November 2008

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Automotive Art sponsors Floodlight teams vs. Guyana Karate College clashes

Nov 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Automotive Art sponsors Floodlight teams vs. Guyana Karate College clashes

Tomorrow evening softball cricket fans will witness for the first time the Guyana Floodlight Association launching its female team when they take on a female squad representing the Guyana Karate...

Annual Troy Humphrey Memorial Race Meet

Nov 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Annual Troy Humphrey Memorial Race Meet

Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams steals show Home boy Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams destroyed the opposition in fine style on Sunday last, pedaling to victory in the two senior races of the annual Troy...

Mibicuri Strikers rout Johanna Warriors for 22

Nov 06, 2008 knews Sports 1

Latchman (5-8), Ramjass (50) propel Young Warriors to victory Outstanding performances were turned in by bowlers from the Mibicuri Strikers of Black Bush Polder as the Demerara Bank 2nd Division...

Records tumble at St. Stanislaus field events

Nov 06, 2008 knews Sports 1

Etheridge House athlete Hilton Moore erased two records from the books in the field events at the St. Stanislaus College Inter-House Athletics Championships which started yesterday, at the YMCA...

Harpy Eagles Martial Arts Academy outstanding at Karate championships

Nov 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Harpy Eagles Martial Arts Academy outstanding at Karate championships

The Harpy Eagles Martial Arts Academy (HEMAA) attached to the Apex Academy (HEMAA) scored 33 firsts 8 seconds and 7 thirds to upstage four other clubs when the curtains came down on the 3rd National...

PPP/C congratulates Obama

Nov 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on PPP/C congratulates Obama

The People’s Progressive Party extends its sincere congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama and to the Democratic Party of the USA for the resounding victory that they scored at the November...

National Chess Championships start this Saturday

Nov 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on National Chess Championships start this Saturday

The National Chess Championship is set to start this Saturday at the Ocean Spray International Hotel, 46 Stanley Place, Kitty, Georgetown. The championships will be played in a Junior and Senior...

PNCR congratulates President-elect Obama

Nov 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on PNCR congratulates President-elect Obama

The Leader of the PNCR and of the Parliamentary Opposition, Robert Corbin, yesterday dispatched the following message to President-elect Barack Obama on his historic victory. The message read, inter...

GT&T parent company reports 16 per cent increase in revenue

Nov 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GT&T parent company reports 16 per cent increase in revenue

Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. the parent Company for Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) yesterday reported a 16 per cent increase in revenue for the third quarter of the year ended...

Diamond Day of Interaction a resounding success

Nov 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Diamond Day of Interaction a resounding success

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport / National Sport Commission in collaboration with the Regional Democratic Council of Region #4 successfully hosted a Day of Interaction on Sunday November 2...

Suspected arsonist vows to kill wife and children

Nov 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Suspected arsonist vows to kill wife and children

A Non Pareil woman and her five children continue to live in fear and the police have stepped up the hunt for her husband who torched their home last Sunday morning. The woman and her children...

The quality of life jackets used in speedboats

Nov 06, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on The quality of life jackets used in speedboats

Dear Editor, I do thank Captain R.E.W. Adams M.N.I. for his response captioned, “Life jackets used in Guyana are not buoyancy aids,” (GC November 4, 2008 ) to my letter with a contrary headline....

Obama gets victory party in Guyana

Nov 06, 2008 knews News 1

Barack Obama created history in the United States on Tuesday when he swept the polls to become the first African American to become the president of the United States. And in Guyana, the Deens hosted...

CARICOM Secretariat pays tribute to David DeCaires

Nov 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on CARICOM Secretariat pays tribute to David DeCaires

The passing of David De Caires will no doubt create a void in the ranks of media managers in the Caribbean Community, according to the Caricom Secretariat. This “elder statesman” among the corps...

