March 2012 - Page 52 of 52

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Dhaka Gladiators crowned BPL’s first champions

Mar 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dhaka Gladiators crowned BPL’s first champions

ESPNcricinfo – Dhaka Gladiators won the inaugural Bangladesh Premier League by bringing out their A-game in the knockout stages of the tournament. They took only 15.4 overs to overhaul...

Scotia Bank hands over bibs to Bartica FA

Mar 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scotia Bank hands over bibs to Bartica FA

On February 13th Scotiabank Bartica Branch donated bibs to the Bartica Football Association Academy which has been operating for the past three years. Scotiabank is committed to community...

GCB officials back in court, returns tomorrow as saga continues

Mar 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB officials back in court, returns tomorrow as saga continues

Yesterday morning lawyers for the Guyana Cricket Board appeared before Chief Justice Ian Chang at the High Court, Avenue of Republic, Charlotte Street, to answer an injunction granted...

Sports could suffer long term damage

Mar 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sports could suffer long term damage

By Rawle Welch After enjoying what could best be described as one of the better years in sports in Guyana in recent times, those gains, judging from all that has transpired in just two...

Rain and waterlogged fields force GT&T to reschedule 10/10

Mar 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rain and waterlogged fields force GT&T to reschedule 10/10

Consistent rain over the past 36 hours has forced GT&T and the Guyana Softball League (GSL) to postpone the much anticipated start of the GT&T 10/10 Nationwide cricket...

Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club Horserace meet set for Sunday

Mar 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club Horserace meet set for Sunday

With just a few days away it is hoped that the inclement weather subsides in time for the staging of the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club at No6 West Coast Berbice in collaboration with...

Third Desmond Dorsette Road Race set for March 25

Mar 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Third Desmond Dorsette Road Race set for March 25

The third running of the Desmond Dorsette Memorial Road Race will be held on Sunday March 25. The event which is sponsored by the Dorsette Family of No 50 Village Upper Corentyne will...

NSC Mash Junior Badminton tourney concludes

Mar 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC Mash Junior Badminton tourney concludes

The Guyana Badminton Association/National Sports Commission Annual Junior Mashramani Tournament continued at the Queens College Badminton Courts on Monday and concluded on Tuesday. The...

Ramnarine speaks out on unaccounted Police $90M

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Ramnarine speaks out on unaccounted Police $90M

There’s a deafening silence surrounding the fiasco of the unaccounted for $90M that was supposed to go towards the provision of food for the police during last year’s General...

CARICOM’s chief says CSME 2015 target over-ambitious

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM’s chief says CSME 2015 target over-ambitious

Amidst increasing criticism over delays in the implementation of key policies, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday insisted that the body remains crucial to regional development. CARICOM’s...

Shotgun disappears from Police Station

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Shotgun disappears from Police Station

Police on the West Coast of Demerara are trying to ascertain the whereabouts of a shotgun that is missing from the Parika Police Station. The weapon, a 20-guage shotgun was lodged at the...

Several drainage pumps fail as city is submerged

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Several drainage pumps fail as city is submerged

City Mayor, Hamilton Green, has blamed continuous heavy rainfall, non-functional drainage structures and clogged drains for flooding in and around Georgetown yesterday. Green held an...

Kumaka Landing again in dire jeopardy

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Kumaka Landing again in dire jeopardy

…engineers abandon faulty revetment works Speedboat operators in Region One, (Barima/Waini), are calling the incomplete ‘wooden sheet pile revetment’ at Kumaka Landing “a waste of...

TGI imports cement to avert local crisis

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on TGI imports cement to avert local crisis

…as T&T strike takes toll A breakdown in wage talks and subsequent strike at Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) in the twin-island republic on Tuesday has forced the local subsidiary to import...

Richard Ishmael Secondary School burglarised

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Richard Ishmael Secondary School burglarised

….thieves cart off Headmistress’ laptop Burglars last evening ransacked the Richard Ishmael Secondary School before carting off the Head teacher’s laptop computer, a Central...

Webster’s Social Workers stuck in appalling conditions

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Webster’s Social Workers stuck in appalling conditions

Social Workers providing an invaluable contribution to Guyana are being forced to work under harsh conditions at the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security. Leaking ceilings, sagging floor,...

Kabakuri man found floating in Pomeroon River

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Kabakuri man found floating in Pomeroon River

The police were summoned to Kabakuri, Upper Pomeroon River, yesterday, where the body of an Amerindian man was found floating in the River. They were able to identify the body, with the...

Police arrest three in gang attack

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police arrest three in gang attack

Police say three of the 10-member gang that severely beat Germaine Phoenix, the 17-year-old Pomona Secondary School student, Monday evening, are being questioned while in custody. The...

OLPF Trainers still to be paid five months later

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on OLPF Trainers still to be paid five months later

All is not well with the much touted One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project. While several thousand of the laptops have been distributed, the persons responsible for training the recipients are crying...

Armed bandits strike at B/bice Ice-Cream parlour

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Armed bandits strike at B/bice Ice-Cream parlour

Armed bandits have struck the Berbice area again, this time during a brazen mid- afternoon robbery at Ragwan’s Ice-cream Parlour and Off- Licensed Store at Lot 3B Williamsburg, Corentyne....

Doctors remove dead fetus from Mash Day shooting victim

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Doctors remove dead fetus from Mash Day shooting victim

Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) have removed a dead fetus from the Vryheids Lust, East Coast Demerara (ECD) woman who was shot by a fleeing bandit on Mashramani...

PNCR women chart course to empowerment

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR women chart course to empowerment

Over the course of the past weekend, women leaders of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), from across the country met to chart the way forward for its National Congress of Women...

Mash day gunman remanded for attempted murder charges

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mash day gunman remanded for attempted murder charges

The man who was caught in the Plaisance cane-fields after reportedly shooting a pregnant woman- Anessa Woolford, 32, and Loushonda Beckles on Mashramani Day has been remanded to prison....

Grandfather jailed for ganja possession

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Grandfather jailed for ganja possession

Mark Anthony Jones, 48, a grandfather of High Dam Angoy’s Avenue, was yesterday sentenced to three years’ jail by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when he reappeared before her at...

Fallen tree at OP damages passing car

Mar 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Fallen tree at OP damages passing car

A taxi driver, Sanjeet Pooran, narrowly escaped what could have been life threatening injuries after a tree at the corners of Vlissengen and South Road collapsed causing a major traffic...

PREV 50 5152

Fitness Express helps to fuel GAPLF Novices/Juniors Championship on Feb. 16

Protest electoral tyranny

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There comes a time in the life of a nation when silence is no longer an option, when the... more