February 2013

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$Enterprise\Busta SC to hold 6-A-Side softball tourney$

Enterprise\Busta SC to hold 6-A-Side softball tourney

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Enterprise\Busta SC to hold 6-A-Side softball tourney

The Enterprise\ Busta Sports Club will be hosting a Six-a-side softball tournament on Sunday at the Enterprise ground starting from 09:00hrs. Teams will battle for a first prize of one Ram Sheep...

Young Warriors Cricket Club host Canje/Number 19 10/10 Tournament for Mash Day

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Young Warriors Cricket Club host Canje/Number 19 10/10 Tournament for Mash Day

The Young Warriors Cricket Club of Cumberland, East Canje, Berbice has teamed up with several corporate sponsors to host a Special Day of Sports on Mash Day February 23, 2013 to celebrate Guyana’s...

Carlton ‘Corn man’ Stephenson defies conventional beliefs to blaze marathon track

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Carlton ‘Corn man’ Stephenson defies conventional beliefs to blaze marathon track

Those commuters that rise very early might be a bit surprised to see a 59 year old athlete, bathed in perspiration and jogging along the streets. He is not Usain Bolt nor is he aspiring to attain any...

Samatta Point, Agricola, Rising Star & Soesdyke advance

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Samatta Point, Agricola, Rising Star & Soesdyke advance

Grove Hi Tec/Wayne Andries Mash KO 7-a-side football The battle for the top spot in the Grove Hi Tec/Wayne Andries Mashramani 7-a-side knockout football tournament is interestingly poised following...

Planet Fitness outfits tournament with balls/nets

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Planet Fitness outfits tournament with balls/nets

One of Guyana’s leading fitness apparel outlets, Planet Fitness is the latest entity to align their business with the staging of the New Era Entertainment oraganised Cell Smart LABA Super-eight...

Team Speedboat responds to Invaders

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Team Speedboat responds to Invaders

Yolo Entertainment 10/10 Softball Cricket Series As teams continue to confirm their participation for the inaugural Yolo Entertainment 10/10 Softball Cricket Series, the hype and boasts have been...

Locals continue to prepare for St. Lucia Martial Arts Festival

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Locals continue to prepare for St. Lucia Martial Arts Festival

The Great Diamond Martial Arts Association is currently preparing their students to represent Guyana at the St. Lucia Piton Open International Martial Arts Festival called Armageddon, which will...

Question being asked over Dr. Thakur statements to Select Committee on cricket

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Question being asked over Dr. Thakur statements to Select Committee on cricket

In a letter leaked to the media, University of Guyana (Berbice Campus) Lecturer Dr Rishi Thakur has been taken to task over comments he made during a presentation to the Special Select Committee on...

Fuel wharf, pipelines for GPL V/Hoop project

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fuel wharf, pipelines for GPL V/Hoop project

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) yesterday received bids from four (4) entities for the construction of a fuel wharf and fuel pipelines for the 26MW Wartsila Generator Plant project, Vreed en...

Conductor charged for stealing “bus money”

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Conductor charged for stealing “bus money”

Eon Ogle, a 50 year old minibus conductor from Agricola stood before Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday accused of stealing $9000 from his employer Eric Quallis. He pleaded guilty to the charge, but...

Cell phone thief gets six months

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cell phone thief gets six months

A 49 year old father of five was yesterday sentenced to six months in jail when he appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ court. Roy Singh, a gardener of West...

Measuring devices used in trade must be verified – GNBS

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Measuring devices used in trade must be verified – GNBS

All users of measuring instruments for trade must have their devices verified for the first half of this year, according to the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) “All measuring rules must...

Buxtonians lament denial of healthcare

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Buxtonians lament denial of healthcare

– cite Pharmacist’s absence, limited supply of drugs among worries Several elderly persons were yesterday forced to leave the Buxton Health Centre to purchase their prescriptions elsewhere,...

