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Covent Garden, IPE play unbeaten

Mar 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Covent Garden, IPE play unbeaten

Covent Garden Secondary made an impressive start to the Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport (MCYS) / National Sports Commission (NSC) / Al Sport & Tour Promotions Inter-Schools Female Windball...

Kingston slams century as Regal stops Savage

Mar 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kingston slams century as Regal stops Savage

Samuel Kingston stroked a swashbuckling 104 as Regal Masters defeated Savage Masters by 83 runs when play in the Georgetown Softball League\ Regal Stationery and Computer Centre\ Mike’s Copy...

Carib Foods Stableford golf set for Saturday

Mar 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Carib Foods Stableford golf set for Saturday

The Lusignan golf Club will this weekend host the Carib Foods Stableford handicap tournament. Saturday’s tournament is expected to attract close to 35 players President of the LGC Jerome Khan said....

Are the Essential Pillars of Football being overlooked?

Mar 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Are the Essential Pillars of Football being overlooked?

Dear Sir, Reference is hereby made to the above caption as it relates to the recently concluded 6th edition of the Fruta Conquerors/Namilco sponsored Knockout Competition that was won by Alpha...

E.B.D. Public Road four-lane expansion … Works recommence in Diamond section

Mar 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on E.B.D. Public Road four-lane expansion … Works recommence in Diamond section

Finally, after months of inaction the contractor has recommenced works to widen the East Bank Demerara Public Road into four-lane. The works extend from the ‘high bridge’ at Demerara Distillers...

Persistent illegalities allowed by GFC and GRA in timber exports – cocaine in digger mats

Mar 07, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Persistent illegalities allowed by GFC and GRA in timber exports – cocaine in digger mats

Dear Editor, The Timber Regulation of the European Union (EUTR) came into force on Sunday 03 March 2013. This regulation makes it a criminal offence to import timber and other wood products which...

Confronting deadly force

Mar 07, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Confronting deadly force

Dear Editor, The report by the Linden Commission of Inquiry has generated a lot of national interest recently – and rightly so. Principal among the areas of focus are the issues of the use of...

We are now living in a police state

Mar 07, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on We are now living in a police state

DEAR EDITOR, Every single day I drive in and around Georgetown and at every turn there is a policeman, some with traffic uniform, some serving in the Tactical Services Unit or what I think is a...

How morally and ethically right could all of this be?

Mar 07, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on How morally and ethically right could all of this be?

Dear Editor, The ubiquitous Winston Brassington is in the news again. At a Guyana Power and Light Inc. press conference, I saw him at the head table along with the CEO of GPL. I am told that Mr....

Why poverty?

Mar 07, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why poverty?

DEAR EDITOR, The late Dr. Cheddi Jagan, whose life and works are celebrated by members and supporters of the People’s Progressive Party in the month of March, had been a strong advocate for the...

Success in life is a question of perception

Mar 07, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Success in life is a question of perception

DEAR EDITOR, A very interesting subject – “Secrets of a successful life” – was recently raised in your letter section. How does one define ‘a successful life’? I think it is something...

In Guyana the night belongs to the generals

Mar 07, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on In Guyana the night belongs to the generals

They don’t come worse than this; maybe in civil wars where no side is in control but surely not in a modern Caribbean country. Speaking to the media in justification of his entry into NCN studios...

The death of a friend

Mar 07, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The death of a friend

What is one man’s meat is another man’s poison. Certainly the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was poison to many people but he was also a hero to most. To his people he was the man who...

Hugo Chavez dies at 58

Mar 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Hugo Chavez dies at 58

President Hugo Chavez was a fighter. The former paratroop commander and fiery populist waged continual battle for his socialist ideals and outsmarted his rivals time and again, defeating a coup...

Guyoil out of fuel again

Mar 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyoil out of fuel again

– dealers accuse company’s management of gross arrogance By Dale Andrews Petrol dealers contracted to the Guyana Oil Company Limited (Guyoil) are up in arms over what they described as...

Farmers to receive $53M owed by Mahaicony Rice Mills

Mar 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Farmers to receive $53M owed by Mahaicony Rice Mills

Farmers owed by Mahaicony Rice Mills Limited for paddy at Village 70, Corentyne, and at Paradise and Vilvoorden, Essequibo Coast will today and tomorrow be paid a total of $53M by SeaRice Caribbean...

Dem boys seh…Adios Compañero Chavez

Mar 06, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Adios Compañero Chavez

Old people does always seh that is de good does die young. That ain’t always de case because dem had some young bandits who dead and de only people who woulda claim that dem was good was dem...

TGH Pacesetters open with thrilling win

Mar 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on TGH Pacesetters open with thrilling win

GABA Division III League By Edison Jefford Trinity Grid Holdings (TGH) Pacesetters opened their 2013 Season campaign in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Division III League, with...

Daley, Taylor sweep series for Windies

Mar 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Daley, Taylor sweep series for Windies

COLOMBO, SRI LANKA – Shanel Daley’s five-for and a hard-hitting half-century by Stafanie Taylor helped West Indies rout Sri Lanka in the third Twenty20 in Colombo and take an unassailable 3-0...

EISS, SSPS Playfields in poor condition

Mar 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on EISS, SSPS Playfields in poor condition

As the old saying goes ‘all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’. Well, children attending the Essequibo Islands’ Secondary and the Sans Souci Primary Schools in Wakenaam are being starved...

Sponsors begin support for Annual Mayor’s Cup Football tourney

Mar 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sponsors begin support for Annual Mayor’s Cup Football tourney

With the Annual Mayor’s Cup Football tournament is set to commence on March 15 at the Den Amstel ground, several sponsors have begun to lend their support to the event to date as the organisers...

GTTA names national Cadet, Junior squads

Mar 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA names national Cadet, Junior squads

The Selection Committee of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) met last Friday and named a Junior and Cadet squad, comprising of some of Guyana’s talented and brightest table tennis...

Digital Technology joins growing list of sponsors

Mar 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digital Technology joins growing list of sponsors

Yolo Entertainment inaugural 10/10 Softball Challenge Series Digital technology became the latest entity to join the list of growing sponsors for the Yolo Entertainment inaugural 10/10 Softball...

$Joseph and Wiltshire T\20 Dominoes fixed for Sunday$

Joseph and Wiltshire T\20 Dominoes fixed for Sunday

Mar 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Joseph and Wiltshire T\20 Dominoes fixed for Sunday

Faye Joseph and Mark Wiltshire will be hosting a Twenty\20 Dominoes competition on Sunday 10th of March at Hararuni Creek, Linden Highway. According to the organisers teams will battle for a top...

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Ramdheol fifty leads pilots Guyana to 6-wicket win

In praise of the Almighty Executive Order

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Democracy, as we know it, is a kind of ménage à trois — the elected, the appointed,... more