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Guyana surrender first innings lead to Barbados

Feb 16, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana surrender first innings lead to Barbados

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Miguel Cummins 4-42 and Ashley Nurse 4-74 combined to destroy Guyana on the second day of the second round of matches in the Regional Four-Day Championship yesterday. The...

Blazing Gayle fires Dhaka into final

Feb 16, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Blazing Gayle fires Dhaka into final

Chris Gayle powered to his tenth Twenty20 hundred in Dhaka Gladiators’ Race to the Final, but despite the huge target of 197 the Sylhet Royals gave spirited chase, and ultimately fell just short of...

NSC hosts Floor Hockey training for Special Schools, related agencies

Feb 16, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC hosts Floor Hockey training for Special Schools, related agencies

The National Sports Commission will be hosting a Floor Hockey Training Programme for staff of Special Schools and other interested agencies. Training will be conducted by Sports Organizer, Wilton...

Milo U-20 Schools Football resumes today

Feb 16, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milo U-20 Schools Football resumes today

The Milo Under-20 Schools Football Competition rumbles on today and tomorrow with three matches scheduled each day, at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue. In today’s round of...

Seniority and agility -‘Corn man’ Stephenson exemplifies both concepts in fitness run

Feb 16, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Seniority and agility -‘Corn man’ Stephenson exemplifies both concepts in fitness run

He was born on March 6, 1953 and in a mere few weeks would be celebrating his 59th birth anniversary yet his crisp gait and agile movements belie this fact. He sports a healthy stock of...

Port Mourant Cricket Club elects executives

Feb 16, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Port Mourant Cricket Club elects executives

The Port Mourant Cricket Club, which was once one of the most feared clubs in Guyana cricket, recently selected its executive to chart the way forward for the next year. The club recently held its...

Gizmos & Gadgets renews Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club First Division sponsorship

Feb 16, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gizmos & Gadgets renews Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club First Division sponsorship

The Georgetown based flagship store Gizmos & Gadgets of Wellington Street, last Friday renewed their sponsorship of the Berbice cricketing power house Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadgets First...

The human machine will inevitably ground to a halt

Feb 16, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The human machine will inevitably ground to a halt

DEAR EDITOR, There comes a time in the life of every individual when, despite the best willpower one could possibly muster, the human machine will inevitably ground to a halt. This is why it is...

We must not be fooled by deceitful arguments and misapplied statistics

Feb 16, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must not be fooled by deceitful arguments and misapplied statistics

Dear Editor, After the minority PPP government was recently condemned in the media for being grossly irresponsible and incompetent in its management of our nation’s national debt, Finance Minister...

What exactly is President Ramotar’s stance on these nationally embarrassing hot button issues?

Feb 16, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on What exactly is President Ramotar’s stance on these nationally embarrassing hot button issues?

Dear Editor, A Guyanese friend of mine in New York asked me Thursday what I thought of the unfolding events in Guyana, viz a viz, the role of the Chinese in the Marriott and the CCTV...

Stumbling from crisis to crisis

Feb 16, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Stumbling from crisis to crisis

The government seems to be stumbling from one controversy to the other with scarcely a break between episodes. Something like this could only happen if the advisers are people who function as though...

Pensioner gets drunk to kill Tucville mechanic

Feb 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner gets drunk to kill Tucville mechanic

Tells arresting ranks, “when the rain finish then I going with yall’ Police have arrested a 70-year old pensioner, who allegedly stabbed to death Winsel Roger Edwards, 33, of Lot 315 East...

Death of 11 passengers at Mazaruni… MARAD recommends multiple charges for captains, crewmen

Feb 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Death of 11 passengers at Mazaruni… MARAD recommends multiple charges for captains, crewmen

By Michael Jordan The two boat captains involved in last month’s Mazaruni accident which claimed eleven lives broke several maritime laws, and the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) has...

Guinness ‘Greatest of de Streets’ final on tonight at Haslington

Feb 16, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness ‘Greatest of de Streets’ final on tonight at Haslington

It is simply a case of the best four teams in the competition being rewarded for their consistent performances since the commencement of the East Coast segment of the Guinness ‘Greatest of de...

Protest of Marriot Hotel construction continues … Govt. fueling unemployment among youths – YCT

Feb 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Protest of Marriot Hotel construction continues … Govt. fueling unemployment among youths – YCT

Government is playing a major role in compounding unemployment among young people with the outsourcing of work on home territory, says Jermaine Grant, President of Youth Coalition for Transformation....

Dem boys seh … Delta setting distance from Guyana and Jagdeo

Feb 16, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh … Delta setting distance from Guyana and Jagdeo

When dem boys talk that Jagdeo get search de other day and de people find condoms, dem didn’t know that he get suh vex that he attack Delta. Since 9-11 dem airline ain’t tekking no chance; dem...

Brooklyn-based Guyanese drug informant gunned down

Feb 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Brooklyn-based Guyanese drug informant gunned down

An informant, born in Guyana and aiding the feds in a New York drug probe, was gunned down after he left a nightclub in Brooklyn last month, the New York Post has learned. The murder appeared to be a...

Bully reportedly pushes boy, 8, down stairs, victim dies

Feb 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bully reportedly pushes boy, 8, down stairs, victim dies

…attack follows child’s purchase of rose for his mother By Romila Boodram An eight-year-old St. Margaret’s Primary School student died around 01:00am yesterday, hours after he was...

Norman McLean sues Govt. for $7.9M gratuity

Feb 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Norman McLean sues Govt. for $7.9M gratuity

…owed to him for over 20 years Major General (Ret’d) Norman McLean is suing the government for $7.9M in gratuity which he is owed for the past 22 years. In documents filed in the High...

Health centres commissioned at Port Mourant, Angoy’s Avenue

Feb 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Health centres commissioned at Port Mourant, Angoy’s Avenue

By Leon Suseran “The time is now where we have to make sure we minimize our mistakes!” This call was made by Region Six Chairman, David Armogan, speaking specifically about the health sector in...

Canada probes Guyanese exec tipped as CARICOM’s deputy head

Feb 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Canada probes Guyanese exec tipped as CARICOM’s deputy head

…CIDA’s conflict of interest situation cited Dr. Naresh Singh, a Guyana-born executive seeking a top post at CARICOM is now under investigations by Canadian authorities for his alleged conflict...

GPL worker suffers electrical burns, slides down utility pole

Feb 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPL worker suffers electrical burns, slides down utility pole

A 19-year-old Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Company worker is clinging to life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he suffered electrical burns on Thursday...

Slain Linden child laid to rest

Feb 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Slain Linden child laid to rest

Scores turned out at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground yesterday, to pay their final respects to little Jamal Naranjan, and to show their support for his bereaved relatives, during a poignant funeral...

Uncertainty, bush surround multi-million complex

Feb 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Uncertainty, bush surround multi-million complex

With reports of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) soon to take up residence at the multi-million-dollar government complex on High Street, Georgetown, the government has offered no...

Muse or Amuse… Welcome to the Chinese labor force

Feb 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Muse or Amuse… Welcome to the Chinese labor force

With one fell swoop, the Government of Guyana bartered a couple million dollars with a couple hundred Chinese. Government excused its action as one of skilled workforce. So the Government saves about...

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GCB bats for Government on sizable $8B Budget Allocation for Sports

A warning to President Ali on U.S. Overtures

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- It remains unknown what President Ali told the U.S. Secretary of State during their recent... more