January 2012

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The Chavez Way?

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Chavez Way?

This newspaper has always been quite sceptical of Hugo Chavez over in neighbouring Venezuela. Not only for the fact that as the leader of a country that claims three-quarters of our...

WHO IS GOING TO REPLACE BARACK OBAMA AS THE NEXT U.S. PRESIDENT?

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHO IS GOING TO REPLACE BARACK OBAMA AS THE NEXT U.S. PRESIDENT?

In a matter of hours, the United States President will give what will probably be his final State of the Union address to the Congress and to the people of the United States of America....

Tourism, crime, journalism: Attitudes that are overbearing

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Tourism, crime, journalism: Attitudes that are overbearing

This columnist believes that per capita this country has the most hypocritical, immoral, dishonest and opportunistic population in the world. With just under 800,000 citizens, we must have produced...

Imam re-arrested as five more victims come forward

Jan 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Imam re-arrested as five more victims come forward

The Imam at the centre of a growing sexual molestation scandal was re-arrested yesterday after more boys came forward with allegations against him. Kaieteur News understands that at...

New housing scheme at Herstelling…20 companies vie for $B road contracts

Jan 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on New housing scheme at Herstelling…20 companies vie for $B road contracts

Tenders to build over 10 kilometres of road and bridges in a new housing scheme behind Herstelling, East Bank Demerara, yesterday attracted a total of twenty (20) bids. An...

Patrick Manning suffers stroke

Jan 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Patrick Manning suffers stroke

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – CMC – Former Prime Minister Patrick Manning remains “partly paralysed” at a public hospital yesterday, his wife, Hazel Manning has said. Manning was...

Dem boys seh…Retribution got people getting stroke

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Retribution got people getting stroke

People jump when dem hear de news that Patrick Manning get a stroke. This was de Prime Minister of Trinidad who meet Obama and all dem world leaders. This was de man who control...

An Open Letter to Minister Clement Rohee

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on An Open Letter to Minister Clement Rohee

Dear Minister Rohee, I arrived in Guyana with the full expectation that something unpleasant may happen to me. I took the necessary precautions, avoided taking unnecessary risks and was...

In support of Freddie Kissoon

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on In support of Freddie Kissoon

Dear Editor, Please allow me to add my opinion to those already expressed on the Freddie Kissoon/University of Guyana issue. From all appearance, despite the opportunity for...

PPP/C must avoid opportunists

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP/C must avoid opportunists

Dear Editor, As this past general and national election heralds a new dawn for our political system, I urge our new President Donald Ramotar to act carefully as he continues to make...

There is need for bureaucracy at GPHC

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is need for bureaucracy at GPHC

Dear Editor, This letter is being penned in response to Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s continued contradictory and sensational ramblings in the press regarding the management and operations of...

Mischief is afoot

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mischief is afoot

Dear Editor, The mischievous scheme of Lurlene Nestor proliferates on a daily basis with an abundance of lies, distortions and misinformation in the public domain. She reminds us of the...

GPL is targeting the wrong people

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on GPL is targeting the wrong people

Dear Editor, It’s regrettable to see GPL officials going after consumers they deem guilty of electricity theft and planning to go the extra mile to scare people from continuing this...

They used power wrongly

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on They used power wrongly

Dear Sir, I am a brother of Melania Torres who is currently involved in the land dispute with Minister Pauline Sukhai in Moruca and I have been following up the land dispute for quite...

GCB, IMC name provisional squads

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB, IMC name provisional squads

-Team preparation in jeopardy as government lock out continues The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) yesterday announced a list of 31 players in a provisional squad to prepare for the Regional 4-Day...

Ponting and Clarke put India to the sword at Adelaide

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ponting and Clarke put India to the sword at Adelaide

Another day, another venue but the same sordid tale for India yet again as Michael Clarke and Ricky Ponting piled on the agony for the hapless tourists on the first day at the...

Federer wins 1,000th match, will face Nadal

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Federer wins 1,000th match, will face Nadal

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—A dominating win by Roger Federer in his 1,000th career match and a more difficult workout for Rafael Nadal set up a rare Grand Slam marquee semifinal...

Guyana cricketers threatened with ICC ban –Sanjeev Datadin

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana cricketers threatened with ICC ban –Sanjeev Datadin

Attorney for the Guyana Cricket Board, Sanjeev Datadin, has reacted to the call by the Interim Management Committee for members of the Guyana cricket team to turn up for practice today. The...

East Coast athletics coach wants more student-athletes

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on East Coast athletics coach wants more student-athletes

– bemoans absence of training venue for his club By Juanita Hooper Raymond Daw, Coach of the Ruralites Athletics Club (RAC), located at Bygeval, Mahaica, East Coast...

Hadi’s Softball results for Jan. 22

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hadi’s Softball results for Jan. 22

Many matches scheduled to play last Sunday were called off because of bad weather in the inaugural Hadi’s nationwide Male/Female Softball tournament. However several games were...

Blairmont Cricket Club holds Annual General Meeting

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Blairmont Cricket Club holds Annual General Meeting

The Blairmont Cricket Club recently held its Annual General Meeting and election of office bears for the year 2012. Businessman Shabeer Baksh was reelected to serve as president for...

Wiltshire, Joseph Dominoes Competition starts today

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wiltshire, Joseph Dominoes Competition starts today

Another massive countrywide Dominoes Competition organized by Mark ‘Jumbie’ Wiltshire and Orin Joseph is scheduled to begin today, at Joseph’s residence, Gaulding Place, South...

Memorex/Leslie Amsterdam Mem. U-17 cricket…Mickle slams 130 as Police advance to quarters; No.45 also advance

Jan 25, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Memorex/Leslie Amsterdam Mem. U-17 cricket…Mickle slams 130 as Police advance to quarters; No.45 also advance

Police’ Kwesi Mickle registered the highest individual score of the 2011 Memorex/Leslie Amsterdam Memorial Under-17 cricket competition when he slammed 130 to see his side to an...

Appointments Committee says it never re-hired Freddie Kissoon

Jan 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Appointments Committee says it never re-hired Freddie Kissoon

–he was not only lecturer to be terminated The termination of University of Guyana (UG) Lecturer, Frederick Kissoon, has attracted countrywide attention, with some deeming it to...

High Court overturns challenge to Presidents’ benefits

Jan 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on High Court overturns challenge to Presidents’ benefits

The Former Presidents’ (Benefits and other Facilities) Act survived its first real test when Executive Member of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Desmond Trotman, failed to persuade...

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Millington lads Guyana’s historic 1-2 finish in 100m at South...

Apr 24, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s sprinting future announced itself in emphatic fashion on the track in South American Youth Games 2026, as Ezekiel Millington powered to gold in the boys’ 100m final...

Do the right thing!

Apr 24, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – For years, we have called May 5, “Arrival Day.” It is a name that sounds inclusive but, in reality, obscures more than it reveals. It is time to end the confusion and call the day what it was always intended to be: Indian Arrival Day. In 2003, during the tenure of the...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

Never has any single company

Apr 24, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – “Never has any single company…” in a single country beaten almost every single citizen into a state of paralysis. Frankly, I’m disappointed in Chartered Accountant, Attorney-at-Law (and civil society advocate), Chris Ram. Aside: does this chap ever sleep? Mr....

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