January 2010

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YCG records successful year despite financial constraints

Jan 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on YCG records successful year despite financial constraints

By Sharmain Cornette The support of the private sector will be especially crucial to help sustain the community oriented programmes offered by Youth Challenge Guyana (YCG) this year. Executive...

Gwendolyn O’Neil/Sharon Ward headline Holland Enterprise promotions ‘New Year’s Beatings’

Jan 08, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gwendolyn O’Neil/Sharon Ward headline Holland Enterprise promotions ‘New Year’s Beatings’

Boxing buffs disappointed at the aborted Boxing Day fight card will eventually have their desires satisfied following fresh negotiations between head of the Holland’s Enterprise Promotions (HEP),...

Property owners in Linden face at least 50% increase in rates and taxes

Jan 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Property owners in Linden face at least 50% increase in rates and taxes

….current payments described as ‘ridiculously low’ Interim Management Committee Chairman Orrin Gordon has said that property owners in Linden will soon have to pay an increase in rates and...

GT&T launches inaugural countrywide ten10 softball competition

Jan 08, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GT&T launches inaugural countrywide ten10 softball competition

Pulsating action anticipated Cricket fans can expect several weeks of pulsating softball cricket action following the launching of the Guyana Telephone &Telegraph (GT&T) Inaugural countrywide...

PNCR renews call for shared governance

Jan 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on PNCR renews call for shared governance

– questions Govt. commitment to such a cause By Brushell Blackman The main opposition party, the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR), has renewed its call for shared governance as the way...

“We still have a lot of work to put in…”

Jan 08, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on “We still have a lot of work to put in…”

Says Butts ahead of IRB Sevens’ Series By Edison Jefford National Men’s Rugby Captain, Claudius Butts is adamant that his side still have miles to go to reach the desired standard necessary for...

Youths remanded for robbery with violence

Jan 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Youths remanded for robbery with violence

Devon Boucher, 18, of 71 Supply, East Coast Demerara, and Devon Manroop, 19, of 17 Barrack Street, Kingston, were yesterday remanded after appearing before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson...

Muslims host programme to mark commencement of Islamic New Year

Jan 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Muslims host programme to mark commencement of Islamic New Year

– Scholar Mufti Ashraul Hack to grace event The 13th Annual Cultural Programme to mark the commencement of the Islamic New Year 1431/2010 will be held on Sunday January 10, from 14:00hrs, at...

Neighbour testifies as Ithaca murder PI continues

Jan 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Neighbour testifies as Ithaca murder PI continues

The preliminary inquiry into the murder of Gertrude Edwards continued Wednesday before Magistrate Nigel Hawke, at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court. On trial is Edwards’ reputed husband Gladstone...

Carter named MVP & Best Goalie of 20th K&S Football C/ship

Jan 08, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Carter named MVP & Best Goalie of 20th K&S Football C/ship

Impressive Awards ceremony held on GFF Lawns BK International Western Tigers goalkeeper Derrick Carter was named the MVP of the 20th Kashif and Shanghai Football tournament which his team won for the...

Vendor charged for stealing chicken

Jan 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Vendor charged for stealing chicken

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday granted $25,000 bail to one of two Bourda Market vendors charged for stealing plucked chicken from the owner of a Chinese cook shop. The other...

The PPP must not cede any more ground

Jan 08, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The PPP must not cede any more ground

Sixty years ago, the People’s Progressive Party was formed. It has been subject to trying times over this period, having witnessed the suspension of the Constitution in 1953, ethnic and political...

Barticians form self-help fire emergency response group

Jan 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Barticians form self-help fire emergency response group

– receive training, equipment From practically no fire-fighting capabilities residents of Bartica, recently, with the assistance of the Guyana Fire Service, launched an initiative which will...

Guyana Police Force responds to K&S article published in Kaieteur News

Jan 08, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Police Force responds to K&S article published in Kaieteur News

The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article published in the Kaieteur News on Thursday January 07, 2010, under the caption “Kashif and Shanghai clears air on stadium mess”. The article...

