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GFA tournaments continue this weekend

Oct 10, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on GFA tournaments continue this weekend

Chubby U-13 and Western Union Div. 1 League Following a number of tough group engagements in the Chubby Under-13 league in the city over the past couple of weeks, the eight teams that have advanced...

Power Stout Tapeball cricket starts at Thirst Park on Thursday

Oct 10, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Power Stout Tapeball cricket starts at Thirst Park on Thursday

The recently formed Guyana Tapeball League has collaborated with the Guyana Softball League to host the Banks DIH sponsored Power-Stout 6-over cricket competition from Thursday at the Thirst Park....

Man gets three years for Bel Air burglary

Oct 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Man gets three years for Bel Air burglary

Martin Ishmael, 21, of 161 Pike Street Campbellville was sentenced to three years in prison on a conviction of burglary yesterday. He forcefully entered the home of Bel Air resident Rajindra...

Grass Track on this Sunday at Anjue and Hamlet Park, Mahaicony

Oct 10, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Grass Track on this Sunday at Anjue and Hamlet Park, Mahaicony

The Anjue and Hamlet Park Sports facilities at Mahaicony Branch Road East Coast Demerara will this Sunday, October 11, come alive when the authorities of that entity and the Bikers Boys Motorcycle...

JFK Terror plot suspects reappear in court

Oct 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on JFK Terror plot suspects reappear in court

Judge Dora Irizarry has set January, 27, next year, for the hearing of oral arguments on motions submitted in the trial of four men, including former PNCR Member of Parliament, Abdul Kadir. The four...

GRFU Raffle drawing set for October 24

Oct 10, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on GRFU Raffle drawing set for October 24

The drawing of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has been fixed for October 24. A release from the GRFU informed that the Raffle in aid of Guyana’s Men’s and Women’s Team participating in...

GWI repairs broken Blue Berry Hill main

Oct 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GWI repairs broken Blue Berry Hill main

After undertaking corrective action for some time, the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) was on Tuesday last able to complete repairs to a broken water main on an unoccupied plot of land at Blue Berry...

Wanted: batsmen who can bat

Oct 10, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Wanted: batsmen who can bat

By Tony Becca The West Indies, as expected, dropped out of the ICC Champions Trophy tournament in South Africa after the first round and, as expected, as predicted by many, did so without winning a...

IDB grants US$4M for technologies that expand financial services to poor

Oct 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on IDB grants US$4M for technologies that expand financial services to poor

The Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) has approved a US$3.95 million grant for a programme to promote innovative technology solutions that expand access to...

Of salaries and migration

Oct 10, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Of salaries and migration

Things have to be bad when a country loses one of every three of its citizens to migration. What makes it worse is when two of every three qualified persons opt to migrate. This has been the case...

Trade unionist protests deplorable condition at Labour Ministry

Oct 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Trade unionist protests deplorable condition at Labour Ministry

Acting General Secretary of the Guyana Trade Union Congress, Norris Witter, yesterday staged a one-man protest at the Ministry of Labour, in his quest to protest what he called “unsuitable working...

Addendum to opine on duty of a magistrate at a preliminary inquiry

Oct 10, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Addendum to opine on duty of a magistrate at a preliminary inquiry

Dear Editor, Further research on this issue reveals that the opinion expressed by myself and Mr. Hunte represents the legal position on confessions at a Preliminary Inquiry. In R v Sharp {1988}...

Corbin warns that populace will explode under pressure

Oct 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Corbin warns that populace will explode under pressure

…says legal scholars now fear that nation on the brink of anarchy Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Robert Corbin, is now warning that there will come a time when the strain...

Minibus catches fire on Harbour Bridge

Oct 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Minibus catches fire on Harbour Bridge

A minibus travelling along the Demerara Harbour Bridge yesterday, burst into flames during morning rush hour, stalling traffic for several hours. An eyewitness told Kaieteur News that the fire...

Kissoon’s boundless distortions are troubling

Oct 10, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Kissoon’s boundless distortions are troubling

Dear Editor, It is amazing that Freddie Kissoon and company continues to besmear this Government and stylistically refer to it as “a tyrannical elected dictatorship”. If this Government were so...

Unholy alliance

Oct 10, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Unholy alliance

Dear Editor, Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) and its subsidiary, TCL Guyana Incorporated (TGI) have applied to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) requesting that the court hold the Guyana Government...

Teacher suspects her salary has been ‘embezzled’

Oct 10, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Teacher suspects her salary has been ‘embezzled’

Dear Editor, I am writing regarding no response from the Education Officials in Region Six about my salary for Febuary 2009 that, to date has not been given to me even though I have worked for the...

3386 work places inspected for child labour this year

Oct 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on 3386 work places inspected for child labour this year

…no child labour cases discovered There have been no cases of child labour reported for the year, and there remains only one prosecution for such an incident, which occurred last year. This is...

What is the future for the rice industry if other countries renege on CET payments?

Oct 10, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on What is the future for the rice industry if other countries renege on CET payments?

Dear Editor, I find it strange that Guyana is not following the ruling of the CCJ and not reinstating the CET on cement. We are all aware that the rice market is being manipulated and Europe is...

I LIKE IT!

Oct 10, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on I LIKE IT!

Every parent in Guyana with teenage girls in school should ensure that these children are properly supervised when they go to school sports. A great many temptations are out there and parents must...

Three new lawyers admitted to local bar

Oct 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Three new lawyers admitted to local bar

Three new lawyers, Best graduating Guyanese student, Judith Gildharie-Mursalin, Kenita-Ann Cumberbatch, the daughter of Justice Francis Mortimer Cumberbatch, OECS and Alisha George, were yesterday...

Guyana needs reliable cement supplies

Oct 10, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyana needs reliable cement supplies

Dear Editor, The construction boom, so evident in Guyana requires reliable and adequate supplies of cement, and it stands to reason that if Trinidad Cement Limited and its Guyana subsidiary cannot...

PNCR chides administration for lack of transparency, accountability

Oct 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on PNCR chides administration for lack of transparency, accountability

The lack of transparency and accountability are now features of the government, according to Leader of Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) Robert Corbin. Corbin made this announcement at the...

Today’s radio does not really reflect that rich history that has been passed down

Oct 10, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Today’s radio does not really reflect that rich history that has been passed down

Dear Editor, If any Caribbean or even South American country has had a rich history in radio broadcasting then it has to be our very own Guyana. And from its humble beginnings in the 40’s, radio...

A dictatorship and its little dictators have fallen apart

Oct 10, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A dictatorship and its little dictators have fallen apart

I return to a point I made on Wednesday – dictatorship as it gets older, as the people’s alienation deepens, leadership qualities evaporates, rut steps in, grows and sinks its governors. The...