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Fruta Conquerors beat Victoria Kings on penalty kicks; Netrockers trounce Bakewell Buxton Stars 2-0

Dec 18, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Fruta Conquerors beat Victoria Kings on penalty kicks; Netrockers trounce Bakewell Buxton Stars 2-0

It was not a fruitful night for East Coast teams when the second day of action in the 21st edition of the Kashif & Shanghai knock-out football tournament unfolded at the Enmore Community Centre...

US-based Guyanese brings Christmas cheer to GYO club

Dec 18, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on US-based Guyanese brings Christmas cheer to GYO club

By Sean Devers It’s the season of goodwill and yesterday New York based Guyanese Premchand Singh brought Christmas cheer to the members of the Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO) Cricket Club with a...

United States based Guyanese boxer to feature as event gets underway

Dec 18, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on United States based Guyanese boxer to feature as event gets underway

Some of the nation’s best amateur boxers will step into the ring from 6:30 tonight when the curtains go up on the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) Champion of Champions boxing tournament...

Stephenson cops Guyana’s first medal at Invitational Meet in T&T

Dec 18, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Stephenson cops Guyana’s first medal at Invitational Meet in T&T

Guyana’s Jessica Stephenson started her Invitational Meet hosted by Marlins Swim Club in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) on Thursday by winning a silver medal in the 400m freestyle in 5:03.61 (5.5...

Guyana to play in T&T T20 Cricket Festival from Dec 28-30

Dec 18, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana to play in T&T T20 Cricket Festival from Dec 28-30

Guyana will play T&T in a T20 cricket festival at the end of the month at Guaracara Park in Pointe-a-Pierre. President of the TTCB, Azim Bassarath revealed that the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB)...

A few suggestions for M&CC

Dec 18, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on A few suggestions for M&CC

Dear Editor, I gather from the news that the Georgetown City Council still faces challenges to realise substantial inflows under its amnesty. Although the expectation that taxpayers would have taken...

Success is the ability to achieve and accomplish planned ideas

Dec 18, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Success is the ability to achieve and accomplish planned ideas

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter to teach you about creating success. I wish to share with you my personal definition of success and some specific success strategies that I have learned in my...

GAWU has taken too many things for granted

Dec 18, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on GAWU has taken too many things for granted

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News carried a news item “Sugar workers’ union calls for government’s intervention” (16/12/2010). In this news item GAWU is calling on the government to intervene in the...

President Jagdeo’s lecture to UWI team

Dec 18, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on President Jagdeo’s lecture to UWI team

Dear Editor, I am writing on behalf of the Canadian Guyanese Centre for Human Rights & Social Justice (CENTRE), a group of Guyanese Canadians with deep family ties and relationships in the land...

Important element in the diminution of respect for any given president is communal distrust

Dec 18, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Important element in the diminution of respect for any given president is communal distrust

Dear Editor, The verbal skirmish in Cancun (“Cancun Fireworks:” Kaieteur News, 13/12/10), has provided commentators and bloggers with a nice little pre-Christmas present and much has already been...

Sugar workers’ blues

Dec 18, 2010 knews Editorial Comments Off on Sugar workers’ blues

Plights, it is said, are desperate, difficult and precarious situations brought about by natural or divine causes as opposed to “problems” which are, in the end, traceable to human action – or...

Govt. seeking additional $6.9B from coffers

Dec 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Govt. seeking additional $6.9B from coffers

…$93M spent on UNASUR Summit Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh yesterday, for the second time this year, moved to the National Assembly seeking approval for close to $7B in Supplementary Provisions....

Watch vendor shot outside home by waiting bandits

Dec 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Watch vendor shot outside home by waiting bandits

Up to late last night doctors at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Kingston were operating on a city watch vendor who was shot by bandits just as he was entering his yard at Goedverwagting, on the East...

Four-lane highway to end at Diamond

Dec 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Four-lane highway to end at Diamond

By Leonard Gildarie The planned extension of the four-lane highway on the East Bank Demerara has been altered with the roadway now ending at Diamond, officials say. Government had originally intended...

New airline heads to Guyana

Dec 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on New airline heads to Guyana

A new airline will now be servicing the Guyana route as the Government has accepted the designation of Enerjet Airline by the Canadian Government to operate scheduled air service between Toronto and...

Ambassador Applewhaite to perform S.G. duties

Dec 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Ambassador Applewhaite to perform S.G. duties

Chairman of CARICOM, Bruce Golding, has announced that Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, will act as Secretary-General with effect from 1 January 2011, pending the selection...

Courts spreads Christmas cheer

Dec 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Courts spreads Christmas cheer

In the spirit of Christmas, Courts yesterday distributed a number of gifts to patients of the pediatric ward at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). In addition, food hampers were also...

Guyana participates in Mercosur social forum

Dec 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Guyana participates in Mercosur social forum

– Jagdeo to join plenary session today President Bharrat Jagdeo participated in the closing of the social forum of the XL Mercosur summit in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, and subsequently attended a...

Fight against malaria being undermined by some imported drugs

Dec 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Fight against malaria being undermined by some imported drugs

– Minister Ramsammy Although the local health sector has over the years engaged a valiant battle against malaria, the efforts at the moment are not yielding the desired effects. At least this...

A cry for a new Guyana

Dec 17, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on A cry for a new Guyana

Dear Editor, It is after much consideration that I have decided to pen this letter to share my concern and may say my vision for a new Guyana. For too long we have been mouthing that Guyana is rich...

The mentally ill should never be allowed to roam the streets

Dec 17, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on The mentally ill should never be allowed to roam the streets

Dear Editor, Allow me the opportunity to say that the mentally ill should never be allowed to roam our streets unsupervised, as this poses a threat to the wellbeing and security of persons with whom...

The noise nuisance law must be executed without any prejudice

Dec 17, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on The noise nuisance law must be executed without any prejudice

Dear Editor, With regards to noise nuisance I would like to draw your attention to continued noise harassment every night of the week (Tuesday nights more pronounced) at the corner of Barr Street and...

Do we promote or do we repeat?

Dec 17, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Do we promote or do we repeat?

Dear Editor, The question contained in the caption above has created a lot of furor and I am wondering if much ado has not been made of nothing. Let me hasten to add that I regard the education of...

The PNCR constitution allows for the separation of the Leader and presidential candidate

Dec 17, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on The PNCR constitution allows for the separation of the Leader and presidential candidate

Dear Editor, Freddie Kissoon often exposes himself as a contrarian of his own thinking. His article, “Is the PNC dead?” (December 8) in referring to the PNCR implementing a new system where the...

Decent societies have no place for intolerance

Dec 17, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Decent societies have no place for intolerance

Dear Editor, In Allisa Bacchus’ letter which appeared in Kaieteur News dated 12/16/10 under the heading, “ignoring facts glorifying aberrations”, Ms. Bacchus sought to justify the abhorrent...

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Same plantation, new overseers

Apr 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time when Guyana was spoken of, not entirely jokingly, as Bookers Guyana. Bookers was not a man. It was the giant foreign-owned sugar concern whose influence stretched so wide that if you sneezed in Georgetown, someone in a London boardroom probably approved the...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

Ravaged by tyrants

Apr 19, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – What do you think, Guyanese? “The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.” Pope Leo XIV said so in Cameroon. I salute this fine American, this vicar of Christ growing in his role. What about others (leaders)? Those who “manipulate...

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