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We are looking to build – Coach Harper

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on We are looking to build – Coach Harper

Amazon Warriors take on Jamaica Tallawahs tonight; another capacity crowd expected By Zaheer Mohamed Coach of the Guyana Amazon Warriors Roger Harper said his team will be looking to continue...

Nurse grabs 4-27 as Tridents beat Hawksbills by 12 runs

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nurse grabs 4-27 as Tridents beat Hawksbills by 12 runs

Barbados Tridents overcame the Antigua Hawksbills by 12 runs to record their second win in as many matches when play in the inaugural Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL) T20...

GDA/MSC collaborate to host tournament tonight

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GDA/MSC collaborate to host tournament tonight

The Guyana Darts Association (GDA) in collaboration with Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) have organised a tournament and fund raiser for this evening, at the Malteenoes Sports Club, starting from 19:30...

LCPL names GK Inc. as official supplier for VIP Suite at Providence

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on LCPL names GK Inc. as official supplier for VIP Suite at Providence

The Guyana Amazon Warriors has named GK Inc. as its official supplier of catering for the Limacol VIP Suite for the matches held at the Guyana National Stadium. Managing Director of GK Inc. Mr....

Sarwan pleased with Amazon Warriors start to LCPL

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sarwan pleased with Amazon Warriors start to LCPL

By Zaheer Mohamed Captain of the Guyana Amazon Warriors Ramnaresh Sarwan said that he is happy with the start his team has made to the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL). He was speaking after...

Mackeson is the official stout of LCPL

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mackeson is the official stout of LCPL

ANSA McAL’s alliance with the Limacol CPL will give them the pouring rights for stout at the matches held at the Guyana National Stadium, making their brand, Mackeson, the official...

Wayne Cave spells his way to the top as GASP Open tourney concludes

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wayne Cave spells his way to the top as GASP Open tourney concludes

Wayne Cave proved that his rise to the podium in the last Open Scrabble tournament was no fluke and he not merely replicated, but bettered the feat when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players...

Fruta Conquerors U-13 tourney…Camptown & Western Tigers to clash in final on Saturday

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fruta Conquerors U-13 tourney…Camptown & Western Tigers to clash in final on Saturday

Camptown Football Club and Western Tigers have earned the right to play in the final of the Fruta Conquerors Football club Under-13 tournament following contrasting semi final...

Bel Air miner crushed by excavator

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bel Air miner crushed by excavator

Relatives of a veteran miner are in a state of shock following an accident on Wednesday afternoon in which he was crushed by an excavator in Pamela, Mahdia. The dead man, who was...

Extreme inequalities in state ads distribution – Int’l press body

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Extreme inequalities in state ads distribution – Int’l press body

A report by the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) has highlighted the entity’s concerns over complaints that the Guyana Government may be unfairly using state advertisements to give...

Kids’ mother unaware of their demise

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Kids’ mother unaware of their demise

Twenty-one-year-old Bibi Nazarena Houston lies in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. Her right hand partly severed; the fingers of her left hand are also...

Man who killed children described as ‘quiet and peaceful’

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Man who killed children described as ‘quiet and peaceful’

– Father urges him to surrender The father of the man who butchered his two children and maimed his reputed wife yesterday described the Zeelugt fugitive as “a very quiet...

The Emperor’s New Clothes: The PPP Congress today

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Emperor’s New Clothes: The PPP Congress today

If you put a gun to the head of a human being and ask him/her, do you hate me or love me, and the answer is the latter, then you are a hopeless moron to smile and believe the words. Those words were...

THE FUTURE OF THE PPP HANGS IN THE BALANCE

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE FUTURE OF THE PPP HANGS IN THE BALANCE

There is a powerful cabal that is external to the People’s Progressive Party. But inside of the party and inside of the government there is a political grouping, a clique, that does the bidding of...

Trinidad’s Earthquake

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Trinidad’s Earthquake

We are not sure what reading on the Richter scale the seismic event that occurred last Monday in Trinidad registered, but since it was felt all the way in Guyana, it has to be quite high. The...

UG unions working diligently to have concerns addressed

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on UG unions working diligently to have concerns addressed

Diligent work spearheaded by the unions representing University of Guyana workers has commenced with a view of a document being prepared to carefully outline the financial status of the...

ACDA hosts colourful emancipation festivity

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ACDA hosts colourful emancipation festivity

With a focus on honouring the African men and women who paved the way for the August 1, 1838 liberation of slaves, particularly those who revolted in 1823, the African Cultural and Development...

86–year-old found dead in yard

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 86–year-old found dead in yard

– foul play suspected The police are investigating the suspected murder of 86-year-old Sukdeo Singh of New Hope, East Bank Demerara, whose body was found under a heap of grass in...

Breastfeeding is most effective life-saver in history – UNICEF

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Breastfeeding is most effective life-saver in history – UNICEF

With the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) calling for a focus on breastfeeding as the most effective and inexpensive way of saving a child’s life, World Breastfeeding Week...

COFONA, RAPAC to build African Cultural Centre in Berbice

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on COFONA, RAPAC to build African Cultural Centre in Berbice

By Leon Suseran With Emancipation observances ongoing and this being the commemorative year of the 250th Anniversary of the Berbice Slave Rebellion, the Council of Friends of New Amsterdam...

A people that live in fear cannot be productive

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A people that live in fear cannot be productive

Dear Editor, A mother “bawled out” for her dead son and a wife sobbed as her husband took his last breath. They both were responding to the frequency with which violent crimes and murders...

A good occasion to reflect on the long and difficult road we traveled

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A good occasion to reflect on the long and difficult road we traveled

Dear Editor, This month marks 175 years since the abolition of slavery in Guyana, a significant milestone in our national calendar. Slavery as we all know was finally abolished in 1838 which...

We are with you in your continued struggles in every part of the world

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on We are with you in your continued struggles in every part of the world

Dear Editor, Permit me to bid a happy 175th Emancipation Day / Month to all Guyanese, and in particular to my brothers and sisters of African descent, who must feel reassured that the rest of us are...

My questions for Sithe Global and the Government

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on My questions for Sithe Global and the Government

Dear Editor, I wish to take advantage of Sithe’s presence in Guyana to put some pertinent questions to them and the Government in connection with the Amaila Falls Hydro Project.The reason I am...

An application to President Ramotar for a Ministerial post

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on An application to President Ramotar for a Ministerial post

Dear Mr. President, I write seeking employment with your Government as a Minister. I am the son of a cane cutter (I think it is called a cane harvester now) but it is the same back...