October 2011

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Lobbying or Bribing?

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Lobbying or Bribing?

As democracy develops in Guyana under a free-enterprise economic regime, there have been some very unwelcome developments that this newspaper, for one, has been at pains to highlight. We refer to the...

APNU SHOULD SIGN A LIMITED CODE OF CONDUCT

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on APNU SHOULD SIGN A LIMITED CODE OF CONDUCT

APNU is not inclined to sign the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) code of conduct. The grouping has no objection to what the code contains, but rather to what is missing from...

Depoo responds to the Express editorial

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Depoo responds to the Express editorial

Dear Editor, I read your rather shrill editorial of today’s date pertaining to the four-month suspension of the broadcasting license of CNS Channel 6 in Guyana with great concern. Your editorial...

Jagdeo may have behavioral issues

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo may have behavioral issues

Dear Editor, Evidently President Jagdeo takes pride in what he calls “cussing out” the media and has escalated his tirade as an election campaign strategy which suggests this nation is...

Time is a unifier

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time is a unifier

Dear Editor, This election season has so much to celebrate and to fantasize about. Has there ever been a time in Guyana’s history when former ‘enemies’ are now comrades in arms? We have...

Panic is stepping in

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Panic is stepping in

Dear Editor, It is no surprise Jagdeo and the PPP/C are frantically attacking both the opposition parties and the Press. They have realized ...

A sad situation

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on A sad situation

Dear Editor, So sad about 10-year-old Richardo, who disappeared from his home. He seems an alert, pleasant child, and one hopes he is found soon and no harm befalls him. No child runs...

AFC, the ‘new kid on the Block’

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on AFC, the ‘new kid on the Block’

Dear Editor, I understand that the AFC is trying its best to attract the voting populace, especially, the youth, now that election is drawing nearer. But, the party has been proposing...

A question of impartiality

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on A question of impartiality

Dear Editor, Please permit me to point out via your letter column that, irrespective of whether or not GECOM rescinds the accreditation of the GPSU’s Local Observer...

Reifer, Mayers lead Combined Campus and Colleges to upset win over T&T

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Reifer, Mayers lead Combined Campus and Colleges to upset win over T&T

Combined Campus and Colleges (CCC), led by resilient batting from Floyd Reifer and Kyle Mayers, created a major upset, defeating Trinidad and Tobago by 5 wickets when the second day’s play...

Regional Super50 cricket…Jamaica hammer sub standard Leewards

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional Super50 cricket…Jamaica hammer sub standard Leewards

Jamaica lost three wickets in three overs after lunch but easily reached 101-3 off 15.4 overs replying to the 97 all out in 35 overs made by a sub-standard Leewards in their opening zone...

Kumar urges Guyanese to win – IGG opens in Suriname

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kumar urges Guyanese to win – IGG opens in Suriname

By Edison Jefford in Suriname In association with Warsila, YK Investments and R&D Engineering Director of Sport, Neil Kumar had no problem if the other participating delegations from...

Absence of 18-hole Course a serious oversight-Rajkumar

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Absence of 18-hole Course a serious oversight-Rajkumar

Overseas-based golfer Roger Rajkumar, who returned to Guyana recently to participate in the Digicel Classic and Guyana Open speaking with the media, said he believes that the absence of...

Pacesetters ‘A’ unstoppable

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pacesetters ‘A’ unstoppable

King Street Ballers and Above the Rim also advance Senior National players Stephan Gillis and Royston Siland made sure that their team didn’t suffer the same faith as the other...

Big hitting Jamaica push Skeldon CC to top of money pile

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Big hitting Jamaica push Skeldon CC to top of money pile

Georgetown, Guyana – Jamaica’s crushing victory over the Leeward Islands pushed their partner club – Skeldon Cricket Club – to the top of the money pile in the WICB Super Club...

Over 85 horses entered for Norman Singh Memorial, Shariff Stable Mega horserace Meet

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Over 85 horses entered for Norman Singh Memorial, Shariff Stable Mega horserace Meet

As race day draws nearer most of the top stables have confirmed their entries for the big mega horserace meet organized by the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club in collaboration with the Shariff...

Inaugural Universal DVD & Universal Solutions Twenty/20 Cricket starts this weekend

Oct 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Inaugural Universal DVD & Universal Solutions Twenty/20 Cricket starts this weekend

The first ever Universal DVD & Universal Solutions sponsored First Division Twenty/20 Cricket Competition starts this weekend with first and second round matches fixed for Saturday and...

$113M contract awarded for Leonora’s synthetic sports track, facilities

Oct 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on $113M contract awarded for Leonora’s synthetic sports track, facilities

Government has approved a number of critical contracts, including the construction of a synthetic track and field facilities at Leonora and rehabilitation of the Public Prosecutors’ offices....

APNU confirms Dr Roopnaraine as PM Candidate

Oct 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on APNU confirms Dr Roopnaraine as PM Candidate

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday after several weeks of speculation unveiled its Prime Ministerial Candidate Dr Rupert Roopnaraine, who along with Presidential Candidate David...

GHRA calls for acquitted NBS managers to be compensated

Oct 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GHRA calls for acquitted NBS managers to be compensated

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has come out in support of the senior managers of the New Building Society (NBS) who were before the court on charges of conspiracy to defraud and...

Herbalist was breaking the law – Min. Ramsammy

Oct 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Herbalist was breaking the law – Min. Ramsammy

The fact that she was not registered by any of the relevant councils to administer medical techniques, indicate that self-proclaimed healer Ms. Lurline Smith, popularly known as ‘Sister...

Foreign Affairs Ministry launches Workplace Wellness Programme

Oct 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign Affairs Ministry launches Workplace Wellness Programme

The fact that more than 63 per cent of the deaths around the world were linked to Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) was enough to have health officials across the globe put...

Govt. announces land, special incentives for small miners

Oct 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. announces land, special incentives for small miners

– Top Cop, GDF to meet GGDMA on hinterland crime spree – Rusal eyes Guyana for main bauxite supply By Leonard Gildarie Government yesterday announced plans to set aside significant...

Ogle Airport expansion “96 percent completed”

Oct 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ogle Airport expansion “96 percent completed”

The $380M expansion of the Ogle International Airport is said to be 96 percent completed. The project is expected to conclude by its extended November 15 deadline. When completed, the runway...

‘Cow lover’ remanded

Oct 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Cow lover’ remanded

A man who claims he lives at Light Street, Alberttown, was yesterday remanded to prison having been charged with buggery when he made an appearance at the Vreed-en-hoop Magistrate’s...

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(Cricinfo) – Kavem Hodge dislodged Bangladesh from the driver’s seat with a career-best unbeaten 140 on the fourth day in Sylhet. The visitors went to stumps on 345 for 3, leading by 315...

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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