August 2009

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Sports clinic and inter-Block football starts on Saturday

Aug 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sports clinic and inter-Block football starts on Saturday

Positive Vibes Football Club in collaboration with the Cinderella Promotions will hold a sports clinic and inter block football competition in the East Coast Village of Paradise. The sports clinic is...

EBFA/GFF U-17 League up and running

Aug 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBFA/GFF U-17 League up and running

Soesdyke Falcons lead points table Two draws have been the highlight of play so far in the East Bank Football Association / Guyana Football Federation Under-17 league which started with games being...

Digicel Caribbean Cup New York off to a good start

Aug 12, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Caribbean Cup New York off to a good start

Guyana whip Dominica 4-1 to remain in the hunt Brooklyn, New York, USA: The reigning Digicel Caribbean Cup New York Champions, Jamaica, took on St. Vincent & the Grenadines (SVG) in the feature...

A question for the Guyana Cricket Board

Aug 12, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on A question for the Guyana Cricket Board

DEAR EDITOR, Godfrey Chance in his letter in the Kaieteur News of 10th August, 2009, lamented the state of Guyana’s cricket and posited the view that its resurgence is probably beyond the capacity...

The MV Kimbia and Norman Whittaker

Aug 12, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on The MV Kimbia and Norman Whittaker

DEAR EDITOR, A recent letter (SN-8-8-09), written by my parliamentary colleague Norman Whittaker, MP, has caught my attention and is in need of a response. Mr Whittaker, undoubtedly one of the more...

Ten years of Jagdeo: Leviathan rises

Aug 12, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ten years of Jagdeo: Leviathan rises

Mr. Jagdeo became a morally elected president after the 2001 elections. Before that he was given the presidency by Freedom House therefore he had to “humble” as the Rastas would say. The PPP big...

CCJ has not invalidated waiver of CET on imported cement

Aug 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ has not invalidated waiver of CET on imported cement

Despite acknowledging a flaw in one aspect of the procedures followed by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has not invalidated the waiver of the Common External...

An astounding exercise in futility and a clear case of self-delusion

Aug 12, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on An astounding exercise in futility and a clear case of self-delusion

DEAR EDITOR, The purposeful ganging up of the political opposition parties disclose the accommodation of baby parties, one-man parties and defunct parties experiencing extreme paralysis, all in the...

Congress is the highest decision-making forum

Aug 12, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Congress is the highest decision-making forum

It is not beyond the reach of the delegates to the forthcoming Congress of the People’s National Congress Reform to take action from the floor to ensure that all the concerns about transparency in...

On ends, means and politics

Aug 12, 2009 KNews Editorial Comments Off on On ends, means and politics

In this month’s edition of New English Review, the British writer, Theodore Dalrymple, offers an interesting take on the conviction (earlier this year) of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori...

The PPP and its Government are the source of the ongoing ethnic dilemma

Aug 12, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP and its Government are the source of the ongoing ethnic dilemma

DEAR EDITOR, Permit me to try and shoot two birds with one stone (one letter). First, in response to your editorial, “Civility and the Polity,” (August 9), I couldn’t find a more...

City Hall to monitor official gazette closely

Aug 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall to monitor official gazette closely

In order to retain properties that fall under the control of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown, efforts will have to be made to ensure that the Official Gazette is closely monitored, said City...

Cop heads crime ring with stolen GRA car

Aug 11, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Cop heads crime ring with stolen GRA car

A Special Constable of Police has been implicated in a robbery ring that involved the use of a car stolen from the Customs and Trade Administration compound on Main Street. The ring was cracked early...

Vaughn earns resident visas for family – Simels’s lawyer

Aug 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Vaughn earns resident visas for family – Simels’s lawyer

“A license to practise law is not a license to break the law,” said US Government prosecuting attorney Stephen D’Alessandro in his summation for the prosecution when the trial of Robert Simels...

