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Courts, GSL to stage 20-over Tapeball Cricket competition

Nov 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Courts, GSL to stage 20-over Tapeball Cricket competition

Courts (Guyana ltd) in association with the Guyana Softball League will stage it’s first ever 20-over Tapeball competition on Sunday November 16 at the NIS ground. This competition will feature...

Demerara, Berbice in tribute game for Basil Butcher & Deryck Murray

Nov 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Demerara, Berbice in tribute game for Basil Butcher & Deryck Murray

Ansa McAl Trading supports The first ever Basil Butcher/Deryck Murray Tribute 20/20 cricket match will be played on Sunday at the Rose Hall Estate Ground with the Butcher/Murray trophy at stake. The...

Chanderpaul to return to Durham

Nov 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Chanderpaul to return to Durham

Durham have agreed a deal for West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul to return to the Riverside next season. The ICC Cricketer of the Year has had two previous stints as Durham’s overseas...

Barack Obama’s victory should give all Guyanese the audacity to hope

Nov 14, 2008 knews Letters 11

Dear Editor, As a citizen of this world, which recognises the United States of America as the sole supper power, I thought it to be my duty to take an interest in the 2008 presidential election. Even...

Cricket Info, Quiz continues to inspire and inform television viewers

Nov 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Cricket Info, Quiz continues to inspire and inform television viewers

As the West Indies cricketers embark on nine months of non-stop international action, cricket lovers will obviously need clarifications and other information related to their favourite teams and...

Venezuelans donate gears, communication equipment to local entities

Nov 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Venezuelans donate gears, communication equipment to local entities

The Venezuelan Government continued to stretch out a hand of goodwill to important Guyanese institutions when the ambassador of that country His Excellency Dario Morandy, handed over sports gears and...

Gayle says West Indies will bounce back

Nov 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Gayle says West Indies will bounce back

West Indies captain Chris Gayle smashed the 17th century of his One-Day International career, but it was not enough to secure victory over Pakistan in the opening match of the Fortune Cup Series on...

How valid is the claim by Mr. Harris?

Nov 14, 2008 knews Letters 5

Dear Editor, My first letter probably was not very clear on this issue, so let me attempt to clarify. The law of resignation requires clear and unequivocal action or statements demonstrating an...

GCB First Division 2 – day cricket in E’bo

Nov 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GCB First Division 2 – day cricket in E’bo

Wakenaam and Leguan play to a draw Wakenaam and Leguan played to a draw as the Guyana Cricket Board first division two day cricket competition continued at Green’s Park, Leguan in Essequibo last...

Fireman slapped with ganja charge

Nov 14, 2008 knews News 1

Patrick Bailey, 29, of 121 Republic Drive, Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday placed on $15,000 bail on a charge of possession of two grams of cannabis for the purpose of...

Misrepresentation of President’s position on torture

Nov 14, 2008 knews Letters 2

Dear Editor, I refer to SN Editor’s Note of November 12, 2008 with respect to the caption “Sunday editorial misrepresented the President’s position on torture.” The Editor’s Note missed the...

The last visitor

Nov 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

Mr. Rickey Singh wrote that he was the last visitor to have spoken with David de Caires before he died. Mr. Singh wrote that after he left, Mr. de Caires went to bed and did not wake up. Mr. Singh...

Where is it written that one has to go with the polls?

Nov 14, 2008 knews Letters 2

Dear Editor, I respond to the author writing under the name of Kyian Jones’ letter that appeared in Kaieteur News of November 12, 2008, under the caption, “Williams has incorrectly criticised...

Anjue and Hamlet horserace meet set for November 23 at Mahaicony

Nov 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Anjue and Hamlet horserace meet set for November 23 at Mahaicony

Entries are expected to close on Sunday November 16 for the Grand Horserace meet fixed for Sunday November 23 at the Anjue and Hamlet Park’s race track at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara. Eight...

Firing firecrackers

Nov 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Firing firecrackers

The Parrot squawked in the past about the use of firecrackers which is widespread within our society. This practice is dangerous; people have been seriously injured. Much has been said about the...

Defending champions go down to Barbados

Nov 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Defending champions go down to Barbados

By Edison Jefford With eight of their experienced players absent yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda, the relatively young Jamaican brigade pulled all stops but could not prevent...

Have we learnt anything from the American experience?

Nov 14, 2008 knews Letters 3

Dear Editor, I refer to exchanges between letter writers in your daily newspaper concerning Vishnu Bisram’s projection that the US presidential elections would have been close. First of all Mr....

STRESSED-OUT DOCTORS

Nov 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

I got a phone call which said that one of my friends was not feeling too well and asking whether I would be kind enough to take him to the hospital. On the way, I asked my ailing friend to which...

Tackling blackout woes

Nov 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Tackling blackout woes

The electricity situation is not what it should be despite the expenditures by the government and the government has had cause to criticize the management of the electricity company. The public is...

NAMILCO Football Festival back on track

Nov 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on NAMILCO Football Festival back on track

The Guyana Football Federation has ruled that the disputed semi-final of the Namilco Football Festival between Sunburst Camptown and Alpha United be replayed. Compliments of the Guyana Power and...

When a government is unprepared, people die

Nov 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists 1

Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA INTRODUCTION It has been over a week since a U.S. private plane disappeared in our jungle. What I found criminal is that it took over 24 hours before the Ministry of Transport...

Richards’ ton spur Leewards to 184 run win against Canada

Nov 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Richards’ ton spur Leewards to 184 run win against Canada

Islanders take two bonus points to take early series lead By Sean Devers Man-of-the-Match Austin Richards fashioned a magnificent 141 to lead the Leeward Islands to an emphatic 184-run victory...

Demanding standards

Nov 14, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on Demanding standards

The Government of Guyana is rightly concerned over the possible change of ownership or sale of majority shares at Le Meridien Hotel. The government is complaining it was not involved in any...

Donald meter spinning like buck top

Nov 14, 2008 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists 1

Next year this time dem gun have plenty babies in this country and GPL got to tek credit. Is a long time people always talking bout de population small and how a country this size shoulda got at...

Hit and run accident…

Nov 14, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Hit and run accident…

Family wants driver to accept responsibility The relatives of 44-year-old Levoy Henry who was killed in a hit and run accident late last month in Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara, are appealing to...

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Jun 19, 2026

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, – The two-day racing extravaganza that kicks off an action-packed month of motorsport starts today at the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) Thomaslands venue...

Punctuality is now a problem in Georgetown Schools

Jun 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Every school day in the city, in almost every ward, you can see scores of school children – dressed in their uniforms – ambling to school after 9:00am. The casualness of these children suggests that punctuality is no longer important to them or to their parents. But it does...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

Jun 14, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

UGGI Survey: Pt. IV

Jun 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – This is the last commentary on the University of Guyana Green Institute (UGGI) Independence 60 Survey titled: Guyana at 60: Trust, Oil, and the Society being Built. Today’s focus goes beyond the two bottom performing areas of “national government” and “foreign oil...

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