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Did Jagdeo venture too far ahead of the pack?

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Did Jagdeo venture too far ahead of the pack?

A friend once said to me, “If you are going to lead, don’t run too far ahead of your followers because suddenly there would be nothing to lead.” It made sense immediately. I...

Cop positively identified as drug counselor’s killer

Sep 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cop positively identified as drug counselor’s killer

Eyewitnesses to last Thursday morning’s fatal shooting outside the Stabroek Market have positively identified a police Corporal as the gunman. The rank, whose name was given as...

Sophia women beat suspected serial rapist

Sep 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia women beat suspected serial rapist

More than a dozen women caught a man trying to rape a woman in Sophia yesterday and gave him a severe beating which landed him at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The man was...

How the NIS Corriverton branch costs $69M…3 Tuff tanks, gutters, and pipes for $1.4M

Sep 18, 2011 KNews News 5

-bids not opened by National Tender Board The controversial high-priced $69M Corriverton branch of the National Insurance Scheme was not awarded by the National Procurement and Tender Administration...

Preserving the Wapishana language and culture….Dorothy Faria is a ‘Special Person’

Sep 18, 2011 KNews News 3

Pull Quote: “Sometimes when I speak the Wapishana language some of the children look at me like if I fall off the moon; I don’t like that. The children should be able to...

Dem boys seh…De police really smart

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De police really smart

Is confusion in de system. Two cops decide that dem gun mek dem heights before dem lef de wuk. A man gun get tek way and two of dem tell de man that if he give de $50,000 dem gun get...

Johnson, Mohamed spur Demerara to victory as E’bo lose by 58 runs

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Johnson, Mohamed spur Demerara to victory as E’bo lose by 58 runs

GCB’s El Dorado 50-overs cricket Skipper Leon Johnson led from the front with a classy 67 and off-spinner Zaheer Mohamed completed the job with 5-28 as Demerara whipped Essequibo by...

Ramdin spurs T&T to Champions League warm-up win

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ramdin spurs T&T to Champions League warm-up win

An aggressive 45-ball 71 with four fours and three sixes by West Indies Keeper Denesh Ramdin and an impressive display by leg-spinner Samuel Badree (3-7) helped Trinidad & Tobago record a...

Digicel offers support to GABA, GCF

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel offers support to GABA, GCF

Digicel’s Public Relations Manager Shonnet Moore speaking during the presentation of monies to the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) and the Guyana Canoe Federation (GCF) stridently...

Celebrating Our Shame at $120 Million

Sep 18, 2011 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Celebrating Our Shame at $120 Million

By Khemraj Ramjattan, Presidential Candidate The legendary Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges, during the first populist regime of Juan Peron, summed up the political atmosphere of repression...

The final comical act of a failed president

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The final comical act of a failed president

One definitive characteristic of Mr. Jagdeo’s presidency was his total obliviousness to the comical levels to which he brought down his office. I prefer to say he was oblivious,...

From dreaming ‘country-boy’ to three-time Guyana Prize winner (Part 2 of 3)

Sep 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on From dreaming ‘country-boy’ to three-time Guyana Prize winner (Part 2 of 3)

“We hear of America being a ‘melting pot’; yes? It is being in this melting pot that has helped me as a writer—in that it has broadened my perspectives on human interactions. Being...

Housing and you: Valuation of your land for mortgages, insurance purposes

Sep 18, 2011 KNews News 1

By Leonard Gildarie Last week, we spoke of little things that can be done to raise the value of your home without going overboard on the costs. It is a fact that many persons build...

The house in the Back Street

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The house in the Back Street

By Michael Jordan Five years ago, in September 2006, when Savitri Singh heard that a baby had died in the house at Back Street, Stewartville, she wasn’t very surprised. Shocked, yes,...

SHOWING APPRECIATION

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on SHOWING APPRECIATION

There were quite a few persons wearing black on Friday, the Day of Appreciation for President Jagdeo, but they were in the main attending funerals. There were not many...

Another side of 9/11

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Another side of 9/11

By Sir Ronald Sanders Broadcast to the world via international television, a young man spoke poignantly at the observance of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 in New York of the regret he...

The Baccoo speaks

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

Tension is heightening because people have refused to accept that everyone has the right to disagree. In this case the disagreement is over who should be respected and who should be allowed to...

Minister Anthony challenges Elite Coaches to focus on School Development

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Minister Anthony challenges Elite Coaches to focus on School Development

Minister of Culture Youth and Sport Dr. Frank Anthony has made a call for more football coaching to be done in the schools around Guyana. Dr. Anthony was at the time delivering the closing...

GFF mourns death of WDFA President

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF mourns death of WDFA President

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the football fraternity has been plunged into a state of mourning following the death of President of the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA),...

Universal sports Store supports WI U-19 players

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Universal sports Store supports WI U-19 players

The Universal Sports Store yesterday made a contribution to the two Guyanese in the West Indies under-19 team which tours India this month and the other who was in the training camp in Barbados but...

Essequibo Cricket Umpires complain over outstanding money

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Essequibo Cricket Umpires complain over outstanding money

Senior Members aligned to the Essequibo Coast and Pomeroon Cricket Umpires & Scores Association (ECPCUS) have lashed out at members of the Essequibo Cricket Board over outstanding...

In-house matters should not attract ‘outhouse’ solutions

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on In-house matters should not attract ‘outhouse’ solutions

By Michael Benjamin The precedent set by the electorate of local sports associations of installing politicians and high ranking officials of civil organizations into executive positions has...

Courts 10km Road Race Classic on today

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Courts 10km Road Race Classic on today

-‘Brother’ goes for gold, Horatio seeks revenge Dennis Horatio and Cleveland Thomas are unhappy that Nathaniel ‘Brother’ Giddings has made them underdogs today. The only way for...

Mark Lewis claims feature 35 lap contest

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mark Lewis claims feature 35 lap contest

11th DeSinco Trading 11 race cycle Meet Linden based Mark Lewis capitalized on the absence of the leading stars to claim victory in the feature 35-lap schools boys and invitational race when...

“Awarding West Indies Cricket!”

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on “Awarding West Indies Cricket!”

Colin E. H. Croft With the recent International Cricket Council Awards 2011, I have this very heartening feeling that West Indies cricket is definitely on the up-swing. The three awards won...

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Dolphin Secondary, East Ruimveldt seal Round-5 victories in Republic Bank U-18 Football League

A shameful abdication of leadership

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