December 2009

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Guyana welcomes Edson Arentes do Nacimento today

Dec 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana welcomes Edson Arentes do Nacimento today

As special guest of 20th Kashif & Shanghai Football Tournament The greatest footballer to ever walk planet earth is expected to touch down on these shores around 13:00hrs today as Special Guest...

Day/Night matches set for 2010 Regional 1st Class season

Dec 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Day/Night matches set for 2010 Regional 1st Class season

Pink balls to be used By Sean Devers The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) met on Tuesday in Antigua with managers and coaches of the 7 teams participating in the 2010 Regional 4-day First-Class...

Bissoondial Singh is still the President of DCB

Dec 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Bissoondial Singh is still the President of DCB

Dear Editor, I would like to refer to the article –”Singh still head Demerara Cricket Board” published on page 29 of the Sunday Chronicle, December 6, 2009. The reporter was either absent...

Banks DIH Sports Club Manager set to realize his dreams

Dec 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH Sports Club Manager set to realize his dreams

By Michael Benjamin Ever since he was a teenager, Jimmy Ramnarayan nurtured strong dreams of making an indelible mark in the sports fraternity. He was an amateur boxer under the stewardship of the...

Sans Souci beat Good Success to take Busta cricket title in Wakenaam

Dec 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Sans Souci beat Good Success to take Busta cricket title in Wakenaam

Sans Souci defeated Good Success by 24 runs to win the final of the Busta 40 overs cricket competition played last Sunday at the Wakenaam Community Centre Ground in Good Success. In a game which was...

Official climate deal draft released

Dec 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Official climate deal draft released

– Right direction or more confusion? By Neil Marks in Copenhagen The two negotiating groups responsible for drafting a new global climate change deal in Copenhagen released two draft proposals...

Port Mourant Day of Interaction 5 hailed a success

Dec 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Port Mourant Day of Interaction 5 hailed a success

They came in the hundreds – Athletes, Officials, Supporters, Government Ministers and Officials, Regional Officers. They came from all over the region to participate in the 5th Day of Interaction...

Leading players gear for Scrabble Association’s Open championships

Dec 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Leading players gear for Scrabble Association’s Open championships

Scrabble players associated to the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) would be in action tomorrow morning, December 13 when that association presents the GASP Open championships at the...

Fourth Lethem accident victim succumbs

Dec 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Fourth Lethem accident victim succumbs

A fourth person has now succumbed from the smash-up involving a minibus and a Sports Utility vehicle which occurred on the Lethem road earlier this month. Relatives said that the victim, 76-year-old...

BCB outraged at Hicks and Pooran’s non selection for Senior National Squad

Dec 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on BCB outraged at Hicks and Pooran’s non selection for Senior National Squad

Fraser and Latcha also left out The Executive Committee of the Berbice Cricket Board is expressing its outrage at the non selection of Delbert Hicks and Homchand Pooran for the 21-man training squad...

GDF ends search for miner at Kaieteur Falls

Dec 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GDF ends search for miner at Kaieteur Falls

After two days of extensive searches for the remains of Michael Leslie, who fell off the Kaieteur Falls, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has now terminated the search operation. The GDF had located...

Red Thread starts picket action after rape victim charged

Dec 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Red Thread starts picket action after rape victim charged

A woman who attempted to commit suicide after the police failed to act speedily into an allegation of rape, has gained support from Red Thread Organisation. The group staged a picketing exercise on...

Essequibian wins Fernleaf draw

Dec 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Essequibian wins Fernleaf draw

Another Essequibian is the fourth winner of US$500 in the fourth draw in the “get ready to be a winner.” An excited Evelyn Belfield, of Abram Zuil Village, told this newspaper that Fernleaf has...

GFF to hand over Super League prize money

Dec 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on GFF to hand over Super League prize money

After clubs question delay Several city clubs, who came out on top in the just concluded Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Super League tournament, have been querying about the non-payment of their...

Technology battle Natural Sciences in UG Inter faculty football semis

Dec 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Technology battle Natural Sciences in UG Inter faculty football semis

Technology is scheduled to play Natural Sciences when the University of Guyana Inter-Faculty football tournament continues at the UG ground Turkeyen, next Tuesday afternoon. The two teams would be...

Tobacco standard stalled at Tourism Ministry

Dec 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Tobacco standard stalled at Tourism Ministry

By Fareeza Haniff Since August, a standard which was developed to regulate the labeling and packaging of tobacco products, has been sitting on the desk of the Tourism Minister to be taken to Cabinet,...

BK Tigers seeking championship honours this time around

Dec 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on BK Tigers seeking championship honours this time around

UK based Shawn Beveney leads Loan players list By Franklin Wilson BK International Western Tigers FC, one of the leading clubs in the City is aiming to go all the way to championship glory at the...

Highway farmer grows food where soil is no good

Dec 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Highway farmer grows food where soil is no good

Vivian Fredericks started to do hydroponics farming with celery. He built a greenhouse complete with Ultraviolet plastic and water containers and sawdust. He planted 1,000 celery plants in the boxes...

West Berbice records another road fatality

Dec 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on West Berbice records another road fatality

NUMBER FOUR VILLAGE, WEST COAST BERBICE – The West Coast of Berbice roadway has claimed yet another life. The latest victim, 25-year-old Ryan Rafeek, of the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s Junior...

BCB to host several social programmes for the Yuletide Season

Dec 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on BCB to host several social programmes for the Yuletide Season

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) as part of its Social Outreach and Community Programme which was launched in January of this year will be hosting a series of activities for the Christmas Season....

Haiti to Chair Caricom for first time

Dec 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Haiti to Chair Caricom for first time

-even as questions of stability in that country lingers By: Brushell Blackman The Republic of Haiti will assume the Chairmanship of Caricom from July 1 next year. This would be historic and comes in...

Santos 6 Northern Rangers 0; Pele 5 GFC 1

Dec 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Santos 6 Northern Rangers 0; Pele 5 GFC 1

Santos and Pele kept their unbeaten record intact after four games each following latest action in the DeSinco Trading sponsored Georgetown Football Association Under-19 competition. Santos behind a...

Carib Beer National Softball Cricket Tournament continues tomorrow

Dec 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Carib Beer National Softball Cricket Tournament continues tomorrow

Action in the Carib Beer National Softball Cricket Tournament, organized by Guyana Softball League in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, continues tomorrow with several...

Govt. faces $300M bill as El Niño continues

Dec 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Govt. faces $300M bill as El Niño continues

As the El Niño-related dry weather continues to grip the country, government says that it is facing a $300M bill. Of this, in excess of $250M in infrastructural works was used to support farmers...

EPA shuts down Essequibo business

Dec 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on EPA shuts down Essequibo business

The Environmental Protection Agency has threatened legal action against Mr. Awad Boodhoo, the owner of a hardware store, located at 42 Cotton Field, Essequibo Coast. However, Mr. Boohoo is not taking...

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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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