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Four for CARIFTA Games debut

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Four for CARIFTA Games debut

– AAG makes nominees official Four athletes are down to make their CARIFTA Games debut on a six-man team that was named for the upcoming marquee event this month end in Jamaica. The Athletic...

Guyana TT team outclass Suriname

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana TT team outclass Suriname

– Goodwill tour concludes Guyana dismissed any possible challenge from Suriname in their Goodwill tour that wrapped up yesterday in Paramaribo. Guyana’s junior male team thrashed the...

Junior Elite Training Programme unveiled by BCB

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Junior Elite Training Programme unveiled by BCB

Thirty-five U-15 players benefit The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) on Sunday last unveiled its Junior Elite Training Programme for 2011 which saw thirty-five Under-15 cricketers drawn from across the...

McKinnon wins GNRA Smallbore Practical Shoot

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on McKinnon wins GNRA Smallbore Practical Shoot

Smallbore vice captain Ryan McKinnon emerged winner of last Sunday’s three-stage Practical Pistol tournament at the Timehri ranges. McKinnon turned back a strong challenge from Smallbore captain...

Works to Lethem/Linden road attract ‘alarming’ bids

Mar 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Works to Lethem/Linden road attract ‘alarming’ bids

…one more than 400 % above engineer’s estimate The bids for the contract for the rehabilitation of three sections of the Linden to Lethem road yesterday were unveiled at the National Procurement...

Cops detain four women from house gunman attacked

Mar 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cops detain four women from house gunman attacked

Police yesterday detained four women after raiding the Old England, Wismar house where alleged gunman Orlando Thom launched his attack on Sunday. Kaieteur News understands that the occupants were...

Donor spending for HIV/AIDS sees significant decrease

Mar 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Donor spending for HIV/AIDS sees significant decrease

Although the world has changed fundamentally since the historic commitments to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to HIV/AIDS, the recent global economic crisis has resulted in a significant...

THE OBAMA DOCTRINE – Cultural diplomacy and humanization in American foreign policy

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE OBAMA DOCTRINE – Cultural diplomacy and humanization in American foreign policy

Dear Editor: Please allow me to revisit several pieces I wrote on a paradigm shift in American foreign policy from one of imperial conquest to one of humanization, thanks to President Barack Obama....

Minister calls for new panel to examine Town Clerk applications

Mar 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Minister calls for new panel to examine Town Clerk applications

The appointment of a new Town Clerk at City Hall will have to be put on hold with the proposal of Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Kellawan Lall, to have a new panel be...

I ‘discovered’ Adam Harris’s column

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on I ‘discovered’ Adam Harris’s column

Mr Editor I have just ‘discovered’ Mr Adam Harris’s column, written in clear, easy style, which lends itself readily to rapid reading. I am not wholly surprised that he is from the...

Operational research to be promoted at 56th CHRC conference

Mar 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Operational research to be promoted at 56th CHRC conference

Geared at promoting the use of operational health research which can be used to guide medical practice, the plans for the 56th Caribbean Health Research Council (CHRC) conference slated for April...

Some comments about the education system

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some comments about the education system

Dear Editor, It will be remiss of me not to make comments on article “The Strategic Plan Responsible for Increases in CSEC: English, Mathematics passes – Education Ministry” S.N. Feb 9, 2011. I...

Freddie is overreacting, as usual

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Stella Says Comments Off on Freddie is overreacting, as usual

On Monday, in a column that was characteristically nasty, Freddie Kissoon demanded an apology from me for missing the overall “nuance” of his now infamous column in which he insisted the...

President Bharrat Jagdeo needs to look in the mirror

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Bharrat Jagdeo needs to look in the mirror

Dear Editor, As a patriotic citizen of Guyana I am very concerned about President Bharrat Jagdeo’s behaviour as he addressed persons perceived to be PPP supporters at the ceremony recently held at...

GPHC admits to bed scarcity

Mar 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC admits to bed scarcity

While management of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) admits to a shortage of beds in the Male Surgical Ward, there is the insistence that patients and relatives understand that...

Those castles were eyesores

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those castles were eyesores

Dear Editor, I read the Article ‘Republic Park castle mysteriously demolished’ (KN, 27/03/2011) with wry amusement. It is a recognised fact that in many neighbourhoods our brothers and sisters...

Health Ministry strives for 100% TB detection by 2015

Mar 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry strives for 100% TB detection by 2015

An ambitious goal of 100 percent detection rate in all regions by 2015 has been set by the Ministry of Health as part of its plan to address the scourge of tuberculosis. This is according to Senior...

If the PPP wins, opposition groups should ponder their future

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on If the PPP wins, opposition groups should ponder their future

At the time of writing, I haven’t done any research on the topic of changing governments through the electoral process around the world since 1992. I follow world politics closely so I am going to...

Rejecting an ‘unfounded’ attack

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rejecting an ‘unfounded’ attack

Dear Editor, I refer to an article in the March 28, 2011 edition of the Kaieteur News entitled ‘Group wants Norway to delay payment to Guyana’. The Office of Climate Change (OCC) is quoted as...

Responsibility of Journalism

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Responsibility of Journalism

(In light of some recent events, we repeat this editorial from four years ago to reiterate our commitment towards privileging facts over opinions not based on facts in journalism.) Almost a century...

One detained as cops seek two GRA staffers

Mar 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on One detained as cops seek two GRA staffers

As police on the East Coast of Demerara continue their investigation into the alleged car theft involving an employee of the Licence Revenue Office (LRO), they have made one arrest. This newspaper...

HOLD THE SURPRISE!

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HOLD THE SURPRISE!

Just after the big cocaine bust in Jamaica, said to have originated in Guyana, one top official indicated that the country would be surprised when they learn who the person behind the shipping was....

Housewife beaten unconscious in Melanie robbery

Mar 30, 2011 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Housewife beaten unconscious in Melanie robbery

Two bandits severely beat a 56-year-old housewife to unconsciousness before ransacking her Melanie Damishana Public Road, East Coast Demerara home, and making off with an undisclosed amount of cash...

OP approves US$583,375 payment for spy equipment Co.

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on OP approves US$583,375 payment for spy equipment Co.

The Office of the President has approved the payment of US$583,375 to a United States of America company reportedly for the provision of intelligence gathering equipment. The payment which was...

High profile criminals fight in jail

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on High profile criminals fight in jail

– Former Buxton gang member stabbed during prison brawl A prison brawl between two high profile inmates, yesterday, has left one of them seriously wounded .Kaieteur News understands that...

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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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