February 14, 2012 - Kaieteur News

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One dead, nine homeless in two seperate fires

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on One dead, nine homeless in two seperate fires

Police apprehended a man who set ablaze his house at 69 Parika Sea Dam, East Bank Essequibo, leaving his wife and seven children homeless yesterday. The man who is in custody at Parika Police...

Senior citizen dies in Diamond fire

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Senior citizen dies in Diamond fire

By Zena Henry and Rehana Ahamad The tiny community of Little Diamond was plunged into shock last night when an 82-year-old woman was burnt to death in an early evening blaze....

Magistrate shortage affects East Demerara courts

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate shortage affects East Demerara courts

The recent resignation of Magistrate Fazil Azeez has plunged the Magistracy once again into a mini crisis. Azeez left the bench at the end of last year forcing a reassignment of Magistrates in...

Blairmont sugar workers shut down estate

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Blairmont sugar workers shut down estate

…demand removal of Estate Manager By Leon Suseran Hundreds of sugar workers attached to the Blairmont Estate, West Bank Berbice converged in front of the Administrative Office and...

Police officers still in custody…Escaped criminals were positively identified more than six times.

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police officers still in custody…Escaped criminals were positively identified more than six times.

…operated minibus repeatedly without drivers’ licences The police high command are peeved and are conducting intense investigation after high profile criminal, Richard Barrow,...

Transaction and transformation: Comparing Hoyte and Ramotar

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Transaction and transformation: Comparing Hoyte and Ramotar

I was hesitant about doing this piece. The last time I compared Guyanese presidencies was at an academic conference in which some thugs, centrally directed, tried to destroy the event and I ended up...

THE PPP IS REAPING WHAT IT HAS SOWN

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PPP IS REAPING WHAT IT HAS SOWN

What happens, as in the case of APNU, when you give an election your best shot and still lose by close to eight percentage points? What happens when this loss occurs when your main political...

The focus is on love

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The focus is on love

Today is supposed to be the day when love beats all. The entire country should be holding out flowers in any form, be they in bouquets or in clusters, to each other. It is the day when...

Dem boys seh…Today love gun be expensive

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Today love gun be expensive

Today is a special day. Rich people like all dem who mek money doing funny things like thiefing gun spend like crazy. Dem is de ones who gun buy some big box of chocolate. Dem is de...

This Amaila Hydro Project needs to be seriously and comprehensively reviewed

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on This Amaila Hydro Project needs to be seriously and comprehensively reviewed

Dear Editor, There has been a significant upsurge in interest in the Amaila Road Project (Motilall’s road) and the Amaila Hydro Project, no doubt occasioned by termination of the...

Guyana-born judge to preside at historic hearing in Belize

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana-born judge to preside at historic hearing in Belize

DEAR EDITOR, Belize is the first country to conduct a criminal trial without a jury, and a Guyanese will be the first judge to preside at the hearing. The country’s parliament passed...

The PPP is the last government on this planet which should speak about intractable postures

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP is the last government on this planet which should speak about intractable postures

Dear Editor, I have been watching patiently as our new political situation unfolds. I have seen numerous signs that the PPP does not understand the current dispensation, starting with...

Guyanese acculturating American football

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese acculturating American football

Dear Editor, I was never attracted to American sports like football (played with the hands as opposed with the foot) and baseball (with some similarities to cricket). I watched parts of...

Lucille Mittelholzer, M.B.E; Matchmaker

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lucille Mittelholzer, M.B.E; Matchmaker

DEAR EDITOR, On February 9th 2012, this proud daughter of Guyana turned the grand old age of 101. Miss Lucille Irene Mittelholzer M.B.E, has lived a life that has touched many. So much...

Our children must be better cared for and protected

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our children must be better cared for and protected

Dear Editor, Help & Shelter invites the Ministers of Education and Human Services to inform the Guyanese people what they are doing and propose to do about the rape, sexual abuse...

Golden Jaguars Kicks off Caribbean Trip

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golden Jaguars Kicks off Caribbean Trip

Local Jaguars face Tobago XI today A youthful Golden Jaguars unit will come up against a Tobago All Star Team at the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Tobago from 6pm today. Veteran goalkeeper Richard...

Sunburst Camptown, Beacons advance

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sunburst Camptown, Beacons advance

-PM Hinds applauds organisers, sponsors It is anybody’s guess, but quite a few football fans posed the questions among themselves and to the media as to whether the emphatic statement made...

Sixteen participants complete IOC Sports Administrators course

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sixteen participants complete IOC Sports Administrators course

Sixteen trained individuals were added to the growing list of qualified Sports Administrators last weekend after completing the syllabus of the International Olympic Committee...

3rd GT&T 10/10 Nationwide Softball Cricket Tourney…Registration period extended to Feb. 20

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on 3rd GT&T 10/10 Nationwide Softball Cricket Tourney…Registration period extended to Feb. 20

Following overwhelming responses that have been flowing into GT&T as well as Executive members of the Guyana Softball League (GSL), a collective decision has been taken to extend the...

GTTA installs Steering Committee on the East Coast

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA installs Steering Committee on the East Coast

As part of its continued efforts to decentralise the sport, the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has installed a Steering Committee for the management of the sport on the East Coast of...

‘Upsetters’ win Carib Beer Dominoes Competition in Bartica

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Upsetters’ win Carib Beer Dominoes Competition in Bartica

The ‘Upsetters’ Dominoes team won the mega Carib Beer Dominoes Competition in Bartica last weekend ahead of ‘Out and Bad’ and ‘Hard Knocks’ respectively following an outstanding...

GFF/WICWC Super League – Preliminary Round…Wins for Den Amstel, NA United & Amelia’s Ward

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/WICWC Super League – Preliminary Round…Wins for Den Amstel, NA United & Amelia’s Ward

Competition in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), National Super League sponsored by CONCACAF under its Win in CONCACAF with CONCACAF FIFA funded initiative kicked off on the weekend with...

Men’s Open Badminton tourney starts

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Men’s Open Badminton tourney starts

The Guyana Badminton Association Open Men Doubles Tournament started on Friday last at the Queens College Badminton Courts at 6:30PM. The tournament attracted past national players...

Letter to the Sports Editor…The Foster Report: INCRIMINATES RATHER THAN EXONERATES

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…The Foster Report: INCRIMINATES RATHER THAN EXONERATES

Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News Article of February 7th 2012 headlined “GCB Exonerated by the Rupert Foster Report” is yet another failed attempt by the minority Executives of the...

Is Lloyd the IMC?

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Is Lloyd the IMC?

Dear Editor, I observed that the government appointed IMC for cricket held stakeholders’ meetings over the weekend at various venues. I am perplexed that after much fanfare the IMC...