August 2009

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T&T are Regional Women’s cricket champions

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on T&T are Regional Women’s cricket champions

Dethrone Jamaica with 4-wicket win, dominate individual awards By Sean Devers After every win they sing ‘run for cover…small ship stay in the harbour’ and yesterday, in the final of the...

Over 500 riders turn out for ‘The Big Ride’

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Over 500 riders turn out for ‘The Big Ride’

Campbellville cops two of six prizes at largest gathering ever By Franklin Wilson ‘The Big Ride’ organised by the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports/Ministry of Health and Guyana Cycling...

Conquerors are inaugural Trix U-17 Champions

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Conquerors are inaugural Trix U-17 Champions

Alleyne’s double propels them to 4-0 win over Camptown Fruta Conquerors continues their excellent vein of form at the junior level when they brushed aside arch rivals Sunburst Camptown 4-0 to...

Bloomerz, St Ignatius claim respective male and female titles

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bloomerz, St Ignatius claim respective male and female titles

Bloomerz females and St Ignatius males captured the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports Inter-Block Volleyball titles yesterday at St Ignatius following a weekend of intense action in Region 9. The...

D’Andrade returns to local cricket with classy 75

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on D’Andrade returns to local cricket with classy 75

As 4 teams register 1st round victories Twenty-three year-old former Guyana Under-19 batsman Anthony D’Andrade stroked a classy 75 for Bermine on Saturday on his return to local cricket as action...

Dyna’s Bravados win Guyana Softball and Windball Cricket Association title

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dyna’s Bravados win Guyana Softball and Windball Cricket Association title

A fine around performance by Eon Gilkes piloted Dyna’s Bravados to victory over Hillfoot Strikers in the Guyana Softball and Windball Cricket Association (GS&WCA) sponsored 15-15 Tapeball...

Garraway (5-15) Benn (4-5) star in East Bank E’bo victory

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Garraway (5-15) Benn (4-5) star in East Bank E’bo victory

National pacer Trevon Garraway took 5-15 and Essequibo medium pacer Trevor Benn captured 4-5 as East Bank Essequibo defeated Leguan by 33 runs as the Essequibo Busta 50 overs Cricket Festival...

Hassan guides Parika Salem to victory over T&T Alescon Comets

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hassan guides Parika Salem to victory over T&T Alescon Comets

A fine allround performance by Mohamed Hassan guided Parika Salem SC of East Bank Essequibo to an 11 run victory over the visiting Alescon Comets of Trinidad & Tobago in a feature U – 15...

Zakier to head Interim Committee of E’bo Umpires & Scorers Association

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Zakier to head Interim Committee of E’bo Umpires & Scorers Association

International cricket Scorer and local Umpire Zabeer Zakier has been appointed to head the Interim Management Committee of the Essequibo cricket Umpires and Scorers Association. Zakier, who has...

A monumental betrayal of all the good people in the PNCR

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on A monumental betrayal of all the good people in the PNCR

Dear Editor, Nothing, I repeat nothing, has been more of a torn in the side of the PNCR than rigged elections. Judging from press reports of the party’s 16th Biennial Congress on Saturday...

Gov’t committed to building hydro power

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t committed to building hydro power

President Bharrat Jagdeo has assured that his government is committed to building hydro power in the country. During the administration’s cabinet outreach, which is being held under the theme,...

A preliminary inquiry is a creature of statute

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on A preliminary inquiry is a creature of statute

Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to a letter written by Mr. Winston Moore under the captioned “A Magistrate has the power to apply common law rules of evidence and therefore has the power to...

Bulls, Pistons stun frontrunners in Brusche’s B/Ball Classic

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bulls, Pistons stun frontrunners in Brusche’s B/Ball Classic

Will play for place in Final this weekend By Edison Jefford Bulls and Wismar Pistons became the first two teams to advance to the Final Four round of the Brusche’s Classic Basketball Championships...

This is about our money being stolen

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on This is about our money being stolen

Dear Editor, The response by the Minister of Finance show total disregard for the Guyanese people; one hope this man will never be Minister of Foreign Affairs or be sent as an Ambassador to any...

K-News brought fair reportage from NY court

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on K-News brought fair reportage from NY court

Dear Editor, The role of our journalism has a direct effect on events on Election Day. As such, our journalism must be fair, not only sometimes but all the time. This includes the reportage from New...

Local swimmers shatter 17 national records at recent Goodwill Meet in Barbados

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local swimmers shatter 17 national records at recent Goodwill Meet in Barbados

The Guyana Amateur Swimming Association has announced that 7 of the 16-members who participated in the just concluded 15th Goodwill Swim Meet hosted by Barbados have shattered a total of 17 national...

Social responsibility critical for the editor’s role

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Social responsibility critical for the editor’s role

Dear Editor, I refer to Freddie Kissoon’s letter in Kaieteur News of August 23, 2009. I referred to Owner Mr. Glen Lall ‘perusing’ the editorials, not to apportion the label ‘final...

Robert Corbin was far better prepared than his combined opposition

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Robert Corbin was far better prepared than his combined opposition

Dear Editor, The predictable has again happened. Robert Corbin is the elected leader of the PNCR. There are many reasons why Robert triumphed and there are many lessons to be learnt by the Guyanese...

Nothing but monkeys on Monkey Mountain

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nothing but monkeys on Monkey Mountain

Dear Editor, I have probably lived outside of the country of my birth too long to expect that those who hold positions in government should be more intelligent than (or at least as intelligent as)...

Joshua Bhudial, one of the top CSEC students in Region Six

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Joshua Bhudial, one of the top CSEC students in Region Six

BELVEDERE SETTLEMENT, CORENTYNE – Joshua Bhudial of Belvedere Settlement on the Corentyne secured 11 grade one passes at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examination (CSEC)....

THIS RESPONSE WAS DISAPPOINTING

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THIS RESPONSE WAS DISAPPOINTING

The government with each passing day is behaving as if it does not care about its image and reputation. It is also approaching important issues with an attitude that is contemptuous and presumptuous....

Dr. Misir cannot comment on the very faults he finds in the private media that abound in the state media

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dr. Misir cannot comment on the very faults he finds in the private media that abound in the state media

Dear Editor, In the Sunday, August 23 edition of Kaieteur News, I offered a response to Dr. Prem Misir’s letter of the same date, (“False allegations impugning the integrity of others is a...

OAS meeting rejects Vishnu Bisram as credible pollster

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on OAS meeting rejects Vishnu Bisram as credible pollster

The OAS hosted its annual Peer Review Meeting at the Miami International University in Florida. The confabulation was held to examine general conditions in the Caribbean and specifically to look at...

LIFE BY CHOCOLATE

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on LIFE BY CHOCOLATE

I am a chocoholic and so are my two daughters even though they are roughly 27 years apart. I am the kind of person who believes that seven days without chocolate makes one weak. Although I know that...

Corentyne man missing

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne man missing

FYRISH VILLAGE, CORENTYNE – “Wherever you are Hartley, remember the good old way I taught you. I taught you God’s way, you were a pathfinder, everything in Church. Remember those things and...

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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?

Sep 12, 2026

(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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