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Over 75 entered for RCMTC&SF and PMTC horserace meet

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Over 75 entered for RCMTC&SF and PMTC horserace meet

All systems are in place for the long awaited Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club and Sports Facilities (RCMTC&SF) and Port Mourant Turf Club (PMTC) one day horserace meet set for...

Quarter-finals action on today at four venues

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Quarter-finals action on today at four venues

The 2013 Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Championship has reached the quarter-finals and four matches are scheduled to be played today at various venues. Over at the Minsitry of Education...

Grenville Felix cycle road race set for today

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Grenville Felix cycle road race set for today

It is expected to be stiff competition when the second annual Grenville Felix cycle road race gets underway in Berbice today. The 96 year old retired Engineer is expected to send the cyclist on their...

“West Indies could still finish with a flourish, but senior batsmen need to step up!”

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on “West Indies could still finish with a flourish, but senior batsmen need to step up!”

Colin E. H. Croft Later today, at 1-1, one tied, two to play, West Indies and Pakistan go at it again, trying diligently to effect superiority! That tie in “Helen of the West” – SLU –...

Stag Beer/WDFA Senior League…Matches continue today

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stag Beer/WDFA Senior League…Matches continue today

Rivalry in the Stag Beer sponsored West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) Senior League will continue today following two matches yesterday at the Den Amstel Community Centre Ground, West...

Upper Mazaruni teams preparing for Inter District Games

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Upper Mazaruni teams preparing for Inter District Games

The Upper Mazaruni district in Region #7 is transformed into a sports village in August of each year and this year is expected to be no different when the annual Inter District Games are held from...

Demerara Cricket Board calls meeting for all East Coast clubs

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Demerara Cricket Board calls meeting for all East Coast clubs

The Demerara Cricket Board is inviting all active Clubs on the East Coast Demerara to an important meeting regarding cricket and the Board’s Competitions. This invitation is being issued as...

Regional U-19 tourney…Jones century gives Barbados first innings points, Narayan bags 5

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional U-19 tourney…Jones century gives Barbados first innings points, Narayan bags 5

Aaron Jones stroked a fine century as Barbados grabbed first innings points from Guyana in the first round of the Regional U-19 Three day tournament which continued yesterday at Warner Park....

Boxing coaches deliver insightful lectures as pugilists continue trek to Brazil 2016

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxing coaches deliver insightful lectures as pugilists continue trek to Brazil 2016

Local boxing administrators are adamant that one or more of their affiliates could clinch that elusive Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Brazil Olympiad and in keeping with this belief those...

T&T Karate Federation President receives US President award

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on T&T Karate Federation President receives US President award

Trinidad and Tobago Karate Federation (TTKF) President, Virginia Seebaran received the US President Physical Fitness Award for excellence for her contributions to the development of martial...

Qualitative encounters anticipated as scrabble players resume keen rivalry

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Qualitative encounters anticipated as scrabble players resume keen rivalry

The National Scrabble Championships is now a thing of the past and Abigail McDonald continues to regale in victory after retaining the accolade for the third consecutive year. Nevertheless, the top...

Ince optimistic team will do well

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ince optimistic team will do well

Despite a number of players set to make their debut in regional competition, Head Coach of the Guyana squad, Carl Ince, speaking with Kaieteur Sport one day before the team departed yesterday...

Farmers, millers trained in rice grading

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Farmers, millers trained in rice grading

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) in partnership with the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has started a training programme for the graders at mills and for farmers...

Opposition gives the nation hydrocele instead of Hydro power – AG

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition gives the nation hydrocele instead of Hydro power – AG

By Kiana Wilburg “When the history of post independence Guyana is recorded, July 18 will feature prominently. It will feature prominently unfortunately from a notorious perspective for it was on...

Five-year-old in need of money for brain tumor removal

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Five-year-old in need of money for brain tumor removal

The family members of five-year-old Bibi Zaheeda Mohamed are pleading with the public for financial support which would aid her daughter’s lifesaving surgery. In May 2011, the child...

AFC demands withdrawal of Ramotar’s “act of terrorism” comment

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on AFC demands withdrawal of Ramotar’s “act of terrorism” comment

Seemingly, a tit for tat cold war has erupted between Government and the joint Opposition as two Bills presented by Government related to the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project were shot down in...

Eleven more doctors join national brigade

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Eleven more doctors join national brigade

Eleven new medical practitioners graduated after completing their final year Internship at the Suddie Public Hospital Corporation, Saturday. Ten of them were Essequibians. The lone Berbician was...

Authorities lax with human traffickers

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Authorities lax with human traffickers

The non-prosecution of persons allegedly involved in human trafficking is allowing the vicious sex trade to continue and undermining all efforts and resources used to rescue victims,...

Jealous lover stabs Port Kaituma woman

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Jealous lover stabs Port Kaituma woman

A Port Kaituma stall holder is now nursing eight stab wounds about her body after she was attacked by her jealous ex-boyfriend on Friday. According to the victim, 42-year-old Yonette...

The fallout continues on the Amaila Falls hydro

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on The fallout continues on the Amaila Falls hydro

As the fallout continues from Thursday’s non-passage of two Bills critical to the financing of the country’s flagship US$840M Amaila Falls hydro electricity project, attention has been centered...

From Death to Redemption

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on From Death to Redemption

– former addict Sheikh Shamshudeen tells of his struggle By Rehanna Ramsay His story is one of death and redemption. After several years of struggling to break a cycle of addiction...

Amaila Falls Hydro-power… CCCC calling on Parliamentarians, Stakeholders to support project

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila Falls Hydro-power… CCCC calling on Parliamentarians, Stakeholders to support project

The President, Executive and Members of the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) are calling on all Parliamentarians and Stakeholders to support the enactment of the Amaila...

Butterfly

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Butterfly

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little...

Guyana oldest Living Engineer Grenville Felix, 96 not out

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana oldest Living Engineer Grenville Felix, 96 not out

Guyana oldest engineer, Grenville Felix, of Canefield, East Canje, Berbice is 96 years old. He reached that milestone on July 16, last. The occasion was observed with a simple Birthday Bash at his...

From the Diaspora…CAN BABU JOHN SAVE A DECLINING PPP?

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…CAN BABU JOHN SAVE A DECLINING PPP?

By Ralph Seeram We knew for sure we were in for a severe “cut ass”. My cousin Eric and I had broken a most important rule of my aunt; do not go and play without permission. More...

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