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EBFA / MCYS Youth Academy deemed a success -Director of Youth Gillian Frank urges participants to aim high

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBFA / MCYS Youth Academy deemed a success -Director of Youth Gillian Frank urges participants to aim high

The one-week youth Academy organised by the East Bank Football Association (EBFA) and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport (MCYS) ended on Friday last at the Grove Community Centre...

Victory Valley Royals’ 20th Anniversary Open KO b’ball commences tonight

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Victory Valley Royals’ 20th Anniversary Open KO b’ball commences tonight

Competition in the Victory Valley Royals 20th Anniversary Open knock-out basketball championship is set to bounce off tonight with a double header at the Mackenzie Sports Club, Hard Court. In the...

Boxing Coach Sebert Blake completes high grade boxing course Has to endure one week wait for results

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxing Coach Sebert Blake completes high grade boxing course Has to endure one week wait for results

A week after leaving Guyana to participate in a one week Extraordinary International Amateur Boxing Association Professional Boxing World Series Boxing/AIBA Professional Boxing/AIBA Open Boxing...

Two- man boxing team departs for Barbados Goodwill tournament

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News, Sports Comments Off on Two- man boxing team departs for Barbados Goodwill tournament

As the executives of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) continue in their developmental drive, two boxers have been selected to travel to Barbados this weekend to participate in a one night Goodwill...

Stag Beer West Side 5-A-Side Football New Road Eagles remain unbeaten; action continues tonight

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stag Beer West Side 5-A-Side Football New Road Eagles remain unbeaten; action continues tonight

New Road Eagles continue to impress and remain the only unbeaten team in the inaugural Ansa McAl/Stag Beer West Side 5-A-Side football tournament which continued on Wednesday last at the Vergenoegen...

High Court upholds CGX injunction blocking Repsol

Aug 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on High Court upholds CGX injunction blocking Repsol

CGX Energy Inc. yesterday announced that its local subsidiary, CGX Resources Inc., has obtained an order from the High Court upholding the injunction from the Commercial Court of Guyana restraining...

Avoid the Rodney King road over Royston King

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Avoid the Rodney King road over Royston King

APNU and the AFC are prepared to go into an early general election. One anticipates the PPP will put up serious roadblocks to remain in office if the no-confidence motion is passed. It will be...

THE CHANGING FACE OF FASHION IN GUYANA

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE CHANGING FACE OF FASHION IN GUYANA

A photograph in last Friday’s edition of the Kaieteur News showed the Mayor of Georgetown wearing what appeared to be “bell bottom” pants. I do not know if it is the photograph that makes the...

PROFESSIONAL POLICING NEEDED FOR SURVIVAL OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on PROFESSIONAL POLICING NEEDED FOR SURVIVAL OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM

DEAR EDITOR, For too long, too many Guyanese have been psychologically, socially and emotionally abused, maimed, killed and otherwise had their lives destroyed by members of the Guyana Police Force....

The people must act to bring about regime change

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The people must act to bring about regime change

DEAR EDITOR, For those who attended primary school in the 1950s and 1960s had to have a genuine pride as their teachers spoke glowingly of a beautiful Guyana. They described Guyana as a land of...

Do we live in a police state?

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do we live in a police state?

DEAR EDITOR, A concern expressed by a fairly wide cross-section of citizens suggest that there exists a lowering of trust in the Guyana Police Force to live up to its motto “to serve and...

Peeping Tom’s twisted logic

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Peeping Tom’s twisted logic

DEAR EDITOR, It’s amazing how people can be so simple minded or in fact obtuse to the point where they unwittingly expose their political bias. Peeping Tom in today’s Edition of the Kaieteur...

Widening pluralism

Aug 29, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Widening pluralism

Activities in our society continue to prompt the question of what sort of morality is guiding our people. Killing without apparent remorse and a tendency to dehumanise each other are only two of the...

Trinidad & Tobago defeats Jamaica for the Women’s Caribbean Cup Trophy

Aug 28, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trinidad & Tobago defeats Jamaica for the Women’s Caribbean Cup Trophy

Port of Spain, Trinidad – History was made in the twin island state of Trinidad & Tobago as the Soca Princesses defeated rivals Jamaica to claim the inaugural CFU’s Women’s...

