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Guyana Watch serves West Coast Berbice

Jul 30, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Guyana Watch serves West Coast Berbice

– medical team heads for Windsor Forest today Hundreds of residents of West Coast Berbice took the opportunity to see the doctors of the Guyana Watch Medical team yesterday. The Team descended...

Searches conducted at two warehouses

Jul 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Searches conducted at two warehouses

Two bonds, owned by The Discount Store, were yesterday searched for the fake “Piccadilly” shoes as marshals continued to execute court orders, in a battle of two Regent Street establishments. The...

Jamaican CAC gold medallist offers support to Guyanese Carifta gold medallist at CAC

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jamaican CAC gold medallist offers support to Guyanese Carifta gold medallist at CAC

Guyana’s young breaststroker and 3-time Carifta gold medallist enjoyed her first Senior Meet at the CAC Games ending the Meet with two Personal bests in the 100 and 200m breasts where she...

Taxi driver remanded for causing death

Jul 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver remanded for causing death

A 28-year-old taxi driver was yesterday refused pretrial liberty when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrates Court, charged with causing death by...

GUYANA SINK PUERTO RICO IN CAC HOCKEY

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GUYANA SINK PUERTO RICO IN CAC HOCKEY

The Guyana women’s hockey team relegated Puerto Rico to the 7th & 8th place match set for this morning with a 1-0 victory over the hosts in the CAC hockey tournament. The Guyanese suffered...

NACRA Champions Guyana unblemished record tarnished

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on NACRA Champions Guyana unblemished record tarnished

-T& T end the day unbeaten NACRA defending champions Guyana had to rebound from a stunning defeat at the hands of beaten Central American & Caribbean Championship finalist Jamaica to stay in...

We are all Guyanese citizens unless we choose to renounce it

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on We are all Guyanese citizens unless we choose to renounce it

Dear Editor, When I responded to Freddie Kissoon’s attack on three Guyanese – Lord Canary, Kenneth Denny, and Dr. Randy Persaud, two of whom are long dead and cannot defend themselves I knew that...

Rain could end Guyana’s S/Africa’s dream

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rain could end Guyana’s S/Africa’s dream

Today’s semis in jeopardy By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with Digicel A day after over 17,000 fans jumped, danced and screamed as host Trinidad and Tobago, led by a wonderful 65 from the...

Success Masters X1 defeat Max Masters to book quarterfinal berth

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Success Masters X1 defeat Max Masters to book quarterfinal berth

Success Masters turned in a superb all round performance to defeat Max Masters and claim a quarterfinal berth when play in the 4R Masters Cup and Females Softball cricket tournament continued on...

GASP gears up for Emancipation Day tourney, Junior Scrabble competition

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GASP gears up for Emancipation Day tourney, Junior Scrabble competition

Scrabble players are scheduled to match wits when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) convenes at the Malteenoes Cricket Club for the Emancipation Day open on Monday August 2. Already...

Boxer Michael Carryl finds that thinking out of the box boosts teens’ confidence

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxer Michael Carryl finds that thinking out of the box boosts teens’ confidence

Michael Carryl, the president of the Long Island Amateur Boxing and Charities, is hopeful more than 500 boxers will participate in his Lawrence, L.I., tournament next month. Michael Carryl got...

Local boxers exit CAC C/ships with two bronze medals

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local boxers exit CAC C/ships with two bronze medals

Other disciplines suffer mixed fortunes Guyanese boxers’ hopes of winning a silver or gold medal at the 21st Central American and Caribbean championships, currently underway in Mayaguez, Puerto...

The poison of Alcohol

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The poison of Alcohol

In our Wednesday edition, we reported on the outraged reaction of Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop to the avalanche of cases of violence overwhelming the courts in Berbice, precipitated by excessive...

14 plus 28 equals ignorance

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on 14 plus 28 equals ignorance

The U.S. Embassy’s Chargé d’Affairs, Karen Williams, before she completed her tenure held a press conference and though the news was bad, it was good in the sense that the statistics on...

Sundays by law are already public holidays

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sundays by law are already public holidays

Dear Editor, I observed in the newspapers and in the Official Gazette a notice under the signature of Mr. Clement Rohee in which he purports to declare Sunday 1st August, 2010 to be a public holiday....

NOT ABOUT COMPETITION

Jul 30, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NOT ABOUT COMPETITION

It is regrettable that the President of Guyana should have made those remarks at his last press conference about the Pegasus Hotel. While it is not the first time that the President has commented on...

The postal system needs revamping

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The postal system needs revamping

Dear Editor, I don’t have much to say to Peter Fraser concerning his response to my letter in the press about the hours of service by GRA officers at the New Amsterdam Post office. (SN July 28,...

The AFC has betrayed the trust and confidence of Guyanese

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The AFC has betrayed the trust and confidence of Guyanese

Dear Editor, The People of Guyana are now convinced that the National Executive Committee of the AFC and its leaders Raphael Trotman, Khemraj Ramjattan, and Sheila Holder are just like the leadership...

Leaders are expected to be role models

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Leaders are expected to be role models

Dear Editor Almost all presidents and prime ministers around the world are inspirational personalities and role models for young men and women. Young boys in the USA would watch Barack Obama on TV...

It’s not clear what Burke’s ‘beef’ with the AFC is

Jul 30, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on It’s not clear what Burke’s ‘beef’ with the AFC is

Dear Editor, I respond to the letter written by Mr. Rickford Burke in SN of July 27, 2010. The letter castigates the AFC leadership for “going alone” to the 2011 elections. However, it stops...

Two more missing in Suriname waters

Jul 29, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Two more missing in Suriname waters

A Guyanese couple who left home early Monday to fish in Suriname waters just off Nickerie are missing, and relatives fear the worst. Michael Stanley has been fishing in Suriname’s waters using...

Proposed Marriot will kill the local hotel industry

Jul 29, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Proposed Marriot will kill the local hotel industry

… Jagdeo upset his friends did not get Pegasus – Badal Should the proposed Marriot Hotel become a reality it will inevitably kill the hotel industry in Guyana. This is according to Chief...

THIRD TERM FLU

Jul 29, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THIRD TERM FLU

I have been sick for a few weeks now. It all began with me running a high fever. When I first began running a high temperature, I said it must be the flu. But as the days went by, I realized that...

Dem Boys Seh… Short time gun be thriving

Jul 29, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Boys Seh… Short time gun be thriving

People don’t like see big man cry but that was de case de other day when a man decide that he rather tek down he roadside stall before Robeson tek on de wuk. He claim how he get permission but that...

GRA seizes luxury cars in tax evasion probe

Jul 29, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GRA seizes luxury cars in tax evasion probe

– auto dealer fingered The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has reportedly seized two luxury cars in what is believed to be a scam to evade millions of dollars in taxes. The two Jaguars were said...

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Fastest growing economy and an empty stadium

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- It’s a classic Guyanese tale, really. You live in the fastest growing economy in the... more