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Guyana Boxing Board of Control Fight Fest…‘Bumpy’ road threatened as Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell takes on Jamaican, Glenroy ‘Bumpy’ Beckford tonight

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Boxing Board of Control Fight Fest…‘Bumpy’ road threatened as Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell takes on Jamaican, Glenroy ‘Bumpy’ Beckford tonight

By Michael Benjamin Jamaican top boxer, Glenroy Beckford, goes by the sobriquet ‘Bumpy’ and shortly after arriving in Guyana Thursday morning last, he declared that Clive ‘The...

Petra Organisation/Courts Pee Wee Schools Football…St. Pius, East La Penitence keep unbeaten streak intact

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Petra Organisation/Courts Pee Wee Schools Football…St. Pius, East La Penitence keep unbeaten streak intact

St. Pius and East La Penitence kept their unbeaten streak intact when play in the Petra Organisation/Courts Guyana Inc. Pee Wee Schools Football Competition continued yesterday, at the Thirst...

Ninth Hand In Hand 11 Race Cycle Meet…Greaves wins feature event

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ninth Hand In Hand 11 Race Cycle Meet…Greaves wins feature event

Alanzo Greaves turned in a commendable performance to win the 35-lap School Boys and Invitation event when the ninth edition of the Hand In Hand sponsored 11 Race Cycle Meet came off yesterday at the...

A TRIBUTE TO THE TRAIL BLAZER 4…West Indies (B) to Zimbabwe (1989) the (B) team final Chapter

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on A TRIBUTE TO THE TRAIL BLAZER 4…West Indies (B) to Zimbabwe (1989) the (B) team final Chapter

The last time the West Indies (B) team toured Zimbabwe was October/November, 1989. On the three previous tours, the West Indies traveled with Fourteen (14) players but on this occasion, the...

OSCL promoting softball cricket Florida

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on OSCL promoting softball cricket Florida

-would like to organise a tourney locally After enjoying overwhelming success in Florida, the Orlando Softball Cricket League (OSCL) which was formed in August 2012 is desirous of...

“Sporting sadness and successes all in one week!”

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on “Sporting sadness and successes all in one week!”

Colin E. H. Croft Last week included much sadness, with the death of an influential female motor racing exponent, coupled with one of Trinidad & Tobago’s budding soccer stars losing a...

Premier League continues today at Buxton, Den Amstel and GFC

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Premier League continues today at Buxton, Den Amstel and GFC

The Guyana Football Federation/Banks Beer 2013/14 Premier League which got off to a rousing start last week in Linden is scheduled to resume today with three double headers, at Buxton, Den...

Bermine face RHT Gizmos & Gadgets in 2nd Universal DVD T20 semi today

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bermine face RHT Gizmos & Gadgets in 2nd Universal DVD T20 semi today

The second semi-final in the Universal DVD first division T20 cricket competition in Berbice is set for today from 13:30hrs at the Port Mourant Ground on the Corentyne where Group A winner...

Scrimgeour House is #1 at Berbice High Inter House Athletics

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scrimgeour House is #1 at Berbice High Inter House Athletics

With the School’s Athletic season well and truly on, a number of those educational institutions are busy preparing their athletes for action at the inter-zone and eventually, the national level. In...

‘Nationals’ on in November

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Nationals’ on in November

After much speculation over whether or not the National Schools’ Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships will be held this year, Kaieteur Sport understands that the championship will be...

City Inn/Inter City Taxi Service sponsors T10 Tape Ball cricket for Primary Sch. in Upper Corentyne

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on City Inn/Inter City Taxi Service sponsors T10 Tape Ball cricket for Primary Sch. in Upper Corentyne

The City Inn Suites and Inter City Taxi Service of Line Path, Skeldon, Corriverton, Berbice has teamed up with the Upper Corentyne Cricket Association (UCCA) to sponsor the Upper Corentyne Inter...

Domino competition/cycle race to highlight Guinness Bar fun day today

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Domino competition/cycle race to highlight Guinness Bar fun day today

The Julius family in association with Johnny Barnwell and the Guinness Bar of Mahaicony ECD will host several events in and around that East Coast village today. Activities get underway at 10:00hrs...

GT&T backs GRFU’s Sevens Team for NACRA tourney

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GT&T backs GRFU’s Sevens Team for NACRA tourney

The Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company has once again stepped up to lend support for the Guyana Rugby Football Union Sevens Team that will be participating in the NACRA Rugby Sevens...

Hadi’s First division cricket…Ovid-Richardson’s explosive 81 spurs GNIC to 1st Innings points

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hadi’s First division cricket…Ovid-Richardson’s explosive 81 spurs GNIC to 1st Innings points

By Sean Devers GNIC’s Quincy Ovid-Richardson unleashed a brutal onslaught on the GYO bowlers and was especially severe on former national youth pacer Leon Scott in his pugnacious 81 to spur...

Dried up Amaila Falls vindicates opposition stance on project

Oct 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Dried up Amaila Falls vindicates opposition stance on project

– David Granger The graphic image of a dried up Amaila Falls and Kuribrong River, vindicates the position held by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) that the proposed 165MW project was badly...

Marriott would not even be able to cover interest cost – Robert Badal

Oct 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Marriott would not even be able to cover interest cost – Robert Badal

-wants President to mount inquiry into project “At 8.9per cent interest per year on Republic Bank’s syndicated loan, it would require US$2.4M ($480M) per year to cover interest...

Cops kill two, one critical in shootout

Oct 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cops kill two, one critical in shootout

– guns, ammo recovered Two Albouystown youths were shot dead and a third badly wounded around 20:00 hrs yesterday during a confrontation with police near the K&VC Hotel in South Road,...

Resolute to perfect the education sphere…Priya Manickchand is a ‘Special Person’

Oct 13, 2013 KNews News 2

“It is not good enough for teachers to just open the school doors and do their duty and teach. I want teachers to do their duties consciously… always looking for results!” By...

Dem boys seh…A housing man selling wha he ain’t got

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…A housing man selling wha he ain’t got

De English people does talk about carrying coals to Newcastle. What they mean is that somebody carrying something to a place wheh de thing deh plenty. Well in de same way if dem boys see two men...

Five years of seeking Alicia’s killer

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Five years of seeking Alicia’s killer

I can’t believe that it’s already five years since a cowardly gunman dragged Alicia Foster out of her own car and shot her dead. James Foster relives that moment every day…the pressing...

Sex and skin colour: India confronts its white-skin obsession

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 9

The popular, international television channel, Al Jazeera, has done what no other network ever contemplated doing. It featured a documentary exposing the insane obsession India has with whiter skin,...

Sunday Cartoon

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Bulgaria writes off Guyana’s debt

Oct 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bulgaria writes off Guyana’s debt

Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh yesterday signed a bilateral debt relief agreement to cancel US$3M of Guyana’s debt owed to Bulgaria. The balance US$322,578 would be rescheduled and repaid over a...

26 trained pilots graduate from Guyana’s only flight school

Oct 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 26 trained pilots graduate from Guyana’s only flight school

The flight training school was started in 2003 to supply Air Services Limited (ASL) with a cadre of professionally trained pilots to crew its ever expanding fleet. The school is fully approved...

The needless problems with Amaila

Oct 13, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The needless problems with Amaila

Certainly the most talked about thing at this time is the Amaila Falls project. For the first time we are seeing so many challenges to what the nation originally took for granted. It...

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A flawed interpretation of international law

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News – The assertion that “under international law, Venezuela is responsible for... more