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World Athletics Day Meet set for Sunday

May 10, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on World Athletics Day Meet set for Sunday

The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) will commemorate IAAF World Athletics Day with its usual track and field meet on Sunday at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary. The meet...

$MUSCLE INVASION – GABBFF Novice & Int. C\ships…Banks DIH & Sterling Products Ltd add muscles$

MUSCLE INVASION – GABBFF Novice & Int. C\ships…Banks DIH & Sterling Products Ltd add muscles

May 10, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on MUSCLE INVASION – GABBFF Novice & Int. C\ships…Banks DIH & Sterling Products Ltd add muscles

Beverage giants Banks DIH, under its Vita Malt brand and leading local manufactures Sterling Products Ltd are the latest entities to lend support to the Guyana Amateur Body Building...

Cruelty in South Sophia…Two more detained as investigations intensify

May 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cruelty in South Sophia…Two more detained as investigations intensify

Investigators in the South Sophia vigilante-style killing of 40-year-old Nigel Roy Lowe are awaiting post mortem results which are expected to be out some time later today. On Wednesday...

Guyana Independence T20 Cup picks up momentum

May 10, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Independence T20 Cup picks up momentum

– Ansa McAl on board As the date approaches for the eagerly awaited Guyana Independence Twenty20 competition, Berbicians have already began preparing for the big day at the Albion...

No suitable candidate yet for Town Clerk position

May 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on No suitable candidate yet for Town Clerk position

By Zena Henry An interview panel, including Deputy Mayor of Georgetown Patricia Chase-Green, turned down six applications for the position of Town Clerk on Tuesday last, as none of those vying...

Letter to the Sports Editor…June 16 not approved for horseracing at Port Mourant

May 10, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…June 16 not approved for horseracing at Port Mourant

Dear Sports Editor, I refer to an article appearing in your issue of May 8 date at page 35 under the heading “Jumbo Jet rolls out another massive horserace programme”. I wish to...

Culture Ministry to digitise national archives

May 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Culture Ministry to digitise national archives

The Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport is now moving towards making all information available in the national archives become technologically accessible. This was revealed during a launching...

Stray-catching programme bearing fruit – MOHA

May 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Stray-catching programme bearing fruit – MOHA

If every animal owner were to pay the fine for animals impounded since the Ministry of Home Affairs re-introduced the stray-catching programme, the administration would have been $22M richer....

Scotiabank continues to support GRC

May 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Scotiabank continues to support GRC

In an effort to preserve the obligation by the Guyana Relief Council (GRC) to ‘care and share’, ScotiaBank, represented by several of its Robb Street branch employees, has made...

Sparendaam plane crash…Aircraft’s insurance does not cover South American territories – GCAA

May 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sparendaam plane crash…Aircraft’s insurance does not cover South American territories – GCAA

-Operator was advised to take out third party risk – Aircraft Owners’ Association wants to meet with Ramotar By Keeran Danny Insurance for the American-registered aircraft that crashed into a...

Man’s inhumanity

May 10, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Man’s inhumanity

The facts surrounding the beating of 40-year-old Nigel Lowe to death by some residents of Sophia are still unclear. But what is very clear is that it did not prick the conscience of the mob that...

Are some people in Sophia humans or animals?

May 10, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Are some people in Sophia humans or animals?

It was only on Wednesday morning that I told my daughter that the poorer folks in Pakistan and India have absolutely nothing to do with their time. Once there is a shout of some race or religious...

14-month sentence shocks shoplifter

May 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 14-month sentence shocks shoplifter

Due to his criminal history and the fact that he did not waste the court’s time, 54-year-old Derrick Persaud, of 45 Stanleytown, Berbice, who appeared yesterday before Magistrate Sueanna...

Kato tender not yet opened

May 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kato tender not yet opened

Dear Editor, Reference is made to an article in the Kaieteur News, May 1, 2013, under the caption “Govt. still looking for contractor for Kato Hydro project”. The article infers that there was...

Dishonest female cop gets three years

May 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Dishonest female cop gets three years

Police Corporal Sharon Logan was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment by Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. During her trial, Logan denied the...

Alleged robber refused bail

May 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged robber refused bail

Despite his remorseful appeals to the court, Kevin Maloney was remanded to prison for the charge of robbery which was read to him by Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’...

“High Blood Pressure patient” remanded on ganja possession charge

May 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on “High Blood Pressure patient” remanded on ganja possession charge

“Your worship, I am begging you for another chance. Please, I am so sorry. I am begging you for bail. I am suffering from high blood pressure and I am asking for bail so that I can seek...

Some pointers for Freddie

May 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some pointers for Freddie

Dear Mr Kissoon, Although I am a teacher I try to avoid acting like a wise act or smartass. I esteem your articles very much because as they were the most important source for me to help...

A travesty

May 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A travesty

Dear Editor, It is evident that somewhere along the way and for reasons which are complex, many of our Guyanese seem to have lost compassion and a concern for others— particularly the underdog...

In defence of Carol Sooba

May 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on In defence of Carol Sooba

Dear Editor, It has been a great indictment on the Georgetown public and in particular newspaper readers not to comment on the harassment the Mayor and his clique are conducting against the...

Salute Our Nurses

May 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Salute Our Nurses

Dear Editor, Rawsi Williams stated that “To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through; is to be a nurse.” I am reminded that May 6 to May 12...

HORACE CAMPBELL’S CATHARTIC FICTION

May 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on HORACE CAMPBELL’S CATHARTIC FICTION

Dear Editor, A remarkable thing happened along the journey of the likely Oliver Tambo award to the late Forbes Burnham. Notwithstanding its merits, a menagerie of hate and extremism seem to instruct...

Burnham not deserving of OT Award

May 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Burnham not deserving of OT Award

Dear Editor, This is in response to several commentaries (Messrs. Mark Archer, Hamley Case, Aubrey Norton, Freddie Kissoon, Maxwell Shaw, etc. in KN criticizing the South African...

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Saints and GTI dominate as YBG Georgetown Regional Conference continues

A coalition of shared disgrace

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The APNU and the AFC deserve each other. They deserve to be shackled together in a coalition... more