the first...

Avon Community spreads Cancer Awareness

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Avon Community spreads Cancer Awareness

Juditha DaCosta, a member of the Avon Community Help Fund, has as her main objective, sharing the knowledge of Breast Cancer to everyone. She is keen to enlighten citizens of ways in which they can...

Bandits hit Essequibo family

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Bandits hit Essequibo family

Thakurdeen Khatun, jeweler by profession, and his wife Ramttie ,a/k, Lila, both of Land of Plenty, who were severely beaten and robbed of all their jewelry estimated at some $8 million, and a...

Taxi driver charged for Bartica businessman’s robbery

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Taxi driver charged for Bartica businessman’s robbery

The two taxi drivers who were taken into police custody following a $9.5M robbery, which was carried out, on Bartica businessman, Neezam Kassim, have been remanded to prison. The duo, Fedel Collins,...

Insanitary Magistrates’ court obstructs work

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Insanitary Magistrates’ court obstructs work

For the past week, officers and other personnel attached to the Georgetown Magistrates’ court have been complaining of the sewage overflow in the main walkway of the compound. The insanitary...

Labour Ministry official admitted to Bar

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Labour Ministry official admitted to Bar

“Today I stand, for truth, righteousness and justice” were the words of Clive Nurse, Deputy Chief Labour Officer at the Ministry of Labour, after he was admitted to the Bar by Justice Rishi...

Five-year-old Linden accident victim succumbs

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Five-year-old Linden accident victim succumbs

Five-year-old Akeem Hinds succumbed yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital Intensive Care Unit. He never regained consciousness after the motor car accident last Friday on the...

Ministry of Agriculture, German firm ink multi-million-dollar contract

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Ministry of Agriculture, German firm ink multi-million-dollar contract

The Ministry of Agriculture and a German firm, GFA Consulting Group, inked a $197 million contract on Monday for the European firm to provide consultancy services for Guyana’s Agriculture Export...

No relevance in bringing up Bisram’s name

Oct 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on No relevance in bringing up Bisram’s name

Dear Editor, Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s column (October 18) misrepresent facts relating to me. I am dismayed that Freddie brought up my name without any relevance in his defence against librarian...

Sewerage system projects to wrap up by March 2010 – Ali

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Sewerage system projects to wrap up by March 2010 – Ali

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is faced with the challenge of managing critical sewage chambers in the city even as it awaits the arrival of more than 20 submersible pumps for the urgent upgrade of...

To all those who think Freddie Kissoon is ‘worthy of emulation’

Oct 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on To all those who think Freddie Kissoon is ‘worthy of emulation’

Dear Editor, I have noted Stabroek News’ publication of the email correspondence between its Editor-in-Chief and Kaieteur News columnist Freddie Kissoon and have also taken note of the level of...

Obama’s Nobel Prize: The stupidity of political bigotry

Oct 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Obama’s Nobel Prize: The stupidity of political bigotry

Dear Editor, Mr. Ronald Sanders opinion piece on October 18, 2009, in Kaieteur News, entitled: “Obama’s Nobel Prize: The stupidity of political bigotry”, is eloquent. However, as he looks for...

Most maternal deaths occur in health facilities – Dr. Israel

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Most maternal deaths occur in health facilities – Dr. Israel

As Guyana battles the issue of maternal deaths in the country, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Country Representative, Dr. Kathleen Israel, has said that the majority of maternal deaths occur...

Minister Manickchand talks a good talk

Oct 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Minister Manickchand talks a good talk

Dear Editor, I have read Minister Manickchand’s strident response to my comments as reported in the press, and despite the fact that she has totally misunderstood them, I will refrain from engaging...