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GBA partners with GDF for boxing encampment …

GBA partners with GDF for boxing encampment …

Jun 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBA partners with GDF for boxing encampment …

Training starts Friday at Camp Seweyo The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) has partnered with the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to host the first extended boxing encampment in over a decade with the...

2014 Memorex Under-17 cricket competition for teams in Berbice…Randy Wade bags 12-wkt match haul including 9 for 21, Joel Sietaram hits 62, bags 6-45

2014 Memorex Under-17 cricket competition for teams in Berbice…Randy Wade bags 12-wkt match haul including 9 for 21, Joel Sietaram hits 62, bags 6-45

Jun 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2014 Memorex Under-17 cricket competition for teams in Berbice…Randy Wade bags 12-wkt match haul including 9 for 21, Joel Sietaram hits 62, bags 6-45

The 2014 Memorex Under-17 two innings Cricket Competition continued recently. Highlighting the latest matches was the outstanding bowling performance of Achievers medium pacer Randy Wade who took 9...

Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport organizes annual summer swim programme

Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport organizes annual summer swim programme

Jun 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport organizes annual summer swim programme

The August holidays will soon be upon us when school children will be home for an extended period and as is customary, officials of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport in collaboration with the...

A tribute to the trailblazers, the inaugural Caricom championship 1981 in Guyana

A tribute to the trailblazers, the inaugural Caricom championship 1981 in Guyana

Jun 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on A tribute to the trailblazers, the inaugural Caricom championship 1981 in Guyana

Statistician Charwayne Walker salutes the stars of the first Caricom Basketball Championship, highlighting the outstanding performances of over 30 years ago event as the local team seeks Guyana’s...

Flying Ace cyclist get cash to refurbish bike for National Cycling Championship

Flying Ace cyclist get cash to refurbish bike for National Cycling Championship

Jun 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Flying Ace cyclist get cash to refurbish bike for National Cycling Championship

The Flying Ace Cycle Club of New Amsterdam is presently preparing its cyclists for the upcoming National Cycling Championship slated for next weekend (June 28 and 29th) in Demerara. As such the club...

Burnett back in national fold

Burnett back in national fold

Jun 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Burnett back in national fold

Omitted point guard from the 18-man national basketball squad, Travis Burnett, was recalled to the team on Sunday following a review. President of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF),...

GOA names Commonwealth Games delegations

GOA names Commonwealth Games delegations

Jun 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GOA names Commonwealth Games delegations

-US-based Pompey is General Manager The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) yesterday released the national delegations for the XX Commonwealth Games scheduled for Glasgow, Scotland, July 23 –August 3...

‘Lady’ hits the streets

‘Lady’ hits the streets

Jun 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Lady’ hits the streets

…celebrates Guyanese women Inspire Inc launched “LADY”, another magazine. This one promotes Guyanese women in their personal and professional capacities while highlighting women’s...

Opposition balks at Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Security Sector – PPP

Opposition balks at Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Security Sector – PPP

Jun 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition balks at Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Security Sector – PPP

General Secretary of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee, is of the view that the Opposition is deliberately avoiding having security related matters come under the purview of the...

Vice Chancellor stresses need for independence at UG

Vice Chancellor stresses need for independence at UG

Jun 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Vice Chancellor stresses need for independence at UG

– as consultations to discuss tuition fee hike commences Transforming the University of Guyana (UG) into an institution that matches international excellence is an undertaking that...

BK enters aviation sector ahead of mining expansions

BK enters aviation sector ahead of mining expansions

Jun 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on BK enters aviation sector ahead of mining expansions

Mining and construction giant BK International is gearing to enter the aviation sector as the company seeks to expand in its mining operations. Kaieteur News was told that the company has set its...

Three years later family seeks justice over missing man

Three years later family seeks justice over missing man

Jun 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Three years later family seeks justice over missing man

Three years later and the relatives of Heimchandra Boodram Mohabir, called “Collie Boy or Rohan”, are still to hear anything pertaining to his disappearance from the interior location of...

Significant more cases heading to CCJ

Significant more cases heading to CCJ

Jun 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Significant more cases heading to CCJ

As several CARICOM states contemplate having the Caribbean Court of Justice replace the British Privy Council as a final Court of Appeal, there continues to be marked improvement in the number of...

High profile murder trial aborted

Jun 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on High profile murder trial aborted

The high profile murder trial which was underway in the Berbice High Court involved a father and son who was charged with the shooting death of a Corentyne farmer was aborted on Thursday by trial...

