April 2010

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Woes continue at UG

Apr 13, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Woes continue at UG

Dear Editor, I offer my little piece on happenings at the University of Guyana (UG), the premiere academic institution in the country. At best, the milieu is very depressing and suggests the...

Still no reply to requests for information on the LCDS

Apr 13, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Still no reply to requests for information on the LCDS

Dear Editor, A number of letter writers to the daily newspapers seem to be confused about the protocol prepared by the International Institute for Environment and Development (Edinburgh, UK) for the...

Ethnic alliances, the way forward

Apr 13, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Ethnic alliances, the way forward

Dear Editor, Guyanese history is not inundated with racial conflict but ethnic alliances. This is what some politicians want us to believe. Rodney makes the point that the case advanced of highly...

Another paid sycophant?

Apr 13, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Another paid sycophant?

Dear Editor, Twice in recent weeks I read the puerile, inane and myopic attempts/offerings of Davenand Bhagwan. He simply is the ultimate expert at spotting the ‘mote’ in Freddie Kissoon’s...

When leaders die

Apr 13, 2010 knews Editorial Comments Off on When leaders die

The death of a world leader is always serious business. However, when that world leader and the crust of his Cabinet die then that is tantamount to a disaster. This was the case when Polish leader,...

Three paediatric heart surgeries successfully completed at CHI

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Three paediatric heart surgeries successfully completed at CHI

By Sharmain Cornette By afternoon yesterday, three young children had already undergone successful open heart operations and another was being prepared for surgery last night, all marking a historic...

Education Ministry repeatedly flouts Procurement Law

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry repeatedly flouts Procurement Law

– millions involved The long awaited 2008 Auditor General Report which has pointed out a plethora of financial discrepancies as it relates to several Ministries and Budget agencies, has...

GPL ingenious wiring scares La Penitence family

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GPL ingenious wiring scares La Penitence family

A North East La Penitence family is extremely perturbed at the manner in which the Guyana Power and Light Inc. has strung up a connection that traverses their property. The Wilson family who resides...

Cops trying to contact US based suspect

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Cops trying to contact US based suspect

Diamond hit-and-run death… Police are trying to contact an overseas-based Guyanese to ascertain whether he was involved in the hit-and-run accident in which Ramona Harris perished on Good Friday....

Berbician chopped to death

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Berbician chopped to death

…suspect in custody ANGOY’S AVENUE, NEW AMSTERDAM – A known drug addict in New Amsterdam was chopped to death at his home yesterday. The suspect is said to be a fellow ‘junkie’ who shared...

19-year-old killed in road accident

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on 19-year-old killed in road accident

– driver detained Nineteen-year-old, Ramesh Persaud, of Railway View, Meten-meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, yesterday morning succumbed to massive head injuries, hours after he was struck down...

Dem boys seh…..Protestors protesting de protest

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…..Protestors protesting de protest

Imagine when de PNC used to protest de government people use to claim how dem is terrorist and how dem disrupting de national economy. One day de PNC go right in front Office of de President and...

Executed Mon Repos exporter owed $10M

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Executed Mon Repos exporter owed $10M

– businessmen still is custody Detectives have received reports that executed fish exporter, Rajendra Sonilall, owed a business associate $10M, and they are trying to ascertain if the debt is...

Judge’s notes disappear from Supreme Court

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Judge’s notes disappear from Supreme Court

State vs. Toucan Suites owner… Like the long manhunt for gunman Linden ‘Blackie’ London, the case of Toucan Suites owner, Norman Trotz, versus the State is taking several surprising twists...

Deonarine top-scores again as Windies beat Ireland by 31 runs

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Deonarine top-scores again as Windies beat Ireland by 31 runs

Guyanese Narsingh Deonarine continued to impress at the International 20/20 level even as fellow countrymen Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul again failed to fire as the West Indies beat...

Ministry of Finance has trouble keeping their own finances straight

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry of Finance has trouble keeping their own finances straight

“A policy decision is required on the matter” is the only response of the Ministry to several of the irregularities highlighted by the Auditor General in the recently published Public Accounts...

200,000 to get uniforms in new school term

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on 200,000 to get uniforms in new school term

The Government intends to distribute 200,000 uniforms to Nursery, Primary and Secondary School children across the country, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon announced Thursday....

Santos, BK Western Tigers latest Mayor’s Cup winners

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Santos, BK Western Tigers latest Mayor’s Cup winners

Tigers in vicious mode with 6-0 mauling of Den Amstel Santos and BK Western Tigers overcame their West Demerara opposition in last Saturday’s Mayor’s Cup football fixtures at the Georgetown...

Narayan blazes to another century after fire stops play at Malteenoes

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Narayan blazes to another century after fire stops play at Malteenoes

By Sean Devers Cricket matches around the world have been stopped by rain, hail and even snow but yesterday at the Malteenoes ground a blazing fire which threatened the Tutorial High School in...

Alpha travels to T&T tomorrow for 3-way battle; face Jabloteh on Wednesday

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alpha travels to T&T tomorrow for 3-way battle; face Jabloteh on Wednesday

Leading Guyana club side Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United will leave tomorrow for Soca Land, Trinidad and Tobago where they will engage host Club San Juan Jabloteh and Puerto Rico’s River Plate in the...

Lady Jags to play host T&T, Barbados & St. Lucia in round 2

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lady Jags to play host T&T, Barbados & St. Lucia in round 2

Guyana’s Lady Jags who demolished the challenges of Suriname and St. Vincent & the Grenadines in the first round of the Caribbean Women’s Gold Cup qualifying competition will engage hosts...

GECOM denies corruption, calls for special audit

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM denies corruption, calls for special audit

…2008 AG Report indicates otherwise The Guyana Elections Commission in whole page advertisements has claimed to debunk allegations of corruption, eight days after this newspaper carried an article...

Lyght spearheads NL Cavaliers to victory in West Dem as DCC lose twice in a day

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lyght spearheads NL Cavaliers to victory in West Dem as DCC lose twice in a day

The senior players of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) including West Indies ‘A’ team Skipper Travis Dowlin, opted not to represent their team in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Digicel...

Collins becomes first ever C’bean Scrabble champion

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Collins becomes first ever C’bean Scrabble champion

– Guyana end runner-up in Team Competition Guyana’s Frederick Collins became the first ever Caribbean Open Scrabble champion when he defeated a strong field at the recently staged Tri-Nations...

Alpha hammer Buxton 8-1; Milerock & Rosignol needle Camptown & Topp XX

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alpha hammer Buxton 8-1; Milerock & Rosignol needle Camptown & Topp XX

By Franklin Wilson When the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National Super League sponsored by FIFA under the Win in CONCACAF with CONCACAF Project continued on Friday evening, defending...

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GDF, Slingerz stay perfect in GFF Elite League

Sep 15, 2026

…Western Tigers, Fruta Conquerors pick up first win By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Elite League is beginning to take shape, and while the season is still...

Resource sovereignty without institutional competence is an illusion

Sep 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In his column, entitled, “Sovereignty in the Age of Oil” Chris Ram, in making the argument that storage, a refinery and even a national oil company could improve energy security without giving Guyana effective control over production, technology, capital, markets or the...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Minister Persaud pointing the way

Sep 15, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – I have always seen Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr. Vindya Persaud, as different from her cabinet colleagues. Slightly different only. I take whatever the territory gives. Give thanks. Small starts lead to large developments....

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