May 2011

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Blind Awareness Month to accommodate ‘chain of canes’ around Public Buildings

May 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Blind Awareness Month to accommodate ‘chain of canes’ around Public Buildings

May has been designated Blindness Awareness Month and the Guyana Society for the Blind and the Guyana Blind Cricket Association are collaborating to host a series of activities to celebrate the...

Claims and Objections exercise begins

May 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Claims and Objections exercise begins

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday commenced conducting the mandatory Claims and Objections exercise regarding entries on the Preliminary List of Electors (PLE) for the upcoming...

OLPF Public Interface Readies … Govt releases application forms

May 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on OLPF Public Interface Readies … Govt releases application forms

The One Laptop Per Family programme has entered the critical phase that will see the Project Unit aggressively interacting with the public, as the much anticipated application form is released. The...

Forty road deaths this far in 2011

May 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Forty road deaths this far in 2011

As three more deaths recorded in 24 hours The Guyana Police Force Traffic Department has recorded 40 fatalities thus far for the year. Statistics also revealed that the number includes one child....

Driver was speeding

May 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Driver was speeding

… Vryheid’s Lust four-vehicle crash Police have arrested a man who drove his vehicle in such a dangerous manner on Sunday night that he caused a four- vehicle smash up, which left 46-year old...

Police Force fuel waste doesn’t add up

May 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police Force fuel waste doesn’t add up

…$320M allocated, millions more than last year’s budget By Rabindra Rooplall With the escalation and fluctuation in fuel prices, it appears as if the Guyana Police Force (GPF) will be rapidly...

Driver to be charged with dangerous driving

May 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Driver to be charged with dangerous driving

… Sisters Village accident The driver involved in an accident that claimed the life of seven-year-old Althea Clement Sunday evening in Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara, is to be charged this...

Griffith, Barrington hit fifties against Pakistan

May 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Griffith, Barrington hit fifties against Pakistan

By Sean Devers Former West Indies under-19 opener Trevon Griffith and his opening partner Shemroy Barrington both scored half-centuries for Guyana against Pakistan at Bourda yesterday on the final...

Samuels smashes ‘double’ in Windies practice match

May 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Samuels smashes ‘double’ in Windies practice match

Marlon Samuels smashed a pugnacious double century as Brendon Nash’s team reached 395-8 in reply to Daren Sammy’s X1 310-5 declared when their two-day practice match ended at the DCC...

Armed bandits attack Giddings pawnshop

May 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Armed bandits attack Giddings pawnshop

Two armed bandits, on foot, robbed Giddings Payday pawn shop in Grove, East Bank Demerara of almost $100,000 in cash and a quantity of jewellery, yesterday. According to reports, at 9:15 hours two...

McKay warms up for 3-stage with Tropical Rhythms road race victory

May 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on McKay warms up for 3-stage with Tropical Rhythms road race victory

Warren McKay turned in a good ride to win the Tropical Rhythms road race sponsored by Ansa McAl on Sunday on the East Coast of Demerara, starting and finishing at the BV Headquarters of the sponsors....

Team Best Buy confident ahead of CMRC

May 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Team Best Buy confident ahead of CMRC

Manager and Chief Mechanic of Team Best Buy, Mark Barker, speaking with Kaieteur Sport yesterday, disclosed that they are brimming with confidence ahead of the opening Meet of the Caribbean Motor...

Annual 3-stage cycle race set for May 14 and 15

May 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Annual 3-stage cycle race set for May 14 and 15

The 29th Annual Three Stage Cycle Road Race organized by the National Cycling Coach, Hassan Mohamed MS for the 45th Independence Celebration sponsored by National Sports Commission will commence on...

Homeowners find handyman’s body

May 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Homeowners find handyman’s body

A body was discovered late yesterday afternoon at Lot 48 Princes and Russell Streets, Georgetown, by the owners of the property when they returned home. The body was identified by the owners to be...

