August 2011

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School dropouts, unsupportive homes, aid violent criminal behaviour

Aug 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on School dropouts, unsupportive homes, aid violent criminal behaviour

-UNODC report A thorough assessment of the country context should be a precursor to any crime prevention and criminal justice reform, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)...

Dominican Republic is CRTTF Teams Champions

Aug 15, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dominican Republic is CRTTF Teams Champions

-Guyana secures bronze The Dominican Republic showed its superior class last night when it won both male and female team titles in the ongoing Caribbean and Regional Table Tennis Federation...

Jamaicans take WICB Women’s title in style

Aug 15, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jamaicans take WICB Women’s title in style

Guyana claim fifth place Bridgetown, Barbados – The girls from Jamaica were crowned queens of West Indies cricket on Sunday when they beat Trinidad and Tobago by 30 runs to win the WICB...

Team Guyana win 6 games on opening day in SVGTA ITF Junior tourney

Aug 15, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Team Guyana win 6 games on opening day in SVGTA ITF Junior tourney

Nicola Ramdyhan and Aretta Dey led the way for team Guyana in the First Citizens Investment Services 2011 International Junior Tennis Tournament on the first day of action as they both picked...

Exceptional Karate Grading at the YMCA

Aug 15, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Exceptional Karate Grading at the YMCA

Shihan Frank Woon-a-Tai 9th degree Black Belt successfully climaxed another visit to Guyana with an explosive Karate examination at the YMCA Thomas Lands on Sunday August 7 hosted by...

ROUTE 66 AND ALL THAT

Aug 15, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on ROUTE 66 AND ALL THAT

I hit Route 66 today on my road trip through life. It has been a long journey starting on this date in 1945 at a little village in South Oropouche, Trinidad, and now here I am on what Nat...

Guyana is not all that bad

Aug 15, 2011 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyana is not all that bad

After he fell one afternoon and hit his head Mr. Winston Murray, a prospective presidential candidate for the Peoples National Congress Reform, was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital....

London Burns

Aug 15, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on London Burns

While all eyes were on Greece, where IMF imposed austerities had triggered mass protests, London suddenly exploded into riots, violence, arson and widespread looting. The disorders...

Are we being marginalized?

Aug 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are we being marginalized?

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me to respond to a letter in your daily of Wednesday August 10; 2011 (pg 3 captioned “We shouldn’t wait for a national disaster to modernize and secure...

Unless Bisram and NACTA polls provide full particulars, they should not be published

Aug 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unless Bisram and NACTA polls provide full particulars, they should not be published

Dear Editor, Vishnu Bisram and NACTA continue to be the topic of outrage, consternation, concern and allegations of polling and opinion-taking fraudulence in many parts of the Guyana media. In...

Those animals haven’t committed any crime

Aug 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those animals haven’t committed any crime

Dear Editor, I refer to a Kaieteur News article (14/08/11)”Disgraceful——Animal left to rot in police Compound,” and I am wondering who is putting...

Bisram meets Green’s challenge

Aug 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bisram meets Green’s challenge

Dear Editor, Mayor Green was very touchy in responding to my letter (KN Aug 9) with my queries which seemed to hit a raw nerve. Green has not shown any remorse and redemption in his response....

They will continue to be critical

Aug 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on They will continue to be critical

Dear Editor, Your publication has recently carried a number of critical letters from Freddie Kissoon, Lincoln Lewis, Mark Benchop, M. Maxwell, Malcolm Harripaul, Sasenarine Singh, and...

Every life matters

Aug 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Every life matters

Dear Editor, I had cause only a few days ago to draw attention to the grave situation in Somalia where millions of people are dying, or on the verge of dying, due to starvation and preventable...

Security management must be improved

Aug 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Security management must be improved

Dear Editor, Training, supervision and trust are the keys to high quality service and professionalism in the security industry; and the building blocks for integrating safety, security and...

Fiery administrative meeting links senior cops to drug dealers

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News 33

-two senior officers exposed By Dale Andrews Damning evidence of links between senior police officers and elements in the local illegal drug circuit surfaced last week during a high level...

Winning bid to be announced this week

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Winning bid to be announced this week

One Laptop Per Family Programme… Government is expected to give its no objections this week for a major contract to distribute 27,000 laptops to single parent households and other selected...

Disgraceful ……Animals starve to death in police pound, left to rot

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Disgraceful ……Animals starve to death in police pound, left to rot

By Dale Andrews Just who is really responsible for the upkeep of the animals in the police pound? This question arose when this newspaper observed several jackass carcasses in the pound...

Child dies every six minutes in Somalia famine

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News 6

A child is dying from starvation every six minutes in drought-hit Somalia, shocked aid workers revealed recently. It means that around 250 malnourished youngsters under five die each...

Spain’s 85-year-old Duchess gives away billions$$$ for love

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Spain’s 85-year-old Duchess gives away billions$$$ for love

Spain (www.time.com)- You can say one thing for the Duchess of Alba: she gets what she wants. When, decades ago, she fell in love with a freethinking, defrocked Jesuit — hardly a...

Marshall, Lion, Union Rep. and Life Deacon

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Marshall, Lion, Union Rep. and Life Deacon

Donald Thom is a ‘Special Person’ Pull Quote: “I must say that I have enjoyed life to the fullest. It has been eighty-five good years to date. I have played my little part in this...

Dem boys seh…. Milk choke some fat cat

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…. Milk choke some fat cat

People seh that you don’t put cat fuh watch milk. De police force got nuff cat and dem same cat got to watch milk. De other day a man decide that he can push cocaine but he didn’t bargain fuh dem...

Guyanese aims to serve country through ‘Work, Calling & Human Dignity’

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese aims to serve country through ‘Work, Calling & Human Dignity’

Dr. Dale Dan, formerly of Garnett Street, Campbellville, is the daughter of Ramnarine and Bebe Nysha-Dan, both now deceased. Her father engineered the building of many of the roads...

Building your home? (Applying for permission to build in the city)

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Building your home? (Applying for permission to build in the city)

By Leonard Gildarie Last week, we spoke of how far you should build your home from the boundary or fence areas. An NDC official made it clear that homes, and we are speaking specifically of the ones...

National Trust donates $200,000 towards Mission Chapel restoration

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on National Trust donates $200,000 towards Mission Chapel restoration

The National Trust of Guyana recently donated $200,000 towards the rebuilding and preservation efforts of one of Guyana’s oldest churches, the Mission Chapel Congregational in New Amsterdam....

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Oct 27, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Four Guyana athletes created history over the weekend by not just competing for the first time at the HYROX Fitness competition in Suriname but Team Fitness Express comprising...

Tomorrow should be declared as a day of mourning in Guyana

Oct 27, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana has seemingly decided that the inconvenience of possessing an independent mind is no longer worth the trouble. It has changed direction. The irony is that while Guyana appears increasingly willing to trade diplomatic independence for Washington’s approval, Brazil’s...

Are We All Ukrainians?

Oct 25, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 19 October, accepting the award of Ukraine’s Order of Merit, I said that my commitment to Ukraine rests on a principle essential to small nations everywhere: sovereignty is the freedom to govern ourselves, preserve our identity and decide our future....

Ambassador Theriot, one unhappy Excellency

Oct 27, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – American Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole D. Theriot, has to be one unhappy puppy. Sorry, Excellency; the Americanism should be understood, taken gracefully. But Excellency Theriot has to be unhappy as the day is long. A soft, feathery ambassadorial assignment, looking after...

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