January 2012

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Sunday Cartoon January 1, 2012

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Caledonia AIA, Pele FC and a pound of gold—who will claim the top prize

Jan 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Caledonia AIA, Pele FC and a pound of gold—who will claim the top prize

By Michael Benjamin It’s Pele versus Caledonia AIA and apart from the lucrative first prize of one pound of Guyana’s pristine gold, the two teams will also want to procure bragging rights...

GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup…Alpha, Conquerors in showdown for $3million today

Jan 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup…Alpha, Conquerors in showdown for $3million today

-Camptown, Beacons play for third place By Rawle Welch Reigning club champions Alpha ‘the Hammer’ United led by overtime goals from Leon Grumble (110th) and Dwain Jacobs (115th) had to summon all...

Senior cricketers seek President Ramotar’s intervention as cricket imbroglio deepens

Jan 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Senior cricketers seek President Ramotar’s intervention as cricket imbroglio deepens

The administrative rift within the local cricket fraternity has reached an alarming level and several local players that have represented or are representing the regional cricket team are requesting...

WICB seeks meeting with government on cricket matters

Jan 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on WICB seeks meeting with government on cricket matters

The West Indies Cricket Board in a letter dated December 30, 2011 is seeking a meeting with Sports Minister Dr. Frank Anthony to look into the cricket matters affecting the game here. However, the...

Sewkarran 101*, Sean Kadim 51 steer Bath to victory

Jan 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Sewkarran 101*, Sean Kadim 51 steer Bath to victory

Avishkar Sewkarran became the latest centurion when play in the 2011 New Building Society (NBS) sponsored second division 40 over cricket competition continued recently in the Ancient County....

“Happy New Year! 2012 could be the last year for West Indies cricket as we know it!”

Jan 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on “Happy New Year! 2012 could be the last year for West Indies cricket as we know it!”

Colin E. H. Croft With greatest respect to Scotsman Robert Burns, “Auld Lang Syne” be damned! What’s done is done! Whatever it was, it may have adjusted us, but not changed us. People do not...

All Roads lead to Rising Sun Turf Club today

Jan 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on All Roads lead to Rising Sun Turf Club today

Horseracing fans will trudge to the Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima Park, West Coast Berbice today for the end of season meeting at that entity set to start at 12:30pm. Thousands are expected to swarm...

Trophy Stall donates GFA Banks Beer tourney MVP trophy

Jan 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall donates GFA Banks Beer tourney MVP trophy

The Trophy Stall of Bourda Market has donated the MVP trophy to the Georgetown Football Association for their Banks Beer tournament which concludes tonight at the Georgetown Football Club ground,...

Nostalgic moments in Sports 2011

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2011: A Year Replete with Scampishness, Secret Deals and Downright Skullduggery

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on 2011: A Year Replete with Scampishness, Secret Deals and Downright Skullduggery

Tramautised five- year- old rape victim receives love and gifts

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Tramautised five- year- old rape victim receives love and gifts

Members of the New Jersey Arya Samaj Humanitarian Mission (NJASHM) on Saturday visited the five- year- old rape victim in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the New Amsterdam Hospital. The child...

Thieves target cell phones in Essequibo heist

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Thieves target cell phones in Essequibo heist

Thieves on Wednesday night last daunted the spirits of two hard working entrepreneurs, after they broke into the business of Khrishna Lall and Germaine Edwards. Both Edwards and Lall have been...

Jailed convict charged with gun robbery

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Jailed convict charged with gun robbery

Tommy Benn, 23, of Swamp Street, Swamp Section, Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, had told the court that he is a carpenter. He was already serving a sentence for another crime when he appeared magistrate...

PEOPLE THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE IN 2011…Christopher Ram, the man who took on the administration and won

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on PEOPLE THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE IN 2011…Christopher Ram, the man who took on the administration and won

The name Christopher Ram has arguably evolved into a household name for many in Guyana. There can be no doubt that the name has featured in many of the high profile happenings in Guyana...

Mc Doom businesswoman’s murder…Suspects released

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mc Doom businesswoman’s murder…Suspects released

The two persons who were arrested in connection with the Christmas Eve day murder at Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara, have been released from police custody as investigators seem to have met a...

Triple champion, Clive Atwell receives support for continuation of career

Jan 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Triple champion, Clive Atwell receives support for continuation of career

Following his 3rd round knockout of Barbados based Guyanese, Revlon Lake, relieving him of the local lightweight title; Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell has earned the distinction of being the...

Teen’s death at abortion clinic…Cops take statement from victim’s family

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Teen’s death at abortion clinic…Cops take statement from victim’s family

Police yesterday took a statement from relatives of 18-year-old Karen Devi Bahdal, who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, after undergoing an abortion at a private clinic. A female...

Mistress, sister fined after double-teaming wife

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mistress, sister fined after double-teaming wife

Two sisters, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of unlawfully inflecting grievous bodily harm in late September 2011, were on Friday fined $35,000 each by Magistrate Fazil Azeez after they...

Merai ends controversial police career on a high

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News 1

Yesterday marked the last day that the controversial Assistant Commissioner Steve Merai was officially a member of the Guyana Police Force. Merai who had reached the age of retirement some...

Congratulations!!!

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Doomsday and 2012

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Doomsday and 2012

-is the world really going to end? By Rehana Ashley Ahamad It is the first day of the year; the year when the world is supposed to come to an end. Is it true? Is the world truly going...

Hope in a New Year

Jan 01, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Hope in a New Year

It’s a wonderful tradition, this commemoration of a “new year”. Apart from acknowledging the passage of time, it makes us believe that whatever may have gone wrong in the past...

The IMC is illegal. It should not be accepted

Jan 01, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The IMC is illegal. It should not be accepted

Dear Editor, Writer’s note: I was typing this correspondence when I got a call that stated that the WI Cricket Board has rejected the IMC and the ICC will be issuing a statement....

Youths, you are on the right track; Guyana needs you more than ever

Jan 01, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Youths, you are on the right track; Guyana needs you more than ever

Dear Editor, I was a victim of the police shooting on Tuesday, December 6th in Hadfield Street. Like other peaceful citizens who were shot that day, I was hit several times resulting in...

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Hope 162* beats Rahul 129* as West Indies pull off record chase

Oct 04, 2026

(Cricinfo) – Shai Hope spent the entirety of this seemingly never-ending match on the field, hobbling for the last third of his innings after having kept for 50 overs, and sealed West...

The price of prosperity

Oct 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In Guyana, there is a peculiar arithmetic to prosperity. The country announces itself as one of the fastest-growing economies in the hemisphere, a petroleum state that has been transformed almost overnight into a place of billion-dollar projects, expanding infrastructure and...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

What if

Oct 04, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – Brace for what’s coming, my fellow Guyanese. A bit off the beaten track. Here goes. What if the U.S. as a matter of immigration policy would experiment with visa-free travel for Guyanese? A kind of seasonal work permit, along the lines that used to be...

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