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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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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