September 2009

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Court action may be Whyte-Nedd’s only option – GPSU

Sep 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Court action may be Whyte-Nedd’s only option – GPSU

By Sharmain Cornette The absence of the Public Service Appellate Tribunal (PSAT) may leave Acting Chief Education Officer, Ms Geneveive Whyte-Nedd, with the single option of seeking redress in a...

Hampshire defeat Orient by 39 runs

Sep 10, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Hampshire defeat Orient by 39 runs

Hampshire CC defeated Orient CC by 39 runs as play in the Guyana Beverage Inc. Busta 20/20 cricket competition continued last Sunday at the Bartica Community Centre Ground with one match. Led by Troy...

$20 million budget earmarked for GCB one-year development plan

Sep 10, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on $20 million budget earmarked for GCB one-year development plan

$3 million Regional 20/20 and Super Concert for Providence on Oct 23 & 24 By Sean Devers President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chetram Singh yesterday told the media that the governing body...

Dead man found in empty lot

Sep 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Dead man found in empty lot

The Police are investigating the circumstances which led to the death of man, whose body was discovered in an empty lot at the corner of Camp and Lamaha Streets yesterday morning. The dead man, who...

DCC tackle Floodlights XI tomorrow night

Sep 10, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on DCC tackle Floodlights XI tomorrow night

Survival Travel Agency Trophy at stake Tomorrow evening for the very first time at the DCC Ground, Lance Gibbs Street, Queenstown the Floodlights Squad will be playing a very powerful DCC Select side...

Amelia’s Ward edge Half Mile/1 Mile on penalties

Sep 10, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Amelia’s Ward edge Half Mile/1 Mile on penalties

Amelia’s Ward secured a 3-2 victory over Half Mile/1Mile in Tuesday’s action of the Linden leg of the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport Inter-Block football championship. The sides played to a...

GCB senior 4-day cricket to start on September 22

Sep 10, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on GCB senior 4-day cricket to start on September 22

Rest team to compete against Dem, E’bo and B’ce The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) yesterday announced that a Rest team will compete against county teams Demerara, Berbice and Essequibo in an...

Trix U-17 League high achievers receive prizes

Sep 10, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Trix U-17 League high achievers receive prizes

Bryden & Fernandes Inc. promises continued support to GFA By Franklin Wilson High achievers of the inaugural Trix Under-17 football competition organised by the Georgetown Football Association...

Christianburg, Bayroc register wins

Sep 10, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Christianburg, Bayroc register wins

Christianburg and Bayroc won their respective quarter-final matches in this year’s Upper Demerara Hand-in-Hand Second Division 50 overs Cricket Competition which continued, at the Bayroc Community...

Your lyrics are off-key, off limits and they kill Caribbean peoples’ self-respect and dignity

Sep 10, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Your lyrics are off-key, off limits and they kill Caribbean peoples’ self-respect and dignity

Dear Editor, The news that singer David Brooks aka Mavado will be performing in Guyana comes as a shock after the ban imposed last year by the Minister of Home Affairs in Guyana, and following the...

City Hall offers defaulting taxpayers brief amnesty

Sep 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on City Hall offers defaulting taxpayers brief amnesty

In order to encourage defaulting property owners to fulfil their civic responsibility of paying their property taxes, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown has introduced an amnesty...

An unfair situation

Sep 10, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on An unfair situation

Dear Editor, I would like to bring this unfair situation to the Minister of Education, other educators and the public. For several years many of the pupils of Cornelia Ida Primary School are being...

Magistrate to rule in two weeks

Sep 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Magistrate to rule in two weeks

Come September 23, Dwight Da Silva, who is currently before the court charged with several murders, will know whether or not he will be committed to stand trial for the murder of Kaneville...

Head teachers should be sanctioned for unacceptable libraries – Baksh

Sep 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Head teachers should be sanctioned for unacceptable libraries – Baksh

In the opinion of Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh, “Head teachers must be sanctioned if school libraries are not in an acceptable condition.” According to the Minister, over the past year the...

Govt. made the right decision

Sep 10, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Govt. made the right decision

Dear Editor, I read with great interest the developing story about the Mormons, reported in your esteemed newspaper and would like to comment as follows: 1) Once these people have broken our laws...

Suspected mastermind held

Sep 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Suspected mastermind held

Police have detained a Kitty businessman who they believe was the mastermind of the kidnapping of the 21-year old Rorhema Dookie. The businessman was detained at his home yesterday morning after...

Rohee explains lay person’s understanding of polygraph

Sep 10, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Rohee explains lay person’s understanding of polygraph

Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana is probably the only Government in the world which encounters opposition to its initiatives to ensure greater accountability and integrity in the conduct of...

The sugar industry remains an intrinsic component of our economy

Sep 10, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The sugar industry remains an intrinsic component of our economy

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) views with grave concern the misleading and malicious assertions made by Lincoln Lewis, General Secretary of the Caribbean...

Health Ministry to focus on Body Mass Index

Sep 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Health Ministry to focus on Body Mass Index

In observance of Caribbean Wellness Day, which will be celebrated on Saturday, under the theme, “Love that body, yours and mine,” the Ministry of Health will focus its attention on ensuring that...

Something smells at the Education Ministry

Sep 10, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Something smells at the Education Ministry

It never makes for interesting reading when one hears of teachers having to take some form of industrial action to enforce the regulations of a school. In the first instance, parents who have...

British helping Guyana find low carbon investments

Sep 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on British helping Guyana find low carbon investments

The British Government is helping Guyana find low carbon investments. British High Commissioner Fraser Wheeler yesterday said the British Government’s Department for International Development...

Abduction of Natoo’s daughter… Kidnappers captured

Sep 09, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Abduction of Natoo’s daughter… Kidnappers captured

An early morning raid yesterday in the squatting communities of Tucville and Stevedore Housing Schemes has led to the arrest of several suspects in the kidnapping of 21-year-old Rorhema Dookie last...

Another paid hit-man in custody

Sep 09, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Another paid hit-man in custody

The relatives who have been implicated in the murder of 44 year-old US-based Guyanese Motilall Singh had reportedly paid another hit-man $180,000 to do the job. But the ‘hit-man’ made off with...

Tests being conducted at police lab

Sep 09, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Tests being conducted at police lab

Officials at the Police Forensic Laboratory are currently carrying out tests of paint samples removed from a GDF Coast Guard vessel and another boat with the aim of establishing whether or not they...

Bishops’ High teachers stage sit-in protest over student’s reinstatement

Sep 09, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Bishops’ High teachers stage sit-in protest over student’s reinstatement

– ‘Delinquent’ fourth former to be relocated By Gary Eleazar The apparent reinstatement of a fourth form student of The Bishops’ High School yesterday irked teachers of the school to the...

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2026 IMC Over-40’s World Cup… Akmal/Ghani fifties push...

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(Kaieteur News) – Adnan Akmal and Sheharyar Ghani punched fifties to help Pakistan rally to a 7-wicket win over India when World Cup action continued yesterday at the Guyana National Stadium,...

Either way Rodrigues-Birkett cannot lose

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(Kaieteur News) – Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett was thrust unexpectedly and suddenly into the contest for the position of United Nations Secretary-General. A woman presently occupies an important diplomatic post – Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations – was nominated belatedly...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

Jagdeo’s funeral march symphony Part II

Oct 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s number one political detector of danger, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, attended an evening of reflection for Mr. Robert Corbin, one-time deputy prime minister and opposition leader. In trademark fashion, he came armed with his own classical composition: the Jagdeo...

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