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On being right

Jul 13, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on On being right

I started doing columns in 1988, and my thoughts, opinions and expressions about the PPP’s use of power, the PPP’s approach to politics since 1992 and the nature of Mr. Jagdeo’s presidency have...

EXCEEDING THE FEED LIMIT

Jul 13, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on EXCEEDING THE FEED LIMIT

The old Hedonistic and long-held attitude to life, death and weight-loss represented by the flippant, “Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet” has joined chrome furniture, wax...

Accident/Incident Investigation

Jul 13, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Accident/Incident Investigation

Dear Editor, It was reported in the media that on the 5th July 2009, there was a near miss within the airspace of the Guyana Air Traffic Control System, involving an outbound Learjet aircraft and an...

NAPSS hosts ‘reunion of champions’

Jul 13, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on NAPSS hosts ‘reunion of champions’

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – The New Amsterdam Primary/Secondary School (NAPSS) Football Foundation would be hosting a ‘Reunion of Champions’ in New Amsterdam between August 7th and 17th. The...

Obama and Africa

Jul 13, 2009 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Obama and Africa

Last Saturday, US President Barack Obama made his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa, the part of the continent from where his father had left to attend university and not so incidentally had met his...

Where is the US$200M plus earned from privatisation deals?

Jul 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Where is the US$200M plus earned from privatisation deals?

Why has the money not been transferred to the nation’s coffers? – Corbin Where is the more than US$200M that has been earned from the several privatisation deals over the past five...

NAPS reports higher survival rate for HIV patients

Jul 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on NAPS reports higher survival rate for HIV patients

Director of the National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS), Dr. Shanti Singh, has reported that there is currently a one-year survival rate in Guyana for more than 80 per cent of HIV/AIDS infected...

168 graduate with life skills

Jul 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on 168 graduate with life skills

The 168 youths who recently left secondary school, have been given a fresh break in life, having been trained in a skill that would enable them to earn a livelihood. They were drawn from Regions One...

GT&T Jingle and Song Competition semifinals today

Jul 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T Jingle and Song Competition semifinals today

GT&T will kick off the semifinals for its 2K9 Jingle and Song Competition at the Theatre Guild, commencing at 19:00 hrs today. Fifteen contestants will battle to secure a placing at the upcoming...

‘We are coming back well laden on August 6’

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘We are coming back well laden on August 6’

…Says Manager Johnson at U-19 farewell dinner By Sean Devers Manager of the Guyana Under-19 cricket team, Alvin Johnson, feels this year’s unit is not the best ever produced by this county, but...

Meusa wins Sasha Cells CARICOM Chess tournament

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Meusa wins Sasha Cells CARICOM Chess tournament

Wendell Meusa made it three in a row after capturing the senior top prize in the Sasha Cells chess tournament which concluded on Caricom Day at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club. Muesa ended the...

Pompey runs slowest time this season

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pompey runs slowest time this season

…but remains unbeaten in Ireland Aliann Pompey expressed disappointment over her slowest time this season even though she won the 400m at the International Athletics’ 58th Cork City Sports at the...

Central Essequibo win 1st Digicel D’ Bimmer Flex Twenty20 festival

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Central Essequibo win 1st Digicel D’ Bimmer Flex Twenty20 festival

Central Essequibo defeated South Essequibo to win the first ever Digicel D’ Bimmer Flex Twenty20 cricket festival, played at the Anna Regina Community Centre ground on Saturday. In the final, South...

Business School sponsors BFA junior tournament

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Business School sponsors BFA junior tournament

The Berbice Football Association (BFA) has attracted sponsorship from the Managing Director of The Business School, James Bovell, and will be running off a junior tournament for schools and clubs to...

DCC contributes to National Under-19 cricketers

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on DCC contributes to National Under-19 cricketers

The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) has produced several outstanding Guyana cricketers including Clive Lloyd, Lance Gibbs and Roger Harper. On Monday the Queenstown club made a financial contribution to...

