August 2011

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Donut Prince crowned champion at Guyana Cup 2011 with stunning win

Aug 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Donut Prince crowned champion at Guyana Cup 2011 with stunning win

Donut Prince of the Colin Elcock stable and owned by Pat Elcock and ridden by overseas based Guyanese Jockey Michael Semple, who was specially flown in for this race from St Kitts, produced a...

Preparations continue for Rising Sun Turf Club Horserace meet

Aug 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Preparations continue for Rising Sun Turf Club Horserace meet

Preparations are moving apace for the Rising Sun Turf Club annual Horserace meet set for Sunday August 28 at the club’s track at Rising Sun Arima Park, West Coast Berbice. The event is...

Linden Table Tennis Steering Committee holds election of officers Wednesday

Aug 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Linden Table Tennis Steering Committee holds election of officers Wednesday

Six months after a Steering Committee was chosen to resuscitate the administration of table tennis in the Mining Town of Linden, a decision was taken by the body to hold elections for positions for...

Nigel’s Junior Tennis Classic starts tomorrow

Aug 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nigel’s Junior Tennis Classic starts tomorrow

The annual Nigel’s Junior Tennis Tournament starts tomorrow, Tuesday August 23 at the Pegasus Hotel Tennis Courts. The tournament will feature 9 categories ranging from Under 10 to Under 18 and...

THE POLICE FORCE IS NOT ROTTEN

Aug 22, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE POLICE FORCE IS NOT ROTTEN

The police force is not rotten. There may be a few rotten eggs within but not enough to contaminate the whole organization. It is unfortunate, therefore, that because some allegations that...

The other side of aid

Aug 22, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The other side of aid

The tragedy unfolding in Somalia is too well known to need extensive description. The bare facts about its famine are stark enough: So far, more than 29,000 children have died and more than 12...

Public institutions are subject to the supremacy of the Constitution

Aug 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Public institutions are subject to the supremacy of the Constitution

Dear Editor, It is a trite and fundamental principle of written constitutions, including those of Guyana and the United States of America, that these constitutions are the supreme law of the...

Turkey brings hope to Somalia

Aug 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Turkey brings hope to Somalia

Dear Editor, He is the first high profile leader in 20 years to visit Somalia. Risking the lives of himself and his family, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, arrived in the Somali capital,...

This accusation has caused me great distress

Aug 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on This accusation has caused me great distress

Dear Editor, I have observed the claims forwarded by Kaieteur News columnist, Freddie Kissoon’s legal team which is headed by AFC Presidential Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan. I found their...

Radiation Contamination

Aug 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Radiation Contamination

Dear Editor, Now that the dust has settled and the importation of vehicles from Japan has resumed. I am concerned about the possibility of contamination of vehicles by radiation after...

State to forfeit Ahmad’s assets if he is convicted

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on State to forfeit Ahmad’s assets if he is convicted

Mortgage fraud… Prosecutors in the mortgage fraud case against New York-based Guyanese businessman Edul Ahmad has given notice that they will seek the forfeiture of his...

City claims gov’t bullied away Kingston land for Marriott

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on City claims gov’t bullied away Kingston land for Marriott

– Eddy Grant wanted to develop cultural complex City Mayor Hamilton Green is claiming that part of the land the government has put into the hands of the developers of...

Newly built pound collapses

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Newly built pound collapses

Seven months after it was constructed, this animal pound in the Grove/Diamond Police Station compound has collapsed. The structure came crashing down at around 15:00 hrs yesterday. Fortunately, no...

Local aircraft lands in Port Kaituma

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Local aircraft lands in Port Kaituma

-No casualties recorded A Trans Guyana Airlines plane crash landed at the Port Kaituma Airstrip with three passengers and the female Pilot onboard, yesterday morning. Chief Finance Officer of...

Passionate conservationist, pilot and astute executive

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News 1

Annette Arjoon-Martins is a ‘Special Person’ Caption: “I see myself as an Amerindian first, a conservationist second, and an aviation manager third, but my most...

Dem boys seh ….Everybody thiefing and running

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh ….Everybody thiefing and running

Guyana really famous and is dem contractor who put this country pun de map. Dey do all kind of thing in Guyana till dem come to world attention. Dem start pun a bridge at Good Hope and...

Driver of vehicle asks home owner “who is going to fix my car?”

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Driver of vehicle asks home owner “who is going to fix my car?”

Car crashing into Bagotstown house… Robin Persaud, the driver of the burgundy motorcar, PJJ 6704 which flew through the air into Lot 35, Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara...

GPL hosts cultural extravaganza

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GPL hosts cultural extravaganza

As part of its observance for the International Year for People of African Descent and its annual emancipation celebrations, the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) hosted a Cultural...

Habiquad touts pre-fab, low maintenance homes

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Habiquad touts pre-fab, low maintenance homes

By Rabindra Rooplall Imagine during a hot and humid day, you enter your home which has no air condition unit or fan but it is naturally cool all day long. This is the new wave of...

Building your home? (Permission and the City Engineer)

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Building your home? (Permission and the City Engineer)

By Leonard Gildarie During the last few weeks in this series of articles on home-building and its challenges (and we have passed the 20th publication), it has been a most enlightening...

Guyana Zoo to be greatly improved

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News 2

Guyana is a land with a large rainforest containing some of the world’s most impressive species of indigenous flora and fauna – a variety of the radiant flora can be found...

From the Diaspora…IT’S TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE IN THE GUYANA POLICE FORCE

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…IT’S TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE IN THE GUYANA POLICE FORCE

By Ralph Seeram This is it; no” if’s or buts”; no more procrastination, no more excuses. The Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee, has to go. Henry Greene has to go; those...

Spanish in the Caribbean

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Spanish in the Caribbean

By Leon Suseran in the Dominican Republic Spending almost 24 hours traveling from airport to airport on a series of connecting flights seemed worth the hassle after all, since my arrival here...

‘Desi Girl’ singer to headline Bollywood Diva concert

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Desi Girl’ singer to headline Bollywood Diva concert

India’s young singing sensation Sunidhi Chauhan, known for super hits such as “Desi Girl” and “Sheila Ki Jawani” will headline a Bollywood Diva concert at the end of October here in...

Police forced my son to fetch a truck load of sand-mother alleges

Aug 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police forced my son to fetch a truck load of sand-mother alleges

Bibi Fazeela Rayman of Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara is calling on Commissioner of Police Henry Greene and the Home Minister Affairs Clement Rohee to investigate some policemen who took...

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Kaieteur Sports – The weather was not the only scorching thing this weekend as Jumbo Jet Events staged the first round of its Need for Speed Karting Championship at the 555 Speedway in...

Watch the PPPC like a hawk!

Jun 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – A curious silence has greeted what ought to be one of the most debated economic announcements of the year. President Irfaan Ali has indicated that bonds will be issued to members of the Guyanese diaspora, allowing them to invest in major infrastructure projects in Guyana. One...

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,...

More money for Guyanese workers

Jun 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I like it. More money for Guyanese workers. Not private sector minimum wage workers, regrettably. If any local workers are due more money, private sector (and public service) minimum wage workers standout. More money is for Guyanese in the oil industry. Well, that’s...

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