August 2011

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Yet another stark reminder of what can happen when the masses rise up from their slumber

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Yet another stark reminder of what can happen when the masses rise up from their slumber

Dear Editor, Events in Libya are now at the centre of global attention. It has been nearly six months since attempts by the rebel force aided and abetted by Western powers have been trying to...

Both Britain and the United States bear responsibility

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Both Britain and the United States bear responsibility

Dear Editor, The recent release of classified information pertaining to the role of the British Government in the overthrow of the democratically elected PPP government did not come as a...

Greenidge ignores inconvenient truth

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Greenidge ignores inconvenient truth

Dear Editor, Mr. Carl Greenidge ought to be ashamed of himself and should know that his recent press statements are not only intellectual dishonesty, but reckless. That he was a part of a Government...

Myles, Carto, Walcott for CYG

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Myles, Carto, Walcott for CYG

Hampton Games two-time gold medalist, Malcolm Walcott along with national sprinters, Letitia Myles and Tiffany Carto were chosen by Athletics Association Guyana (AAG) to represent Guyana at...

TD Shabazz excited to be back at the helm

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on TD Shabazz excited to be back at the helm

-lauds the selfless effort of ‘Ultimate Warrior’ Technical Director of Guyana’s senior national team ‘the Golden Jaguars’ Trinidadian Jamal Shabazz in an interview with...

Bancroft is 2-day tourney best boxer

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bancroft is 2-day tourney best boxer

Ian Bancroft won the best boxer accolade when a two-day amateur boxing tournament was held last weekend at the Andrew Sixhead Lewis Boxing Gym in Albouystown. The tournament was sponsored by...

Local boxers experience mixed fortunes in Barbados invitational goodwill tourney

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local boxers experience mixed fortunes in Barbados invitational goodwill tourney

Guyanese boxers experienced mixed fortunes when they engaged their Barbados counterparts in a one night goodwill tournament hosted at the Springer Memorial Auditorium, St Michael Barbados,...

Champtress rules the roost at Rising Sun

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Champtress rules the roost at Rising Sun

Jumbo Jet stables take top honours once again By Samuel Whyte It was Champtress that did the trick as the racehorse owned by Dennis DeRoop of The Simple Royal Stable of Corentyne...

Scott Service Station fuel D&C Promotions T20 tourney

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scott Service Station fuel D&C Promotions T20 tourney

Event bowls off on September 3 @ BCCG Scott Service Station of Bartica is the latest corporate entity to lend support to the 2nd edition of the D&C Promotions Twenty20 knock out cricket...

GDF, GPF rebound to avenge early losses

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GDF, GPF rebound to avenge early losses

Milo Under-23 Football Tournament – Riddim Squad draw with Northern Rangers The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rebounded from their opening round loss to Flamingo to inflict a 2-1 win...

Webster, Hussain capture top podium spots in Rapid Chess tournament

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Webster, Hussain capture top podium spots in Rapid Chess tournament

Learie Webster of the West Demerara and Rashad Hussain of Mae’s Secondary emerged victorious in the senior and junior categories respectively, when the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) staged...

Food for the Poor (Guy) Inc supports Berbice Cricket Board

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Food for the Poor (Guy) Inc supports Berbice Cricket Board

The Administration of the Berbice Cricket Board was earlier this week given a shot in the arm when Food for the Poor (Guy) Inc donated a set of office furniture to the Board. The donation...

Amputee holds fitness walkathon

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Amputee holds fitness walkathon

Amputee William France hosted his fifth fitness for life walkathon yesterday from the Two Brothers Gas Station at Eccles to the Mocha Road Head on the East Bank Demerara. Being the original...

Leaked embassy cables…”Ironic” Luncheon gets eye treatment in US; normal Guyanese go to Cuba

Aug 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Leaked embassy cables…”Ironic” Luncheon gets eye treatment in US; normal Guyanese go to Cuba

– Chinese-built convention centre described as white elephant The US had found it ironic that a senior government official, Dr. Roger Luncheon, sought emergency eye care in that country...

Tottering from precipice to precipice

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Tottering from precipice to precipice

Guyana is a country tottering from one indignity to another. The government talks about good governance, but exposes in the WikiLeaks cables tell another story. Perhaps the most...

Lumber shortage… Industry eyes alternative wood species for govt. contracts

Aug 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Lumber shortage… Industry eyes alternative wood species for govt. contracts

– price website, wallaba posts among options mulled By Leonard Gildarie A major meeting between players in the wood business, last Friday, while not immediately finding solutions to...

Canal #2 farmer fatally struck by speeding car

Aug 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Canal #2 farmer fatally struck by speeding car

Despite calls by the Traffic Chief and National Road Safety Council, there continues to be reckless use of the roadways, resulting in a steadily climbing road fatality figure. On Sunday...

RADIO BY REQUEST

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on RADIO BY REQUEST

‘Best By Request’, the radio programme on which the late Pancho Carew made his name is back on the air. It is now aired on Radio Roraima 100.1 FM each weekday from 1pm to 4 pm. It...

Wanted

Aug 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Wanted

Police have issued a wanted bulletin for Indarpaul Moninlal Doodnauth who they are interested in questioning in relation to Trafficking in Narcotics. Doodnauth, who is also known as Teddy, is medium...

Leaked embassy cable suggests …GDF, gun smugglers link in 2006

Aug 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Leaked embassy cable suggests …GDF, gun smugglers link in 2006

According to a leaked US embassy cable dated March 8th, 2006, released last week by controversial website, Wikileaks, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) was suspected of being deeply involved in a...

$20.4M MAGISTRATE’S COURT COMMISSIONED AT CHARITY

Aug 30, 2011 KNews News 8

The presiding magistrates, currently executing duties within the county of Essequibo, are expected to operate in much more comfort, after the commissioning of the new building to accommodate the...

Don’t make our roads a battlefield

Aug 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Don’t make our roads a battlefield

-Enterprise road safety assoc. head President of the Enterprise Road Safety Association Chandrapaul Persaud is appealing to drivers, especially on the East Coast of Demerara, not to make the...

Lethem’s main economic road deplorable

Aug 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem’s main economic road deplorable

– Rupununi chamber pres. Lethem is a growing economic hub in Region Nine, but its main commercial road, Barrack Retreat, from the Takutu Bridge to the airport does not reflect the...

Slumbering man killed by fallen concrete slab

Aug 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Slumbering man killed by fallen concrete slab

After cozying up at his daily hangout spot, 40-year-old Lloyd Jeffrey called “Matlock” met his demise after part of a shattered concrete wall fell on him while he was lying on the bridge...

$69M

Aug 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on $69M

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Kaieteur Sports – Round Three of the Pegasus Weekly Chess League, organized by Drayton’s Chess Club in partnership with the Pegasus Chess Club and Guyana Chess Federation, continued on Monday...

The Ministry diagnoses the wrong disease

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(Kaieteur News) – The Ministry of Health’s response to Peeping Tom’s column, “Second-Class Patients,” is a case whereby a medical response is so clinically misplaced that one is tempted to prescribe a second opinion. The Ministry has produced an impressive medical case for something...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

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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...

Motions, distance, indifference

Sep 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There’s a human tragedy. Cotton Tree and two cousins. Across Mandarin Bridge and an 11-year-old-child. Police killings in Linden. And, more lately, a boat that went down and took down over 100 Guyanese lives. Poor ones. The rich ones and big ones don’t sail,...

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