July 2010

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Digicel continues trend of assistance for sports

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel continues trend of assistance for sports

Following a string of financial support to many other sport disciplines, Digicel continued its trend of assistance towards the development of sports with another exhibition of benevolence with East...

Guyana’s sugar market in Europe assured

Jul 23, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Guyana’s sugar market in Europe assured

– Tate and Lyle By Leonard Gildarie Guyana’s sugar market in Europe is assured. This confident expression was made by visiting officials of Tate and Lyle (T&L) yesterday. Their visit...

Street Warriors X1 prevail over Kitty All Stars X1

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Street Warriors X1 prevail over Kitty All Stars X1

Street Warriors X1, led by a disciplined unbeaten knock of 47 from Melissa Cummings (5×4) with support from Dawn Budhram (40*) whose knock included 4 sixes and a pair of fours, defeated Kitty...

Guyana/Barbados play to no result; other games end in draws

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana/Barbados play to no result; other games end in draws

Rain again had the final say on the 3rd and final day in Round 4 matches of the 2010 TCL West Indies Under-19 three-day Challenge in St. Lucia yesterday. Playing at Dennery the game between Guyana...

All Saints carts off team title

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on All Saints carts off team title

Four schools participated in this year’s 12th Annual Hilbert “Beef” Humphrey Memorial Inter-Primary Schools Mini-Tennis Tournament which was played recently, at the Republic Bank Court in...

Govt. flays Mahaicony Rice Mills over farmers’ payments

Jul 23, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Govt. flays Mahaicony Rice Mills over farmers’ payments

– tables bill mandating millers’ 10% deposit Government regulators of the rice industry are one step closer to making into law a 10% bond by millers to ensure that farmers are paid. It will...

Giftland partners with Cool Crew for sports events

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Giftland partners with Cool Crew for sports events

Giftland OfficeMax have partnered with Cool Crew Promotion and Skeet Entertainment to host a variety of sports events that forms part of “The Second Annual East Coast Reunion” under theme “A...

No position taken as yet on draft report – GGDMA

Jul 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on No position taken as yet on draft report – GGDMA

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) says that a draft report being prepared by a special committee to make key recommendations for the industry is still being studied. As a matter...

TOO LAZY TO MAKE THE EFFORT

Jul 23, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on TOO LAZY TO MAKE THE EFFORT

A great many of our children have met their deaths after being sent to purchase items for their parents or simply being allowed to roam free about their communities. A great many of the children who...

Mr. Ralph Ramkarran protected his party’s image instead of promoting the people’s interests

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Ralph Ramkarran protected his party’s image instead of promoting the people’s interests

Dear Editor, If Mr. Ralph Ramkarran was just another PPP executive member with an eye on the 2011 presidency, I wouldn’t bother reacting to his recent public remarks about running for the office if...

What anti-govt. newspapers?

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on What anti-govt. newspapers?

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to a letter carried in the Sunday Chronicle (July 18, 2010) by Todd Morgan which carried the heading “Opposition henchmen, or just blinded by hate?” I write...

Refusal of the ERC to entertain union’s complaint

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Refusal of the ERC to entertain union’s complaint

Dear Editor, As a citizen of Guyana I am very concerned that the complaint filed by the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) many months ago before the Ethnic Relations Commission...

Examining the phase ‘predatory political culture’

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Examining the phase ‘predatory political culture’

Dear Editor, I refer to Dr. Prem Misir’s letter titled, “Racial incitement is an illicit mechanism in the pursuit of power” (Kaieteur News of July 19th). Dr. Misir is accusing unnamed persons...

Violence, murder, mystery and the vanishing truth

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Violence, murder, mystery and the vanishing truth

If social commentators, editors in the private media and opposition parties had inquired as to a Roger Khan connection in the death of Sash Sawh and his siblings, anger, rage and cussing down would...

Union unrepentant about Pegasus picketing exercise

Jul 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Union unrepentant about Pegasus picketing exercise

“FITUG has taken up this matter of the Pegasus…We have done the picketing. We have no apology to make to have gone and picket the premises, and to go and picket the premises where we did. We have...

Autocrats and Democracy

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Autocrats and Democracy

Commenting on ex-dictator Desi Bouterse’s accession to the presidency of Suriname (“Return of the Strongman”, July 20th 2010) we posed the question, “What does it say for democracy, when...

The negative power of music on youth

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The negative power of music on youth

Dear Editor, It is dangerously callous to underestimate the power of influence that music and films carry. I have argued with social activists in the UK, that when looking at the continuous...

MMU’s operations to end July 31

Jul 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on MMU’s operations to end July 31

More than a dozen professionals would be on the breadline after Government’s decision to shut down the operations of the Guyana Elections Commission’s Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) this month end....

Journalists have to be careful – new software can alter, shape and change reality

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Journalists have to be careful – new software can alter, shape and change reality

Dear Editor, It was a really eventful week for journalism in the US when an altered recording of a speech delivered in 1986 by Mrs. Shirley Sherrod was aired on Fox News sparking racial outrage among...

Digical to sponsor major track and field meet in Linden

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digical to sponsor major track and field meet in Linden

Local, regional and international telecommunication giants, Digicel Guyana will sponsor a major track and field meet that is set for the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) Ground, Linden on August 29, and...

Not a single day passes without concerns about political corruption being expressed

Jul 23, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Not a single day passes without concerns about political corruption being expressed

Dear Editor, In 1968 Samuel Huntington argued that by greasing the wheels of the economy and so removing bureaucratic and other practices that impede investments and development, political corruption...

Juror forces Judge to abort murder trial

Jul 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Juror forces Judge to abort murder trial

A juror did not disclose that he had an indictable matter in court and that the defense counsel is his attorney in Magistrate court. The result was that Justice Brassington Reynolds was forced to...

Woman accused of fleecing 31 house lot seekers of $9M

Jul 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Woman accused of fleecing 31 house lot seekers of $9M

A 40-year-old woman of Grass Field, Lusignan, has been remanded after being read a total of 31 charges relating to fraud. The accused, Chandrawattie Sedarie, made her appearance yesterday at the...

Remigrant suffers two robberies in three days

Jul 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Remigrant suffers two robberies in three days

… now rethinks options Re-migrant Guyanese businessman, Gopichand Niranjan, says that he is going to seriously rethink his options after three armed men invaded his Courbane Park, Annandale home...

Kadir accused of spying for Iran

Jul 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Kadir accused of spying for Iran

New York- The trial of two men accused of plotting to attack Kennedy International Airport took an unexpected twist on Wednesday when prosecutors suggested that one of the men, a former government...

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An insult to our intelligence

May 14, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – We are told that the reason regular government press conferences have disappeared is because the administration has moved from “campaign mode” into “implementation mode.” In other words, governing has apparently become too demanding an occupation to permit the...

The Caribbean’s Limits in Absorbing Other States’ Deportees

May 10, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws. The United States has that right, as does every sovereign state. All Caribbean governments...

Sanctity of contract

May 14, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Sanctity of contract has a resonant ring. In isolation. Sanctity of contract placed next to sanctity of sovereignty doesn’t have a leg on which to stand. It pales. It must fade. For what does sanctity of contract do to sanctity of...

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