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Save historic and national treasures

Jun 21, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Save historic and national treasures

Dear Editor, I have been extremely fortunate to have cross paths with some remarkable and brilliant persons over the years and I will also admit that they have contributed significantly towards my...

Looking at the Styrofoam menace

Jun 21, 2012 knews Editorial Comments Off on Looking at the Styrofoam menace

Last week, the government signaled that it was seeking to curtail the importation of material fashioned from Styrofoam and certain plastics as part of the programme to save the local environment....

Enriching their friends at the expense of the little man

Jun 21, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Enriching their friends at the expense of the little man

DEAR EDITOR, Someone once told me that corruption was worse than prostitution; because the latter endangers the morals of an individual, but the former endangers the morals of an entire nation. The...

Berbice Cricket Board honours Michael Ramdeen as Father of the Year

Jun 21, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Cricket Board honours Michael Ramdeen as Father of the Year

Fifty-year-old, Michael Ramdeen, of Reliance Settlement, Canje was on Sunday last honoured as the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) Father of the Year 2012. The father of three was selected by the...

Guinness Caribbean Street Football Challenge starts tonight

Jun 21, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Guinness Caribbean Street Football Challenge starts tonight

– Soca Warriors/Stoke City star Kenwyne Jones arrives this evening By Rawle Welch It is now just a case of awaiting the arrival of Soca Warriors and Stoke City star Kenwyne Jones, the...

GOA to run off Olympic Day Cycle Race Programme

Jun 21, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on GOA to run off Olympic Day Cycle Race Programme

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) will run off a BMX Cycle Race Meet on Saturday at the Inner Circuit of the National Park to coincide with Olympic Day 2012, action set to pedal off at 09:00hrs....

Twenty-eight successfully complete Programme

Jun 21, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Twenty-eight successfully complete Programme

The development of cricket in Berbice particularly at the junior level took a massive stride when twenty eight aspiring Coaches successfully completed a Pre-level One Coaching Seminar at the Albion...

The NCBL and its wonderful dynamism

Jun 21, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on The NCBL and its wonderful dynamism

– your community needs your support By Edison Jefford The decision to impose as a rule that national players competing in the National Community Basketball League (NCBL) must return to...

Coach satisfied with team’s performance

Jun 21, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Coach satisfied with team’s performance

North Georgetown Secondary School (NGSS) female football team Coach Celeste Mullin has disclosed that she is satisfied with her side’s performance following the conclusion of the 2012 edition of...

A lack of accountability and more excuses

Jun 21, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on A lack of accountability and more excuses

Dear Editor, I hate what this government is doing to Guyana. They are just like the previous party that was in government. I know hate is a strong word, but there is no other word to describe how I...

RCMTC CARICOM Day Horserace Meet nears

Jun 21, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on RCMTC CARICOM Day Horserace Meet nears

Berbicians in high anticipation Turfites are currently preparing intensely and most of the animals are doing good gallops in anticipation of the stiff competition as the Executives of the Ryan...

Uitvlugt edge LaGrange 3-2 in pulsating encounter

Jun 21, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Uitvlugt edge LaGrange 3-2 in pulsating encounter

It was perhaps one of the most exciting games in this year’s Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition to date and fans had a real opportunity to see the stars of the future on display...

Assassins win Atinas Super Foods inaugural Father’s Day dominos

Jun 21, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Assassins win Atinas Super Foods inaugural Father’s Day dominos

Assassins, led by Colin Mc Ewan brushed aside all opponents to win the inaugural Father’s Day domino competition sponsored by Atina’s Super Foods of 55E Upper Robb Street and held at the Strikers...

Zafrull, Lake guide Eastern Wakenaam to WDA Title

Jun 21, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Zafrull, Lake guide Eastern Wakenaam to WDA Title

Mohamed Zafrull marked the maximum 18 games while Eric Lake supported with 16 as Eastern Wakenaam totaled 80 games to win the Wakenaam Domino Association (WDA) competition which was played recently...

BCB to host 5th Annual Scotiabank Academy

Jun 21, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on BCB to host 5th Annual Scotiabank Academy

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) is set to host the Fifth Annual Bank of Nova Scotia Cricket Academy from the July 23 – 28, 2012 at the Area ‘H’ Ground, Rose Hall Town, Corentyne. A total of 90...

Breaking News: Murdered hairdresser’s husband kills self

Jun 04, 2012 knews News Comments Off on Breaking News: Murdered hairdresser’s husband kills self

Kensley Thompson the prime suspect in the murder of his wife, Rhonda Thompson, took his own life today almost in the same fashion in which he allegedly killed his spouse. Kaieteur News understands...

Breaking News: Albouystown taxi driver gunned down

Apr 30, 2012 knews News Comments Off on Breaking News: Albouystown taxi driver gunned down

An Albouystown taxi driver was gunned down in front of his home at around 02:00 hrs today. Renee Williams, 25, of Lot 138 King Edward Street, Albouystown, was shot twice in the upper back by a lone,...

Ramotar warns Govt. will not be held to ransom

Feb 11, 2012 knews News Comments Off on Ramotar warns Govt. will not be held to ransom

…as Granger issues call for annual State of the Nation report “We must seek consensus and compromise and should resist the temptation to believe that any party can ride rough shod over...

Combined Opposition strikes another blow in Parliament

Feb 11, 2012 knews News Comments Off on Combined Opposition strikes another blow in Parliament

…secures majority votes on Committee of Selection Mere minutes after the Head of State Donald Ramotar charged Members of Parliament to avoid gridlock and find consensus, the House seemed destined...

Magistrate charged for failing to submit to breathalyzer test

Feb 11, 2012 knews News Comments Off on Magistrate charged for failing to submit to breathalyzer test

Magistrate Haymant Ramdhani was yesterday placed on self bail after he appeared before Magistrate Nayasha Williams-Hatmin, at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court to answer a charge of failing to...

Cops accused of stealing $600,000 and raw gold

Feb 11, 2012 knews News Comments Off on Cops accused of stealing $600,000 and raw gold

Accusing fingers are being pointed once more at police ranks, this time for a robbery in which they relieved a shopkeeper of $600,000 and 15 pennyweight of raw gold, while pretending to be conducting...

Mahaica family hospitalized after hassar curry meal

Feb 11, 2012 knews News Comments Off on Mahaica family hospitalized after hassar curry meal

– teen critical A 17-year-old boy is critical and doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) are monitoring four other family members who fell ill on Thursday night after...

Attention must be paid to the early signs of abuse

Feb 11, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Attention must be paid to the early signs of abuse

Dear Editor, Children are special. They are God’s gift to us. Children never ask to be born. They are conceived and are brought into the world to be loved and cared for by their parents and...

CCC rout Leewards for 39, Jamaica, Barbados tussle

Feb 11, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on CCC rout Leewards for 39, Jamaica, Barbados tussle

Combined Campuses & Colleges (CCC) were 158 for nine off 60 overs in reply to the Leeward Islands first innings total of 39 all out at the close of play on the opening day of the second round...

GUYANA IS READY FOR A RETURN TO THE CINEMA

Feb 11, 2012 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GUYANA IS READY FOR A RETURN TO THE CINEMA

Television destroyed the cinema in Guyana. But the saturation with local television, the fact that most of the movies shown are replays or pirated copies of new movies, means that Guyana is now ready...

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GUYSUCO’s problems are political not managerial

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The sugar industry has been for centuries Guyana’s agricultural backbone. Yet, its struggles... more