August 2011

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Let Merundoi air and let honest voter education prevail

Aug 13, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let Merundoi air and let honest voter education prevail

Dear Editor, A significant characteristic of human beings is their ability to communicate effectively. In contemporary times, the advancement of technology has considerably enhanced the ways in which...

The drums of war

Aug 13, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The drums of war

Dear Editor, Response is made to Ravi Dev’s “Too Little, Too late” (KN August 7th). Dev masquerades as an Indian rights activist but is an enabler of lawlessness in furtherance of his agenda...

Let’s take this walk for freedom!

Aug 13, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let’s take this walk for freedom!

Dear Editor, On July 29th, Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmon ruled us (Mark Benschop, Lincoln Lewis and Norris Witter) not guilty of the charge of unlawful assembly. This charge was made on 15 July 2009...

An ‘Indigenous Dream’

Aug 13, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on An ‘Indigenous Dream’

Dear Editor, I am enthused that President Jagdeo is thinking about a railway from Brazil to Georgetown. Maybe my ‘Indigenous dream’ may be finally realized. My first attempt to be heard on the...

Taxes in Guyana seem to make the rich richer and the poor poorer

Aug 13, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Taxes in Guyana seem to make the rich richer and the poor poorer

Dear Editor, Taxation is a form of monetary collection that is contributed by citizens in a democratic society and pooled into a comprehensive fund by the leaders of that society in order to fulfill...

Solve pastor’s murder or risk turning Guyana into haven for revenge killings

Aug 13, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Solve pastor’s murder or risk turning Guyana into haven for revenge killings

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your front page story on a slain pastor who served 15 years in prison for killing his wife (KN Aug 2). As a media person in the US, I am familiar with the name...

Opposition absent as Bills sent to Select Committee

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition absent as Bills sent to Select Committee

Telecoms legislation… By Leonard Gildarie Two pieces of legislation, that government says will break the monopoly of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and throw the...

Inferno razes TH&D storage bond

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Inferno razes TH&D storage bond

– Hundreds of millions in estimated losses Hundreds of millions in valuables went up in smoke early yesterday morning as a fire consumed the Transport and Harbours Department...

Two girls top at CSEC

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Two girls top at CSEC

After five years of hard work and hours of gruelling classes, extra lessons, working through the holidays and studying night after night, the wait is finally over. CSEC results are here. The...

Queen’s College dominates CAPE in 2011

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News 7

Every single student who has ever had to write the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) will tell you that in comparison to the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC), CAPE is...

Dem boys seh …..Dem container gun tun house fuh some people

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh …..Dem container gun tun house fuh some people

People got a big cleaning exercise going on in Queens. De Big man going there this weekend fuh collect money that gun help pay de passage fuh he and Uncle Donald. One man walk wid a pointer broom but...

‘Phony’ GPL workers nabbed after fleecing Land of Canaan residents

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Phony’ GPL workers nabbed after fleecing Land of Canaan residents

Luck ran out on two men who claimed they were employees of the Guyana Power and Light Inc., and fleeced several residents of varying amounts of cash. The men were arrested on Wednesday afternoon by...

One killed, three injured in accident

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on One killed, three injured in accident

A 29-year-old man was killed when the vehicle in which he was travelling was struck by another car. The fatal collision occurred just after 01:00 hrs yesterday morning at the junction of David and...

Cops probe fisherman’s death at sea

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cops probe fisherman’s death at sea

Police are questioning the captain and crew-members of a fishing vessel following the sudden death at sea of one of the crew. John Dowden, of Hogg Street, Albouystown, also known as ‘Nattie’,...

Robbery accused trio granted bail

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Robbery accused trio granted bail

Patrick Dundas, Napthli Favourite and Lapntali Clarke, who were charged with robbery with aggravation, were each granted bail to the tune of $125,000 when they appeared yesterday before...

Teen remanded on robbery charge

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teen remanded on robbery charge

A teenager accused of committing robbery under arms was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave Hamilton when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The...

Man beaten to death at Port Kaituma

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man beaten to death at Port Kaituma

The police are investigating yet another murder in Guyana’s interior, following the death of a 19-year-old miner in the North West District around 23:00 hours on Tuesday last. Police in a press...

Still no start date for Linden-Lethem road works

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Still no start date for Linden-Lethem road works

Discussions on the development of the Linden to Lethem Road have been ongoing for years and the Governments of Guyana and Brazil have not yet decided on the date when the construction of the road...

All roads lead to Providence today for Jam Zone Masters’ Cups semis

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on All roads lead to Providence today for Jam Zone Masters’ Cups semis

By Sean Devers The wait is finally over and the battle about to begin as the biggest stars in Caribbean T20 cricket collide in two exciting semi-finals of the Jam Zone Masters’ Cup T20 cricket...

Digicel lauds efforts of Special Olympics team

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel lauds efforts of Special Olympics team

Hosts Luncheon for contingent By Edison Jefford One of the largest corporate supporters of sports in Guyana, Digicel, yesterday lauded the efforts of the national Special Olympics team, which...

Guyana aim to hand Jamaica 3rd straight defeat

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana aim to hand Jamaica 3rd straight defeat

Regional U-19 cricket round three By Sean Devers Guyana rebounded from their first round loss to defending Champions Trinidad and Tobago by beating the Leeward Islands in their second round...

Tulsie crowned champion rider

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tulsie crowned champion rider

Biker Boyz Grass Track Meet Peter Tulsie made the transition from Novice to Pro rider in grand style when he rode to two victories which propelled him to Champion Rider status when the...

Yassin ushers praise on the national ladies hockey team

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Yassin ushers praise on the national ladies hockey team

President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) K.A Juman Yassin speaking at a press briefing to highlight the National ladies Hockey team’s outstanding performance at the just...

Jumbo Jet stables rolls them over with $20M horse race sponsorship

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jumbo Jet stables rolls them over with $20M horse race sponsorship

Digicel offers support to fraternity once again Samuel Whyte With over $20 million in total sponsorship at stake for the August 21 Jumbo Jet Guyana Cup Horse Race Meet, including a hefty...

GDA to host competition on Sunday @ Timehri

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GDA to host competition on Sunday @ Timehri

The Guyana Draughts Association (GDA) in its continuing efforts to speard the game will be hosting a competition for players on the East Bank of Demerara including Soesdyke and Timehri...

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Cadogan-Xavier duo help sink Hikers in opening-day thriller

Nov 06, 2026

…Saints, Antonio’s Hikers, GCC Outlaws among winners in Kellogg’s sponsored Senior Indoor Hockey C/ship (Kaieteur News) – The Kellogg’s National Senior Indoor Hockey Championships got...

From economic genocide to physical extinction

Nov 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – “To bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Those were the chilling words of Lester Mallory, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, in a memorandum dated 6th April, 1960, addressed to his superior in the U.S. State Department....

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

Torture: Mohamed must clear the air

Nov 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The sister of Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, said he was tortured. The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) said he was not. Mr. Azruddin Mohamed should be out on bail. He is the best body of evidence (literally) as to whether he was or wasn’t tortured. He has...

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