January 2010

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EMOTIONAL SEND-OFF FOR JUNIOR SPRINT CHAMP

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on EMOTIONAL SEND-OFF FOR JUNIOR SPRINT CHAMP

– hundreds bid farewell to Roxanna Rigby Hundreds of mourners turned out yesterday at Rosignol to bid farewell to the late national junior athlete, Roxanna Rigby, who was laid to rest at the...

National juniors benefit from Dr. Ian McDonald’s talk

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on National juniors benefit from Dr. Ian McDonald’s talk

The national junior players selected by the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) to prepare for the upcoming preliminary rounds of the World Junior Championships all agreed that the motivating...

Former immigration officer accused of fraud

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Former immigration officer accused of fraud

A former Immigration Officer was yesterday placed on $70,000 by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, on a charge of forging one entry stamp in a Guyana passport for Edward Drakes. It was...

Grass track practice session on today

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Grass track practice session on today

Briefing will immediately follow The Dirt Bike riders that will vie for supremacy in the Championship Series will test-ride their bikes at the Mecca of Grass Track racing, the Ogle Community Centre...

Soca Monarch, Road March, Junior Calypso Monarch, HIV song competitions

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Soca Monarch, Road March, Junior Calypso Monarch, HIV song competitions

(By Mondale Smith) It’s no secret that Adrian Dutchin, the nation’s lone three-time Soca monarch is a member of the KKR Head Hunters group and while he has opted to not compete in 2010 Mashramani...

Pacesetters hold nerves to beat Macabees

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Pacesetters hold nerves to beat Macabees

Ravens easily tame Bounty Colts Courts Pacesetters rallied from being down double digits at the end of the first quarter of their Division III game against Macabees to beat the team that had opened...

Culture Ministry prints Guyana Classics

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Culture Ministry prints Guyana Classics

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, yesterday, gave the Government Information Agency (GINA) a sneak peak at the first 12 of 36 books titled “Guyana Classics” to be launched...

GSL Softball cricket tourneys continue this weekend

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on GSL Softball cricket tourneys continue this weekend

Play in the Guyana Softball League organised Masters and Female softball cricket tournaments and the Carib Beer sponsored competition continues this weekend with several matches. In fixtures from the...

Guyana Masters Football Association hosts AGM tomorrow morning

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Masters Football Association hosts AGM tomorrow morning

The Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Guyana Masters Football Association (GMFA) will be holding a general meeting for all of the clubs under its auspices tomorrow starting at 11:00hrs. The...

Judgment reserved in TCL case against Guyana Government

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Judgment reserved in TCL case against Guyana Government

Judgment has been reserved in the matter involving Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) and its subsidiary, TCL Guyana Incorporated (TGI), following hours of legal arguments at the Caribbean Court of Justice...

GFA appointed IMC commences task of regularizing the game

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on GFA appointed IMC commences task of regularizing the game

By Franklin Wilson The Interim Management Committee (IMC) appointed by the General Council of the Georgetown Football Association to chart the way forward for the game in the city has set out to...

MOU signed for engineers to do Post Grad studies on water management

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on MOU signed for engineers to do Post Grad studies on water management

In an effort to strengthen its human resource capabilities, the Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the University of Guyana (UG) and McGill University...

RHT Gizmos & Gadgets to tackle Young Warriors

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on RHT Gizmos & Gadgets to tackle Young Warriors

The Area “H” ground in Rose Hall Town Corentyne would come alive tomorrow when home team Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadget (RHTG&G) clash with Young Warriors in the championship match of the...

Private entities launch expanded school feeding programme

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Private entities launch expanded school feeding programme

Banks DIH, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) and the Society for Sustainable Operational and Strategies (SSOS) have once again joined with the Ministry of Education in a national school feeding...

Sobers century highlights Masters’ cup and Females’ softball cricket

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Sobers century highlights Masters’ cup and Females’ softball cricket

Carmel Sobers scored an unbeaten century (108) to help her team, Saddam XI, inflict a 4 wickets defeat to Mahaica Masters when the two teams met in the Masters’ Cup and Females Softball cricket...

PNCR wants shared governance before 2011 elections

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR wants shared governance before 2011 elections

…will meet with PPP The main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) recently embroiled in a fight over leadership, says it will go into talks with the ruling party on a system on...

Cinderella Promotions stages U-17, seven-a-side, inter-village, football tournament

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Cinderella Promotions stages U-17, seven-a-side, inter-village, football tournament

Football players along the East Coast corridor are gearing up for competitive action when the Cinderella Promotions stages an U-17, seven-a-side, inter-village, football tournament starting on...

Desire to remain in Guyana lands American in court

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Desire to remain in Guyana lands American in court

Kenneth Rotnella, 25, of Eccles East Bank Demerara and William Agard, 29, of 447 East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme were yesterday granted their pretrial liberty by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa...

Mr. Corbin has strange concerns

Jan 30, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Corbin has strange concerns

Dear Editor, I wish to refer to the article under the caption “Devious plot afoot to destroy party – PNCR says” (KN 23-01-10) and make a few observations. The People’s National Congress...

ANOTHER GDF OFFICER EXCELS

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on ANOTHER GDF OFFICER EXCELS

Guyana Defence Force Officer Lieutenant Colonel, Patrick West, has become Guyana’s first officer to have earned two masters degrees simultaneously; one in Military Arts and Science and the other in...

We may not have the luxury of time before a cataclysmic tsunami strikes

Jan 30, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on We may not have the luxury of time before a cataclysmic tsunami strikes

Dear Editor, The beautiful Caribbean is one of the most geologically active spots on earth and seismic activities and processes over the ages have helped raise and sculpt the islands of the...

Impact of El Nino a major concern – Dr Luncheon

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Impact of El Nino a major concern – Dr Luncheon

The impact of the current prolonged dry season is of major concern to the government, especially as it relates to the rice industry, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, said...

The stench lingered in my car. Guyana is a horrible place

Jan 30, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The stench lingered in my car. Guyana is a horrible place

Mark Benschop extended an invitation to me on Thursday morning to visit the Wales factory to talk to striking sugar workers. We arrived at the estate and walked through the gate; I didn’t see the...

Part time staff at GTI to strike from Monday

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Part time staff at GTI to strike from Monday

More than 50 part-time workers of the Government Technical Institute (GTI) plan to go on strike from Monday to force management to make a determination on the payment of increase in salaries....

Discrimination and marginalisation do exist in Guyana

Jan 30, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Discrimination and marginalisation do exist in Guyana

Dear Editor, I agree with Godfrey Skeete’s angst over the alarming number of our young men who are resorting to crime as a means of livelihood. However, his assertion that hard evidence cannot be...

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Ebo McNeil delivers 1500m bronze at South American Youth Games

Apr 23, 2026

…Ezekiel Millington to contest 100m finals today Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s Ebo McNeil delivered a strong performance on the track in Panama, claiming bronze in the boys’ 1500m final at the...

Glenn Lall has raised some important concerns

Apr 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something fundamentally incongruent about a country standing atop one of the most promising oil frontiers of the 21st century while simultaneously deepening its reliance on external debt. Guyana today embodies that contradiction. It is hailed as the world’s...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

Mohameds Extradition – the latest episode

Apr 23, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – It is obvious that there are two sets of folks who want Messrs. Azruddin Mohamed and Nazar “Shell” Mohamed out of Guyana. Persons of interest in the first set take the form of the Government of Guyana, specifically the hostile PPP leadership...

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