August 21, 2011

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Police arrest then release ‘Obeah Lady’

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police arrest then release ‘Obeah Lady’

A suspected obeah lady who goes by many names including Ann Rogers and Sister Ann and who claims she is a ‘jukka’ from Suriname was arrested a few days ago after she...

Looking for happiness?

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Looking for happiness?

When people ask me what I want to do when I grow up, I say, “I want to change the world.” That’s a tough one, don’t you think? In a world full of war, poverty and...

Young Warriors upset Brushie’s XI to advance

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Young Warriors upset Brushie’s XI to advance

Kares Engineering / Bushy Park Sawmills Tapeball Cricket Competition -rain-affected games to be played today at GCC ground Essequibo’s Young Warriors scraped past the highly...

Guyana could host a continental TT Championship

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana could host a continental TT Championship

-Christophe is first inductee of CRTTF Hall of Fame By Edison Jefford Following what regional stakeholders hailed as an emphatic success in Guyana hosting the 2011 Caribbean and Regional Table...

Mohamed spurs GYO to victory

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mohamed spurs GYO to victory

GCA’s Queensway 50-over cricket – Police also in winners’ row By Sean Devers In sweltering heat in Guyana’s Capitol yesterday, All-Rounder Saheed Mohamed spearheaded GYO to a...

Sponsors support Guyana Cup 2011, fans in for a treat

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sponsors support Guyana Cup 2011, fans in for a treat

The Fifth Annual Guyana Cup 2011 $20M horserace meet is slated for today, August 21at the Port Mourant Turf Club and, while fans are in for a treat with the promised action, the...

Lewis wins feature in 8th Seven Seas 11 Race Cycle Programme

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lewis wins feature in 8th Seven Seas 11 Race Cycle Programme

Adrian Sharma dominates BMX section The eight Seven Seas 11 Race Cycle Programme, which is part of Hassan Mohamed’s Teach Them Young Coaching Camp, saw several seniors, juniors and...

Lower Corentyne retain title

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lower Corentyne retain title

BCB/Diamond Fire & General Insurance U-19 Inter Zone On account of a solid all-round performance from Guyana Under-19 player Clinton Pestano defending champions Lower Corentyne...

‘In sports and in life – Politics make strange bed-fellows!’

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘In sports and in life – Politics make strange bed-fellows!’

By Colin E. Croft Most people know that I do not like politics, or, as Caribbean people say, “poli-tricks!” I like aviation and sports. Politics is an extremely strange game; most...

Memorex Enterprise/Leslie Amsterdam Memorial U-17 cricket starts

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Memorex Enterprise/Leslie Amsterdam Memorial U-17 cricket starts

The 2011 Memorex Enterprise sponsored Leslie Amsterdam Memorial Under-17 cricket competition bowled off yesterday in the Ancient County of Berbice. The competition is held in memory of the...

Is this the end of the Klass dominance?

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Is this the end of the Klass dominance?

===Letters to the Sports Editor=== Dear Sport Editor, With the official announcement emanating from FIFA’s Ethics Committee that Mr. Colin Klass, former president of the Guyana...

Mr. Foster deserves an apology

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mr. Foster deserves an apology

Dear Editor, It was with a sense of amusement and shock that I read an article in the sports section of the Guyana Times under the headline “black intends to move to Court – say...

The Police and Probity

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Police and Probity

Probity, we are told is associated with virtue, honesty, integrity goodness and decency. The latest contretemps in the upper ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) only reinforce the...

Cartoon Sunday August 20, 2011

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The Baccoo Speaks

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The fallout from the exposure that policemen are providing cover for drug dealers would see some prominent people in the drug world being arrested. The unfortunate thing is that the...

The Commonwealth: Making it work for people

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The Commonwealth: Making it work for people

By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is a member of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group appointed to recommend ways to reform the Commonwealth) Following a year of work, including...

Missile Crisis

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Missile Crisis

Mr Kwayana has concluded that I have constructed “a kind of standing missile defence system around the PPP to save it, the PPP from attack.” And just what is this missile system? It...

CORRUPTION AND SILENCE IN GUYANA

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on CORRUPTION AND SILENCE IN GUYANA

For a long time, a very long time, there have been rumours about the degree to which drug cartels may have compromised the Guyana Police Force. There was even the well-known case in...

Policemen are human beings too

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Policemen are human beings too

Almost all of this week there was damning news about policemen providing cover for drug lords and for drug dealers. When I read the first article I concluded that somewhere along the line one...

Mr. Martinez and his apartment of secrets

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Mr. Martinez and his apartment of secrets

– It took a gruesome killing for a nine-year affair to come to light By Michael Jordan I guess you can call it a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. We know the killer. We know his...

My bedroom window looks down onto a pimper’s paradise

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on My bedroom window looks down onto a pimper’s paradise

I wouldn’t know where to start if I was asked to name some of the songs I think are phenomenally lovely. And I guess that goes for all the folks in the world. But I know five songs...

The Golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)

Interesting Creatures… The golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) also known as the golden marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae. Native to the...

The AFC’s alternative plan to the OLPF

Aug 21, 2011 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The AFC’s alternative plan to the OLPF

By Gerhard Ramsaroop The AFC would like to reiterate its position that the PPP’s insistence on spending six billion dollars on 90,000 laptops – under the One Laptop Per Family...

Mr. Bisram is just laughing at the newspapers

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Bisram is just laughing at the newspapers

Dear Editor, I write in relation to a correspondence by M. Maxwell (KN – Mon. Aug 15 and SN -Tues Aug 16) with very similar titles requesting both papers to desist from publishing polls...

Absolute balderdash

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Absolute balderdash

Dear Editor, I would greatly crave your indulgence in publishing this piece because it pains me to see what is happening in our country, yet those who are in-charge seem to be in a...

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2026 Republic Bank CPL: Historic rivals to meet as Guyana/T&T...

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By Clifton Ross Kaieteur Sports – The ultimate rivalry in cricket resumes tonight as the Guyana Amazon Warriors lock horns with arch-rivals Trinbago Knight Riders come tonight at the historic...

Give the Commission a chance to do its preparatory work

Aug 30, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is a legitimate public concern about the pace at which the Commission of Inquiry into the MV Barima tragedy is getting underway. Survivors, relatives of those who died and the wider Guyanese public understandably want answers. After such a devastating national tragedy,...

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...

From Jagdeo to Ali; from bad to worse

Aug 30, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Never thought I would ever reach this place. Bring back Bharrat Jagdeo. Never say never! It was inconceivable that there could be a worse leader than former president Jagdeo. I warned him seven years ago. A monster created. Would come back to...

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