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Flex Night Int. promoted at Mr. Suriname Show

Dec 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Flex Night Int. promoted at Mr. Suriname Show

Surinamese coming to back their athletes With mere days away from the inaugural Flex Night International Bodybuilding and Fitness Show at the National Cultural Centre, the organizers, Flex Night...

WBC confers ‘King of Boxing’ honour on Muhammad Ali at 50th Convention

Dec 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on WBC confers ‘King of Boxing’ honour on Muhammad Ali at 50th Convention

He has fought many tough battles but will best be remembered for his historic encounters against Joe Frazier, dubbed ‘The Thrilla in Manila,’ coupled with his epic fights against George...

Gibson looks for Windies to improve

Dec 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gibson looks for Windies to improve

DHAKA, Bangladesh – West Indies coach Ottis Gibson said he expected his side to step-up their performance in the crucial third One-day International against Bangladesh on Wednesday here. West...

Mayor Green 78th birthday football tourney…Quarterfinals spots on offer tonight at GFC

Dec 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayor Green 78th birthday football tourney…Quarterfinals spots on offer tonight at GFC

Play in the Mayor Hamilton Green 78th birth anniversary inter-ward KO soccer tournament continues tonight at the Georgetown Football Club Ground, this evening with quarterfinal sport in the...

Humphrey’s Bakery/Gordon Gilhuys supports K&S Football extravaganza

Dec 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Humphrey’s Bakery/Gordon Gilhuys supports K&S Football extravaganza

The administrators of the K&S football organization are adamant that this year’s tournament will be the best ever and are working feverishly to ensure that all of the details are...

Mercury Track and Field Club preparing Athletes for busy 2013

Dec 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mercury Track and Field Club preparing Athletes for busy 2013

The Mercury Track and Field Club, which is based in Georgetown, are currently preparing their Athletes for a busy 2013. The club is presently using the Guyana Teachers Union and...

GFF Super League…Five matches carded for Sunday

Dec 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Super League…Five matches carded for Sunday

Following the postponement of all the matches last week Sunday in the Guyana Football Federation Super League due to rain, five matches will be contested this Sunday at three venues. The BV...

26 karate students graded at Linden & Albion

Dec 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on 26 karate students graded at Linden & Albion

Following a grading session on November 25 in which 87 karatekas were graded at the YMCA Thomas Lands by Sensei Amir Khouri for Shuseki Shihan Frank Woon-A-Tai, another batch was graded...

Ryan Crawford Turf Club and Sports Facility expresses appreciation

Dec 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ryan Crawford Turf Club and Sports Facility expresses appreciation

The Management Committee of the Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club & Sports Facilities at Alness Corentyne has taken the opportunity to extend heartfelt gratitude to all the...

WICB receives and accepts Guyana CT20 Squad from GCB

Dec 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on WICB receives and accepts Guyana CT20 Squad from GCB

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board has received and accepted the following Guyana Squad for the Caribbean T20 as provided by the Guyana Cricket Board: Guyana CT20...

Johnny ‘Overseas’ Barnwell organizes 5-a-side penalty shootout

Dec 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Johnny ‘Overseas’ Barnwell organizes 5-a-side penalty shootout

Inter-Class Softball Cricket Competition Sports Organizer, Johnny ‘Overseas’ Barnwell will join forces with administrators of the South Turkeyen Sports Committee to stage a 5-a-side...

US$15M Hope Canal…Independent engineers call for urgent review

Dec 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on US$15M Hope Canal…Independent engineers call for urgent review

‘Substandard work, poor monitoring, delays will compromise project’ Two independent engineers, who recently visited the ongoing US$15M Hope Canal project which is geared to help reduce long term...

Court Orderly caught with “settlement” money

Dec 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Court Orderly caught with “settlement” money

The refusal to hand back money given to him as an inducement to settle a court matter has landed a Police Constable in hot water. The Constable, who acted as the Orderly at the Sparendaam...

Man critical after struck by police prosecutor’s car

Dec 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man critical after struck by police prosecutor’s car

-rank under close arrest A 38-year-old cane harvester is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was struck down on Monday night on the Fyrish Public Road in Berbice. Troy...

Fisherman loses foot in trawler mishap

Dec 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Fisherman loses foot in trawler mishap

A fisherman had a part of his leg cut off after being involved in an accident whilst working on a trawler in the Atlantic Ocean yesterday. Dwayne Nelson, 28, a seaman from North Ruimveldt,...

Multi-million$$ taxi bill probe opens can of worms… Car owners dispute figures, fear visit from the taxman

Dec 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Multi-million$$ taxi bill probe opens can of worms… Car owners dispute figures, fear visit from the taxman

The focus of the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the whopping taxi bill incurred by the Ministry of Tourism has opened a can of worms, with taxi service operators named in...

Dem boys seh…De Rat does open he hand still

Dec 05, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De Rat does open he hand still

Some rain fall and everybody complaining. All of a sudden people realize that Rob Earth did tek nuff money to dig drains suh that de water woulda run off de land. Well Rob Earth was digging...

Human Services, Natural Resources Ministries collaborating to combat TIP

Dec 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Human Services, Natural Resources Ministries collaborating to combat TIP

In a desperate attempt to tackle the problem of Trafficking in Persons (TIP), the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security has been collaborating with the Ministry of Natural Resources...

Stockfeeds employee robbed by gunmen

Dec 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Stockfeeds employee robbed by gunmen

The police are currently investigating yet another daring daylight robbery which occurred in the vicinity of Guyana Stockfeeds Limited, at Farm, East Bank Demerara. Reports are that Jermaine Ramroop,...

Slain farmer had shotgun injuries

Dec 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Slain farmer had shotgun injuries

Seventy-six year-old Saheed Hamid was killed with a shotgun, and not with a small calibre weapon as reported in the press. A police statement said that several shotgun pellets were removed from the...

Taxi driver shot by female “passenger”…Police seeking motive in bizarre case

Dec 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver shot by female “passenger”…Police seeking motive in bizarre case

As police continue their investigation into Sunday night’s shooting incident involving 39-year-old taxi driver Dale Cameron, they are yet to come up with a motive. A source close to the...

5% increase an insult – Granger

Dec 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on 5% increase an insult – Granger

Opposition Leader David Granger has described the five percent increase for public servants as being an insult. Granger told media operatives yesterday that the increase is inadequate and...

GYSM blasts Educ. Ministry over QC issue

Dec 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GYSM blasts Educ. Ministry over QC issue

The Guyana Youth and Student Movement (GYSM) yesterday expressed disgust at the length of time it is taking officials to rectify the so-called flea infestation at Queen’s College, saying that the...

$167M bid submitted for spares for T&HD vessels

Dec 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on $167M bid submitted for spares for T&HD vessels

Under the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD), four bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), for the acquisition of...

Mackenzie High wins JOF Haynes debate for third year in a row

Dec 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mackenzie High wins JOF Haynes debate for third year in a row

Having battled to the bitter end to prove itself worthy of the title, the team from Mackenzie High School was yesterday able to claim a well deserved victory, defeating its arch rival Anna Regina...

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Guyana Beverage Inc. on board with Petra to host 8th Annual Girls U11 Football Tournament

Poor Power Planning (PPP)

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- Planning has long been the PPP/C government’s pride and joy. The PPP/C touts it at rallies,... more