January 2011

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Maternal and child death reports to be submitted to Cabinet sub-committee

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Maternal and child death reports to be submitted to Cabinet sub-committee

Although all the details of forensic reports are not for the consumption of the general public, it is important that certain details are made known. At least this is according to Minister of Health,...

Missing man’s body found floating in ‘Blacka’

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Missing man’s body found floating in ‘Blacka’

Five days of worry and waiting came to a sad end yesterday for family members of Hilton Richardson. The body of the 65-year-old man was found floating in the Lamaha Canal behind North Ruimveldt at...

Pompey, Forde, Straker tipped for National Awards

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pompey, Forde, Straker tipped for National Awards

– scholarships, competitions priority this year By Edison Jefford After dominant performances last year, athletics’ icon trio, Aliann Pompey, Cleveland Forde and Jevina Straker are set to...

BK Int. Western Tigers Super 8 to kick off on Sunday

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on BK Int. Western Tigers Super 8 to kick off on Sunday

High Octane excitement anticipated with the city’s best on show By Franklin Wilson The inaugural BK International Western Tigers Super-8 knock-out football tournament is finally expected to get...

Chess Federation commences 2011 with Trophy Stall Senior and Junior Tournament

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chess Federation commences 2011 with Trophy Stall Senior and Junior Tournament

Buoyed by a year of hectic activity in 2010, the executive of the Guyana Chess Federation commences this year’s itinerary with much enthusiasm and optimism with the staging of the Trophy Stall...

Guyana dismissed for lowest T20 total by Jamaica

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana dismissed for lowest T20 total by Jamaica

Face Somerset today in crucial match By Sean Devers in Antigua In association with Digicel, Carib Beer, Leisure Inn, GSL, Queensway & Dave’s West Indian Imports (NY) Defending champions Guyana...

Somerset out to win Caribbean T20 title & $12.5 million 1st prize

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Somerset out to win Caribbean T20 title & $12.5 million 1st prize

By Sean Devers in Antigua In association with Digicel, Carib Beer, Leisure Inn, GSL, Queensway & Dave’s West Indian Imports (NY) Somerset is one of two English Counties involved in this...

Darts association AGM set for Sunday

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Darts association AGM set for Sunday

The Annual General Meeting of the Guyana Darts Association has been fixed for this Sunday, at the Malteenoes Sports Club, Thomas Lands, starting at 14:00 hours. After an absence of an AGM for over 3...

65 goals scored in 21st K&S tourney; 4 less than 20th edition

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on 65 goals scored in 21st K&S tourney; 4 less than 20th edition

Four less goals were scored by the 20 teams who contested the 21st Kashif & Shanghai knock-out football tournament which kicked off on December 15, 2010 and concluded on January 1, 2011. City...

Stakeholders must work to ensure success of ProAm Boxing cards says Abdool

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stakeholders must work to ensure success of ProAm Boxing cards says Abdool

By Michael Benjamin After a one month rest the ProAm boxing cards are set to resume with four sizzling bouts this month end and once again boxing buffs can look forward to the exciting fights that...

Powerlifting records commanding 2010 – President Peter Green

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Powerlifting records commanding 2010 – President Peter Green

President of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) is adamant that the sport has recorded a commanding 2010 given the performances of its athletes locally, regionally and internationally....

Monday is Budget Day

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Monday is Budget Day

According to the Government Information Agency, Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh announced yesterday that he will be presenting the National Budget for 2011 to the National Assembly next Monday,...

GWI dependent on public support to maintain sewerage system – PRO

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GWI dependent on public support to maintain sewerage system – PRO

Efforts by the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) to maintain the integrity of the Georgetown sewerage system continues to be hampered by some persons who seek to dispose of undesirable items in the...

Public school teachers mandated to meet with parents – Baksh

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Public school teachers mandated to meet with parents – Baksh

In an attempt to realise continued improvement in the public education system, the Ministry of Education has mandated all schools to meet consistently with parents to discuss their children’s...

Sugar workers call for Commission to review living conditions

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar workers call for Commission to review living conditions

Throughout the course of 2010, the industrial relations climate in the sugar belt could be described as tense at best and bellicose at worst. The culpability of an “absent prone” labour force was...

CARICOM remembers Haiti on anniversary of deadly earthquake

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM remembers Haiti on anniversary of deadly earthquake

The following is a message issued by the Chairman of the Caribbean Community the Honourable Tillman Thomas Prime Minister of Grenada, on the first Anniversary of the earthquake that devastated...

October was deadliest month for road fatalities last year

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on October was deadliest month for road fatalities last year

– pedestrians top list October turned out to be the deadliest month for road users last year, with 22 fatalities. This is according to figures released by the Police Traffic Department...

She asked for it!

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Stella Says Comments Off on She asked for it!

Just before the “Break the Silence, Stop the Violence” rally last November, I was on television almost daily to promote the rally. As a result, many people would come up to me and tell me their...

Man sustains severe injuries after being struck by Tundra

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man sustains severe injuries after being struck by Tundra

Sixty-six-year-old Rodwell Thomas, of 56 Back Street, Mc Doom, is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, nursing injuries to his spine, head, back and neck, after he was...

MRL faces non-renewal of operating licence

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on MRL faces non-renewal of operating licence

The country’s largest rice milling company, which controls an estimated 40 per cent of purchases across the country, is facing the non-renewal of its operating licence over millions it is believed...

Medical Malaise

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Medical Malaise

Dear Editor, There is a justified reason for government elites and the rich not utilising local medical personnel and facilities. And by the way, this is consistent with the late Dr. Cheddie...

The Jagdeo Administration is like a leech

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Jagdeo Administration is like a leech

Dear Editor, The tip of an iceberg is a phrase we often use to describe something much bigger than it appears. This is so because an iceberg is really a very large piece of ice hidden below the...

Politics and emotions

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Politics and emotions

Dear Editor, I strongly believe that Guyanese are very near if not arrived at, that crucial intersection of power, politics and emotions which often times confuse the less perceptive mind and result...

Horrible defence of life’s indefensible things

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Horrible defence of life’s indefensible things

Life has degrees of everything. A simple example is that the offence of pickpocket cannot be treated with the same punishment as robbery with violence. In terms of governmental misbehaviour, there...

Realpolitik Compromise

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Realpolitik Compromise

In a speech delivered last May, Thabo Mbeki, immediate past President of South Africa, revealed the crucial “compromise” that effectively sealed the end of apartheid. The excerpts below should be...

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Kaieteur Sports – Round Three of the Pegasus Weekly Chess League, organized by Drayton’s Chess Club in partnership with the Pegasus Chess Club and Guyana Chess Federation, continued on Monday...

The Ministry diagnoses the wrong disease

Sep 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Ministry of Health’s response to Peeping Tom’s column, “Second-Class Patients,” is a case whereby a medical response is so clinically misplaced that one is tempted to prescribe a second opinion. The Ministry has produced an impressive medical case for something...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

Motions, distance, indifference

Sep 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There’s a human tragedy. Cotton Tree and two cousins. Across Mandarin Bridge and an 11-year-old-child. Police killings in Linden. And, more lately, a boat that went down and took down over 100 Guyanese lives. Poor ones. The rich ones and big ones don’t sail,...

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