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Dover pleased with progress of Lady Jags

Feb 25, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Dover pleased with progress of Lady Jags

Female World Cup qualifiers set to kick off next week at GCC Assistant Lady Jags Coach Wayne ‘Wiggy’ Dover said he is pleased with the level of work being put in by the local based Lady jags...

Official release confirms K/News story

Feb 25, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Official release confirms K/News story

Shiv only Guyanese picked, Gayle not selected By Sean Devers in Trinidad Kaieteur Sport, in Monday’s story of the regional cricket match between Guyana and the Leeward Islands broke the news that...

National TT team preparations underway

Feb 25, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on National TT team preparations underway

Senior players lending assistance to GTTA The National Table Tennis Mini-Cadet, Cadet and Junior team preparations are underway at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with some senior national players...

Scrap metal dealership frustrates residents

Feb 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Scrap metal dealership frustrates residents

The residents of Eccles have expressed their frustration at the operations of the scrap metal merchant who operates at 148 Cowpen Street, East Bank Demerara. They say that the operation causes rat...

Congratulations to Rising Sun Turf Club

Feb 25, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Congratulations to Rising Sun Turf Club

– GPF members did a fine job as well By Rawle Welch Congratulations must be extended to the Organising Committee of the Rising Sun Turf Club for pulling off a well run Mashramani Race Meeting...

Legendary Kipketer for Gibson Relays

Feb 25, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Legendary Kipketer for Gibson Relays

KENYAN-BORN former Danish middle-distance runner Wilson Kipketer will be a special attendee at this year’s Gibson Relays at the National Stadium and will be the speaker in the ‘Technical...

Mandela landfill fire under control

Feb 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mandela landfill fire under control

City Hall is awaiting the report from the solid waste director and has closed off three- quarters of the landfill site at Mandela Avenue, according to Public Relations Officer (PRO) Royston King. He...

Begin the transformation process

Feb 25, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Begin the transformation process

Dear Editor, Partial progress for this nation is that all of us have got to change or mind set towards image transformation and the world will look at us differently in the positive. Come 2011,...

US citizen busted with 7 kilos of cocaine

Feb 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on US citizen busted with 7 kilos of cocaine

A St. Vincent-born United States citizen is currently in police custody after she was found with seven kilograms of cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport yesterday morning. The woman who...

Kissoon never wrote explicitly or implicitly that Dev works in Office of the President

Feb 25, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Kissoon never wrote explicitly or implicitly that Dev works in Office of the President

Dear Editor, First, your daily columnist, Mr. Freddie Kissoon, has truly become a proverbial thorn in the sides of many people, but especially those on the side of the PPP and its government. I...

Another way to celebrate Youman Nabi

Feb 25, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Another way to celebrate Youman Nabi

Dear Editor, The Muslim community is being encouraged by no less than the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) and the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) to reflect on the life of the greatest...

Threat or obsession or both?

Feb 25, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Threat or obsession or both?

Writing in the letter pages of this paper yesterday, Dr. Prem Misir let it be known that “Freddie Kissoon and gang are no threat to the Government.” Before I come to that I need to contextualize...

No word from the Ministry of Education or NCERD on the non-graduate course

Feb 25, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on No word from the Ministry of Education or NCERD on the non-graduate course

Dear Editor, In September 2007 the first batch of teachers began the National Centre for Education Research and Development (NCERD) Non- Graduate Course for Secondary School Teachers. This two-year...

NOT THE JOB FOR ‘THE DONALD’

Feb 25, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NOT THE JOB FOR ‘THE DONALD’

‘Reshuffle’ means to shuffle again or to rearrange and make new. This is an inapplicable word to apply to the Cabinet reorganizations that have taken place infrequently over the years. What we...

Indebted Berbician takes poison

Feb 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Indebted Berbician takes poison

A 46-year-old Palmyra, East Canje man was yesterday discovered dead in his house, hours after his estranged wife winged out of the country for Curacao. Dead is Motilall Mangal, a seaman and hire car...

Lethem police nab Brazilian cop killer

Feb 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem police nab Brazilian cop killer

Police in the Rupununi have 19-year-old William DaSilva in custody bringing an end to a pursuit for at least one member of a group that killed a Brazilian policeman in 2007. In that year three men...

Pulsating music, gyrations characterise Guyana’s 40th Republic Anniversary

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Pulsating music, gyrations characterise Guyana’s 40th Republic Anniversary

By Michael Benjamin The liquor flowed freely as revelers imbibed, some slowly, others as though there would be no tomorrow. The refreshing sound of Guyanese music filled the air. Revelers gyrated to...

Parliamentary records tampered with

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Parliamentary records tampered with

– Ramjattan Alliance For Change (AFC) Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan is charging that the Parliamentary Hansard has been tampered with. Ramjattan was referring to the session that relates to the...

<<>>Is nuff shake up and big trouble

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on <<>>Is nuff shake up and big trouble

News does travel far and fast and dem boys seh that nuff news traveling. One news is that New Building Society in trouble and is serious trouble. De news is that de NBS about to collapse. Only de...

Retired Rosignol headmaster kills self

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Retired Rosignol headmaster kills self

– licensed gun found near body Police are probing the suspected suicide of retired headmaster and popular businessman Aubrey Alexander, who was found dead at around 14:00 hrs yesterday in his...

Finance Minister goes back in time as debates end

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Finance Minister goes back in time as debates end

– Corbin says Budget imposes burdens Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh took a waltz back in time on Monday in vehement defence of the 2010 budget, quoting “Man No.1” and “Man...

Mash in Lethem sizzles

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mash in Lethem sizzles

The Department of Education, Region Nine, copped the first prize in the Lethem Mashramani Float Parade through the streets of Central Rupununi yesterday. With their float depicting the six races of...

NDIA brings water from Upper Mahaica for drought-hit farmers

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on NDIA brings water from Upper Mahaica for drought-hit farmers

Efforts to utilize fresh water 27 miles up the Mahaica River for drought-hit agricultural cultivations and cattle on the coast, are expected to be completed today. Construction of a canal leading...

Absent witnesses stall murder trial

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Absent witnesses stall murder trial

– Judge threatens to issue warrants The absence of two prosecution witnesses brought an early end to the murder trial of Khemraj Gopaul, of Angoy’s Avenue, on Monday. Gopaul is on trial at...

RHT Gizmos & Gadgets crush Skeldon to reach semis

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHT Gizmos & Gadgets crush Skeldon to reach semis

A youthful Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadget (RHTG&G) team missing five if its senior players to national and Trinidad club duties crushed Skeldon Community Centre (SCC) by 126 runs to reach the...