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Caribbean Fullbore Rifle Shooting Championships – Individuals …Guyanese marksmen ready for the challenges

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean Fullbore Rifle Shooting Championships – Individuals …Guyanese marksmen ready for the challenges

By Franklin Wilson in Barbados with the compliments of….. Humphrey’s Bakery, Fazia’s Collection, Fitness Express, RHTY&SC, The Trophy Stall The 2013 edition of the Caribbean Fullbore Rifle...

WICB Regional 4-day final…Brathwaite, Simmons slam centuries as T&T trail by 119 runs with 6 wickets intact

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on WICB Regional 4-day final…Brathwaite, Simmons slam centuries as T&T trail by 119 runs with 6 wickets intact

Opener Kraigg Brathwaite stroked a fine century but Trinidad and Tobago were fighting back at the end of the second day yesterday in the final of the West Indies Cricket Board Regional 4-day...

Woodpecker junior national squash championships ….Khalil, Shomari Wiltshire produce gritty performances

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Woodpecker junior national squash championships ….Khalil, Shomari Wiltshire produce gritty performances

The Guyana Squash Association in collaboration with its number one corporate sponsor Digicel on Thursday night ran off night three of its National Junior Squash tournament sponsored by...

Guyana Wado Ryu Association receives equipment

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Wado Ryu Association receives equipment

Michael De Mendonca, a United States-based former student of the Guyana Wado Ryu Karate Association has continued his support of the Association with a timely donation of training equipment....

Jamaica lose again at CONCACAF Beach Soccer Champs

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jamaica lose again at CONCACAF Beach Soccer Champs

Jamaica Observer – JAMAICA lost their second game in a row at the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship when they were defeated 2-1 on penalties by Costa Rica in Nassau, Bahamas, Thursday....

Serena forced to battle her way into Madrid Open semis

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Serena forced to battle her way into Madrid Open semis

MADRID (Reuters) – Top seed and world number one Serena Williams was pushed all the way by unseeded Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues before triumphing 6-3 0-6 7-5 to make the...

KN Sports Reporter Mohamed among those successful at WICUA exams

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on KN Sports Reporter Mohamed among those successful at WICUA exams

Kaieteur News sports reporter Zaheer Mohamed is among several local umpires that successfully completed the West Indies Cricket Umpires Association (WICUA) Practical and Oral examinations in...

Greaves returned as President of Houston Stars

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Greaves returned as President of Houston Stars

Incumbent President of Houston stars Charles Greaves was returned to lead the club for the next term of office when the Annual General Meeting was held recently. Greaves will...

All Youth Sports Club to host Softball competition

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on All Youth Sports Club to host Softball competition

The All Youth Sports Club will be hosting a 7-a-side 4 over softball cricket competition on May 26th at Independence Street, La Grange, West Bank Demerara. The winning team will receive...

Intense rivalries continue at Mackeson ‘Keep Your Five Alive’

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Intense rivalries continue at Mackeson ‘Keep Your Five Alive’

Intense rivalries continued at the 2013 Mackeson ‘Keep Your Five Alive’ football competition at the National Cultural Centre tarmac Thursday night with the first round favourite teams...

Zeelandia beat Maria’s Pleasure to take Dhanraj T20 Title

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Zeelandia beat Maria’s Pleasure to take Dhanraj T20 Title

Zeelandia defeated Maria’s Pleasure by 4 wickets to win the Diaram Dhanraj and family Twenty20 match last Sunday at Maria’s Pleasure Cricket Ground in Wakenaam. Batting first, the...

Entries close tomorrow for Kennard memorial meet

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Entries close tomorrow for Kennard memorial meet

The horses have done good gallop; the jockeys are primed for the occasion and turfites are gearing up for a day of fun and frolic when Kennard Memorial Turf Club stages the Independence...

Teams gearing up for next Sunday’s Endurance Meet

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Teams gearing up for next Sunday’s Endurance Meet

After waiting for some form of activity, the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) will be staging an Endurance Meet for next Sunday, at the South Dakota Circuit,...

GBI, RBC to host VIVA Water Cycling Classic tomorrow at Seawall Bandstand Circuit

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBI, RBC to host VIVA Water Cycling Classic tomorrow at Seawall Bandstand Circuit

Cyclists will have another opportunity to fine tune their preparations ahead of this year’s NSC Independence 3-Stage Road Race, when the Roraima Bikers Club (RBC) in association with...

Georgetown Turf Club to hold Gymkhana tomorrow

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Georgetown Turf Club to hold Gymkhana tomorrow

The Georgetown Turf Club will stage a Gymkhana and fun day tomorrow at their Mocha Arcadia, East Bank Demerara racetrack. Club official Nigel James informed that fans will be treated to...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Cannot serve under the current cloud of legal wrangling

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Cannot serve under the current cloud of legal wrangling

Dear Sir, It was brought to my attention that Kaieteur News of Monday, February 4, 2013 carried a news item in which my name was also mentioned in connection with the CDC. The news...

Softball Cricket League to host another 12/12 championship

May 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Softball Cricket League to host another 12/12 championship

Just one week after the conclusion of a 12/12 championships staged under the auspices of the Georgetown Softball Cricket League (GSCL), those administrators have commenced discussions...

Gas cylinder ‘bomb’ caused blast in executed couple’s home

May 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Gas cylinder ‘bomb’ caused blast in executed couple’s home

-killers duct-taped businessman’s hands Totaram Mootoo’s killers duct-taped his hands and placed him to lie near his wife, Bhagmattie, in their master bedroom, before exploding a crude...

Driver narrowly escapes plunging into Demerara River

May 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Driver narrowly escapes plunging into Demerara River

A driver narrowly escaped plunging into the raging Demerara River around 20:45 hrs yesterday after his car veered off the Demerara Harbour Bridge during a light shower. The vehicle, PPP 6079, was...

Murder/suicide couple was scheduled to be married yesterday

May 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Murder/suicide couple was scheduled to be married yesterday

– Teen was pregnant when killed By Rabindra Rooplall As police investigate a murder/suicide case involving Vijay Arjune, 24, and his pregnant girlfriend, Parbati Raghoo, 19,...

Dem boys seh…Craziness tek over Guyana

May 11, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Craziness tek over Guyana

Is madness and more madness. A man going home across de Harbour Bridge and nearly end up in de river. Dem boys seh that when de man see wheh he was going he behave like if he drink...

GEORGETOWN IS HEADED FOR RUIN

May 11, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GEORGETOWN IS HEADED FOR RUIN

Encouraging illegal vending and restoring Georgetown are two incompatible objectives. The capital city can never be restored to any state of orderliness if illegal vending is not wiped out....

Delay skirts hearing in challenge against dress code laws

May 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Delay skirts hearing in challenge against dress code laws

The hearing into the constitutional challenge brought against the country’s dress code was delayed yesterday. The matter was scheduled for yesterday, but Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang set a...

Pregnant nurse robbed at gunpoint near WDRH

May 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Pregnant nurse robbed at gunpoint near WDRH

Following the attack on a female staff nurse in the vicinity of the West Demerara Regional Hospital, (WDRH) employees of the institution are once more calling on the relevant authorities to address...

The brutality in our midst

May 11, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The brutality in our midst

Guyana is no stranger to unusual deaths but this past week has had its fair share of unusual deaths. One is now left to wonder whether the country is once more trying to establish itself on...

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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