July 2009

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King claims pole for Group 4 showdown

Jul 26, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on King claims pole for Group 4 showdown

Veteran motor racer Andrew King stormed to pole position for today’s feature clash in the Group 4 event at the South Dakota Circuit when qualifying was staged yesterday in the Guyana Motor Racing...

Judge temporarily bars CHPA from repossessing land

Jul 26, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Judge temporarily bars CHPA from repossessing land

High Court Judge, Justice Diana Insanally, has granted an injunction against the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) prohibiting the entity from canceling a transport, and repossessing and...

The Baccoo speaks

Jul 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

There are going to be even more road accidents as people continue to display the same recklessness they have grown accustomed to. This time around a group of partying youths is going to cause a major...

Man to man is so unjust

Jul 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Man to man is so unjust

By Adam Harris I read somewhere that man is the greatest predator. It might have been a book by James Michener who did a novel that actually traced the origin of man on the planet. And then there was...

Day of football to be staged at Paradise today

Jul 26, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Day of football to be staged at Paradise today

Organisers of the Bare Root Inter-Block Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport sponsored football tournament, has organised a day of football today at the Paradise ground starting at 11:30am. The...

Pan Am Games team to leave Wednesday

Jul 26, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pan Am Games team to leave Wednesday

– Ministry pledges support The national athletics team that will compete at the Pan American Games in Trinidad and Tobago from July 28-August 2 departs Guyana on Wednesday following a...

Low carbon, low life, low stereo, low everything

Jul 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Low carbon, low life, low stereo, low everything

Guyanese have a fantastic sense of humour. If President Bush had made one percent of the ocean of mistakes that the Guyanese President have incurred, the stand-up comedians in the US would have...

From third force to First Choice

Jul 26, 2009 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on From third force to First Choice

By Raphael Trotman AFC Leader This weekend the Delegates, Observers, guests, well wishers and supporters gathered to share in the historic moment of the 2nd Delegates’ Convention of the Alliance...

Third Annual Guyana Cup Race Meet fixed for Rising Sun August 16

Jul 26, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Third Annual Guyana Cup Race Meet fixed for Rising Sun August 16

Over $6.5 million in cash and prizes have been made available for the third annual running of the Guyana Cup horse race meeting, which will be held on Sunday August 16, at the Rising Sun Turf Club,...

Creative Corner : Roses on Linda’s tomb

Jul 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Creative Corner Comments Off on Creative Corner : Roses on Linda’s tomb

By Michael Jordan “Something wasn’t quite right about the cemetery…something I couldn’t quite place…” It was close to evening when I reached the crossroads leading into the cemetery. Not...

Davis to conduct basketball clinics

Jul 26, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Davis to conduct basketball clinics

Guyana’s national male basketball coach of the 2007 team that played in Puerto Rico, US-based, Larry Davis and a South Carolina Lady All-Star team will be in Guyana to conduct clinics for players...

A PRAYER

Jul 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A PRAYER

Dear God, Please stop climate change. It is causing too many problems. Sea levels are rising; the rains are more intense, and the Earth is warming. These things are causing a great deal of problems...

For stronger state leadership

Jul 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on For stronger state leadership

One of the enduring refrains in this space has been the need of the administration to become more directly involved in the economic development of the country. We had called for the creation of a...

The House Dust Mite

Jul 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The House Dust Mite

The house dust mite, sometimes referred to by allergists as HDM, is a cosmopolitan guest in human habitation. Dust mites feed on organic detritus such as flakes of shed human skin and flourish in the...

Facing financial challenges in the Caribbean’s smaller states

Jul 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Facing financial challenges in the Caribbean’s smaller states

By Sir Ronald sanders As the member countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) work toward the establishment of an Economic Union amongst themselves amid grave economic...

‘Sash’ Sawh murder accused succumbs

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Sash’ Sawh murder accused succumbs

Death had the final say in the high profile Satyadeow Sawh Preliminary Inquiry, after David Leander, called ‘Biscuit’, succumbed yesterday from the mystery illness that struck him eight days ago....

Speeding driver dies in submerged car

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Speeding driver dies in submerged car

A 36-year-old pest control employee was killed shortly after 01:00 hr yesterday, when the car he was driving at high speed careened off the West Coast Demerara public road near Ruimzeight and toppled...

Govt. deliberately mislead MP’s on contracts – Corbin

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. deliberately mislead MP’s on contracts – Corbin

There has been deliberate misrepresentation of the status of contracts to the People’s National Congress Reform, even if the queries are made through the National Assembly. This is according to...

Brutalised man still a prime suspect – Top Cop

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Brutalised man still a prime suspect – Top Cop

Sources close to the matter of Troy Small, called Cats, who was brutalised by persons identified as wearing military uniform, are adamant that the beating/torture was not a police doing but that of...

Guyana Watch opens 17th mission

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Watch opens 17th mission

Guyana Watch has brought its 17th batch of medical professionals to Guyana and will today begin countrywide outreaches designed to meet the needs of Guyanese patients. Guyana Watch is a team of local...

Final prosecution witness places PI in limbo

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Final prosecution witness places PI in limbo

… Kaieteur News pressmen killings Troy Bacon, the final prosecution witness who the police are seeking to help complete the preliminary inquiry into the Kaieteur Killings has placed the case in...

Desperate gunman robs Digicel Linden outlet

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Desperate gunman robs Digicel Linden outlet

Pandemonium broke loose in Linden yesterday, after news of a brazen daylight robbery, committed at Digicel’s Republic Avenue outlet hit the streets. Persons in the vicinity said that they were not...

Serious crime in Guyana drastically declining, says Top Cop

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Serious crime in Guyana drastically declining, says Top Cop

Crime has drastically decreased in Guyana over the past month but a gang operating in Berbice has become a source of concern for the Guyana Police Force, according to Police Commissioner Henry...

Director of Prisons peeved about ‘poison’ claims

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Director of Prisons peeved about ‘poison’ claims

Director of Prisons, Dale Erskine, says that he is ‘concerned’ about some media reports that suggest that David Leander, called ‘Biscuit’ was poisoned while in custody at the Georgetown...

Commissioner’s absence from jurisdiction delays unveiling of report

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Commissioner’s absence from jurisdiction delays unveiling of report

… Inquiry at City Hall The much anticipated press conference slated for yesterday to unveil the contents of the Commission of Inquiry Report on the affairs of the Georgetown municipality has...

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Iyer’s 102 crushes West Indies

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Shreyas Iyer produced a breathtaking century on his T20I captaincy debut as India dismantled the West Indies by eight wickets in the opening match of their five-game series at...

The end of the Lula era

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The elections in Brazil have turned out to be more than electing a government. The first round, concluded on Sunday, has effectively signalled the end of an era and the changing of an age in the region. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, at age eighty, finished second to Flávio...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

MV Barima tragedy -would have handled differently

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Things could have been different. I would have made allowance. But when it was the same stink and dutty story with the MV Barima tragedy, there was only one road left. In the late hours of that fateful Saturday night of July, those early hours of Sunday morning, the little...

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