October 2010

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Groovy Soca Monarch competition to jumpstart Mash 2011

Oct 05, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Groovy Soca Monarch competition to jumpstart Mash 2011

Brewery giant Banks DIH yesterday made an early start to Mashramani celebrations with the launch of the first ever Groovy Soca Monarch competition. The company insists the event is not meant to...

Linden electricity workers out on a limb

Oct 05, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Linden electricity workers out on a limb

…we do jobs that are life threatening with no risk allowance Climbing electrical power posts and disconnecting power lines are just two of the life risking duties linesmen at the Linden Electricity...

Puerto Rico 3 Anguilla 1; Cayman Islands 1 St. Martin 1

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Puerto Rico 3 Anguilla 1; Cayman Islands 1 St. Martin 1

Watched by a partisan crowd, hosts and favourites of the Digicel Caribbean Cup (DCC) Group A got off to a winning start. Although dominating possession throughout they did stutter a bit in the...

Bubbly Boyz depart – Under-20s confident of doing well in Guyana

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bubbly Boyz depart – Under-20s confident of doing well in Guyana

Jamaica’s Under-20 footballers left the island yesterday for Guyana for the second phase of Caribbean Football Union (CFU) qualifiers. Following the team’s final training session before departing...

GTTA Schools’ Project for implementation

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA Schools’ Project for implementation

Strategic Plan is priority Following what was described as a “productive meeting” between the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), another such...

CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifying schedule released

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifying schedule released

Guyana face hosts Mexico in first game on Oct. 29 New York: The three-time defending champion United States will open the CONCACAF Women’s World Cup Qualifying tournament against Haiti in Playa del...

Tradewind Tankers tourney gave volleyball lifeline

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tradewind Tankers tourney gave volleyball lifeline

By Rawle Welch The Tradewind Tankers Nationwide Volleyball Tournament that involved most of the top teams in the country produced a lifeline for the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF), but more...

A child-friendly classroom is more than just mounting stuff on the walls

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on A child-friendly classroom is more than just mounting stuff on the walls

Dear Editor, I still cannot understand how we can celebrate two things in one month. I had recommended that Education Month be moved to October and Agriculture Month be in November, since schools...

Mixed fortunes for Guyana

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mixed fortunes for Guyana

Guyana experienced some amount of mixed fortune on the opening day of its competition at the XIX Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India yesterday. In Swimming, Jessica Stephenson swam a personal best...

Revert to the old ticket system at the DHB

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Revert to the old ticket system at the DHB

Dear Editor, The move by Government to stop collecting tickets at the western end of the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) seems like a good idea to help ease the traffic congestion, but I am humbly...

David Granger: Is he the lone surviving member of a class that has disappeared?

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on David Granger: Is he the lone surviving member of a class that has disappeared?

Mr. David Granger has announced his intention to be the President of Guyana. I have other choices that I would give my ballot to, but I would certainly vote for Granger if those other options are not...

Scrapping the new sugar factory may be the best thing

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Scrapping the new sugar factory may be the best thing

Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana if ever it’s to lose power would be its fault and only it. I make this statement on the fact that the administration does not learn from its mistakes, or...

Eusi Kwayana was not a part of the ‘military wing’ of the WPA

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Eusi Kwayana was not a part of the ‘military wing’ of the WPA

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter of Mr. Vassan Ramracha in Kaieteur News of Sunday, October 3, 2010. The essential proposition of Mr. Ramracha is that violence as a political tool is the antithesis...

Time out!

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Time out!

What sort of human being is going to cut off the head of a schoolgirl? What depraved individual is going to do something like this? How can someone treat a human being like a fowl and simply cut...

Gandhi’s social sins are common in Guyana

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Gandhi’s social sins are common in Guyana

Dear Editor, October 2 was the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi’s birthday, or Gandhi Jayanti, is celebrated every year as the International Day of Non-Violence. The Mahatma, who was...

A failure to act and the consequences

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A failure to act and the consequences

Over the weekend a resident in the vicinity of Emerald Towers made a most gruesome discovery. He found the headless body of a woman who turned out to be none other than a sixteen-year-old student...

The TSU remit has to be revised

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The TSU remit has to be revised

Dear Editor, There was a time when the words ‘lawlessness’ and ‘wickedness’ carried the force of their conviction. Without absolutely knowing their meaning, you instinctively knew they...

The GPF and its incompetence

Oct 05, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The GPF and its incompetence

Dear Editor, On numerous occasions, government officials, especially those at the Ministry of Home Affairs condemn any criticism of the security forces as unhelpful and harbouring devious intentions....

Guyana continues strides to battle HIV – Dr Singh

Oct 05, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana continues strides to battle HIV – Dr Singh

In recognition of its enduring efforts to battle the dreaded Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Guyana was recently selected as a pilot country to implement ongoing monitoring of antiretroviral...

Headless body in suitcase a…QC student

Oct 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Headless body in suitcase a…QC student

– mother, ‘stepfather’ in custody Inheritance at centre of sordid tale of sex, drugs and abuse By Janelle Carter The headless body that was found in a suitcase at Emerald Tower Resort has...

Dem boys seh…Don’t mek strange joke wid Bharrat

Oct 04, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Don’t mek strange joke wid Bharrat

Dem boys get into trouble yesterday when dem mek joke wid Bharrat and claim how he building house all of a sudden. Joke is joke and sport is sport. Is not everybody does tek some things as joke. Dem...

Month of the Elderly launched at the Palms

Oct 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Month of the Elderly launched at the Palms

Under the theme “Working for the Elderly, Celebrating their contributions to Guyana”, the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security has designated October as the “Month of the...

US professor shares expertise on climate change

Oct 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on US professor shares expertise on climate change

The University of Guyana has teamed up with yet another partner in the effort to bring the Climate Change to mainstream audiences – this time their efforts are being aided by the American Embassy...

Police arrest East Bank resident

Oct 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Police arrest East Bank resident

Stabroek Market murder… Ranks from the Tactical Services Unit yesterday afternoon arrested a mother of two whom they say is wanted in connection with the murder of market vendor Letuica Rodriquez,...

Cheaper options were available to prevent flooding

Oct 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Cheaper options were available to prevent flooding

EDWC Relief Canal… – Carberry “The publicly expressed views of experienced and knowledgeable engineers have indicated that it would be cheaper and safer to construct the Northern Relief...

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(Kaieteur News) – The undefeated Guyana Amazon Warriors extended their flawless win streak this season while keeping their 2-0 record at home safe, after crushing the St. Kitts & Nevis...

The Kara Kara conundrum

Sep 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Linden Town Council does not possess an untouchable constitutional right to administer its affairs. The Constitution does not confer upon the Linden Town Council an unfettered right to govern Linden in whatever manner it chooses. It establishes local government within 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...

Exxon upping the amps – profits

Sep 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It is fascinating to watch Exxon on the move. Its people taking the floor, speaking with power and supreme confidence. What’s good news for Exxon’s investors is bad news for Guyanese. Follow Exxon’s sequence. It moved quickly. Burst the halo and bubble surrounding...

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