June 2011

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Windies slump to defeat with almost 5 sessions to spare

Jun 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Windies slump to defeat with almost 5 sessions to spare

As India win back-to-back Tests in Jamaica By Sean Devers in Jamaica In association with Digicel, Queensway, Western Union and Jamaica Pegasus Despite a couple of cameos from their tail enders West...

Chanderpaul signs for Warwickshire

Jun 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Chanderpaul signs for Warwickshire

Guyanese to depart immediately after India series By Sean Devers in Jamaica Veteran Guyanese left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul will depart the Caribbean immediately after India series next month for...

Audito McCalman is Total Fitness Gym Biggest Loser

Jun 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Audito McCalman is Total Fitness Gym Biggest Loser

Total Fitness Gym for the second successive year in an effort to encourage gym members and members of the public to inculcate fitness and healthy living as a positive habit, successfully staged the...

High Court overturns “excessive” $1.2M bail for money borrower

Jun 24, 2011 knews News Comments Off on High Court overturns “excessive” $1.2M bail for money borrower

A Montrose man, placed on $1.2M bail on a fraud charge, had that slashed to $20,000 after his lawyers turned to the High Court claiming that it was excessive. Attorney-at-law, Euclin Gomes of...

A photographic reason why elected dictatorship in Guyana grew

Jun 24, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A photographic reason why elected dictatorship in Guyana grew

In another forum, I penned an essay as a response to a letter in both independent dailies titled, “People should speak out against the wrong doings they witness…” signed by Mr. Vidyaratha...

IT COULD HAVE BEEN YOUR KIDS

Jun 24, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on IT COULD HAVE BEEN YOUR KIDS

By the time this meets the press, it is hoped that the two teenagers who went missing recently at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, would have been found and are reunited with their families....

Third accused refused bail

Jun 24, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Third accused refused bail

In addition to the two persons who were charged in connection with the drug bust at John Fernandes Wharf, last week, and remanded to prison on Monday, Ola Pedro appeared yesterday before Chief...

Buju Banton jailed for 10 years

Jun 24, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Buju Banton jailed for 10 years

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, sentenced Grammy-winning reggae singer Buju Banton to 10 years in prison yesterday, the lowest sentence legally allowed for his role in a large...

Another cocaine courier busted en route to Suriname

Jun 24, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Another cocaine courier busted en route to Suriname

Police at the border crossing location of Springlands, Berbice, continue to be the thorn in the side of couriers trying to smuggle drugs into the neighbouring Dutch-speaking Republic of Suriname....

Three decades of current account imbalance just got worse

Jun 24, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Three decades of current account imbalance just got worse

Dear Editor, Recent follow up discussions on how we in the Alliance for Change (AFC) will continue to prepare to correct the economic wrongs being perpetuated by the PPP Government have sharpened our...

Some may take the law into their own hands

Jun 24, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Some may take the law into their own hands

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force never seems to dumbfound me. Wednesday night at 20:56hrs I received a cell call from a friend stating that he had been involved in a vehicular accident at Camp...

Jinnah Ramahan is fossilised

Jun 24, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Jinnah Ramahan is fossilised

Dear Mr. Editor, In response to Jinnah Rahaman’s letter of June 22, I must say that in all my years of political involvement in Guyana, I have never read such nonsense. But I excuse Rahaman’s...

Supporting a national unity movement

Jun 24, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Supporting a national unity movement

MR. EDITOR, The JOPP has decided that they will form a partnership for national unity (APNU), to contest the upcoming elections. Already the partnership is being criticized in the media, by comedic...

Freddie wrong on Harbhajan-Symonds racial issue

Jun 24, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Freddie wrong on Harbhajan-Symonds racial issue

DEAR EDITOR, Reference is made to a comment by Mr. Freddie Kissoon (KN Apr 2, 2011) tying Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh (affectionately called Bhajji) to “a racist remark against Andrew Symonds,...

The GCB should submit itself to a thorough independent investigation

Jun 24, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on The GCB should submit itself to a thorough independent investigation

DEAR SIR, After reading Chetram Singh’s feeble response to the paid advertisement carried in the Kaieteur News of 17 June 2011, I am of the opinion that the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) should be...

Diversifying for progress

Jun 24, 2011 knews Editorial Comments Off on Diversifying for progress

That the Guyanese economy needs to be diversified is accepted by most commentators. We hope that during the upcoming (or ongoing) political campaign, we will be provided with detailed plans as to how...

Teenagers kidnapped on highway

Jun 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teenagers kidnapped on highway

– police investigating The police are currently following up on reports about an abduction during which Alliance for Change member Michael Carrington’s 14-year-old daughter, Marissa...

Parliamentary body calls for police intervention

Jun 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Parliamentary body calls for police intervention

– unearths cases of corruption Areas of possible corruption and the refusal of current and former principal officers in government entities to comply with requests of the Public Affairs...

Mc Doom E.B.D. home up in flames

Jun 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mc Doom E.B.D. home up in flames

Eleven persons from three families are homeless after a fire suspected to be of electrical origin destroyed a two-storey wooden building at Lot 25 First Street, Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara yesterday....

Man jailed for chopping mother

Jun 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man jailed for chopping mother

Latchman Raghubeer, who was in the habit of harassing his parents for money to do what ever he wanted, ended up chopping his mother in her head. For that act he was jailed for six months on Wednesday...

Teacher’s killer captured in Suriname

Jun 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teacher’s killer captured in Suriname

Local police are in contact with their Surinamese counterparts to facilitate the return to Guyana of a man who is wanted for the murder of his reputed wife. The man, Hubert Pilgrim, is being held by...

Teen recharged with mastermind for Linden murder

Jun 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teen recharged with mastermind for Linden murder

Twenty-three-year-old Lakeraj Fredericks and a 16-year-old yesterday appeared before Magistrate Anne McLennan jointly charged with the murder of Clifton Bonus, who was killed on June 4, in Linden. In...

Dem boys seh… Clement is de next money factory

Jun 23, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Clement is de next money factory

Wednesday was a big day pun de East Coast. Dem boys see protection like dem never see before. People deh in dem house and all of a sudden it look like if de whole police force come to visit de...

Guyanese mechanic dies after falling from mango tree

Jun 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese mechanic dies after falling from mango tree

Antigua (Antigua Observer)- A family has been plunged into mourning after one of its members, Kerwin Anthony Gomes, met an untimely death after falling from a mango tree in Villa Tuesday afternoon....

City workers get paid

Jun 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on City workers get paid

Some 200 Georgetown municipal workers finally received their salary for May yesterday, but not before a noisy protest in the compound where they denounced City Council administration, the Mayor, and...

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Jun 21, 2026

Beharry U19 School’s T20 Cricket tournament… Kaieteur Sports – T20 School’s Under-19 cricket action continued yesterday on the West Side at the Uitvlugt Community Center Ground, with a few...

The great rediscovery

Jun 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There are few things more moving than a sudden conversion. Saul had his road to Damascus. St. Augustine heard a divine voice. And now thousands of overseas-based Guyanese are experiencing their own spiritual awakening. After decades of living in Brooklyn, Toronto, Miami,...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

Jun 21, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Local tolerance for bull-a beauty to behold

Jun 21, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese should get first prize for their tolerance for bull, their bottomless reservoir of docility. And humour. They have grown in those respects relative to their head-of-state. Whatever has taken over his head, the astonishing is what...

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