June 2008

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Understanding the child soldiers – PART 1

Jun 20, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Understanding the child soldiers – PART 1

We do not need a sociological study to explain the emergence of child soldiers in Guyana. We need a political study. If we continue to ignore the fact that Guyana’s descent into this maelstrom of...

Bail for murder

Jun 20, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Bail for murder

Acting Chief Justice, Ian Chang, has written his name on the breakfast table on every home in this land. Justice Chang has written his name on the pages of legal history. But in terms of the essence...

Guyana needs to capture its children

Jun 20, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana needs to capture its children

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security has for some time now been conducting a programme to protect children and there has been some measure of success. In this society in which the...

Prince Charles is de man

Jun 20, 2008 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Prince Charles is de man

Prince Charles is de leader of de PNC. Nuff people didn’t know that till dem see de Chronicle on Wednesday. Dem boys go to school believing all de time that Corbin was de party leader and...

Don’t be the “black sheep”

Jun 20, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Don’t be the “black sheep”

The Parrot recalls childhood days when Mother Parrot used to scrub and clean my other siblings and me at a standpipe in the yard in an effort to ensure that we “sparkle”. This didn’t happen...

Golden Jaguars 1st session at stadium hailed by Shabazz

Jun 20, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Golden Jaguars 1st session at stadium hailed by Shabazz

By Franklin Wilson Technical Director of the Guyana Football Federation Jamaal Shabazz is of the view that the Government of Guyana has made an important statement by allowing the uses of the...

CIDI’s ‘Blue Life & Thrill’ throws $600,000 support behind Jaguars : Promises more support for 2010

Jun 20, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on CIDI’s ‘Blue Life & Thrill’ throws $600,000 support behind Jaguars : Promises more support for 2010

By Franklin Wilson It’s not often that you hear a company approaching a Sporting Body to sponsor an event or be associated with a particular project. But standing out in this regard is the...

Guyana team for Barbados to be picked today : Preparations on track for U-19 hat-trick

Jun 20, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana team for Barbados to be picked today : Preparations on track for U-19 hat-trick

By Sean Devers Guyana, the region’s most successful under-19 three-day team with 13 titles aim to achieve their third hat-trick of titles this year in Barbados and the 14-man squad which will begin...

Shabazz positive Guyana will advance : – Fans will see a more efficient performance

Jun 20, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Shabazz positive Guyana will advance : – Fans will see a more efficient performance

By Rawle Welch ‘Golden Jaguars’ Technical Director Jamal Shabazz in an interview with Kaieteur Sport last Wednesday said that he was confident the team will advance to the group phase of the 2010...

UDFA/Banks DIH/MCY&S Division 1 League : Blue Berry Hill joins Milerock at the top

Jun 20, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on UDFA/Banks DIH/MCY&S Division 1 League : Blue Berry Hill joins Milerock at the top

Blue Berry Hill (BBH) defeated 10-man Amelia’s Ward United (AWU) 2-1 to join Milerock at the top of the point’s standings following latest action in the Upper Demerara Football Association /...

Coach Dennis Hunte off to Mahdia

Jun 20, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Coach Dennis Hunte off to Mahdia

As the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports continues their Grass Roots Inter Bloc Football programme targeting the outlaying areas in the first instance, National Sports Commission Football Coach...

Courts Pee Wee League : Quarter-final on tomorrow at Thirst Park

Jun 20, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Courts Pee Wee League : Quarter-final on tomorrow at Thirst Park

Semi-final places are at stake when action in the Courts Under-11 Pee Wee League kicks on tomorrow at the Banks DIH Thirst Park ground with quarter-final match ups. In group A, Strike Again match...

Golden Jaguars team profiles continued

Jun 20, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Golden Jaguars team profiles continued

We continue with profiles of the Guyana national football team, popularly known as the ‘Golden Jaguars’ in the lead up to their World Cup Qualifier against Suriname on Sunday at the National...

Psychiatric patient stabs mother, refused bail

Jun 20, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Psychiatric patient stabs mother, refused bail

A 20-year-old man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with unlawful wounding. The accused, Donald Clarke, appeared before Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle at the...

