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Golden Jaguars Kicks off Caribbean Trip

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golden Jaguars Kicks off Caribbean Trip

Local Jaguars face Tobago XI today A youthful Golden Jaguars unit will come up against a Tobago All Star Team at the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Tobago from 6pm today. Veteran goalkeeper Richard...

Sunburst Camptown, Beacons advance

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sunburst Camptown, Beacons advance

-PM Hinds applauds organisers, sponsors It is anybody’s guess, but quite a few football fans posed the questions among themselves and to the media as to whether the emphatic statement made...

Sixteen participants complete IOC Sports Administrators course

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sixteen participants complete IOC Sports Administrators course

Sixteen trained individuals were added to the growing list of qualified Sports Administrators last weekend after completing the syllabus of the International Olympic Committee...

3rd GT&T 10/10 Nationwide Softball Cricket Tourney…Registration period extended to Feb. 20

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on 3rd GT&T 10/10 Nationwide Softball Cricket Tourney…Registration period extended to Feb. 20

Following overwhelming responses that have been flowing into GT&T as well as Executive members of the Guyana Softball League (GSL), a collective decision has been taken to extend the...

GTTA installs Steering Committee on the East Coast

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA installs Steering Committee on the East Coast

As part of its continued efforts to decentralise the sport, the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has installed a Steering Committee for the management of the sport on the East Coast of...

‘Upsetters’ win Carib Beer Dominoes Competition in Bartica

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Upsetters’ win Carib Beer Dominoes Competition in Bartica

The ‘Upsetters’ Dominoes team won the mega Carib Beer Dominoes Competition in Bartica last weekend ahead of ‘Out and Bad’ and ‘Hard Knocks’ respectively following an outstanding...

GFF/WICWC Super League – Preliminary Round…Wins for Den Amstel, NA United & Amelia’s Ward

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/WICWC Super League – Preliminary Round…Wins for Den Amstel, NA United & Amelia’s Ward

Competition in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), National Super League sponsored by CONCACAF under its Win in CONCACAF with CONCACAF FIFA funded initiative kicked off on the weekend with...

Men’s Open Badminton tourney starts

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Men’s Open Badminton tourney starts

The Guyana Badminton Association Open Men Doubles Tournament started on Friday last at the Queens College Badminton Courts at 6:30PM. The tournament attracted past national players...

Letter to the Sports Editor…The Foster Report: INCRIMINATES RATHER THAN EXONERATES

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…The Foster Report: INCRIMINATES RATHER THAN EXONERATES

Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News Article of February 7th 2012 headlined “GCB Exonerated by the Rupert Foster Report” is yet another failed attempt by the minority Executives of the...

Is Lloyd the IMC?

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Is Lloyd the IMC?

Dear Editor, I observed that the government appointed IMC for cricket held stakeholders’ meetings over the weekend at various venues. I am perplexed that after much fanfare the IMC...

Whaul strikes gold for UG at Barbados Relay Fair

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Whaul strikes gold for UG at Barbados Relay Fair

-Institution returns with 10 medals By Juanita Hooper University of Guyana (UG) student, Lawanda Whaul filched a gold medal in the under 20 female Discus when the ninth edition...

Fitzgerald dominates Darts at New Venue, Latino Bar

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fitzgerald dominates Darts at New Venue, Latino Bar

The pair of Sudesh Fitzgerald/Anil Lachman defeated the combination of Lallchand Rambahrose/Chris Ramnauth in the final to capture the Guyana Darts Association Draw Doubles and Open...

Man shot on Mandela Avenue

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man shot on Mandela Avenue

A 31-year-old man was shot twice during a robbery attempt on a Mandela Avenue wash bay last evening. It is alleged that Wayne St. Hill, of Costello Housing Scheme, was waiting...

Bandits take $$M from Zeelugt businessman and family

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits take $$M from Zeelugt businessman and family

Two bandits attacked and robbed a Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo businessman and his family of $7M in valuables, before fleeing in a waiting car yesterday. Reports reveal that around 11:15 hrs,...

AFC to Ramotar: Tell us how you intend to create “real” jobs

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on AFC to Ramotar: Tell us how you intend to create “real” jobs

The Alliance For Change (AFC) wants President Donald Ramotar to unveil plans on how he intends to create more “real and sustainable” employment in Guyana. The party made the call yesterday...

Corriverton slit throat victim discharged

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Corriverton slit throat victim discharged

…security camera failed, attacker still on the run There were no security cameras at the shopping centre at Number 78 Village, Corriverton to capture the movement of the bandit...

12 years after Suriname ejection…CGX starts drilling for oil in Corentyne concession

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on 12 years after Suriname ejection…CGX starts drilling for oil in Corentyne concession

Almost 12 years since being ejected by neighbouring Suriname from the Corentyne area, CGX Energy Inc. has announced that it has commenced drilling for oil at the Eagle-1 well. The news came...

Albion, Rose Hall sugar estates grinding as weather improves

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Albion, Rose Hall sugar estates grinding as weather improves

-Wales, Enmore and Skeldon factories to begin shortly Grinding commenced at the Albion and Rose Hall Sugar factories on Sunday, after a delayed start in operations attributed to the incessant...

‘To see him again’

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ‘To see him again’

– The Valentine’s Day wish of a missing sailor’s wife Valentine’s Day, which is being celebrated today in Guyana and all over the world, is for most people one...

13 for calypso finals Friday

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on 13 for calypso finals Friday

From a total of 21 contenders, the annual Mashramani calypso competition is down to 13 following the semi-finals last Saturday at Wales, West Bank Demerara. It was an enthusiastic crowd...

Women miners to attend international trade show

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Women miners to attend international trade show

Six members of the newly established Guyana Women Miners Organization are expected to attend the largest mining trade show in the world this March. The show, to be hosted by the Prospectors...

There are heightened efforts to stop child abuse

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on There are heightened efforts to stop child abuse

– More child protection officers hired The high incidence of child abuse has spurred a series of community outreaches by the country’s child protection body. One is to educate parents...

Digicel says profit squeezed by telecoms monopoly

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel says profit squeezed by telecoms monopoly

Digicel Guyana, which credits itself with bringing down the cost of handsets and slashing by half, local rates, in its five years of operations here, says its ability to generate a...

Tenant on bail for threatening to bash in landlady’s face

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Tenant on bail for threatening to bash in landlady’s face

A tenant was yesterday placed on $25,000 bail provided that she keeps the peace with her 52-year-old landlady, whose face she allegedly threatened to bash in. Dawn Austin appeared...

Prosecution presents witnesses in illegal post-elections demonstration matter

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Prosecution presents witnesses in illegal post-elections demonstration matter

The matter against those charged in early December for carrying on an illegal procession at the Square of the Revolution resumed yesterday, with the prosecution providing witnesses ready to...

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