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Seventy percent of Americans are not wrong

Aug 25, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Seventy percent of Americans are not wrong

Dear Editor, In a previous article, I had jokingly suggested that Peeping Tom may have been smoking something when he wrote that the AFC could become the next main opposition party; now I’m...

Ruling party did more for Buxton than PNC ever did

Aug 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Ruling party did more for Buxton than PNC ever did

– PPP General Secretary Donald Ramotar The General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Donald Ramotar has lashed out at opposition leaders who have condemned the Head of State’s...

Magistrate wants ‘killer’ drivers to be charged with manslaughter

Aug 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate wants ‘killer’ drivers to be charged with manslaughter

– confirms cases being dropped because of financial settlements By Michael Jordan Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday confirmed that he and other magistrates have been discontinuing some causing...

Guyana to lodge formal representation with Norway

Aug 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to lodge formal representation with Norway

…monies will not be affected – Persaud Guyana will be lodging formal representations with the Norwegian Government as it relates to the Reuters article that painted Barama operations in...

Neighbourhood policeman struck by minibus, dies

Aug 25, 2010 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Neighbourhood policeman struck by minibus, dies

A 47-year-old male resident of Bath, West Coast Berbice, died early yesterday morning after being involved in an accident. The man, Rajpaul Jagroop, of Lot 100 Waterloo, Bath New Area, a cane cutter...

Fire leaves E’bo family homeless

Aug 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Fire leaves E’bo family homeless

– Losses estimated at $5M A Richmond, Essequibo Coast family, whose house was gutted by fire yesterday morning, is happy to be alive, despite an estimated $5M in losses. Claire Belfield...

Providence accident victim still unidentified

Aug 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Providence accident victim still unidentified

The Guyana Police Force is seeking the assistance of members of the public in identifying a man who was involved in a fatal accident at Providence Public Road, East Bank Demerara, on Monday last. The...

Cush delayed in USA to collect Visa

Aug 25, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cush delayed in USA to collect Visa

Looking forward to weekend matches By Sean Devers Thirty-five year old Lennox Cush is now expected home on Friday from the USA due to a delay in collecting his Visa but the experienced right-hander...

3rd Inter Guiana Club Football Championship kicks off today

Aug 25, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on 3rd Inter Guiana Club Football Championship kicks off today

GDF play Inter Moengotapoe; Alpha oppose Gelder By Franklin Wilson The Third Edition of the Inter Guiana Club Championship initiated by the respective Football bodies of Guyana, French Guiana and...

Harris free throw flop gifts wrap series for Jammers

Aug 25, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Harris free throw flop gifts wrap series for Jammers

– National basketball captain chokes By Edison Jefford He had done everything right before he stepped to the free-throw (ft) line with one second left in regulation time. An overwhelmed Cliff...

Nankumar Singh, Mervyn Ageday in highly anticipated rematch

Aug 25, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nankumar Singh, Mervyn Ageday in highly anticipated rematch

Boxing fans that have come to appreciate the appearance Republican lightweight pugilist Nankumar Singh when he appears in the ring will once again get a chance to see this rising star in action when...

GBBC President lauds viability of ProAm cards

Aug 25, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBBC President lauds viability of ProAm cards

President of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) Peter Abdool is adamant that there have been notable improvements in the boxing arena ever since the birth of the ProAm boxing card, inaugurated...

Inter Guiana Club Championship to expand

Aug 25, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Inter Guiana Club Championship to expand

Youth, Women & Brazilian teams can be added – Klass President of the Guyana Football Federation and Chairman of the Inter Guiana’s Club Championship Committee, Colin Klass has stated that...

QC’s CSEC performance improves for 2010

Aug 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on QC’s CSEC performance improves for 2010

The performance recorded by Queen’s College at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination has improved, according to statistics unveiled by the school yesterday....

Stabbed Nine Times

Aug 25, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Stabbed Nine Times

The scourge of domestic violence continues unabated. The bodies of Guyana’s women continue to pile up. What is yet to be seen is a real, feasible solution to this dire situation. What is it that...

The Audit Office of Guyana – embracing risk and technology

Aug 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on The Audit Office of Guyana – embracing risk and technology

By Crystal Conway The Audit Office of Guyana (AOG) has recently acquired two new additions to their arsenal that will allow them to improve the quality and depth of their audit investigations. The...

Who paid Movado, Ne-Yo, Bravo and Gayle? Follow the money

Aug 25, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Who paid Movado, Ne-Yo, Bravo and Gayle? Follow the money

“Follow the money” will always remain one of journalism’s most quoted mantras. Even if newspaper journalism dies, replaced by the online format, investigative reporting will never fade. For...

High-Flyer stress

Aug 25, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on High-Flyer stress

The CSEC results, as had the CAPE and SSEE earlier, accomplished its annual raising-of-the-national-consciousness about the value of education. Everyone agrees that education is good: good for the...

Why blame the AFC for reading the grassroots point of view and strategizing accordingly?

Aug 25, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why blame the AFC for reading the grassroots point of view and strategizing accordingly?

Dear Editor, In Arthur Schlesinger words, “a great injustice was done to Cheddi Jagan”. From my reading on our nation’s history, this injustice included destroying a popularly elected...

BETTER RADIO PRODUCTIONS ARE NEEDED

Aug 25, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BETTER RADIO PRODUCTIONS ARE NEEDED

A few weeks ago, I tuned in to one of my favourites nightly radio programmes, Doctor on Call. The doctor who was supposed to be on call must have turned off his beeper (or cellular phone) because...

What is the big fuss about Jagdeo visiting Buxton?

Aug 25, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is the big fuss about Jagdeo visiting Buxton?

Dear Editor, The President is entitled to visit any and every community in this country. It is no surprise that David Hinds of the WPA and critics of his ilk have found another opportunity to...

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By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports- With less than two weeks before the Golden Jaguars meet Barbados in back-to-back encounters that could shape their Gold Cup destiny, the Guyana Football...

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Dominica’s Olympic champion Thea LaFond-Gadson...

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Julien Alfred named finalist for World Track...

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Junior Sinclair replaces Kevin Sinclair in the CG...

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Hamilton Green KO Football Championship starts...

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Fingerprinting and Finger-Pointing

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- No one, not even the staunchest supporters of Guyana’s electoral process, would claim... more