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Blyden scores 1st ton in T&T’s 50-over League

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Blyden scores 1st ton in T&T’s 50-over League

By Sean Devers in Trinidad GDF all-rounder Travis Blyden registered the first century in this year’s 50-over Championship League here in Trinidad with a shot-filled 110 with 9 fours and 3 sixes...

Shiraz and Shahab Roshandin new record holders

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shiraz and Shahab Roshandin new record holders

Shiraz and Shahab Roshandin are the new record holders of the three-hour Endurance Race after they registered 121 laps to erase the old mark of 120 laps during last Sunday’s Guyana Motor racing...

MOM Budhan Baksh leads Farm A to 13 run win over Farm C

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on MOM Budhan Baksh leads Farm A to 13 run win over Farm C

A fine all round performance from Man-of-the-match Budhan Baksh guided Farm C to an exciting 13 run win over their A team in the final of the F&H Printing Establishment sponsored Muslim Youth...

Fox /Dr. Surujbally claim Doubles title

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fox /Dr. Surujbally claim Doubles title

Reigning 55 and over doubles champions Maxie Fox and Steve Surujbally outplayed Bobby Khan/Roy Rampersaud 6-1, 7-5 to maintain their dominance in that category as play in the Mings Products &...

Mike Brusche had the best aggregate in Guyana’s 1968 Boa Vista Tour

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mike Brusche had the best aggregate in Guyana’s 1968 Boa Vista Tour

Dear Editor, Guyana National Basketball team, led by Eagles Compton Nicholson, played unbeaten on their 1968 tour of Boa Vista Brazil. The Parade Ground Ballers started the Brazil Mission with an...

The atrocities perpetuated by QC Board of Governors

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The atrocities perpetuated by QC Board of Governors

Dear Editor, Queen’s College is the premier secondary institution in this country, it has produced presidents, prime ministers, lawyers, doctors, scientists, businessmen only to mention a few. I...

The negative aspects of homosexuality are due to society’s attitude

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The negative aspects of homosexuality are due to society’s attitude

Dear Editor, We should stand in revulsion against, and do all we can to oppose, the prejudice, the hatreds, and the condemnation of a society that make the homosexual’s life so difficult. The...

Kissoon and gang are no threat to this Govt.

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kissoon and gang are no threat to this Govt.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s column of February 22, 2010 in the Kaieteur News. I see now I am in his ‘Three Musketeers’ grouping; in my childhood days, I endeared the reference...

Mabaruma, Lethem hospitals benefiting from roving initiative – Minister Ramsaran

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mabaruma, Lethem hospitals benefiting from roving initiative – Minister Ramsaran

The Ministry of Health has been collaborating with the private sector in its quest to provide crucial medical services to residents of some far flung public health facilities. Already benefiting from...

Guyana needs to encourage its highly skilled overseas-based people to return

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana needs to encourage its highly skilled overseas-based people to return

Dear Editor, Columnist, Mr. Kissoon’s piece, “I did not and will not run away from my country. The three Musketeers did” (Kaieteur News February 22, 2010) was utterly distasteful. Mr. Kissoon...

There is truly a time for everything

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is truly a time for everything

Dear Editor, Praise the good Lord for the hours upon hours of rain yesterday (23-02-10) in Berbice. There is truly a time for everything. The land and crops must be rejoicing. But I was truly taken...

Armed men attack Mainstay family

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Armed men attack Mainstay family

Five masked bandits, three of them armed with handguns, attacked the Seecharran family at Mainstay village on the Essequibo Coast last Monday evening. Farmer Sew Vishnu Seecharran said that his...

Despite challenges, GPHC is a model institution – Health Minister

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Despite challenges, GPHC is a model institution – Health Minister

The notion that people die in hospitals all over the world was emphasised recently by Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy even as he underscored that deaths occurring at local public health facilities...

Charges pending months after Linden accident

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Charges pending months after Linden accident

Latoya Hinds, the mother of Akeem Hinds, has been wondering why the driver of a vehicle that crashed in Linden on October 20, last and claimed the life of her son, has not yet been charged. At the...

I would expect an apology from Mr. Dev too

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I would expect an apology from Mr. Dev too

In a letter in yesterday’s edition of this newspaper, Ravi Dev requested an apology over what he claims is a fiction attributed to him; that is he is an employee of the Office of the President in...

Guyana is not bound to have zero deforestation

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana is not bound to have zero deforestation

Dear Editor, I refer to Ms Janet Bulkan’s letter under the caption “President statement does not appear to accord with the MOU”, (SN, 14-02-10). I wish to raise the following points in relation...

WHAT AESTHETICS?

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT AESTHETICS?

It is a bitter irony that the government could have co-sponsored a photographic display which included exhibits of our architectural heritage while at the same time erecting a massive security...

Delivering the goods

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Delivering the goods

Now that we may be possibly resting after the labours of celebrating our Republic’s 40th Anniversary via Mashramani gyrations, hopefully we can spare a thought or two about the Republic itself....

Will Lindeners see a distinctive qualitative change in the functions of the various administrations?

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Will Lindeners see a distinctive qualitative change in the functions of the various administrations?

Dear Editor, The year 2010 has come upon us in like manner as every other community across our country, but what I think is the distinguishing factor between us and other communities is the...

Improvement in Education Sector dependent on partnerships – Baksh

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Improvement in Education Sector dependent on partnerships – Baksh

Students’ performances in the areas of Mathematics and English, though not flattering in recent years, is in fact not peculiar to Guyana since other Caribbean territories are experiencing similar...

Businessman shoots self dead with Uzi

Feb 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman shoots self dead with Uzi

A single gunshot rang out just after 10:00hrs yesterday in Marudi Street, Lamaha Gardens. Police subsequently found 36-year-old Nerbert Gerald Orlando Harris dead in his two-storey home. Reports...

Armed bandits invade cop’s home

Feb 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Armed bandits invade cop’s home

Police are questioning two taxi drivers from a popular city service in connection with an armed robbery last night at the home of a Police Sergeant in Triumph, East Coast Demerara. Police believe...

Scientists retract paper on rising sea levels due to errors

Feb 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Scientists retract paper on rising sea levels due to errors

Scientists have been forced to retract a paper that claimed sea level were rising thanks to the effects of global warming, after mistakes were discovered that undermined the results. The study was...

Dem Boys Seh… Ashni bruck up parliament

Feb 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Dem Boys Seh… Ashni bruck up parliament

Is Mash and all dem people in parliament decide that dem wasn’t going to miss it fuh nutten. Dem boys seh that dem talk fast, fast, and only Dr Ashni decide that he got to talk lang. He spend three...

Region One rules at Children’s road parade 2010

Feb 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Region One rules at Children’s road parade 2010

(By Mondale Smith) After a day of sparkling, colourful, topical, relevant and cute displays at the nation’s 2010 Children’s road parade that featured tots, teens and young adults from the 11...