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Start helping yourselves from within your communities

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Start helping yourselves from within your communities

Dear Editor, If the abduction and rape of a 5-year-old child at Canje has not sparked a national outrage, then we have become bereft of human feeling and are no different from the...

ProChancellor Misir’s letter is misleading and wrong

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on ProChancellor Misir’s letter is misleading and wrong

Dear Editor, I refer to ProChancellor Misir’s letter in SN of December 25th. ProChancellor says: (1)”The majority opposition is not the executive, and, therefore, not the...

To the leaders of the AFC…let reality guide your approach

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on To the leaders of the AFC…let reality guide your approach

Dear Editor, It is with interest I read of the Monday, December 26th 2011 Stabroek News online article titled ‘Norway deal likely for review by new Parliament’ with the views...

GCB moves to quash IMC decision

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB moves to quash IMC decision

-seeks WICB intervention The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has moved to the High Court to nullify Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Dr. Frank Anthony’s decision to set up an Interim Management...

GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup…Teams owe it to loyal fans to maintain high brand of football

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup…Teams owe it to loyal fans to maintain high brand of football

By Rawle Welch The four teams that have progressed to the semi-finals of the lucrative GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup have all agreed that they owe it to the loyal fans to duplicate the high...

Jumbo Jet Stable takes top honours as Grande De Roja wins feature

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jumbo Jet Stable takes top honours as Grande De Roja wins feature

Big win also for Technology and Who so Ever The Kennard Memorial Turf Club, Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne on Monday successfully held their annual Boxing Day Horserace meet. Once again it was the...

Imran ‘Magic’ Khan for ProAm card in T&T tomorrow

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Imran ‘Magic’ Khan for ProAm card in T&T tomorrow

The highly rated amateur boxer, Imran ‘Magic’ Khan along with Trainer Terrence Poole left Guyana yesterday for Trinidad and Tobago where Khan will fight on a ProAm card arranged in the...

Pacesetters, Pepsi Sonics play for third place tonight

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pacesetters, Pepsi Sonics play for third place tonight

-as GABA Pre-Season Knockout tourney resumes In what many pundits felt should have been a semi-final game, Pacesetters and Pepsi Sonics will play for third place tonight in the Georgetown...

NBS 2nd Division 40 overs cricket …D’Edward’s Derick Narine-Lalsa Jnr. slams 87 & takes 4 for 25

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on NBS 2nd Division 40 overs cricket …D’Edward’s Derick Narine-Lalsa Jnr. slams 87 & takes 4 for 25

The 2011 New Building Society Division 40 overs cricket competition continued recently with Berbice Under-17 all-rounder Derick Narine-Lalsa Jnr. turning in a brilliant performance for one...

Bravo, Bishoo Windies’ best in Tests in 2011

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bravo, Bishoo Windies’ best in Tests in 2011

IN Test cricket for West Indies in 2011, Trinidadian Darren Bravo and Guyanese Devendra Bishoo racked up the most runs and most wickets, respectively, as Jamaican Marlon Samuels waxed as an...

“West Indies Women Cricketers are Caribbean’s Sports Personalities for 2011!”

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on “West Indies Women Cricketers are Caribbean’s Sports Personalities for 2011!”

Colin E. H. Croft Happy Christmas to all! I hope that Santa, or whom-so-ever provides your toys, brought all that you wanted. If not, enjoy anyway. It could easily have been...

Councilors move to have Town Clerk, Treasurer suspended for seven days

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Councilors move to have Town Clerk, Treasurer suspended for seven days

– Spent Council’s funds without permission A proposal to suspend both the Town Clerk and Treasurer for seven days was made yesterday following the disclosure that they spent Mayor and...

Female, 22, burns herself for 50-year-old lover

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Female, 22, burns herself for 50-year-old lover

A 22-year-old mentally challenged woman is currently a patient in the Incentive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), after she allegedly set herself...

$$$Millions lost in Canal # 2 flooding

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on $$$Millions lost in Canal # 2 flooding

The farmers of De Buff Village, Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara (WBD) are now counting their losses after their cash crops were either destroyed or badly damaged during the heavy rainfall last...

Regent Street robbery leaves victim with a smashed face

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Regent Street robbery leaves victim with a smashed face

A 44-year-old man was yesterday rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), after he was allegedly robbed of an unspecified amount of gold by three men at the Number 44...

TCL: Cement price to increase from next week

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on TCL: Cement price to increase from next week

From January 1, customers of TCL Guyana Inc will be asked to pay an increase of 9.4 percent in the price of cement, the company said yesterday. According to TCL, the proposed price adjustment...

WPA slams RUSAL over moves to take away vacation allowance

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on WPA slams RUSAL over moves to take away vacation allowance

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) yesterday accused the local subsidiary of Russian bauxite giant, RUSAL, of unleashing another act of tyranny on Guyanese workers. The party said that it...

Drilling starts next year on controversial Marudi mining project

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News 3

Drilling will begin next year on a large scale mining project which Amerindians in South Guyana feared could disturb their livelihood and the natural environment. Guyana Frontier Mining, which...

Western Union slashes sending rates

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News 2

The Western Union Company and GraceKennedy Money Services (GKMS) have announced reductions of up to 21 per cent in the rates to transfer cash denominated in United States dollars from Guyana...

Man jailed 12 months for stabbing teen who called him ‘gay’

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man jailed 12 months for stabbing teen who called him ‘gay’

A security guard from Cumberland, Berbice, has been jailed for 12 months after knifing a teen who called him a gay. Bevon Holder, 35, was found guilty by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when he...

Parmanand Persaud named to replace Baksh as Region Two Chairman

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Parmanand Persaud named to replace Baksh as Region Two Chairman

The Region Two administration is awaiting the re-convening of Parliament to appoint a new Chairman of the Regional Democratic Council there. A replacement for Alli Baksh, the former Chairman,...

Demerara Bank spreads Christmas cheer

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Demerara Bank spreads Christmas cheer

In spreading its Christmas cheer, Demerara Bank Limited on December 23rd, presented 14 of its customers across Guyana with cash, gift certificates and other prizes. The bank in a short statement said...

Merundoi team back from witnessing Jamaica’s elections debate

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Merundoi team back from witnessing Jamaica’s elections debate

Three members of the team that successfully staged “PRESIDENTIAL FORUM 2011” – a debate on the issues of concern to the electorate during the recently concluded Regional and...

City Hall to do more to improve city environs – Stephen

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall to do more to improve city environs – Stephen

There is much more that can be done to improve the environs of Georgetown, a state of affairs which must be addressed with urgency in the New Year. This was the summation of Chief Environmental...

A young mother appeals for security and stability

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on A young mother appeals for security and stability

A life overwhelmed by abuse, coupled with unemployment, has left a young mother hoping to not only find refuge for herself and four-year-old son but also employment if they are to survive at...

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The third parties will not survive this year’s elections

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The fate of third parties in this year’s general and regional elections is as predictable... more