August 2011

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Three matches completed as GCA U-13 cricket tournament gets underway

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Three matches completed as GCA U-13 cricket tournament gets underway

A smattering of spectators were treated to several exciting matches when action in the Georgetown Cricket Association/DeSinco U-13 cricket tournament got underway at three venues along...

Nankumar Singh returns as August ProAm promises to be action packed

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nankumar Singh returns as August ProAm promises to be action packed

Nankumar Singh, the exciting lightweight pugilist from the Republican Boxing Gym will lead a strong team of amateur boxers that appears on the August edition of the Friday Night Fights...

Many Cooperate sponsors on board

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Many Cooperate sponsors on board

Fifth Annual Guyana Cup 2011 $20M horse races meet Radio, TV programmes and giveaways on the cards This year’s Fifth Annual Guyana Cup 2011 $20M horserace meet organised by the Jumbo...

Guyana engage Curacao in CFU Women’s Under-17 qualifier

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana engage Curacao in CFU Women’s Under-17 qualifier

– Acting President urges Guyanese to support the game Acting President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Franklin Wilson speaking at a press briefing to update the media on...

Dare Devils win as Mark Sutton seven-a-side football competition conclude

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dare Devils win as Mark Sutton seven-a-side football competition conclude

Ronson Williams registered a brace to lead Dare Devils to a 4-0 victory over Paradise Clean Heart when the final of the Mark Sutton seven a side football competition concluded at the Melanie...

Digicel NY Caribbean Cup…. Millington, Beaton push Guyana into semi-finals

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel NY Caribbean Cup…. Millington, Beaton push Guyana into semi-finals

By Rawle Toney in New York The pair of Devon Millington and Kevin Beaton has proven to be by far the most lethal in the tournament this year, as the two strikers each netted a double to help...

Prashad wins Courts Inc Golf tourney

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Prashad wins Courts Inc Golf tourney

Patrick Prashad continued his winning ways when he captured last weekend’s Courts Guyana Inc. Stableford Golf tournament at the Lusignan golf Club. Prashad who recently won the Sanjay...

THE ANIMALS DESERVED BETTER!

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE ANIMALS DESERVED BETTER!

Imagine that you are a goat. You are grazing peacefully one afternoon when a van load of stray catchers pull you by the rope and toss you into a vehicle. At first you are scared,...

CARICOM’s Future

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on CARICOM’s Future

Irwin LaRocque is now officially ensconced as the sixth Secretary-General of CARICOM, the institutional embodiment of our Caribbean integration aspirations since 1973. It is nothing short of...

A revelation by Dr Roopnaraine that should scare all Guyanese

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A revelation by Dr Roopnaraine that should scare all Guyanese

I first used the term, “fascistization” to describe the slow transformation of the PPP Government from routine dictatorship to more frightening forms of tyranny in January 2005. The term...

Let us use our pens to put forward letters of unity

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let us use our pens to put forward letters of unity

Dear Editor, Over the past several years I have noticed that your daily “Letter Column” publishes letters written under the pen Vishnu Bisram frequently. Your daily is not...

Freedom of speech started with Hoyte’s PNC, not the PPP

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freedom of speech started with Hoyte’s PNC, not the PPP

Dear Editor, What the hell passes for history these days in Guyana? Everywhere I turn there is a profound campaign to distort truth. Look, we all know the PNC is a royal disaster. But let’s...

Greene has been covering up the corruption of his officers for too long

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Greene has been covering up the corruption of his officers for too long

Dear Editor, Commissioner of Police Henry Greene is perhaps the most inept, incompetent Commissioner the Guyana Police Force has ever had. In simple language – he is a bluff. Why shouldn’t...

Not in “cahoots”

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Not in “cahoots”

Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on one aspect of a letter titled “Most Guyanese will welcome the observer missions” which was published in the Guyana Chronicle of 13.08.2011 under...

Government should be commended for their response to rising food prices

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government should be commended for their response to rising food prices

Dear Editor, It is commendable that the government of Guyana is keeping abreast with the changes in the global economic environment mainly the changes in food prices and food security. The Guyanese...

Suriname will have our cake and eat it too

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Suriname will have our cake and eat it too

Dear Editor, While President Jagdeo was busy receiving 29 tons of building materials from his friend Ed Ahmad which was shipped directly to State House, the Surinamese were busy putting this...

I wish the world had more people that care

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on I wish the world had more people that care

Dear Editor, I am 7 years old and I live in Cumberland, East Canje Berbice and I love animals. I like reading the newspaper articles about animals and I must say I am always sad when I see...

Unscrupulous, greedy, route 32 mini bus operators

Aug 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unscrupulous, greedy, route 32 mini bus operators

Dear Editor, I would like to bring to your attention a matter of grave concern. The route 32 minibuses with the exception of a few, are now demanding that commuters pay a fare of two hundred...

BREAKING NEWS: Diamond dealer kidnapped, rescued on Soesdyke/Linden Highway

Aug 16, 2011 KNews News 7

– Home alarm foils ransom demand A Brazilian businessman was early this morning rescued by an off-duty police rank on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway after his abductor released him. Reports are...

Drug link allegations…..Rohee in ‘serious discussions’ with Top Cop

Aug 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Drug link allegations…..Rohee in ‘serious discussions’ with Top Cop

PULL QUOTE: “What we see now is that they are actually in print…allegations made by a member of the Force itself against colleagues in the force, and I think that this adds a greater...

Tearful teen bandit leads cops to partner

Aug 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Tearful teen bandit leads cops to partner

Due to the relentlessness of ranks of a police anti-crime unit patrolling the East Coast of Demerara, two young men from the village of Vryheid’s Lust spent Sunday night in custody for the...

New CARICOM SG assumes position “at a most testing time”

Aug 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on New CARICOM SG assumes position “at a most testing time”

By Crystal Conway “Today, I begin my task as the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community with a mix of excitement and awe given the challenges of the moment.” These were the opening words of...

Investigators conclude… Arsonist caused D’Urban St. blaze

Aug 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Investigators conclude… Arsonist caused D’Urban St. blaze

A Guyana Fire Service investigation has revealed that someone deliberately set the fire which destroyed a two-storey house at Lot 18 D’Urban Street, Wortmanville, last month. Kaieteur News...

Aviation fuel dispute… ASL in legal tussle with Ogle Airport Inc.

Aug 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Aviation fuel dispute… ASL in legal tussle with Ogle Airport Inc.

– calls for Commission of Inquiry By Leonard Gildarie A local charter company has called for a Commission of Inquiry of the Ogle Airport following a gate-ramming...

Man shot dead in North West

Aug 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man shot dead in North West

By Rabindra Rooplall While intervening in a squabble between two men, one of whom was a relative of his, 42-year-old Emanuel Evans was shot and killed at Powis Backdam, Five...

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Should Guyana build a small refinery?

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(Kaieteur News) – The public discourse, thus far, on a refinery for Guyana asks some legitimate questions about cost, management, financing and commercial risk. But it makes a fundamental analytical mistake of evaluating the proposed Guyanese refinery as though its purpose were to become another...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Jagdeo on breaches, accountability Pt 1

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Great to see Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President, taking control. Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Regional Executive Officers, and assorted others summoned to a session with the new Minister for Virtue and against Vice. Dr. Jagdeo is the best man for that job. He knows the...

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