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Scotia Bank / Pepsi Schools Football Academy Referees Course commences

Mar 23, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scotia Bank / Pepsi Schools Football Academy Referees Course commences

The three-day Referees Course for schools taking part in the inaugural Scotia Bank/Pepsi Schools Football Academy opened on Monday with twenty two participants drawn from secondary schools in...

Increase in economic activities presents major challenge in malaria fight – Ramsammy

Mar 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Increase in economic activities presents major challenge in malaria fight – Ramsammy

Retaining a declining trajectory as it relates to the impact of malaria is likely to be a major challenge given the increase of economic activities in Regions One, Seven, Eight, Nine and 10,...

Ex-employee arrested

Mar 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-employee arrested

Police have detained an ex-employee of the Correia Mining Company as they continue to probe last Monday morning’s brazen raid at the Ogle Airport, which resulted in the death of 55-year-old...

Health Ministry’s surveillance teams monitoring water-borne diseases

Mar 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry’s surveillance teams monitoring water-borne diseases

Despite recent rainfall there has been no alarming increase in water-borne diseases, according to reports from the Ministry of Health. However, the threat of leptospirosis is always there even if...

City Hall seeks Govt’s intervention with budget

Mar 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall seeks Govt’s intervention with budget

City Hall has proposed a $3.2B budget for this year which may not be realised without the intervention of Government. City Mayor Hamilton Green revealed yesterday that the municipality is hoping to...

Commuters stuck in traffic for hours, persons miss flights

Mar 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Commuters stuck in traffic for hours, persons miss flights

…as spring tide floods Friendship bypass Chaos and confusion hit commuters yesterday on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) in the vicinity of the village of Friendship, as many were stuck in what they...

GOODLUCK wins silver cup, STUART claims spoon

Mar 23, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GOODLUCK wins silver cup, STUART claims spoon

Ransford Goodluck won the Silver Cup while Lt. Col. Terry Stuart carted off the Spoon at last Sunday’s Rifle shooting competition held at the Timehri rifle ranges. The winds varying in speed and...

Western allies’ pounding of Libya necessary to protect civilians

Mar 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Western allies’ pounding of Libya necessary to protect civilians

Dear Editor, I have always taken the line that Libya’s President and dictator Col. Muammar Gaddafi must step down to make way for democracy; to rid Libya of the bloody authoritarianism that has...

Freddie, go stand in the corner!

Mar 23, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Stella Says Comments Off on Freddie, go stand in the corner!

A columnist is, by virtue of the job, under constant scrutiny for the opinions penned and published. The ability to write is only one aspect of this multifaceted job. We must always be in the know...

Diamond CPG plans to install security cameras

Mar 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond CPG plans to install security cameras

– concerned about spike in daytime criminal activity Persons with criminal intent may soon find themselves under constant surveillance in Diamond New Scheme, if plans by members of a recently...

Garbage affects Stabroek market vendors

Mar 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Garbage affects Stabroek market vendors

Vendors on the southern side of the Stabroek Market are up in arms over the presence of a strong stench that is emanating from a broken down garbage truck that is filled with days-old refuse. Some...

Reader expresses anger over ‘drugs’ reports

Mar 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Reader expresses anger over ‘drugs’ reports

Dear Editor, I read with anger the news report of the 122.65 kg of cocaine seized aboard a ship, the Vega Azurit, from Guyana. The shipment was reportedly valued at an estimated J$217 million. Sir, I...

Guyanese faces Canadian trial for backtrack ring

Mar 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese faces Canadian trial for backtrack ring

ST. STEPHEN –Canada (Telegraph Journal) – Savita Singh-Murray offered to pay $2,500 apiece to smuggle illegal aliens into the United States, a witness testified in St. Stephen provincial...

Our challenges are more cultural than political or economic

Mar 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our challenges are more cultural than political or economic

Dear Editor, We have come from a place in our history where positive societal change has and continues to be an over-emphasised conditionality of political and economic reform. From 1964 to 1992,...

Man’s body fished out of Eccles trench

Mar 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man’s body fished out of Eccles trench

Early yesterday morning, the corpse of Herbert Howard was discovered in a trench at Eccles, East Bank Demerara, by passers-by. According to a police source, the body was fished out of the trench (in...

Ryan Gomes, three others to face Suriname courts tomorrow

Mar 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ryan Gomes, three others to face Suriname courts tomorrow

A tip-off to Suriname authorities may have led to the dismantling of a major drug gang and resulted in the arrest of former Guyanese policeman, Ryan Gomes, earlier this year. The gang had been...

ERC exposes its lack of moral authority to sanction others

Mar 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on ERC exposes its lack of moral authority to sanction others

Dear Editor, It has been more than two weeks since President Jagdeo made his racially charged and provocative remarks at the Babu John Cremation site on the Corentyne Coast, and to date the Ethnic...

FREENESS BREEDS PROBLEMS

Mar 23, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on FREENESS BREEDS PROBLEMS

A not too smart man went into a store that sells curtains. He said to the salesgirl, “I would like to buy a pair of pink curtains. The salesgirl assured the man that they had a large assortment of...

Housewife remanded for alleged ganja possession

Mar 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Housewife remanded for alleged ganja possession

Housewife/vendor Denise Fortune, of New Amsterdam, Berbice, was yesterday remanded for allegedly having in her possession 415 grams of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. She made an appearance...

Angels and demons and creatures and….

Mar 23, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Angels and demons and creatures and….

This column here is not a philosophical essay but it has implications for a philosophical understanding of people and life. I will ask young readers with an intent to enter journalism and politics...

The Libyan Intervention

Mar 23, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Libyan Intervention

As western jets pound the positions of the forces of Colonel Gaddafi, including the latter’s compound, questions about the operation are beginning to surface, even within the countries that have...

Czech national remanded

Mar 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Czech national remanded

Habl Angel, a citizen of the Czech Republic, was yesterday remanded by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry for entering Guyana and not presenting himself to an immigration officer. The accused was...

A fresh approach to addressing domestic violence

Mar 23, 2011 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on A fresh approach to addressing domestic violence

Dear Editor, In the spirit of appreciation, reflection, contemplation and envisioning and embodies the ethos of International Women’s Day, I salute all especially Guyanese women and other...

Guard killed, guns, ammo stolen in military-style operation at Ogle Airport

Mar 22, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Guard killed, guns, ammo stolen in military-style operation at Ogle Airport

In what was described as a military style operation, gunmen shot a security guard dead and carted off four firearms, $100,000 and other items during an early morning raid on the Ogle Airport...

Top Cop hospitalised

Mar 22, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Top Cop hospitalised

Police Commissioner, Henry Greene is under observation at the Balwant Singh Hospital after he was rushed to the institution yesterday. Kaieteur News was told that the Commissioner fell ill in Linden,...

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Twelve matches set for kickoff as MVP Sports/Smalta Girls U11...

Nov 14, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Twelve matches will get under way today as the 10th edition of the MVP Sports/Smalta Girls Under-11 Football Championship kicks off at the Ministry of Education ground. The...

The great Spanish invasion that never was

Nov 14, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is apparently a great Spanish invasion taking place in Guyana. At least, that is what some people would have us believe. If you listen to certain alarmists, you would think that one morning Guyanese will wake up to discover that the entire country has changed its national...

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...

Scott Colom triumphs in the Mississippi Delta

Nov 14, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Whatever else it is, may have deteriorated to, America is still exceptional. There is senator-elect Scott Colom. A Black man now a senator from a state that showed a horrified world that disfigured side of America: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner...

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