October 2012

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$Skeete t\20 cricket in South E’bo…Wins for Rising Star and Golden Fleece$

Skeete t\20 cricket in South E’bo…Wins for Rising Star and Golden Fleece

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Skeete t\20 cricket in South E’bo…Wins for Rising Star and Golden Fleece

Rising Star and Golden Fleece chalked victories when the Edward Skeete and Family twenty\20 cricket competition continued last Sunday at South Essequibo with two matches. At Johanna Cecelia,...

Jets #1 is only Linden team left in competition

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jets #1 is only Linden team left in competition

– rivalries intensify at Den Amstel tonight Following tough competition in round four of the nationwide Mackeson Smooth Moves 3-on-3 Basketball Competition where Linden’s...

President Ramotar to open Caribbean Rifle Shooting Championships Tuesday

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on President Ramotar to open Caribbean Rifle Shooting Championships Tuesday

President Donald Ramotar, patron of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA), has been invited to fire the first shot as Guyana host the West Indies Fullbore Shooting Championships from...

Soldiers outmuscle Police as Novice Boxing Championships get underway

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Soldiers outmuscle Police as Novice Boxing Championships get underway

It was the inaugural night of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) 2012 National Novices Boxing Championships, Friday evening last, and 6 of the bouts saw boxers of the Guyana Defense...

L’Aventure, GITC declared champions

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on L’Aventure, GITC declared champions

L ‘Aventure (Girls) and Guyana Industrial Training Centre (GITC) Boys were declared champions of the 21st Annual Christmas Term Windball Cricket Championships for Secondary Schools which...

BCCDA hold successful launching ceremony for 10/10 Inter Agency cricket competition

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCCDA hold successful launching ceremony for 10/10 Inter Agency cricket competition

The Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Development Association on Wednesday launched the third edition of the Corporate Business in Sports (CBIS) Inter-Agency Soft Ball cricket Tournament, Fun...

Veteran footballers hold practice session today at GFC

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Veteran footballers hold practice session today at GFC

The veteran footballers preparing for a visit from an overseas team will continue their preparations today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground starting at 9:00am. The Vets are preparing for...

Boxing promoter takes sport to the public ahead of ‘Foreign Invasion’ boxing card

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxing promoter takes sport to the public ahead of ‘Foreign Invasion’ boxing card

Boxing promoters have complained in the past of grave difficulties and challenges encountered in their bid to successfully promote boxing cards; they have tried every initiative all to no...

Rose Hall Town Pepsi and Berbice Cricket Board donate to six cricket clubs in Berbice

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rose Hall Town Pepsi and Berbice Cricket Board donate to six cricket clubs in Berbice

The Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under-19 Team and the Special Events Committee of the Berbice Cricket Board continues to make a positive difference as they seek to assist cricket clubs in the...

Leonard ‘Dentist’ Williams, Western Utd first national player

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Leonard ‘Dentist’ Williams, Western Utd first national player

Former Guyana International 1979 to 1985 Statistician Charwayne Walker continues his series on former footballers who represented Guyana at the World Cup and International levels. ...

BCB launches 20/20 Cricket Tournament for Upper Corentyne Teams

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB launches 20/20 Cricket Tournament for Upper Corentyne Teams

The Berbice Cricket Board as part of its development plan for the Ancient County had promised earlier this year to organise cricket within the five Inter-zones areas for teams. Tournaments...

Boxing community mourns as former professional boxer Roy Smith takes the final count

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxing community mourns as former professional boxer Roy Smith takes the final count

The local boxing fraternity has lost yet another son following the demise of veteran pugilist, Roy Smith, who passed away at the Georgetown Public Hospital in what a later post mortem...

BCB launches 4th annual Diamond Fire & General Insurance Under-19 Inter-zone Tourney

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB launches 4th annual Diamond Fire & General Insurance Under-19 Inter-zone Tourney

The Berbice Cricket Board in its ongoing effort to lift the standard of Berbice Cricket on Wednesday last launched another cricket tournament. The Board, which has committed itself to a record...

“ICC WT-20 2012 – That’s the way we like it! West Indies could be legends in our own time too!”

