July 2011

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Rayon Griffith is chairman of senior selection panel

Jul 14, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Rayon Griffith is chairman of senior selection panel

– Andre Percival is new Junior selector The newly elected officers of the Guyana Cricket Board met on Monday, a day after its Annual General Meeting, for their first Executive Meeting and named...

NA Multi shine in Garfield Sobers International Schools’ cricket tourney

Jul 14, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on NA Multi shine in Garfield Sobers International Schools’ cricket tourney

The New Amsterdam Multilateral School showed their strength in the Garfield Sobers International Schools’ Tournament after winning three matches of a total of five. New Amsterdam Multilateral...

Uncollected ID cards will remain available until polling day-Dr. Luncheon

Jul 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Uncollected ID cards will remain available until polling day-Dr. Luncheon

Almost 40,000 ID cards would be continuously available up to polling day later this year, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, confirmed Monday last. He said that Cabinet has been...

Entries for Norman Singh Memorial and Digicel mega horserace meet close Sunday

Jul 14, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Entries for Norman Singh Memorial and Digicel mega horserace meet close Sunday

Entries for the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club of Bel Air No 6, West Coast Berbice in collaboration with Digicel horserace meet on Sunday July 24 will close on Sunday at the at the club’s office...

Hearts of Oak Masters, Corriverton Links FC hold Annual football camp

Jul 14, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Hearts of Oak Masters, Corriverton Links FC hold Annual football camp

By Samuel Whyte The Annual Hearts of Oak Masters Football Club “teach them Young” football summer camp will be expanded this year. Apart from its traditional New Amsterdam base the camp with also...

Chanderpaul reflects on record-breaking 133rd Test

Jul 14, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Chanderpaul reflects on record-breaking 133rd Test

* hopes to help team-mates find winning formula * thanks people of Dominica for honouring him * salutes Kirk Edwards for ‘brilliant’ century * learnt much from Ambrose & Walsh Roseau,...

The first time my wife saw the inside of a police station

Jul 14, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The first time my wife saw the inside of a police station

One of these days, I will introduce you to my wife. All, without exception, who have met her, have said to her; “How you marry that crazy guy, Freddie Kissoon?” And they are right. She is the...

GCB Senior Female Inter-County 50-Over Cricket Competition starts today

Jul 14, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on GCB Senior Female Inter-County 50-Over Cricket Competition starts today

The Guyana Cricket Board Senior Female Inter-County 50-Over Cricket Competition starts today. This competition comprises of three rounds which are schedule to commence at 09:30am each day. The first...

Dr. Joey Jagan makes words (and events from history) mean so many different things

Jul 14, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Dr. Joey Jagan makes words (and events from history) mean so many different things

DEAR EDITOR, I write with reference to Dr. Joey Jagan’s letter titled: “Mike Persaud needs a special letter section for his ‘nancy stories’ (KN July 11th). This exchange of letters between...

VAT IS NOT ABOUT THAT!

Jul 14, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on VAT IS NOT ABOUT THAT!

It was always on the cards that the PPP presidential candidate would run on the record of the incumbent regime and would stress continuity in policies. No incumbent party with a brand new...

Reopening the Claims and Objections period cannot save the day for the PPP/C

Jul 14, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Reopening the Claims and Objections period cannot save the day for the PPP/C

Dear Editor, The clarion call now being made by Donald Ramotar and the PPP/C, for GECOM to re-open the claims and objections period, exposes the PPP/C’s calculated move to attempt to delay and...

Oh, what Guyana could have been!

Jul 14, 2011 knews Letters 1

Dear Editor, I would like to share, from personal experience, the achievements which Guyanese are capable of, by relating the educational voyage which an old friend of mine completed with great...

Will the City Council ever be financially viable again?

Jul 14, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Will the City Council ever be financially viable again?

Dear Editor, Over the past year or so I have been following the dilemma of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown as they battle with their financial woes, and I was wondering when they will come...

