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Deonarine’s 7-26 against Barbados is a regional record

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Deonarine’s 7-26 against Barbados is a regional record

Betters Butts’ 7-29 against Windwards 20 years ago Twenty-eight year old out-of-favour West Indies left-handed batsman Narsingh Deonarine starred with the ball in Barbados with...

GFA / President’s Beer Super League…Triple header on today at Tucville ground

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFA / President’s Beer Super League…Triple header on today at Tucville ground

Action in the GFA / President’s Beer Super League resumed today with a triple header, at the Tucville ground. In the opening fixture, Police and Santos square off from 16:00 hrs and...

“West Indies Calypso Collapso – Again!”

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on “West Indies Calypso Collapso – Again!”

Colin E. H. Croft “Bravo seh de fire still bunnin foh West Indies! He nealy right! Um dun bun down West Indies house!” This was the only printable statement made by a...

Draughts players getting ready for challenging tournament

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Draughts players getting ready for challenging tournament

The nation’s leading draughts players will convene on Sunday March 25 at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue, when the Guyana Draughts Association (GDA) stages a national...

Fruta Conquerors FC to hold Biannual General Meeting April 1

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fruta Conquerors FC to hold Biannual General Meeting April 1

The general public has been put on notice that the Fruta Conquerors Football Club will be hosting its biannual General Meeting on Sunday the 1th April, 2012, in the club house of the...

Private plane lands with tourists from Canada

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Private plane lands with tourists from Canada

Four Canadians landed at the Ogle Airport on Friday last in a private plane – representing a new avenue for tourism in the country’s fledgling industry. Persons have been known to take...

US$138M airport expansion…Bigger terminal building, parking lots, longer runway

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on US$138M airport expansion…Bigger terminal building, parking lots, longer runway

…more check in booths, security, larger apron A US$138M project to modernize the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, is expected to see longer runways, a two-storey terminal...

Sunday Cartoon – March 18, 2012

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon – March 18, 2012

Dr. Naraine was paid US$230 a day to watch ‘Fip’ bungle US$15.4M project

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Dr. Naraine was paid US$230 a day to watch ‘Fip’ bungle US$15.4M project

…staff provided with, duty free vehicle, fuel, meals, hotel fees On June 8, 2010 some four months after granting a US$15.4M contract to Makeshwar ‘Fip’ Motilall of Synergy Holdings Inc...

Entrepreneurship: The Next Step

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Entrepreneurship: The Next Step

Following up our editorial on building entrepreneurship, we must ask how we can begin the process concretely. Several components must be in place in order to deliver on the promise of...

CXC fraud up

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CXC fraud up

Barbados (Barbados Nation) – The incidence of fraud in the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) exams, is on the increase and the Council has taken a zero tolerance approach to...

Suspected kidnappers found with another Berbice teen in house

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected kidnappers found with another Berbice teen in house

Relatives of a 15-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped and raped last week are now appealing to the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to expedite investigations into this matter. Reports are that...

FITUG accuses AFC of possible union busting

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on FITUG accuses AFC of possible union busting

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG), is concerned over what it sees as an overt attempt by the Alliance For Change (AFC) party to undermine the work of the Guyana...

Local e-marketing website launch

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Local e-marketing website launch

Local companies and individuals advertising their goods and services could do so online at www.gxsellit.com. This website was launched on March 16 to offer companies and individuals the...

Celebrating Women in Parliament

Mar 18, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Celebrating Women in Parliament

An address by Mrs. Catherine Hughes MP, Thursday, March 15, 2012 at Parliament Buildings (an event hosted by the Tenth Parliament of Guyana) I am honoured to be among this outstanding group of...

The Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)

The Great Kiskadee, Pitangus sulphuratus, is a passerine bird. It is a large tyrant flycatcher; sometimes its genus Pitangus is considered monotypic, with the Lesser Kiskadee (P. lictor) separated in...

When I was small, I heard this thing

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on When I was small, I heard this thing

When I was small, I would hear my parents and their guests in our home saying that in India you have the rich and the poor and there was nothing in between. My father and mother and their friends who...

Death on a ship of secrets

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Death on a ship of secrets

– Someone lured Jean Khan to her doom By Michael Jordan If you were to visit Bartica, you would see an ancient, half-sunken vessel jutting out of the river, in the vicinity of Triangular...

A disturbing troop movement

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on A disturbing troop movement

Venezuela reports that it is taking an interest in drug trafficking in the region. It is moving 15,000 troops to borders it shares with Guyana, Brazil and Colombia. Anytime there is troop movement to...

‘Old Story Time’ for school stages

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Old Story Time’ for school stages

– Countrywide dramatisation of CXC English B Text For the third year running, Top Cat Theatre Productions, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Culture,...

WHEN THE TIME COMES!

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHEN THE TIME COMES!

At last Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly, questions tabled by the Alliance for Change and relating to three major contracts signed under the Jagdeo administration, were...

First batch of pest control operators certified

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on First batch of pest control operators certified

Almost 50 participants from various pest control companies on Friday graduated from the Ministry of Agriculture’s pest control certification programme. This programme lasted two weeks...

Mash and Multiculturalism

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Mash and Multiculturalism

Swirling around the last Mashramani – as has been the case for the last decade – were the usual accusations of governmental control of the event and the questioning of the suitability of...

CARICOM: DOING THE DRAGON DANCE?

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on CARICOM: DOING THE DRAGON DANCE?

By Sir Ronald Sanders On February 9th, Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, wrote a robust letter to the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM),...

The Baccoo Speaks

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The madness has begun in the underworld and this could have been averted had people been taking the warnings seriously. Some people are careless when it comes to the illegal task they...

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