February 2011

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Endurance Race to start off GMR&SC 2011 Programme

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Endurance Race to start off GMR&SC 2011 Programme

Having had to cancel the season opening Drag Race Meet which was scheduled to be staged on February 20 due to the deaths of two members of the racing fraternity, the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports...

Rockies host reception for hinterland athletes

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rockies host reception for hinterland athletes

– NACAC team invited, but did not show up Popular Brazilian Sports Bar, Rockies, hosted a reception Monday night at its 21 Light Street location for the hinterland-based athletes that recently...

50 year-old US citizen nabbed with coke at CJIA

Feb 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 50 year-old US citizen nabbed with coke at CJIA

Yet another US citizen has been nabbed by Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) ranks, trying to smuggle cocaine out of Guyana via the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri. According to reports,...

Veteran journalist Sharief Khan passes on

Feb 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Veteran journalist Sharief Khan passes on

The media fraternity has once again been plunged into mourning with the sudden passing of another of its stalwarts, Sharief Khan, a few months shy of achieving the age of 60. Khan collapsed and died...

Prison officials ‘concerned’ about discovery of .32 round

Feb 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Prison officials ‘concerned’ about discovery of .32 round

– Erskine reassures staff on alert Director of Prisons Dale Erskine said yesterday that the discovery of a .32 round in the prison was cause for concern, but reassured that staffers at the Camp...

PNCR Presidential hopeful promises youth engagement programmes

Feb 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR Presidential hopeful promises youth engagement programmes

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Presidential hopeful Dr. Faith Harding has announced a plan to have youths purposefully engaged in Guyana’s development. The strategy to achieve this was...

Billion-dollar fund launched for Haiti’s reconstruction

Feb 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Billion-dollar fund launched for Haiti’s reconstruction

Head of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA), Clinton Williams, last weekend returned from the second CARICOM Private Sector-led forum in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The forum was...

Ithaca wife killer gets 30 years

Feb 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ithaca wife killer gets 30 years

Thirty-two year old Gladstone Williamson, charged with killing 31-year-old plantain chip vendor Gertrude Edwards, was yesterday sentenced to a total of 30 years in jail by Justice Franklyn Holder,...

Tell a lie often enough and you can believe it

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Tell a lie often enough and you can believe it

Dear Editor: Every so often, there are moments that define a generation. For Guyana, the YEAR 1953 was one such moment with Jagan and Burnham winning 18 of the 24 seats in the National Assembly....

Water receding but several communities still inundated – Officials

Feb 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Water receding but several communities still inundated – Officials

– rains reach record levels in February Authorities have repeated warnings of more showers for today’s Mashramani celebrations even as rainfall surpassed record levels for this month. While...

1763: Lest we forget

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on 1763: Lest we forget

Dear Editor, By the time you read this letter today, February 23, a major slave rebellion, exactly 248 years ago, is just stirring or is gathering unstoppable momentum. On this morning in 1763, the...

Thank you, President Jagdeo, for caring about the women of Guyana

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Stella Says Comments Off on Thank you, President Jagdeo, for caring about the women of Guyana

I heard a host of angels sing as I read the status update on Monday on NCN Guyana’s Facebook page. It said, “President Bharrat Jagdeo is calling on citizens to break the silence to injustice. The...

David Granger – the best PNCR Candidate for President

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on David Granger – the best PNCR Candidate for President

Dear Editor, As I listen to the news, read the papers and engage in conservation as we gear for regional and national elections later in the year, I am very concerned that many of our citizens are...

The AFC never delivered

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The AFC never delivered

Dear Editor, AFC’s General Secretary, Sixtus Edwards writes “In Animal Farm terminology some pigs are more equal than others” in KN of 19th February 2011. I would like to ask Mr. Edwards after...

Gaddafi must be charged for war crimes now!

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Gaddafi must be charged for war crimes now!

I do not believe in the death penalty. In a referendum I would vote for its abolition. That doesn’t mean I was unhappy when Saddam Hussein was hanged. If I had to vote on his execution, I probably...

Democracy in Guyana: and the PNC’s callous legacy

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Democracy in Guyana: and the PNC’s callous legacy

Dear Editor I am not usually in the habit of responding to people who present minimal appropriate evidence. Nonetheless, in the Kaieteur News of February 21, 2011, there are two letters that require...

Republic Day

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Republic Day

Today should be one of the proudest days in the life of our nation – Republic Day. While some may confer that honour on Independence Day, May 26th, we do believe that because our umbilical cord to...

WHY CONSULT ONLY NOW?

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHY CONSULT ONLY NOW?

A government democratically elected to office, must rule as if it enjoys the will of the people. It must confidently exercise its mandate by making decisions and acting decisively on those decisions....

There was a mistake here

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on There was a mistake here

Dear editor, Your article on February 21, 2011 that dealt with the number of cases handled by the Child Care and Protection Agency for 2010 and attributed to information from a recent interview with...

Guyana needs a very special leader

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana needs a very special leader

Dear Editor, As Guyana approaches yet another election it is time to take stock of where we are as a nation. We are not a cohesive nation. We are divided along racial lines more than we ever were in...

Kissoon and his anti non-resident immigrant stance

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kissoon and his anti non-resident immigrant stance

Dear Editor, Please permit me a space in your column to respond to Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s column, ‘Raphael Trotman needs a course in existentialist philosophy’. Kissoon is clearly not being...

Of corruption and cronyism

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Of corruption and cronyism

Dear Editor, Today as we are concentrating on the issue of potential candidates for the presidential elections, we address certain issues such as the position of the candidates with regards to...

TEARS FOR “KHANA”

Feb 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on TEARS FOR “KHANA”

Dear Editor, For many years now I called him “Khana”, a hybrid of his name “Khan” and the Caribbean News Agency (Cana), with which he was associated. That was more than 35 years ago. And...

IPA boss accuses Health Minister of dishonesty

Feb 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on IPA boss accuses Health Minister of dishonesty

… says no drug tender was advertised Kaieteur News’ contention that the tender for which there were two pre-selected bidders was never advertised is being supported by International...

Importing teachers – quick fix or long term solution?

Feb 22, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Importing teachers – quick fix or long term solution?

DEAR EDITOR, The brain drain of professionals from Guyana, amongst then thousands of qualified teachers, has been occurring for decades. One only has to visit the marking centres of CXC examinations...

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FIFA bans former GFF General Secretary Ian Alves over sexual...

May 05, 2026

By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – Former Guyana Football Federation (GFF) General Secretary, Ian Alves, has been banned from all football-related activities for five years after the world...

The PPP was always likely to constrict freedom

May 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is a habit, which we have developed with a certain skill in Guyana. That habit is the borrowing large words from abroad and using them to explain local developments. One such phrase “the resource curse.” It has the sound of intellectualism. But before we surrender to...

A Pin, a Principle, and the Integrity of the Caribbean

May 03, 2026

Territorial claims are decided in court, not worn on a lapel By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – There are moments in international affairs when a seemingly small act reveals a much larger contest of principle. The recent controversy over the wearing, during official engagements in the...

Essequibo: we shall fight, we shall never surrender

May 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Essequibo is Guyana’s. Essequibo will never be conceded. Never compromised. Essequibo is ours, forever be ours. We shall fight everywhere. We shall never surrender. Never Essequibo, so help me God. Noble, stirring words. Indeed, soaring, lofty convictions,...

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