March 2009

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Trophy Stall 15-Over nation-wide cricket competition continues

Mar 26, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall 15-Over nation-wide cricket competition continues

Latest action in the Trophy Stall nation-wide 15-overs round arm softball cricket competition continued last Saturday with matches in two zones. Results for Saturday March 22: ZONE D: LINDEN:...

ECCB 20/20 final set for Saturday under lights at Enterprise

Mar 26, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on ECCB 20/20 final set for Saturday under lights at Enterprise

The East Coast Cricket Board / Carib 20/20 Semi-finals and final are scheduled for the Enterprise Community Centre ground from 10:00hrs on Saturday Thirty-three teams participated in the competition...

Relative released from police custody

Mar 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Relative released from police custody

The 25-year-old man who was detained by police in connection with the Pomeroon double murder has been released from police custody. This newspaper was told that the man was released from the Anna...

What really is Seeram’s qualification?

Mar 26, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on What really is Seeram’s qualification?

Dear Mr. Editor I have leant that Mr. Albert Smith has been replaced as Coach to the Guyana National Junior Cricket Team by Mr. Seeram, who as far I know is a level 1 Coach and therefore not...

Hamid wants LABA Presidency

Mar 26, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Hamid wants LABA Presidency

By Edison Jefford Abdullah ‘Zico’ Hamid ended weeks of speculation yesterday when he confirmed that he will be one of the primary candidates to campaign for the Presidential Post of the Linden...

Final football trials for IGG set for this weekend

Mar 26, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Final football trials for IGG set for this weekend

Female football added for the first time Director of Sport Neil Kumar yesterday confirmed that for the first time female football will be added to the list of other sports for the first half of the...

Widow fetes ‘Plastic City’ children in memory of husband

Mar 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Widow fetes ‘Plastic City’ children in memory of husband

By Gary Eleazar While he was alive he was a humanitarian and he loved children. This is the reason why, yesterday, Loraine Parvatan chose to commemorate the second death anniversary of her husband,...

Niles to defend Cheddi Jagan Essequibo 50-mile title

Mar 26, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Niles to defend Cheddi Jagan Essequibo 50-mile title

When the 2nd annual Cheddi Jagan memorial 50-mile cycle road race pedals off on the Essequibo Coast on Sunday, Junior Niles will be taking the challenge to his rivals as he seeks to retain glory in...

Scores flock Licence Office for new road service licences

Mar 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Scores flock Licence Office for new road service licences

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Licence Revenue Office was yesterday the scene of confusion, as scores of people flocked the Princes Street office to uplift their new machine-readable road service...

Grove, Craig, Bagotstown & Samatta Point advance to semis

Mar 26, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Grove, Craig, Bagotstown & Samatta Point advance to semis

The 2008 Fruta sponsored East Bank Football Association under-13 tournament has reached the semi-final stage. Booking their respective spots in the final four are Grove, set to face Samatta Point and...

Mahaicony & Rosignol notch up wins

Mar 26, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Mahaicony & Rosignol notch up wins

Competition in the Berbice Football Association under-15 inter club competition continued on Sunday last at the Rosignol Community Centre ground with the home team and Mahaicony posting victories....

Conflict of interest

Mar 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Conflict of interest

Dear Editor, I have achieved great knowledge over the years, be it from reading, movies, intellectuals etc. and as much as I have absolutely no concrete knowledge, but very basic information on the...

Pakaraima Mountain Safari ready to go

Mar 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Pakaraima Mountain Safari ready to go

A 20-vehicle team is set to take off Sunday to the Pakaraima Mountains on the 2009 safari and the “safarians” can’t wait to experience the adventure of a lifetime. Yesterday, organiser Frank...

Suspect still on the run

Mar 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Suspect still on the run

Police are continuing the man hunt for the suspect in an incident, which left four members of a Mahaica family, including a six-month-old baby, hospitalized. On Monday last a man went berserk when a...

Do not be offended by Kissoon’s essays

Mar 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Do not be offended by Kissoon’s essays

Dear Editor, I would like to take this opportunity to ask Vishnu Bisram to not be too offended by what Freddie Kissoon writes. Freddie Kissoon would like to be thought of as the “Greatest Guyanese...

The greatest wealth of any country is its population

Mar 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The greatest wealth of any country is its population

Dear Editor, The quality of a country’s human resource depends on the literate number of people of the population. It is important to note that education is vital to achieve and sustain growth and...

Let’s do more to stop underage drinking

Mar 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Let’s do more to stop underage drinking

Dear Editor, Following the recent announcements by an entity to target underage drinking and to enforce laws, it was interesting to see that two companies that produce rum and beer were proud...

Why deny the people of Port Kaituma what is rightfully theirs?

Mar 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Why deny the people of Port Kaituma what is rightfully theirs?

Dear Editor, I write to express my concern after reading a letter under the name of David Glen regarding the Port Kaituma ambulance. I am well aware of this acute case of maladministration where the...

GuySuCo credit options at many business places frozen

Mar 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GuySuCo credit options at many business places frozen

Guyana Sugar Corporation may be treading on very thin ice as it is apparently losing the support of the business community as a result of bad credit. Yesterday, accounts established at many local...

Gov’t to recall GINA media passes

Mar 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Gov’t to recall GINA media passes

The Government Information Agency (GINA) proposes to recall all media passes that it had issued to journalists for this year. President of the Guyana Press Association (GPA), Denis Chabrol, in the...

Are we now being forced to choose between secular and religious authority?

Mar 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Are we now being forced to choose between secular and religious authority?

Dear Editor, We refer to an article which was published in Kaieteur News on Sunday March 22, captioned, “Health Minister at Odds with Pope: ‘The Pope is wrong when it comes to HIV – Dr....

The owners of Guyana, Karan Singh and statistics

Mar 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The owners of Guyana, Karan Singh and statistics

At the time of writing, there is no proof of wrongdoing on the part of Karan Singh, the Chief Executive Officer of Guyana Water Inc. But there is the fact that he has been sent off while an official...

Let the campaign against noise and music in public transportation continue

Mar 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Let the campaign against noise and music in public transportation continue

Dear Editor, Freedom is a relative term but the layman seems to interpret freedom as if it is an absolute term. This resulted in some people saying I can say what I want because there is freedom of...

Madewini man found dead on Soesdyke/Linden Highway

Mar 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Madewini man found dead on Soesdyke/Linden Highway

The police are awaiting the results of a post mortem examination to determine how 33-year-old Dexter Cornelius met his death. Cornelius, of Madewini, was found lying dead on the roadway at...

US: Cash for Trash

Mar 26, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on US: Cash for Trash

We are living in very strange times. Back in the day, as recounted in so many “B” movies, desperadoes would rob banks, since it was said, “that’s where the money was”. To save ordinary...

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Seifert hundred puts Kings on top

Aug 28, 2026

CPL – Saint Lucia Kings recorded back-to-back wins as they beat the Trinbago Knight Riders by 36-runs at the Queen’s Park Oval in the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL). Tim Seifert...

Second-class patients

Aug 28, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something wonderfully modern about a health system in which the government pays a private hospital to provide a service to poor people, and the private hospital then tells those poor people to come back tomorrow for the results. It is almost as if the voucher comes...

Facts, Due Process and Fairness: The CCJ’s Test

Aug 23, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...

Nothing to hide

Aug 28, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Pres. Ali has said that he has nothing to hide about his farm tucked away inside Long Creek on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway. Comforts me to hear that statement. Having made his representation, the president is now obligated to go further. Beyond his words would be a good...

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