Bus driver remanded for harbouring wanted man

Jun 20, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Bus driver remanded for harbouring wanted man

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday remanded a Cummings Lodge man to prison after he was charged with harbouring a wanted man. The accused, 32-year-old Sheldon Williams, made his...

Tempers flare in Friendship truck accident

Jun 20, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Tempers flare in Friendship truck accident

Tempers flared yesterday on the Friendship, East Bank Demerara Public Road after two trucks, with each driver proclaiming his innocence, collided and sparked a one-hour long traffic jam. According to...

‘Spreading the Blueband Goodness’ promotion ends

Jun 20, 2008 knews News Comments Off on ‘Spreading the Blueband Goodness’ promotion ends

Elizabeth Sunich, of Diamond, East Bank Demerara, who won three consolation prizes and a cake mixer, in one of the grand prizes; Surujdal Rampadarat, who won a toaster; Doorpattie Nandalall, who won...

Riverview shooting: Roop Group opens bank accounts for victim’s children

Jun 20, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Riverview shooting: Roop Group opens bank accounts for victim’s children

The four children of slain Riverview fisherman Felix Da Silva were yesterday presented with bank books courtesy of Peter Ramsaroop. The four children — Diane, 8; Nicholas, 4; Pretty, 3; and Sara,...

‘Child killers’ phenomenon a source of grave concern – AFC

Jun 19, 2008 knews News Comments Off on ‘Child killers’ phenomenon a source of grave concern – AFC

The Alliance for Change (AFC) yesterday said that there should be sociological study into the root cause of the phenomenon of child killers. According to party leader, Raphael Trotman, even if the...

Lawyer takes Elections Commission to court

Jun 19, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Lawyer takes Elections Commission to court

Attorney-at-Law Frank James has filed a court action on behalf of another lawyer, Clifton Mortimer Llewellyn John, seeking an order to have the Elections Commission put up for public scrutiny, lists...

GO-Invest lashes out at PSC on Sanata comments

Jun 19, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GO-Invest lashes out at PSC on Sanata comments

… if anyone is to apologize, it is Yesu Persaud A war of words has erupted between the Guyana Office For Investment (GO-Invest) and the Private Sector Commission (PSC) following a recent press...

Govt. still awaiting word on Roger Khan info

Jun 19, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Govt. still awaiting word on Roger Khan info

Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee says that he has not yet received a response from authorities in the USA to a request for information on allegations that the Guyana Government facilitated the...

NY-based Guyanese shot dead

Jun 19, 2008 knews News Comments Off on NY-based Guyanese shot dead

A New York-based Guyanese was fatally shot in his vehicle last Sunday morning. Police say Ravi Bandhu, son of Guyanese politician Vishnu Bandhu, was apparently killed by his friend who also robbed...

Bound body in South… Woman was strangled

Jun 19, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Bound body in South… Woman was strangled

A post mortem performed on the body of 82-year-old Margaret Sinjustin, who was found in her bed on Monday last in South Ruimveldt, has revealed that she died of manual strangulation. A 14-year-old...

IAC blasts ‘highly offensive’ Stabroek News cartoon

Jun 19, 2008 knews News Comments Off on IAC blasts ‘highly offensive’ Stabroek News cartoon

– registers complaint with ERC The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) has registered its “strongest condemnation” of a cartoon published on page 6 in the Sunday Stabroek edition of June 15,...

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Grudge Match looming as Warriors/Falcons collide tonight

Sep 17, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL Playoffs… GAW vs. ABF – Guyana eyeing revenge following first season loss to Antigua By Clifton Ross (Kaieteur News) – The stage is set for a blockbuster clash at...

Save our stories before they disappear

Sep 17, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I asked a middle-aged woman if she knew Rabbi Washington. She vaguely recalled the name but nothing more. This is exactly how most of our collective memory works these days. When I mentioned other Guyanese public figures from the 1970s and 1980s, she drew a blank on most of...

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...

PPP most ruthless guerrilla fighters of all

Sep 17, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – BBC and other Western media called them irregulars. Unorthodox also sold well. I fuse elements from irregulars and unorthodox to my preference for unpredictable. Guerrilla fighters and stealth operators have still endured. In any study of both, there’s none better...

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