Letter to the Sports Editor…ECB coach should have been suspended for improper conduct

Letter to the Sports Editor…ECB coach should have been suspended for improper conduct

Jun 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…ECB coach should have been suspended for improper conduct

Dear Editor, As the President of the North Essequibo Cricket Committee I had formally written to both the Essequibo and Guyana Cricket Board to launch an investigation into the conduct of one of its...

Mabaruma gets resource centre

Mabaruma gets resource centre

Jun 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mabaruma gets resource centre

Region One Chairman, Paul Pierre had the pleasure on Saturday last of cutting the ribbon at the official opening of Mabaruma’s only Private Resource Centre. The centre is an initiative of Anointed...

Uniform vouchers can be uplifted July

Uniform vouchers can be uplifted July

Jun 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Uniform vouchers can be uplifted July

The Ministry of Education has announced that preparations for this year’s distribution of uniform vouchers are well on the way and distribution should commence soon. The Ministry, in a public...

Wallace Nurse: Darkness and Death

Wallace Nurse: Darkness and Death

Jun 24, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Wallace Nurse: Darkness and Death

I was a lecturer for twenty-six years at UG, and those long moments have instructed me fully into the nature of this country. In those years I have seen the resilience of a tragic, dilapidated,...

PAHO working with Health Ministry to reduce maternal mortality

PAHO working with Health Ministry to reduce maternal mortality

Jun 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on PAHO working with Health Ministry to reduce maternal mortality

“No woman should die during child birth,” was the firm assertion of Resident Representative of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), Dr. William Adu-Krow, as he spoke of plans in the...

OLPF distributes 584 laptops in East Canje

OLPF distributes 584 laptops in East Canje

Jun 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on OLPF distributes 584 laptops in East Canje

The One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) Secretariat resumed distribution of laptops in Berbice yesterday by distributing 584 instruments to residents of East Canje at the Cumberland Primary School. OLPF...

Admission of 2014 UG law graduates to UWI

Admission of 2014 UG law graduates to UWI

Jun 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Admission of 2014 UG law graduates to UWI

DEAR EDITOR, It has been reported that 25 graduates of the class of 2014 from the University of Guyana (UG) have eventually been cleared and granted automatic placement at the Hugh Wooding Law School...

A timely editorial and permitted madness

A timely editorial and permitted madness

Jun 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A timely editorial and permitted madness

DEAR EDITOR The Editorial of Saturday, 21 June 2014, “The circus on our roads” in Stabroek News, was timely as it was pointed. There were many aspects of the piece that we can all relate to and...

The Finance Minister should swiftly amend the Act to raise NBS’s lending limit

The Finance Minister should swiftly amend the Act to raise NBS’s lending limit

Jun 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Finance Minister should swiftly amend the Act to raise NBS’s lending limit

DEAR EDITOR, A recent article appearing in KN headlined, “Financial analysts say… Raising NBS’ lending limit has tax implications” provided a skewed view of the issues surrounding the role of...

Why are you so concerned?

Why are you so concerned?

Jun 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why are you so concerned?

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to the letter appearing in your June 22 edition titled “The Bible pronounces against the homosexual and lesbian lifestyle”. While this writer obviously has some knowledge of...

Slingerz FC shines at Guyana Energy Conference and Youth Forum

Slingerz FC shines at Guyana Energy Conference and Youth Forum

Feb 22, 2025

Kaieteur Sports- Slingerz FC made a bold statement at the just-concluded Guyana Energy Conference and Supply Chain Expo, held at the Marriott Hotel, by blending the worlds of professional football...

Guyana’s rising Chess stars take on Barbados

Guyana’s rising Chess stars take on Barbados

Feb 22, 2025

Elite clubs will challenge KFC monopoly on team uniforms

Elite clubs will challenge KFC monopoly on team...

Feb 22, 2025

Bristol named manager as Guyana gears up for 2025 Caribbean Boxing Championship

Bristol named manager as Guyana gears up for 2025...

Feb 22, 2025

BCB puts a halt to cricket season due to inclement weather

BCB puts a halt to cricket season due to...

Feb 22, 2025

Changes made to KMTC Phagwah Horse race meet

Changes made to KMTC Phagwah Horse race meet

Feb 22, 2025

The clock and the cloud

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Time, as the ancients knew, is a trickster. It slips through the fingers of kings and commoners... more

CARICOM Nations Should Respond Together To new U.S. Policies

By Sir Ronald Sanders Ambassador to the US and the OAS, Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News-Two Executive Orders issued by U.S.... more

Wood snake year

Hard Truths… By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- I have always believed the Chinese are among the wisest to be found anywhere. ... more