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Friday night fights return tomorrow

Jan 24, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Friday night fights return tomorrow

Described as a bout between a “knockout veteran” and a “craftsman”, Gladwin Dorway will take on Mark Austin tomorrow night in a featured bout of Guyana Boxing Board of Controls (GBBC)...

Demerara are GCB Senior 4-day Inter County champs

Jan 24, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Demerara are GCB Senior 4-day Inter County champs

E’bo, President’s XI match ends in stalemate due to rain By Zaheer Mohamed Demerara defeated GT&T Berbice by 4 wickets to win the Guyana Cricket Board Senior 4-day Inter County tournament...

Mayor Green 7-a-side Inter Ward Football finals set for today at Den Amstel

Jan 24, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayor Green 7-a-side Inter Ward Football finals set for today at Den Amstel

Keen competition will be the order of the day today when the Mayor Hamilton Green 78th Birth Anniversary 7-a-side Inter Ward knockout Football tournament concludes at Den Amstel ground...

Over 50 entries in for Bush Lot United Turf Club horserace Meet February 3

Jan 24, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Over 50 entries in for Bush Lot United Turf Club horserace Meet February 3

Fireworks is anticipated as preparations have stepped up for the season opening Bush Lot United Turf Club one day horserace meet which is slated for Sunday 3rd of February at the club’s...

Endurance Meet to roll off GMR&SC calendar of events for 2013

Jan 24, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Endurance Meet to roll off GMR&SC calendar of events for 2013

The Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) will roll off its first event of the year which will be the Endurance Race Meeting this Sunday, at the South Dakota Circuit, starting...

Top Gun are Godfrey Gibbons Memorial Dominoes champs

Jan 24, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Top Gun are Godfrey Gibbons Memorial Dominoes champs

Top Gun marked 85 games to win the Godfrey Gibbons Memorial Dominoes competition which was contested recently at Coca Cabana, Belladrum, West Coast Berbice. Hot Shots placed second with 72...

Great Diamond Martial Arts Association to represent Guyana at St. Lucia Open

Jan 24, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Great Diamond Martial Arts Association to represent Guyana at St. Lucia Open

The Great Diamond Martial Arts Association has been invited to attend in the St. Lucia Piton Open International Martial Arts Festival called Armageddon, which will be held on the 24th of...

Trophy Stall WDFA U-17 for official launch on Saturday

Jan 24, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall WDFA U-17 for official launch on Saturday

– seven teams battling for supremacy Defending champions Den Amstel Porknockers will open their quest to retain the Trophy Stall sponsored West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) Under-17...

LABA to continue staging Linden Schools U-19 Basketball Championship – April 8 – May1

Jan 24, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on LABA to continue staging Linden Schools U-19 Basketball Championship – April 8 – May1

Gets commitment from US-based former national Coach Linden Alphonso The wheels are in motion for the Linden Amateur Basketball Association’s staging of this year’s ninth annual Linden Secondary...

BCB express disgust at Chattergoon’s omission from Guyana squads

Jan 24, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB express disgust at Chattergoon’s omission from Guyana squads

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has expressed its disgust in the strongest terms at the non selection of Sewnarine Chattergoon from both the Guyana’s four-day and 50 overs cricket teams....

Commissioner Leroy Brummell Inter-Division T10 cricket tourney

Jan 24, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Commissioner Leroy Brummell Inter-Division T10 cricket tourney

HQ, B & D record wins; G face E on Friday @ Eve Leary When play in the Commissioner of Police Leroy Brummell Inter Division T10 cricket competition continued recently, there were...

New Year’s Day baby perishes in Stewartville blaze

Jan 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on New Year’s Day baby perishes in Stewartville blaze

“Just so how me left she, me come meet she dead and lay down,” a tearful mom recalled By Romila Boodram and Leonard Gildarie It was a night of horror for a mother who returned home to see her...

Gov’t defends sole-sourcing of drugs from New GPC

Jan 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t defends sole-sourcing of drugs from New GPC

Government is looking to continue sole-sourcing billions of dollars in medical drugs from the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (New GPC), with the Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr...

Mazaruni River crash… Hope of finding survivors evaporating

Jan 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mazaruni River crash… Hope of finding survivors evaporating

Members of the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guards, Maritime officials and police were up to nightfall yesterday still combing the rough waters of the Mazaruni River for the bodies of eight persons as...

Dem boys seh…De Rat keep a birthday bash

Jan 24, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De Rat keep a birthday bash

This place got people who always want hear bad news. Dem is de same people who does tell de newspaper people that dem should tone down. De Waterfalls people tone down and when that happen de...

Another schoolboy stabbed

Jan 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Another schoolboy stabbed

Another 13-year-old schoolboy was yesterday stabbed in his back with a pair of scissors by a “bully” who attends the Lodge Secondary School. The incident occurred around 15:30 hours in front of...

UG owes $228M to GRA, NIS and pension scheme

Jan 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on UG owes $228M to GRA, NIS and pension scheme

– Subventions needed to sustain UG viability The University of Guyana (UG) owes the Guyana Revenue Authority, National Insurance Scheme and the UG pension Scheme $228.7M for...

Those illegal guns

Jan 24, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Those illegal guns

Every so often we hear of an individual being held with a firearm that is unlicenced. Sometimes we hear of the police, acting on a tip off, finding weapons tucked away somewhere. In many cases we...

Guyana compiles updated law volumes

Jan 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana compiles updated law volumes

By Latoya Giles The Ministry of Legal Affairs through its Project Secretariat for the Modernization of the Justice Administration System (MJAS) project yesterday launched the highly...

UG officially launches US$10 M science and tech project

Jan 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on UG officially launches US$10 M science and tech project

With a World Bank loan of US10 million, the University of Guyana in collaboration with the Ministry of Education is set to execute a Science and Technology Support project over five years...

Family fearful police covering up crime

Jan 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Family fearful police covering up crime

… statements not presented in court Relatives of Eileen Gibson, the woman beaten during a robbery last year, are fearful that the criminal matter involving a police officer’s son...

Youman Nabi Messages

Jan 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Youman Nabi Messages

People’s Progressive Party The People’s Progressive Party extends best wishes to all Guyanese and to the Muslim Community in particular on the occasion of Youman Nabi. This anniversary is taking...

Granger calls for halt to mining in contentious Amerindian titled lands

Jan 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Granger calls for halt to mining in contentious Amerindian titled lands

Leader of the Opposition, Brig (ret’d) David Granger has expressed concerns about the ongoing mining issue plaguing members of the various Amerindians villages in the country. Granger, the leader...

Foreign drug mules languishing in East La Penitence lock-ups awaiting deportation

Jan 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign drug mules languishing in East La Penitence lock-ups awaiting deportation

By Dale Andrews Several weeks after completing their sentences, two foreign drug mules remain languishing in the East La Penitence lock-ups awaiting deportation. The two women, American...

Dissatisfied villagers picket Amerindian Affairs Ministry

Jan 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Dissatisfied villagers picket Amerindian Affairs Ministry

…reiterate calls for legislation reform Amerindians, peeved over what they say is the flawed and powerless Amerindian Act passed in their favour in 2006, picketed the office of Amerindians...

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Where is the talent in the PPP?

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and its exuberant General Secretary, Bharrat... more