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New US law opposes financing of large scale hydro projects…Guyana named

Jan 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on New US law opposes financing of large scale hydro projects…Guyana named

Guyana’s hopes of using US-backed financing to build a 165-megawatt hydro electric project at Amaila Falls in Region Eight may have dwindled with reports that new laws have been passed that will...

Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case…Lawyers split over additional evidence justifying defendant’s claim

Jan 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case…Lawyers split over additional evidence justifying defendant’s claim

By Zena Henry Lawyers in the Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case are torn over the admissibility of additional evidence to be presented on behalf of the defence in its obligation to prove that former President...

Rohee shoots down legalising marijuana

Jan 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee shoots down legalising marijuana

Any thought that Guyana is considering the decriminalising of marijuana soon was put to rest yesterday as Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee announced a zero tolerance against the possession and...

Boy, 16, allegedly sodomised at Police Outpost

Jan 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Boy, 16, allegedly sodomised at Police Outpost

– ranks to be placed under close arrest Police were last night preparing to place three ranks under close arrest following allegations that they sodomised a 16-year-old boy. A senior police...

GPL to get US$53M upgrade for future hydro

Jan 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPL to get US$53M upgrade for future hydro

By Leonard Gildarie In one of its most ambitious project yet to improve performance, the state-owned Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) is working with funding agencies on a multi-million dollar...

Dem boys seh…Trouble mek Ganga cry

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Trouble mek Ganga cry

De people seh that trouble mek de monkey eat pepper. Well trouble mek nuff thing happen. It mek two teenage boys get ketch wid a gun more big than dem. Somebody pay dem to drop off de gun suh a man...

Scotia Bank Kiddy cricket makes welcome return

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scotia Bank Kiddy cricket makes welcome return

– games to be played in three counties By Zaheer Mohamed The Scotia Bank Kiddy Cricket Festival 2014 was launched yesterday in the board room of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB). The event...

Crandon confident as national team departs for NAGICO Super50

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Crandon confident as national team departs for NAGICO Super50

Coach of the Guyana team Esaun Crandon expressed confidence that his team can go all the way in the Regional NAGICO Super50 tournament which commences on January 30 in Trinidad and Tobago. Speaking...

Brazilian Trainers arrive for Beach Volleyball Workshop

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brazilian Trainers arrive for Beach Volleyball Workshop

The Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) and the South American Volleyball Federation (CSV) Beach Volleyball workshop is set to get underway today at the Carifesta Sports Complex, Georgetown at...

GBA President mulls developmental strategies as international amateur boxing returns to the CASH

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBA President mulls developmental strategies as international amateur boxing returns to the CASH

By Michael Benjamin If President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), Steve Ninvalle gets his way, local amateur referees and judges would soon receive a reasonable stipend for their services...

Smythfield Rockers defeat East Canje Knights in Anamayah Memorial Basketball

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Smythfield Rockers defeat East Canje Knights in Anamayah Memorial Basketball

Play in the ongoing Anamaya Memorial Inter Club First Division Basketball competition for teams in East Berbice continued on Sunday last with one game played at the Smythfield Hard Court in New...

Thomas, Morgan wins Cross Country race

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Thomas, Morgan wins Cross Country race

-Police not invited to compete in event Distance athletes, Cleveland Thomas and Alika Morgan won the overall men’s and women’s title in New Amsterdam on Sunday when the Athletics...

GFF/Banks Beer Premier League to resume this Sunday

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/Banks Beer Premier League to resume this Sunday

After a break to accommodate the yearend tournaments, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) 2013 / 14 Banks Beer Premier League will resume this Sunday with four (4) double headers scheduled to be...

BSA Karibee softball cricket at Port Mourant on Sunday

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on BSA Karibee softball cricket at Port Mourant on Sunday

The Berbice Softball Alliance (BSA) in collaboration with sponsors Nand Persaud and Company will host their inaugural Karibee Cup 15 overs-a-side competition on Sunday at the Port Mourant community...

Treacle creates one of the biggest upsets in local Horseracing to beat Score’s Even

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Treacle creates one of the biggest upsets in local Horseracing to beat Score’s Even

It was shocking, but true, as horseracing fans in their thousands at the Kennard Memorial Turf Club’s grand one-day Meet were left in awe as rank outsider Treacle of the Dookie Stable, classified...

Letter to the Sports Editor…No Mercy!!! The Gun has been once again raised against yet another citizen

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…No Mercy!!! The Gun has been once again raised against yet another citizen

Dear Editor, A young man, Trevor Rose was the victim of a brazen attack by a shameless assassin who shot him several times at point blank range in the early morning of Sunday, January 26, at Eccles...

C 7 are Wiltshire 59th birth anniversary Dominoes champs

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on C 7 are Wiltshire 59th birth anniversary Dominoes champs

C 7 marked 71 games to win the final of the Mark Wiltshire 59th Birth Anniversary Dominoes competition when the final was contested on Monday night last at La Belle Hotel and Sports bar, Norton...

Scotiabank kiddy cricket festival…St. Ambrose, St. Angela’s and St. Agnes register wins

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scotiabank kiddy cricket festival…St. Ambrose, St. Angela’s and St. Agnes register wins

St. Ambrose, St. Angela’s and St, Agnes recorded victories when Demerara zone of the 2014 Scotiabank Kiddy cricket festival commenced yesterday the Georgetown Cricket Club ground Bourda. St....

Keith Myers elected Berbice Basketball Association President

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Keith Myers elected Berbice Basketball Association President

Keith Myers has been elected President of the Berbice Basketball Association (BBA) when that entity held its Annual General meeting last Sunday at the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport Smithfield...

Albion Community Centre lighting project progressing smoothly

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Albion Community Centre lighting project progressing smoothly

Guyana will soon be blessed with another sports facility which should fit international standards with the posting of floodlights at the Albion Community Centre ground. The project which is being...

RHTY&SC cricket teams, St. Francis Youth Club & Scotia Bank launch Anti Suicide & Drugs Campaign

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC cricket teams, St. Francis Youth Club & Scotia Bank launch Anti Suicide & Drugs Campaign

The recently resuscitated St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Youth Club in conjunction with the cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) has made public their massive...

Leprosy at times mistaken as common skin problems

Jan 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Leprosy at times mistaken as common skin problems

By Keeran Danny Even though leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is not widespread in Guyana, the Leprosy Control Programme under the Ministry of Health plans to hold a three-day workshop to...

Expansion of Grove/Diamond Sluice imminent

Jan 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Expansion of Grove/Diamond Sluice imminent

Under the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), six bids were opened yesterday for the expansion of the Sluice at Grove/Diamond East Bank Demerara. The bids were tendered at the...

Lethem residents angry over electricity tariff increase

Jan 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem residents angry over electricity tariff increase

Residents of Lethem, Region Nine, are angry that the Lethem Power Company did not consult with residents before increasing electricity tariffs by $20 per unit. Kaieteur News was told that residents...

Robb Street granny execution…Remaining duo for High Court trial

Jan 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Robb Street granny execution…Remaining duo for High Court trial

The remaining two of the four men accused in the execution-style killing of a 72-year-old Robb Street resident, are now set to join their accomplices to stand trial in the Supreme Court. A...