June 2008

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Second Hampton Court accident victim succumbs

Jun 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Second Hampton Court accident victim succumbs

Forty-four-year-old Narine Persaud who was involved in an accident at Hampton Court on the Essequibo Coast on Saturday last has succumbed to his injuries. Reports are that Persaud died sometime...

GPSU observes 85th anniversary…Yarde calls on members to learn from past experiences

Jun 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GPSU observes 85th anniversary…Yarde calls on members to learn from past experiences

Under the theme “Proud of our performance, modernising to improve service to members,” the Guyana Public Service Union yesterday observed its 85th anniversary with a call from its president,...

BFA Under-15 League – New Amsterdam United, Paradise Invaders play to exciting 4-4 draw

Jun 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on BFA Under-15 League – New Amsterdam United, Paradise Invaders play to exciting 4-4 draw

The Berbice Football Association U-15 League competition continued on Saturday at the Scotts Church ground with only one of the four scheduled games played. Embarrassingly four of the teams slated to...

NA Multilateral claim Amerally, Amaco Sawmills Inter-Schools U-15 football

Jun 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on NA Multilateral claim Amerally, Amaco Sawmills Inter-Schools U-15 football

New Amsterdam Multilateral School played unbeaten to win the inaugural Amerally Sawmills Inter Secondary school U-15 football competition, which was held last Tuesday for schools in the New...

Adelphi family robbed at gunpoint

Jun 09, 2008 knews News 1

Gunmen made off with more than $500,000 in cash and jewellery after robbing an East Canje family early yesterday morning. Police reports indicate that 37-year-old Ganesh Premchand, an operator at the...

Wiltshire to represent GOA at Sports Development Conference in Scotland

Jun 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Wiltshire to represent GOA at Sports Development Conference in Scotland

AAG pulls out of Pune C/wealth Youth games in India By Sean Devers Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) President K Juman Yassin told the media on Saturday that former national Squash champion and GOA...

‘Watz Hott Guyana’ provides heartwarming memories

Jun 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on ‘Watz Hott Guyana’ provides heartwarming memories

By Alex Wayne A mammoth crowd went home thoroughly satisfied – save for a few glitches in the Dancehall Queen segment – when Dynamix Productions and Kross Kolor Studio hosted the 2008...

Barakat presents cricket gear to Nat’l Under-19 hopeful Shivpersaud

Jun 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Barakat presents cricket gear to Nat’l Under-19 hopeful Shivpersaud

Demerara under-19 batsman Ballinder Shivpersaud was presented with a set of cricket gear from businessman Feroze Barakat as a reward for making the National under-19 twenty-man training squad which...

Private sector must take up the mantle

Jun 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Private sector must take up the mantle

– AIF task force chairman The private sector must be willing to recognize the potential and invest in agricultural projects, as well as take up the mantle since a lot of money is to be made in the...

Mohamed’s half century highlights DDL Softball cricket

Jun 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Mohamed’s half century highlights DDL Softball cricket

Wazeer Mohamed hit an unbeaten half century as his team All Star defeated Sarah by 85 runs in the DDL 15-over round robin softball cricket competition at Sewram’s tarmac in Belle Plaine Wakenaam....

Burnett preparations going well for Olympics

Jun 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Burnett preparations going well for Olympics

Marian Burnett preparations for the Olympic Games have been going well. The Guyanese track star, who has taken series of preparation runs to the European circuit ran to her third silver medal on the...

Berbice school teacher is lone Guyanese success at Umpires Exam

Jun 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Berbice school teacher is lone Guyanese success at Umpires Exam

Well known Berbice headmaster Augustus Outar is the lone Guyanese to have successfully completed this years West Indies Cricket Umpires exam (WICUA) and has now joined the ranks of a fully qualified...