THE TANGLED WEB AT CITY HALL

Aug 28, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE TANGLED WEB AT CITY HALL

This charade that is taking place at City Hall should be brought to an end. It is turning out to be a Naipaulian farce. How can the City Council pass a no-confidence motion against the Town Clerk...

Sharapova rallies to outlast Dulgheru at US Open

Aug 28, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sharapova rallies to outlast Dulgheru at US Open

New York (AP) – Maria Sharapova’s serve and her groundstrokes were abandoning her. What she had was her conditioning. The five-time major champion rallied from a set down to beat...

Alexis Sanchez scores the winner as 10-man Gunners qualify for the CL group stages

Aug 28, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alexis Sanchez scores the winner as 10-man Gunners qualify for the CL group stages

They will be there, in pot A, business as usual today. But it was tight. Tighter than it has been for many years. Too tight for comfort, by the end. Down to ten men with 15 minutes to go, Arsenal...

U.S. and Spain on course for World Cup showdown

Aug 28, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on U.S. and Spain on course for World Cup showdown

Reuters – A much-weakened United States should still be strong enough at least to reach the final of the 2014 basketball World Cup, which begins in Spain on Saturday. The holders, together with...

Clinical South Africa gun down 327

Aug 28, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Clinical South Africa gun down 327

South Africa needed 91 runs from 77 balls when AB de Villiers, with 91 to his name and cramp slicing through his hamstring, walked across his crease, got down on one knee and scooped James Faulkner...

No Result in lone T20 between Windies and Bangladesh -Torrential rain and high winds have final say

Aug 28, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on No Result in lone T20 between Windies and Bangladesh -Torrential rain and high winds have final say

Heavy rain and high winds intervened at 8:17pm when Dawyne Bravo was on his way to deliver to Tamim Iqbal with 4.4 overs already bowled with Bangladesh on 31-0. Iqbal pulled away at the very last...

Public Works clarifies “minimum standards” statements of Guyana’s airports

Aug 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Public Works clarifies “minimum standards” statements of Guyana’s airports

– is monitoring complaints against collection agencies The Ministry of Public Works has clarified statements made Tuesday which suggested that both Ogle and the Timehri airports are not meeting...

Pepsi Sonics Vocational B/ball Programme attracts large turnout

Aug 28, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pepsi Sonics Vocational B/ball Programme attracts large turnout

It had its birth in 2006 and ever since the Pepsi Sonics Annual Vocational Basketball Programme has survived through the perseverance of Club President Merle Casey and this is despite the sparse...

Foo hits 99 in Berbice Inter-County Trials

Aug 28, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Foo hits 99 in Berbice Inter-County Trials

Jonathan Foo continued his good form in the second Berbice 50-over senior Inter-County trial match yesterday at Albion Sports Complex, following up his 67 in the first game on Tuesday by falling one...

GABF’s strong stance needs support

Aug 28, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABF’s strong stance needs support

By Edison Jefford Philosophically, the new Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) might be purist, but it is surely not pathetic in its pursuit to regularise and bring structure to local...

LCDS awareness sessions continue countrywide

Aug 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on LCDS awareness sessions continue countrywide

– Region 8 most recent location The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, in collaboration with the Office of Climate Change (OCC), held an awareness programme pertaining to the Low Carbon...

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Kellogg’s Senior Indoor Hockey championship concludes

Nov 10, 2026

– GCC Elite overturn Saints to claim Women’s Open crown as Bounty GCC, Antonio’s Hickers also win titles (Kaieteur News) – GCC Elite came from behind to win the Kellogg’s...

No good deed goes unpunished

Nov 10, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Among those who joined the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar in 44 BC was Marcus Junius Brutus, a man Caesar had previously pardoned after the civil war. Caesar had spared his life, restored him to favour and trusted him. Brutus repaid this generosity by helping to put a...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

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...

U.S. midterms – the Guyanese challenge – Pt. III

Nov 10, 2026

Kaieteur News – Donald Trump made himself into a winner. He also made himself a loser. No close midterm results to contest. No tight seat margins that call for bruising, delaying, upending battles. The American people spoke, their will prevailed. What’s the lesson for Guyanese? Is there...

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