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Linden power company donates bus shed

Mar 22, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Linden power company donates bus shed

On Friday, the Linden Utility Services Cooperative Society Limited (LUSCSL) handed over a spanking new bus shed to the Linden municipality. The shed which is located in front of the New Silver City...

London suffers KO to Lorissa Rivas for WBC CABOFE Light Heavyweight belt

Mar 22, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on London suffers KO to Lorissa Rivas for WBC CABOFE Light Heavyweight belt

The sport of boxing undoubtedly stole the show when the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs staged its fifth annual Women in Sport Festival on Saturday last at the Eastern Regional Complex at...

Brathwaite (5-24) leads CCC to 8-run win over Guyana

Mar 22, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Brathwaite (5-24) leads CCC to 8-run win over Guyana

Guyanese in cellar position with a match to go By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Digicel, Queensway& Leisure Inn Skipper Assad Fudadin hit a responsible 44 but Guyana produced...

Mayor’s Cup football continues today and tomorrow

Mar 22, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Mayor’s Cup football continues today and tomorrow

Action in the Mayor’s Cup football championship continues today and tomorrow at the Georgetown Football Club ground, Bourda, with double headers. Exciting match-ups have been set for both days....

Where are our sporting heroes Guyana?

Mar 22, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Where are our sporting heroes Guyana?

Sports Editor, Please permit me to air a concern in your column that is of much interest to us as a people. A few nights ago I listened attentively to President Jagdeo as he delivered the feature...

Guyanese continue fine showing in T&T cricket

Mar 22, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese continue fine showing in T&T cricket

Pooran hits ton, Nagamootoo takes 5-93 Guyanese continued to do well with outstanding performances in latest action in Trinidad’s domestic cricket over the weekend. At Wilson Road, First...

Linden Table Tennis Open reactivates sport

Mar 22, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Linden Table Tennis Open reactivates sport

– GTTA welcomes return to community The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) and the Linden Table Tennis Steering Committee created quite a stir Sunday night at the Constabulary Hall when the...

Amateur boxers called to duty as Harpy Eagles observes anniversary celebrations

Mar 22, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Amateur boxers called to duty as Harpy Eagles observes anniversary celebrations

Amateur boxers would be kept busy over the coming weekend when the Harpy Eagles Boxing Gym hosts 2 nights of fistic fury on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 at the Old Sawmill yard, Independence Boulevard,...

Members of Dance Fanatics set to debut in fitness segment

Mar 22, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Members of Dance Fanatics set to debut in fitness segment

While there has not been a dearth of athletes competing in the mainstream body building categories at the Guyana Amateur Body Building & Fitness Federation (GABBFF) competitions over the years,...

Harmony, C/Burg-Wismar, Wisburg record victories

Mar 22, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Harmony, C/Burg-Wismar, Wisburg record victories

New Silvercity Secondary suffered its first loss in this year’s Edward ‘Screw’ Richmond Memorial Secondary Schools Football Competition after going down to Harmony by a 1-0 margin when play...

GABBFF Novice & Intermediate c/ships slated for Sunday @ NCC

Mar 22, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on GABBFF Novice & Intermediate c/ships slated for Sunday @ NCC

Window – Shop and Repair makes $$$ contribution The Guyana Amateur Body Building & Fitness Federation will bring off their first competition for the year when they host the annual Novice and...

A good country run by monkeys is still a zoo

Mar 22, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A good country run by monkeys is still a zoo

I got this quote from a book on management principles I was reading the other day but instead of country there was the word “company.” I thought it was appropriate to use in the analysis of the...

BLAME IT ON THE RAIN!

Mar 22, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BLAME IT ON THE RAIN!

There is a blame game taking place in relation to the exportation of a container of lumber in which cocaine was found. The discovery was made in Jamaica when the container was taken off the exporting...

‘Cocaine with logs’ – govt.’s primary responsibility for legality verification

Mar 22, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on ‘Cocaine with logs’ – govt.’s primary responsibility for legality verification

Dear Editor, It is no doubt a coincidence that the discovery in Jamaica of 122 kg of cocaine inside a container of logs was reported just one day before the article, “Guyana reviews system to...

Sharief Khan’s credentials as a journalist are above biased criticism

Mar 22, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Sharief Khan’s credentials as a journalist are above biased criticism

Dear Editor, I have refrained until now to comment on Freddie Kissoon’s column on the late Sharief Khan. Whilst I found it even more bigoted and offensive than Mr. Kissoon’s usual fare, I...

Work undertaken by the NDIA has been commended by the World Bank

Mar 22, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Work undertaken by the NDIA has been commended by the World Bank

Dear Editor, I respond to an article titled, “Huge sums spent but conservancy management poor -engineers”, (SN, March 20, 2011) which contains a number of inaccurate statements. While the East...

This website operates to defame, libel and vilify persons perceived to be critical of the Govt.

Mar 22, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on This website operates to defame, libel and vilify persons perceived to be critical of the Govt.

Dear Editor, I bring to the attention of the public a website, liveinguyana.blogspot.com, operated with the clear intention to defame, libel and vilify persons perceived to be critical of the PPP/C...

Is ethanol/biodiesel the vehicle to give the sugar industry a new beginning?

Mar 22, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Is ethanol/biodiesel the vehicle to give the sugar industry a new beginning?

Dear Editor, Approximately 300 years ago the sugar industry in Guyana was born. It was the venture of the Dutch West India Company and it depended heavily on the African slave labour to harvest the...

Let’s equip ourselves to bring about real and meaningful change

Mar 22, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Let’s equip ourselves to bring about real and meaningful change

Dear Editor, President Bharrat Jagdeo and the PPP/C are caught up with their lies; it therefore means that the nation has every reason to distrust them. Those of us who have been following the...

Telecoms giants and Phagwah

Mar 22, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Telecoms giants and Phagwah

Dear Editor, Now that Phagwah has come and gone, wistful dreamers might have fantasised about the meaning of Phagwah in real life and how the big telecoms giants got involved. GT&T had their blue...

The mystery cocaine shipment

Mar 22, 2011 knews Editorial Comments Off on The mystery cocaine shipment

There can be no reasonable explanation for the recent cocaine find among lumber shipped from Guyana. At present the authorities are pointing fingers in every direction except at themselves. Each...

UNASUR considers visa exemptions for travel within South America

Mar 22, 2011 knews News Comments Off on UNASUR considers visa exemptions for travel within South America

– Heads to decide on rotating candidates for Secretary – General Foreign Ministers of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) recently discussed a possible visa waiver for travel...

I know why the Govt. did away with prescriptive rights

Mar 22, 2011 knews News Comments Off on I know why the Govt. did away with prescriptive rights

There is no doubt, not even a thread of it, in my mind that there is money in Switzerland. If the PPP loses the election, as sure as night follows day, there will be a probe of corruption and the new...

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Jagdeo’s idea of transparency

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Transparency, as conceived by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, seems to be a peculiar exercise... more