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Ganesh Mahipaul confirms why the PPP is taking Wakenaam residents for granted

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ganesh Mahipaul confirms why the PPP is taking Wakenaam residents for granted

Dear Editor, Let us examine Ganesh Mahipaul’s letter titled “Wakenaam residents are receiving primitive treatment” (KN, March 21, 2013). Wakenaam is a PPP stronghold. Mahipaul...

Private media protest unfair distribution of radio licence

Mar 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Private media protest unfair distribution of radio licence

Premised on the notion of “if you don’t stand up for something you will fall for anything,” staffers of this publication yesterday took to the streets in protesting mode to further...

Refunds ready for stranded EZjet passengers from Monday

Mar 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Refunds ready for stranded EZjet passengers from Monday

More than three months after the sudden suspension of low-cost carrier, EZjet, passengers stranded in Guyana are set to start collecting their refunds from Monday. However, according to the Ministry...

Mid-morning blaze leaves 11 homeless in Albouystown

Mar 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mid-morning blaze leaves 11 homeless in Albouystown

By Zena Henry Quick action by the Guyana Fire Service yesterday prevented several houses in the Albouystown area from going up in flames after a suspected electrical fire engulfed a two-storey house...

Magistrate traps unfaithful wife

Mar 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate traps unfaithful wife

– Lover narrowly escapes jail Thirty-three year-old Nicola Clarke was yesterday fined $50,000 after she was caught in a string of lies based on a false accusation she made against a man...

Govt. breaks silence…Jagdeo used discretion in granting licences – Dr. Luncheon

Mar 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. breaks silence…Jagdeo used discretion in granting licences – Dr. Luncheon

Government finally broke its silence yesterday on embarrassing disclosures that former President Bharrat Jagdeo essentially gifted a number of radio and cable licences to his close friends and party...

Dem boys seh…Everything down except de Bees bank account

Mar 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Everything down except de Bees bank account

Dem boys wake up de other morning and dem find everything down. GT&T BlackBerry messenger down; Digicel BlackBerry messenger down. When dem try de light switch GPL down. Was a pole fall...

Gayle, Chanderpaul grind Zimbabwe

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gayle, Chanderpaul grind Zimbabwe

ROSEAU, DOMINICA – Veteran left-hander Shivnarine Chanderpaul fashioned his 28th Test century and climbed to eighth on the all-time list of run-scorers, while Chris Gayle posted his 15th...

GMR&SC March 24 Meet…Continental Foods Inc. supports Superbike champion

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC March 24 Meet…Continental Foods Inc. supports Superbike champion

He is the defending local and Caribbean Superbike champion for the past two years and Guyana’s Stephen ‘Valentino Rossi’ Vieira speaking with Kaieteur Sport at the Head office of his...

“We would like to see gold medals”

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on “We would like to see gold medals”

– Minister tells CARIFTA team Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday urged the CARIFTA Games Track and Field team to bring home gold medals when the...

Mayor’s Cup football championship…Camptown FC stage miraculous comeback; Fruta Conquerors swamp Mahaica FC

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayor’s Cup football championship…Camptown FC stage miraculous comeback; Fruta Conquerors swamp Mahaica FC

Camptown Football Club were required to dig deep and called on all of their resources to eke out a 2-1 victory over Golden Grove FC when action in the Mayor’s Cup football...

Guyana to resume battle

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana to resume battle

….squads selected After a period of two weeks rest, the Guyana 4-day and 50-Over teams will resume their battle in the Regional Competition at the Guyana National Stadium in...

$EBDFA\Trophy Stall U-23 football …Diamond Utd, Kuru Kururu Warriors register wins$

EBDFA\Trophy Stall U-23 football …Diamond Utd, Kuru Kururu Warriors register wins

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBDFA\Trophy Stall U-23 football …Diamond Utd, Kuru Kururu Warriors register wins

Diamond United and Kuru Kururu Warriors registered victories when action in the East Bank Demerara Football Association U-23 knock out competition continued last Sunday at Grove....

