August 2010

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First Victoria Village conference opens tomorrow

Aug 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on First Victoria Village conference opens tomorrow

– Youths trained to serve as attendants A group of young Victorians completed a two-day training programme designed to equip them to function as Conference attendants during the First...

Waka, Waka (Do it/Get the task done) Guyana in South Africa!

Aug 04, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Waka, Waka (Do it/Get the task done) Guyana in South Africa!

Sports Minister pledges Government support for team’s preparations By Sean Devers The entire Caribbean was behind Trinidad and Tobago as they reached the final of the last year’s Champions League...

34th Annual Teach Them Young cycling programme up and running

Aug 04, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on 34th Annual Teach Them Young cycling programme up and running

The National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored Teach Them Young which is in its 34th consecutive year, is up and running at the National Park. Speaking with Kaieteur Sport yesterday at the Park,...

Aspiring cricketers urged to capitalise on available opportunities

Aug 04, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Aspiring cricketers urged to capitalise on available opportunities

President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), Chetram Singh urged more than 37 aspiring cricketers to capitalize on all available opportunities while setting their sights on the ultimate goal of...

Exciting day of races promised at Kennard horserace Meeting

Aug 04, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Exciting day of races promised at Kennard horserace Meeting

The Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) has become synonymous, not only with horserace events, but with excitement and quality. Indeed there is never a dull moment whenever such animals as Sequin,...

Let us not fool ourselves

Aug 04, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Let us not fool ourselves

– huge financial backing is the only recipe By Rawle Welch As I sat at my desk at office yesterday reading two articles from the Trinidad Guardian and the Barbados Nation respectively, I felt a...

Pornography

Aug 04, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Pornography

There is a very disconcerting phenomenon that has developed along with our burgeoning TV industry: pornographic movies with the most explicit, graphically depicted acts of sexual couplings are...

Guyana Relief Council takes hampers to Mahdia fire victims

Aug 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Relief Council takes hampers to Mahdia fire victims

The Guyana Relief Council (GRC) last Friday distributed hampers of mainly food items to families who suffered losses when fire swept through the business section of Mahdia last month. The donation...

M&CC, GLU in deadlock on wage bill cut issue

Aug 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on M&CC, GLU in deadlock on wage bill cut issue

By Sharmain Cornette The hierarchy of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) is gearing to present the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) with an ultimatum which will influence the way the city...

We need a proper witness protection programme

Aug 04, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need a proper witness protection programme

Dear Editor, While I commend Assistant Commissioner of Police for his recent stand, without the support of his ranks and his superiors the situation will just continue to be the same. How is it...

Has countdown time begun?

Aug 04, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Has countdown time begun?

We are in the month of August. It makes it a year to go before we enter the most historic election ever to be held in this country. We thought it would have been 1992. But what emerged was an...

An advanced society should endow not fewer rights but an expansion of human freedom

Aug 04, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on An advanced society should endow not fewer rights but an expansion of human freedom

Dear Editor, To all African descendants of Guyana and the Caribbean, at home or elsewhere in the world, and to all Guyanese who value the significance of August 1, Emancipation Day, or who...

The entire hydro project should be sent back to the drawing board

Aug 04, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The entire hydro project should be sent back to the drawing board

Dear Editor, House Speaker, Mr. Ralph Ramkarran, is on record stating that corruption is one of three areas he wants to tackle if he becomes President, and hopefully, based on Kaieteur News’ latest...

DDL cops first ever Annual Report Award

Aug 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on DDL cops first ever Annual Report Award

The Demerara Distillers Limited has copped the first ever Annual Report Award, beating out 17 other companies. The accolade was for the company’s 2009 Annual Report. The initiative was launched as...

Playing Fair

Aug 04, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Playing Fair

When I was a child, I thought as a child, but even then I knew and understood the principles of playing fair. I knew that each person should get their turn and that if I brought candy into a group of...

THE AFC COULD BECOME THE NEXT MAIN OPPOSITION PARTY

Aug 04, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE AFC COULD BECOME THE NEXT MAIN OPPOSITION PARTY

This week we continue our examination of the decision of the Alliance For Change (AFC) against entering at this stage into any pre-election alliance with either the People’s National Congress...

Abdul Kadir, DeFreitas guilty

Aug 03, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Abdul Kadir, DeFreitas guilty

– Face life imprisonment (From the New York Times) A federal jury yesterday found two Guyanese men guilty of conspiring to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport, concluding a...

Esso station attacked in early morning rampage

Aug 03, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Esso station attacked in early morning rampage

– no response from 911 in hours A city gas station was the scene of an early morning ordeal, when for the third time in four months, there was a violent attack and robbery, and the...

Jagdeo way off the mark on The Bahamas’ hotel occupancy rate

Aug 03, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo way off the mark on The Bahamas’ hotel occupancy rate

Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo whilst speaking at the commissioning ceremony of the GT&T fibre optic cable recently, in reference to the proposed Marriott Hotel and seeking to justify its...

I will not allow ranks under my watch to be lackadaisical – Commander Primo

Aug 03, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on I will not allow ranks under my watch to be lackadaisical – Commander Primo

Police ranks on the East Coast of Demerara are upset over a report in this newspaper that highlighted their alleged non-response to a robbery in the Coldingen area on Sunday night. The report stated...

Police seize Lethem businessman’s firearm in wife-beating probe

Aug 03, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Police seize Lethem businessman’s firearm in wife-beating probe

Police at Lethem have seized the firearm of a popular businessman after they arrested him for physically abusing his wife. The businessman, who was also a leading figure in the Rupununi Chamber of...

Missing man’s relatives head for Suriname after a body is found

Aug 03, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Missing man’s relatives head for Suriname after a body is found

… Trawler explosion Relatives of missing fisherman, Ravi Ragoonauth, are preparing to travel to neighboring Suriname later today to view the remains of a man who was fished out of Suriname...

E’bo Islands student is Miss Wakenaam

Aug 03, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo Islands student is Miss Wakenaam

Kudos are in order for the committee members responsible for the splendid Wakenaam Nite staged last Saturday at the Community Centre, and if all goes well, the venture is well on its way to becoming...

Labour Ministry survey begins today

Aug 03, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Labour Ministry survey begins today

The annual Occupational Wages and Hours of Work Survey will begin today, according to the Ministry of Labour. A release from the ministry states that the survey will include questions on wages and...

World Breastfeeding Week commences

Aug 03, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on World Breastfeeding Week commences

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from August 1-7 in more than 120 countries, including Guyana, to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies. It commemorates the...

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Kaieteur Sports – The spirit of discipline, excellence, and competition was on full display as ISKF Guyana successfully hosted its Annual Independence Karate Tournament on Saturday, June 6, 2026,...

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(Kaieteur News) – In 1978, a movie was released by United Artistes. The Wild Geese was not a spectacular box office hit but given that it was in part an action movie, it did reasonably well to turn a small profit and to have a sequel. The plot was quite simple. It was about a group […]

Language is Infrastructure – Why Antigua and Barbuda’s...

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Antigua and Barbuda is one of the smaller countries of the Caribbean. Yet small states have often advanced ideas that have significance beyond their size. The decision by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, led by Prime Minister Gaston Browne, to make...

UG Green Institute Prelim. Report Pt. 1

Jun 10, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The University of Guyana Green Institute (UGGI) did its 60th Independence Survey. Titled: Guyana at 60: Trust, Oil, and the Society Being Built. The Preliminary Report is out. It’s a start. Guyanese get to hear from academics with their models and...

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