June 2011

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Secondary School football starts next week in Berbice

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Secondary School football starts next week in Berbice

Hearts of Oaks Masters Football Club in collaboration with Sherlon Hetemyer and family will run off the Sherlon Hetemyer/Shaun Nurse Inter Secondary Independence Anniversary Football tournament for...

Lamp may have started N/A Fire, says Chief Fire Officer

Jun 10, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Lamp may have started N/A Fire, says Chief Fire Officer

Chief Fire Officer, Marlon Gentle, has said that the victim of Wednesday evening’s fire in Stanleytown, 52-year-old Hazel Johnson, may have been burnt to death while she was asleep on her bed. He...

GT&T FastBall Awareness games set for Sunday

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GT&T FastBall Awareness games set for Sunday

Berbice, Essequibo & East Coast targeted With exactly one week to go before the end of registration for the inaugural GT&T FastBall knock-out football competition, more awareness games are...

Annual Tradewind Tankers V/ball Tournament starts June 18

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Annual Tradewind Tankers V/ball Tournament starts June 18

The second annual Tradewind Tankers-sponsored Volleyball Tournament organised by Castrol Strikers is set to serve off on June 18, at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, starting from 09:00hrs. According...

Fatima House crowned champions

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fatima House crowned champions

Fatima House with a total of 15 points emerged the Champions House of the Marian Academy Primary and Secondary School Inter-House Badminton competition. The champions left in their wake second placed...

Parents seek legal advice

Jun 10, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Parents seek legal advice

By Michael Jordan The parents of 17-year-old maternal patient Joanne Peters are accusing staff at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) of causing her to bleed to death last March. They...

GFF invite 28 for Olympic U-23 trials

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF invite 28 for Olympic U-23 trials

Five overseas based included The Technical Committee of the Guyana Football Federation has named a 28-man squad including seven (7) overseas based who will be vying for places on the final team that...

Linden police score big on marijuana raid

Jun 10, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Linden police score big on marijuana raid

Police in the mining town of Linden have destroyed over 8000 marijuana plants, 15000 seedlings and about 600 kilograms in dried ganja during a successful drug raid on Wednesday. Police in a press...

CARICOM needs to get its act together – Persaud

Jun 10, 2011 knews News Comments Off on CARICOM needs to get its act together – Persaud

“CARICOM needs to get its act together to manage high food prices and food security,” says Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud. He noted that Guyana has been a firm advocate for food production...

11th P&P Insurance Brooker & CL cycle meet set for tomorrow

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on 11th P&P Insurance Brooker & CL cycle meet set for tomorrow

Greaves and De Nobrega to defend open & juvenile titles The inner circuit of the National Park will come alive for another programme organised by National Cycling Coach Hassan Mohamed tomorrow....

Thanks to some very special police officers

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Thanks to some very special police officers

Dear Editor, It was one of those hot sticky June days when you don’t want to leave the shade. I was heading home, driving South on Cummings Street, when a well known animal lover flagged me down....

Why this PPP attack on the US?

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why this PPP attack on the US?

Dear editor, As someone born and raised in Guyana, and now settled in the United States, I take personal offense at Dave Martindale’s use of language calling the United States a “vermin”. See...

Tang stars as Walton Hall beat Charity by 20 runs

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tang stars as Walton Hall beat Charity by 20 runs

Ryan Tang slammed a fine half century to lead Walton Hall to victory over Charity by 20 runs in the New Building Society 40 overs cricket competition which continued recently in North Essequibo with...

Neal and Massy re-capture Inter-Organisation B’ball title

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Neal and Massy re-capture Inter-Organisation B’ball title

League for organisations set to start next month Neal and Massy Group of Companies ensured that obvious preparation and organisation helped them retake the Inter-Organisation Basketball Championship...

Winston Pompey confident as he leaves for fistic duties in Jamaica

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Winston Pompey confident as he leaves for fistic duties in Jamaica

Local middleweight boxing contender, Winston Pompey will leave Guyana next Tuesday for Jamaica to engage in a ten rounds contest against Jamaican, Sakima Mullings, two days after his arrival in the...

Don’t disregard Brian Lara

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Don’t disregard Brian Lara

Dear Editor, During the two test series West Indies vs Pakistan, while listening to the Line and Length radio commentary I heard Mr. Sean Devers mention Gary Sobers, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and...

Indeed the courts are under-utilised

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Indeed the courts are under-utilised

Dear editor, I note a rather interesting editorial in the Kaieteur News on June 7, 2011, touching on “AN OLD COURT SYSTEM IN MODERN TIMES”. I agree that we have an old court system. It is a...

Protection Agency mulls foster care

Jun 10, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Protection Agency mulls foster care

– mother still a no-show Even with the publicity the matter has received, the mother of three children who were abandoned in a shack at Timehri, since last Saturday, has not yet surfaced. The...

BCB starts Elite Coaching Programme for young cricketers

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB starts Elite Coaching Programme for young cricketers

With the Ancient County just adding another Inter County title to their already bulging collection – Under-15 Championship – the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) not contented with sitting back...

A quisling hides behind anonymity

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on A quisling hides behind anonymity

Dear Editor, Even though the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport is aware of the tone and intent detractors’ letters will typify during this pre-election period, we cannot allow blatant...

GGMC signs on to assist UG for another two years

Jun 10, 2011 knews News Comments Off on GGMC signs on to assist UG for another two years

… proposes Post Grad Degrees in Geology In one of the most beneficial corporate-academic partnerships the country has ever seen, the Geology Department at the University of Guyana can look forward...

How hot was the chair of President Jagdeo?

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on How hot was the chair of President Jagdeo?

Speaking to Diamond sugar workers recently, President Bharrat Jagdeo took some wide swipes at the Alliance for Change (AFC). Two observations by Mr Jagdeo should fill volumes. First, he accused the...

Berbice name Cellink 14-man squad for GTM U-19 Inter County tourney

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice name Cellink 14-man squad for GTM U-19 Inter County tourney

The Berbice Cricket Board selectors met recently and named their 14-man squad to that will participate in this year’s GTM Under-19 Inter County three-Day tournament which is scheduled to start on...

Whither G8?

Jun 10, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Whither G8?

It would seem that old imperialistic groupings do not fade away: they simply reinvent themselves. The Group of Eight (G8 – formerly the G6) was founded by France in 1975, for the governments of...

FALLING ASLEEP WHILE THE ARAB WORLD IS AWAKENING

Jun 10, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on FALLING ASLEEP WHILE THE ARAB WORLD IS AWAKENING

Guyana’s much publicized Middle Eastern diplomacy was a huge flop. Ill-conceived, hastily pursued, the attempt one year ago to build stronger economic and investment ties with a number of Middle...

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Kingsmen claim back-to-back wins

Aug 31, 2026

CPL – The Jamaica Kingsmen recorded their fourth win of the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) with a 7-run win via DLS over the Trinbago Knight Riders, as the rain halted play just...

The danger of renting another country’s power

Aug 31, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is an old temptation among small countries, particularly those situated beside larger and more troublesome neighbours. They often mistake the friendship of a great power for an insurance policy. The illusion is comforting. It permits governments to spend less time...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

Aug 30, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

Praising President Ali, PPP for thinking of Guyanese

Aug 31, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I wish to thank publicly President Ali and the PPP Govt for keeping Guyanese in mind, caring for them. This should have been done before, but circumstances kept getting in the way. The president helped to get priorities in order, so here I am with gratitude in my heart,...

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