October 2012

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Thriller in store as ‘Big Truck”, collides with Shawn Corbin in ‘Redemption’ affair

Oct 20, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Thriller in store as ‘Big Truck”, collides with Shawn Corbin in ‘Redemption’ affair

The last time Wayne ‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite appeared in the local ring against Barbadian, Shawn Cox, boxing buffs trooped to the venue in anticipation of a slugfest. Instead, the...

BOSAI Minerals Inc. Open B’ball C’ship…Royals face Flames; Raiders & Bulls seek to remain unbeaten

Oct 20, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on BOSAI Minerals Inc. Open B’ball C’ship…Royals face Flames; Raiders & Bulls seek to remain unbeaten

Following their winning performances in last week’s opening encounters, Retrieve Raiders and Half Mile Bulls will clash this evening (Saturday) while losers Victory Valley Royals and Block...

Local cyclists leave for Antigua

Oct 20, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local cyclists leave for Antigua

Enzo Matthews will lead Guyana’s delegation of cyclists, comprising 4 men and 3 women, Naomi Singh, Claire Fraser-Green and Hazina Barrett that will be competing for honours at the Senior...

South Turkeyne SC to hold football competition

Oct 20, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on South Turkeyne SC to hold football competition

The South Turkeyne Sports Committee’s 5-a-side football competition and penalty shoot out is set for tomorrow at the Meadow Brook Lodge play field commencing from 09:00hrs. The event which...

Inaugural Payless Variety cycling set for Saturday

Oct 20, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Inaugural Payless Variety cycling set for Saturday

After enduring the rigors of the recently concluded ‘Ride for Life’ Five-Stage cycle road race, local riders will return to the National Park on Saturday for the inaugural Payless Variety...

CASH repairs force further postponement of Inter-Market Futsal

Oct 20, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on CASH repairs force further postponement of Inter-Market Futsal

The long-awaited Inter-Market Futsal competition which is being organised by Stabroek Warriors Sports Club suffered another forced postponement according to Co-ordinator O’Neil Durant, who...

Sasha Cells National Junior Chess C/ship…Haifeng Su on course to retain title; Davion Mars in hot pursuit

Oct 20, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sasha Cells National Junior Chess C/ship…Haifeng Su on course to retain title; Davion Mars in hot pursuit

Defending Junior Chess Champion, Haifeng Su, has amassed 31/2 points, just a ½ point more than Davion Mars and stays on course to retain his crown when the 4th round of the Sasha Cells 2012...

Battle lines drawn in Parliament…House Speaker warns Luncheon not to provoke a constitutional crisis

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Battle lines drawn in Parliament…House Speaker warns Luncheon not to provoke a constitutional crisis

– says President could be failing duties “The Office of the President is cautioned not to provoke a constitutional crisis as there is no winner in such a scenario, but rather, to respect...

Cop caught stealing police gas

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cop caught stealing police gas

David Street is home to a place called the Drum Yard. It was there that a police rank would take police vehicles that had been filled with gasoline and siphon out the gas. An enterprising...

Dem boys seh…Nothing does hide fuh long

Oct 20, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Nothing does hide fuh long

Guyana full of secrecy especially in de area of thiefing. Dem had a field day plus year wid secrecy at de Tender Board. Some of dem who deh pun de Tender Board believe in secrecy till dem stop...

THE NON-APPOINTMENT OF THE NATIONAL PROCUREMENT COMMISSION MAY BE A BLESSING IN DISGUISE

Oct 20, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE NON-APPOINTMENT OF THE NATIONAL PROCUREMENT COMMISSION MAY BE A BLESSING IN DISGUISE

The Procurement Commission is in deep freeze. It cannot be defrosted because its activation requires the support of two-thirds of the elected members of the National Assembly, something that...

Crime and criminality under the PNC and the PPP

Oct 20, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Crime and criminality under the PNC and the PPP

DEAR EDITOR, No country can flourish in a society of criminality, crime, wrongdoing and breakdown of the rule of law. This is the kind of society Guyana has become under the PPP. The drug trade...

Guyana, Cuba sign agreements for more health workers, sports collaboration

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, Cuba sign agreements for more health workers, sports collaboration

Guyana and Cuba yesterday signed agreements that will see cooperation in the areas of sports and education and continuing collaboration in health. A team led by President Donald Ramotar is on...