Banks DIH Sevens Rugby Tournament: Pepsi Hornets claim both titles

Jun 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH Sevens Rugby Tournament: Pepsi Hornets claim both titles

By Rawle Welch A blunder by the experienced Walter George was what caused Yamaha Caribs (Men) the Banks DIH Sevens One-day Rugby title which was played yesterday at the National Park. George, who had...

Tony Deyal – OH MY DOORLING

Jun 09, 2008 knews Tony Deyal column Comments Off on Tony Deyal – OH MY DOORLING

Port of Spain has always been a hot town Like a pepper in a pot of rice and peas Waiting to burst and scatter, a trap For the unwary… The new Hyatt Hotel in Trinidad is in the old Port of Spain,...

Freddie Kissoon – Is Mr. Jagdeo controversial or dictatorial?

Jun 09, 2008 knews Freddie Kissoon 6

It was Ras Tom Dalgetty who argued publicly in the letter columns of the newspapers that looking at what we have for a government, it was better if the WPA had tried to work out a compromise with...

Peeping Tom – COMMENDATIONS ARE IN ORDER

Jun 09, 2008 knews Peeping Tom 1

The Peeper is no expert but the Peeper knows now for sure that had the government procured the sort of choppers that Captain Gerry Gouveia had been advising all along, Fineman and his gang would have...

Clinton can be compared to the PNCR

Jun 09, 2008 knews Letters 1

Dear Editor, No one can tell those die-hard fans and supporters of Hilary Clinton that she did not even come close to winning the popular vote. Hilary Clinton voted for Michigan and Florida not to be...

Are the President and the entire Cabinet willing to take polygraph tests?

Jun 09, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Are the President and the entire Cabinet willing to take polygraph tests?

Dear Editor, It’s a sad day for this beautiful country when you read the daily newspapers. Imagine, the Customs fiasco, with officials being sacked because they failed polygraph tests. Well,...

The U.S. must prove the allegation against Guyana

Jun 09, 2008 knews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Five years ago, the American Government told the world that Sadam Hussein and Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. What a spectacle did Colin Powel present to the Congress of...

Guyana seed assistance to Jamaica

Jun 09, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyana seed assistance to Jamaica

Dear Editor, The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) wants to draw attention to an article in the Sunday edition of the SN of 8th June, 2008, titled “Guyana gives Jamaica US$10,000 boost for rice...

Unenlightened enlightenment

Jun 09, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Unenlightened enlightenment

Dear Editor, I refer to the Sunday Stabroek Editorial of June 8, 2008, where it injected as its running theme the notion that the Office of the President is oblivious to enlightenment. It, however,...

Saving electricity

Jun 09, 2008 knews Editorial 1

As the price of crude oil rises inexorably towards the US$200 per barrel marker (with no upper limits in sight), it should surprise no one that the cost of generating electricity — which in our...

Government must ensure systems are in place for timely hearing of all cases

Jun 09, 2008 knews Letters 1

Dear Editor, I respond to Kwame McCoy’s letter under the caption “Criticisms of the judiciary are the cross-checks and balance of power” (Kaieteur News 06.04.08). Firstly, the state comprises...

Gunfight at Christmas Falls…‘Fine Man’ planned further massacres to avenge sister’s death

Jun 08, 2008 knews News 5

…diary reveals A heavily-armed Joint Services contingent was yesterday still hot on the trail of fugitive Rondell ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins and several other gunmen, who escaped following...

Derelict building comes crashing down, 24 homeless

Jun 08, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Derelict building comes crashing down, 24 homeless

A building believed to be more than 100 years old collapsed yesterday morning, leaving some 24 persons, among them several children, homeless. This newspaper understands that, at around 01:30 hours,...

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The politics of appointment

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(Kaieteur News) – The elections commission did not fall from heaven. It came from the messy compromises of men. The so-called Carter-Price formula, that tired but enduring offspring of the 1990s political crisis, was not meant to enshrine aloof neutrality; it was meant to broker peace between...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

Jun 21, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Guyana Development Bank: Promise, Potential and Peril

Jun 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again,...

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