August 2015

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CP Got Even wins Guyana Cup 2015 feature event

Aug 17, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on CP Got Even wins Guyana Cup 2015 feature event

A large and vocal crowd that included Director of Sports Christopher Jones saw defending champion CP Got Even ridden by overseas based Guyanese Michael Semple of the Elcock/Poonai Stable repeated...

Masjid-An-Najm capture Inter-Jamaat 7-a-side football title

Aug 17, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Masjid-An-Najm capture Inter-Jamaat 7-a-side football title

By Zaheer Mohamed A first half strike by Sheldon Profitt handed Masjid-An-Najm of Albouystown a 1-0 victory over Old Mosque of Alexander Village in the final of Inter-Jamaat 7-a-side football...

Trinidad, Guyana share spoils in Fruta Conquerors’ Goodwill tournament

Aug 17, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trinidad, Guyana share spoils in Fruta Conquerors’ Goodwill tournament

A mixed team of local women’s footballers turned in a lukewarm performance and paid dearly for several tactical blunders with a 6-1 drubbing when it clashed with the Girls’ U19 squad out of the...

DCC Academy cricket…Beaton’s X1 beaten by Jaikaran’s X1 under lights

Aug 17, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on DCC Academy cricket…Beaton’s X1 beaten by Jaikaran’s X1 under lights

By Sean Devers Urged on by a fair sized gathering made up mostly of parents and siblings of the players, Brandon Jaikaran’s X1 registered an emphatic nine-wicket against Nkosi Beaton’ X1 under...

East Coast Demerara Cricket Association competition to restart Sunday

Aug 17, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on East Coast Demerara Cricket Association competition to restart Sunday

The Competitions Committee of the East Coast Demerara Cricket Association is notifying all participating Clubs in the SPR 40-overs ROUND ROBIN Cricket Competition, which had been delayed because of...

NETBALL WORLD CUP 2015: Australians win 3rd straight title

Aug 17, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on NETBALL WORLD CUP 2015: Australians win 3rd straight title

Jamaica Observer – KINGSTON, Jamaica – Australia has won their third consecutive world title after they held on to win against New Zealand in front of 16,849 fans at Allphones Arena in...

MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo takes victory in Czech Republic

Aug 17, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo takes victory in Czech Republic

BBC Sport – Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo moved level with Italian Valentino Rossi at the top of the championship after winning the Czech MotoGP in Brno. The 28-year-old Yamaha rider got a good start...

Debate on 2015 Budget begins today Opposition PPP/C to enter Parliament for first time

Aug 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Debate on 2015 Budget begins today Opposition PPP/C to enter Parliament for first time

Weeks of uncertainty over when the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) would enter parliament and take their seats on the opposition benches should be laid to rest today when its members are...

Govt. explores avenues to keep a sinking GWI’s head above water

Aug 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. explores avenues to keep a sinking GWI’s head above water

As he stressed “water is life,” Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan recently declared that the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) is barely surviving as it is currently operating at a loss. However, he...

Gov’t re-engagement with British security experts showing promise – Harmon

Aug 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t re-engagement with British security experts showing promise – Harmon

– US, int’l law enforcement agencies also being consulted Minister of State Joseph Harmon has revealed that efforts to re-engage the United Kingdom for their help in fighting crime have been...

National reconciliation can only come about through truth telling

Aug 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on National reconciliation can only come about through truth telling

– Rodney group tells Gov’t As it renewed its calls for the new government to allow the inquiry into Dr. Walter Rodney’s death to be completed, the Justice for Walter Rodney Committee said that...

$233M set aside for cultural institutions

Aug 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on $233M set aside for cultural institutions

The government has set aside a sum of $233M to support Guyana’s cultural institutions over the next four months. Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan in his presentation of the 2015 national budget...

ACDA honours Emancipation Day winners

Aug 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ACDA honours Emancipation Day winners

In honour of the cultural achievements on display at this year’s Emancipation Day celebrations, the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) recently hosted a Prizing Giving ceremony at...

Eccles hit-and-run…Police still seeking killer driver, mother released from custody

Aug 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Eccles hit-and-run…Police still seeking killer driver, mother released from custody

‘A’ Division police ranks are on high alert as the search continues for the reckless driver that did not look back when he crashed into two motorcyclists at Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD) last...

Former Ministerial Advisor written to over burnt state vehicle

Aug 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Former Ministerial Advisor written to over burnt state vehicle

Former Ministerial Advisor, Clinton Collymore, has been written to over a state vehicle which was burnt on Elections night, May 11. According to a letter sent to him in late June, Collymore did not...

Sustainability, inclusivity undergirding new Youth Empowerment Policy

Aug 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sustainability, inclusivity undergirding new Youth Empowerment Policy

As issues facing the youths of Guyana are being placed on the front burner, a new National Youth Empowerment Action Plan (NYEAP) is in the works, with sustainability and inclusivity key...

Airbag saves Toddler in two vehicle crash

Aug 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Airbag saves Toddler in two vehicle crash

A Saturday morning accident on the Railway Embankment in the vicinity of the Caricom Secretariat has left a toddler shaken but alive thanks to the airbags which inflated upon impact. Reports reaching...

Record turnout at Region Three health fair

Aug 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Record turnout at Region Three health fair

Although they had to travel long distances from several villages on the West Coast of Demerara, people turned up at the Uitvlugt Community Centre in their numbers with the common goal of seeking...

CONSUMER CONCERNS…KNOW WHAT YOU ARE BUYING

Aug 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS…KNOW WHAT YOU ARE BUYING

BY PAT DIAL From time to time consumers express to us their dissatisfaction with food products they had purchased from the supermarkets or in the municipal markets. We would not recount their...

State of creative industries up for discussion during CARIFESTA XII

Aug 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on State of creative industries up for discussion during CARIFESTA XII

As the days draw nearer for Guyana’s participation in Caribbean Festival (CARIFESTA) XII in Haiti, the state of the nation’s creative industries and those of the Caribbean at large will be up for...

When morality becomes ignorance people become fools

Aug 17, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on When morality becomes ignorance people become fools

One day a group of senior KN staffers were liming outside the office. A small businessman drove up and began to chat with us. I can’t remember what the topic changed to but he turned to me and said...

Police initiative receiving positive response in Region Five

Aug 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police initiative receiving positive response in Region Five

Young people from the Number Five District as well as neighbouring villages on the West Coast of Berbice, turned out in large numbers at the Number Five Play Ground on Saturday, in support of a...

HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

Aug 17, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

Abraham Lincoln started his famous Gettysburg Address with, “Four score and seven years ago.” At the foot of the Lincoln monument, Dr. Martin Luther King started his even more famous speech,...

YOU ARE FIRED! YOU ARE HIRED!

Aug 17, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on YOU ARE FIRED! YOU ARE HIRED!

There was a first wave of firings within the Public Sector. There is now a second wave. There will be other waves. Some will be let go with the same brutality and harshness that characterized some of...

Give new Government a chance, but…

Aug 17, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Give new Government a chance, but…

Dear Editor, A near majority of respondents to a survey I conducted by the North American Caribbean Teachers Association feel the APNU/AFC coalition government should be given a chance to rule...

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From economic genocide to physical extinction

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(Kaieteur News) – “To bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Those were the chilling words of Lester Mallory, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, in a memorandum dated 6th April, 1960, addressed to his superior in the U.S. State Department....

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

Torture: Mohamed must clear the air

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(Kaieteur News) – The sister of Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, said he was tortured. The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) said he was not. Mr. Azruddin Mohamed should be out on bail. He is the best body of evidence (literally) as to whether he was or wasn’t tortured. He has...

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