Region Four Chairman’s attitude leaves much to be desired

Nov 06, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Region Four Chairman’s attitude leaves much to be desired

Dear Editor, The obvious deficiencies by the PNCR are not in isolation of manifestations that identify its characteristics as a party that is completely out of touch. Because of this, its...

CARICOM pays tribute to Byron Lee

Nov 06, 2008 knews News 1

It is with a profound sense of loss that the Secretary General and staff of the CARICOM Secretariat learnt of the death of Byron Aloysius St. Elmo Lee, a national of Jamaica and citizen of the...

Barack Obama: The moment, the magic, the future

Nov 06, 2008 knews Freddie Kissoon 6

There are only two times in my life that I have seen a beautifully philosophical occasion that made me feel that life, in essence, will continue to justify our existence in this world and that truths...

Truck slams into supermarketSeveral persons luckily escaped injury while a shop owner is counting her losses after a Canter truck slammed into her business at the corner of Norton and Haley Streets, Wortmanville, at about 18:50 hours yesterday.

Nov 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Truck slams into supermarketSeveral persons luckily escaped injury while a shop owner is counting her losses after a Canter truck slammed into her business at the corner of Norton and Haley Streets, Wortmanville, at about 18:50 hours yesterday.

Several persons luckily escaped injury while a shop owner is counting her losses after a Canter truck slammed into her business at the corner of Norton and Haley Streets, Wortmanville, at about 18:50...

Guyana has come a long way democratically but certain institutional areas are still muzzled

Nov 06, 2008 knews Letters 2

Dear Editor, Let me the address the responses and comments from the various letter writers on the abbreviated proposal for Berbice to secede in the SN letter column a week ago. Interestingly, this...

David is dead and Freddie acting a little funny in the head

Nov 06, 2008 knews Peeping Tom 1

For some time, Freddie has been using his column to vent his personal frustrations. It is well known that Freddie was not too pleased with the reappointment of the Vice Chancellor of the University...

Democracy in action

Nov 06, 2008 knews Editorial 2

The deed is done: Barack Hussein Obama will now become the forty-fourth President of the United States of America on January 20, 2009. We refer to him by his full name, the name of his father who...

Work out a new fare structure

Nov 06, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Work out a new fare structure

Dear Editor, It has been some time now since the drop in fuel price at the pumps but the minibus fare has not changed to reflect the drop in gas price. Can the relevant authority in charge of the...

Defective Harbour Bridge nearly causes disaster

Nov 05, 2008 knews News 10

Faulty section caused differential, springs and crank shaft to be ripped from the truck – driver The deteriorating state of the Demerara Harbour Bridge was blamed for a collision between a truck...

David De Caires to be cremated in Barbados today

Nov 05, 2008 knews News 4

Press freedom advocate and Editor-in-Chief of Stabroek News, David De Caires who died on Saturday last will be cremated in Barbados today. The stalwart, who succumbed to a battle with illness, was...

Missing aircraft…

Nov 05, 2008 knews News 1

Eight-year-old saw aircraft ‘falling out’ of the sky As the search continues for the United States-registered plane which disappeared last Saturday between Issano and Imbaimadai, an...

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Regional finals headline fourth weekend of ExxonMobil U18 Schools...

Oct 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Regional and district finals will take centre stage as the Vurlon Mills Football Academy’s (VMFA) ExxonMobil Under-18 Schools Football competition continues from October...

Kwayana and Burnham

Oct 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In a video excerpt on his Facebook page, David Hinds said that one of the lessons of Kwayana, during ‘that’ period, was that he refused to compete with Mr. Burnham. One can only presume that he was referring to the period between 1961 and 1973. That statement could convey...

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...

Mr. President, I am disturbed at the disrespect

Oct 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – What follows is personal. It extends every courtesy due to the office of the presidency in Guyana. Add to that, every care for the welfare of the incumbent, Excellency M. I. Ali. Due to the call of relationships, of duty, Pres Ali, from time to time, attends funerals in...

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