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on “ICC WT-20 2012 – That’s the way we like it! West Indies could be legends in our own time too!”

Colin E. H. Croft Great Floridians KC & the Sunshine Band sang best how we are feeling now; “That’s the way we like it!” Miami Carnival is swinging this weekend. With West Indies...

MYO Inter- Jamaat Tapeball Cricket sponsored by Trophy Stall, Bourda Market

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on MYO Inter- Jamaat Tapeball Cricket sponsored by Trophy Stall, Bourda Market

– Registration closes on Tuesday 16 October The Muslim Youth Organization of Guyana Inter-Jamaat Tapeball cricket competition sponsored by The Trophy Stall in Bourda Market is schedule...

Ramjattan calls for probe in contract awarded to Indian company

Oct 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Ramjattan calls for probe in contract awarded to Indian company

US$4M drainage pumps… Indian-based company, Surendra Engineering Corporation Limited, which was controversially awarded the construction of the US$18M Specialty...

Police crack carjacking ring

Oct 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police crack carjacking ring

– car stolen three months ago recovered in Sophia Police have cracked open a carjacking ring with the capture of one gang member in whose premises they recovered a vehicle that...

US$18M Specialty Hospital…Parliaments in Guyana, India to question deal

Oct 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on US$18M Specialty Hospital…Parliaments in Guyana, India to question deal

“The award of a $3.6B contract to build a specialty hospital at Turkeyen clearly breached procedures and stinks of manipulation, and despite Government’s initial insistence that the award was...

Minister Rohee confirms speaking to Commander Hicken – after the Linden shooting

Oct 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Rohee confirms speaking to Commander Hicken – after the Linden shooting

Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee has clarified that his conversation with Senior Superintendent of Police Clifton Hicken was conducted after the shooting that occurred on the...

Music in the blood…Eze Rockcliffe is a ‘Special Person’

Oct 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Music in the blood…Eze Rockcliffe is a ‘Special Person’

“Why is it that a lawyer can eke out a living, or a doctor or an engineer or whoever, but the artiste is left to be devoured by the wolves, by something called piracy? There are...

Dem boys seh…Is tiefin’ and more tiefin’

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Is tiefin’ and more tiefin’

Dem boys seh de big man must be suffering from stitches in de side because of all de laughing he doing. When he look all over de world and see all dem things people does do, he does gat to chuckle....

Eye Care Guyana makes $7.5M equipment donation to GPHC

Oct 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Eye Care Guyana makes $7.5M equipment donation to GPHC

Eye Care Guyana on Friday donated $7.5M worth of Operating Theatre equipment to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). According to the hospital, the equipment will benefit the...

Teachers are special people – Chief Educator

Oct 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Teachers are special people – Chief Educator

Chief Education Officer (CEO), Olato Sam, believes that the place education once occupied in society has been “lost and eroded”. He noted that education is not really a priority by many as...

Is there a textbook policy?

Oct 07, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Is there a textbook policy?

When the PPP/C came to power twenty years ago in 1992, the then President promised a ‘lean and clean’ government and the populace added in ‘mean’. Five years later, that President was...

The Falklands – small but remarkable

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The Falklands – small but remarkable

Thirty years ago, in May, the Falkland Islands were invaded by Argentina for the simple reason that Argentina laid claims to them. Argentina described these islands as the Malvinas. It argued...

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(Cricinfo) – Shai Hope spent the entirety of this seemingly never-ending match on the field, hobbling for the last third of his innings after having kept for 50 overs, and sealed West...

The price of prosperity

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(Kaieteur News) – In Guyana, there is a peculiar arithmetic to prosperity. The country announces itself as one of the fastest-growing economies in the hemisphere, a petroleum state that has been transformed almost overnight into a place of billion-dollar projects, expanding infrastructure and...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

What if

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Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – Brace for what’s coming, my fellow Guyanese. A bit off the beaten track. Here goes. What if the U.S. as a matter of immigration policy would experiment with visa-free travel for Guyanese? A kind of seasonal work permit, along the lines that used to be...

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