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Skipper Dwayne Bravo focused on Pakistan series…‘Not reaching tri-nation final was disappointing’

Jul 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Skipper Dwayne Bravo focused on Pakistan series…‘Not reaching tri-nation final was disappointing’

By Sean Devers West Indies ODI skipper Dwayne Bravo explained that conditions in Guyana played a part in the composition of the regional side to oppose Pakistan in the first two ODI matches, but...

Digicel Schools Football Championship…Leonora beat Uitvlugt 4-2 to take Region 3 top spot

Jul 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Schools Football Championship…Leonora beat Uitvlugt 4-2 to take Region 3 top spot

Leonora Secondary School behind a hat-trick from their dapper forward Gavin Graham recorded an exciting 4-2 win over rivals Uitvlugt Secondary at the Uitvlugt Community Centre Ground to...

Administrators, Instructors of Prison Gym graduate

Jul 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Administrators, Instructors of Prison Gym graduate

Following weeks of diligent training and application to their respective tasks in the intricacies of physical fitness, eight gym instructors and two gym administrators received their...

CPL tickets on sale

Jul 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on CPL tickets on sale

Fans can now purchase tickets for the Guyana leg of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) Twenty\20 tournament which went on sale from yesterday at the local CPL ticket office in Middle...

2013 Digicel Schools Football Championship…Santa Rosa ease past Hosororo to reach final in Region 1

Jul 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2013 Digicel Schools Football Championship…Santa Rosa ease past Hosororo to reach final in Region 1

Santa Rosa defeated Hosororo 3-1 to progress to the final of the Region 1 Zone of the 2013 Digicel Schools Football Championship which continued yesterday, at the Mabaruma Settlement ground,...

$MCY&S\NSC summer Swimming programme underway$

MCY&S\NSC summer Swimming programme underway

Jul 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on MCY&S\NSC summer Swimming programme underway

The Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport in collaboration with the National Sports Commission summer swimming programme is currently underway at Colgrain pool. The programme, which...

Khan/Drayton captures honours at Trophy Stall chess tournament

Jul 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Khan/Drayton captures honours at Trophy Stall chess tournament

Throughout the tournament, senior National Chess Champion, Taffin Khan, had dominated the board so it came as no surprise when he outshone the other players and after amassing an...

Wiltshire Dominoes set for tomorrow

Jul 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wiltshire Dominoes set for tomorrow

The Mark Wiltshire Dominoes competition is set for tomorrow at lot 6 Middle Street, Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara. Fifteen teams are slated to take part in the competition which will...

Stag Beer/WDFA Senior League…Matches on today and tomorrow @ Den Amstel

Jul 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stag Beer/WDFA Senior League…Matches on today and tomorrow @ Den Amstel

Four more potentially exciting matches in the Stag Beer sponsored West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) senior league are slated for this weekend at the Den Amstel Community Centre Ground,...

Georgetown Turf Club horserace, gymkhana event pushed back to facilitate cricket

Jul 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Georgetown Turf Club horserace, gymkhana event pushed back to facilitate cricket

Turfites gearing up for the grand horserace and gymkhana event, initially scheduled to get underway at the Georgetown Turf Club (GTC) aback the Mocha Arcadia community tomorrow...

GABA readies for pulsating Division I, III playoffs

Jul 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABA readies for pulsating Division I, III playoffs

– Kwakwani extend challenge to Marion Academy By Edison Jefford The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) will bounce off its Division I and III playoffs, including the...

Soesdyke man murders rival

Jul 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Soesdyke man murders rival

– goes on the run Police were last night hunting a Soesdyke man who killed a 24-year-old miner during a fight over the suspect’s reputed wife. The victim, Kevin Harrison, was stabbed...

Hope/Dochfour Canal works impress opposition parliamentarians

Jul 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Hope/Dochfour Canal works impress opposition parliamentarians

Despite the project being about a year behind schedule, the Parliamentary committee visiting the multi billion dollars Hope/Dochfour Northern Relief Channel yesterday was generally...

Skeldon Health Centre closed down months after grand opening

Jul 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Skeldon Health Centre closed down months after grand opening

….Mahadeo says building needs repairs Stranger things have happened but just seven months after it was commissioned by senior officers within the Ministry of Health and Central...

Govt not inclined to lower travel tax – Works Minister

Jul 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Govt not inclined to lower travel tax – Works Minister

Minister of Works Robeson Benn has said that for any reductions in travel voucher taxes to be made, there has to be a response from suppliers providing travel services. The Minister at...

Dabydeen ignores handover of Burnham’s parliamentary speeches

Jul 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Dabydeen ignores handover of Burnham’s parliamentary speeches

By Abena Rockcliffe The media turned out yesterday at Public Buildings for the second successive day to witness the scheduled handing over of the first volume of the published...

Dem boys seh…De airport more important than de Marriott

Jul 13, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De airport more important than de Marriott

When de opposition cut de budget dem believe that dem woulda slow up de government. Dem talk bout de airport expansion and dem feel that dem woulda stall de project. Well Robeson set de...

Family pickets GGMC for failure to act on land “bullyism” claim

Jul 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Family pickets GGMC for failure to act on land “bullyism” claim

A family said to be the heirs of land passed down through generations picketed the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) yesterday, for the agency’s alleged failure to intervene...

Guyana an Associate Member of MERCOSUR

Jul 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana an Associate Member of MERCOSUR

Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, together with the Foreign Ministers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Venezuela, has signed a Framework Agreement allowing...

Three nabbed at restaurant in suspected robbery…Alleged gunman says he went to purchase an energy drink

Jul 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Three nabbed at restaurant in suspected robbery…Alleged gunman says he went to purchase an energy drink

The suspected gunman who was shot on Thursday by police who forestalled a robbery at a Chinese restaurant in Coldingen, East Coast Demerara (ECD) is seeking to distance himself from his...

UG class assists Dharam Shala, other homes in Berbice

Jul 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on UG class assists Dharam Shala, other homes in Berbice

A group of students of the University of Guyana Care of the Elderly Class of 2013 recently travelled to Berbice and visited a number of Homes for the elderly. The visit was part of the community...

Suspect in Water Street Ambush remanded

Jul 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Suspect in Water Street Ambush remanded

– prosecution says investigations are still ongoing A 27- year-old taxi driver, who is said to be the main suspect in the alleged murder of a businessman’s handyman in the Water...

GPL apologizes for “shocking” light bill

Jul 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPL apologizes for “shocking” light bill

The Guyana Power and Light yesterday issued a “sincere” apology to the La Penitence resident who was recently “shocked” by a $1/2M light bill. On July 9, Donna Meusa of 31...

Gov’t to proceed with CJIA expansion – US$20M already invested

Jul 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t to proceed with CJIA expansion – US$20M already invested

Government intends to go ahead with the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project in light of the fact that the hefty sum of US$20M has already been invested for mobilisation, field...

DRIVER’S LICENCE SUSPENDED

Jul 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on DRIVER’S LICENCE SUSPENDED

Edson Inniss of Lot 88 Amsville Housing Scheme, New Amsterdam, Berbice, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving following an accident on November 24, 2012 at Main Road, New...

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Rana five-for and enterprising batting put Bangladesh in the driver’s seat

Morally Right. Legally wrong

…Peeping Tom Morally Right. Legally wrong Kaieteur News- The situation concerning the disputed parliamentary seat held... more