August 2012

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Chatterpaul Deo cops Tony’s Auto Sales Golf tourney

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chatterpaul Deo cops Tony’s Auto Sales Golf tourney

Chatterpaul Deo was triumphant in the Tony’s Auto Sales Medal Play golf tournament under tough conditions at the Lusignan Golf Course Saturday. Deo shot net 68 from gross 82 playing off 14 Handicap...

Coach of female ruggers concerned about players’ confidence level

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Coach of female ruggers concerned about players’ confidence level

“I am concerned about their confidence,” were words Guyana’s female National Rugby Coach Shane Grant-Stuart said in an interview with Kaieteur Sport when he was questioned about the team’s...

Education Minister heartened with results of Math, English pilot programme

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Education Minister heartened with results of Math, English pilot programme

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand has finally responded to critics, asserting that her Ministry’s ambitious programme to improve Mathematics and English at this year’s Caribbean Secondary...

Car crashes into N/A Town Arch base

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Car crashes into N/A Town Arch base

The driver of this car lost control early yesterday morning and crashed into the base of the New Amsterdam Town Arch located at Main Street. According to security guards working nearby, they heard a...

CPG hosts training seminar for West Berbice youths

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CPG hosts training seminar for West Berbice youths

The Community Policing Group (CPG) of the Number Three Sub- Division on the West Coast of Berbice held a two-day training seminar for youths in that area. The event was sponsored by the Ministry of...

UNCLE DONALD IT IS TIME FOR ACTION!

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on UNCLE DONALD IT IS TIME FOR ACTION!

An open letter to the President of Guyana Dear President Ramotar, You are a most likeable person. Some say that you are more likeable than Santa Claus and that you are too nice a man to be involved...

Hugh Cholmondeley should be given the Order of Roraima posthumously

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hugh Cholmondeley should be given the Order of Roraima posthumously

Dear Editor, I am saddened at the passing of Hugh Cholmondeley, the pioneer of broadcasting in Guyana, the man who worked tirelessly as of September 1968, almost round the clock to launch GBS...

The PPP has decided on a military solution to the Linden problem

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP has decided on a military solution to the Linden problem

Dear Editor, WPA views the decision by the President and his government to order the use force in Linden a mere three weeks after the police killed three protestors and injured several others, as a...

Suspended for challenging the GTU elections in court

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Suspended for challenging the GTU elections in court

Dear Editor, On Tuesday 24th of July 2012 by the way of a motion moved by Ms. Collins, I along with two other members were suspended from holding any office in the Guyana Teachers’ Union for two...

No reason for a new Harbour Bridge

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on No reason for a new Harbour Bridge

Dear Editor, Whilst reading Sunday 5th August paper, I came across the article where the APNU is calling for a new Harbour Bridge and heard no mention again which I suspected that what is taking...

It takes more than functioning fire hydrants for effective firefighting!

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on It takes more than functioning fire hydrants for effective firefighting!

Dear Editor, I do hope that this letter receives your attention and is published, so that the general public can be duly edified about the above caption. Since as strange as it may seem, my...

These Committee members should exclude themselves from this hearing

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on These Committee members should exclude themselves from this hearing

Dear Editor, I refer to today’s new item which indicates the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Guyana (ICAG) has written to Mr. Carl Greenidge, Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee,...

Linden and the Abyss

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Linden and the Abyss

The news that early yesterday morning – dubbed as “International Youth Day” – Linden’s One Mile Primary School was the latest in a string of buildings to be set ablaze, has to mark...

Govt. slams Ramjattan on Linden allegations

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. slams Ramjattan on Linden allegations

Government yesterday expressed concern over what it claimed were “unashamed and unfounded attacks” leveled against it by Leader of the Alliance for Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan....

Press Association, PPP in spat over Linden reportage

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Press Association, PPP in spat over Linden reportage

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) and the ruling Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) appear to have launched a verbal battle with both entities leveling allegations of intimidation, threats and race...

Manickchand scorches One Mile Primary arsonists

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Manickchand scorches One Mile Primary arsonists

…lambastes politicians advancing “wild, undemocratic agendas” “To burn a school is to remove the most necessary tool of poverty alleviation…To have burnt One Mile Primary is...

Woman killed, 14 injured in Essequibo collision

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Woman killed, 14 injured in Essequibo collision

A woman was killed and several others injured after a bus, BHH 6901 and a car, PPP 733 collided at Lima, Essequibo Coast at around 12:00hrs yesterday. The woman, P. Kumarie of Somerset...

Hostile elements frustrate Fire Service response at Linden

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Hostile elements frustrate Fire Service response at Linden

– official As the Linden protest reaches its 27th day with some ten buildings being destroyed by fire, the Guyana Fire Service has stated that all of their efforts to respond...

Another building flattened by fire in Linden yesterday

Aug 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Another building flattened by fire in Linden yesterday

The military yesterday maintained a heavy presence in Linden, setting up camps at several strategic locations, including at the Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge in close proximity to where the now burnt-out...

Linden, a diversion from corruption – AFC

Aug 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Linden, a diversion from corruption – AFC

The ruling PPP government thrives on chaos and is triggering delaying tactics in settling the Linden unrest to keep corruption off the front pages, Khemraj Ramjattan, the leader of the...

Salute to a hero…Guyana’s lone Olympic medalist Michael Parris is a Special Person

Aug 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Salute to a hero…Guyana’s lone Olympic medalist Michael Parris is a Special Person

By Michael Jordan “It was a joyful feeling…just standing there and seeing the Guyana flag in the air. I think I got cold sweat from joy, and seeing so many people…I don’t think I could get...

Dem Boys Seh…Tight fist could mek yuh lose contract

Aug 12, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Boys Seh…Tight fist could mek yuh lose contract

Dem boys always sayin’ dat one day somebody gun get vex and start talk out all de dutty story, because it hard fuh so much runnins going on and something ent go wrong…Well dat day was yesterday....

Trinidad’s Walcott takes surprise javelin gold

Aug 12, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trinidad’s Walcott takes surprise javelin gold

LONDON (Reuters) – Trinidad & Tobago’s Keshorn Walcott completed a remarkable double by taking a surprise Olympic javelin gold on Friday, less than a month after becoming world...

More Bolt gold as Jamaica smash relay record

Aug 12, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on More Bolt gold as Jamaica smash relay record

LONDON (Reuters) – Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt won his third gold of the Games when he anchored Jamaica to victory in a blistering men’s 4×100 metres final as they retained their...

Felix delight as U.S. scorch to relay gold

Aug 12, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Felix delight as U.S. scorch to relay gold

LONDON (Reuters) – Allyson Felix claimed her third gold medal of the Games as the United States outclassed their rivals to win the women’s 4×400 metres relay by some distance at the...

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Tahir (5-17), Mehidy (3-13) magic show leaves Kings in disarray as...

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2026 Republic Bank CPL…GAW vs. SKL (Kaieteur News) – Two mind-boggling spells from spin wizard Imran Tahir, who put on a magic show for his 5-fer, backed by Mehidy Hasan Miraz’s 3 wickets on...

When someone we love is taken from us

Sep 10, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – After my first encounter with the Guru, I had to probe for some more life lessons. I pressed Guru a much heavier question. “Guru,” I said, “how does one recover from losing someone one loves?” He did not answer immediately. Perhaps there are some questions that deserve...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

A double centurion-not Roman, but Guyanese

Sep 10, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I have honoured before and lived to regret the lapse. In the instance of Chartered Accountant, attorney-at-law, and social activist, there is firm belief that I’m on good grounds to publish this tribute. For the milestone of his 200th oil and gas column. A milestone...

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