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Three lawyers and ignorance abounds

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Three lawyers and ignorance abounds

Dear Editor, I am not a lawyer but I do know a thing or two about the law. I know that a court ruling, unless and until it is set aside, is binding and enforceable. That the court...

Govt. unveils $208.8B budget…PAYE rate reduced to 30%; old age pension increased to $12,500 monthly

Mar 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. unveils $208.8B budget…PAYE rate reduced to 30%; old age pension increased to $12,500 monthly

-tax break for new homeowners; NIS rate hiked 1% -assistance for senior citizens with GPL bills By Leonard Gildarie Several measures, including a $2,500 monthly increase in the old age pension and...

Grade Six Assessment gets underway

Mar 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Grade Six Assessment gets underway

Armed with the relevant tools, primary school pupils, both from public and private schools across the country, were out in their numbers yesterday to sit the National Grade Six...

Armed bandits caught after snatching $$$ in front GRA

Mar 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Armed bandits caught after snatching $$$ in front GRA

– Money returned to businessman Police nabbed two bandits yesterday, after a businessman’s bag containing over $4M was snatched from him in front of the recently shifted Guyana Revenue...

Dismal sugar industry…Govt. withheld billions in critical EU assistance to GuySuCo – Tony Vieira

Mar 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Dismal sugar industry…Govt. withheld billions in critical EU assistance to GuySuCo – Tony Vieira

-Finance Minister says $39.5B invested over the years Government is to be blamed for the sugar’s downward slide over the years, with billions of dollars of Europe’s assistance money never even...

Dem boys seh…Ash Knee try fuh soft soap old people

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Ash Knee try fuh soft soap old people

De budget is de biggest. Every budget bigger than de other one. It got to be that Guyana mekking nuff money or collecting nuff money. De old people get a top up and some of dem happy but Ash...

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Futsal Competition…Six outrights wins and a draw set tone as Linden segment begins

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Futsal Competition…Six outrights wins and a draw set tone as Linden segment begins

Seven exciting matches got the ball rolling in the Linden segment of the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Futsal Competition on Sunday evening, at the Wisroc/Amelia’s Ward Bus Park. Attended...

Tiger Woods back as world number one after Bay Hill win

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tiger Woods back as world number one after Bay Hill win

BBC Sport – Tiger Woods returned to the top of the world rankings for the first time since October 2010 after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational by two strokes. The 37-year-old...

Bakewell donated MVP prize as Cell Smart Super 8 Basketball Tournament concludes

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bakewell donated MVP prize as Cell Smart Super 8 Basketball Tournament concludes

Bakewell, under the stewardship of the late Nazir Mohammed, has always been in the forefront in rendering support for the sustenance of sports and other community oriented activities. Mr....

GFC gunning to down Alpha in Mayor’s KO Football quarterfinal today

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFC gunning to down Alpha in Mayor’s KO Football quarterfinal today

The Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground, Bourda is the place to be tonight when the opening quarterfinal round of matches in the annual Mayor’s knockout football tournament are...

Scrabble players to compete for top prizes in Phagwah Open tournament

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scrabble players to compete for top prizes in Phagwah Open tournament

National Scrabble Champion, Abigail McDonald has been out of the jurisdiction for a few weeks during which time top seed, James Krakowsky dominated the tournaments and twice relegated another...

Trophy Stall / WDFA 2012 U-17 Final…Eagles upset Den Amstel on sudden death Penalty Kicks to claim title

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall / WDFA 2012 U-17 Final…Eagles upset Den Amstel on sudden death Penalty Kicks to claim title

When the tournament commenced in the last quarter of 2012, no one in their wildest dreams would have or could have predicted that the little known Eagles Football Club of Stewartville on the...

TTCB national premier league…Ferrier slams ton in Aranguez win

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on TTCB national premier league…Ferrier slams ton in Aranguez win

Guyanese all-rounder Deon Ferrier stroked a fine un beaten 109 as Aranguez took first innings points from Merry Boys in a drawn game when action in the Trinidad and Tobago National Premier...

Scotia/Pepsi Schools Football Academy…Charlestown edge Christ Church

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scotia/Pepsi Schools Football Academy…Charlestown edge Christ Church

Charlestown Secondary edged out Christ Church Secondary 2-1 as the tournament phase of the Scotia Bank/Pepsi Schools Football Academy kicked off Saturday at the Ministry of Education ground on...

Six-man Colts survive cliff-hanger

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Six-man Colts survive cliff-hanger

By Edison Jefford Hanging on to the number four spot in the Division I category of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) League proved a self-inflicted uphill climb for Colts...

EDFA U-15 Tourney…Youth Developers & Paradise take full points in latest encounters

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on EDFA U-15 Tourney…Youth Developers & Paradise take full points in latest encounters

Under-15 rivalry on the East Coast of Demerara under the auspices of the East Coast Demerara Football Association continued on the weekend with Youth Developers banging their way to a...

Joseph is new GDA president

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Joseph is new GDA president

Faye Joseph became the first female president of the Georgetown Dominoes Association when the body held its Annual General Meeting and elections on Sunday evening at Orin Joseph...

‘Screw’ Richmond Schools Football starts today

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Screw’ Richmond Schools Football starts today

Defending champions Linden Technical Institute will oppose Harmony Secondary in the feature clash of a double header which will signal the commencement of this year’s Edward...

Fourth Desmond Dorsett Memorial road race classic successfully staged

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fourth Desmond Dorsett Memorial road race classic successfully staged

Denzil Leitch raced away with top honours when the fourth edition of the Desmond Dorsett Memorial Road Race Classic, which is organized by the Dorsett Family of Leeds/No50 village...

GTU names team for Les Harris tourney

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTU names team for Les Harris tourney

The Guyana Teachers’ Union has selected fourteen players to take part in the Les Harris Regional teachers’ Twenty /20 tournament which is schedule for St. Lucia from April 5 to...

$GCA\Brain street U-15 cricket…Hetheramani bags 6-wkts as TSC beat DCC A$

GCA\Brain street U-15 cricket…Hetheramani bags 6-wkts as TSC beat DCC A

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA\Brain street U-15 cricket…Hetheramani bags 6-wkts as TSC beat DCC A

By Zaheer Mohamed Sagar Hetheramani grabbed 6 wickets for 16 runs as Transport Sports Club (TSC) overcame Demerara Cricket Club(DCC) ‘A’ by 9 wickets as play in the Georgetown...

Georgetown are DCB Inter Association U-15 champs

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Georgetown are DCB Inter Association U-15 champs

Georgetown got past West Demerara by 1 wicket to take the Demerara Cricket Board Inter Association 50 over U-15 title last Saturday at the Everest Cricket Club. West Demerara batted...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Guyana Football 2013 and beyond

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Guyana Football 2013 and beyond

Dear Editor, It is a critical time now in Guyana’s football, two decades have passed and it has been a challenging one for us. On April 12, 2013 we have an opportunity to make a...

Answers to Mr. Elcock’s Questions

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Answers to Mr. Elcock’s Questions

Dear Sir, Please allow me to put Mr. Elcock long growing questions answered once and for all. In your Sunday 24 March article in the sport column he ask about Brighton Turf Club...

My response to Colin Elcock

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on My response to Colin Elcock

Dear Sir, Please give me some space in your print and online publications: This is in response to Mr. Colin Elcock’s letter of response to a letter by Anil Bhola about the ongoing...

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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