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First ever Comedy Jam

Oct 19, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on First ever Comedy Jam

– Season 1 auditions completed The audition for Guyana’s first ever Comedy Jam has been completed with 32 persons bidding to remain in the upcoming show. According to organizers, on Saturday...

NA Lion’s Club all set for its 48th Anniversary

Oct 19, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on NA Lion’s Club all set for its 48th Anniversary

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – The New Amsterdam Lion’s Club is set to usher in its 48th Anniversary. The President, Lion Leila Clarke-Daniels, described the journey as rewarding. The body was...

Death on Berbice roadways on the rise

Oct 19, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Death on Berbice roadways on the rise

NEW AMSTERDAM , BERBICE – More deaths occurred on the Berbice roadways this year than last year. Officer-In-Charge of Traffic in Division ‘B’ of the Guyana Police Force Assistant...

Khan’s sentencing exposes the grave deficiency in Guyana’s law enforcement and justice systems

Oct 19, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Khan’s sentencing exposes the grave deficiency in Guyana’s law enforcement and justice systems

Dear Editor, On reading Kaieteur News’ October 17 lead article, “Roger Khan’s jail term sparks division in Brooklyn courtroom,” I recognise it was inevitable that the sentencing would...

Book stealing is serious, but stealing from the people and the treasury is more serious

Oct 19, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Book stealing is serious, but stealing from the people and the treasury is more serious

Dear Editor, With reference to a letter captioned, “The stealing of books is a serious offence”, by Mr. Ralph Ramkarran that appeared in the media, I wish to make the following comments....

Central Corentyne Lion’s Club extends generous arm

Oct 19, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Central Corentyne Lion’s Club extends generous arm

HAMPSHIRE, CORENTYNE – Fifteen families from Fyrish, Albion and Hampshire Villages and Rose Hall Town on the Corentyne received food hampers compliments of the Central Corentyne Lion’s Club...

How low can we get?

Oct 19, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on How low can we get?

Dear Editor, Suddenly, after reading Mr. Kissoon’s column in Kaieteur News of October18, 2009, about the situation of stolen books, I feel compelled to pen a few words. First of all I do not know...

Woman held with five kilos of cocaine in ‘guava cheese’ packets

Oct 19, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Woman held with five kilos of cocaine in ‘guava cheese’ packets

Police yesterday nabbed a 21-year-old woman at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport with five kilogrammes of cocaine in packets labelled as containing guava cheese. According to reports, the woman,...

The people can decide through a referendum

Oct 19, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on The people can decide through a referendum

Dear Editor, Robert Corbin in one of his weekly meetings with the press was quoted as saying that President Jagdeo cannot run for presidential office in the 2011 elections, because this would be a...

More than 170 police ranks yet to be paid

Oct 19, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on More than 170 police ranks yet to be paid

GuyExpo has come and gone and has left different impressions with different individuals. There are the business people who had their products and services on display and probably secured additional...

The desperate fabrications of Kissoon

Oct 19, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on The desperate fabrications of Kissoon

Dear Editor, I refer to Freddie Kissoon’s article in Kaieteur News on October 18, titled, “My book theft 39 years ago when I was a 17-year-old rascal.” When SN published my letter on...

Deborah Crawford’s family still awaiting justice

Oct 19, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Deborah Crawford’s family still awaiting justice

Six years after she bled to death during a botched delivery, the family of maternal patient Deborah Crawford is still seeking justice in a lawsuit they have filed against a New Amsterdam doctor who...

Terrific front page on Diwali

Oct 19, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Terrific front page on Diwali

Dear Editor, I write to applaud Kaieteur News for its front page and coverage on Diwali celebrations over the last few days. They were absolutely terrific and made my Diwali more special. However,...

China’s Contradictions

Oct 19, 2009 KNews Editorial Comments Off on China’s Contradictions

At the beginning of this month, the People’s Republic of China celebrated its sixtieth anniversary. After the Red Army under Mao Tse-tung had taken over the vast country in 1949, very few could...

