January 9, 2013 - Kaieteur News

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Demerara are GCB 50 over inter county Champs

Jan 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Demerara are GCB 50 over inter county Champs

E’bo beat President XI by 148 runs By Zaheer Mohamed Demerara defeated GT&T Berbice by two wickets to capture the Guyana Cricket Board Senior 50-over Inter County title at the Everest Cricket...

Derbyshire eye up Chanderpaul

Jan 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Derbyshire eye up Chanderpaul

West Indian also among Worcs targets Derbyshire hope to pull off a coup by signing the world No. 2 Test batsman, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, for part of the 2013 season. Regarded as one of the...

GCB CONGRATULATES PERMAUL & TEAM ON HARD FOUGHT VICTORY

Jan 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB CONGRATULATES PERMAUL & TEAM ON HARD FOUGHT VICTORY

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) is especially pleased and proud of this hard earned victory that you and the team achieved in our opening game on Monday evening against the CCC team. Congrats!!! We do...

Athletics sustain momentum and growth

Jan 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Athletics sustain momentum and growth

By Edison Jefford There is absolutely no doubt that local track and field has sustained a busy schedule domestically and internationally last year following the new Athletics Association of...

Pork Knockers Promotions Inc. to host Bob Marley 7-a-side football

Jan 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pork Knockers Promotions Inc. to host Bob Marley 7-a-side football

Football teams on the East Coast of Demerara and fans will commemorate the birth anniversary of Jamaican and World renowned Reggae Icon, Nesta Robert Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981)...

Lumumba challenges FIFA to ensure resolution in Guyana situation

Jan 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lumumba challenges FIFA to ensure resolution in Guyana situation

President of the Alpha Football Club, Odinga Lumumba, has again written to Football Governing Body FIFA, this time pointing out areas in which the FIFA team that is scheduled to visit here this month...

New Era ENT. March Madness Basketball tournament set for March 9

Jan 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on New Era ENT. March Madness Basketball tournament set for March 9

Eight teams, eight playing dates $200,000 1st prize The term ‘March Madness’ is more commonly affixed to the USA’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men’s Division I Basketball...

Unique Entertainment/Banks Premium Beer Futsal to kick off January 25

Jan 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Unique Entertainment/Banks Premium Beer Futsal to kick off January 25

24 Linden teams to clash for $500,000 first prize Beginning January 25, Futsal heads to the Mackenzie Sports Club Hard Court as 24 teams are set to battle it out in the inaugural Unique Entertainment...

Powerlifting – Success story continued in 2012

Jan 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Powerlifting – Success story continued in 2012

– 90% of 5-year plan; 2008 – 2012, achieved While most of the other sports organizations will be looking at their performance over the past 12 months or so, the Guyana Amateur...

FIFA/CONCACAF joint mission for Guyana this week

Jan 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on FIFA/CONCACAF joint mission for Guyana this week

Representatives from the world governing body for football, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association...

Kashif & Shanghai 2012/13 Chico U-13 football restarts Saturday

Jan 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kashif & Shanghai 2012/13 Chico U-13 football restarts Saturday

After a break due to the inclement weather and other incidentals the Kashif & Shanghai Chico U-13 Inter Primary School Football Competition is set to resume on Saturday 12th January, 2013 at...

New GPC still to supply drugs four years after collecting money—AG Report

Jan 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on New GPC still to supply drugs four years after collecting money—AG Report

— $80M spent since 2008 still to be cleared By Abena Rockcliffe The Ministry of Health (MOH) was in 2010 unable to provide receipts to prove that it collected $30M worth of drugs and medical...

NIS boss quits after clash with Board

Jan 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on NIS boss quits after clash with Board

In a signal that all continues not to be well at the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), its head, Doreen Nelson, yesterday resigned after reportedly refusing to accept a recommendation from its...

Region 10 Chairman rejects unrest assumption…‘We are fully committed to keeping the peace’

Jan 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Region 10 Chairman rejects unrest assumption…‘We are fully committed to keeping the peace’

By Abena Rockcliffe In light of the recent pronouncements made by Presidential Advisor, Gail Teixeira that deemed Region 10’s postponement of a scheduled meeting with the government as a...

Chinese couple in court over assault of girl, 11

Jan 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese couple in court over assault of girl, 11

The Chinese couple accused of assaulting an 11-year-old girl appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, yesterday. Jiang Pen Ren, 42, and her husband, Jun Zhang, 32, faced assault...

Disturbed female teen beats cop in station, causes uproar at court

Jan 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Disturbed female teen beats cop in station, causes uproar at court

A 16-year-old fifth form student of Berbice Educational Institute who disobeyed her parents and then beat a female police corporal in a station, before causing uproar at the New...

Dem boys seh…Bar Bee pocket de people money

Jan 09, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Bar Bee pocket de people money

Guyana good for business but only fuh some people. There was a time when Guyana get a bad rating as a place to do business and Bharrat vow to change that. Dem boys seh that he do a good job because...

The Diaspora Project

Jan 09, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Diaspora Project

Last September, the Guyana Diaspora (GUYD) Project was launched. Initially it seeks to “map” Guyanese who have emigrated along with their children and other descendants, especially in regards to...

NCN SHOULD EXPLAIN ITS RESTRICTED COVERAGE OF CERTAIN CRICKET TOURNAMENTS

Jan 09, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NCN SHOULD EXPLAIN ITS RESTRICTED COVERAGE OF CERTAIN CRICKET TOURNAMENTS

NCN was always seen as the local television channel that the average man, unable to afford cable television, could turn to in order to view major sporting events, especially international...

Several North West passengers stranded in G/T

Jan 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Several North West passengers stranded in G/T

… T&HD pleads with travelling public for patience Yesterday there was a heavy build up of passengers at the Transport and Harbours Department Kingston wharf as only a limited number of persons...

Brazil, Suriname, Trinidad interested in Mash 2013

Jan 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Brazil, Suriname, Trinidad interested in Mash 2013

Brazil, Suriname and Trinidad have shown an interest in participating in Mashramani 2013, according to the Ministry of Tourism. Minister with the portfolio, Irfaan Ali, said that one of...

More than 4100 child abuse cases reported in 2012

Jan 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on More than 4100 child abuse cases reported in 2012

– Minister Webster A staggering 4,102 cases of child abuse were brought to the attention of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security during the past year through its Child Care and...

Rehab for ferry stellings, floating ramps for this year – T&HD GM

Jan 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Rehab for ferry stellings, floating ramps for this year – T&HD GM

Plans are apace this year to undertake rehabilitative works on a number of ferry stellings including the currently dilapidated Georgetown and Vreed-en-hoop stellings. At least this is...

Tripped transmission line shut off power to Demerara system – GPL

Jan 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Tripped transmission line shut off power to Demerara system – GPL

The entire Demerara was left without power for several hours Monday night after a transmission line tripped, the state-owned power company said yesterday. Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL), in a...

Linden schools reopen, but several issues prevail

Jan 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Linden schools reopen, but several issues prevail

Schools reopened on Monday with thousands of students turning out all over the country. In Linden, APNU Member of Parliament, Rennisson Morian, took the opportunity to visit several of these...

12 NEXT

Thomas’ hat-trick inspires D.C Caesar Fox 10-5 victory, as Annai Sec’ hammer Dolphin

The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more