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Another successful year for Powerlifting

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Another successful year for Powerlifting

…Exco aiming for more success in 2015 Powerlifting in Guyana has continued its success story under the guidance of Peter Green and a committed band of Executive members. Despite many challenges,...

Ragnauth is GSSC cricketer of the year

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ragnauth is GSSC cricketer of the year

Chandrika Ragnauth copped the cricketer of year award when the Good Success Sports Club (GSSC) of Wakenaam held its annual awards ceremony on Monday night last at Mustak Mohamed residence. Ragnauth...

Budhan Memorial Turf Club Meet set for Sunday

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Budhan Memorial Turf Club Meet set for Sunday

The Budhan Memorial Turf Club situated at NO 66 Village Corentyne Berbice has organised a one day meet for Sunday January 11th. The meet caters for horses classified ‘I’ and lower as the...

Last year’s success has now catapulted motor racing above all others

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Last year’s success has now catapulted motor racing above all others

By Rawle Welch Faced with mounting pressure to duplicate or even surpass the performance of the previous year and with the increasing challenges of procuring support from a cautious corporate...

Overseas-based friends of Young Warriors CC make donation to club

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Overseas-based friends of Young Warriors CC make donation to club

At a simple ceremony held recently, Overseas-based friends of the Young Warriors Cricket Club handed over a cash donation of US$450 to assist with the purchase of the pitch covers which was stolen...

Should the Normalisation Committee be given more time by FIFA?

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Should the Normalisation Committee be given more time by FIFA?

By Santokie Nagulendran The past few weeks in Guyanese football have been unusual, instead of the usual chaos and bickering which has usually hampered the game, the administration led by FIFA’s...

GTTA to open season with senior tournament

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA to open season with senior tournament

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) will serve off its 2015 Season next weekend with a Senior Open Tournament, scheduled for Sunday at 10am at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with all top...

The Baccoo Speaks

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

This year is continuing as though it is an extension of the year just past. The madness continues as murders now surpass road deaths. The problem is that people refuse to reason, so there will be...

Volunteers begin 10th annual Rupununi journey for outreach programme

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Volunteers begin 10th annual Rupununi journey for outreach programme

Bridging the gap between the coastland and the hinterlands through voluntary service is the Eiripan organization, which began its 10th annual outreach journey in the North Rupununi Region on Friday....

Interesting Creatures…The Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures…The Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)

The Sei whale, Balaenoptera borealis, is a baleen whale, the fourth-largest rorqual after the blue whale, the fin whale and the humpback whale. It inhabits most oceans and adjoining seas, and prefers...

Book Review…Timeless lessons wrapped in Patois

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…Timeless lessons wrapped in Patois

Book: Mek Wi Laugh & Talk: An Anthology of Jamaican Poems Author: Donna Hart Reviewer: Dr Glenville Ashby ________________________________________________ In Donna Hart’s Mek Wi Laugh &...

Correction

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Correction

In yesterday’s edition we carried the photograph of murder suspect Davendra Hansraj, also called ‘Dog Man’ standing alongside a woman who was portrayed as his dead wife Mahanrani Udairaj. The...

Let’s not forget the school leavers

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Let’s not forget the school leavers

This editorial was first published three years ago. Since that publication nothing has changed. To show the extent of Guyana’s consistency, we republish that editorial comment. Schools reopen on...

New Year’s baby in Rupununi

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New Year’s baby in Rupununi

The Lethem Hospital also delivered a New Year’s Day baby. The boy, Akeem, was born to 18-year-old Rhea Ng-a-Fook of the village of Parishara and her reputed husband, Lawrence France....

East Canje Humanitarian Society hosts differently-abled

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on East Canje Humanitarian Society hosts differently-abled

In the spirit of the holidays, the differently-abled in Berbice were recently visited, pampered and showered with gifts by the East Canje Humanitarian Society (ECHS). Twenty-five...

2015 begins with urgency to save the Caribbean from climate change

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on 2015 begins with urgency to save the Caribbean from climate change

By Sir Ronald Sanders If ever there was a time and an issue for the countries of the Caribbean to speak with one voice and at a high level, both the time and the issue have arrived. The issue is the...

food for thought…Let Go of What Didn’t Work Out in 2014

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on food for thought…Let Go of What Didn’t Work Out in 2014

Sometimes things happen in our lives that we don’t plan or understand, and we find ourselves trying to reason it all out. Sometimes we end up looking for a place to file it away in our minds. But...

The Story within the Story…GOLD TOO BIG TO FAIL: Missing a target but plotting a course

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story…GOLD TOO BIG TO FAIL: Missing a target but plotting a course

By Leonard Gildarie So the new year has begun. It brings fresh hope, a time perhaps to revisit the way we have been doing things and improve on them. Life is about mistakes, about not making that...

The Story within the Story…GOLD TOO BIG TO FAIL: Missing a target but plotting a course

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story…GOLD TOO BIG TO FAIL: Missing a target but plotting a course

By Leonard Gildarie So the new year has begun. It brings fresh hope, a time perhaps to revisit the way we have been doing things and improve on them. Life is about mistakes, about not making that...

INTELLECTUAL OVERKILL

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on INTELLECTUAL OVERKILL

We must be very careful in the way we juxtapose facts and the generalizations that can result from such juxtapositions. Guyana has a criminal underworld, every country does. Guyana has a large...

Caribbean growth will rebound to 2.2% in 2015 – ECLAC

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean growth will rebound to 2.2% in 2015 – ECLAC

Economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean will recover in 2015 and reach 2.2% on average, according to new estimates unveiled by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean...

Six global events have already influenced realities in 2015

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Six global events have already influenced realities in 2015

Dear Editor, At midnight December 31, 2014, celebrations of spectacular fireworks, lit up the skies all around the world. It was the end of a year and the dawning of another. Many remain grateful for...

Sharing a weight loss/maintenance strategy

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sharing a weight loss/maintenance strategy

By Dr. Zulfikar Bux It’s the beginning of a new year and we all have goals which we would like to achieve during the year. My personal goal is to shed a few pounds that I have accumulated over...

Be careful in your admiration of big names in society

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Be careful in your admiration of big names in society

Dear Editor, I hereby pen a few observations on Ruel Johnson’s letter on Ian Mc Donald (KN Dec 18, 14, “A whitewashed picture of the state of culture and the arts in Guyana.”) Johnson was...

The dead woman in the locked house

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The dead woman in the locked house

The teenage boy who did odd-jobs for Sirmattie Ramnaress didn’t see the body right away. He arrived at the spacious Diamond Housing Scheme residence at around eight o’clock on Saturday, August...