September 2011

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MDG: The other goals

Sep 12, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on MDG: The other goals

In yesterday’s editorial we dealt with Guyana’s update on its efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by focusing on the first goal – To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. In...

A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT

Sep 12, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT

It was a dark and stormy night. This might be the worst way to start a novel but it is exactly the right way to describe what happened to us in Antigua a little more than two...

WILL THINGS GET BETTER FOR BUSINESS?

Sep 12, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WILL THINGS GET BETTER FOR BUSINESS?

There are some persons who are hoping that the investment and business climate will improve for the better once President Jagdeo leaves office. While his policies have favoured...

Fishermen dead after set ablaze by co-worker

Sep 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fishermen dead after set ablaze by co-worker

By Leon Suseran Two Corentyne fishermen have died from extensive burns they sustained after being allegedly doused with gasoline and set alight by a berserk co-worker in the...

Re-arrested murder accused hangs self in lockups

Sep 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Re-arrested murder accused hangs self in lockups

Three days after he was set free and subsequently rearrested on a charge of murder, 20-year-old Chris Primus hanged himself in the lock-ups at the Bartica Police Station. Ranks at the...

New US Ambassador to Guyana remembers 9/11 attack

Sep 12, 2011 KNews News 1

Ten years ago, on this date, the world changed inexorably. It was the day one of the most horrific terrorist attacks on the United States ever took place. In a four pronged attack on the morning of...

Dem boys seh…Shame got de Big Man bad

Sep 12, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Shame got de Big Man bad

Is a long time dem boys never see de state instigate anything. Dem grow up knowing that de state does wuk fuh everybody. That change and all because of people exposing de thiefing that going on. Is...

Jermaine King, Simeon Hardy step up training for toughest fights of careers

Sep 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jermaine King, Simeon Hardy step up training for toughest fights of careers

Barbadian Miguel Antoine must be feeling invincible after enjoying decisive victories over Shawn Pyle, Mark Austin and Cassius Matthews in earlier editions of the monthly Friday night...

Johnson’s ton spurs GCC to title despite 122 from Gajanand Singh

Sep 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Johnson’s ton spurs GCC to title despite 122 from Gajanand Singh

By Sean Devers In glorious sunshine and watched by a vocal crowd of mostly DCC supporters, Leon Johnson stroked a classy 104 to lead GCC to a six wicket win against DCC at Bourda in yesterday’s...

Kares Engineering/Bushy Park Sawmills T10 Tapeball Cricket Competition winners receive prizes

Sep 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kares Engineering/Bushy Park Sawmills T10 Tapeball Cricket Competition winners receive prizes

– New Company Ignite introduced The Management Committee of the 2011 Kares Engineering/Bushy Park Sawmills T10 Cricket Competition on Saturday presented the winners in the various categories...

Prize winners collect hardware

Sep 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Prize winners collect hardware

– Persaud, Roshandin voted joint overall champions Prize winners of the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) July 31 Race Meeting were presented with their hardware, during a...

Windies girls suffer first t20 defeat to Pakistan

Sep 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windies girls suffer first t20 defeat to Pakistan

By Sean Devers In overcast conditions at the Guyana National stadium on Saturday night, West Indies lost to Pakistan by five wickets as Pakistan won their first game of the four-match series going...

NLC clash with Bartica Challengers in final; WB Super Kings & Gandhi play for 3rd

Sep 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on NLC clash with Bartica Challengers in final; WB Super Kings & Gandhi play for 3rd

Defending champions Bartica Challengers (BC) sponsored by Hopkinson Mining was down to face off with New Line Cavaliers (NLC) in the final of the Aruwai Mining Inc. / D&C Promotions Twenty20...

Abigail McDonald out-spells her rivals to claim another scrabble championship

Sep 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Abigail McDonald out-spells her rivals to claim another scrabble championship

Abigail McDonald celebrated her birth anniversary with a definitive victory when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) staged an open championship in the pavilion of the Malteenoes...

Good sense prevails as raging cycling dispute attracts attention of mediating committee

Sep 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Good sense prevails as raging cycling dispute attracts attention of mediating committee

A raging dispute between top cyclist and current national champion, Walter Grant Stewart, the executives of the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) and several cyclists threatened to compromise the...

Suicide rates increased by 60 percent worldwide in last 45-years – WHO

Sep 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Suicide rates increased by 60 percent worldwide in last 45-years – WHO

– second leading cause of death in the 10-24 age group Every year, almost one million people die from suicide; a ‘global’ mortality rate of 16 per 100,000, or one death every 40 seconds,...

Salaries & pensions must be raised in Guyana

Sep 11, 2011 KNews Letters 2

Dear Editor, I recently spent eight wonderful weeks in Guyana and talked with Policemen, Teachers and Pensioners (among others), and ALL were adamant about the same issue – they are not getting...

Cartoon – September 11, 2011

Sep 11, 2011 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cartoon – September 11, 2011

How NIS Berbice branch cost $69M …

Sep 11, 2011 KNews News 9

• There was this $3M generator hut -KNews willing to pay for a post construction audit Amidst growing questions over the overpriced cost of constructing a Berbice branch of the...

The Cali Mari Man – Neville Calistro is a ‘Special Person’

Sep 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on The Cali Mari Man – Neville Calistro is a ‘Special Person’

Pull Quote: “Maybe, it sounded interesting to her.”- Calistro on his music, after being invited by Mrs. Burnham to join the People’s Culture Corps in the 1970s By Rohan Sagar...

Trini slits Guyanese wife’s throat, hangs self

Sep 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Trini slits Guyanese wife’s throat, hangs self

Trinidad – A Guyanese mother of four, Sohanie Ramsundar, was found dead in her bedroom on Friday, with her throat slit, according to Trinidad newspapers. Hours later, the body of her husband,...

Dem boys seh…Dem still thiefing

Sep 11, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Dem still thiefing

People got to be careful wha dem wearing. If dem wearing a li’l gold chain then dem ain’t poor. De Big Man lay down that rule. That is why people does cock he. People who got nuff land...

Boxers selected for Ronald Williams Memorial Games in BAR

Sep 11, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxers selected for Ronald Williams Memorial Games in BAR

The Committee members of Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) recently met at GABA President’s Office, Main Street to select a team to represent Guyana at the Ronald Williams Memorial...

10km Road Race route

Sep 11, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on 10km Road Race route

The route for what is anticipated as one of the biggest 10km Road Races of the year, the Courts 10km Road Race, has been identified and since it is new, it will provide its own challenges for...

Ronaldo Rodrigues records PB at Commonwealth Youth Games Swimming

Sep 11, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ronaldo Rodrigues records PB at Commonwealth Youth Games Swimming

Ronaldo Rodrigues clocked a Personal Best in Boys 200m Breaststroke to move to 6th position with 2:38.68; in the process setting a new National Record in the Boys 15-17 age-group. The...

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Hope 162* beats Rahul 129* as West Indies pull off record chase

Oct 04, 2026

(Cricinfo) – Shai Hope spent the entirety of this seemingly never-ending match on the field, hobbling for the last third of his innings after having kept for 50 overs, and sealed West...

The price of prosperity

Oct 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In Guyana, there is a peculiar arithmetic to prosperity. The country announces itself as one of the fastest-growing economies in the hemisphere, a petroleum state that has been transformed almost overnight into a place of billion-dollar projects, expanding infrastructure and...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

What if

Oct 04, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – Brace for what’s coming, my fellow Guyanese. A bit off the beaten track. Here goes. What if the U.S. as a matter of immigration policy would experiment with visa-free travel for Guyanese? A kind of seasonal work permit, along the lines that used to be...

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