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Trophy Stall Doubles Tennis Tournament…Andrews / Miller win Men’s Doubles crown

Sep 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall Doubles Tennis Tournament…Andrews / Miller win Men’s Doubles crown

Curtains for the Trophy Stall Doubles tennis tournament came down with a highly entertaining and competitive Men’s final where top seeds Jeremy Miller/Jason Andrews edged out the...

First and Third Divisions ‘Refresh Your Game’ 2012 Basketball Competition…

Sep 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on First and Third Divisions ‘Refresh Your Game’ 2012 Basketball Competition…

Tournament extremely important for sport – Pepsi Sonics Assistant Coach Assistant Coach of Pepsi Sonics Rawle White speaking with Kaieteur Sport during a practice session that was being...

Rameshwar elected WCDUCL President

Sep 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rameshwar elected WCDUCL President

Sharan Rameshwar was elected President of the West Coast Demerara United Cricket League when the body held it Elections recently at the Uitvlugt Community Centre. Bawan Mac Coon will serve as the...

Goodwood Racing Service 40-over final set for Saturday

Sep 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Goodwood Racing Service 40-over final set for Saturday

The East Bank Cricket Association\ Goodwood Racing Service 40 over final will be played on Saturday at the Everest cricket ground starting at 11:00am. Uprising and Nandy Park will clash in...

STEPHNEY TO CONDUCT COACHING CLINIC AT ANNA REGINA

Sep 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on STEPHNEY TO CONDUCT COACHING CLINIC AT ANNA REGINA

Former Essequibo allrounder Elroy Stephney will host a cricket coaching clinic starting from Saturday at the Anna Regina Community Center ground. The clinic which starts from 10:00hours...

A haunting call to Guyana

Sep 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on A haunting call to Guyana

Dear Editor, I am about to do something that is radical, controversial, and goes against everything that I was taught in my Christian life. However, I must do it. I can’t avoid it. It is like fire...

A Leader For All The People

Sep 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Leader For All The People

Dear Editor, In people friendly countries as compared to a dictatorial regime, an elected leader promises his or her people that they will have better lives as compared to the one they had...

The race card

Sep 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The race card

Dear Editor, We the concerned employees will like to bring to your attention an ugly monster that is being practised in GT&T and supported by ATN. The monster we are alluding to is...

Guyana is at a dangerous place

Sep 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana is at a dangerous place

Dear Sir, Please allow me space to make a small comment in your newspapers, on a matter that is of extreme importance To ALL Guyanese. A few nights ago I listened to an interview with Mr....

Questions for City Hall

Sep 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Questions for City Hall

Dear Sir, I have being reading and following the various articles in the newspaper about the cleaning of the city and keeping it clean. Before the major clean-up was announced and the few...

Willing to serve on the Medical Council of Guyana

Sep 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Willing to serve on the Medical Council of Guyana

Dear Editor, A few days ago I saw a notice in your publication for the Medical Council of Guyana in which the council listed the names of doctors eligible for a place on the board of the new...

Amaila Falls Hydro-Electric Project…US$840M price tag assured – Sithe Global

Sep 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila Falls Hydro-Electric Project…US$840M price tag assured – Sithe Global

– financial closure within nine months, construction immediately after Financial closure for the massive US$840M Amaila Falls hydro electric project is expected within nine months...

Arrest of 12-yr-old sparks protest at Vreed-en-Hoop Station

Sep 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Arrest of 12-yr-old sparks protest at Vreed-en-Hoop Station

– Pouderoyen residents make police harassment, curfew claims By Zena Henry Police tactics and behaviour towards the country’s citizens, including the unexplained arrest of a 12-year-old...

ATV scandal…Police attempt to arrest businesswoman

Sep 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ATV scandal…Police attempt to arrest businesswoman

A businesswoman and her lawyer yesterday blasted the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) for its handling of investigations into allegations of corruption against a number of its officers. Yesterday, both...

Mother of two shot while fighting off bandit

Sep 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of two shot while fighting off bandit

Bibi Samaroo, a 36-year-old mother of two is currently hospitalised at the Woodlands Hospital after she was shot twice while fighting off one of three bandits who invaded her Diamond Housing Scheme,...

Agricola fatal shooting…Cops refuse to be part of ID parade

Sep 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Agricola fatal shooting…Cops refuse to be part of ID parade

One week after a police raid in the Agricola community which resulted in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Shaquille Grant, ranks who were reportedly present at the scene are refusing to be part of...

Dem boys seh…Big dollars deh bout

Sep 19, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Big dollars deh bout

“Who nah get nah want” is a saying in one area. That is when parents sharing food. Dem parents does seh that if you been want you woulda come. But is a different story altogether wid thief man...

Linden Commission of Inquiry…Kennard back from leave, to be sworn in shortly

Sep 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Linden Commission of Inquiry…Kennard back from leave, to be sworn in shortly

Former Chancellor of the Judiciary Cecil Kennard has returned from annual leave and is to be sworn in shortly as the fifth member of the Commission that will look into the Linden unrest that...

INVESTIGATING THEIR OWN

Sep 19, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on INVESTIGATING THEIR OWN

So far most of the attention about the shooting of the young man in Agricola has been concerned with who fired the shots that killed him. However, this is not a cut-and-dry issue; the answer is not...

Where is the oil?

Sep 19, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Where is the oil?

Way back in 2000, the US Geological Survey announced that Guyana had a 95% chance of having at least 454 fields with a minimum of 1 million barrels of oil each. With the same...

Flour prices to rise again

Sep 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Flour prices to rise again

Flour prices locally are set for an increase again on Friday as weather continues to affect food supplies worldwide. According to the National Milling Company of Guyana Inc. (NAMILCO),...

1838 Monument site development attracts three bidders

Sep 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on 1838 Monument site development attracts three bidders

Three bids were submitted yesterday for the site development of the 1838 Monument at Carifesta Avenue. The project falls under the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport, and the bids were...

Police vehicles auction racket…Matter being swept under the carpet

Sep 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police vehicles auction racket…Matter being swept under the carpet

Two months after the Ministry of Home Affairs ordered an investigation into a racket involving the sale of police vehicles via auction, there appears to be another slap-on-the-wrist situation....

REDJet refund on hold, verification process incomplete – Public Works official

Sep 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on REDJet refund on hold, verification process incomplete – Public Works official

Refunds promised to passengers who purchased tickets in Guyana to use the REDjet Airline will be further delayed as the verification process of names sent from Guyana is incomplete. Principal...

Slain Agicola youth laid to rest

Sep 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Slain Agicola youth laid to rest

Hundreds of persons dressed in red and black turned up at the Agricola Ball Field yesterday to bid farewell to 17-year-old Shaquille Grant who was shot during a police raid last week Tuesday. The...