Archive | June, 2011

MHS, LTI to battle for VV Royals title today

MHS, LTI to battle for VV Royals title today

- classic clash in the making with old rivals Mackenzie High School (MHS) and Linden’s Technical Institute (LTI) will renew an old rivalry today when the two schools clash in the Victory Valley Royals Schools’ Basketball Tournament final at the MHS Basketball Court, following the third place game. Mackenzie High School’s, Parish Cadogan (left), a usually [...] [...more]

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GYO to host trial matches  to select 1st division team

GYO to host trial matches to select 1st division team

The Gandhi Youth Organization, which has been making waves in the cricket circle with their recent encouraging accomplishments, will be hosting a series of two-day matches to select their First Division Cricket Team. Three matches will be held at the Woolford Avenue facility and eligible members who attend net sessions are requested to take note of [...] [...more]

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Tobacco Company not invited to consultation on draft legislation – Ramsammy

Tobacco Company not invited to consultation on draft legislation – Ramsammy

Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has declared that neither the Tobacco Company nor anyone involved in the tobacco business is invited to the consultation on the draft Tobacco Legislation this Friday. He stressed that the Ministry and partners would not engage any entity directly involved in the tobacco industry. It was revealed that the Private [...] [...more]

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Pan Am box off team trimmed due to lack of funding

Pan Am box off team trimmed due to lack of funding

The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association team to the Pan Am qualifying box off scheduled for Panama has been trimmed to just three from the original eight persons due to lack of funding. GABA President Steve Ninvalle met the boxers and gave the news yesterday.  He also made the disclosure to Kaieteur Sport.  Ninvalle said Terrence Poole [...] [...more]

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BCB identifies and honours Father of the Year

BCB identifies and honours Father of the Year

Avenamen Permaul, a 45-year-old Father of Belvedere, Corentyne and father of four, was on Sunday last honoured by the Special Events Committee (SEC) of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) under the Board’s Father of the Year Programme for this year. Mr. Avemanen Permaul posed with members of the Berbice Elite squad along with his wife and [...] [...more]

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Baby placed into foster care

Baby placed into foster care

- mother reportedly in interior searching for child’s father A six-week-old baby girl who was left abandoned, along with her six-year-old brother and three-year-old sister, by their mother in a shack at Timehri almost a month ago, has been placed into foster care. Head of the Child Protection Agency of the Ministry of Human Services, Ann Greene, [...] [...more]

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Berbice commuters protest pontoon replacement

Berbice commuters protest pontoon replacement

AFC Presidential Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan and some of the protesters, yesterday By Leon Suseran Commuters, including workers and students who daily travel between Rosignol and New Amsterdam, yesterday morning gathered at Rosignol in large numbers and protested replacement of the M.V.Sandaka pontoon with a speedboat to ply the route. The pontoon was put out of service from Friday [...] [...more]

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Caribbean Regional Civil Society Consultation commences

Caribbean Regional Civil Society Consultation commences

In a world of six billion people the odds of many going unheard by the few that govern are high. There are those however who feel that this is unacceptable and so they work to ensure that it doesn’t happen. Sir Ronald Sanders, distinguished diplomat and member of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group expressed this as [...] [...more]

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Georgetown players rewarded for winning GFF Inter-Association title

Georgetown players rewarded for winning GFF Inter-Association title

Winners of the Guyana Football Federation Inter-Association Tournament, Georgetown recently rewarded its outstanding performers and coaches during a simple ceremony which was conducted at the Sleep In Hotel on Brickdam. President of the Georgetown Football Association Lieutenant Commander Vernon Burnett (left) poses with other members of his executive, outstanding players and coaches during the award [...] [...more]

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Berbice Cricket Board  pulls out of GCB elections

Berbice Cricket Board pulls out of GCB elections

The Berbice Cricket Board has indicated to the Guyana Cricket Board that it will take no part in the Guyana Cricket Board elections unless a few of the serious prevailing issues are dealt with in a letter to the GCB recently. In the letter which Kaieteur Sport was able to peruse, the BCB indicated that no [...] [...more]

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