Norton St. accident victim succumbs

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Norton St. accident victim succumbs

The second victim of the Norton Street, Lodge accident which occurred three Tuesdays ago succumbed to her injuries on Monday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Intensive Care...

Addressing the Prime Minister’s contention

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Addressing the Prime Minister’s contention

Dear Editor, As predicted, the Prime Minister has taken the route that CCTV is not the Broadcaster; it is the Guyana Governments’ owned and controlled NCN. I had written elsewhere that “The...

Is Guyana the Titanic, moving towards Marriott Hotel, the iceberg of decadence?

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Guyana the Titanic, moving towards Marriott Hotel, the iceberg of decadence?

Dear Sir, Let us move this detractor:”Titanic” out of the way. As far as the ex-British Caribbean Colonies are concerned, Guyana is indeed a “Titanic” in respect to its size, compared to...

Faced with the reality

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Faced with the reality

Dear Editor, In the Stabroek News of 17 February a cartoon depicting a drunken person, sprawled on the ground, apparently just jolted out of drunken stupor by an irate employer, has apparently...

What role did Mr. Gerry Gouveia play with endorsing Marriott?

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on What role did Mr. Gerry Gouveia play with endorsing Marriott?

Dear Editor, Over recent years, the local independent newspapers, Kaieteur News and Stabroek News, have been increasing their focus on the number of privatization deals by the government. As a...

The black intelligentsia out foxed by Bharrat Jagdeo and Goons

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The black intelligentsia out foxed by Bharrat Jagdeo and Goons

Dear Editor, It is time for Afro Guyanese to hold the opposition accountable by vehemently exuding their anger and frustration upon the gang of black leaders who continue to vacillate forestalling in...

Premature memory loss

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Premature memory loss

Dear Sir, Poor Freddie Kissoon seems to be suffering premature memory loss. We have met twice-once at the Cuffy Statue (Me with David Dabydeen and the Fredster in his car) and once at the Georgetown...

Time is going by for the truth commission

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time is going by for the truth commission

Dear Editor, The Prime Minister, by the President’s grace, Mr Samuel Hinds, OE, recently called for Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Guyana. The former President, Mr. Jagdeo had said once...

China in Guyana – the new imperialism?

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on China in Guyana – the new imperialism?

Dear Editor, From the banks of the Berbice River — Bai Shan Lin Investments, stretching across to the Potaro-Kuribrong Rivers — the Amalia Hydroelectric project, going on to Corriverton—...

This mentality seeks to condone and promote ethnic supremacy

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on This mentality seeks to condone and promote ethnic supremacy

Dear Editor, While reading the opinion columns of KN Feb. 11, 2013, I came across a contemptible piece of hackneyed treachery under the name Devanand Bhagwan bearing the head words, “Freddie’s...

The soldiers violated UG

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The soldiers violated UG

DEAR EDITOR, It is appalling to see that the military authority of the Guyana Defence Force is attempting to justify the illegal and unlawful acts of its members by entering into the Turkeyen campus...

The good life

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The good life

As we brace ourselves for the battles that will accompany the presentation of the next budget, it might be useful to remind the politicians why they were elected to office in the first instance. It...

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Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s Slingerz Football Club will begin its quest for Caribbean glory against Turks and Caicos Islands champions SWA Sharks FC after the Caribbean Football Union (CFU)...

Politics should not stand in the way of good ideas

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(Kaieteur News) – One of the great weaknesses of our politics is that too often a good idea becomes a bad idea simply because it was proposed by the other side. Instead of asking whether a policy is good for Guyana, we frequently ask who introduced it. If it came from a rival political party,...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

U.S. Ambassador Nicole Theriot – hats off

Jun 06, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – I feel as though I am shortchanging my fellow American, U.S. Ambassador, Nicole D. Theriot. I take my hat off to her, regret there’s only one to offer. I bend knee, curtsy. It was good to see that great American spirit in attendance, firmly in control...

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