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Wakenaam are Dino Shipping Domino champions

Feb 02, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Wakenaam are Dino Shipping Domino champions

Wakenaam won the Dino Shipping Company domino competition by defeating Zeelugt Super Six and Essequibo Coast in the third and final round played recently at Zeelugt on the East Bank of Essequibo....

Pompey restructures training, sets goals

Feb 02, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Pompey restructures training, sets goals

– says world leading time a step in the right direction By Edison Jefford An early forecast seems to suggest that Guyana’s leading quarter–miler Aliann Pompey is focused on turning out top...

Adonis returned unopposed as Rugby Boss

Feb 02, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Adonis returned unopposed as Rugby Boss

– improved domestic season, club recruitment among priorities Incumbent President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Noel Adonis was returned unopposed when the entity held its Annual...

Osborne is best batsman for Sans Souci SC last year

Feb 02, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Osborne is best batsman for Sans Souci SC last year

Essequibo wicketkeeper batsman Wayne Osborne took the best batsman of the year award when the Sans Souci Sports Club held its 2008 awards ceremony at the Essequibo Islands’ Secondary School...

GDF contingent supports Secretariat of Fifth Summit of the Americas in T&T

Feb 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GDF contingent supports Secretariat of Fifth Summit of the Americas in T&T

Three officers and seven ranks of the Guyana Defence Force are quietly, yet effectively, making their mark in the Security Division of the Secretariat of the Fifth Summit of The Americas, which is to...

There are grave inconsistencies in Govt.’s view of the operations of GuySuCo

Feb 02, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on There are grave inconsistencies in Govt.’s view of the operations of GuySuCo

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter from Donald Ramotar captioned “Guysuco will rebound”, and Ravi Dev’s article, “Sugar and Trust”, both of which were featured in Kaieteur...

Some questions for our cricket administrators

Feb 02, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Some questions for our cricket administrators

Dear Editor, The Guyana Cricket Board is made up of many strange faces and it will be worthwhile if an investigative journalist can do a C.V. of each Executive member, setting out in detail their...

New GCB Secretary visits Essequibo Cricket Hostel

Feb 02, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on New GCB Secretary visits Essequibo Cricket Hostel

Anand Sanasie, who replaced Bish Panday as secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), visited the Essequibo Coast on Saturday and met with Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) President Sheik Ahmad and...

Condemnation of treatment of Ms. Varshnie Singh must not be a seven-day itch

Feb 02, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Condemnation of treatment of Ms. Varshnie Singh must not be a seven-day itch

Dear Editor, President Jagdeo’s flippant and irritated responses to the status of his marriage/union, and his treatment of Ms. Singh and her charitable work, are unacceptable. Spousal abuse and the...

Metro extends generous arm to two institutions

Feb 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Metro extends generous arm to two institutions

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE — The Metro Office and Computer Supplies extended its bigheartedness to two institutions in Berbice on Friday. During the morning, Chief Executive Officer of Metro Office...

Present rice crop shows improvement

Feb 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Present rice crop shows improvement

BENGAL, CORENTYNE — The situation in the rice industry in Region Six has improved tremendously, according to the President of the Guyana Rice Producers’ Association, Leeka Rambrich. The total...

NEW VISION

Feb 02, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NEW VISION

Thursdays are turning out to be unlucky for me. Last week, I had the shock of reading Uncle Freddie asking why great leaders do not emerge in Guyana. Had he paid a little more attention to the man he...

Questions for CLICO and the Commissioner of Insurance

Feb 02, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Questions for CLICO and the Commissioner of Insurance

Dear Editor, Public Sector organisations, businesses and individuals have collectively invested what I suspect must be billions of dollars with CLICO (Guyana) in their FPA and EFPA schemes. I suspect...

NEW VISION

Feb 02, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NEW VISION

Thursdays are turning out to be unlucky for me. Last week, I had the shock of reading Uncle Freddie asking why great leaders do not emerge in Guyana. Had he paid a little more attention to the...

