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HIV/AIDS fight still hampered by limited condom use – PANCAP

Apr 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on HIV/AIDS fight still hampered by limited condom use – PANCAP

Despite relatively wide condom distribution mechanisms, the accessibility and acceptance of condoms remains limited in most Caribbean countries for those populations that are most at risk of...

Guyana, US sign drug support, anti-money laundering pact

Apr 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, US sign drug support, anti-money laundering pact

Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Thomas C. Pierce, signed a Letter of Agreement to establish and support projects under the Caribbean...

US Embassy could halt issuing visas

Apr 09, 2011 knews News Comments Off on US Embassy could halt issuing visas

A partial shutdown of the U.S. Government would include a shutdown of U.S. Embassy operations in Georgetown. The shutdown is possible because of a lack of agreement in Congress on current budgetary...

Cutlass-wielding man attacks Nursery School teachers in failed robbery

Apr 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cutlass-wielding man attacks Nursery School teachers in failed robbery

A man armed with a cutlass rushed into Roxanne Burnham Nursery School yesterday to commit a robbery, but after not finding what he was looking for dashed out of the building when the terrified...

Ravens, Pacesetters to set up dream Final tonight

Apr 09, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Ravens, Pacesetters to set up dream Final tonight

– National Basketball Championships continue By Edison Jefford When the lights are turned off at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall tonight following two Final Four games in the Guyana Amateur...

Corentyne man dies while jet skiing

Apr 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne man dies while jet skiing

Chetram Jagnit, called ‘Surren’, 57, of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Berbice lost his life Friday morning while jet skiing in the Corentyne River around 06:30hrs. According to reports the man and a...

‘42’ minibuses revert to old prices

Apr 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘42’ minibuses revert to old prices

Minibuses operating on the 42 route (Stabroek/Timehri) relaxed their demands for commuters to pay at least a $20 increase. Tis reduction came yesterday, as government held true to the threats of...

Show me another tournament with so many registered teams

Apr 09, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Show me another tournament with so many registered teams

Quarter-finals on today at Everest CC By Rawle Welch GT&T CEO Yog Mahadeo, while giving an update about this weekend’s 10/10 Softball Cricket Competition, challenged the media to show him...

GCA congratulates Barnwell on WI call up

Apr 09, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on GCA congratulates Barnwell on WI call up

The Executives and Members of the Georgetown Cricket Association would like to congratulate Mr. Christopher Barnwell on his selection to the West Indies T20 Squad, named to oppose Pakistan in St....

Police seek public’s help to identify shot man

Apr 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police seek public’s help to identify shot man

The police have issued a photograph of the man who was shot and killed Saturday morning after he was reportedly caught attempting to break into a house at Sophia. The police are calling on members of...

DIGICEL series summer of cricket begins

Apr 09, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on DIGICEL series summer of cricket begins

West Indies host Pakistan and India, April to July – Kingston, Jamaica: Digicel, proud sponsor of West Indies cricket since 2004, will today, Saturday 9th April, launch its exciting summer of...

Armed bandits terrorise East Canje family, leave empty-handed

Apr 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Armed bandits terrorise East Canje family, leave empty-handed

A family of eight of 231 Lord Street, Number Two Village, East Canje are counting themselves lucky after surviving a five-minute ordeal with six armed bandits Thursday evening. The masked men,...

Scotia Bank / Pepsi Football Academy opens today

Apr 09, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Scotia Bank / Pepsi Football Academy opens today

The much touted Scotia Bank / Pepsi Football Academy is set to be officially opened today with a March Past of participating teams, at the Carifesta Sports Complex on Carifesta Avenue, starting from...

GFF U-15 inter Association tourney starts today

Apr 09, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on GFF U-15 inter Association tourney starts today

The GFF U-15 Inter Association tournament will commence this weekend with 3 games. Today, Berbice will oppose Bartica at the Bartica Community Centre Ground at 19:00hrs. Upper Dem will host West Dem...

