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Marcel Crawford, Berbice lawyer, horse racing enthusiast, dies

Dec 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Marcel Crawford, Berbice lawyer, horse racing enthusiast, dies

Senior Counsel, veteran horse racing enthusiast, community leader, former national cycling champion and sports enthusiast Marcel Crawford has died. The country is now poorer with the sudden...

Bowling gives us the edge – Dwayne Bravo

Dec 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bowling gives us the edge – Dwayne Bravo

ESPNcricinfo – Dwayne Bravo, West Indies’ ODI captain, believes his bowling attack will give his team the definitive edge in the five-match ODI series against New Zealand. Following a...

Steyn six brings South Africa roaring back

Dec 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Steyn six brings South Africa roaring back

ESPNcricinfo – The second day began with grey skies and a persistent rain that wiped out the morning session but when play began, more than three hours behind the scheduled start, it was...

Weightlifting continues to persevere despite though challenges

Dec 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Weightlifting continues to persevere despite though challenges

– focus on youth will continue in 2014 By Franklin Wilson For any sport to be viable, a necessary ingredient has to be athletes and in the weightlifting fraternity it is a well...

Letter to the Sports Editor…WHAT WE NEED IN BASKETBALL

Dec 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…WHAT WE NEED IN BASKETBALL

Dear Editor, I am penning this letter to the basketball fraternity, in fact to everyone who is genuinely concerned about the state of the game in Guyana. I am not throwing any stones, since I...

Cricket Review: Controversy continued to mar Guyana’s cricket in 2013

Dec 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cricket Review: Controversy continued to mar Guyana’s cricket in 2013

Guyana failed to win any title at any level Compiled by Sean Devers The year 2013 began with the unresolved dispute among cricket Board executives which continued from early January 2011 when...

St. Therese’s Win Heart of Oak Masters Inter Primary School Christmas Football

Dec 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on St. Therese’s Win Heart of Oak Masters Inter Primary School Christmas Football

Hearts of Oak Masters Football Organization continues to play its part in the development of Football in the New Amsterdam/Canje area, Berbice and Guyana in general with the staging of another...

Horserace meet rescheduled to 19th January 2014

Dec 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Horserace meet rescheduled to 19th January 2014

The inclement weather that pervaded the country on Boxing caused the postponement of a number of activities. One such affected was the big Boxing Day horserace meet organised by the Kennard...

Chico/Kashif & Shanghai Secondary Schools Football Tournament…

Dec 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chico/Kashif & Shanghai Secondary Schools Football Tournament…

Ash Education maul President’s College; Ann’s Grove outlasts Bladen Hall Multi One day before Ash Education faced off with President’s College (PC) in the Chico/Kashif &...

Ogle woman dies after brutal beating

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Ogle woman dies after brutal beating

– cops to seek murder charge against spouse Police are to seek murder charges against an Ogle, East Coast Demerara man in connection with the beating to death of his 34-year-old...

Two regional hospitals not providing optimal paediatric care – Study reveals

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Two regional hospitals not providing optimal paediatric care – Study reveals

Guyana is one of the few countries in South America that has already achieved the Millennium Development Goal Four (MDG4) which speaks to the reduction of childhood mortality by two thirds by 2015....

Blackouts cripple Essequibo Coast

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Blackouts cripple Essequibo Coast

To curb Essequibo electricity woes, the facility that is installed and is supposed to power the Region with effective electricity, at Anna Regina Power Plant needs to be equipped with a...

Kirpalani’s clerk, aunt charged in $17M robbery

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Kirpalani’s clerk, aunt charged in $17M robbery

Bail for store clerk of Kirpalani , Rajiv Rajesh Singh, was yesterday set at $500,000 when he and his alleged ‘accomplices’ appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry for...

The decadent Brassington “Clause”

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on The decadent Brassington “Clause”

Winston Brassington, head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) has by his very actions, skillfully crafted his own clause: “The Brassington Clause.” Under every...

Canadian company to resubmit proposal to Ministry

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Canadian company to resubmit proposal to Ministry

President of the Panther Recycling Company, Michael Mosgrove, has announced that he would be resubmitting his recycling proposal to the Ministry of Local Government. Late last month,...

Jamaican Trade Unionist, PPP supporter passes on

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Jamaican Trade Unionist, PPP supporter passes on

As families and friends come together to celebrate this joyful season, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) bids farewell to one of its strongest supporters, Mr. Richard Hart, who passed away at...

Region Eight willfully neglected by Government – Regional Chairman

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Region Eight willfully neglected by Government – Regional Chairman

The deplorable Bartica/ Potaro Road in Region Eight, is yet to be repaired even though its importance was amplified in July 2012 when protestors shutdown Linden, preventing the flow of traffic...

Battered woman stranded in Granny Backdam, needs medical attention

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Battered woman stranded in Granny Backdam, needs medical attention

A woman brutally beaten and robbed in Granny Backdam, Omai, on Christmas Day is still awaiting the intervention from the police and medical attention. During an interview via telephone...

Twenty three women brutally killed by men during 2013

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Twenty three women brutally killed by men during 2013

Twenty -three women have been murdered in 2013, with four of the victims slain within the last week. Statistics from the Ministry of Human Services show that all were victims of domestic...

No discrimination in East Bank housing allocations – Irfaan Ali

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on No discrimination in East Bank housing allocations – Irfaan Ali

– slams AFC’s leader over “haul your ass” comment The Ministry of Housing yesterday came out in defence of its programs on the East Bank of Demerara, insisting that the sale...

Wanted man remanded on murder charge

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Wanted man remanded on murder charge

Wanted man, Carlton Akeem Bourne, of Whim Village, Corentyne, Berbice, who was on the run for more than a year has been nabbed and remanded to jail on a charge of murder. Bourne was wanted for...

Home Affairs Ministry urges CPG members to exercise restraint

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Home Affairs Ministry urges CPG members to exercise restraint

The Ministry of Home Affairs has expressed regret at the fatal shooting of Belle Vue resident Godfrey Jaggroo, while cautioning Community Policing Group members to exercise restraint when armed....

Remembering the fallen

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Remembering the fallen

Commissioner of Police Leroy Brumell presents a Christmas hamper to Ms. Claire Victorino, the mother of the late Lance Corporal 20293 Michael Forde. The Lance Corporal was killed during...

Cheekies rewards Christmas Day mothers

Dec 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cheekies rewards Christmas Day mothers

Cheekies Mother Nikita Mclennon, (centre), was one of the recipients of a Cheekies hamper. Witnessing the event was Sister June Cato, Marketing Assistant Joel Lee and Onica Benjamin, the Cheekies...

Violence spoiled this Christmas

Dec 28, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Violence spoiled this Christmas

The Christmas season must go down as one of the most violent in the history of this country. Generally, people concentrate on making a reality of the general slogan that this is the season of...

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Development requires more than oil revenues

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In one of the most impassioned pleas ever made, an evangelical Bishop Rev. Mariann Edgar... more