February 2, 2011

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Third Annual Cricket Review Magazine launched by BCB

Feb 02, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Third Annual Cricket Review Magazine launched by BCB

The Third Annual Cricket review Magazine of the Berbice Cricket Board was launched on Saturday last at the St. Francis Annex Restaurant in Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, Berbice. RHTY&SC Assistant...

Culture Ministry to retain consultant to update youth policy

Feb 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Culture Ministry to retain consultant to update youth policy

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony during last year’s budget debate had revealed plans to employ a consultant to help upgrade and update the country’s youth policy with...

Miss Republic, The Message, Night Crescendo top horses for 2010

Feb 02, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Miss Republic, The Message, Night Crescendo top horses for 2010

Sabrina Princess, Better than Gold, Super Cat also outstanding Samuel Whyte While it was a foregone and somewhat easy conclusion to decide the top stable and horses for the 2009 racing season, with...

Affected citizens relieved with dumpsite relocation

Feb 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Affected citizens relieved with dumpsite relocation

– Able to access medical care through ECHO programme “We will finally be freed of the mounting dumpsite,” said an elated 20-year-old Yolanda Livan, a resident of North East La Penitence,...

Ministry commences National Legal Awareness

Feb 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry commences National Legal Awareness

Just a few days after what can be described as a spat between the Minister of Human Services Priya Manickchand and Chancellor of the Judiciary Carl Singh, the Justice Administration System Programme...

New dumpsite will not affect nearby housing scheme – Engineer

Feb 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on New dumpsite will not affect nearby housing scheme – Engineer

By Leonard Gildarie A billion-dollar dumpsite facility aback of Eccles, East Bank of Demerara, will in no way affect residents of a new housing scheme that government is building not far away. This...

Police capture wanted robbery suspect

Feb 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police capture wanted robbery suspect

Dorsette McCammon, 29, of 43 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, was remanded to prison by Magistrate Fabayo Azore, yesterday, when he appeared before her at the Albion Magistrate’s Court on three counts...

The US has to let Mubarak go

Feb 02, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The US has to let Mubarak go

Dear Editor, Regarding your editorial, “Egypt Totters” (Jan 30), events are moving with lightning speed and it is unlikely that President Hosni Mubarak will survive for long. America, Israel...

Down with the dictator!

Feb 02, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Stella Says Comments Off on Down with the dictator!

I am so inspired by the recent political revolutions happening in the Mid-East. It is as if someone flipped a switch and the whole region decided it was time to challenge the dictators in power. I...

It’s five years since Ronald Waddell died

Feb 02, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on It’s five years since Ronald Waddell died

Dear Editor, January, 30, 2011, marked five years since the brutal assassination of Guyanese patriot, husband, son, brother, father, friend and comrade, Ronald Waddell, by a faction of the death...

That letter was not mine

Feb 02, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on That letter was not mine

Dear Editor, I am the wife of Mr. Navin Chandarpal’s chauffeur, Claude Leong, who worked with the man from 1996 to 2009. I was shocked and embarrassed when friends called me on Sunday January 23,...

Agricultural revenues, employment in Latin American tropical areas likely to decline – IDB study

Feb 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Agricultural revenues, employment in Latin American tropical areas likely to decline – IDB study

Farmers in Latin America and Caribbean could see billions in lost revenue over the next two decades if a complete ban on deforestation is put in place, highlighting the need for compensatory actions...

Does building a Specialty Hospital mean GPHC will be another White Elephant?

Feb 02, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Does building a Specialty Hospital mean GPHC will be another White Elephant?

Dear Editor I read in your newspaper that the President went to India to get a soft loan for building a Specialty Hospital. If one wants a loan doesn’t one need to have collateral to secure the...

Consumers Ignored

Feb 02, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Consumers Ignored

In 1962, the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, defined consumers as, “The largest economic group in the economy, affecting and affected by almost every public and...

Clouded reasoning and tunnel vision

Feb 02, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Clouded reasoning and tunnel vision

Dear Editor, I read a letter in your Tuesday February 01, 2010 edition entitled, AFC’s lofty ideas lack real substance, where the writer highlighted a general disapproval of that party’s...

This is careless spending

Feb 02, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on This is careless spending

Dear Editor I was in South Ruimveldt Sunday afternoon. While walking across the PLAZA BRIDGE, I observed what I considered a prime example of waste. I traversed that bridge last Sunday and was...

ONE BILLION DOLLARS POORER

Feb 02, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ONE BILLION DOLLARS POORER

Carifesta 2008, hosted in Guyana at a staggering price tag estimated at close to one billion dollars, was good while it lasted. There was a buzz about Guyana, the atmosphere was relaxed but...

Oxford Flight denies licences revoked

Feb 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Oxford Flight denies licences revoked

Oxford Flight, the charter company which suffered two incidents in the space of five months, leaving their aircraft substantially damaged, has denied that its operating licences have been revoked by...

The winds of change

Feb 02, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The winds of change

Dear Editor, We are living in exciting times. Unlike two decades ago when the United States and other western countries were prepared to turn a blind eye to dictatorial regimes, we now are witnessing...

The AFC is a friend. I will forget the insult.

Feb 02, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The AFC is a friend. I will forget the insult.

I voted for the AFC the last election. I probably will do the same this year. As a matter of fact I am available to help the combined opposition. Many in the AFC are people I consider friends....

Desperate employee faces court on break and enter charge

Feb 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Desperate employee faces court on break and enter charge

After allegedly pilfering $143,000 worth of articles from his employer, Collis Duke found himself yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Duke...

PPP exploits racial fears to enbloc Indo Guyanese votes

Feb 02, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP exploits racial fears to enbloc Indo Guyanese votes

Dear Editor, I read Ms Lurlene Nestor’s letter, “KhemrajRamjattan’s Bath settlement call was ill advised,” (KN 01-22-11) in which she dealt with Mr Ramjattan’s request to Indo Guyanese not...

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Grudge Match looming as Warriors/Falcons collide tonight

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2026 Republic Bank CPL Playoffs… GAW vs. ABF – Guyana eyeing revenge following first season loss to Antigua By Clifton Ross (Kaieteur News) – The stage is set for a blockbuster clash at...

Save our stories before they disappear

Sep 17, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I asked a middle-aged woman if she knew Rabbi Washington. She vaguely recalled the name but nothing more. This is exactly how most of our collective memory works these days. When I mentioned other Guyanese public figures from the 1970s and 1980s, she drew a blank on most of...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

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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...

PPP most ruthless guerrilla fighters of all

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(Kaieteur News) – BBC and other Western media called them irregulars. Unorthodox also sold well. I fuse elements from irregulars and unorthodox to my preference for unpredictable. Guerrilla fighters and stealth operators have still endured. In any study of both, there’s none better...

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