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Bajans hammer Guyana by 8 wickets at Blairmount

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bajans hammer Guyana by 8 wickets at Blairmount

Regional U-19 one-day cricket (4th round) Barbados hammered host Guyana by eight wickets at the Blairmont ground in West Berbice yesterday to maintain their unbeaten record in this year’s...

Berbice cricket board holds Ordinary General Meeting today

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice cricket board holds Ordinary General Meeting today

The Berbice Cricket Board will today hold their Ordinary General meeting beginning at the Boards Office at Charlotte Street New Amsterdam, From 10:00hrs. The meeting is expected to be a stormy...

Massive infrastructural investments being made for $20M Guyana Cup horserace meet

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Massive infrastructural investments being made for $20M Guyana Cup horserace meet

Biggest purses, most horses entered, larger starting gates to accommodate 16 horses By Samuel Whyte The organizers of the Fifth Annual Guyana Cup 2011 $20M horserace meet, which is...

Kennard Memorial comes alive today with Post Emancipation race meet

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kennard Memorial comes alive today with Post Emancipation race meet

Close to $5M on offer It will be nonstop action today when the Kennard Memorial Turf club stages their Grand Post Emancipation horserace meet today at their racetrack at Bush Lot Farm,...

Hajjin Zeleena Rafeek Memorial/MYO Inter Jamaat T10 softball cricket

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hajjin Zeleena Rafeek Memorial/MYO Inter Jamaat T10 softball cricket

To bowl off on September 4 nationwide; $600,000 at stake The inaugural Muslim Youth Organization of Guyana in association with Raf’s Variety Store will host the first Annual Hajjin Zeleena...

Hikers Junior Hockey ‘Summer’ Programme starts tomorrow

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hikers Junior Hockey ‘Summer’ Programme starts tomorrow

The Hikers Hockey Club’s annual Junior Hockey ‘Summer’ programme is scheduled to commence tomorrow, Monday August 15 at the St. Stanislaus College Forum. The programme will cater for...

53rd Senior C/bean TT C/ships commences

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on 53rd Senior C/bean TT C/ships commences

President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association Police Commissioner Henry Greene in opening the 53rd Senior Caribbean Table Tennis Championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday...

Dyna’s Bravados, Fire Links into Super Sixteen

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dyna’s Bravados, Fire Links into Super Sixteen

Kares Engineering / Bushy Park Sawmills 10/10 Tapeball Cricket Competition Dyna’s Bravados and Fire Links advanced to the Super Sixteen stage of the Kares Engineering / Bushy Park...

“West Indians playing in English County Cricket are so few!”

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on “West Indians playing in English County Cricket are so few!”

The news that young Darren Michael Bravo has been granted a short playing contract at Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is very pleasant indeed. In the recent past, very few West Indians...

‘Jumbie’ Wiltshire Domino Tournament on today in B/ce

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Jumbie’ Wiltshire Domino Tournament on today in B/ce

Niee’s residence at Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, will come alive today when Jumbie, in association with TNT hold a Domino Competition. According to a release from the Organisers, the...

Mark Sutton Memorial Football set for Melanie today

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mark Sutton Memorial Football set for Melanie today

Today from 8.00am on the Melanie Playfield, the Mark Sutton Foundation will stage the 2nd Anniversary of the Mark Sutton Memorial Knockout Football competition for under-13 and senior teams...

Civil Society and Change

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Civil Society and Change

As the developed world implodes financially once again, our general ennui will certainly be exacerbated. Much of the tedium, or even dissatisfaction, centres on the social world in which we...

7 Difficult Personality Types And How To Deal With Them

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on 7 Difficult Personality Types And How To Deal With Them

Have you ever felt the pulse pounding, face-flushing, word-sputtering frustration of being face to face with an aggressor, an egotist, a sneak, a victim, a negator, a superagreeable, or...

Sunday August 14, 2011

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The Baccoo Speaks

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The arrest of a wanted man would lead to the arrest of two others, all on the eastern corridor. These were people who plotted and robbed even returning Guyanese. The police are going to...

England’s Riots: A line has been crossed

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on England’s Riots: A line has been crossed

By Sir Ronald Sanders The riots in London, which spread to other cities in England in a copycat pattern, were unlike any that had been seen before, and when normalcy is restored, the British...

Suriname Break

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Suriname Break

It was supposed to be a quick getaway to Suriname with the wife and children and to be back in Guyana before the 17th when the CSEC results – which were of some interest to my daughter – were...

A SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR A “COMPLEX” PROBLEM

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR A “COMPLEX” PROBLEM

Surely, the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown does not expect that it will be continuously bailed out by the government every time it finds itself unable to pay for garbage collection. Such...

The enhanced communication era – for good or bad

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The enhanced communication era – for good or bad

I have had a chance to review many things during this my vacation, and I can say that perhaps the people of Guyana expect too much. In the first place, we do not have the skills to deliver the things...

Blood of the innocents

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Blood of the innocents

– sacrificial murder for wealth, health and a US visa By Michael Jordan Who would strangle a two-year-old girl after having a dream about ‘Dutch gold’ buried in their...

Ally, Misir and all that misery

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ally, Misir and all that misery

It is not only that Guyana has to endure the misery of life under the PPP, but the misery in the asininity of some of its leaders. I have been in the newspaper business a long time and still I...

Interesting Creatures… The Jaguar

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… The Jaguar

The jaguar is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, and is the only Panthera species found in the Americas. The jaguar is the third-largest feline after the tiger and the lion, and...

Bringing sanity to our roads

Aug 14, 2011 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Bringing sanity to our roads

By Gerhard Ramsaroop The AFC welcomes the introduction of traffic wardens by the Government to help curb the chaos on our roads. However, given how far the situation has been allowed to...

Clearly “silly season” has arrived

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Clearly “silly season” has arrived

Dear Editor, This week there was much to talk about, and clearly “silly season” has arrived. First, from no less than the Office of the President we were told that “victim friendly”...

Bisram has no evidence to produce because none exists

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bisram has no evidence to produce because none exists

Dear Editor, Time and again Mr. Vishnu Bisram has used the print media in Guyana to peddle misinformation to the public. Bisram writes as though he is an expert on the laws of Guyana. To my...

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