June 2009

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This Govt. is unlike any other in progressive societies

Jun 22, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on This Govt. is unlike any other in progressive societies

Dear Editor, The revelations in the Auditor General’s (AG) report of the financial lawlessness by the Government are appalling. It’s a crime what the Government is doing with our money. Every...

Why was President Jagdeo not at this funeral?

Jun 22, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Why was President Jagdeo not at this funeral?

Last Thursday, many Guyanese living in the Tri State area made the sacrifice to attend the funeral of the late Sri Prakash Gossai. The funeral took place not on a weekend, but on a workday and...

Loss of a Guyanese icon

Jun 22, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Loss of a Guyanese icon

Dear Editor, As I write these few lines Shri Prakash Goosai would have been cremated after hundreds of speeches have been made and thousands of Bhajans sung world wide over the past 72 hours in...

Police introduce new speed limit

Jun 22, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Police introduce new speed limit

After a six-month consultation period, Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, has signed into effect, new speed limits for motor vehicles on the public roads. Minister Rohee said that the...

Phenomenal outpouring of grief for Pt. Gossai

Jun 22, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Phenomenal outpouring of grief for Pt. Gossai

Dear Editor, I have never seen such a large turnout for a funeral or wake for a Caribbean person (in fact for anyone) in NY. Thousands turned out for the viewing of the body and funeral rites for...

So-called achievements: The hidden dimensions

Jun 22, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on So-called achievements: The hidden dimensions

Don’t you find it funny when you read statistics about – how many schools there are in Guyana compared to when the PNC was in power; how many healthcare centers have been opened up compared...

Single Economy has not progressed at an expected rate

Jun 22, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Single Economy has not progressed at an expected rate

– Caricom Secretary General “The question of the single economy in my view has always been a difficult one to achieve,” said Secretary General of the Caricom Secretariat, Edwin...

Let’s have a National Martyrs Day

Jun 22, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Let’s have a National Martyrs Day

Dear Editor, Enmore Martyrs Day has come and gone, and what was significant about the observation a few days ago was the national aspect of it. In the old days, even when the PPP was in Government,...

Pun my word!

Jun 22, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on Pun my word!

Love! Sure the word is formed on purpose out of the prettiest soft vowels and consonants in the language. William Thackeray Barry Lyndon, my General Semantics professor at Carleton University always...

Move Capital in LCDS

Jun 22, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Move Capital in LCDS

The Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) is intended to integrate our development plans within the overhanging global threat posed by climate change induced by global warming. While it is not the...

These children need your help

Jun 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on These children need your help

The publisher of this newspaper, Glenn Lall, after seeing the dilemma of the four children of Mary Sandy, decided to help with the burial of the woman. Mary Sandy died tragically by accident leaving...

Driver remanded, victim laid to rest

Jun 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Driver remanded, victim laid to rest

Doodnauth Misir, the driver who was involved in the accident that claimed the life of 25-year-old Mary Sandy, was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared in the Providence Magistrate’s...

US flouts Guyana’s invitation to clarify TIP report

Jun 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on US flouts Guyana’s invitation to clarify TIP report

By Gary Eleazar The United States has on several occasions received invitations by Guyana to come and clarify what Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand, calls erroneous...

Cops question female relative, Buxton shopkeeper

Jun 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Cops question female relative, Buxton shopkeeper

-come up empty-handed after searching village By Michael Jordan Police detained a shopkeeper from Buxton and a female relative of Kwame Rumel Jobronewet, as the search intensified yesterday for the...

Scissors bandit’s freedom clipped

Jun 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Scissors bandit’s freedom clipped

Raphael Jordan, 21, of 27 Paradise Housing Scheme was yesterday remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. It was alleged that the...

Bare Root murder accused goes to jail

Jun 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Bare Root murder accused goes to jail

Thirty-five-year-old Marlon Braithwaite, of Bare Root Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara, was not required to plead to the indictable offence of murder, when he appeared before Magistrate...

‘Lady Jaguars’ dominate historical match

Jun 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on ‘Lady Jaguars’ dominate historical match

Beat Turks & Caicos Select Team 5-0 The Guyana women’s football team, ‘Lady Jaguars’, put on a spectacular performance Thursday evening to beat the Turks & Caicos Select team by 5 goals...

‘Blondie’ trial begins in High Court

Jun 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on ‘Blondie’ trial begins in High Court

Four months after being committed to stand trial for murder, Ashanti ‘Blondie’ Shultz has appeared in the High Court. The mother of one of self confessed drug king pin, Shaheed Roger Khan’s...

Overseas-based Guyanese launch Football Chapter in Berbice

Jun 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Overseas-based Guyanese launch Football Chapter in Berbice

The revival of Guyana’s football to what it once was in the 70’s and 80’s, received a boost with the successful launching of the Guyana Chapter of the New Amsterdam Primary and Secondary School...

Min of Sports Inter-block Football continues at Ann’s Grove today

Jun 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Min of Sports Inter-block Football continues at Ann’s Grove today

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports Steve Ninvalle is expected to open the Sports Ministry’s Inter-Block Football competition at 16:00hrs this afternoon at the...

Duncan disappointed with attendance for Umpires’ classes

Jun 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Duncan disappointed with attendance for Umpires’ classes

Dead ball Law discussed at last session Top local Cricket Umpire Clyde Duncan expressed disappointment with the attendance for the Cricket Umpires lectures in the city leading up to this year’s...

West Indies youth cricketers to play in England

Jun 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on West Indies youth cricketers to play in England

Barbados and West Indies Under-19 cricketers Shamarh Brooks and Rashidi Boucher will get the chance to hone their skills in English conditions for Middlesex and Surrey respectively over the next...

Defending League champions N/A United and Cougars secure wins

Jun 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Defending League champions N/A United and Cougars secure wins

Adams scores hat-trickNew Amsterdam United through a hat-trick of goals off the boot of Adrian Amsterdam made light work of Real Union, beating them 5-1 in the opening match of a double header which...

Spitting lands businessman in hotwater

Jun 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Spitting lands businessman in hotwater

A Stabroek Market vendor was yesterday placed on a nine-month bond to keep the peace, after he pleaded guilty to spitting in a public place. Sewcharran Rampersaud, 32, of 62 Independence Street, is...

Fans brought back to reality after brainless Windies performance

Jun 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Fans brought back to reality after brainless Windies performance

Says Sean Devers After showing much promise and fight as they advanced to the semi-finals of the ICC World 20/20 cricket tournament in England, West Indies fans were brought crashing down to reality...

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Guyana gets FIBA AmeriCup lifeline

Oct 15, 2026

…Guyana replaces Antigua and Barbuda for Nicaragua tournament (Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s senior men’s national basketball team has been handed a major opportunity to advance its...

The square peg legacy

Oct 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Burnham’s dream of ‘Guyanization’—a euphemism for replacing the colonial administrative class with locals loyal to the new order was, at its core, a nationalist ideal. But ideals without discipline often lead to farce. The result was a bureaucracy filled with...

Haiti: When the Promise of a Haitian-Led Solution Begins to Fade

Oct 11, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Who speaks for Haiti? It is a question the international community can no longer avoid. For years, governments and international organisations have insisted that the country’s deepening crisis must have a “Haitian-led solution”. The principle is...

Seeram: Did the Commies takeover

Oct 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – On the next occasion that Guyana’s Hon Attorney General, Mohabir Anil Nandlall, SC, MP, OE, CCH, opens his book of wisdom and expounds on the rule of law and respect for the law (and of laws, not men), I have a humble addition for inclusion in his encyclopedia. There is...

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