The drive for information technology

Jul 14, 2011 knews Editorial Comments Off on The drive for information technology

Information technology is the future of the world. Such is the move toward information technology that computers are being altered at an amazing rate and being asked to perform more and more complex...

The Caribbean’s Unfriendly Skies

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Caribbean’s Unfriendly Skies

Who would deny that we need a low-cost airline in the region? From the earliest days of Caribbean aviation, it was always practically cheaper to fly to London than to one of our Caricom neighbours....

Six nabbed after multi-million $$$ robbery

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Six nabbed after multi-million $$$ robbery

– gun, ammo recovered By Latoya Giles Police have detained ex-policeman Sean Hinds and five other men in connection with a brazen multi-million-dollar robbery yesterday at the Bel Air Gardens...

Sailors rescued from burning trawler

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sailors rescued from burning trawler

Three sailors were rescued from a fiery death when their trawler ‘Atlantic Star’ burst into flames on the Essequibo River near the island of Leguan yesterday afternoon. The men were rescued by a...

Dem boys seh…De jail waiting fuh some of dem

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De jail waiting fuh some of dem

A man lef he truck outside de police station fuh go to court to pay a traffic fine. He walk wid $2 million but he only had to pay de court $7,500. Dem boys seh that when he come out de court he find...

Young reveller found with skull bashed in outside wedding house

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Young reveller found with skull bashed in outside wedding house

Seventeen-year-old Ravindra Persaud was having a good time at a wedding house on Monday night until he disappeared when he left to go outside, probably to pass some urine. Nine hours later, his...

FAO appoints new fisheries officer for Caribbean region

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on FAO appoints new fisheries officer for Caribbean region

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Sub-Regional Office for the Caribbean is working to increase its involvement in fisheries in the Caribbean and be more responsive to the needs of the...

Education Ministry reaches out to special students

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry reaches out to special students

The HIV/AIDS Unit within the Education Ministry recently donated a quantity of stationery and hygiene kits to students of Sophia Special School and the David Rose School for the Handicapped. The...

Ansa Mc Al employees on bail over alleged $3M theft

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ansa Mc Al employees on bail over alleged $3M theft

Two employees, a Warehouse Supervisor and a Driver/Salesman of Ansa Mc Al Guyana Limited’s New Amsterdam Branch were yesterday granted bail to the tune of $250,000 each by Magistrate Adela...

Corentyne labourer remanded on attempted murder charge

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne labourer remanded on attempted murder charge

Edward Kester Apollo, 47, a labourer, of Lonsdale, East Bank Berbice, was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when he appeared before her at the New Amsterdam magistrate’s...

Defending champs remain on course to retain overall title

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Defending champs remain on course to retain overall title

Defending champions Guyana remained on course to retain the overall title after both the Boys and Girls teams continued their fine run at this year’s Digicel Caribbean Area Squash Association...

Gold thief beaten, tied up and left to die

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Gold thief beaten, tied up and left to die

A team of police investigators has been dispatched to the gold mining area of 14-mile Issano to probe yet another murder in Guyana’s interior. The team was dispatched yesterday following reports on...

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Guyana Cup rematch on the cards in President’s Cup feature

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The field will be a packed one on Sunday November 29, at Rising Sun Turf Club when the President’s Cup horse race meet shoots off. More than 100 horses have thrown their names...

Who says the government does not listen?

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Who says the government does not listen? That is an unfair accusation. The government does listen. In fact, it listens very attentively. The only problem is that it appears to have a rather selective hearing. It can hear a whisper from certain quarters of the private sector...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

Sinking ship, bailing out-US midterms – Pt. II

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – U.S. Vice President, J.D. Vance is among the first bailing from a sinking ship. The Iran War led to the ashes of defeat in the midterms. President Trump suddenly sheds his crazy man persona. Now talks of working with Democrats. From America I wing to Guyana, and Vice...

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