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BARON FOODS presents cricket uniforms to GYO

May 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on BARON FOODS presents cricket uniforms to GYO

The Gandhi Youth Organisation Cricket Club of Woolford Avenue was the recipient of a substantial amount of cricketing uniforms for its First Division players from BARON FOODS Ltd. The Company’s...

Ali 15/15 softball tourney to commence June 1

May 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ali 15/15 softball tourney to commence June 1

Rafman Ali 15/15 round robin softball tournament is slated to commence June 1. The competition will be played in two categories namely the open and over-40 and is being sanctioned by the Georgetown...

GUYTRAC sponsors 20/20 KO cricket competition in Upper Corentyne

May 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GUYTRAC sponsors 20/20 KO cricket competition in Upper Corentyne

The Guyana Tractor and Equipment Inc. (GUYTRAC) has once again come on board to sponsor a 20/20 knockout competition in the Upper Corentyne. The competition is expected to feature over 20 teams from...

DCC to commission lights on May 26

May 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on DCC to commission lights on May 26

The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) in conjunction with the Guyana Softball Floodlights Cricket Association will commission its lights installation on the 26th May. The commissioning will take place...

Plant Maintenance retain BOSAI inter-department basketball crown

May 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Plant Maintenance retain BOSAI inter-department basketball crown

Mines beat Plant Operations 61-33 to take third place Plant Maintenance retained their BOSAI Minerals Group Inter Department title when they scored a 41-31 win against General Services Friday night...

Letter to Sports Editor …Analyzing Darren Sammy’s test captaincy era

May 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to Sports Editor …Analyzing Darren Sammy’s test captaincy era

Dear Sports Editor, The Darren Sammy test captaincy experiment which lasted 1278 days is finally over. West Indies cricket has suffered many horrible moments, since their decline started after the...

Letter to the Sports Editor…My take on the GABF Sports Hall issue

May 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…My take on the GABF Sports Hall issue

Dear Editor, Please allow me space to respond to the article, “Kumar stops Basketball team from training at Cliff Anderson Sport Hall”, Stabroek News, May 15th, 2014. Firstly no instruction was...

Upper Corentyne Cricket Association Independence Day Softball Cup set for May 26

May 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Upper Corentyne Cricket Association Independence Day Softball Cup set for May 26

The Upper Corentyne Cricket Association will be hosting a softball 5 overs per side knockout cricket competition on Independence Day at the No. 69 Vikings ground starting at 9:30hrs. The competition...

Local Govt. Elections…A number of things are not still in place – Rohee

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Local Govt. Elections…A number of things are not still in place – Rohee

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP), through its General Secretary Clement Rohee, has said categorically that it is not opposed to the holding of Local Government or General and Regional...

State auditors probing alleged traffic fines fraud at Springlands

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on State auditors probing alleged traffic fines fraud at Springlands

The Audit Office of Guyana has sent a team to Berbice to probe allegations that traffic fines were stolen in an apparent fraud scheme. According to Auditor General Deodat Sharma, drivers and owners...

6-year-old stabbed in eye prepares for surgery in Trinidad

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 6-year-old stabbed in eye prepares for surgery in Trinidad

Naresh Ramotar, the six-year-old boy who was stabbed in the eye with a pencil, is currently in Trinidad and Tobago preparing for surgery. According to the child’s aunt, Savitrie Benjamin, he is...

THE COURT IS THE ULTIMATE ARBITER

May 21, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE COURT IS THE ULTIMATE ARBITER

What is happening at City Hall, in the National Assembly, and in the relations between our political parties, is no joke. Some persons may find it funny but as old people forewarn, not all skin-teeth...

Dr. Yesu Persaud launches autobiography

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Dr. Yesu Persaud launches autobiography

It has been described a must-read book that chronicles some critical points in Guyana’s history leading up to nationalization, in 1976. The autobiography by business mogul, Dr. Yesu Persaud, was...

Wide-ranging issues on agenda at 17th COFCOR meeting

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Wide-ranging issues on agenda at 17th COFCOR meeting

“The Caribbean is connected with the international world but is still to be connected with itself”- T&T Foreign Minister By Abena Rockcliffe Yesterday saw the opening ceremony of the...

Almost $50M difference in proposals to supply Education Ministry

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Almost $50M difference in proposals to supply Education Ministry

The Ministry of Education yesterday received bids for several supply and delivery services. The bids were submitted yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board...

Aussie gold-mining firm offloads billion-dollar mill

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Aussie gold-mining firm offloads billion-dollar mill

Executives of Troy Resources Limited, an Australian gold-mining Company, on Monday took members of the media on tour of the old Omai Wharf facility, at Christianburg, Wismar, Linden, where they...

Female MPs form Steering Committee to focus on critical issues

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Female MPs form Steering Committee to focus on critical issues

Guyana’s female Members of Parliament, at a special meeting convened by Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, on Monday at the Public Buildings, discussed the possibility of...

IDB invites proposals for $$M community projects

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on IDB invites proposals for $$M community projects

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is seeking proposals from local civil society and non-government organisations to fund innovative, community-based projects, starting from US$300,000 ($60M)...

World Metrology Day…Metrological control linked to energy consumption – GNBS

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on World Metrology Day…Metrological control linked to energy consumption – GNBS

Under the theme “Measurements and the Global energy challenge” the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) joined with other Metrology institutions across the world to commemorate World...

Third suspect in brutal hacking of guard found

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Third suspect in brutal hacking of guard found

The police yesterday picked up a third suspect in the brutal hacking of a 40-year-old Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara (ECD) resident. The suspect, a labourer, was arrested around 15:30 hrs at a...

Not learning from past experiences

May 21, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Not learning from past experiences

Life is such that people often learn from past experiences. Rational people know that if they commit a crime they would be punished and if indeed they do commit the crime, rest assured that they...

Dr. Lomarsh Roopnarine and Dr. Compton Bourne

May 21, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Dr. Lomarsh Roopnarine and Dr. Compton Bourne

When you study world cultures you don’t get depressed, simply because there is so much that is hilarious about the countries of the world, their peoples and their traditions. If you are on a...

The plight of an unwanted child

May 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The plight of an unwanted child

Dear Editor, Once again there have been an outrage, and rightly so by some concern voices over the manner in which the 14-year-old boy, Andy, met his death. It is alleged that the boy had his head...

The police appear to sanction littering in Beterverwagting

May 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The police appear to sanction littering in Beterverwagting

Dear Editor, Last Saturday (17th May) I was a guest of the Police at the Beterverwagting Police Station for just under an hour. This happened because on Saturday morning I decided to protest against...

Allocate resources where they are due

May 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Allocate resources where they are due

Dear Editor, There is a typical case here in the Rupununi of misplaced priorities by the PPP government. There is an intense campaign, almost an obsession by the party, to convert all and sundry to...