ARMS Shotokan Karate Club hosts 7th examination

May 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on ARMS Shotokan Karate Club hosts 7th examination

33 students successful at grading exercise The Anna Regina Multilateral School Shotokan Karate Club, which opened its doors back in March 2009, recently held its 7th Grading exercise which has been...

Book chronicling 65 years of civil engineering in Guyana being written

May 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Book chronicling 65 years of civil engineering in Guyana being written

– UG students to use as reference A book on civil engineering, chronicling major works in Guyana over the last 65 years, is to be written with officials hoping that it will become a key...

Giftland Office Max displays generosity once again

May 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Giftland Office Max displays generosity once again

In another display of generosity Giftland Office Max confirmed its support for the second year running of the President’s /Jefford Track & Field Classic when Marketing Manager Compton Babb...

Scotiabank/Pepsi Schools Football Academy continues tomorrow

May 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Scotiabank/Pepsi Schools Football Academy continues tomorrow

Play in the inaugural Scotiabank / Pepsi School Academy Football Competition continues tomorrow with a double header at two venues, starting from 15:30 hrs. Over at the Carifesta Sports Complex...

Stiff competition anticipated as Chess Federation takes sport to Linden

May 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Stiff competition anticipated as Chess Federation takes sport to Linden

As they continue to popularize the sport across the ten regions, executives of the Guyana Chess Federation will be conducting a one-day rapid chess tournament this Sunday May 15 at the Constabulary...

Eagles soar to Guinness Greatest of the Streets Football championship

May 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Eagles soar to Guinness Greatest of the Streets Football championship

Trenton Lashley is MVP By Franklin Wilson Eagles based at Christianburg in the Bauxite Mining Town of Linden were declared winners of the inaugural Guinness Greatest of the Streets Football...

Mayor’s Cup winners to collect prizes Thursday

May 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Mayor’s Cup winners to collect prizes Thursday

The respective winners of prizes in the recently concluded Mayor’s Cup football tournament will receive their prizes on Thursday in the office of Mayor Hamilton Green at City Hall during a small...

Since when foreigners have to teach Guyanese about commonsense

May 10, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Since when foreigners have to teach Guyanese about commonsense

My first class as a university freshman was with Roman Catholic nun, Professor Mary Noel Menezes. This was a time when UG was a university in every sense of the word. The course was named “The...

West Indies squad for First Digicel Test announced

May 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on West Indies squad for First Digicel Test announced

Chanderpaul, Sarwan, Samuels and Edwards in Georgetown, Guyana – The WICB Selection Committee has named the following 13 players in the West Indies squad for the First Digicel Test. Guyanese...

Why change what is working for the rice farmers?

May 10, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Why change what is working for the rice farmers?

Dear Editor, Once again we have a missive from the Mr. Jinnah Rahaman, who is ill informed of the assistance to rice farmers. Mr. Rahaman claimed to be a rice farmer and does not know of the effort...

NY-based Guyanese look forward for competition and lower airfares to their homeland

May 10, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on NY-based Guyanese look forward for competition and lower airfares to their homeland

Dear Editor, I read last week’s Red Jet news item in Kaieteur News with great interest. I am pleased that a low cost carrier is taking to the sky to meet the needs of Caribbean states and flyers....

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Iyer’s 102 crushes West Indies

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(Kaieteur News) – Shreyas Iyer produced a breathtaking century on his T20I captaincy debut as India dismantled the West Indies by eight wickets in the opening match of their five-game series at...

The end of the Lula era

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The elections in Brazil have turned out to be more than electing a government. The first round, concluded on Sunday, has effectively signalled the end of an era and the changing of an age in the region. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, at age eighty, finished second to Flávio...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

MV Barima tragedy -would have handled differently

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Things could have been different. I would have made allowance. But when it was the same stink and dutty story with the MV Barima tragedy, there was only one road left. In the late hours of that fateful Saturday night of July, those early hours of Sunday morning, the little...

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