Hikers into semi-finals after playing unbeaten

Jan 08, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hikers into semi-finals after playing unbeaten

Following their successful showing at the Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Festival last month, Hikers got their 2010 campaign off to a solid start with three wins in two days, at the Ventures...

M. Beepat & Sons contributes to GCA Life Skills program

Jan 08, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on M. Beepat & Sons contributes to GCA Life Skills program

M. Beepat & Sons joined the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) in co-sponsoring the Life Skills Programme presently being conducted by the GCA in collaboration with the Commonwealth Youth...

What’s with the Cubana Disaster art competition?

Jan 08, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on What’s with the Cubana Disaster art competition?

Dear Editor, The 25th of December 2009 marked nine months since many Guyanese artists submitted their entries to the Ministry of Local Governments, their paintings of the Cubana Air Disaster. This...

No Freddie! We are not sheep

Jan 08, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on No Freddie! We are not sheep

Dear Editor, I am driven to respond to the column written by none other than the social commentator and gentleman, the brilliant Mr. Frederick Kissoon, who not seeing the people at Velvet Revolution,...

Gajanand Singh stakes claim for National call-up with unbeaten 79

Jan 08, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gajanand Singh stakes claim for National call-up with unbeaten 79

Christian, Johnson also hit 2nd day fifties By Sean Devers Batsmen were again dominant on a docile Bourda track on the second day of Guyana’s three-day practice match against a Rest team yesterday...

PNCR activist to sue police over detention

Jan 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR activist to sue police over detention

Well known People’s National Congress Reform activist Esther Perreira has commenced legal proceedings against the state for what she deems a violation of her constitutional rights, which stems from...

Bring back the ‘cat’

Jan 08, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bring back the ‘cat’

Dear Editor, I would be grateful if you can publish this article pertaining to the robbery committed on a Crabwood Creek businessman. This article is intended for our Honourable President Mr. Bharrat...

2009 in Guyana: Year of the US Embassy

Jan 08, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on 2009 in Guyana: Year of the US Embassy

In the year just gone by, there were more political venalities, more nastiness from the corridors of power than in any calendar year of the rule of President Burnham and Hoyte of the PNC. Yet when...

There is room for miners and loggers alike

Jan 08, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is room for miners and loggers alike

Dear Editor, To put things in their proper perspective, I would like to provide a background to the article appearing in the 2010-01-01 edition of the Stabroek News, entitled “Government Proposes...

Freedom and Development

Jan 08, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Freedom and Development

As we begin this New Year, it does appear that there is a ferment brewing as to what direction exactly our country will be taking in its development trajectory. We have a LCDS that will inform the...

Man, 80, killed in accident

Jan 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Man, 80, killed in accident

An 80-year-old pedal cyclist became the country’s latest road fatality yesterday. The man who was identified as Cyril Haley was struck by a canter truck at the junction of Norton and Chapel Streets...

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FIFA bans former GFF General Secretary Ian Alves over sexual...

May 05, 2026

By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – Former Guyana Football Federation (GFF) General Secretary, Ian Alves, has been banned from all football-related activities for five years after the world...

The PPP was always likely to constrict freedom

May 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is a habit, which we have developed with a certain skill in Guyana. That habit is the borrowing large words from abroad and using them to explain local developments. One such phrase “the resource curse.” It has the sound of intellectualism. But before we surrender to...

A Pin, a Principle, and the Integrity of the Caribbean

May 03, 2026

Territorial claims are decided in court, not worn on a lapel By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – There are moments in international affairs when a seemingly small act reveals a much larger contest of principle. The recent controversy over the wearing, during official engagements in the...

Essequibo: we shall fight, we shall never surrender

May 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Essequibo is Guyana’s. Essequibo will never be conceded. Never compromised. Essequibo is ours, forever be ours. We shall fight everywhere. We shall never surrender. Never Essequibo, so help me God. Noble, stirring words. Indeed, soaring, lofty convictions,...

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