May 26, 2010

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GCB to stage weekend camps for U-19 selectees

May 26, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB to stage weekend camps for U-19 selectees

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) would be conducting the first of a series of weekend camps for the twenty-six (26) Under-19 players selected in preparation for the WICB Regional U-19 Tournament...

BCB unveils proposal for Berbice ‘A’ Team and Junior Elite training Programme

May 26, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB unveils proposal for Berbice ‘A’ Team and Junior Elite training Programme

Cricket Development in the ancient county of Berbice took another giant step when the Special Events Committee of the Berbice Cricket Board unveiling plans for the formation of a Berbice ‘A’ Team...

South Turkeyen Sports Committee host Domino Competition

May 26, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on South Turkeyen Sports Committee host Domino Competition

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee Independence Domino Competition will commence tomorrow with first round play, at the Guyana Legion Hall on Carifesta Avenue. Double-six time is 19:00 hrs. The...

GPL looks to retain basketball title today

May 26, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GPL looks to retain basketball title today

– more than 25 teams stand in their way The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) will look to retain its Beepat Scorpions’ Inter-Organisation Basketball title today when the third annual competition...

McGowan, All Saints, Edinburgh among latest winners

May 26, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on McGowan, All Saints, Edinburgh among latest winners

McGowan, All Saints and Edinburgh were among the latest winners in this year’s Gilgeous Pawn Shop / AL Sport & Tour Promotions-sponsored Primary School Windball Cricket Championships which...

Roger Gonsalves is Worldly Words Scrabble champion

May 26, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Roger Gonsalves is Worldly Words Scrabble champion

Roger Gonsalves distinguished himself from among his colleagues at the intermediate level to cart off the honours when the Worldly Words Scrabble Club staged a tournament for players outside the top...

Stewartville, Vreed-en-Hoop, La Grange in winners’ row

May 26, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stewartville, Vreed-en-Hoop, La Grange in winners’ row

Stewartville, Vreed-en-Hoop, La Grange all registered wins when play in the West Demerara Essequibo Island Circle Tennis Sub-Association (WD/EI CTSA) / AL Sport & Tour Promotions Inter Schools...

TOO CLOSE TO CALL?

May 26, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on TOO CLOSE TO CALL?

Too close to call! That was what one Guyanese pollster had said about Monday’s General Election in Trinidad & Tobago. It did not turn out that way at all. The United National Party (UNC)/...

Mangrove restoration to save millions $$$ in sea defence

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mangrove restoration to save millions $$$ in sea defence

– Chanderpaul, Sarwan, Dave Martins to help in public awareness By Leonard Gildarie If all goes well, in a few weeks’ time, Guyana will be signing a major agreement that will see over $1B...

Chato’s land, the tragic land, and the killing fields 44 years after

May 26, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Chato’s land, the tragic land, and the killing fields 44 years after

We have achieved 44 years of Independence and if you want to see the state of the nation, then take a bus or plane to the interior and lime in Chato’s land. Chato’s land is the rich interior of...

Blind Society calls for improved educational equipment in schools

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Blind Society calls for improved educational equipment in schools

Yesterday a number of visually impaired persons from around Guyana gathered at the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre where discussions were held on making their lives a little easier in their various...

Unlicensed driver in bizarre road death charged

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Unlicensed driver in bizarre road death charged

Police have charged an unlicensed driver who was allegedly involved in last week’s bizarre fatal accident in Diamond Housing Scheme. But they are still trying to ascertain whether he actually...

Corbin suspends errant party member

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Corbin suspends errant party member

…matter reported to the police, criminal action to be pursued – PNCR Sherwin Benjamin, the Guyana Youth and Student Movement (GYSM) member who assaulted an elderly woman at the People’s...

Berbice River drug duo jailed for three years each

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice River drug duo jailed for three years each

Two West Berbice men, who were caught with a quantity of drugs back in 2008 up the Berbice River, were each found guilty of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking and sentenced to...

Mason granted $150,000 bail on bodily harm charge

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mason granted $150,000 bail on bodily harm charge

Twenty-five year-old Alfred Bradshaw of Princes Street, Lodge, was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. It was alleged that Bradshaw,...

There is potential for disputes between indigenous communities and the State

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on There is potential for disputes between indigenous communities and the State

– World Bank official Land policy-making and land governance, particularly as it relates to REDD preparation is not yet an integrated function of the Guyana government. This is according to...

After 28 years, Cuyuni farmer still awaits lease

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on After 28 years, Cuyuni farmer still awaits lease

– pickets Lands and Surveys A Cuyuni farmer, who has been waiting 28 years for lease to his farmlands in the Cuyuni area, would be satisfied for now, if he can just get a document to stipulate...

Police refute boat purchase article

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Police refute boat purchase article

The Guyana Police Force has refuted reports that it has purchased a $19M twin-engine boat which has never worked. The report in last Thursday’s Kaieteur News alleged that the vessel, which was...

Kenya’s unforgiving road to independence

May 26, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kenya’s unforgiving road to independence

Dear Editor, In the last century, there were many just wars for freedom, and one cannot help but recognise Viet Nam, Algeria, Afghanistan but to mention a few. Many people may not know about the...

Guyana’s Honorary Consul to B’dos Norman Faria is dead

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s Honorary Consul to B’dos Norman Faria is dead

Norman Faria, Guyana’s Honorary Consul to Barbados, passed away on Monday in a hospital in Barbados. Faria who had been admitted to the hospital during the course of a brief illness leaves his...

NDIA ‘not taking over koker management’

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on NDIA ‘not taking over koker management’

Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud has said that, “the NDIA is not taking over regional management of kokers, they are just supporting management for now.” Less than two weeks after the...

Only in Guyana!

May 26, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Only in Guyana!

Dear Editor, Sorry to see you have become the victim of this vile, inhuman form of attack. I have heard that when in the vicinity of primates such as apes and gorillas you should watch out for this...

Appalled by what happened to Mr. Kissoon

May 26, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Appalled by what happened to Mr. Kissoon

Dear Editor, I write to register my utter disgust and condemnation regarding what happened to Mr. Frederick Kissoon as reported in yesterday’s Kaieteur News (25-05-10). The people who did this are...

Miner was clubbed to death in hammock

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Miner was clubbed to death in hammock

– Commander lauds residents for arrest Dalton Prince, the miner who was slain at Ikawan, Cuyuni on Sunday, was clubbed to death as he slept in a hammock, police said yesterday. The motive...

We have degenerated into bestiality, madness

May 26, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have degenerated into bestiality, madness

Dear Editor, There are many things that Freddie Kissoon wrote I don’t agree with, and he isn’t someone I will choose as one of my friends. But if we are going to talk about democracy,...

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...

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