Rape accused vanishes

Apr 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Rape accused vanishes

Relatives of a teenaged traumatized rape victim are calling on the police to arrest three suspects accused of rape in 2009 but who fled the jurisdiction and are suspected to be in the interior....

Recently repaired minibus totals pick-up

Apr 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Recently repaired minibus totals pick-up

Another careless accident occurred on the Railway Embankment road at Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara, yesterday shortly after noon when an unregistered white minibus collided with a blue...

Berbice Schools Table Tennis tourney set for today

Apr 09, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Schools Table Tennis tourney set for today

The Berbice Table Tennis schools tournament with be contested today at the Berbice High School Auditorium, commencing at 09:00 hrs. The competition, which is open to school children and those...

Top Cop unable to say when samples will return from overseas

Apr 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Top Cop unable to say when samples will return from overseas

Police Commissioner Henry Greene says that he has no idea when forensic samples taken following the murder of bank employee, Sheema Mangar, will be returned from overseas. “How can I know…Why...

Underdog, All Stars and Eastern Wakenaam through to second round

Apr 09, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Underdog, All Stars and Eastern Wakenaam through to second round

Underdog, All Stars and Eastern Wakenaam have qualified for the second round of the Digicel nationwide domino competition after the completion of the first round, which was played last Sunday at Amit...

T&T Defence Force here to win against Milerock says Manager Major Nedd

Apr 09, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on T&T Defence Force here to win against Milerock says Manager Major Nedd

Major Malcolm Nedd, Manager of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force team which is here to battle Linden’s Milerock tomorrow (Sunday) at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground when the second round of...

Berbice campus to expand ICT capabilities

Apr 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice campus to expand ICT capabilities

…Communications building in the pipeline Massive extension works are in the pipeline for the uplift of Information Communications Technology (ICT) at the University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC)....

WICB/Digicel launch Grassroots cricket Programme in Guyana

Apr 09, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on WICB/Digicel launch Grassroots cricket Programme in Guyana

By Sean Devers At a time when both West Indies and Guyana’s cricket are ailing, the development of new young talent is imperative to the revival of the game, and yesterday cell phone giants Digicel...

Deportees should not be blamed for social decline and crime increase

Apr 09, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Deportees should not be blamed for social decline and crime increase

Dear Editor, I am a 33-year-old trying to survive in this social and economical system in Guyana… I left Guyana for the USA at a very young age and returned in 2006 at age 29 with no family...

A ‘unanimous’ vote or selection?

Apr 09, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on A ‘unanimous’ vote or selection?

Dear Editor, My letter dated 6th April 2011, captioned, “Donald Ramotar will not make a good president”, which was published in SN, drew widespread agreement, but did not find favour with the...

Good move Mr. President!

Apr 09, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Good move Mr. President!

Dear Editor, First, allow me to clear the air on Colin Woolford’s response to my letter of April 7 in which he conveniently choose to omit that he wished for ‘Killaman’ to hit me down, Kwamme...

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Golden Jaguars maul Cayman Islands 6-0 to close in on Gold Cup return

Nov 13, 2026

By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – The Golden Jaguars delivered a commanding statement of intent, dismantling the Cayman Islands 6-0 yesterday at the National Track and Field Centre, West Demerara,...

A quick count is not an exit poll!

Nov 13, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – A few days ago, I heard a former APNU+AFC official speaking about the 1992 general elections and repeating the familiar allegation that those elections were rigged. In attempting to discredit the findings of the Carter Center, he referred to its quick count as an exit poll,...

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...

Chairman Smith-a man to regard

Nov 13, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I tip my hat to the Barima Commission of Inquiry Chair, Justice Godfrey Smith. This is how real men differentiate themselves. Under duress from the U.S. visa revocation action meted out against him, he offered his resignation. Some of the qualms I had of this Belizean...

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