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GT&T announces extensive Wi-Fi for UG, Nat’l Stadium

Jan 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T announces extensive Wi-Fi for UG, Nat’l Stadium

– Diverse mobile money transfers imminent As talks continue between government and the two major telecommunication companies on new legislation to effectively open the market, one...

Speaker rules against Gov’t-proposed amendments

Jan 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Speaker rules against Gov’t-proposed amendments

– says they violate Standing Orders By Abena Rockcliffe The Government-proposed amendments to a Motion tabled by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) leader David Granger, which called for...

Fire ruins lower flat of Queenstown house

Jan 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fire ruins lower flat of Queenstown house

A mid-afternoon fire of unknown origin yesterday destroyed the lower flat of a two-storey house at Lot 29 Anira Street, Queenstown. The blaze started around 13:30hrs. According to...

Stalled works causing massive erosion on East Coast highway

Jan 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Stalled works causing massive erosion on East Coast highway

The situation on the stalled section of extension works on the East Coast Demerara Highway continues to worsen nine months after the contract was halted. Presently, millions of dollars...

Porters held for stealing dead man’s dentures

Jan 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Porters held for stealing dead man’s dentures

A bizarre case involving the theft of a dead man’s dentures is engaging the attention of the police and has led to the arrest of two hospital porters. Kaieteur News understands that...

AFC calls for Govt. to ungag the opposition

Jan 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on AFC calls for Govt. to ungag the opposition

…supports continued action against Rohee Even as the Alliance for Change (AFC) through its leader, Khemraj Ramjattan called on Wednesday for the continuation of the gag order...

Barnwell stars as Guyana beat Leewards by 14 runs in CT20

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Barnwell stars as Guyana beat Leewards by 14 runs in CT20

All-rounder and man-of-the-match Christopher Barnwell hammered 61 off 36 balls as Guyana defeated Leeward Island by 14 runs when the Caribbean T20 tournament continued yesterday at Beausejour...

Demerara in driver’s seat against President’s XI, E’bo take 1st inns from GT&T B’ce

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Demerara in driver’s seat against President’s XI, E’bo take 1st inns from GT&T B’ce

By Zaheer Mohamed Half centuries by Vishal Singh and Shaquille Williams and two late wickets by Amir Khan gave Demerara the upper hand against the President’s XI, while Essequibo grabbed first...

Schools’ Milo U-20 Football Tournament starts tomorrow

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Schools’ Milo U-20 Football Tournament starts tomorrow

Representatives of most of the schools scheduled to participate in the Milo Under-20 Football Tournament which is being organised by Petra Organisation were in attendance for a briefing, at the...

Champions to be crowned on Sunday

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Champions to be crowned on Sunday

Following four days of exciting, keen and splendid action in the inaugural Under-13 Primary schools tournament organized by the Kashif & Shanghai Organisation and sponsored by Beharry Group under...

Jones defies ‘ring rust’ theory; says he will knockout Cox

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jones defies ‘ring rust’ theory; says he will knockout Cox

In boxing parlance, when a boxer on the verge of combat is deemed to be ring rusty it means that he has not fought for a long time and would experience grave difficulties in the coherency of his...

GABA future in clubs’ hands

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABA future in clubs’ hands

– says Vice President Gomes The future of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) is in the hands of clubs affiliated to the association, the only serving member, Vice-President,...

GT&T wants strict monitoring in post-monopoly period

Jan 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T wants strict monitoring in post-monopoly period

– alarmed at illegal bypass, aiming for tax reduction The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) is insistent that a level playing field remains one of its...

Hooper denies interest in Bangladesh coaching job

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hooper denies interest in Bangladesh coaching job

Carl Hooper has denied any interest in coaching Bangladesh. Earlier this week the BCB had spoken of the former West Indies captain as one of the early candidates. “I was asked if I was interested,...

Ecuador, Haiti climb to highest-ever slots

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ecuador, Haiti climb to highest-ever slots

Guyana remains at 122 As expected, there are very few changes to 2013’s first edition of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, with football having come to a halt in many places over the New Year...

Archrivals Bermine and Young Warriors to clash in final

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Archrivals Bermine and Young Warriors to clash in final

History would be created on Sunday when the Berbice Cricket Board hosts the final of the first ever Bobcat of Guyana T20 competition, the first of its kind to be organised by the Board for teams in...

A disaster waiting to happen

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A disaster waiting to happen

DEAR EDITOR, I have grown up hearing that Georgetown was the Garden City but as I aged I wonder about the truism of that statement. Georgetown today has a multiplicity of problems that no one seems...

Kanden re-elected President of Albion Cricket Club

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kanden re-elected President of Albion Cricket Club

Pastor Lloyd Kanden was re-elected unopposed as President of the Albion Community Centre Cricket Club, when that entity held its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday last at the Albion Community...

Dem boys seh…Bar Bee beacon don’t shine pun truth

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Bar Bee beacon don’t shine pun truth

A beacon is something that does shine bright. It does direct dem boat that looking fuh somewhere fuh land. Guyana got a beacon of truth, but this truth is one that only dem scampish...

A good concept, but poor target

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A good concept, but poor target

DEAR SIR, Your Monday 14th January sports edition carried a story on a secondary school football competition of which the sponsors are K&S and the Beharry Company. There was also a photograph of...

We must change in our society, not homosexuals

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must change in our society, not homosexuals

Dear Editor, In a letter in Kaieteur News on December 29, 2012 titled ‘Let’s help our Devons’ penned by Dr Sewnauth Punalall, I was disheartened to read his attempt to manipulate a shocking...

Goodbye to the cricket killers

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Goodbye to the cricket killers

Dear Mr. Editor I read recently that Otis Gibson, the current WICB Coach, plans to leave the lucrative position he presently holds with the WICB. Dr. Ernest Hillarie had earlier departed from the...

Why pay children?

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why pay children?

Dear Editor, I want it; give it to me; buy me it. These seem to be the constant demands of some of today’s youth. Some children feel owed or entitled to get their way. These children demand that...

Culture Karma

Jan 18, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Culture Karma

There is a story that when Charles de Gaulle became President of France, after the horrors of WWII had reduced his country to rubble, he asked his close friend, the intellectual Andre Malraux, what...

Amerindian village loses mining case

Jan 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Amerindian village loses mining case

– negative implications anticipated by stakeholders By Zena Henry As the country’s mining section continues to expand and more persons seek their riches in the ‘gold bush’,...

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