May 2013

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Mackeson ‘Keep Your Five Alive’ starts at California Square tonight

May 01, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mackeson ‘Keep Your Five Alive’ starts at California Square tonight

The Mackeson ‘Keep Your Five Alive’ Football tournament will start tonight at East Ruimveldt Community Centre Hard Court, which is also known as California Square, with eight games and eight...

Mohabir Baljeet Sukhpaul Memorial cricket tourney postponed due to rain

May 01, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mohabir Baljeet Sukhpaul Memorial cricket tourney postponed due to rain

Torrential rains over the past few weeks have forced the postponement of many sports activities and the latest casualty is the Mohabir Baljeet Sukhpaul (Beto) Memorial Twenty20 cricket competition...

Hicks and Campbelle are RHTY&SC cricketers of the year

May 01, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hicks and Campbelle are RHTY&SC cricketers of the year

Former National player Delbert Hicks copped the prestigious cricketer-of-the-year award and was well rewarded when that entity held an impressive Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Sunday last in the...

Nations best spellers go head to head as GASP presents Labour Day Open today

May 01, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nations best spellers go head to head as GASP presents Labour Day Open today

Just three days ago, top scrabble player, Leon Belony, turned in one of his better performances, rebounded from a first round loss to Colin Chichester and eventually amassed 5 points and a positive...

Mentore returned as DCC President

May 01, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mentore returned as DCC President

Alfred Mentore was re-elected unopposed as President of the Demerara Cricket Club at its Annual General Meeting held recently at the Club’s pavilion at Lance Gibbs and New...

IPED’s 27th AGM…Businesses are generally rewarded for innovation and effort

May 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on IPED’s 27th AGM…Businesses are generally rewarded for innovation and effort

– Canadian High Commissioner “Business can thrive here (Guyana) with innovation and effort, which are generally rewarded…Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are...

PJ Patterson to Chair CPL Committee

May 01, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on PJ Patterson to Chair CPL Committee

The Caribbean Premier League has received an important and most welcomed stamp of approval and support from former Jamaica Prime Minister The Most Honourable PJ Patterson who has been...

BSA stages May Day Ten10 tournament today

May 01, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on BSA stages May Day Ten10 tournament today

Berbice Softball Alliance (BSA) formerly Berbice Softball Board will today stage a Ten10 competition, at Blairmont #3 Settlement ground, West Bank Berbice, starting at 09:00hrs....

Early warning systems need to be coordinated – CDC

May 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Early warning systems need to be coordinated – CDC

Disaster response consultation… There are various agencies in Guyana responsible for and consequently equipped to determine factors such as heavy rainfall or extreme high tides...

APNU defends budget cuts…Slush funds at GGMC, NICIL, transparency issues cited

May 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on APNU defends budget cuts…Slush funds at GGMC, NICIL, transparency issues cited

Parliament’s largest opposition bloc, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), has defended its role in cutting almost $31.4B from the $208.8B National Budget proposed by government....

GPHC equipped to perform laparoscopic surgery

May 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC equipped to perform laparoscopic surgery

– Two children undergo procedure The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is now equipped to perform laparoscopic surgery, and recently laparoscopic...

2013 MAY DAY MESSAGES

May 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 2013 MAY DAY MESSAGES

PEOPLE’S PROGRESSIVE PARTY The People’s Progressive Party hails the working class of our nation as we observe International Labour Day 2013. History would show that the PPP has always...

REVIVE SOME OF THE OLD CINEMAS INTO CULTURAL CENTRES

May 01, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on REVIVE SOME OF THE OLD CINEMAS INTO CULTURAL CENTRES

There is a fascinating story of what the mayor of Tirana, an Albanian town, did by colorfully painting some of the town’s buildings. The exercise totally transformed the city, reduced crime,...

Mercy Wings Vocational School expands its courses

May 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mercy Wings Vocational School expands its courses

By Rehanna Ramsay For more than a decade, Mercy Wings Vocational School has taken responsibility for training and educating young people, who have fallen through the care of state...

Kidding me

May 01, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kidding me

Dear Editor, You have got to be kidding me!! A police officer shot and killed in the line of duty and no “ officials” of the Guyana Police Force, the Home Affairs Minister, or the...

“The Sky’s Wild Noise” drowned me with pessimism

May 01, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on “The Sky’s Wild Noise” drowned me with pessimism

There are two persons in the history of this country who will remain enigmas, mysteries, inexplicabilities and agonizing curiosities for me – Cheddi Jagan and Rupert Roopnaraine. I...

GRA unhappy with businessman’s allegations

May 01, 2013 KNews Letters, News Comments Off on GRA unhappy with businessman’s allegations

Dear Editor, The Guyana Revenue Authority takes this opportunity to respond to letter titled ‘Customs is King’ published in Kaieteur News on April 24, 2013 and signed by a Guyanese...

Support for Ramotar’s retort to the Americans

May 01, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Support for Ramotar’s retort to the Americans

Dear Editor, There it was, splashed right across the front page of the Kaietuer News April 27 edition “President Ramotar tells US clean your house first, don’t lecture us.”...

Labour and Trade Unions

May 01, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Labour and Trade Unions

Today, the nation commemorates Labour Day, a day dedicated to the recognition of our workers and their contribution to our wellbeing and progress. If any nation should remember and honour workers, it...

The Attorney General’s office has descended into legal theatrics

May 01, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Attorney General’s office has descended into legal theatrics

Dear Editor, We refer to a letter by M. A. Bacchus caption “if the AG has a case to make, … let him do so coherently.” We are assuming that such a tactful and intellectual, yet...

Discipline children, but use modern psychology in the process

May 01, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Discipline children, but use modern psychology in the process

Dear Editor, Corporal punishment. What a misnomer. What was written so many eons ago is still meaningful today. Children need to be disciplined and if the rod is one of those applicable...

Corruption within an IMC

May 01, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Corruption within an IMC

Dear Editor, The collusive and autocratic behaviour of the Minister of Local Government, replacing the legitimate NDC with a ...

Disjointed forces in TIP fight

May 01, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disjointed forces in TIP fight

Dear Editor, Help & Shelter recognizes with great respect the recent actions of GWMO members in rescuing four victims of trafficking in persons (TIP) despite the risk to their...

We need not defend Burnham

May 01, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need not defend Burnham

Dear Editor, In 1975 during the visit of the Council of Namibia to Guyana, the Burnham-led People’s National Congress government unveiled a monument to the African Liberation Fighters. The...

Corporal punishment in this day and age?

May 01, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Corporal punishment in this day and age?

Dear Editor, I noticed the caption ‘GTU against abolition of corporal punishment’ (KNews April 30th) and was saddened by the statement. However, my blood began to boil when I saw...

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Mehidy magic (4-23), headline Warriors 6-wicket cakewalk win over...

Sep 12, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL…GAW vs. TKR (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors signed off their run at home with a huge bang after handing long-time rivals Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) a 6 wicket...

Should Guyana build a small refinery?

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The public discourse, thus far, on a refinery for Guyana asks some legitimate questions about cost, management, financing and commercial risk. But it makes a fundamental analytical mistake of evaluating the proposed Guyanese refinery as though its purpose were to become another...

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...

Jagdeo on breaches, accountability Pt 1

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Great to see Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President, taking control. Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Regional Executive Officers, and assorted others summoned to a session with the new Minister for Virtue and against Vice. Dr. Jagdeo is the best man for that job. He knows the...

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