October 2010

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Lampkin, Anderson in winners’ row

Oct 19, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lampkin, Anderson in winners’ row

Nigel Lampkin and Esan Anderson were the respective winners in the ‘B’ and ‘C’ class categories in the Oasis Water Inc Draughts Tournament which was played on Saturday at the Guyana Legion...

Guyanese abroad forced to travel home for new passport

Oct 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese abroad forced to travel home for new passport

Guyanese residing in St Kitts and Nevis are being forced to return home before they can be issued with a machine readable passport. They have since sought to petition the Guyanese authorities to...

Pollydore rides away with A. Ally and sons’ 25th Anniversary race

Oct 19, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pollydore rides away with A. Ally and sons’ 25th Anniversary race

Overseas based Guyanese and National Cycling Champion Godfrey Pollydore flew into the country only a few days ago, don his cycling gear and rode to victory in the A. Ally and sons sponsored 25th...

What else is Govt. telling GECOM to do?

Oct 19, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on What else is Govt. telling GECOM to do?

Dear Editor, Ever since the 1997 elections that ended with the president-to-be Janet Jagan throwing a legal court document over her shoulder, and the haste with which the then GECOM Chairman and...

Darren Sammy’s appointment represents a break with the market-oriented leadership

Oct 19, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Darren Sammy’s appointment represents a break with the market-oriented leadership

Dear Editor, When I said a year ago that Darren Sammy should lead the West Indies cricket team, I based my conclusion primarily on the need to entrust the leadership of the region’s most important...

The destruction of public property

Oct 19, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The destruction of public property

Dear Editor, We often hear about vandals destroying schools, health clinics and other public buildings, but it is amazing to witness a man and his two sons willfully removing structures that were...

Mother claims son was murdered

Oct 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mother claims son was murdered

Four persons are in custody, including two policemen, as investigation continues into the shooting death of a 20 -year old Neighbourhood policeman, Nityanand Baginauth of 35 Scotsburg. The young man...

Unknown gunman shoots Vreed-en-Hoop man

Oct 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Unknown gunman shoots Vreed-en-Hoop man

Police on the West Coast of Demerara are investigating an incident during which a man was shot in the groin by an unknown gunman. Reports are that 29-year-old Rovin Maniram was shot around 02:30...

Port Kaituma robbery suspects appear in court

Oct 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Port Kaituma robbery suspects appear in court

The three suspects who were caught after robbing a Port Kaituma businesswoman on Friday were yesterday slapped one robbery, one wounding charge and two charges of possession of illegal firearm and...

GMR&SC stages motorcade

Oct 19, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC stages motorcade

-International Race Meet promotion to continue In its effort to whip up support for the November 7 Caribbean Motor Racing Championship, the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) staged a...

Questions for the Ministry of Labour and Go-Invest on closure of Barama’s plywood plant

Oct 19, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Questions for the Ministry of Labour and Go-Invest on closure of Barama’s plywood plant

Dear Editor, The Table at the end of this letter shows that Barama Company Ltd. has been running its plywood plant at lower and lower levels from its installed mill capacity of 108,000 m3 of plywood...

The death trap

Oct 19, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The death trap

There is no end to the indiscipline that is claiming so many lives on the streets. A simple observation would reveal that most of these deaths occur at weekends. It is the same with the most violent...

It’s about time this vexing situation in Annandale ends

Oct 19, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on It’s about time this vexing situation in Annandale ends

Dear Editor, Annandale, especially Annandale North is a place in rapid decline. I yet again repeat what the last two letters highlighted. What is quite bothersome is that the street of Ramsingh is...

Progressively developing the health sector

Oct 19, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Progressively developing the health sector

Dear Editor, I would like to highlight some other important improvement that the Government has made in the health sector. I also congratulate the current administration for the emphasis placed on...

THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO

Oct 19, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO

In this week’s column we examine whether the decision of Venezuela to go “nuclear” will trigger a conflict that will pull Guyana along. This past week, it was announced that the Venezuelan...

Guyana Fire Service prevails in 3-team domino tourney

Oct 19, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Fire Service prevails in 3-team domino tourney

Rawle Barrow won 16 games, with support from Von Venture, who amassed 15 games, and Tricia Leander and Alison Peterson (14 games apiece) to register 78 games and spearhead the Guyana Fire Service...

Several rushed to hospital for suspected food poisoning

Oct 18, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Several rushed to hospital for suspected food poisoning

By Melissa Johnson NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Scores of persons were rushed to the New Amsterdam and Georgetown Hospitals last night for suspected food poisoning, shortly after consuming a meal at a...

Cops nab third suspect in Port Kaituma heist

Oct 18, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Cops nab third suspect in Port Kaituma heist

– booty still not recovered Police have nabbed a third suspect in connection with the recent Port Kaituma robbery in which bandits shot a police rank and brutalised a pregnant woman. Reports...

RC kills self with detective’s gun

Oct 18, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on RC kills self with detective’s gun

Senior police officials were last night investigating the death of a young rural constable from the Springlands Police Station, who allegedly shot himself in the head with a detective’s gun. The...

Dem boys seh….Police can’t sleep these days

Oct 18, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh….Police can’t sleep these days

Bharrat come home Saturday night and dem boys see security like never before. All dem street corner block off and police who been home sleeping had to come out and stand up to block traffic. Wha got...

Woman shot in leg, children held at gunpoint

Oct 18, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Woman shot in leg, children held at gunpoint

Bandits terrorise Kaneville family… – suspects send threatening calls to victims Three armed bandits stormed a Kaneville East Bank Demerara home, shortly after midnight yesterday,...

Tapir kills motorcyclist on Corriverton road

Oct 18, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Tapir kills motorcyclist on Corriverton road

Rudolph February, a 48 year old resident of 190 Kingston Corriverton is the country’s latest road fatality as a result of an accident on the village’s public road around 19:15 hours last night....

Sarwan axed

Oct 18, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sarwan axed

Sammy replaces Gayle as captain for Sri Lanka tour By Sean Devers in Jamaica Elegant middle order batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan has not been selected for next month’s West Indies tour to Sri Lanka and...

Manickchand works toward deepening relations on eco-conservation

Oct 18, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Manickchand works toward deepening relations on eco-conservation

Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand, during her recent trip to the United States met with two leading professors with a view of promoting local eco-conservation. She...

‘Golden Jaguars’ roar to 2-0 win over Suriname to top group

Oct 18, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Golden Jaguars’ roar to 2-0 win over Suriname to top group

By Franklin Wilson in Suriname with the compliments of Digicel There was no stopping the ‘Golden Jaguars’ last evening at the Andre Kamperveen Stadium, Paramaribo Suriname, a solid performance...

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Tahir (5-17), Mehidy (3-13) magic show leaves Kings in disarray as...

Sep 10, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL…GAW vs. SKL (Kaieteur News) – Two mind-boggling spells from spin wizard Imran Tahir, who put on a magic show for his 5-fer, backed by Mehidy Hasan Miraz’s 3 wickets on...

When someone we love is taken from us

Sep 10, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – After my first encounter with the Guru, I had to probe for some more life lessons. I pressed Guru a much heavier question. “Guru,” I said, “how does one recover from losing someone one loves?” He did not answer immediately. Perhaps there are some questions that deserve...

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...

A double centurion-not Roman, but Guyanese

Sep 10, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I have honoured before and lived to regret the lapse. In the instance of Chartered Accountant, attorney-at-law, and social activist, there is firm belief that I’m on good grounds to publish this tribute. For the milestone of his 200th oil and gas column. A milestone...

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