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Buxton United FC is new K&S Football kings

Jan 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Buxton United FC is new K&S Football kings

Cart off Lion’s share of prizes They started their journey as the underdogs; the most unlikely to cart off the honours but when the smoke had cleared, Buxton United FC emerged as champions,...

Banks Beer / GFA KO Cup…Sunburst Camptown new champs

Jan 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks Beer / GFA KO Cup…Sunburst Camptown new champs

– Northern Rangers upset GDF They are always considered dangerous when it comes to money tournaments and it is a pity that a promising Riddim Squad side had to find that out for themselves...

Any lingering doubt put to rest

Jan 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Any lingering doubt put to rest

By Rawle Welch If ever there was any lingering doubt as to which is the biggest yearend sports event, the tens of thousands of spectators who turned up at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC)...

Overseas based Guyanese cyclist sponsors season opening cycle race Sunday in Berbice

Jan 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Overseas based Guyanese cyclist sponsors season opening cycle race Sunday in Berbice

Overseas based Guyanese and a former national cycling champion Wilbert Benjamin continues to show benevolence to his home county. Benjamin will on Sunday 6th January give cyclists an...

Wiltshire Dominoes set to start on Sunday

Jan 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wiltshire Dominoes set to start on Sunday

Mark Wiltshire Dominoes competition is set to get underway on Sunday, January 6th at Transport Sports Club from 14:00 hrs. Teams from Georgetown, Linden, Essequibo, West Coast Berbice, West Coast and...

LABA/Malta Supreme Basketball finalists decided

Jan 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on LABA/Malta Supreme Basketball finalists decided

Pollydore leads Royals in Kings upset 59-50 as Jets ease past Bulls 61-51 The fourth ranked team Victory Valley Royals upended top seed Kashif and Shanghai Kings in dramatic fashion...

The highs and lows in local Sports

Jan 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on The highs and lows in local Sports

Basketball in 2012 Unfortunately 2012 marked another low productive year for basketball in Guyana following a lack of initiative and enthusiasm from the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation...

Sarwan assists Prabhu Sharan Orphanage

Jan 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sarwan assists Prabhu Sharan Orphanage

Former West Indies captain, Ramnaresh Sarwan, on Monday last hosted a lunch for children of the Prabhu Sharan orphanage at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara. The attractive middle order...

Table Tennis, other sports gear and equipment presented to police

Jan 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Table Tennis, other sports gear and equipment presented to police

The Station Management Committee of the Fort Wellington Police Station situated on the West Coast Berbice, which is part of sub division N03 of B Division, in their continued quest to...

GBA donates gear to Republican Boxing Gym

Jan 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBA donates gear to Republican Boxing Gym

The Guyana Boxing Association recently donated boxing equipment to the Georgetown Prisons/Republican Boxing Gym. This is in fulfillment of an earlier promise made to Director of...

Opposition moves to cap benefits to former Presidents

Jan 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition moves to cap benefits to former Presidents

…Govt says Jagdeo will not be affected APNU’s shadow Home Affairs Minister and security expert, Winston Felix, says that there should be a limit to the number of “guards” assigned to former...

Vandals caught on camera damaging vehicles as family feud escalates

Jan 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Vandals caught on camera damaging vehicles as family feud escalates

An escalating family feud between two Canadian-based Guyanese brothers is threatening to get ugly and once again the police are being blamed for allowing the situation to spiral out of...

Another death row inmate gets sentence commuted

Jan 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Another death row inmate gets sentence commuted

Another death row prison inmate has had his sentence commuted. Yesterday Attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes was able to have his client, Oral Hendrick’s sentence commuted to life imprisonment by the...

Amputee perishes in Buxton fire

Jan 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Amputee perishes in Buxton fire

A 65-year-old amputee perished in a burning building yesterday becoming the first fire casualty for the new year. The charred remains of Dennis Marks who lived alone were recovered from the...

Labour Ministry looking at ‘land-grabbing’ in Coops

Jan 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Labour Ministry looking at ‘land-grabbing’ in Coops

The Ministry of Labour has observed what has been deemed very disturbing features within Cooperatives, whereby members have been engaging in illicit activities as it relates to land transfers. This...

Region Three councilors walk out of RDC meeting

Jan 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Region Three councilors walk out of RDC meeting

…says chairman disrespectful It’s a new year and Region Three Councilors say that they have got a new attitude towards the Regional chairman who insists on treating them in a disrespectful...

Dem boys seh…When de Bee couldn’t get a bribe, he sue

Jan 03, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…When de Bee couldn’t get a bribe, he sue

De year start and more news coming out about some people who help demselves like if dem was a cooperative. Dem is de same people who use to cuss Burnham when he talk about Guyanese helping...

Why should there be fear about a number?

Jan 03, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Why should there be fear about a number?

This is the dawn of a New Year. However, this year is different from all the others that nearly all of those of us alive today have ever witnessed. This one has the dreaded number, 13. Many who...

Linden woman walks away with $1M

Jan 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Linden woman walks away with $1M

– As Ansa McAl promotion ends One Linden mother collapsed after learning that she was one million dollars richer as the “Ariel Christmas Surprise Promotion” came to an end. Karen...

Bandits hit Cell Point on New Year’s Day

Jan 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits hit Cell Point on New Year’s Day

A city businessman was yesterday counting his losses after brazen burglars broke into his Cell Point store on Regent Road, Bourda shortly after 5:00 hours on New Year’s Day and escaped with...

Rohee’s security plan…Opposition, Chamber of Commerce differ on support

Jan 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee’s security plan…Opposition, Chamber of Commerce differ on support

There have been differing reactions to the recently announced security sector improvement plan, with the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) pledging its support, while the...

Squib throwing leaves man with split lip

Jan 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Squib throwing leaves man with split lip

While many celebrated the New Year with lots of love and laughter, 22-year-old Prakash Dahadur broke 2013 at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) – this was after a...

New Amsterdam man’s throat slit on New Year’s morning

Jan 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on New Amsterdam man’s throat slit on New Year’s morning

…assailant hospitalized after sound thrashing The New Year’s celebrations of a New Amsterdam family were cut short with the news that one of their own was seriously wounded. Chris Burrowes, 39,...

Availability of illegal pesticides “reduced”

Jan 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Availability of illegal pesticides “reduced”

The availability of illegal pesticides on the market has declined by one percent. This is according to the end of year report issued by the Ministry of Agriculture. “Enforcement activities...

Addressing NCDs high on Health Ministry’s 2013 agenda

Jan 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Addressing NCDs high on Health Ministry’s 2013 agenda

With a view of better addressing the challenge of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), the Ministry of Health is looking to expand its delivery of service, particularly in the capital city of...

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Thomas’ hat-trick inspires D.C Caesar Fox 10-5 victory, as Annai Sec’ hammer Dolphin

The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more