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Primary Schools Windball Cricket round-up

May 22, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Primary Schools Windball Cricket round-up

Results from Skeldon Community Centre Ground, Upper Corentyne Region 6 Zone Gilgeous Pawn Shop & AL Sport & Tour Promotions End of school year Windball Champions Trophy Girls show: Skeldon...

Decomposed body found at Capoey

May 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Decomposed body found at Capoey

A decomposed body of a man who was described as an alcoholic by his sister, Coreletta Francis, and who was mentally ill, was discovered early yesterday morning by his brother, Reginald Francis. The...

Is Deon Barnwell the youngest World Cup captain in CONCACAF?

May 22, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Is Deon Barnwell the youngest World Cup captain in CONCACAF?

Dear Editor, Born on the 28th March, 1969 Thomas United utility stalwart Deon Barnwell became the land of the Majestic Kaieteur Falls youngest World Cup captain on April 4, 1988. Barnwell was at the...

Prosecution does not have file in Sharma’s obstruction of justice case

May 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Prosecution does not have file in Sharma’s obstruction of justice case

Embattled television station owner, Chandra Narine Sharma, yesterday made his second court appearance in relation to the obstruction of justice charge which was levied against him last month. Sharma...

Against the cyclical deluge of rags to riches – and back to rags

May 22, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Against the cyclical deluge of rags to riches – and back to rags

By Michael Benjamin Boxing is replete with ‘rags to riches’ and ‘back to rags’ stories and it seems as though the historical evidence available for perusal is of little or no consequence to...

Guyana moves to have computerised driver’s licence by year-end

May 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana moves to have computerised driver’s licence by year-end

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says it is working to introduce a computerised Driver’s Licence, similar to the National Identification Card. GRA, explaining in a release yesterday, disclosed...

Fruta Conquerors presented with over $1million in uniforms, gears

May 22, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Fruta Conquerors presented with over $1million in uniforms, gears

Fruta Conquerors FC were provided with the necessary incentive to perform even better this year when Managing Director of the Guyana Beverage Company Robert Selman presented the club with over...

Regal Masters XI defeat Linden Over-40 to retain unbeaten streak

May 22, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Regal Masters XI defeat Linden Over-40 to retain unbeaten streak

The Christianburg Ground came alive last Sunday, when the Demerara zone of the Masters’ Cup and Females Softball cricket tournament continued with several exciting matches. The day’s proceedings...

Corbin calls for detailed framework for paying CLICO policyholders

May 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Corbin calls for detailed framework for paying CLICO policyholders

Leader of the Peoples National Congress Reform, Robert Corbin, has challenged President Bharrat Jagdeo’s position that nothing can be done at Colonial Life Insurance Company (Guyana) because of the...

GFF Super League continues today

May 22, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on GFF Super League continues today

Play in the Win in CONCACAF with CONCACAF funded by FIFA, GFF Super League continues today with 3 matches at 2 venues. At the GFC Ground, Bourda, from 14:00hrs Sunburst Camptown, who are currently...

We aid our underdevelopment

May 22, 2010 knews Editorial Comments Off on We aid our underdevelopment

The international community seeks to measure the development of countries by the number of schools, the quality of skilled people (teachers, nurses, doctors, artisans and the like) medical...

An unjustified attack on Kwayana

May 22, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on An unjustified attack on Kwayana

Dear Editor, Mr. Freddie Kissoon comes across as an angry man in most of his columns. He attacks everyone in his columns. He gets very agitated when prominent people don’t support his position on...

ANSA McAL donates to UG

May 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on ANSA McAL donates to UG

ANSA McAl Trading Limited, as part of its initiative to promote Guyana “going green” has donated $155,000 to the University of Guyana Pamela Bourne’s UG Environmental Enhancement Project–...

Mr. Forde’s utterances have no basis and are divorced from the truth

May 22, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Forde’s utterances have no basis and are divorced from the truth

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter that appeared in the Kaieteur News on 14th May 2010 under the caption, “There’s a problem at this private school”. The private school referred to be Hururu...

It’s time people stop attacking this fountain of knowledge

May 22, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on It’s time people stop attacking this fountain of knowledge

Dear Editor, I cannot understand why people are continually after the ‘Russian Economist’. Someone is questioning the cost of hydro power and said it will not cost peanuts; another person is...

Intolerable condition prevails at Linden Hospital Maternity Ward

May 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Intolerable condition prevails at Linden Hospital Maternity Ward

Stifling and unrelenting heat is what patients of the Maternity Ward of the Linden Hospital Complex have had to endure for the past three weeks, as a result of the broken air conditioning unit....

Law enforcement in Guyana has become an emulation of Pavlovian conditioning

May 22, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Law enforcement in Guyana has become an emulation of Pavlovian conditioning

Dear Editor, I essentially agree with Freddie Kissoon’s take on the recent sexual allegations issues, that East Indians who are opposed to the PPP are being discriminatingly targeted for judicial...

Hugh Cholomondeley to head team to monitor T&T elections

May 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Hugh Cholomondeley to head team to monitor T&T elections

– Gocool Boodoo heads to Suriname elections Former broadcaster, Guyanese Hugh Cholmondeley, will head the Caricom mission invited to monitor general elections in Trinidad and Tobago on Monday....

Human rights violations and torture

May 22, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Human rights violations and torture

Dear Editor, I refer to the call by so many countries for an independent probe into the so called phantom squad and about human rights violations and torture here in Guyana as reported in the...

Motorcyclist who slammed into cow succumbs

May 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist who slammed into cow succumbs

Twenty-year-old New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) student, Rondel Simmons, who was involved in a serious accident around 03:00 hrs Sunday morning when his motor cycle (CD 8052) collided with a...

Mother of five gets three years jail for ganja

May 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of five gets three years jail for ganja

An Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam resident and mother of five, who was previously convicted on a narcotics matter, was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison and fined $30,000 when she...

History may be yet again repeating itself

May 22, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on History may be yet again repeating itself

Dear Editor The Guyana Government is moving ahead towards integration with Brazil. At least this is the amazing claim, which has been made by the Government media, GINA. Some secret, back-handed deal...

The Final Solution for Africans?

May 22, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Final Solution for Africans?

“The Final Solution for Indians?” was the title of Ravi Dev’s KN column for April 18, 2010. I planned an immediate response but as all (yes all) would know you cannot keep a columnist schedule...

Racism and the ethnic divide are largely responsible for our underdevelopment

May 22, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Racism and the ethnic divide are largely responsible for our underdevelopment

Dear Editor, Lincoln Lewis claimed that: “The elephant in the room no one wants to talk about but remains the source of most of our conflicts and underdevelopment is racism”, (Kaieteur News:...

The National Ophthalmology Clinic has performed 1,536 surgeries in one year

May 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on The National Ophthalmology Clinic has performed 1,536 surgeries in one year

The National Ophthalmology Hospital, in Port Mourant, Region Six was constructed through expanded co-operation in the area of health between the Governments of Cuba and Guyana. It was commissioned by...

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The third parties will not survive this year’s elections

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The fate of third parties in this year’s general and regional elections is as predictable... more