November 18, 2008

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Leewards, T&T lead field

Nov 18, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Leewards, T&T lead field

Leeward Islands and Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) lead the point standings in this year’s West Indies Regional One-Day Cricket Competition which is being played in Guyana. The two are joint leaders...

McDonald, Gafoor, Carmichael share podium spots at GASP Open Scrabble

Nov 18, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on McDonald, Gafoor, Carmichael share podium spots at GASP Open Scrabble

Abigail McDonald continued her rich vein of form and carted off the top prize when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) held its open tournament at the Malteenoes Sports Club Thomas...

Greenidge leads National Chess Championships

Nov 18, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Greenidge leads National Chess Championships

Taffin Khan maintains lead in the junior department. Ronuel Greenidge took the lead after the seventh round of the National Chess Championships over the weekend, while Taffin Khan maintains his...

Berbice halt Demerara to claim first ever Butcher/Murray 20/20

Nov 18, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Berbice halt Demerara to claim first ever Butcher/Murray 20/20

Berbice held their nerves to defeat Demerara to capture the first ever Basil Butcher/Deryck Murray Inter-County 20/20 cricket match on Sunday at the Rose Hall Community Centre ground in East Canje....

West Indies Rugby team for Uruguay event named

Nov 18, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on West Indies Rugby team for Uruguay event named

-Three Guyanese in line-up Chairman of Rugby West Indies Management Committee, Denis Dwyer, has announced the selection of the Rugby West Indies Team to participate in the XX Edition of the Punte del...

National schools’ c/ships open today in Linden

Nov 18, 2008 knews Sports 1

–16 districts compete for top honours By Edison Jefford The teams have arrived, the venues are prepared and over $35M was expended to ensure the Annual National Schools’ Track and Field, Cycling...

Taxi driver faces court for $3.7M forged document

Nov 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Taxi driver faces court for $3.7M forged document

Akeem Hamer, 18, was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Nyasha Williams- Hatmin for stealing a $80,000 cell phone from Nicola DeMac on November 15 stole. He pleaded not guilty. According to...

Georgetown is home to one-fourth of all bird species in Guyana

Nov 18, 2008 knews News 1

With bird-watching being accepted as the fastest growing niche market in eco-tourism, Guyana is ideally poised to benefit from this market, given that some 800 species of birds have been recorded...

Search called off for missing aircraft

Nov 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Search called off for missing aircraft

Crew believed dead – Minister Robeson Benn The two-week search for the missing US aircraft has been called off, and the three passengers that were on board are now presumed dead. Minister of...

Do not expect too much from Obama

Nov 18, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 2

Most Guyanese whom I have met, but especially blacks, are ecstatic about the election victory of Barack Obama. I know what his election means to them, as it did to so many Americans. I can understand...

Great living Guyanese

Nov 18, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 3

No one, absolutely no one, can accuse me of acknowledging inspirational Guyanese after they would have passed on in life. I don’t believe in that. I accept that when we see great people in our...

Pensioners have been callously ignored by the Govt.

Nov 18, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Pensioners have been callously ignored by the Govt.

Dear Editor, This year, around May/June, the public servants were awarded a 5% increase on their salaries and $4,000.00 per month to be added to their salaries as a temporary cost-of-living allowance...

The distribution of old age pension books for 2009 has begun

Nov 18, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on The distribution of old age pension books for 2009 has begun

Dear Editor, I write to clarify issues raised in a letter contained in Kaieteur News on the 17 November 2008, titled “Uplifting Pension Books” and written by K. Elcock. The Ministry of Human...

Important lessons of the Jonestown Massacre

Nov 18, 2008 knews Letters 2

Dear Editor, Thirty years after that devastating incident at Jonestown, which left 909 persons, including 303 children and US Congressman Leo Ryan dead, people from around the world, including the...

An open letter to Mr Obama

Nov 18, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on An open letter to Mr Obama

Dear Editor, We have been hearing for the longest while that the world is “a global village.” Now, for the very first time, this village has got a chief. He is loved, accepted, and respected as...

Enmore has been without water for too long to remember

Nov 18, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Enmore has been without water for too long to remember

Dear Editor, Because of a constantly recurring problem, I have been forced to pen these few lines to your column. I live in the community of Enmore, on the East Coast of Demerara. For the longest...

In politics, the loser guarantees legitimacy for the winner

Nov 18, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on In politics, the loser guarantees legitimacy for the winner

Dear Editor, It’s the loser who guarantees the winner’s legitimacy. This is the prerequisite currency for all forms of leadership. Here, I am responding to Hamley Case’s letter “Inspired by...

Nuclear power

Nov 18, 2008 knews Editorial 1

Yesterday, we reported on the fading hopes that the three passengers in the Beech King aircraft, which disappeared in the Cuyuni/Mazaruni area at the beginning of this month, would still be alive. It...

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Guyana begins installation of first FIFA Arena mini-pitches

Oct 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana has moved closer to delivering its first two FIFA Arena mini-pitches, with installation works now underway at Haslington on the East Coast of Demerara, marking a...

Jagdeo’s olive branch may have a snake in the grass

Oct 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – At the ‘wake’ of former Leader of the PNCR, Robert Corbin, Bharrat Jagdeo began talking about political cooperation, and the need to move beyond political divisions. But faced with this olive branch, the sensible citizen should reach for a comfortable chair, a strong cup of...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

The Robert Corbin effect

Oct 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – This man’s Robert Herman Orlando Corbin’s handiworks needs a longer, slower look. In dying, it seems that Mr. Corbin is more alive. Certainly, his spirit has taken on a motivating quality, a pervading strength. Who would have believed? I wouldn’t have gone so...

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Leewards, T&T lead field

McDonald, Gafoor, Carmichael share podium spots at GASP Open Scrabble

Greenidge leads National Chess Championships

Berbice halt Demerara to claim first ever Butcher/Murray 20/20

West Indies Rugby team for Uruguay event named

National schools’ c/ships open today in Linden

Taxi driver faces court for $3.7M forged document

Georgetown is home to one-fourth of all bird species in Guyana

Search called off for missing aircraft

Do not expect too much from Obama

Great living Guyanese

Pensioners have been callously ignored by the Govt.

The distribution of old age pension books for 2009 has begun

Important lessons of the Jonestown Massacre

An open letter to Mr Obama

Enmore has been without water for too long to remember

In politics, the loser guarantees legitimacy for the winner

Nuclear power

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