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We are promoting dishonesty

Aug 28, 2010 knews Editorial Comments Off on We are promoting dishonesty

About a decade ago, singer Rudy Grant moved to the courts to protest what he saw as the copyright infringement of a song he had composed. A local advertising agency had used this song in one of its...

Audit ordered on MRL’s records

Aug 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Audit ordered on MRL’s records

– rice production set to better 2009 Authorities have ordered an audit of the books of Mahaicony Rice Limited (MRL) to determine how much is actually owed to farmers. This was disclosed...

GDF claw back to draw with Alpha 2-2; Gelder de Kourou 1, Inter Moengotapoe 1

Aug 28, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on GDF claw back to draw with Alpha 2-2; Gelder de Kourou 1, Inter Moengotapoe 1

By Franklin Wilson Fans witnessing day two of the 3rd Inter Guiana Club Football Championship had their monies worth with both games ending in exhilarating draws yesterday afternoon at the GCC Ground...

BLAME IT ON THE WEATHER

Aug 28, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BLAME IT ON THE WEATHER

It was one of those days when you wished that you could stay indoors. It was steaming hot. The early morning rain seemed to have had no effect at all. The sun came out in all its glory and steamed...

Banks DIH pumps $2.2M in sponsorship for Guyana Cup?

Aug 28, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH pumps $2.2M in sponsorship for Guyana Cup?

Beverage Giants Banks DIH has thrown its support behind the Guyana Cup, the largest horserace meet of the year. Outdoor Events Manager, Mortimer Stewart, presented the winner’s trophy and...

Golfers battle in Kings Jewellery World tourney today

Aug 28, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Golfers battle in Kings Jewellery World tourney today

Local golfers have been hard at training and will engage each other today in the King’s Jewellery World (KJW) sponsored Medal Play golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) Course, East Coast...

Guyana, HQ continue dominance

Aug 28, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana, HQ continue dominance

On the heel of a few solid and consistent performances, Guyana and Headquarters (HQ) retained the respective titles yesterday on the final day of the Annual Guyana Police Force (GPF) Athletic...

Young Achievers favoured to take top honours today

Aug 28, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Young Achievers favoured to take top honours today

National champions Young Achievers will start as overwhelming favourites to take top honours again today when the Castrol Strikers / Guyana Volleyball Federation-organised Tournament continue, at the...

Guyana battle T&T tonight at Providence

Aug 28, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana battle T&T tonight at Providence

Cavalier and Berbice face-off in opening game By Sean Devers Caribbean 20/20 champions Guyana will conclude their match practice for next month’s Champions League 20/20 cricket tournament in South...

LaPenitence defeat NA in latest Inter Market Futsal Football

Aug 28, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on LaPenitence defeat NA in latest Inter Market Futsal Football

The first night was entertaining and the second night proved to be just as action packed and enthralling when the Stabroek Warriors Sports 5th Annual 5 a-side Inter Market Futsal Football tournament...

Missing man found dead in sand pit

Aug 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Missing man found dead in sand pit

By Latoya Giles The partly decomposed body of a man who disappeared on Tuesday was discovered face-down in a sand pit on the Linden/ Soesdyke Highway, yesterday afternoon. Police were unable to say...

US court jails Guyana-born immigration officer

Aug 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on US court jails Guyana-born immigration officer

NEW YORK, CMC – A New York judge has jailed a Guyana-born US immigration officer after he pleaded guilty to coercing oral sex from a 22-year-old Colombian woman. Justice James P. Griffin of New...

Angry clients beat bogus car dealer

Aug 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Angry clients beat bogus car dealer

Police last night escorted a controversial businessman to seek medical treatment for wounds he sustained allegedly at the hands of persons he fleeced out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The man...

Paint samples from vessels do not match – Crime Chief

Aug 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Paint samples from vessels do not match – Crime Chief

Paint samples taken from the damaged army coast guard boat last year have not matched those taken from the vessel which missing 10-year-old Ricky Jainarine and two others were aboard. On August 11,...

Local cops praised for nabbing ‘one of Brazil’s most wanted’

Aug 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Local cops praised for nabbing ‘one of Brazil’s most wanted’

The Guyana Police Force has come in for high praise from their Brazilian counterparts for the capture of a man described as one of Brazil’s most wanted. Last week local police handed over Euclid Da...

Pit bulls rip man’s face apart

Aug 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Pit bulls rip man’s face apart

Fifty-four year-old Patrick Gordon of Lot 610 Back Circle, East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, had to be rushed to hospital on Monday after being mauled by two pit bulls in his neighbourhood. The man, who...

Do you know these children?

Aug 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Do you know these children?

The Childcare and Protection Agency, an arm of the Ministry of Labour, Human Services & Social Security, would like to make urgent contact with the parents or relatives of the children shown...

Driver charged with ‘causing death’

Aug 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Driver charged with ‘causing death’

– granted $350,000 bail Twenty-year-old Christopher George appeared in court yesterday afternoon to answer a charge of causing death by dangerous driving – the death of 19-year-old...

No reports of drug shortage at Lethem Hospital – Minister Ramsammy

Aug 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on No reports of drug shortage at Lethem Hospital – Minister Ramsammy

“No reports have reached my office that there is a shortage of drugs at the Lethem Hospital,” Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, asserted last evening. His remarks came in response to this...

Norwegian Finance Ministry clarifies logging issue

Aug 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Norwegian Finance Ministry clarifies logging issue

– assures support for, impressed by efforts of Guyana Govt. The Norwegian State Secretary, Ministry of Finance Hilde Singsaas yesterday wrote to Guyana’s Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud...

Alpha match skills with GDF; Gelder tackles Inter Moengotapoe from 14:00hrs

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alpha match skills with GDF; Gelder tackles Inter Moengotapoe from 14:00hrs

Alpha has set the perfect platform from which to launch their bid to win the 3rd Annual Inter Guiana Football Club Championship. The leading local club side will face the number club in the land,...

Mohamed to lead East Coast Jaguars on Sunday

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mohamed to lead East Coast Jaguars on Sunday

Cush arrives for clash against T&T tomorrow By Sean Devers First-Class off-spinning all-rounder Zaheer Mohamed will lead the East Coast Jaguars against the Georgetown Pit bulls from 16:00hrs on...

ESPN enters 3-year deal with ESPN Star Sports

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on ESPN enters 3-year deal with ESPN Star Sports

Owns exclusive C’bean rights for CLT20, NCN to broadcast tournament By Sean Devers Kaieteur Sport was informed yesterday that ESPN has entered into a three-year agreement with ESPN STAR Sports...

Eugene LaFleur to captain Berbice against NLC tomorrow

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Eugene LaFleur to captain Berbice against NLC tomorrow

Former Guyana Under-19 skipper Eugene LaFleur will lead the 14-man Universal DVD Berbice Titans in their Twenty20 match against the New Line Cavaliers tomorrow at the Guyana National Stadium...

Mandessa Moses/Sharon Ward should be a scorcher tonight

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mandessa Moses/Sharon Ward should be a scorcher tonight

If you had seen the clinical way that Mandessa Moses had disposed of Alisa Marques and the classical moves she employed on her way to a lopsided shutdown of Margaret ‘Chicho’ Walcott, then you...

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“One Guyana” is no less a national slogan than “Green Guyana”

Kaieteur News- The notion that “One Guyana” is a partisan slogan is pure poppycock. It is a desperate fiction... more