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Ease of doing business…Guyana slips one place in World Bank’s rankings

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ease of doing business…Guyana slips one place in World Bank’s rankings

Guyana has, in the latest World Bank International Financial Corporation’s Doing Business 2012: Doing Business in a More Transparent World report, slipped one place down the ratings to 114...

Truck driver averts collision, but ends up in canal

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Truck driver averts collision, but ends up in canal

A Leyland DAF truck, driven by 29-year-old Roy Narine of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara (EBD), yesterday swerved off the Friendship Public Road, into a trench to avoid a collision...

A man from another time…Aviation pioneer, Victor Fitt, is a special person.

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News 13

Pull quote: “I got a message asking if I would fly over and try to locate where Clement Cuffy was hiding. David Rose and a party of policemen had left on foot. I flew over and...

Miner dies after collision with truck

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Miner dies after collision with truck

While travelling home, 24-year-old miner Hillary Elias Augustus met his demise about noon yesterday at Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara. He had come out of the interior to...

Man killed while collecting friend from wake

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man killed while collecting friend from wake

A young father of two died early yesterday morning at the West Demerara Regional Hospital while receiving treatment for injuries sustained after being involved in a vehicular smash up....

Dem boys seh…Uncle Freddie enjoying a free ride

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Uncle Freddie enjoying a free ride

People does want tek other people thing and do what dem wouldn’t even do to dem own. If a man borrow somebody car he gun drive it like he head ain’t good. He might even crash it and then...

Honours even after Bangladesh fight back

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Honours even after Bangladesh fight back

An inexperienced West Indies top order rose to the occasion to trigger a strong comeback in Mirpur after Bangladesh had enjoyed the better of the drawn first Test in Chittagong. On a...

Gayadin promises a day of exhilarating daredevilry on Nov 13

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gayadin promises a day of exhilarating daredevilry on Nov 13

Motor racing fans in Guyana and abroad have been promised a day of exhilarating daredevilry during the final leg of the GT&T Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship which is scheduled...

Today is Rodeo day

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Today is Rodeo day

The day has finally arrived and its Rodeo time again. A jam packed crowd is expected to throng to the Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima Park Arena West Coast Berbice where all roads are expected to...

Special grading exercise held as GKC scores a first

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Special grading exercise held as GKC scores a first

The Guyana Karate College on Friday October 28 held special Kyu and Dan grading examinations for over sixty of its students under the review of the Chairman and Chief Instructor Shihan Frank...

GABA, GBBC seek to add international flavour to ProAm amateur segment

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABA, GBBC seek to add international flavour to ProAm amateur segment

There is a high possibility that the November edition of the ProAm boxing series dubbed, ‘Friday Night Fights’, will see the amateur segment taking on an international flavour. This...

GFA / Banks DIH President Beer Super League kicks off today

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFA / Banks DIH President Beer Super League kicks off today

Fourteen teams are anticipated to participate in the Opening Ceremony of the inaugural Georgetown Football Association (GFA) / Banks DIH President Beer Super League which kicks off...

Volleyball competition on today in Berbice

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Volleyball competition on today in Berbice

The Berbice Volleyball Association has organized yet another competition in the busy 2011 schedule. The Association which has been very active will be staging the inaugural Dilip...

Mayor Green 77th birthday Ward, Street, Village KO football starts Nov 9

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayor Green 77th birthday Ward, Street, Village KO football starts Nov 9

The Mayor’s Cup Committee will from November 9 to 27 stage the Mayor Hamilton Green 77th birthday Inter Ward, Street and Village Knockout football tournament at the Georgetown...

Jamaican are Regional Super50 champions

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jamaican are Regional Super50 champions

After 5-wicket win against T&T in Final With four consecutive Regional four day titles but none at the One-Day level since 2007, Jamaica beat Trinidad and Tobago by five...

Shimron Hetmyer hits half century as Berbice beat Essequibo by 6 wkts

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shimron Hetmyer hits half century as Berbice beat Essequibo by 6 wkts

An attacking half century by opener Shimron Hetmyer guided Berbice to a 6 wicket victory over Essequibo at the Wakenaam Community Centre ground Friday in the Guyana Cricket Board U-17...

Warrior’s Jagdeo (105 and 2 for 5) and Latchman (62 and 4 for 32) demolish No. 70 Young Blood

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Warrior’s Jagdeo (105 and 2 for 5) and Latchman (62 and 4 for 32) demolish No. 70 Young Blood

2011 New Building Society Second Division 40-Over Cricket Competition … Hamant Jagdeo slammed 105, the first century of the competition, and his team mate Lakeram Latchman...

LOSS OF OLPF LAPTOP

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on LOSS OF OLPF LAPTOP

Dear Editor, I refer to the article carried in your Saturday Edition (Oct.29) captioned “First batch of 5,000 computers arrives for OLPF” in which Minister Manzoor Nadir was...

An open apology to Moses Nagamootoo

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on An open apology to Moses Nagamootoo

Dear Editor, Mr. Nagamootoo, I have berated you, condemned you and criticized you when you chose the path of silence to the egregiousness and atrocities of the Jagdeo regime that have...

Why are there NATO assaults in so many non-white countries?

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why are there NATO assaults in so many non-white countries?

Dear Editor, Gadaffi is dead. Some are happy, some are not. Why was Libya invaded in the first place? Why did the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) bomb Libya? Why is there a...

The hypocrisy and ironies that bedevil Guyana’s political landscape

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The hypocrisy and ironies that bedevil Guyana’s political landscape

Dear Editor, A few days ago, at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, in his usual cuss- down- market style, President, Bharrat Jagdeo delivered a mouthful of venalities against...

Guyanese are waking up from the long slumber since independence

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese are waking up from the long slumber since independence

Dear Editor, My letter is of particular importance for consideration by my Guyanese sisters and brothers. I am fully aware that the Alliance for Change (AFC) is making remarkable...

Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta, and Why Not?

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta, and Why Not?

Dear Editor, Karl Marx in the 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte alluded to the words from Aesop’s Fable the Swaggerer ‘Hic Rhodus, hic salta’ which means ‘here is the rose, here...

We’re adrift at the mercy of the Titanic’s clueless captain and crew

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on We’re adrift at the mercy of the Titanic’s clueless captain and crew

Dear Editor, In the immensely successful movie Titanic, a three-man band continued to belt out soothing music as the colossal ship was sinking to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean after...

Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club quartet seeks greater glory

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club quartet seeks greater glory

– Hooper, Hicks, Mahadeo & Ivan aiming high Over the last decade the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC), which was formed in 1990 has along with...

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Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more