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Local amateurs set to battle Trinidadian counterparts at CASH tonight

Nov 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local amateurs set to battle Trinidadian counterparts at CASH tonight

Azore and Austin to clash for Welterweight crown in main bout By Zaheer Mohamed Guyanese Boxing fans will be in for a treat when several local amateur boxers go head to head against their...

Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival…

Nov 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival…

GCC Veterans start on a positive note GCC veterans through a brace from Philip Fernandes got off to a positive start in this year’s Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival...

Taffin Khan battles from behind to retain National senior chess championship

Nov 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Taffin Khan battles from behind to retain National senior chess championship

Taffin Khan started the final day trailing behind Shiv Nandalall and Loris Nathoo but by the end of the day had amassed 6 points to reclaim his title when action in the final day of the...

Flex Night Inc. produces first Magazine…‘Celebrating the human body’

Nov 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Flex Night Inc. produces first Magazine…‘Celebrating the human body’

A new publication Flex Night – the magazine will be on local newsstands within the next few days. The full-colour, glossy publication is a first for Flex Night Incorporated which had, in the...

Young Warriors Cricket Club congratulates young Shimron Hetmyer

Nov 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Young Warriors Cricket Club congratulates young Shimron Hetmyer

The Young Warriors Cricket Club of Cumberland Village, East Canje, Berbice is extending congratulation to the young and talented batsman Shimron Hetmyer for making the Berbice Senior T20 team...

GCB Inter County T20 rained out

Nov 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB Inter County T20 rained out

The first round of matches of the Guyana Cricket Board senior Inter County T/20 competition which were scheduled for the Everest ground yesterday were rained out. The officials are hopeful to have...

Marketing & Distribution are Neal and Massy Inter-Company Tapeball Cricket champs

Nov 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Marketing & Distribution are Neal and Massy Inter-Company Tapeball Cricket champs

Marketing and Distribution (M&D) are the 2012 Neal and Massy Inter-Company 10-over Tapeball Cricket champions following their victory over Essequibo Branch Sunday at the Cornelia Ida...

Amy, Sarah and Naomi want to represent Guyana at the Olympics

Nov 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Amy, Sarah and Naomi want to represent Guyana at the Olympics

Amy Grant, Sarah King and Naomi King’s goal is to one day represent Guyana at the Olympic Games, these swimmers represented District 11 North Georgetown at the recently concluded National...

Mayor Hamilton Green birthday anniversary tourney rescheduled to next Friday

Nov 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayor Hamilton Green birthday anniversary tourney rescheduled to next Friday

Play in the Mayor Hamilton Green birthday 7-a-side football tournament continues at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground next Friday after heavy rain left that venue waterlogged for...

Two Guyanese Referees for Caribbean Cup finals

Nov 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Two Guyanese Referees for Caribbean Cup finals

Sherwin Jonson & Venton Mars to officiate Guyanese Referee Sherwin Johnson and Assistant Referee Venton Mars have been selected to officiate at the final of the 2012 edition of the...

Banks DIH Berbice basketball tourney starts Sunday

Nov 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH Berbice basketball tourney starts Sunday

Basketball players in Berbice will soon have an opportunity to show off their skill when the Corentyne All Stars Sports Club organise a round robin inter club basketball competition for...

Kashif & Shanghai 2012/13 U-13 Chico Inter-School Tournament release new Fixtures

Nov 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kashif & Shanghai 2012/13 U-13 Chico Inter-School Tournament release new Fixtures

Due to the withdrawal of Miriam Academy from the Kashif & Shanghai Chico U-13 Inter School Football Tournament, St Margaret’s Primary will be participating in the tournament as...

GCA releases fixtures for competitions this weekend

Nov 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA releases fixtures for competitions this weekend

Action in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) competitions will continue this weekend with several matches. In the Hadi’s World Incorporated – City Mall 1st Division...

Auditor General begins probe into NDIA’s fraud allegations

Nov 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Auditor General begins probe into NDIA’s fraud allegations

– Not in possession of report or CEO’s response The Auditor General’s Office has commenced investigations into fraud allegations against senior officials of the National...

Mega-mall connection…Giftland hooks up with major fast food franchise holder

Nov 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mega-mall connection…Giftland hooks up with major fast food franchise holder

Fast food franchise holder Camex Restaurants Inc. (Church’s Chicken, Mario’s Pizza and Quiznos), yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Giftland OfficeMax, which would see the...

Govt, Opposition share chairmanship of Parliamentary Committees

Nov 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt, Opposition share chairmanship of Parliamentary Committees

According to the Parliament Office, on Wednesday, Raphael Trotman, Speaker of the National Assembly, convened meetings of the several Special Select Committees to elect their Chairpersons. A special...

Over 350 kilos of cocaine found in soap powder

Nov 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Over 350 kilos of cocaine found in soap powder

Police yesterday intercepted more than 350 kilogrammes of cocaine at John Fernandes Limited shipping container facility on Mandela Avenue. Kaieteur News understands that the drug was found...

Public servants to get 5% increase

Nov 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Public servants to get 5% increase

– to continue negotiations for new wages, salaries agreement Government yesterday announced a five percent across-the-board increase for public servants. The increase to salaries and...

Dem boys seh…Fip throw down Berbice house

Nov 30, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Fip throw down Berbice house

A house fall down in Berbice and a young male nurse been inside de house. A beam squeeze he and he end up in hospital. When he wake up dem boys ask he how de house fall down. He tell...

Biennial forum focuses on development of long term health strategy

Nov 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Biennial forum focuses on development of long term health strategy

Regional Health Officers and Programme Heads met Wednesday for their second biennial meeting at the Grand Coastal Inn, Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara, to focus on the development of the...

CARIFORUM Secretary-General concerned over impact of new EU development policy

Nov 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CARIFORUM Secretary-General concerned over impact of new EU development policy

Secretary-General Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States (CARIFORUM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, has expressed concern over the possibility of a decrease in development...

Procurement process in Region Nine muddled – AG Report

Nov 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Procurement process in Region Nine muddled – AG Report

The Auditor General’s Office was unable to determine whether the tender process administered by the Region Nine Administration in 2011 was fair and in keeping with the prescribed...

23,000 OLPF units expected in January

Nov 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on 23,000 OLPF units expected in January

Guyana is to receive a further 23,000 laptops in January for its One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project. According to Project Manager, Margot Boyce, so far 22,000 units have been...

Negotiations on issues at university not going well – UGSSA

Nov 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Negotiations on issues at university not going well – UGSSA

Dialogue on wages, salaries and working conditions for all categories of employees between the University of Guyana (UG)’s unions and a negotiating team are not going very well, says Dr....

Cocaine-in-coconut milk…One jailed, one remanded for $$M Malaysia shipment

Nov 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cocaine-in-coconut milk…One jailed, one remanded for $$M Malaysia shipment

The two men who were charged in connection with the shipment of cocaine that was discovered in canned coconut milk, and which arrived in Malaysia earlier this month, made their...

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D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life with Region 3 Jamboree

Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more