Embarrassment, pressure, force Contractor Harrychand Tulsi to lie

Aug 11, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Embarrassment, pressure, force Contractor Harrychand Tulsi to lie

Some are of the opinion that objectivity is a myth and that it is about as reliable as judging character by the firmness of a handshake. We at Kaieteur News will always let the public know the truth...

Suspected gunmen’s hideout torched in Kaneville

Aug 11, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected gunmen’s hideout torched in Kaneville

Police are probing the torching of a small Kaneville house that some residents claim was a part-time hideout for suspects in the execution-style killing of Brendon Charles. The shack, located at...

Groom’s mother dies after tripping over dog

Aug 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Groom’s mother dies after tripping over dog

A Wismar family was early yesterday morning plunged into mourning, in the height of preparations for a wedding which was scheduled for Saturday, after the groom’s mother accidently tripped over the...

GPL expansion further delayed, contractor cites challenges

Aug 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GPL expansion further delayed, contractor cites challenges

Inclement weather and unavoidable difficulties to plant poles in some sections of the Lamaha embankment have contributed to the delay in the completion of the new Guyana Power and Light power...

GPL implementing US$2.8M Customer Information System

Aug 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GPL implementing US$2.8M Customer Information System

Has your electricity been disconnected even though you paid your bill on time? Do you want to know how much you owe the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL), but find that there is no easy way to get...

‘Big’ John Edwards takes gold in Men’s Open and Masters M1

Aug 11, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on ‘Big’ John Edwards takes gold in Men’s Open and Masters M1

‘Big’ John Edwards became Guyana’s second Pan American Gold medalist at the just concluded 7th NAPF North American Regional Powerlifting Championship and 12th NAPF/FESUPO Pan...

MEDIATION DOES NOT AFFECT SELECTION OF BEST TEAM

Aug 11, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on MEDIATION DOES NOT AFFECT SELECTION OF BEST TEAM

The West Indies Cricket Board’s policy of excluding the senior players who were involved in protest action over several issues in relation to their terms of engagement seems to have been put to...

Teen snatches anaconda in Albouystown yard

Aug 11, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Teen snatches anaconda in Albouystown yard

Yesterday, just about 15:30 hrs Chavez Fernando, 18, an Albouys Street, Albouystown teen, happened upon a more than six-foot long anaconda as it slithered in his yard. The snake had just swallowed a...

Roberts and Smith headline GASA’s 16-member team for Goodwill

Aug 11, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Roberts and Smith headline GASA’s 16-member team for Goodwill

Niall Roberts and Noelle Smith, just back from the FINA World Championship in Italy will headline Guyana’s 16-member team to the 15th Goodwill Swimming Championships set for Land of the Flying...

Richardson guides RailHawks to another win

Aug 11, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Richardson guides RailHawks to another win

CARY, NC — Gregory Richardson scored the game’s first goal in the 82nd minute and Daniel Paladini tucked in another in extra time to give the RailHawks a 2-0 win in the USL First Division...

GPHC dissociates self from dumped syringes

Aug 11, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC dissociates self from dumped syringes

– disappointed with Mayor Green’s comments The Management of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has dissociated itself from the pile of syringes that were callously dumped...

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Kaieteur Sports – Round Three of the Pegasus Weekly Chess League, organized by Drayton’s Chess Club in partnership with the Pegasus Chess Club and Guyana Chess Federation, continued on Monday...

The Ministry diagnoses the wrong disease

Sep 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Ministry of Health’s response to Peeping Tom’s column, “Second-Class Patients,” is a case whereby a medical response is so clinically misplaced that one is tempted to prescribe a second opinion. The Ministry has produced an impressive medical case for something...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

Motions, distance, indifference

Sep 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There’s a human tragedy. Cotton Tree and two cousins. Across Mandarin Bridge and an 11-year-old-child. Police killings in Linden. And, more lately, a boat that went down and took down over 100 Guyanese lives. Poor ones. The rich ones and big ones don’t sail,...

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