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Barbados on standby for Regional one-dayers & Pakistan t20s

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Barbados on standby for Regional one-dayers & Pakistan t20s

As Government sets up IMC to run Guyana’s cricket By Sean Devers In the wake of the Bharrat Jagdeo Government’s decision to set up an Interim Management Committee (IMC) to replace...

MSC hammer Third Class by 241 runs

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on MSC hammer Third Class by 241 runs

GCA’s Queensway Cup 50-over cricket Led by an unbeaten 71 from 23-year-old Danny Narayan Malteenoes Sports Club crushed Third Class by 241 runs at Everest yesterday to advance to the...

Finalists decided in Schools categories

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Finalists decided in Schools categories

Kares Engineering / Bushy Park Sawmills T10 Tapeball Cricket Competition The finalists in the schoolboys and girls categories of the inaugural Kares Engineering / Bushy Park Sawmills T10...

Senior Male, Female Categories down to Final Four

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Senior Male, Female Categories down to Final Four

Kares Engineering/Bushy Park Sawmills Ten/10 Cricket The best male and female teams in the inaugural Kares Engineering and Bushy Park Sawmills Ten/10 Cricket competition ensured that...

‘Golden Jags’ Head Coach highlights fitness as key in lead up to qualifiers

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Golden Jags’ Head Coach highlights fitness as key in lead up to qualifiers

Guyana’s National Football team, ‘Golden Jaguars’ executed their plan precisely as said in Kaieteur sport last Wednesday. The ‘Golden Jaguars’ crafted another historical...

Flying Ace Cycle Club selects team for Suriname international four stage race

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Flying Ace Cycle Club selects team for Suriname international four stage race

The Flying Aces Cycling Club of New Amsterdam has selected a strong four man team to travel to Suriname to participate in the Suriname Four stage race. The cyclists selected are team captain and...

Registration extended to September 4

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Registration extended to September 4

Hajjin Zeleena Rafeek Mem. Inter-Jamaat KO T10 cricket With an overwhelming response to date from Masjids across Guyana, the organizers of the Hajjin Zeleena Rafeek Memorial Inter-Jamaat...

Top Jockeys, over 100 horses and close to $10M on offer at Rising Sun Meet

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Top Jockeys, over 100 horses and close to $10M on offer at Rising Sun Meet

The day has finally arrived and all roads lead to the famous Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima Park West Coast Berbice today when the club in collaboration with the PPP/C stage their grand one day...

Hearts of Oak Masters annual football camp ends

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hearts of Oak Masters annual football camp ends

The Annual Hearts of Oak Masters’ Teach them Young football summer camp ended recently with a prize giving ceremony at the Prison Officers Sports Club Penitentiary Walk, New Amsterdam...

Beach soccer continues in Linden

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Beach soccer continues in Linden

The Beach Soccer Competition which is being played in Linden continued on Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd with a number of games. On Mon 22nd, Blue Berry Hill won by a walkover from Wisrock. ...

Jones registers electrifying knockout to retain light/heavyweight crown

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jones registers electrifying knockout to retain light/heavyweight crown

By Michael Benjamin West Indies cricket fans that have bemoaned the annoying trait of the region’s cricket ambassadors of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory would develop a healthy...

“Being No. 1”

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on “Being No. 1”

Colin E. H. Croft My daughter, Shannon, 22 on Monday 29 August, never lets me forget it: “Father” she says authoritatively, “Whatever happens to you, don’t you ever forget this: I am always...

Top scrabble players in action today

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Top scrabble players in action today

Local scrabble players are scheduled to match wits once again when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) stages an open Scrabble competition this morning in the pavilion of the...

Wayne Jones ton fails to save Floodlights

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wayne Jones ton fails to save Floodlights

Bakewell Softball Tournament underway The Bakewell sponsored Softball Tournament which is run by the Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association commenced on Sunday August 21...

GDF dominate second round of the Rugby Seven’s League

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GDF dominate second round of the Rugby Seven’s League

Guyana Defence Force controlled the National Park Rugby ground yesterday in the second round of the Rugby Seven’s League after decimating their opponents with two uninterrupted wins. Guyana...

Are these countries “surveillance states”?

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are these countries “surveillance states”?

Dear Editor, Recently in the media I recognised that public Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance has become part of new national security and crime fighting initiatives...

Berbice needs to be represented on the Guyana Cricket Board IMC

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Berbice needs to be represented on the Guyana Cricket Board IMC

Dear Editor, As the news is filtering through that the Guyana Cricket Board will have an Interim Management Committee running its affairs while it reorganises itself, this is good news for...

Every country should do its best to preserve its national treasures

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Every country should do its best to preserve its national treasures

Dear Editor, Every country should do its best to preserve its national treasures; such is not the case in Guyana since independence in 1966. Roughly 40 percent of the collection at Guyana’s...

The Government of Guyana does not govern the administration of the University of Guyana

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Government of Guyana does not govern the administration of the University of Guyana

Dear Editor, Mr. Maxwell seems to have a lot of time on his hands to express nonsensical opinionated ideas and not enough time to do his homework. In his letter published by Kaieteur News on...

The only medium to stop this depravity is the West Indian Cricket Board

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The only medium to stop this depravity is the West Indian Cricket Board

Dear Editor, I call upon all Guyanese to not only denounce the political take-over of cricket in Guyana but we must go further than our denouncing. We must contact the West Indian Cricket Board and...

Customs Officers are a football that can be kicked about

Aug 27, 2011 KNews Letters 2

Dear Editor, There are gross injustices happening right here in Guyana and the victims are afraid to stand up for their rights because of the fear of victimization. We are coming to the close...

Leaked embassy cables reveal…Interesting perspectives by US envoy on “Sash” Sawh killing

Aug 27, 2011 KNews News 17

Two days after the shocking 2006 murder of former Minister of Fisheries, Satyadeow “Sash” Sawh, senior Guyanese functionaries had met the then United States Ambassador Roland Bullen...

$130M Diamond road upgrades…. Three months past deadline, residents still suffering

Aug 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on $130M Diamond road upgrades…. Three months past deadline, residents still suffering

Six months after the heartening development of $130M in contracts being signed on February 8, last, for road upgrades and repairs in the new Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, residents are...

REDjet cancels flights until further notice

Aug 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on REDjet cancels flights until further notice

– experiencing problems with hydraulic system The low fares airline REDjet has cancelled services to and from Guyana, Trinidad and Barbados effective yesterday until further notice. In...

Ogle Airport Inc. again refuses entry to ASL tanker

Aug 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ogle Airport Inc. again refuses entry to ASL tanker

– standoff ends after govt. intervention By Leonard Gildarie In an unfolding saga, authorities of Ogle Airport Incorporated (OAI) and local charter company, Air Services Limited (ASL) clashed...