Milo/ Petra Organisation Under-20 Schools Football Competition…South Ruimveldt, St. George’s to contest final tomorrow

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milo/ Petra Organisation Under-20 Schools Football Competition…South Ruimveldt, St. George’s to contest final tomorrow

Tournament favourites Tucville will not have the opportunity to challenge for the title after they were booted out of contention by South Ruimveldt, who defeated them 4-2 on penalty...

Diamond Mineral Water Cycle Youth Prog. for National Park tomorrow

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Diamond Mineral Water Cycle Youth Prog. for National Park tomorrow

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) under its Diamond Mineral Water brand yesterday handed over a cheque to President of the Carlton Wheelers Cycling Club, Hassan Mohamed for hosting his...

GSA Toucan Industries Kool Aid junior skill level tournament…Arjoon recovers to overpower DeGroot

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSA Toucan Industries Kool Aid junior skill level tournament…Arjoon recovers to overpower DeGroot

Sixteen-year-old Victoria Arjoon regrouped from her Tuesday night loss to Steven Xavier with a resounding straight-game win against Ashley DeGroot on night two of the Toucan Industries...

Fun and frolic as Camptown FC stages Easter weekend sports extravaganza

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fun and frolic as Camptown FC stages Easter weekend sports extravaganza

The Easter weekend will soon be upon us and kite flyers and revelers would flock to fields and other open places to fly their kites as well as engage in picnic activities. Even as these...

Republic Bank Nets trap Colts

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Republic Bank Nets trap Colts

– Buxton Heat continue run By Edison Jefford A worrying trend for Colts became apparent Wednesday night when the top bracket first division club slipped to its second straight...

Letters to the Sports Editor…ECCB and GCA set the record straight

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letters to the Sports Editor…ECCB and GCA set the record straight

Dear Editor, We note that an article in the Kaieteur News of 20 March 2013 that a body calling itself the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) has announced that it is staging an...

Was the Berbice Football Association AGM legitimate?

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Was the Berbice Football Association AGM legitimate?

Sports Editor, Mr. Franklin Wilson, President (ag) of the Guyana Football Federation, have a moral and constitutional obligation to the footballing fraternity, to act hastily in...

AFS Shipping cricket in Wakenaam…Maria’s Pleasure, Sans Souci Jaguars and Zeelandia victorious

Mar 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on AFS Shipping cricket in Wakenaam…Maria’s Pleasure, Sans Souci Jaguars and Zeelandia victorious

Maria’s Pleasure, Sans Souci Jaguars and Zeelandia recorded victories when play in the AFS Shipping Twenty\20 cricket competition continued last Sunday in Wakenaam with three matches....

Hog Island farmers call on govt. to “stamp out corruption”

Mar 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Hog Island farmers call on govt. to “stamp out corruption”

The Eastern Hog Island Farmers Development Group is calling on the government to “stamp out corruption” as it is effectively stifling business in that community. In a letter to the president seen...

Guyana, Haiti ink agreement to encourage food traceability

Mar 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, Haiti ink agreement to encourage food traceability

A Memorandum of Understanding was yesterday signed between the Heads of State of Guyana and Haiti which will pave the way for the Haitian food safety and traceability initiative to be adopted...

Joint Opposition have taken their parliamentary dysfunction to heights of “unacceptability”

Mar 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Joint Opposition have taken their parliamentary dysfunction to heights of “unacceptability”

– Dr. Luncheon By Latoya Giles Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday said that the Joint Opposition Parties have taken their Parliamentary dysfunction to heights of...

Bogus education official returns, enters city secondary

Mar 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bogus education official returns, enters city secondary

By Zena Henry Apparently, six months’ imprisonment was not enough for a man who for the second time entered a local school posing to be an official from the Ministry of Education. Yesterday,...

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Clarendon College too good for Dolphin as Annai Sec’ holds Speyside College to 4-all draw

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