February 2009

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Fruta Conquerors needle Santos, Marian Academy take 3rd

Feb 16, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Fruta Conquerors needle Santos, Marian Academy take 3rd

By Franklin Wilson Fruta Conquerors continued their fine run at the junior level when their under-11 team defeated Santos by the lone goal of their encounter to win the inaugural Williams Cup...

Greene beaten at AAG Development Meet

Feb 16, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Greene beaten at AAG Development Meet

– Running Brave ‘Super Twins’ impresses By Edison Jefford It was fiery, it was quick and discernible. The open male 60 metres marked the highlight of the Athletics Association of Guyana...

Christian (113), Dowlin (71*) lead Guyana fight-back

Feb 16, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Christian (113), Dowlin (71*) lead Guyana fight-back

By Sean Devers In what was easily his best ever innings, Derwin Christian yesterday became the first Guyanese wicketkeeper to score a first-class century since Milton Pydanna scored an unbeaten 117...

Edwards adamant he never spoke with Bentley

Feb 16, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Edwards adamant he never spoke with Bentley

GCF to meet on Thursday President of the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) Hector Edwards is refuting claims that he had a verbal conversation with Jude Bentley on Saturday at the National Park....

Scrabble players test new game format tonight

Feb 16, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Scrabble players test new game format tonight

The country’s top scrabble players will be in action tonight when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) stages ‘Word Smith,’ which will also witness an entirely new format to the...

Turnout impresses GTTA General Secretary

Feb 16, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Turnout impresses GTTA General Secretary

By Edison Jefford General Secretary of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), Godfrey Munroe, in an optimistic overtone, stated that the many new faces in the sport augur well for the future...

Nat’l schools’ b/ball enters final eight

Feb 16, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Nat’l schools’ b/ball enters final eight

– draw still to be determined The National Sports Commission (NSC) schools’ basketball competition has entered the final eight stages with one game remaining between Central High School and...

Unidentified man fished out of canal at Bee Hive

Feb 16, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Unidentified man fished out of canal at Bee Hive

Alcohol cited as contributing factor An unidentified young man was fished out of a canal at Bee Hive, on the East Coast of Demerara, last evening. The man, suspected to be in his early twenties, was...

Air traffic controllers’ overreach

Feb 16, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Air traffic controllers’ overreach

Dear Editor, We, the members of the Guyana Association of Air Traffic Control Officers (GAATCO), avail ourselves of the opportunity to extend to His Excellency, President Jagdeo, our best wishes for...

The Josh Ramsammy I remember

Feb 16, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The Josh Ramsammy I remember

Dear Editor, I remember the arresting sight of this tall, slim, bearded man coming into class to teach us high school Biology in a khaki bush jacket. Later, when I learned that he had gone to...

More money allocated for Bridge Access Road

Feb 16, 2009 knews News Comments Off on More money allocated for Bridge Access Road

PALMYRA, BERBICE — A further $880 million was allocated for the Access Road to the Berbice River Bridge in this year’s National Budget. This, according to Region Six Chairman Zulfikar...

Josh Ramsammy: The great sacrifice for a nation

Feb 16, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Josh Ramsammy: The great sacrifice for a nation

It was at the last night of the wake that I heard that Prime Minister Sam Hinds was one of the persons paying tribute to Josh Ramsammy on the day of the funeral. At the wake, I spent a long time...

MOUTH TAR AND GUITAR

Feb 16, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on MOUTH TAR AND GUITAR

‘Mouth tar and guitar are too different tars.’ This was old people’s way of saying that there is a difference between talking and doing; or, as we would say, ‘between talking...

A. Ally and Sons’ presentation of prizes

Feb 16, 2009 knews News Comments Off on A. Ally and Sons’ presentation of prizes

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE — The Christmas Bonanza winners of the A. Ally and Sons business establishment were presented with their shopping vouchers on Saturday. The 16 lucky persons won a total...

The opposition needs to evolve

Feb 16, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The opposition needs to evolve

Dear Editor, Again, I find the lack of sophisticated thinking on the part of the political opposition in Guyana amazing and somewhat depressing. Here we have a person who claims to have been a...

FULL COURT PRESS

Feb 16, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on FULL COURT PRESS

When Bob Dole, who campaigned unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, was asked what he would do differently were he to run in future, he replied, “Keep the press off the...

Guyana has decayed under the PPP

Feb 16, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyana has decayed under the PPP

Dear Editor, John Da Silva is right that persons are entitled to their views and must be free to express them (Kaieteur News, 13/2/2009 “Guyana is in no state of decay”). In order to...

Relative believes victim was murdered

Feb 16, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Relative believes victim was murdered

Relatives of the late Mahendra Seenarine, who was reportedly found hanging in the La Grange Police Station lockups on Tuesday last, say they are convinced that the man was beaten to death. The man...

Cross-dressing debate

Feb 16, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Cross-dressing debate

Last week, acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson ruled on a case brought before her that involved seven men who were arrested on charges of damage to property, theft, and “dressing in...

$1.8B budgeted for justice system

Feb 15, 2009 knews News Comments Off on $1.8B budgeted for justice system

More than $1.8 billion have been budgeted for the operation, modernisation and strengthening of the judicial system this year. The 2009 Budget also has provisions for establishment of a Family Court...

Slain landlord had history of violence

Feb 15, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Slain landlord had history of violence

– police Dexter Manning, the landlord who was slain at Grove, East Bank Demerara on Friday, had a history of violence, police said yesterday. Kaieteur News understands that Manning, 26, was...

This week’s ‘Special Person’ is the ‘Mighty Rebel’

Feb 15, 2009 knews News Comments Off on This week’s ‘Special Person’ is the ‘Mighty Rebel’

“Don’t enter the arena for money since there is none to be gained. You have to love it with a passion.” ‘Mighty Rebel’, a household name, is known and loved throughout Guyana. The little...

Chutney competition without a sponsor

Feb 15, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Chutney competition without a sponsor

– One-off competition set for Rose Hall, Canje The National Chutney Singing Competition is without a sponsor because the Mashramani Secretariat has refused to allow the competition to be...

Nick Jackson says farewell

Feb 15, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Nick Jackson says farewell

It was goodbye on Friday for Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), Nick Jackson. Jackson had indicated to Government since last December that he would be leaving to take...

Joshua Ramsammy remembered

Feb 15, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Joshua Ramsammy remembered

By Hugh ‘Tommy’ Payne Let me be frank (for Josh, who was a ‘straight-up’ person, would have condoned nothing else), the “Swami”, as Joshua Reuben Ramsammy was...

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2026 Republic Bank CPL…GAW vs. TKR (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors signed off their run at home with a huge bang after handing long-time rivals Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) a 6 wicket...

Should Guyana build a small refinery?

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(Kaieteur News) – The public discourse, thus far, on a refinery for Guyana asks some legitimate questions about cost, management, financing and commercial risk. But it makes a fundamental analytical mistake of evaluating the proposed Guyanese refinery as though its purpose were to become another...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Jagdeo on breaches, accountability Pt 1

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Great to see Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President, taking control. Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Regional Executive Officers, and assorted others summoned to a session with the new Minister for Virtue and against Vice. Dr. Jagdeo is the best man for that job. He knows the...

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