Linden Commission of Inquiry ….Photographer fails to identify shooter

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Linden Commission of Inquiry ….Photographer fails to identify shooter

Three more witnesses took to the stand yesterday as the Linden Commission of Inquiry continued yesterday. Ronald Lewis, a driver, yesterday, recalled going to Linden on July 18. He detailed the...

Combined parliamentary opposition rejects outrageous statements – APNU

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Combined parliamentary opposition rejects outrageous statements – APNU

APNU says that the People’s Progressive Party’s chief whip Ms. Gail Teixeira comments on the Tenth Parliament were outrageous, untrue and a misrepresentation of the facts. The party was...

Stop posting dirty cops to interior as punishment – GGDMA official

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Stop posting dirty cops to interior as punishment – GGDMA official

Police officials should halt the practice of posting corrupt ranks to the interior as a form of punishment, a senior official from the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners’ Association stated yesterday....

Schoolboy murder accused for High Court

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Schoolboy murder accused for High Court

Akeem Roberts who was indicted for the murder of Shane George earlier this year has been committed to stand trial in the next session of the Demerara Criminal assizes at the Supreme Court by...

CARICOM alarmed over high food import bill

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM alarmed over high food import bill

-backs regional coordination to ramp up production Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) was formally opened on Wednesday with a chorus of calls for coordinated efforts to firmly tackle the huge food...

Coleen Sparman is admitted to the Bar

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Coleen Sparman is admitted to the Bar

Coleen Kimberly Andrea Sparman was on Monday admitted to the local Bar to practise as an Attorney-at-law. She was admitted by Justice William Ramlal. The 25-year-old former Queen’s College student...

Cops killed in Paramakatoi…Bodies bore several gun shot wounds-Post Mortem reveals

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cops killed in Paramakatoi…Bodies bore several gun shot wounds-Post Mortem reveals

Post mortem examinations done on the remains of Police Lance Corporal Marlon Letlow and Constable Leedon Aaron revealed that they both sustained multiple gunshot wounds. The post mortems were done...

Scores bid final farewell toVic Puran

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Scores bid final farewell toVic Puran

Attorney-at-Law Vic Puran was yesterday cremated at the Good Hope Crematorium following a funeral service at the Merriman’s Funeral Home and a viewing at his home. Dozens from the local legal arena...

La Parfaite Harmonie $29.5M multi- purpose centre useless

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on La Parfaite Harmonie $29.5M multi- purpose centre useless

– “ …they have not even put a security to look at that place,” resident The $29.5M multi-purpose centre at La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, which was set up to...

COI findings revealing says Cabinet Secretary

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on COI findings revealing says Cabinet Secretary

The Commission of Inquiry into the July 18, 2012, shootings, which left three Lindeners dead, has already proven to be very revealing. According to Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon, “so far...

$20.8M misspent on water cannon- AFC

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on $20.8M misspent on water cannon- AFC

By Abena Rockcliffe In light of recent pirate attacks on Guyanese fishermen, the Alliance For Change has expressed concern about the lack of adequate protection offered to the persons who ply this...

Corriverton man alleges CPG ranks beat him in face

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Corriverton man alleges CPG ranks beat him in face

An altercation between Community Policing Group (CPG) ranks and the 27-year-old son of a popular Corriverton businessman resulted in the man sustaining an injury to his face. The young man is also...

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Slingerz rain on Camptown’s homecoming parade

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…GDF, Police and Monedderlust march to three points By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – Defending champions Slingerz Football Club and former champions Guyana Defence Force (GDF) FC maintained...

When wealth becomes a god

Sep 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – After my first encounter with the Guru, I had to return for some life lessons. So, on my return to his temple, I went looking for him. I found him sitting in exactly the same state in which I had left him: peaceful, unhurried and completely unimpressed by the frantic movement...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Mohamed must rethink, refine himself

Sep 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Here I am again. The Hon Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, has to have an epiphany. A radical renovation of his thinking and carriage is now compulsory. He must stop seeing himself as the Leader of the Opposition (OL); a man going places. He must see himself...

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