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Alpha swamp Liquid Gold, Camptown, GDF, Milerock also win

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alpha swamp Liquid Gold, Camptown, GDF, Milerock also win

Seawall and Topp XX draw By Franklin Wilson Four wins and a draw were the results recorded on day six of the Guyana Football Federation National Super League played at four venues around the...

Bleeding during a local open heart surgery is a challenge – Dr Stephens

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Bleeding during a local open heart surgery is a challenge – Dr Stephens

Though it may be deemed mere anecdotal evidence, Cardiac Surgeon, Dr Gary Stephens, is of the belief that Guyanese patients bleed a lot more during open heart surgery than those in the United States....

Mc Kay prevails in feature 15-lap contest, Perez Jr. also shine

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mc Kay prevails in feature 15-lap contest, Perez Jr. also shine

By Franklin Wilson It was all another keen and hyped up contest that ended with Warren ‘Forty’ Mc Kay powering past old rival Alonzo Greaves to win the feature 15-lap contest at the Third Annual...

Morawhanna slated as key Caribbean agriculture export port

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Morawhanna slated as key Caribbean agriculture export port

By Gary Eleazar Morawhanna is a small fishing/farming community in the Barima River in Region One, close to the Venezuelan border. Its residents are currently of the view that they have been...

USA company leases land in Guyana

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on USA company leases land in Guyana

…gearing to produce biomass for eco-friendly electricity Wood farmed in Guyana will now be used in the United States of America to produce cleaner and cheaper electricity. This was announced...

Cassou House wins St Ignatius Secondary Inter House sports

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cassou House wins St Ignatius Secondary Inter House sports

St. Ignatius Secondary schools Inter-house athletics championship in Region 9 produced outstanding individual performances, while Cassou house successfully defended their title with 1099 points. In...

Griffith ton leads DCC to City title

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Griffith ton leads DCC to City title

By Sean Devers West Indies under-19 selectee Trevon Griffith hit his 2nd consecutive ton against Transport Sports Club (TSC) in a final to spur DCC to a 29-run win in the Georgetown zone final of the...

Tobacco, alcohol, among health issues to be addressed in schools – Dr Paltoo

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Tobacco, alcohol, among health issues to be addressed in schools – Dr Paltoo

One out of two young people who start and continue to smoke will be killed by tobacco related illnesses, said Head of the Adolescent Health and Wellness Department of the Ministry of Health, Dr...

Berbice maul Demerara by 127 runs

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice maul Demerara by 127 runs

To reclaim El Dorado Inter-County title By Sean Devers A magnificent century from Man-of-the-Match Sewnarine Chattergoon spearheaded Berbice to an emphatic 127-run win against Demerara at the...

GCB announces squad for Regional One Day tourney

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB announces squad for Regional One Day tourney

The Guyana Cricket Board selectors yesterday released a 24-member squad to prepare for the West Indies Cricket Board One Day competition following the conclusion of the Inter-County tourney Saturday....

Mon Repos man stabbed in money row

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Mon Repos man stabbed in money row

A Mon Repos man is thanking God for his life after being stabbed in his chest by someone who allegedly owes him money. Vinod Persaud, 29, of 221 Mon Repos East Coast Demerara also expressed gratitude...

Western Union thrash Bank of Guyana 3-0

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Western Union thrash Bank of Guyana 3-0

Western Union’s Roger Jackman, Hewley Griffith and Lisa Lewis inflicted a 3–0 beating on the Bank of Guyana’s Imran Khan, Carlyle Bowman and Leonardo Butcher in the ‘D’ Division of the...

Porter jailed for beating ex-lover

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Porter jailed for beating ex-lover

… “I like this woman bad, bad” An obsessive porter, in the habit of beating his estranged reputed wife, will have to cool his heels in jail for the next 42 days. Ryan Nandra, 28, of 134...

Floodlights tame Pritipaul Singh Investment

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Floodlights tame Pritipaul Singh Investment

Last Friday night at the GCC Ground Bourda cricket fans witness an entertaining softball cricket match between Pritipaul Singh Investment and Floodlights XI who eventually emerged the winner....

Taekwondo Association names 6-man team for World C/ships in Denmark

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Taekwondo Association names 6-man team for World C/ships in Denmark

The Guyana Taekwondo Association (GTA) has named a six man team (three athletes, two coaches & manager) to represent Guyana at this year’s World Taekwondo Championships set for Copenhagen,...

Charity begins at home

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Charity begins at home

By Rawle Welch Recently the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has held a couple of fund-raising activities aimed at procuring the necessary funds to participate in the North American &...

Nelson, Jackson, Rodrigues among QC Badminton winners

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nelson, Jackson, Rodrigues among QC Badminton winners

The Queens College Annual Lower and Upper School Boys and Girls Singles Tournament concluded on Friday last at the Queens College Badminton Courts. Three players featured on the outstanding list at...

GCF to send five-man team to Caribbean Road C/ships in Barbados

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCF to send five-man team to Caribbean Road C/ships in Barbados

Guyana will be represented by a strong 5-member team at the Caribbean Cycling Road Championships set for Barbados, October 24 – 25, 2009. The Guyana Cycling Federation has named Warren Mc Kay,...

Producers and artistes in the Dancehall Reggae arena need to clean up their acts

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Producers and artistes in the Dancehall Reggae arena need to clean up their acts

Dear Editor, Change is inevitable. Everything changes over time, even music. And so we would have seen that within all the genres of music, there are changes in composition and delivery. This does...

These people have suffered for too long

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on These people have suffered for too long

Dear Editor, Reading a letter from the members of the Alexander Village Vishnu Mandir clearly was a letter from victims pleading for help from their Government. Professor Patrick Fagan has...

INVASION OF MY DREAMS!

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on INVASION OF MY DREAMS!

Cheddi came to me in my dreams. He said, “Peeping Tom, I need you to speak out against what is taking place in government.” I said, “Why? What about the leaders of your party?...

Where is the due process?

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where is the due process?

Dear Editor, Last week, I got a telephone call from a distraught mother who told me that her child was peremptorily expelled from a leading secondary school on being found with a cell phone. This...

Democracy is coffee! Democracy is Obama!

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Democracy is coffee! Democracy is Obama!

There was Prem Misir. Then came Randy Persaud. And they are known. And people know them as doing what they must do. But there is Ravi Dev. And people do not know what he does but he is doing it. Dev...

Falling behind and falling apart

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Falling behind and falling apart

Dear Editor, Today, I want to review the book, The Bottom Billion, published by Oxford University Press; the author is Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of...

THE BEAT GOES ON…

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on THE BEAT GOES ON…

It has always been good advice to let sleeping dogs lie. However, should you let lying dogs sleep? And does that apply to corporations that are not entirely honest with their customers? It is a...

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A coalition of shared disgrace

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The APNU and the AFC deserve each other. They deserve to be shackled together in a coalition... more