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Is there any plan to uplift the poor?

Jun 29, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is there any plan to uplift the poor?

Dear Editor, Over the past few weeks, the President has been crisscrossing Guyana making speeches to those he views as supporters to shore up his dwindling popularity prior to the Congress....

GPOC responds to letter about thieving

Jun 29, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on GPOC responds to letter about thieving

Dear Editor, The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) wishes to respond to the Kaieteur Newspaper’s June 26, 2013 letter that was published under the caption, ‘Thieving at the GPO’. We...

The changing face of Guyana

Jun 29, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The changing face of Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, It is no exaggeration to say that we live today in a Guyana that is vastly different from what obtained during the pre-1992 period. For one thing we are today a democratic...

Those Mobilization and Performance bonds lodged by ‘Fip’ Motilall

Jun 29, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those Mobilization and Performance bonds lodged by ‘Fip’ Motilall

Dear Editor, I must again put pen to paper to correct inaccurate reporting by Kaieteur News about the Mobilization and Performance bonds that were lodged by ‘Fip’ Motilall, which was a...

Digicel’s Powerade Nationwide U-18 Schools Football C/Ships…Dolphin Sec edge South Ruimveldt 1-nil

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel’s Powerade Nationwide U-18 Schools Football C/Ships…Dolphin Sec edge South Ruimveldt 1-nil

A fifty-sixth minute second half goal from Shamar Wilson and skilful goal-keeping by 14-year-old custodian Donte Forde ensured Dolphin Secondary edged South Ruimveldt Secondary 1-nil in their opening...

Boxers tout fistic fury as Guyana Fight Night moves over to the West Coast

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxers tout fistic fury as Guyana Fight Night moves over to the West Coast

The dye has been cast and tomorrow night 10 professional boxers and 8 amateurs will step into the ring and for the first time in the history of the sport residents of the West Coast Demerara will be...

CPL Venue Teams Meet to Fine Tune Details of Tourney

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on CPL Venue Teams Meet to Fine Tune Details of Tourney

The members of the six Limacol Caribbean Premier League (CPL) venue teams assembled in Trinidad last week to officially meet their colleagues and venue counterparts, compare notes, provide...

Keen rivalry as Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club stage 10K event

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Keen rivalry as Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club stage 10K event

The Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club (CS&TC) will stage a 10K walk in memory of the late Clarence D. Kirton around the National Park on Saturday June 29 (tomorrow) and the cream of...

Gayle returns to fertile ground

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gayle returns to fertile ground

KINGSTON, Jamaica – West Indies and Sri Lanka square-off at Sabina Park today as the curtain rises on the Celkon Mobile Cup tri-nation series which also involves India. And one of the most...

Planet Paintball committed to growing sport in Guyana

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Planet Paintball committed to growing sport in Guyana

By Edison Jefford It is sort of a sophisticated version of what we would colloquially call ‘war-break’ in Guyana but in this commercial edition players arm themselves with non-toxic...

Stag Beer / WDFA Senior League…Double header on tomorrow @ Den Amstel

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stag Beer / WDFA Senior League…Double header on tomorrow @ Den Amstel

Competition in the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) Stag Beer sponsored senior league will continue tomorrow at the Den Amstel Community Centre Ground with another double header....

Linden Sec. Sch. U-19 B/ball Semis now on today @ MSC…LTI face Multi; Wisburg oppose Linden Foundation

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Linden Sec. Sch. U-19 B/ball Semis now on today @ MSC…LTI face Multi; Wisburg oppose Linden Foundation

The semi-finals of the 9th edition of the Linden Secondary Schools Under-19 basketball championship has been shifted to today instead of yesterday, weather permitting at the Mackenzie Sports Club...

Berbice High, Fort Wellington hammer opponents

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice High, Fort Wellington hammer opponents

Berbice High School (BHS) emphatically erased any ambitions Skeldon Line Path Secondary previously harboured to make it to the latter rounds after inflicting a 16-0 drubbing on them yesterday at the...

Marian Academy 7 Central High 1

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Marian Academy 7 Central High 1

Over at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports Ground, Carifesta Avenue, Hakeem Bynoe netted five glorious goals in the 8th, 17th, 35th, 55th and 90th minute, with support from Thomas Damani (65)...

Sankar nets 5 as Chase Academy trounce Business School 8-1

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sankar nets 5 as Chase Academy trounce Business School 8-1

Forward Steven Sankar fired in 5 goals as Chase Academy hammered Business School 8-1 in their Digicel/Powerade Schools’ Football match yesterday at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary. Chase...

Plethora of activities as STSC commemorates Fathers’ Day

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Plethora of activities as STSC commemorates Fathers’ Day

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee has organised several events to commemorate Fathers’ Day and the walk-a-ton, initially scheduled for Saturday June 15, will now be staged tomorrow morning....

National powerlifter Vijai Rahim assisted by RHTY&SC Cricket teams

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on National powerlifter Vijai Rahim assisted by RHTY&SC Cricket teams

National and Caribbean powerlifting champion, Berbice based Vijai Rahim has come in for timely assistance ahead of next week’s Pan American and Caribbean Powerlifting championships in the USA from...

GCF National C/ships 2013…Enthralling battle looms: Time Trials tomorrow; Road Race on Sunday

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCF National C/ships 2013…Enthralling battle looms: Time Trials tomorrow; Road Race on Sunday

The tag of National Champion and bragging rights apart from the Championship jersey’s and medals are at stake when the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) brings off the 2013 edition of...

Corruption must be stamped out to attract investors

Jun 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Corruption must be stamped out to attract investors

– Canadian High Commissioner “Countries that condone or do not have effective preventive measures in place to stop corruption will find that the investors who are ethical and...

Ramsammy lauds New GPC’s role in CPL

Jun 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Ramsammy lauds New GPC’s role in CPL

– says Bobby Ramroop demonstrated vision, courage Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has lauded the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (New GPC)’s acquisition of the...

Special offers Celkon Mobile Cup fans…WI face Sri Lanka today in Jamaica

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Special offers Celkon Mobile Cup fans…WI face Sri Lanka today in Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Thousands of cricket fans in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, including schoolchildren, will get the chance to see some of the world’s best cricketer’s...

Arsonists get five years for Health Ministry blaze

Jun 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Arsonists get five years for Health Ministry blaze

Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday imposed five-year sentences on the two men convicted for the fiery destruction of the Ministry of Health’s head office and annex in 2009. Family and...

Four years to ‘fix’ sugar industry

Jun 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Four years to ‘fix’ sugar industry

…as EU to end quota system in 2017 By Leonard Gildarie In what is being regarded as a compromise, Europe – the country’s biggest bulk sugar customer – has agreed to end the...

Irresponsible reporting aborts murder trial

Jun 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Irresponsible reporting aborts murder trial

A case of total lack of knowledge of the judicial system, an ignorance of what a voir dire is, and poor editing and management by Kaieteur News led to a murder trial being aborted yesterday. The...

Dem boys seh…Donald ain’t talking bout spying at Castellani House

Jun 28, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Donald ain’t talking bout spying at Castellani House

Some people like throw hint but nobody can seh that Donald does throw hints. When he ready fuh talk he does talk loud and clear. One woman tell de people at de TV station that Donald don’t talk wid...