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Griffith ton leads DCC to City title

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Griffith ton leads DCC to City title

By Sean Devers West Indies under-19 selectee Trevon Griffith hit his 2nd consecutive ton against Transport Sports Club (TSC) in a final to spur DCC to a 29-run win in the Georgetown zone final of the...

Tobacco, alcohol, among health issues to be addressed in schools – Dr Paltoo

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Tobacco, alcohol, among health issues to be addressed in schools – Dr Paltoo

One out of two young people who start and continue to smoke will be killed by tobacco related illnesses, said Head of the Adolescent Health and Wellness Department of the Ministry of Health, Dr...

Berbice maul Demerara by 127 runs

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice maul Demerara by 127 runs

To reclaim El Dorado Inter-County title By Sean Devers A magnificent century from Man-of-the-Match Sewnarine Chattergoon spearheaded Berbice to an emphatic 127-run win against Demerara at the...

GCB announces squad for Regional One Day tourney

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB announces squad for Regional One Day tourney

The Guyana Cricket Board selectors yesterday released a 24-member squad to prepare for the West Indies Cricket Board One Day competition following the conclusion of the Inter-County tourney Saturday....

Mon Repos man stabbed in money row

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Mon Repos man stabbed in money row

A Mon Repos man is thanking God for his life after being stabbed in his chest by someone who allegedly owes him money. Vinod Persaud, 29, of 221 Mon Repos East Coast Demerara also expressed gratitude...

Western Union thrash Bank of Guyana 3-0

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Western Union thrash Bank of Guyana 3-0

Western Union’s Roger Jackman, Hewley Griffith and Lisa Lewis inflicted a 3–0 beating on the Bank of Guyana’s Imran Khan, Carlyle Bowman and Leonardo Butcher in the ‘D’ Division of the...

Porter jailed for beating ex-lover

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Porter jailed for beating ex-lover

… “I like this woman bad, bad” An obsessive porter, in the habit of beating his estranged reputed wife, will have to cool his heels in jail for the next 42 days. Ryan Nandra, 28, of 134...

Floodlights tame Pritipaul Singh Investment

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Floodlights tame Pritipaul Singh Investment

Last Friday night at the GCC Ground Bourda cricket fans witness an entertaining softball cricket match between Pritipaul Singh Investment and Floodlights XI who eventually emerged the winner....

Taekwondo Association names 6-man team for World C/ships in Denmark

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Taekwondo Association names 6-man team for World C/ships in Denmark

The Guyana Taekwondo Association (GTA) has named a six man team (three athletes, two coaches & manager) to represent Guyana at this year’s World Taekwondo Championships set for Copenhagen,...

Charity begins at home

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Charity begins at home

By Rawle Welch Recently the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has held a couple of fund-raising activities aimed at procuring the necessary funds to participate in the North American &...

Nelson, Jackson, Rodrigues among QC Badminton winners

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nelson, Jackson, Rodrigues among QC Badminton winners

The Queens College Annual Lower and Upper School Boys and Girls Singles Tournament concluded on Friday last at the Queens College Badminton Courts. Three players featured on the outstanding list at...

GCF to send five-man team to Caribbean Road C/ships in Barbados

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCF to send five-man team to Caribbean Road C/ships in Barbados

Guyana will be represented by a strong 5-member team at the Caribbean Cycling Road Championships set for Barbados, October 24 – 25, 2009. The Guyana Cycling Federation has named Warren Mc Kay,...

Producers and artistes in the Dancehall Reggae arena need to clean up their acts

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Producers and artistes in the Dancehall Reggae arena need to clean up their acts

Dear Editor, Change is inevitable. Everything changes over time, even music. And so we would have seen that within all the genres of music, there are changes in composition and delivery. This does...

These people have suffered for too long

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on These people have suffered for too long

Dear Editor, Reading a letter from the members of the Alexander Village Vishnu Mandir clearly was a letter from victims pleading for help from their Government. Professor Patrick Fagan has...

INVASION OF MY DREAMS!

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on INVASION OF MY DREAMS!

Cheddi came to me in my dreams. He said, “Peeping Tom, I need you to speak out against what is taking place in government.” I said, “Why? What about the leaders of your party?...

Where is the due process?

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where is the due process?

Dear Editor, Last week, I got a telephone call from a distraught mother who told me that her child was peremptorily expelled from a leading secondary school on being found with a cell phone. This...

Democracy is coffee! Democracy is Obama!

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Democracy is coffee! Democracy is Obama!

There was Prem Misir. Then came Randy Persaud. And they are known. And people know them as doing what they must do. But there is Ravi Dev. And people do not know what he does but he is doing it. Dev...

Falling behind and falling apart

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Falling behind and falling apart

Dear Editor, Today, I want to review the book, The Bottom Billion, published by Oxford University Press; the author is Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of...

THE BEAT GOES ON…

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on THE BEAT GOES ON…

It has always been good advice to let sleeping dogs lie. However, should you let lying dogs sleep? And does that apply to corporations that are not entirely honest with their customers? It is a...

Portuguese in Schools

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Portuguese in Schools

There has been much hullabaloo raised in the wake of the opening of the Takatu Bridge that now links us seamlessly with Brazil. It does not take a rocket scientist (much less a sycophantic government...

Weather, new housing schemes drive up electricity demand – Brassington

Oct 11, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Weather, new housing schemes drive up electricity demand – Brassington

By Fareeza Haniff As Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is in the process of completing the New Kingston Power Plant and putting it in operation by the first week of November, Chairman of company,...

GPL to pass down benefits to consumers

Oct 11, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GPL to pass down benefits to consumers

By Fareeza Haniff With a number of capital projects currently on stream by the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) which will eventually allow the power company to save on fuel cost, the benefits...

‘My countrymen in NY are keeping their ears to the ground’

Oct 11, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on ‘My countrymen in NY are keeping their ears to the ground’

From Dale Andrews in New York When my boss asked me to go to America, I was really excited. After all, I had never been to the ‘Big Apple’ and the thought of seeing family and friends not seen...

Jaikaran died from fall

Oct 11, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Jaikaran died from fall

Sixty-five-year-old Jaikaran, called ‘Spiker’, died of a brain hemorrhage due to blunt force trauma; he fell and hit his head. He was found on the Coldingen Public Road, East Coast Demerara last...

Contractor fired for cutting trees at Kaieteur

Oct 11, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor fired for cutting trees at Kaieteur

The National Parks Commission has fired the contractor it hired to build a new guest house at Tukeit, just below the mountain that leads up to Kaieteur Falls. A grant agreement was signed late last...

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Cornwall blitz, Shadab (4-13)/Muqeem (4-16) leave Warriors in panic...

Sep 18, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL… GAW vs. ABF – Falcons book spot in finals, Warriors/Kingsmen battle tonight for last spot By Clifton Ross (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors choked their...

Whatever happened to this matter?

Sep 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something deeply troubling about the driver’s-licence saga in Guyana. And it is not simply the question of whether a few police officers may have done something wrong. It is the possibility that people are driving on our roads who were never properly tested, never...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Boycott- duh fuh duh nah obyah

Sep 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Hon Speaker of the House started the ball rolling. The wrong way. Neither time nor space for opposition in parliament. For months after the September elections, the machinery of parliamentary democracy couldn’t get cranking. The white people had to intervene so...

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