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Cartoon – July 15, 2012

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Captain Feriel Ally joins elite group of women pilots

Jul 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Captain Feriel Ally joins elite group of women pilots

Captain Feriel Ally of Air Services Limited (ASL) made history on July 12 by joining a small elite group of women in Guyana to pilot the Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft. Ally, daughter of Guyana’s...

Cops take $360,000 to release man with drugs, sub-machine gun

Jul 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cops take $360,000 to release man with drugs, sub-machine gun

– three TSU ranks under close arrest, two others in hiding Less than a week after Acting Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell warned corrupt ranks to turn in their badges, five TSU ranks are under...

Unamco bridge, road collapses

Jul 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Unamco bridge, road collapses

Following five hours of continuous rainfall, the Unamco Bridge collapsed last Saturday evening. Unamco is located in Upper Berbice. The Kerimeru Creek runs under the bridge and leads into the Berbice...

When those who should fail to see

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on When those who should fail to see

Visually impaired children abound in the society. Many are often not detected for years because their parents have either been inattentive or simply forced to ignore the problem because they...

SOFT POWER WILL ALLOW THESE PROJECTS TO PROCEED

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on SOFT POWER WILL ALLOW THESE PROJECTS TO PROCEED

To understand just how far divorced the opposition in Guyana is from today’s realities, one just has to look at the fuss that was made in April when it was announced that a Chinese firm had made a...

Dem boys seh…Nuff people born wid glue

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Nuff people born wid glue

When you like something you does do anything and everything to get it. For example when a man like sex he does encourage and support women. Women does do de same thing—vice versa. When a man like...

The PNC/APNU’s silence on the racist Chronicle editorial is a gross insult to African-Guyanese

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PNC/APNU’s silence on the racist Chronicle editorial is a gross insult to African-Guyanese

DEAR EDITOR, The PPP is clearly unfit to govern this country. So is the PNC/APNU. Imagine African-Guyanese awoke from their 2006 electoral slumber to surge into polling stations to give this...

Structural poverty

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Structural poverty

DEAR EDITOR, A recent study conducted by two leading institutions – the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)...

We must determine who killed the albatross?

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must determine who killed the albatross?

Dear Editor, UG has finally come to a dangerous pass in this ocean of intellectual dread. The tales have gone abroad. Wedding guests are being prevented from entering the wedding house and...

Any ideology that threatens the unity of this country should offend everyone

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Any ideology that threatens the unity of this country should offend everyone

Dear Editor, I cannot speak for the rest of the Indo-Guyanese community but I cannot let Parvati Persaud-Edwards speak for me. I would like to let my brothers and sisters of African descent...

The economic wellbeing of a community does not rely on the beauty of a few buildings

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The economic wellbeing of a community does not rely on the beauty of a few buildings

DEAR EDITOR, I have never been a reader of that partisan and divisive rag called the Mirror. It is the greatest publisher of revisionist history and inaccurate facts on Guyana. I was however...

VSO is no way associated with Lodge CDC or its building

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on VSO is no way associated with Lodge CDC or its building

DEAR EDITOR, In your Wednesday 27 June 2012 edition, there is an article entitled “Lodge CDC wants its building back.” VSO Guyana is part of VSO International, which is an international...

West Indies v New Zealand, 4th ODI, Basseterre, St Kitts…

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Sports Comments Off on West Indies v New Zealand, 4th ODI, Basseterre, St Kitts…

ODI series still up for grabs For the first four games of the tour, West Indies were clobbering New Zealand as they haven’t clobbered any Test-playing nation in a long time. However, an...

Baird claims 400m Silver in Central American and Caribbean Junior record time

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Baird claims 400m Silver in Central American and Caribbean Junior record time

Guyana experienced the taste of glory last evening when overseas-based 400 meters sprinter, Kadecia Baird executed a stunning 400 meters race at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Barcelona Spain...

Waramadong, Christianburg set up dream final tomorrow

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Waramadong, Christianburg set up dream final tomorrow

Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition… By Rawle Welch Any true football aficionado would have dreamt of a Waramadong versus Christianburg final and lo and behold that vision came...

Guyana ready for AFNA Netball Championship in T&T

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana ready for AFNA Netball Championship in T&T

Guyana’s National Senior Netball team yesterday afternoon departed Guyana to take part in the Americas Federation Netball Association (AFNA) Netball Championship in Trinidad and Tobago,...

Malta Supreme Hugh Ross Classic…Athletes receive boost from Fitness Express

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Malta Supreme Hugh Ross Classic…Athletes receive boost from Fitness Express

Aiming to be as shredded, chiseled and ripped to the max to ensure that they are well positioned to cart off the top prize in their respective category apart from challenging for the overall crown is...

6th Annual Guyana Cup Horserace Meeting…Over $30M at stake as nation’s top horses throw down the gauntlet

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on 6th Annual Guyana Cup Horserace Meeting…Over $30M at stake as nation’s top horses throw down the gauntlet

Eleven exiting races among horses that are bred in North America and the Caribbean; over thirty million dollars in cash and other prizes at stake and a projected attendance of more than ten thousand...

Entries close tomorrow for Norman Singh Digicel $11M horserace meet

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Entries close tomorrow for Norman Singh Digicel $11M horserace meet

Approximately 75 entered so far Entries are expected to close tomorrow for the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club, Digicel one day horserace meet set for Sunday July 22 at the club’s track, Bel...

Kwakwani take on Central Mackenzie in Linden tonight

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kwakwani take on Central Mackenzie in Linden tonight

Kwakwani will have to prove that the adage that suggests ‘small axe cut down big tree’ is true in the quarterfinal game against Central Mackenzie in the National Community Basketball...

Horseracing IMC holds general meeting

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Horseracing IMC holds general meeting

The Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Guyana Horseracing Authority (GHRA) will be holding a general members meeting today beginning at 13:00hrs at the Kennard Memorial Turf Club, Bush...

GCA weekend matches postponed

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA weekend matches postponed

The Georgetown Cricket Association is advising that all of its cricket matches in the Carib Beer/Friends Of Cricket Heroes Cup First Division and NBS 40-Overs Second Division scheduled for...

Squash Summer Camp launched

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Squash Summer Camp launched

– National Junior team leaves for Caribbean Championship next week in JA The Guyana National Squash Association (GNSA) in collaboration with National Sports Commission (NSC) yesterday...

GBTI Open Tennis C/ships…Sukras, Coggins make solid start

Jul 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBTI Open Tennis C/ships…Sukras, Coggins make solid start

The Sukra siblings and Oswin Coggins were among those who made solid starts to this year’s GBTI Open Tennis Championships which got underway yesterday, at the Bank’s Recreational Centre in...

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Guyana boys team selected for 2025 PAHF Jr Challenge

A flawed interpretation of international law

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News – The assertion that “under international law, Venezuela is responsible for... more