Excitement galore as Beach Soccer returns to Linden

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Excitement galore as Beach Soccer returns to Linden

Silver Shattas emerge champions; Marlon Benjamin is player of the tournament Approximately two months subsequent to the inaugural beach soccer competition in Linden, football buffs were treated to...

Sports Minister disappointed with Twenty20 schedule

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sports Minister disappointed with Twenty20 schedule

“We knew what games were set for Guyana from the media” – GCB The off-the-field controversies of West Indies cricket are once again overshadowing the game itself and this time the...

Referees undergo fitness test

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Referees undergo fitness test

Performances of FIFA officials pleasing – Lawrence Griffith Two referees failed to mesh up to the rigid qualifying standards, when the Guyana Referees Football Council (GFRC) staged a fitness test...

Brans Security makes presentation to U-19 ruggers

Jul 06, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brans Security makes presentation to U-19 ruggers

The National Under-19 rugby team benefited from the goodwill of Brans Security Service when Managing Director of the entity Harold Bransford presented a quantity of jerseys to the squad last...

Jeffrey, Fernandes retain national titles

Jul 06, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jeffrey, Fernandes retain national titles

– Fraser, Keisha Jeffrey receive special awards Kristian Jeffrey and Nicolette Fernandes successfully defended their Men’s and Ladies national titles, as the 2009 GT&T sponsored National...

GHB stages historic one-day tournament at National Stadium today

Jul 06, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on GHB stages historic one-day tournament at National Stadium today

History is in the making when the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB), in collaboration with Digicel and Bounty Farm stage a one-day tournament today, at the Guyana National Stadium. According to an executive...

Pepsi Sonics continue to berate GABA

Jul 06, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pepsi Sonics continue to berate GABA

Letter to be sent to Sports Ministry By Edison Jefford The Pepsi Sonics Basketball Club will be sending a document to the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport this week highlighting what it...

ICC World 20/20 starts April 30 in Guyana

Jul 06, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on ICC World 20/20 starts April 30 in Guyana

Windies play opening match of double-header at Providence The Guyana National Stadium at Providence is set to make its debut as an International venue for Day/Night cricket matches on April 30, when...

Hercules follows up 20/20 ton with career-best 7-21

Jul 06, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hercules follows up 20/20 ton with career-best 7-21

Twenty-year-old former Guyana Under-19 cricketer, Ryan Hercules scored his maiden ton in England last Monday in the semi-final of the 20/20 league tournament and followed up with a career best 7-21...

Thirty-one Karatekas successfully complete grading exercise

Jul 06, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Thirty-one Karatekas successfully complete grading exercise

Thirty-one Karatekas, from two clubs were evaluated and subsequently promoted to various levels, when the Great Diamond Martial Arts Association hosted a Karate Upgrade Examinations at the Diamond...

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CAREBACO Juniors 2026 Jamaica: Guyana secure four medals with Singles...

Aug 21, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana junior athletes proudly represented the Golden Arrowhead at the CAREBACO Junior Badminton Championships, held in Jamaica from August 14–18, 2026. Guyana captured the...

The students who never turned up

Aug 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – A report in yesterday’s Kaieteur News that some 35,000 students across the Caribbean absconded from the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations ought to make every education policymaker sit up and take note. The figure is startling, but before we begin...

Haiti – Stop the money flow to Organised Crime

Aug 16, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Haiti’s plight must not be forgotten because it is no longer a regular feature of international headlines. The suffering has not diminished. Between January and early June 2026, at least 2,310 people were killed, 1,106 were injured and 99 were kidnapped,...

Loving Exxon

Aug 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It is why I like these swashbucklers operating out of Spring, Texas. They know how to keep others on their toes, and to lull their partners in host counties to sleep. There was Big Chief Darren Woods during his 31st July second quarter report breaking open the champagne. ...

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