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Boodhoo (5-37) spurs Zeelugt to victory against Zeeburg

Mar 04, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Boodhoo (5-37) spurs Zeelugt to victory against Zeeburg

Eighteen-year-old medium pacer Naresh Boodhoo snatched 5-37 in a winning effort for Zeelugt as the 2008 A. Khan Lumber Yard 40-overs under-19 cricket for teams in West Coast Demerara continued with...

Focus on literacy as National Library celebrates 100 years

Mar 04, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Focus on literacy as National Library celebrates 100 years

The desire to read books has notably diminished over the years among young children, but is a practice that must be reinforced. This is according to employee of the National Library, Margaret...

Guyana’s Blyden, Baker shine

Mar 04, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana’s Blyden, Baker shine

As RSSC reach T&T 20/20 cricket finals Transport Sports Club’s and Demerara all-rounder Travis Blyden and his countryman GNIC’s Elton Baker continued their impressive debut season in the...

Cancer teen accused of rape

Mar 04, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Cancer teen accused of rape

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Eighteen-year-old Paul Remington of Lot 40 Stanleytown was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl from the said community. He was reportedly arrested on Friday and...

Murder accused freed after three years in prison

Mar 04, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Murder accused freed after three years in prison

Orette West, 21, of Tucville, East La Penitence, was yesterday freed of a murder charge after nearly three years in prison. Freeing the man was Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton. West was arrested and...

Intended stint in Jamaica for Morgan did not pan out – Yassin

Mar 04, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Intended stint in Jamaica for Morgan did not pan out – Yassin

By Rawle Welch Athletic Coach Leslie Black, under whose guidance leading female distance runner Alika Morgan has honed her skills in an invited comment with Kaieteur Sport yesterday, said that no...

Legless seaman rejects Noble House’s $1M offer

Mar 04, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Legless seaman rejects Noble House’s $1M offer

by Michael Jordan Disabled seaman, Russell Cornelius, has flatly rejected a reported $1M that Noble House Seafoods has offered him as compensation for the loss of his legs. Cornelius’s...

In light of the CLICO fiasco, we must remain immune to propaganda

Mar 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on In light of the CLICO fiasco, we must remain immune to propaganda

Dear Editor, After reading the statement by the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, my confidence has been confirmed that the interests of Guyanese are being properly and vigilantly monitored...

2K9 Mash results bring mixed feelings for many

Mar 04, 2009 knews News Comments Off on 2K9 Mash results bring mixed feelings for many

The results for the 2009 Mashramani competitions are out and, while some are ecstatic about the readings, there are disappointments and perplexed feelings in some Mash camps. In the Children’s...

US President’s change of withdrawal from Iraq justified

Mar 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on US President’s change of withdrawal from Iraq justified

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to Mr. Federick Kissoon’s column of February 27 titled: “Is President Obama Wavering”? Mr. Kissoon chided US President Barack Obama for the shifting of his...

Cocaine swallower excretes more pellets

Mar 04, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Cocaine swallower excretes more pellets

Hospital officials have confirmed that Jamaican national, Richard Gayle, was still excreting packets containing cocaine up late press time yesterday. Kaieteur News understands that the man excreted a...

Sports Ministry donates gear to Mahdia community

Mar 04, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Sports Ministry donates gear to Mahdia community

Parliamentary Secretary with in the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports, Steve Ninvalle, made a presentation of sports equipment on the ministry’s behalf during a visit to the Mahdia community...

Another police rank charged for collecting bribe

Mar 04, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Another police rank charged for collecting bribe

Another serving member of the Guyana Police Force has being charged for accepting a bribe. It was alleged that Sherwin Cummings, 23, of 22 Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara, on December 27 last, at the...

Trotman challenges Jagdeo on drug allegations

Mar 04, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Trotman challenges Jagdeo on drug allegations

…as matter is referred to CANU, DEA for investigation Alliance For Change Leader, Raphael Trotman, said yesterday that his party viewed with disgust, the totally false and reckless statements made...

The Macroeconomic Fundamentals are in Place

Mar 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The Macroeconomic Fundamentals are in Place

Dear Editor, The recent economic shocks have left the world feeble; and it has demonstrated that no country is immune to unexpected economic shocks which are responsible for the fluctuations in...

Scotia Bank Kiddies cricket continues

Mar 04, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Scotia Bank Kiddies cricket continues

Top team to play at Stadium during 2nd ODI The Scotia Banks Kiddies cricket competition continued over the weekend at the Police Sports Club ground Eve Leary with matches between North and East...

More than 60,000 Guyanese may have to go to Switzerland

Mar 04, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on More than 60,000 Guyanese may have to go to Switzerland

Where are the pension monies for over sixty thousand Guyanese that was invested in CLICO? No one knows that at the time of writing. By the time this newspaper hits the stands we may know the answer...

On what are the millions being spent?

Mar 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on On what are the millions being spent?

Dear Editor, After reading the Sunday March 1edition of Kaieteur News, “Soesdyke/Linden Highway deteriorates dramatically”, where the minibus operators who ply the Georgetown/Linden route made it...

Frank Tucker returned as GAWA President

Mar 04, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Frank Tucker returned as GAWA President

Affiliates of the Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) give a unanimous nod to Frank Tucker and reinstated him as their President when that organisation held its Biannual Electoral General...

We must stop this rewriting of our history

Mar 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on We must stop this rewriting of our history

DEar Editor, Albert Marchand’s letter in Kaieteur News’ March 3, 2009 edition is yet another attempt to demonize Burnham. For example, his last paragraph speaks volumes and demonstrates a glaring...

www.parrotpepperparty.com

Mar 04, 2009 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on www.parrotpepperparty.com

The Parrot wasn’t taken by surprise by the developments pertaining to the livinguyana blog. I must admit that curiosity was the major factor that drove me to log on and to browse the now closed...

Banks business part of financial rather than economic plan

Mar 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Banks business part of financial rather than economic plan

Dear Editor, It is funny how some politicians were claiming that having the banks deposit a large share of their liquid assets (CASH) at the Bank of Guyana in case of a run on the banks was not...

Junior netballers continue preparations

Mar 04, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Junior netballers continue preparations

– GNA President urges business community to assist As the National 16 and Under Netball squad prepares to participate in the upcoming Caribbean Championships in Jamaica, President of the Guyana...

Big Truck to face Cunningham

Mar 04, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Big Truck to face Cunningham

Former cruiserweight king, Steve ‘USS’ Cunningham, is close to securing his first opponent, Guyana’s Wayne ‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite, in his quest to regain the IBF cruiserweight crown he...

International reports do not give true reflection of Guyana’s economy

Mar 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on International reports do not give true reflection of Guyana’s economy

Dear Editor, There seems to be a trend to unjustly rank small ‘economy’ countries by many International Organisations. On many occasions, the international organisations’ reports are often...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more