May 2011

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US Coaches hold sessions for school coaches/goalkeepers

May 28, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on US Coaches hold sessions for school coaches/goalkeepers

The development of junior soccer in Guyana received a shot in the arm when Coaches and Goalkeepers of the ScotiaBank/Pepsi School Football Academy benefited from a coaching clinic conducted by two...

Inter-Organisation Basketball Championships loom

May 28, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Inter-Organisation Basketball Championships loom

– competition to be bigger, better with new aspects The Annual Inter-Organisation Basketball Championships promises to be bigger and better this year with more sponsorship and the addition of...

Store sells used fridge as new, buyer now has problems

May 28, 2011 KNews News 1

As more and more consumers are being put on the alert about businesses which do not honour the rights of consumers, another customer has become victim to a blatant disregard of his rights. A...

Modern Optical renews sponsorship for GNRA handgun competition

May 28, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Modern Optical renews sponsorship for GNRA handgun competition

Modern Optical has renewed its sponsorship for the Annual Inter-Services Handgun competition billed for Sunday at the Timehri ranges. The competing services are Guyana Police Force, Guyana Defence...

Only pre-paid meters being issued to residential consumers

May 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Only pre-paid meters being issued to residential consumers

By Rabindra Rooplall Guyana Power Light (GPL) will be issuing only pre-paid meters to new residential consumers and for tariff B consumers who are served by single phase, two-wire, 120-240 volt...

Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Industry 10/10 Floodlight Cricket on today

May 28, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Industry 10/10 Floodlight Cricket on today

The stage is set for the Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Industry second grand annual one day inter Agency 10/10 softball cricket competition and Fun Day and exhibition games at the Albion Community...

T&T’s Ibrahim is last accused found guilty

May 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on T&T’s Ibrahim is last accused found guilty

New York (Bloomberg)-A New York terrorism suspect was found guilty of participating in a failed plot to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport. He is last of four persons including Guyanese...

Tendulkar, Yuvraj, Gambhir out of entire WI tour

May 28, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Tendulkar, Yuvraj, Gambhir out of entire WI tour

India’s already-depleted squad for the tour of the West Indies has suffered further setbacks: shoulder injuries to Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh’s respiratory infection, and...

Accident victim identified as Rosignol fisherman

May 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Accident victim identified as Rosignol fisherman

The man who was killed last Tuesday evening in an accident with a minibus on the Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice Public Road, has been identified as Seechan Hamid, 44, a fisherman of Murphy Dam,...

Plans underway to rebuild in July

May 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Plans underway to rebuild in July

St Joseph Mercy Hospital (SJMH) that was partially destroyed one year ago is set to commence building a new structure this July. The cost is set at $380M. And in order to acquire this money some...

5km Independence Road Race and Walk set for tomorrow

May 28, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on 5km Independence Road Race and Walk set for tomorrow

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport/ National Sports Commission in association with the Rising Star Track Club will be holding a 5km Independence Road Race and Walk tomorrow for Seniors,...

13 year old killed on Corentyne Public Road

May 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 13 year old killed on Corentyne Public Road

Savitri Persaud, 13, of Number 68 Village was killed about 14:30 hrs on Thursday on the Number 70 Public Road when a Jeep PKK150 driven by Delroy Mitchell, 26, hit her. Mitchell is an interdicted...

GFA files injunction against GFF

May 28, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on GFA files injunction against GFF

– aimed at nullifying Congress The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) had an injunction served on the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) last night aimed at nullifying the GFF Congress that...

Guyanese cricketer returns following successful stint in Trinidad and Tobago

May 28, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese cricketer returns following successful stint in Trinidad and Tobago

Former Guyanese U-19 opener Deonauth Baksh recently returned home after a successful sojourn in Trinidad and Tobago where he represented the Couva Sports Club in the National Division two Cricket...

Guyanese in BVI fighting deportation

May 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese in BVI fighting deportation

BVI Beacon- A hearing was held before Governor Boyd McCleary Friday in relation to the ordered deportation of businessman Desmond “DA” Alphonso, according to Emma Dean, staff officer in the...

