August 2009

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Biggest ever fun cycling event to be staged August 23

Aug 08, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Biggest ever fun cycling event to be staged August 23

MCY&S, MOH & GCF to host ‘The Big Ride’ By Franklin Wilson The biggest ever fun cycling event to ever hit the shores of Guyana will come off on Sunday August 23. This announcement was...

Conquerors, Alpha renew rivalry

Aug 08, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Conquerors, Alpha renew rivalry

Fruta Conquerors and Alpha United will renew an old rivalry tomorrow in the final of the East Coast Reunion ‘Million Dollar Baby’ Football Tournament after respective wins in their semi-final...

Anthony urges more use of technology as inaugural Cricket Academy closes

Aug 08, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Anthony urges more use of technology as inaugural Cricket Academy closes

By Edison Jefford Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday urged the introduction of technology into the training camps and academies for local cricketers. He said that will...

Fernandes returns from Coaching Course in Jamaica

Aug 08, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Fernandes returns from Coaching Course in Jamaica

– Guyana could host one early next year President of the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) and Guyana’s representative on the newly established Caribbean Hockey Coaches Union (CHCU), Philip Fernandes...

Human Services Ministry to recruit more for psychosocial programme

Aug 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Human Services Ministry to recruit more for psychosocial programme

As part of its continued effort to address the psychosocial needs of the society, the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security is poised to train another batch of officers who will lend their...

Andrew Reece arrives today for RBC / K&S Cycling Fiesta

Aug 08, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Andrew Reece arrives today for RBC / K&S Cycling Fiesta

Sherwin Osbourne also expected Anguilla based riders Andrew Reece and Sherwin Osbourne are expected to arrive in Guyana today ahead of tomorrow’s Cycling Fiesta in the Bauxite Mining Town of...

Bogus pastor jailed

Aug 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Bogus pastor jailed

A man pretending to be a pastor was yesterday jailed for six months after he allegedly collected monies under false pretence. Imposing the sentence was Magistrate Priya Beharry. Dwayne Ramsoodar,...

Buxton Ministry Inter-Block football kicks off tomorrow

Aug 08, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Buxton Ministry Inter-Block football kicks off tomorrow

Play in the Buxton leg of the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport sponsored Inter-Block football tournament opens tomorrow at the Vigilance Playfield with one game kicking off at 4:00pm. Coordinator...

Chinese national attempts to bribe embassy official

Aug 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese national attempts to bribe embassy official

Yuetian Cao faced Magistrate Priya Beharry yesterday, accused of attempting to commit a corrupt transaction at the US Embassy. It is alleged that on July 13, the accused during an interview with a US...

Family survives fire scare

Aug 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Family survives fire scare

Quick reaction by ranks of the Guyana Fire Service last evening averted what might have turned into an ugly fire at lot 21 Bel Air Avenue, Lamaha Gardens. Sattie Persaud was one of a family of six at...

Robbery victim’s home burglarised

Aug 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Robbery victim’s home burglarised

Just over a week after Genevieve Mc Bean was attacked and robbed at her place of employment by two men, one of whom has since been charged for the robbery under arms, her home has been burglarised....

The challenge to sustain macroeconomic stability continues

Aug 08, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The challenge to sustain macroeconomic stability continues

Dear Editor, One of the great achievements of Guyana is to have acquired a stable macroeconomic environment which has stabilised price levels and exchange rates, controlled fiscal deficit, reduced...

GT&T supports Scouts, Squash Association

Aug 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T supports Scouts, Squash Association

The Scout Association of Guyana yesterday received a cheque from the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph company (GT&T) for one million dollars ($1,000,000) as the body prepares to host the 14th...

The independence of the judiciary

Aug 08, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The independence of the judiciary

Dear Editor, The preliminary inquiry into the brutal murder of Minister Satyadeow Sawh, his family members and a security guard came to a premature end as the accused in the matter David Leander...

Did I hear 100 million?

Aug 08, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Did I hear 100 million?

DEAR EDITOR, It was very surprising to see the only two independent daily newspapers, Kaieteur News and Stabroek News, with the same shocking photograph of a collapsing seawall at No.78 village in...

Aviation Authority seals US $3.5M contract to modernise Control Tower at CJIA

Aug 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Aviation Authority seals US $3.5M contract to modernise Control Tower at CJIA

Government has embarked on an initiative to modernise the Control Tower at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport which will boost Guyana’s capability of continuing to provide safe, reliable and...

First ‘Bimmer’ goes tonight

Aug 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on First ‘Bimmer’ goes tonight

Soca sensation Peter Ram to entertain This evening a lucky Digicel customer from a field of 26 confirmed entrants will drive away with the first of two BMWs when the first D’Bimmer Flex Summer...

PNCR and “Justice Oracle”

Aug 08, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on PNCR and “Justice Oracle”

Dear Editor, Now that embattled US criminal defence lawyer Robert Simels has revealed that his clandestine trysts included a liaison with “Justice Oracle” of the Guyana High Court, we expect that...

Masochism and the inexplicable mind: The nature of the PPP voter

Aug 08, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Masochism and the inexplicable mind: The nature of the PPP voter

I don’t know who Leon Suseran is. But from what I gathered from reading his opinions in the newspapers, he is a real person with that name. I have read several letters by him in the press, one of...

PNCR protests outside US Embassy

Aug 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR protests outside US Embassy

After being refused permission for a street protest, the party members along with some of its supporters chose to picket the Office of the President and subsequently shuttled their way to the...

Once there is life there is hope

Aug 08, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Once there is life there is hope

In recent years, there have been spirited and conscientious efforts to revive moral standards, but one must wonder whether it is not too little, too late. Of greatest concern is the fact that the...

THE STATE MEDIA SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT THE TRIAL

Aug 08, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE STATE MEDIA SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT THE TRIAL

Not all questions carry a straightforward answer. Thus when this columnist was asked why the Guyana Times and the Guyana Chronicle newspapers carried such limited coverage of the proceedings in the...

Cuban Medical Diplomacy

Aug 07, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Cuban Medical Diplomacy

Twenty-four years ago this week, the first Executive President of Guyana Mr. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham died on the operating table at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The doctors in charge of the...

Polygraph testing now institutionalised in Guyana: Govt. Ministers exempt

Aug 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Polygraph testing now institutionalised in Guyana: Govt. Ministers exempt

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, at his post Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President reported that the decision has been taken to institutionalize polygraph...

NY courtroom brings some closure to missing sugar workers relatives

Aug 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on NY courtroom brings some closure to missing sugar workers relatives

Revelations in a New York court may have brought some relief to the lives of four East Coast Demerara families who for four years were anxiously awaiting definitive answers to the disappearance of...

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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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