February 2012

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Haiti question$ for TTFF to answer

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Haiti question$ for TTFF to answer

Trinidad Express – The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) now has a fresh issue to deal with: the reported disappearance of Haiti Aid funds. On the weekend, the...

Namilco Football Festival…Another double header on this evening

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Namilco Football Festival…Another double header on this evening

The Namilco Football Festival will enter its second night of competition with a double-header, at the Tucville ground this evening. In the curtain raiser, Guyana Defence Force will...

Junior players take spotlight as Badminton Doubles tourney concludes

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Junior players take spotlight as Badminton Doubles tourney concludes

The Guyana Badminton Association Open Men Doubles Tournament concluded on Monday at the Queens College Badminton Courts. The Finals saw the National Junior Players, Nicholas Ali and...

Dwight Holder wins A. Ally and Sons’ Corriverton Depot anniversary cycle road race

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dwight Holder wins A. Ally and Sons’ Corriverton Depot anniversary cycle road race

Dwight Holder on Sunday won the Annual A. Ally and Sons’ annual cycle road race. This is the 12th year that the event was being held. The event this year was held for the first time...

Several teams register victories as Preparatory T10 Softball Cricket tournament continues

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Several teams register victories as Preparatory T10 Softball Cricket tournament continues

Invaderz XI scored an upset victory over GT&T 10/10 defending champions, Wolf’s Warriors XI, when action in the Preparatory T10 Softball Cricket tournament continued at the...

Communication hiccups cause poor turnout at Scotia Bank/Pepsi Academy referees course

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Communication hiccups cause poor turnout at Scotia Bank/Pepsi Academy referees course

Communication hiccups within the Ministry of Education (MoE) resulted in poor attendance of students in the Scotia Bank/Pepsi Schools Football Academy referees course which recently...

Amateur boxers in action as GABA continues evaluation programme

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Amateur boxers in action as GABA continues evaluation programme

Young amateur boxers will get a chance to exhibit their wares when the tournament committee of the Guyana Amateur Boxing association (GABA) stages the Mashramani juniors and schoolboys...

NGRC Grass Track Meet set for Sunday

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on NGRC Grass Track Meet set for Sunday

Competitors and lovers of grass track racing are set for a treat this Sunday when the NGRC hosts their first meet for the year. The Goed Fortuin Ground, West Bank Demerara is the venue...

Letters to the Sports Editor…GCB clears the air & issues warning to its detractors

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letters to the Sports Editor…GCB clears the air & issues warning to its detractors

Dear Editor, The GCB is pleased that the IMC has finally discovered its correct role and job description, but seems to be having trouble translating this into actual work. They have...

Statement by the Guyana Chess Federation

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Statement by the Guyana Chess Federation

Dear Editor, Quite recently, we have witnessed a somewhat renewed interest in the administration of the game of chess. Returning from a comatose state, the game is becoming more popular...

Discriminating in favour of a predator

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Discriminating in favour of a predator

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News’s reluctance to print our recent mail regarding the atrocious and degrading behaviour of the Imam who sodomized the young boys is tantamount to being in...

PPP should heed Maxwell’s advice

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP should heed Maxwell’s advice

Dear Editor, Reference is made to M. Maxwell’s letter (KN Feb 14). While Maxwell is no lover of the PPP, his advice to those managing the affairs of the PPP should be taken...

Anger and a Parliamentary nomination

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Anger and a Parliamentary nomination

Dear Editor, Once again I am struck by awe and numbness of the AFC leadership. Looking at the Evening News on Tuesday December 13, 2011 and the statement made by Raphael Trotman, I was...

Sithe Global answers queries by local stakeholders

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sithe Global answers queries by local stakeholders

Dear Editor, Members of Sithe Global were happy to recently meet government officials, media representatives and local business groups in Georgetown, on January 24, 2012. The questions...

The people want an end to corruption

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The people want an end to corruption

Dear Editor, The citizens of this country spoke on November 28, giving a clear message to our Parliament that this will not be business as usual and that their expectations are high,...

I am being victimized by a security guard at GPHC

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on I am being victimized by a security guard at GPHC

Dear Sir, I have been operating my hire car in front of the Georgetown Public Hospital on New Market Street for many years now without any hindrances until the other day when a new...

Take note Peeping Tom

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Take note Peeping Tom

Dear Editor, The Peeping Tom article written and published in the Kaieteur News dated February 02 2012, is predicated upon the assumption that the President appoints and dismisses the...

Support for the Region Seven Chairman

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Support for the Region Seven Chairman

Dear Editor, The die is cast. Mr Gordon Bradford was unanimously nominated by the executive of A Partnership For National Unity {APNU}. I read a book years ago years ago, titled “The...

Disrespect at Mabaruma

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disrespect at Mabaruma

Dear Editor, I am somewhat concerned over some reports that some members of the teaching staff at the Mabaruma Secondary School are verbally harassing people over a TV news report on...

UG “sit in” recommences today

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on UG “sit in” recommences today

Just one day after committee members of “Rescue UG” decided to call off “sit in” action which was taken last week, faculty members will again down tools after several intended meetings...

Ex-GDF rank gets six years for attempted robbery

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-GDF rank gets six years for attempted robbery

A former Guyana Defence Force rank, 29 year-old Jermaine Jeffrey Johnson, will spend the next six years in prison after pleading guilty to an attempted robbery charge. Johnson appeared at the...

M&CC laments non-consultation on one-way streets declaration

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on M&CC laments non-consultation on one-way streets declaration

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has placed on record its dissatisfaction with the creation of some one-way streets by the Ministry of Home Affairs without reference to the Municipality....

$780M eco-system protection fund launch

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on $780M eco-system protection fund launch

– Suriname warns payments are not handouts The Surinamese government has warned donors to stop treating the issue of eco-systems as mere handouts. John Goedschalk, of Suriname’s Climate...

$$M bids to upgrade infrastructure in coastal areas

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on $$M bids to upgrade infrastructure in coastal areas

Nine (9) bids were submitted yesterday to the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), under the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), for the construction of...

One year later…Valentine’s Day killer still at large

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on One year later…Valentine’s Day killer still at large

While many persons throughout the world celebrated yesterday, with love and joy, the family of the late 23-year-old Sherwin Fiedtkou reflected on the occasion with nothing but sorrow and pain....

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

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...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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