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West Side All Starz are Kings of West Demerara

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By Franklin Wilson West Demerara All Starz are Kings of FastBall on the West Demerara, the Pouderoyen based side defeated West Demerara United (WDU) also based in Pouderoyen 3-2 in the Zone final on...

Ince lauds the support of the entire Squash fraternity

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By Rawle Welch Despite Guyana’s overwhelming success in regional junior Squash, the man who has been the chief architect behind all those accomplishments, Head Coach Carl Ince, somehow has...

Final selection for ladies hockey team to Rio de Janeiro completed

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Following the Guyana national ladies hockey squad’s recent weekend training camp in Trinidad, the Guyana Hockey Board selectors concluded their selection of the final 18 players to comprise the...

Explosive double header on today to bring curtains down

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By Rawle Welch The curtains come down today in the inaugural Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Championship and fans could expect two enthralling encounters to climax the competition. The matches...

Beaton joins Matthews as second fast bowler to lead Guyana at Regional U19 level

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Dear Editor, When Monsterratian born Rensford Beaton walks out to spin the toss on the opening morning of the TCL Regional Under-19 cricket championship in Georgetown, he will become only the second...

Simmons and Gaskin lead the way

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Despite the many challenges faced by local swimmers, many of them turned up at the Castellani Swimming Pool to participate in the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) Time Trials for this...

“There is great hope as West Indies did much better than expected!”

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Colin E. H. Croft One can lose a battle, or several, but still win the war. In the recently concluded series; India v West Indies; especially Test No. 3 in Dominica, West Indies may have drawn that...

DDL Berbice pools competition underway

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– Bahadur brothers take first two stages The Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) under its Lemon Vodka Brand is presently staging a Pools Competition across Region six East Berbice. The...

Allan Carter 16th Memorial Anniversary Day of Sports fixed for today

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The Black Stallion Sports Committee will be hosting a day of sports today, in honour of the late Allan Carter in Vryheid’s Lust Housing Scheme starting at 10:00hrs. The programme comprises of a...

Fire Service douses Police & Prisons to take 2nd leg

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The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) proved too hot for their counterparts, Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Prison Service (GPS) to handle when the second leg of the Ministry of Home Affairs Inter...

Junior Lady Jags continue U17/U20 World Cup preparation

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The junior Lady Jags continue their preparation for participation in upcoming U17 and U20 female World Cup qualifiers with a camp in Toronto over the past week. The camp being conducted by GFF’s...

Angoy’s Avenue gets scout group

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The Central Police Station recently continued its outreach programme with the formation of a scout group in the Angoy’s Avenue. One of the scout leaders Rural Corporal, Deon Thomas, stated that...

Chanderpaul takes Man-of-the Match in final round

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But Jamaica claim Regional under-15 cricket title Jamaica won the 2011 regional under-15 cricket two-day cricket title with a four-wicket victory over Barbados in the fifth and final round of the...

WICB Women’s Tournament in Barbados next month

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The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has announced the fixtures for the 2011 WICB Women’s 50-overs Tournament to be played in Barbados from August 8-14. The tournament will feature eight teams...

The Great Egret

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The Great Egret (Ardea alba), also known as the Great White Egret or Common Egret or White Heron, is a large, widely-distributed egret. Found across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions...

Longest serving Canada -born priest passes on

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A Roman Catholic priest who worked for over half a century in Guyana, Rev Linus Michael Wall, SFM died at the Scarborough General Hospital in Canada on Wednesday. He was 92. Fr. Linus Wall was born...

The rationale behind our objection to the reopening of the Claims and Objections period

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The Alliance For Change has noted with concern, the fact that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is currently giving serious consideration to a request from the PPP to reopen the claims and...

Looking at a challenging education system

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By Adam Harris This past week, 515 more trained teachers entered the system. Last year, a similar number graduated from the Cyril Potter College of Education and they were all supposed to add to the...

Building your home? (Low-cost housing and the Int’l Building Expo)

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By Leonard Gildarie Everybody wants a good deal…whether you are shopping for a TV, groceries, a car or even a building, or simply renovating your home. And there are good deals and savings to be...

Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris”

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They say life is what you make it. But life has its ugly moments when regrets and angst take over as you watch how history merges into the present. It was Tom Dalgetty who wrote a few years back in a...

Who murdered the spiritualist’s family?

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By Michael Jordan If you’re receptive enough, there are crime scenes that you will visit where you’ll feel an overwhelming presence of evil. That’s happened to me twice; back in 2000, when I...

The Baccoo Speaks

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The recent arrest of some suspected bandits has placed a damper on another group that had planned a similar campaign. The issue at hand is that the increased police patrols are actually serving a...

Ethnic Impact Statement

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(For the umpteenth time we offer this proposal to reduce ethnic bickering leading to conflict) In all societies, citizens critically evaluate the policies and activities of the incumbent government:...

A FORENSIC AUDIT IS NEEDED

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A major fraud has reportedly taken place at the Ministry of Finance. The sum believed to have been fraudulently paid out to undeserving persons is said to be nearing the $200 million mark –...

Pauline Massey is new President

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Pauline Massay is the new President of the Lions Club of Central Demerara which recently installed a new executive for the fiscal year. Massay took over the presidency from Sharon Letlow to become...

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…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The PPPC government has reached a new low in its spineless defense of the lopsided Production... more