September 2011

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No rain since Friday but seepage onto pitch cause late start at Everest

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on No rain since Friday but seepage onto pitch cause late start at Everest

The sun was out in all its glory for the last two days in Georgetown but while there was no rain in the city since Friday wet areas on the Everest pitch caused an almost three-hour delay to the start...

Dookie hits ton but MSC take 1st innings points from GYO

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dookie hits ton but MSC take 1st innings points from GYO

Abilash Dookie stroked a confident 105 and Surendra Herilall supported with 44 but GYO still fell two short of taking first innings points from Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) at the Police ground in...

Twenty players to vie for honours as GASP stages its National Scrabble Championships

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Twenty players to vie for honours as GASP stages its National Scrabble Championships

Abigail McDonald will place her national scrabble title on the line when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) Stages its national scrabble Championships at the Bank of Guyana Sports Club...

President’s X1 beat Essequibo by 9 wickets

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on President’s X1 beat Essequibo by 9 wickets

The President’s X1 made 124-1 in 25.3 overs replying to Essequibo’s total of 120 to hand themselves victory at DCC yesterday in the second round of Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) four-team El Dorado...

Winston Pompey/ Simeon Hardy both confident ahead of Friday Night clash

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Winston Pompey/ Simeon Hardy both confident ahead of Friday Night clash

When Winston Pompey enters the ring next Friday evening to fight Simeon Hardy in the September edition of the ProAm boxing extravaganza he would have to be wary of a super confident boxer who feels...

Pattern of knockouts continue in semifinal action of Intermediate boxing championships

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pattern of knockouts continue in semifinal action of Intermediate boxing championships

Four boxers failed to make it to the final bell while several action packed encounters compensated for the abbreviated contests when semifinal action in the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA)...

Condom use sparks $86M bid

Sep 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Condom use sparks $86M bid

Three bids were opened for the supply and delivery of male and female condoms under the Health Ministry’s Materials Management Unit (MMU), on 30, August last at National Procurement and Tender...

B’ce Chamber of Commerce honours outstanding Berbicians, business entities

Sep 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on B’ce Chamber of Commerce honours outstanding Berbicians, business entities

The Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Development Association (BCCDA) recently held its Dinner and Awards Ceremony at the Suresh Business Complex at Strand and New Streets in New Amsterdam. The...

All Hail the boy emperor

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on All Hail the boy emperor

Dear Editor, So we have had it, the staged show to chaperone the champion of poverty on his way out, while at the same time making it clear that his “puppet” will ensure that he remains very much...

Bharrat Jagdeo is reluctant to lose power

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bharrat Jagdeo is reluctant to lose power

Dear Editor, In a country of murder, killing, blood-spilling and the meagre valueless nature of life, one of the great murders of democracy, dignity, decency and humility took place on Friday,...

Those persons who willfully propagate the HIV/AIDS virus must be held accountable

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those persons who willfully propagate the HIV/AIDS virus must be held accountable

Dear Editor, Needless to say, I was disappointed that the National Assembly did not pass the motion I presented on the willful transmission of HIV/Aids to unsuspecting individuals. However the...

Judge us by our records too Mr. Commissioner

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Judge us by our records too Mr. Commissioner

Dear .Editor, I have been a member of the Guyana Police Force for the past nine years, and as the days go by, I sit with some of my colleagues discussing what next to expect from our top brackets as...

Guyana’s fortunes changed under Jagdeo’s watch

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s fortunes changed under Jagdeo’s watch

Dear Editor, President Jagdeo’s tenure in office has seen significantly improved access to education, rehabilitation of the health system, far-reaching land reform, the biggest expansion of the...

The Auditor General should report on payments for the Amaila Falls access road

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Auditor General should report on payments for the Amaila Falls access road

Dear Editor of KN, The Government’s Request for Proposals in early 2010 for the building of the access road to the Amaila falls hydropower dam site called for an all-weather road for heavy traffic;...

The 2010 Guyana Prize was the most catastrophic ever

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The 2010 Guyana Prize was the most catastrophic ever

Dear Editor, Ruel Johnson is the voice in the wilderness protesting the mysteries of the Guyana Prize and now the mysteries of the first Inter-Cultural Festival. It is fair to ask on what basis the...

Jagdeo regime has taken vulgarity to a new level

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo regime has taken vulgarity to a new level

Dear Editor, The feeling among Guyanese that the lawlessness and vulgarity that have come to characterize the PPP/C government cannot get any worse is constantly proven false by new excesses from the...

The Slippery Libyan Road

Sep 19, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Slippery Libyan Road

The Arab Spring, which had seen off autocratic rulers in Tunisia (Dec 2010) and Egypt (February 2011), appears to have finally worked its wonders in Libya, which lies between them. Colonel Qaddafi...

Did Jagdeo venture too far ahead of the pack?

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Did Jagdeo venture too far ahead of the pack?

A friend once said to me, “If you are going to lead, don’t run too far ahead of your followers because suddenly there would be nothing to lead.” It made sense immediately. I...

Cop positively identified as drug counselor’s killer

Sep 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cop positively identified as drug counselor’s killer

Eyewitnesses to last Thursday morning’s fatal shooting outside the Stabroek Market have positively identified a police Corporal as the gunman. The rank, whose name was given as...

Sophia women beat suspected serial rapist

Sep 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia women beat suspected serial rapist

More than a dozen women caught a man trying to rape a woman in Sophia yesterday and gave him a severe beating which landed him at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The man was...

How the NIS Corriverton branch costs $69M…3 Tuff tanks, gutters, and pipes for $1.4M

Sep 18, 2011 KNews News 5

-bids not opened by National Tender Board The controversial high-priced $69M Corriverton branch of the National Insurance Scheme was not awarded by the National Procurement and Tender Administration...

Preserving the Wapishana language and culture….Dorothy Faria is a ‘Special Person’

Sep 18, 2011 KNews News 3

Pull Quote: “Sometimes when I speak the Wapishana language some of the children look at me like if I fall off the moon; I don’t like that. The children should be able to...

Dem boys seh…De police really smart

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De police really smart

Is confusion in de system. Two cops decide that dem gun mek dem heights before dem lef de wuk. A man gun get tek way and two of dem tell de man that if he give de $50,000 dem gun get...

Johnson, Mohamed spur Demerara to victory as E’bo lose by 58 runs

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Johnson, Mohamed spur Demerara to victory as E’bo lose by 58 runs

GCB’s El Dorado 50-overs cricket Skipper Leon Johnson led from the front with a classy 67 and off-spinner Zaheer Mohamed completed the job with 5-28 as Demerara whipped Essequibo by...

Ramdin spurs T&T to Champions League warm-up win

Sep 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ramdin spurs T&T to Champions League warm-up win

An aggressive 45-ball 71 with four fours and three sixes by West Indies Keeper Denesh Ramdin and an impressive display by leg-spinner Samuel Badree (3-7) helped Trinidad & Tobago record a...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

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...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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