An opinion…Reliance on Privy Council is a shame

Oct 18, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on An opinion…Reliance on Privy Council is a shame

The failures of CARICOM have become so notorious that talking about them incites more contemptuous laughter than lawyer jokes. And there’s probably no greater monument to these failures than the...

Guyana comes alive with lights for Diwali

Oct 18, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana comes alive with lights for Diwali

Guyanese of every class, creed and race, last evening took to the streets as has become tradition to view the beautifully lit buildings and edifices as Hindus observed Deepavali or Diwali. The event...

British national says Guyana jail a hell hole

Oct 18, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on British national says Guyana jail a hell hole

By Phillipa Cherryson Julie Warner, 30, spent five weeks in a South American jail after being wrongly accused of smuggling drugs. The secretary finally had all charges dropped in August, but not...

LBI sugar workers still on strike

Oct 18, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on LBI sugar workers still on strike

Sugar workers at the La Bonne Intention (LBI) estate are still on strike action, as they continue to press their demand to obtain an acceptable target for sugar production for their estate to secure...

UG Pro Chancellor at UWI on capacity building stint

Oct 18, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on UG Pro Chancellor at UWI on capacity building stint

“I want UG to regain its national and regional credibility… and so, I would like to believe that my UWI visit would eventually make some difference to UG, no matter how incremental it may...

GuySuCo to appoint former board member as Deputy CEO

Oct 18, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo to appoint former board member as Deputy CEO

…will be tasked with marketing among other portfolios – source By Gary Eleazar This newspaper has been reliably informed that the Guyana Sugar Corporation, following the resignation of its...

Albouystown residents expressed disturbance

Oct 18, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Albouystown residents expressed disturbance

Some residents of Albouystown are peeved with what they call the routine jamboree every Friday night, themed “Dutty Friday”. They say that it is organised by “wayward...

The Baccoo Speaks

Oct 18, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Road accidents are fast becoming a normal part of life and there seems to be no end in sight. More and more motorists continue to ignore basic traffic rules and the rules of the road with serious...

Obama’s Nobel Prize: The stupidity of political bigotry

Oct 18, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Obama’s Nobel Prize: The stupidity of political bigotry

By Sir Ronald Sanders Barack Obama did not ask for the Nobel Peace Prize and he was probably the most shocked person to learn that it had been awarded to him. He certainly made no secret of his...

Guyanese-born Mathematics teacher is Vance Schools Teacher of the Year

Oct 18, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese-born Mathematics teacher is Vance Schools Teacher of the Year

“I always loved Mathematics,” Tessa Webb-Lewis said in an interview with the Daily Dispatch after she had been named the Vance County Schools Teacher of the Year for 2009-2010. “As...

THE MERMAID’S REVENGE

Oct 18, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, The Creative Corner Comments Off on THE MERMAID’S REVENGE

By Michael Jordan (Continued from last week) The sun was starting to disappear behind Stevedore Housing Scheme when we set out for the blacka; me and Maxie in front, Old Skeets behind. We had...

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Cornwall blitz, Shadab (4-13)/Muqeem (4-16) leave Warriors in panic...

Sep 18, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL… GAW vs. ABF – Falcons book spot in finals, Warriors/Kingsmen battle tonight for last spot By Clifton Ross (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors choked their...

Whatever happened to this matter?

Sep 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something deeply troubling about the driver’s-licence saga in Guyana. And it is not simply the question of whether a few police officers may have done something wrong. It is the possibility that people are driving on our roads who were never properly tested, never...

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...

Boycott- duh fuh duh nah obyah

Sep 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Hon Speaker of the House started the ball rolling. The wrong way. Neither time nor space for opposition in parliament. For months after the September elections, the machinery of parliamentary democracy couldn’t get cranking. The white people had to intervene so...

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