Your race, my race: Pitfalls of Ronald Waddell’s politics

Feb 02, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Your race, my race: Pitfalls of Ronald Waddell’s politics

Last week there appeared two reflections in the print media on current and contemporary Guyanese history. One is a eulogy of Ronald Waddell by Tacuma Ogunseye on his death anniversary. The other, by...

Bandits rob restaurant staff, customers

Feb 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Bandits rob restaurant staff, customers

Three bandits escaped with cash, jewellery and a cell phone on Saturday night, after invading the Kamboat Restaurant on Sheriff Street. They later injured a motor cyclist while fleeing in a car. A...

The Integrity Commission is in the throes of institution-building

Feb 02, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The Integrity Commission is in the throes of institution-building

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Christopher Ram’s “Integrity Commission on Shaky Ground”, in SN of Sunday, February 1, 2009. The Commission is within the throes of institution-building. The...

Can GPL ever be forthright with its consumers?

Feb 02, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Can GPL ever be forthright with its consumers?

Dear Editor, Emblazoned on Kaieteur News front page of January 28, 2009 was a photograph of GPL’s meters on lamp posts. These meters are about 25 feet from the ground, and may not be read...

Cops find 53 pounds of ganja in car trunk

Feb 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Cops find 53 pounds of ganja in car trunk

Police detained a taxi driver and a female passenger on Saturday night at Weldaad, West Coast Berbice, after finding 53 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of the car they were in. A police release said...

A BIRD IN A GILDED CAGE

Feb 02, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on A BIRD IN A GILDED CAGE

In 1919, Ronald Reagan’s family moved to the town of Tampico in Illinois and lived in a second floor apartment above the H.C. Pitney variety store. After he became President of the United States...

New Global Order?

Feb 02, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on New Global Order?

Last week, Prof Dani Rodrik of Harvard offered the following intervention for purposes of stimulating debate on the present global financial crisis. He made several points that we have reiterated...

Parents host man, 31, for sex with daughter, 13

Feb 01, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Parents host man, 31, for sex with daughter, 13

A 13-year-old female resident of Grove, East Bank Demerara has been taken into protective custody by the Childcare Protection Agency. Officers from the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security,...

GRA transfers director, supervisor for failing to justify assets

Feb 01, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GRA transfers director, supervisor for failing to justify assets

Two senior officers and six other employees have been transferred from the Enforcement Section of the Guyana Revenue Authority. Kaieteur News has learnt that, on Friday, Director Colin Moore and...

Parliament bids farewell to Attorney-General Doodnauth Singh

Feb 01, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Parliament bids farewell to Attorney-General Doodnauth Singh

…contribution to Guyana will be etched in annals of history — MPs By Gary Eleazar The last session for the House came to an emotional end on Thursday last, as Members bade farewell to the...

This week’s ‘Special Person’ is Marilyn Dewar

Feb 01, 2009 knews News Comments Off on This week’s ‘Special Person’ is Marilyn Dewar

“I cannot see myself doing anything else since I am living my dream which has always been to try to provide music programs so that Guyana’s children can have an opportunity to know the joys of...

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Kellogg’s Senior Indoor Hockey championship concludes

Nov 10, 2026

– GCC Elite overturn Saints to claim Women’s Open crown as Bounty GCC, Antonio’s Hickers also win titles (Kaieteur News) – GCC Elite came from behind to win the Kellogg’s...

No good deed goes unpunished

Nov 10, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Among those who joined the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar in 44 BC was Marcus Junius Brutus, a man Caesar had previously pardoned after the civil war. Caesar had spared his life, restored him to favour and trusted him. Brutus repaid this generosity by helping to put a...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

U.S. midterms – the Guyanese challenge – Pt. III

Nov 10, 2026

Kaieteur News – Donald Trump made himself into a winner. He also made himself a loser. No close midterm results to contest. No tight seat margins that call for bruising, delaying, upending battles. The American people spoke, their will prevailed. What’s the lesson for Guyanese? Is there...

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