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Guyanese Kadecia Baird strike gold in the 400m CAC Championships

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese Kadecia Baird strike gold in the 400m CAC Championships

MORELIA, Mexico – CMC – Guyana’s teenage sprinter Kadecia Baird ran a season’s best 51.32 seconds to win the Women’s 400 metres at the XXIV Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Senior...

7th Caribbean & 14th IPF/NAPF/FESUPO Pan American Powerlifting C/ships…

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on 7th Caribbean & 14th IPF/NAPF/FESUPO Pan American Powerlifting C/ships…

Gumendra Shewdass is Pan Am Sub-Jr. Champ; Gold for Chesney and Edwards Guyana’s powerlifters ended the Caribbean segment just as they started – with a gold medal – when the curtains came down...

Usain Bolt wins Diamond League Paris 200m in fastest time of year

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Usain Bolt wins Diamond League Paris 200m in fastest time of year

Usain Bolt recorded the fastest time of the year as he won the 200m at the Diamond League meeting in Paris. The six-time Olympic gold medallist clocked 19.73 seconds to beat fellow...

Abigail McDonald retains national scrabble crown after clinical display

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Abigail McDonald retains national scrabble crown after clinical display

By Michael Benjamin Abigail McDonald turned in a clinical performance to defeat Moen Gafoor 3-0 to take the 3 best of 5 duel and the National Scrabble crown when those two faced off in a highly...

“Poise, purpose and aggression needed to peak at the proper time!”

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on “Poise, purpose and aggression needed to peak at the proper time!”

Colin E. H. Croft Today’s (Sunday) game, West Indies vs Sri Lanka, could turn out to be the best game yet of the series. With its last game’s effort v India, Sri Lanka, perhaps still smarting...

Fitness Express sponsors Guest Lifter for GABBFF’s Seniors

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fitness Express sponsors Guest Lifter for GABBFF’s Seniors

Continuing their tradition of supporting Guyana’s development on the sports front, Fitness Express has once again flexed their muscles to ensure that fans and supporters of the Guyana Amateur Body...

Wartsila presents gear to Jetty FC

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wartsila presents gear to Jetty FC

Power suppliers, Wartsila yesterday presented a quantity of football gear to the West Demerara-based Jetty FC in a simple presentation ceremony at their Kingston Power Station, stating...

Sammy says no need to panic

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sammy says no need to panic

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – West Indies suffered their first defeat of the CEKLON Mobile Cup when they lost to India by 102 runs (DL Method) at Queen’s Park Oval on Friday. The...

Simmons called up for Sri Lanka clash

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Simmons called up for Sri Lanka clash

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Lendl Simmons has been named in the West Indies squad for Sunday’s match against Sri Lanka in the CELKON Mobile Cup at Queen’s Park Oval. The...

Dwayne Bravo suspended for one match

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dwayne Bravo suspended for one match

Dwayne Bravo, the West Indies captain, has been suspended for one match after being fined a second time within 12 months for maintaining a slow over-rate. He will miss the crucial tri-series match...

Regional U-17 cricket…Guyana beat Jamaica to register first win

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional U-17 cricket…Guyana beat Jamaica to register first win

Guyana severely dented any hopes of Jamaica retaining the Regional Under-17 title with a crushing 87 run victory at Shaw Park yesterday in the fourth round of the Regional under-17...

GASA July Sprints…King, Grant, van Lange and de Nobrega stars on day 2

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GASA July Sprints…King, Grant, van Lange and de Nobrega stars on day 2

By Zaheer Mohamed Naomi King, Amy Grant, Britany van Lange and Joseph de Nobrega turned in outstanding performances on the second day of the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA)...

From a hurricane to a raging inferno Dexter Gonsalves claims national Lightweight belt

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on From a hurricane to a raging inferno Dexter Gonsalves claims national Lightweight belt

By Michael Benjamin The old Guyanese idiom that ‘lil axe does cut down big tree’ could not have been more effectively exemplified than when Dexter Gonsalves faced Revlon Lake for the National...

Amerindians aspire to represent Guyana at cricket…

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Amerindians aspire to represent Guyana at cricket…

A number of Amerindians and river rain communities are coming together in an effort to address a number of issues facing them. This was the disclosure made in an exclusive interview with Chronicle...

Fire destroys disputed property, arson suspected

Jul 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys disputed property, arson suspected

Seventeen persons, among them eight children, are now homeless following a suspicious fire which ripped through two wooden houses and scorched another on Camp Street yesterday. When Kaieteur...

Numerous cases thrown out at Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court

Jul 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Numerous cases thrown out at Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court

– “Prosecution continues to provide ridiculous excuses to hide incompetence…” says Magistrate Over the past three weeks, numerous cases have been thrown out by Sparendaam Magistrate...

GDF bogus issue…Chief Justice rules in Chief-of-Staff’s favour

Jul 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GDF bogus issue…Chief Justice rules in Chief-of-Staff’s favour

Chief Justice Ian Chang has vindicated the actions of Chief of Staff, Commodore Gary Best, in relation to three recent matters which were brought before him. The Chief Justice discharged Writs...

Notorious gangster stabs cop in daring escape

Jul 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Notorious gangster stabs cop in daring escape

A brave young policeman narrowly escaped death when he was stabbed below his left side jaw with a broken bottle by notorious criminal suspect, Jermaine Jerrick. Jerrick had staged a daring...

A life dedicated to betterment for the visually impaired…Colin Ault is a ‘Special Person’

Jul 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on A life dedicated to betterment for the visually impaired…Colin Ault is a ‘Special Person’

“Too often people just focus on the disability, when in fact they should be focusing on the abilities of persons with disabilities, or as we say, those that are differently-able. And in that way a...

Dem boys seh…Donald thinking bout de Skeldon cane juice factory

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Donald thinking bout de Skeldon cane juice factory

When Donald Ramotar talk bout de signing that form Caricom he was really thinking bout de stupidness that he got going on in Guyana. He was thinking how he spend US$200 million fuh build a...

The Baccoo Speaks

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The police thwarted a robbery because they are alert. They are aware that people who conduct business at the commercial banks often walk out with large sums of money. They therefore monitor...

A Sugarcane Industry

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on A Sugarcane Industry

(The following are the concluding excerpts from the 2008 five-part series on reviving the sugar industry) Regarding the plans for the industry, there was a Strategic Plan unveiled in 1998, but which...

OF ‘POLITICAL SUBSTANCE’: ASSASSINS OF CONVERSATION

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, The Arts Forum Comments Off on OF ‘POLITICAL SUBSTANCE’: ASSASSINS OF CONVERSATION

Reflections on the 1980 Exhibition, ‘Images’ of Dudley Charles by Bernadette Persaud Assassins of conversation They bury the voice They assassinate, in the beloved Grave of the voice,...

CARICOM at 40: An alternative agenda

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on CARICOM at 40: An alternative agenda

By Sir Ronald Sanders By the time this commentary is read, Heads of Government of the 15-nation Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) will have celebrated the 40th anniversary of the...

Trying to change history

Jul 07, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Trying to change history

History is full of examples of people trying to rewrite history. In fact, there are times when people wonder whether the facts that they are reading as history are really what took...

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D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life with Region 3 Jamboree

Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more