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Keen tussle envisaged at senior Chess championship set for the weekend

Oct 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Keen tussle envisaged at senior Chess championship set for the weekend

Chess players will match wits once again when the Guyana Chess Federation stages a Chess competition which will serve as the lead up to the 2011 National Senior championship, on Sunday...

Rockaway/New York Softball team Int. tourney bowls off today

Oct 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rockaway/New York Softball team Int. tourney bowls off today

Sixteen teams will battle from toady the three-day Guyana Cup Open and Guyana Masters Cup Twenty20 softball competitions set to be played at four different venues in the capital city,...

Clive Lloyd appointed GCB Executive

Oct 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Clive Lloyd appointed GCB Executive

Sixty-seven year-old former Guyana and West Indies Captain Clive Lloyd has been appointed to serve as a co-opted Executive Committee Member of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB). According...

ECB U-17 KO 50 over tourney…Persaud, Gonsalves hit 50s as Leguan & South E’bo win; Pomeroon DQ

Oct 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on ECB U-17 KO 50 over tourney…Persaud, Gonsalves hit 50s as Leguan & South E’bo win; Pomeroon DQ

Leguan and South Essequibo recorded victories when the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) knock-out Under-17 50-over cricket competition bowled off recently with several matches. At Lima,...

E’bo Coast select XI defeat Surujpaul XI in feature U- 17 match

Oct 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on E’bo Coast select XI defeat Surujpaul XI in feature U- 17 match

An Essequibo Coast select XI defeated Vijay Surujpaul XI by 59 runs in a feature U-17 40 over cricket match organised by Coach Forbes Daniels last Sunday at Golden Fleece. In a match...

Softball cricket competition on at Lusignan tomorrow

Oct 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Softball cricket competition on at Lusignan tomorrow

– Rainbow Promotions host Family Fun Day Lusignan Community Centre Ground will come alive tomorrow with pulsating softball cricket when Rainbow Promotions/Lexus Blingers...

YMCA Dojo to hold Grading Exams

Oct 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on YMCA Dojo to hold Grading Exams

Karatekas from across Guyana are preparing for Sunday’s Grading Examinations to be hosted by the YMCA Dojo, Thomas Lands, Brickdam. Sunday’s exams will be conducted by 8th Dan...

Nomination Day…Enthusiastic supporters swarm City Hall, PPP/C executives chide Moses

Oct 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Nomination Day…Enthusiastic supporters swarm City Hall, PPP/C executives chide Moses

It is more than official. The last leg of the Guyana’s General and Regional Elections 2011 is off and running. And the winner seems not clear. It was a day when a sea of colours dominated by the...

UGWU condemns Jagdeo’s attack on Nigel Hughes

Oct 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on UGWU condemns Jagdeo’s attack on Nigel Hughes

“It is a crime against the nation of Guyana that the President of Guyana can eerily admit that the assignment of the honour, status and distinction of Senior Counsel in the...

Digicel blames connectivity issues as Blackberry goes down

Oct 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel blames connectivity issues as Blackberry goes down

Blackberry subscribers have been without service since Wednesday afternoon, with Digicel Guyana yesterday saying that it is suffering connectivity problems. The company in a statement...

Life expectancy rate up by almost 10 years – Health Minister

Oct 28, 2011 KNews News 2

The quality of life in Guyana has noticeablely improved leading to an increase in the life expectancy rate by almost 10 years in the last decade. This development came at a time when,...

Motorcyclist succumbs to injuries from accident

Oct 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist succumbs to injuries from accident

Motorcyclist, Hubert Hunte, whose vehicle collided with a minibus near the Demerara Harbour Bridge on Wednesday evening, died yesterday in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown...

‘Picture Boy’ trial continues…Judge overrules no case submission

Oct 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Picture Boy’ trial continues…Judge overrules no case submission

By Latoya Giles Justice Winston Patterson yesterday overruled a no case submission by Defence Counsel Lyndon Amsterdam, as the murder trial of Cyon Collier called ‘Picture Boy’ continued. Collier...

Guyana poised to arrest cervical cancer with HPV vaccination

Oct 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana poised to arrest cervical cancer with HPV vaccination

“We can stop cervical cancer, we can make it part of our history,” says Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy. He opines that this can be achieved if all young women are able to have the...

Ms. Burton can make no honest claim of successes with this administration during her GTUC presidency

Oct 27, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ms. Burton can make no honest claim of successes with this administration during her GTUC presidency

Dear Editor, While Ms. Gillian Burton, former President of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), has a constitutional right to freedom of association, such right does not extend to...

Moses Nagamootoo on AFC’s Candidate List

Oct 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Moses Nagamootoo on AFC’s Candidate List

…Valerie Lowe TUF faction also under Alliance banner Today is Nomination Day when all speculations will be put to rest as it relates to who will be contesting the 2011 General and Regional...

‘Missing’ gold recovered and returned to Eldorado Trading

Oct 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Missing’ gold recovered and returned to Eldorado Trading

Spokesperson for Air Services Limited, Annette Arjoon, has stated that the gold which reportedly went missing from one of the aircraft on Tuesday has been recovered and returned to its owner,...

APNU manifesto to be unveiled in 11 days

Oct 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on APNU manifesto to be unveiled in 11 days

The Value Added Tax (VAT) has, ever since its introduction in 2007, been a bone of contention, a source of protest action and literal tit for tat between the ruling administration, the political...

Two boys suspected drowned in Diwali day swim

Oct 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Two boys suspected drowned in Diwali day swim

– Bodies unrecovered Two boys, both aged 13, are suspected to have drowned yesterday after they took off swimming with another boy in the Demerara River without the knowledge of their...

Dem boys seh…People thief de diyas this year

Oct 27, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…People thief de diyas this year

Diwali night mek people realize how much thiefing going on. In de past, night like Diwali night use to bring out people from every corner. People use to lef de country and come to town just to see de...

Jagdeo’s vultures and carrion crows

Oct 27, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Jagdeo’s vultures and carrion crows

The news media have long been the subject of attacks from every quarter. Criminals criticize them for exposing aspects of their lives that they the criminals would wish to keep under wraps;...

Greatness has its dangers: The Nigel Hughes incident

Oct 27, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Greatness has its dangers: The Nigel Hughes incident

I first met Nigel Hughes in the early 1990s. I came to know him better as the Hoyte presidency came under pressure by the opposition. There was a large strike against the 1989 budget and the...

HOW WILL APNU DIVIDE ITS SEATS AFTER THE ELECTIONS?

Oct 27, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HOW WILL APNU DIVIDE ITS SEATS AFTER THE ELECTIONS?

If the APNU continues to attract minuscule parties or individuals without mass support into its ranks, a situation could well emerge whereby its main constituent, the PNCR, ends up being marginalized...

Bishop Edghill’s open endorsement of the PPP/C slate is not unusual for this part of the world

Oct 27, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bishop Edghill’s open endorsement of the PPP/C slate is not unusual for this part of the world

DEAR EDITOR, It is with some concern I write regarding the published comments regarding Bishop Juan Edghill’s public endorsement of the Presidential candidate, Donald Ramotar and the...

Parents are supporting children’s bad habits

Oct 27, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Parents are supporting children’s bad habits

Dear Editor, This letter is prompted by the expressed dissatisfaction by an irate parent whose child turned up 18 minutes late to an interview for employment at my Company. On top of...

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…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Transparency, as conceived by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, seems to be a peculiar exercise... more