March 2011

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Digicel honours outstanding trio

Mar 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel honours outstanding trio

International Women’s Day… Three women were yesterday recognised for their outstanding contributions to the society over the years, by Digicel Guyana, as part of the entity’s observance of...

Food for the Poor reaches out to Children’s Homes, Day Care Centres

Mar 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Food for the Poor reaches out to Children’s Homes, Day Care Centres

Six Children’s Homes and five Day Care Centres are beneficiaries of a large number of items donated to their entities by the Food for the Poor (FFTP) Organisation, with the intention of alleviating...

Convicted Guyanese murderer loses appeal in US shooting

Mar 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Convicted Guyanese murderer loses appeal in US shooting

(Republican American) Connecticut, USA – A Guyanese man lost a last-ditch effort for a new trial Monday in Waterbury Superior Court. He now faces life in prison when he’s sentenced on...

Crane Scheme to experience water disruption until weekend

Mar 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Crane Scheme to experience water disruption until weekend

Residents of Crane, West Coast Demerara, were from yesterday expected to experience a disruption in their regular water supply. This is anticipated to last for the next five days. According to...

Deonarine returns for clash against England Lions

Mar 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Deonarine returns for clash against England Lions

Chattergoon still unavailable By Sean Devers Twenty-seven year-old Test middle-order batsman Narsingh Deonarine has returned from injury to strengthen the National cricket team which will oppose...

GCB executive arrested

Mar 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB executive arrested

Misses Court hearing Assistant Treasurer of the Guyana Cricket Board Pretipaul Jaigobin was last Friday night arrested by Police on the East Coast of Demerara for driving his motor Vehicle under the...

Milerock & Alpha play to 0-0 tie in practice game at GFC

Mar 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milerock & Alpha play to 0-0 tie in practice game at GFC

With just a few more days remaining before Milerock make their CFU Club Championship debut, the Linden based side drew their final warm-up game against fellow Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United 0-0...

Highly anticipated slugfest as ‘The Assassin’ goes after local light/heavyweight belt

Mar 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Highly anticipated slugfest as ‘The Assassin’ goes after local light/heavyweight belt

It’s fight night once again and the nation’s fledgling champions will don gloves when the Guyana Boxing Board of Control, in collaboration with the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) and...

Guyana Fire Service Extinguish Police Youth Club to take revenge

Mar 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Fire Service Extinguish Police Youth Club to take revenge

By Samuel Whyte A brilliant unbeaten century, 134, by Berbice inter county player Keith Fraser was enough to help the Guyana Fire Service soak the Central Police Operational Youth Club (CPOYC) as...

Executives to peruse constitution for solution as GASP AGM

Mar 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Executives to peruse constitution for solution as GASP AGM

– fail to produce amicable results Several attempts by the executive of the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) to elect office bearers for the fiscal year fizzed out with several...

Toney to contest LABA Presidency on Sunday

Mar 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Toney to contest LABA Presidency on Sunday

– Hamid reportedly not interested in re-election By Edison Jefford Sports Journalist, Rawle Toney, who still does freelance work for the Guyana Chronicle, has announced his candidature for the...

Amelia’s Ward United crowned UDFA Senior League Champs

Mar 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Amelia’s Ward United crowned UDFA Senior League Champs

First title in almost 20 years; to get 5-year kit deal from TLC Shipping Amelia’s Ward United were crowned Senior Champions of the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) when that entity’s...

Lengthy proceedings, but uneventful day at Tender Board

Mar 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Lengthy proceedings, but uneventful day at Tender Board

On a lengthy, but relatively uneventful day at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board, the proceedings got underway yesterday with four bids being opened for the supply, delivery...

GTTA officials visit training programme at Linden

Mar 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA officials visit training programme at Linden

National Table Tennis Coach Linden Johnson, Senior Vice President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) Harold Hopkinson and former National champion Colin France among others were in Linden...

No leads as police await PM results

Mar 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on No leads as police await PM results

The murder in Port Kaituma two days ago has been added to the ever-growing list of those to be solved by the police. The body of 49-year-old Lawrence Martindale was found at the waterfront with at...

More cycle racing set for Sunday on the West Demerara

Mar 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on More cycle racing set for Sunday on the West Demerara

National Cycling Coach, Hassan Mohamed MS has organized the 3rd Annual Cheddi Jagan Memorial 50 Miles Cycle Road Race for Sunday March 13. The race will commence from Wales Police Station at...

‘Hammer attacker’ apologises to wife in court

Mar 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Hammer attacker’ apologises to wife in court

By Fareeza Haniff Staff Writer (BVI Platinum News) Vernon Anthony Paddy, who recently pleaded guilty to the offence of causing grievous bodily harm to his wife, Deslyn Paddy, by beating her with a...

You have to be consistent Mr. Harper

Mar 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on You have to be consistent Mr. Harper

Dear Sir, I refer to an article in your edition of 7th March, 2011 by Sean Devers in which he quoted Mr. Roger Harper as saying that there should be some criteria for persons wishing to take...

Man steals washing machine to “free self” from employer

Mar 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man steals washing machine to “free self” from employer

…gets six months Dwayne Philadelphia, 45, of East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, was on Monday sentenced to six months in jail, by acting chief Magistrate Priya Beharry, for stealing a washing machine...

GRPA aims to help reduce societal violence

Mar 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GRPA aims to help reduce societal violence

“The situation that many women face here in Guyana is particularly bad. It seems as though every time one woman goes up another comes down. That doesn’t signal well for us,” said Executive...

Help and Shelter concerned at violence against women

Mar 09, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Help and Shelter concerned at violence against women

Dear Editor, On the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, Help and Shelter joins in saluting the women who have struggled and survived to achieve dignity and equality in Guyana and around...

Health Ministry introduces innovative measure to help fight chronic diseases

Mar 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry introduces innovative measure to help fight chronic diseases

The Ministry of Health has engaged an innovative method to address the problem of overweight and obesity as part of the chronic diseases challenge that Guyana faces. The efforts, according to...

Selective observations and overgeneralizations

Mar 09, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Selective observations and overgeneralizations

Dear Editor, I will persist in proclaiming the truth that Guyana is democratic and free, and, indeed, constantly on the move toward consolidating democracy. I concur with former U.S. President John...

Customer service training essential for nurses – CNO Director

Mar 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Customer service training essential for nurses – CNO Director

Performing the tasks associated with nursing is considered an undertaking that can prove to be very stressful for nurses at times, regardless of where they are positioned across the globe. This is...

The NIS may be skimming pensioner’s money

Mar 09, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The NIS may be skimming pensioner’s money

Dear Editor, MY mom died recently in the US so I took her ashes to Guyana to be buried. She had worked with the government for 25 years. Therefore, the Guyana National Insurance (GNI) has her death...

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(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

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(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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