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DDL renews partnership with amateur boxing

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on DDL renews partnership with amateur boxing

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) has once again thrown its support behind the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) ahead of three countrywide Under-16 boxing competitions, which are scheduled for...

New GFF officials for CFU & CONCACAF Congresses

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on New GFF officials for CFU & CONCACAF Congresses

New President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Christopher Matthias, along with Vice President Ivan Persaud, will represent Guyana at the XXXVI CFU Ordinary Congress to be held today,...

Jeffrey excels at T&T National Duathlon C/ships

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jeffrey excels at T&T National Duathlon C/ships

Early signs of success suggest that former national squash player, Denise Jeffrey is comfortably transitioning into a world class tri-athlete with a dominant performance last Sunday in...

FIFA President and Secretary General on Caribbean Tour

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on FIFA President and Secretary General on Caribbean Tour

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – FIFA Vice President and CONCACAF President, Jeffrey Webb, is accompanying FIFA President Joseph Blatter and Secretary General Jérôme Valcke...

New administration must pressure former regime to disclose Mexico proceeds

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on New administration must pressure former regime to disclose Mexico proceeds

By Rawle Welch The year 2013 will be remembered as the time this country’s football experienced a change in fortune that not even the most optimistic of individuals could have envisaged and...

DCB Hand-in-Hand 40 Overs 2nd Division Tourney to start shortly

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on DCB Hand-in-Hand 40 Overs 2nd Division Tourney to start shortly

The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) will be running off the 2013 Hand-in-Hand Second Division 40-Over Knockout Competition very shortly. All area boards, Associations and committees are required...

Carib Beer T20 Cup Final…Albion trounce RHT Gizmos & Gadgets to win title; Bermine is 3rd

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Carib Beer T20 Cup Final…Albion trounce RHT Gizmos & Gadgets to win title; Bermine is 3rd

A well crafted and determined unbeaten 49 from former national Under-19 opening batsman, Kandasammy Surujnarine, led Albion Community Centre to a tense six wicket victory over...

Hugh Ross visits Essequibo schools

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hugh Ross visits Essequibo schools

Students attending both the Anna Regina Secondary School and the Johanna Cecilia Secondary on the Essequibo Coast, played host to Mr. Universe Masters champion, Hugh Ross, on...

NBS 2nd Div 40 overs…Sobhai, Emandin, Sanicharra hit 50s, Fraser grabs 6-15

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on NBS 2nd Div 40 overs…Sobhai, Emandin, Sanicharra hit 50s, Fraser grabs 6-15

This year’s edition of the New Building Society (NBS) Second Division 40 over cricket competition continued recently with encouraging individual performances. Wahmeshwar Sobhai slammed 85...

Berbice leads points table as second round starts

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice leads points table as second round starts

Defending champions, Berbice, leads the points table after Round One of the GCB/Limacol Inter-County Under-15 Two Day competition. According to the playing condition for this...

Alpha, Den Amstel, Uitvlugt & Western Tigers in winners’ row

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alpha, Den Amstel, Uitvlugt & Western Tigers in winners’ row

Defending champions Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United have continued to cement their position atop the standings and seems headed for another successful defence of their title when the...

Inter-Secondary School U-13 football starts in Berbice

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Inter-Secondary School U-13 football starts in Berbice

After two days of play in the fourth edition of the Trinidad and Guyana Sports Club and Outreach Programme (TGSCOP) U-13 Inter Secondary School Football Competition, which began on...

NAMILCO/Bakewell T20 Champion of Champions Tourney delayed

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on NAMILCO/Bakewell T20 Champion of Champions Tourney delayed

RHTY&SC issues release citing admin tug-o-war The administrative battle among local cricket Administrators continues seemingly with no near end in sight. The egotistic battle is...

Linden Secondary Schools Under-19 Basketball c/ship…Campbell’s 44 points helps Wisburg to blow out New Silvercity

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Linden Secondary Schools Under-19 Basketball c/ship…Campbell’s 44 points helps Wisburg to blow out New Silvercity

Linden Foundation beat Mackenzie High Aubrey Campbell dunked his way to an impressive 44 points as he quarterbacked Wisburg Secondary to perhaps their first ever win ever when they blew...

‘Screw’ Richmond Memorial Schools Football Competition…Christianburg-Wismar cruise past Harmony 4-1

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Screw’ Richmond Memorial Schools Football Competition…Christianburg-Wismar cruise past Harmony 4-1

– Linden Foundation suspended for one year Tournament organisers, on Monday, withdrew Linden Foundation Secondary School from further participation in this year’s Edward...

DF&GIC U-19 Inter Zone starts today

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on DF&GIC U-19 Inter Zone starts today

The Berbice Cricket Board Under-19 Inter Zone tournament sponsored by the Diamond Fire & General Insurance Company (DFGIC) I set to bowl off today at two venues in Berbice. The...

Punwa wins GDA tourney in Berbice

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Punwa wins GDA tourney in Berbice

Vinay Punwa of Tagore Memorial High amassed 33 points to win the Guyana Draughts Association (GDA) tournament which was contested last Saturday at the Corentyne Comprehensive High...

Kwakwani Sports Club for city visit and tourneys this weekend

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kwakwani Sports Club for city visit and tourneys this weekend

Kwakwani Sports Club under the leadership of Aubrey Gobin will be hosted by the National Sports Commission this weekend, Saturday 20 and Sunday 21, April, 2013. A sixty man contingent...

Letters to the Sports Editor…The Shiv-Naim controversy

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letters to the Sports Editor…The Shiv-Naim controversy

Dear Editor, In following the perceived battle between Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Nain Chan, I am forced to admit that the media war is now taking over sports, having already entrenched...

GSCL launches 12/12 tournament…Opening ceremony set for Everest this Saturday

Apr 18, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSCL launches 12/12 tournament…Opening ceremony set for Everest this Saturday

This weekend, the Camp Road based Everest Cricket Club will be buzzing with activity, when the Georgetown Softball Cricket League (GSCL) in collaboration with their budding list...

Govt pays ‘Bobby’ Ramroop $3.6M every month to air Learning Channel

Apr 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Govt pays ‘Bobby’ Ramroop $3.6M every month to air Learning Channel

TVG, owned by Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop, best friend of former President Bharrat Jagdeo, is being paid $3.6 million a month to put the Guyana Learning Channel on the air. This was...

Radio licences protest continues

Apr 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Radio licences protest continues

Protest against former President Bharrat Jagdeo’s granting of radio and cable licences shifted gear yesterday when it moved to the East Coast of Demerara in an attempt to highlight...

House votes against $1.25B for specialty hospital

Apr 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on House votes against $1.25B for specialty hospital

– Nagamootoo says cut not “willy nilly” Seeing no clear accountability on the part of the government, the opposition controlled National Assembly voted against the $1.25...

Bird-brained Guyanese caged by Judge Dora for smuggling “twa-twa” birds

Apr 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bird-brained Guyanese caged by Judge Dora for smuggling “twa-twa” birds

New York (New York Daily News) – A bird-brained smuggler nabbed at Kennedy Airport with nine singing finches from Guyana hidden up his sleeve was sentenced Tuesday to six months...

Jamaica demands $$$$ millions, for cable frequencies

Apr 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Jamaica demands $$$$ millions, for cable frequencies

As the Guyana Government continues to face questions over embarrassing disclosures that it gave itself and close friends several licences to build radio and cable television...

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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