We’ll be better prepared against spin – Gibson

May 28, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on We’ll be better prepared against spin – Gibson

West Indies will be better prepared to combat India’s spin threat in the upcoming ODI and Test series, coach Ottis Gibson has said. The West Indies batsmen proved vulnerable against spin during the...

Linden man in court for theft from burnt out clothing store

May 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Linden man in court for theft from burnt out clothing store

Selwyn Lancaster, 34, was placed on $200,000 when he appeared in the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday last to answer to a charge of simple larceny. It was alleged that Lancaster, on May...

Stag & El Dorado finals postponed to June 5

May 28, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Stag & El Dorado finals postponed to June 5

Floodlights, Memorex, Regal Seniors through to finals Rose Hall Females, Wellwoman, 4R Lioness, Lusignan Street Warriors through to semis The much anticipated finals of the Stag Beer & El Dorado...

Moen Gafoor clinches top podium spot in GASP Independence Open Scrabble

May 28, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Moen Gafoor clinches top podium spot in GASP Independence Open Scrabble

Moen Gafoor turned in a sterling performance to register 4 games and a positive spread of 361 to take top honours when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) staged the annual Independence...

What about Section Q, Turkeyen?

May 28, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on What about Section Q, Turkeyen?

Dear Editor, It is noted with interest the steadfast road construction ongoing on the East Coast, Demerara, as undertaken by the Government and the question is asked again, why is no interest shown...

UNAIDS representative blasts HIV ‘Swat analyses’ programmes

May 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on UNAIDS representative blasts HIV ‘Swat analyses’ programmes

The notion of regular Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) training workshops and training sessions were belittled by UNAIDS Country Representative to Guyana and Suriname, Dr Ruben Del Prado. He...

Substance abuse is increasing and has always been a major contributor to domestic violence

May 28, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Substance abuse is increasing and has always been a major contributor to domestic violence

Dear Editor, I would like to share some Help & Shelter statistics which are in the public domain and accessible on Help & Shelter website to show the inter-link between domestic violence and...

Man jailed for poisoning colleague’s food

May 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man jailed for poisoning colleague’s food

Colin Gokhul, a 46-year-old resident of Soesdyke/Linden Highway, was on Wednesday sentenced to three years’ imprisonment by Magistrate Anne McClennon at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court. He...

Domestic feud ends, sends brother to hospital, another to jail

May 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Domestic feud ends, sends brother to hospital, another to jail

A domestic feud between two brothers over a transport has left one severely injured and the other brother as a guest of the state at the Suddie police station. Avinash Dyal, 26, the younger of the...

Do not rewrite our history

May 28, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Do not rewrite our history

Dear Editor, Are you really serious when you published a supplement for the 45th Anniversary of Guyana’s Independence in your newspaper (Guyana Chronicle) of Thursday 26th May 2011, and the only...

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MCYS/NSC launches landmark Sports Seminar at ACCC

Jul 31, 2026

– Discussing governance, workforce development, tourism and Sport ecosystem Kaieteur Sports – In what policy makers are calling one of the largest sport gatherings of its kind, the Ministry...

If it was a big wave, will they still want heads?

Jul 31, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something increasingly troubling about the rush by some people to demand the heads of two Ministers over the M.V. Barima tragedy. The problem is not that Ministers should never be held accountable, but that accountability should come after the facts are established,...

Transparency, sovereignty, and the challenge of power

Jul 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Few issues test the sovereignty of small states more severely than requests made by powerful friends. How should a country respond when cooperation is expected, but the proposed terms exceed its legal, financial and institutional capacity? That question...

Who’s responsible, who will take responsibility?

Jul 30, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – A tragedy of catastrophic proportions is now Guyana’s to manage. An old passenger ferry boat went to the bottom. According to news reports of Saturday, 73 bodies have been recovered and 76 rescued. Taking the official count of 179 passengers on...

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