October 2011

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Suhai Feng crowned New Sasha Cells National Junior Chess Champion

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Suhai Feng crowned New Sasha Cells National Junior Chess Champion

Suhai Feng was crowned the new National Junior Chess Champion after defeating Cecil Cox in a playoff by a margin of two games to one. Heading into the final round Feng had secured a half point lead...

Brilliant Rajiv Ivan leads Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadgets to title

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brilliant Rajiv Ivan leads Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadgets to title

8th Busta Champion of Champions final Another fine performance from Berbice all-rounder Rajiv Ivan led his team Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadgets (RHTG&G) to an easy 35 run...

Race Walkers take to the road this weekend

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Race Walkers take to the road this weekend

Rudolph Mitchell anxious to preserve unbeaten streak Over the years, national race-walk champion, Rudolph Mitchell has dominated the race walk track so much so that he has...

Bangladesh win after routing West Indies for 61

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bangladesh win after routing West Indies for 61

The threat of rain loomed over gloomy Chittagong but the weather stayed clear enough for Bangladesh to demolish West Indies for their second-lowest total in one-day internationals,...

Profiles of Inter- Guiana Games Athletics Team

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Profiles of Inter- Guiana Games Athletics Team

The Inter- Guiana Games Athletics team, departs Guyana today for Suriname, Paramaribo to compete in the Tri-Nation Games which is slated for October 19-24. Guyana’s Athletics Team will be looking...

Nicolette Fernandes cops bronze as XVI Pan American Games continues

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nicolette Fernandes cops bronze as XVI Pan American Games continues

Nicolette Fernandes dropped her semi-final game in the Individual Women’s event against Mexican, Samantha Theran and had to settle for a bronze medal when action in the XVI Pan...

Defending joint champs Barbados face HPC at Everest

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Defending joint champs Barbados face HPC at Everest

Barbados have reached more Regional 50-overs finals (17) than any other team since beating Trinidad and Tobago in the final of the first two tournaments in 1976 and 1977. However, the...

Entries for Trophy Stall Doubles tournament close today

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Entries for Trophy Stall Doubles tournament close today

Defending Men’s champions Godfrey Lowden / Phillip Squires are still the firm favourites to win this year’s title when the Doubles Tournament sponsored by Trophy Stall serves off...

Who is who on the IGG female basketball team

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Who is who on the IGG female basketball team

Guyana’s junior national female basketball team that will compete at the 2011 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) will have a daunting task of reversing history against Suriname and...

University (Mis)education?

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on University (Mis)education?

The University of Guyana is in the news once again – unfortunately however, not for the reasons that have transfixed educators in the developed world that we are supposed to be emulating. While...

REACHING OVER AND CROSSING OVER

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on REACHING OVER AND CROSSING OVER

A wish is being granted. The outgoing representative of the European Union to Guyana recently called on this country to reach across the political divide. Some of our politicians and citizens are...

‘Thirst Park Explosion’

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Thirst Park Explosion’

‘Stealth Bomber’ O’Neil promises to explode; London promises fireworks If Gwendolyn O’Neil and Pauline London have their way, the Banks DIH Thirst Park Ground would be...

Fredricks in for Chattergoon

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fredricks in for Chattergoon

Essequibo opening batsman Norman Fredricks has replaced Sewnarine Chattergoon in the Guyana 14-member squad for the Regional Super 50 competition. This replacement was due to...

The undemocratic PPP

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The undemocratic PPP

Dear Editor, The PNC with all its flaws is still a far more democratic organization than the PPP. The PNC dared to have a primary while the PPP dared not. After 19 years in office the...

Targeting David Granger

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Targeting David Granger

Dear Editor, I write this note as Press and Publicity Officer to President Bharrat Jagdeo so that future records would not be distorted. It is well known that President Jagdeo’s...

Our journalists are not vultures and carrion crows

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our journalists are not vultures and carrion crows

Dear Editor, I am shocked and saddened to learn that the President of Guyana at the PPP rally in Kitty described media operatives as “vultures and carrion crows who should all be...

An Appreciation of the President is full of forgeries

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on An Appreciation of the President is full of forgeries

Dear Editor, I had the great privilege of reading the ‘Appreciation’ magazine, ‘Forged By Fire: The Jagdeo Presidency’. Of all the forgeries presented therein, I’d like to...

The plight of the average man

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The plight of the average man

Dear Editor, I am a daily reader of the Kaieteur News Publication. I was reading the Kaieteur News dated Friday 7th October 2011. In the letter column, there is a missive written by Mr....

Competition is needed here

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Competition is needed here

Dear Editor, Please permit space to pen an open letter to Mr Yog Mahadeo. My phone which provides DSL service has been down since 13th October. Today is 8th October and DSL service has...

Sam Hinds has become irrelevant

Oct 19, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sam Hinds has become irrelevant

Dear Editor, PPP presidential candidate, Mr. Donald Ramotar’s selection of Mr. Sam Hinds as his prime ministerial running mate really does not inspire the same sense of change and...

October 2011 Berbice Assizes opens

Oct 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on October 2011 Berbice Assizes opens

The October session of the Berbice Criminal Assizes open yesterday with a multi-coloured police parade in front of the High Court building on Esplanade Road New Amsterdam. The event started...

PMTCT programme is a continued success – NAPS

Oct 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PMTCT programme is a continued success – NAPS

The Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission (PMTCT) programme out of the National Aids Programme Secretariat (NAPS) has declared continued success in the prevention of the transfer of HIV...

$$M being expended on drainage works – City Hall

Oct 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on $$M being expended on drainage works – City Hall

With the recent amnesty offered by the Georgetown Municipality raking in millions, finances seem to be readily available to cater to elaborate and much needed drainage works in the...

E’bo man found dead in Stanleytown canal

Oct 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo man found dead in Stanleytown canal

– Left for interior location two months ago Relatives of a man from Dartmouth on the Essequibo Coast are calling for a thorough investigation into his death after he was...

Domestic violence victims speaking out

Oct 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Domestic violence victims speaking out

– Help and Shelter With increasing public awareness of domestic violence and avenues for assistance, more women and men are speaking out against this plight, which has been in many...

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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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