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Mackeson hands over prizes for Super16 Street Football

Mar 08, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mackeson hands over prizes for Super16 Street Football

Ansa McAl under its Mackeson Brand yesterday handed over the prizes to the winner and top performers in the Mackeson Super16 Street Football competition that was held at the Amelia’s Ward and MSC...

Milo / Petra U-20 Schools F’ball – KO Stage…Richard Ishmael, St. George’s move on; Christ Church, QC out

Mar 08, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milo / Petra U-20 Schools F’ball – KO Stage…Richard Ishmael, St. George’s move on; Christ Church, QC out

The start of the knockout phase of the Milo / Petra Organisation Under-20 Schools Football Competition which begun yesterday at the Ministry of Education Ground on Carifesta Avenue held true to early...

GABA Division I and III Leagues

Mar 08, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABA Division I and III Leagues

– TGH Pacesetters remain unbeaten Trinity Grid Holdings (TGH) Pacesetters remained unbeaten in both the Division I and III Leagues of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA)...

PAHO donate sports equipment to NOC

Mar 08, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on PAHO donate sports equipment to NOC

By Zaheer Mohamed The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) yesterday donated a quantity of sports equipment to the New Opportunity Corps on the Essequibo Coast. The presentation took place in the...

GCB, WICB and the GOG reaches agreement

Mar 08, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB, WICB and the GOG reaches agreement

– Int. cricket to make grand return After being critical of the Government’s stance at a press conference on the availability of the National Stadium to host the first Pakistan test...

Davis and Taharally to Guest Pose at Central Corentyne Flexout

Mar 08, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Davis and Taharally to Guest Pose at Central Corentyne Flexout

Reigning Mr. Guyana Devon Davis and 2012 Ms. Flex Night Best Legs Nadina Taharally will be making guest appearances tomorrow (Saturday) hotly anticipated Central Corentyne Flexout bodybuilding...

Regional 4 day tourney Rd 4…T&T in control against Guyana

Mar 08, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional 4 day tourney Rd 4…T&T in control against Guyana

Guyana were struggling on 195-9 at stumps on day two of their fourth round game in the West Indies Cricket Board Regional 4-day tournament against Trinidad and Tobago at the Queen’s...

$Running Brave\AAG to host developmental Meet$

Running Brave\AAG to host developmental Meet

Mar 08, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Running Brave\AAG to host developmental Meet

The Running Brave Athletic Club (RBAC) in conjunction with the Athletics Association of Guyana will be hosting a Developmental Meet this Sunday, March 10, at the Guyana Defense Force Ground, Camp...

UDFA needs a Nelson-hold

Mar 08, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on UDFA needs a Nelson-hold

Elections for the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) are nigh, but scars from a recent two-decade old vice-grip at its top post are apparent. After half of a 26-month ban that wrestled the...

US-suspended Marriott supervisory firm…Background checks conducted? – APNU asks

Mar 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on US-suspended Marriott supervisory firm…Background checks conducted? – APNU asks

Government’s decision to hire a United States-based firm that has been blacklisted by authorities in New York from participating in any of its school contracts until mid-2015, has...

Education is a business not love, UG Vice-Chancellor asserts

Mar 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Education is a business not love, UG Vice-Chancellor asserts

– as extensive improvement plans unveiled “If you want quality degrees you will pay for it; nobody gets quality for free. If students can’t pay for it, somebody’s got to pay for...

Questions on Marriott, NICIL…Opposition mulls sending Finance Minister before Privileges Committee

Mar 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Questions on Marriott, NICIL…Opposition mulls sending Finance Minister before Privileges Committee

Parliamentary opposition has signaled its intentions to table a motion to send Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh, before its Committee of Privileges, for alleged failures to provide...

Linden COI report…Govt. accepts aspects ‘with a drop of salt’

Mar 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Linden COI report…Govt. accepts aspects ‘with a drop of salt’

The government yesterday said that it is likely to award compensation only as dictated by the Commission of Inquiry, which handed over its report on the Linden unrest to President Ramotar last...

National Day of Mourning today for Chavez

Mar 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on National Day of Mourning today for Chavez

– Ramotar wings out for funeral Today has been designated a National Day of Mourning as Venezuela prepares to bury its former leader Hugo Chavez in what is believed will be the biggest...

Mc Doom miner murder probe…Cops provide false alibi for one suspect, ranks release another found with firearm

Mar 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mc Doom miner murder probe…Cops provide false alibi for one suspect, ranks release another found with firearm

– Policeman provides false alibi for one suspect, ranks release another found with firearm Some corrupt cops are reportedly hindering investigations into the murder of Mc Doom...

Dem boys seh…De Creator waiting fuh some of dem

Mar 08, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De Creator waiting fuh some of dem

De Creator never like wicked people. He don’t like thieves; he don’t like liars and he surely don’t like scamps. And that is wha dem got at the top of Guyana. Imagine that one year...

AHI advertised for Marriott engineering contract

Mar 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on AHI advertised for Marriott engineering contract

Atlantic Hotel Inc. (AHI), the government-owned company that is overseeing the Marriott Hotel construction disclosed in a statement yesterday that they submitted a “Request for Proposals” from...

Marriott Hotel construction…No concrete decision Guyanese will be hired

Mar 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Marriott Hotel construction…No concrete decision Guyanese will be hired

After hours of discussion with Government, the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) was not given any concrete decision that Guyanese will be given the opportunity to be hired during the...

Trade union makes special committee proposal for Parliamentary consideration

Mar 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Trade union makes special committee proposal for Parliamentary consideration

….AFC to engage body By Zena Henry The Alliance for Change (AFC) has decided to engage concerned persons on a proposal to convene a special committee for trade unions. After being approached...

UGBC washroom set afire

Mar 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on UGBC washroom set afire

Police in Berbice are investigating a fire which was set in the male washroom at the University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC) on Wednesday afternoon. “A ball of fire on the...

More discipline must be encouraged on our roadways

Mar 08, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on More discipline must be encouraged on our roadways

It does not require drastic nor draconian measures for the number of road fatalities in Guyana to reduce. All that is required is a commitment to a sustained campaign to inculcate greater discipline...

Ituni lumber dealer succumbs two weeks after smash-up

Mar 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Ituni lumber dealer succumbs two weeks after smash-up

A lumber dealer from Ituni, Region 10, succumbed yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital, some two weeks after being involved in an accident on the Ituni Trail. Fifty-two...

Police brutality at Marudi…Home Affairs Ministry attracts one-man protest

Mar 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Police brutality at Marudi…Home Affairs Ministry attracts one-man protest

Social activist Mark Benschop yesterday staged a one-man protest in front of the Home Affairs Ministry over two recent occurrences -police brutality at Marudi and the findings of the Linden...

Former GPL employees detained on extortion allegations

Mar 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Former GPL employees detained on extortion allegations

Two former Guyana Power Light Inc. (GPL) workers are in police custody on allegations that they menacingly demanded money from residents of Good Hope, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara yesterday....

Linden COI report…Victims’ compensation is unrealistic – Region 10 Chairman

Mar 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Linden COI report…Victims’ compensation is unrealistic – Region 10 Chairman

By Latoya Giles Region Ten chairman Sharma Solomon says that he does not take any personal responsibility for what transpired on July 18, 2012, at Linden, when three Lindeners were shot dead...

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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