June 2008

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Lowe and John making Guyana proud: -Through to Doubles quarter-finals

Jun 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Lowe and John making Guyana proud: -Through to Doubles quarter-finals

Over the years, Guyana, a country geographically situated in South America, but has been associated with the West Indies both socially and culturally has been the birthplace of some of the world’s...

Bounced cheques: GRDB suspends licence of Mahaicony Rice Mills

Jun 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Bounced cheques: GRDB suspends licence of Mahaicony Rice Mills

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) yesterday suspended the licence of Mahaicony Rice Mills after the group of mills allegedly continued to issue bounced cheques to farmers. A GRDB statement...

GT&T National Senior Squash Championships underway

Jun 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GT&T National Senior Squash Championships underway

The much anticipated GT&T sponsored National Senior Squash Championships served off on Tuesday evening at the Georgetown Club courts. For the first time the Guyana Squash Association has allowed...

GCC, Everest surge ahead

Jun 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GCC, Everest surge ahead

The GCC ‘A’ men’s team extended their unbeaten run to join club mates GCC ‘B’ on top of the men’s competition by handing Old Fort ‘A’ their first loss of the competition, while...

Junior English County Rugby player joins Guyana U-19 squad

Jun 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Junior English County Rugby player joins Guyana U-19 squad

Eighteen year old Rupert Giles arrived in Guyana from England this week to join Guyana’s National Under-19 Rugby squad preparing to contest the North American & West Indies Rugby Association...

RHTY&SC hosts Cellink Plus Inter School Volleyball today

Jun 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC hosts Cellink Plus Inter School Volleyball today

The Area ‘H’ ground, home of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club will toady be a hive of activity when the Cellink Plus sponsored Inter School Volleyball competition takes place. Eight (8)...

Mile relay team runs new national mark

Jun 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Mile relay team runs new national mark

By Gary Tim New York, NY (SMS) — Another episode in Guyanese sports history has been written with the setting of a new national record in the Women’s 4x400m relay, as a team of US-based athletes...

Rebuilding process starts immediately as 2010 World Cup dream ends

Jun 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Rebuilding process starts immediately as 2010 World Cup dream ends

By Franklin Wilson President of the Guyana Football federation Colin Klass is resolute that the rebuilding process for Guyana’s football after exiting the World Cup Qualifying campaign at the...

Dolphin Inter Club Swim Meet: Host club leads Silver Shark and Dorado after day one

Jun 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Dolphin Inter Club Swim Meet: Host club leads Silver Shark and Dorado after day one

After the first day of action in the Dolphin hosted Inter-Club Swim meet taking place at eth 25 yard Colgrain Pool, the host club has taken the lead ahead of Silver Sharks and Dorado. The first day...

Mining camp slaughter…Joint Services knew camp was there – owner

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Mining camp slaughter…Joint Services knew camp was there – owner

Questions continued to swirl yesterday over the massacre of eight diamond miners, whose bodies were subsequently burnt in a camp at Lindo Creek, up the Berbice River. Yesterday, the dredge owner,...

Govt. Minister’s son charged

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Govt. Minister’s son charged

Robeson Benn, Junior, was on Monday granted $10,000 bail on a charge of disorderly behaviour when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle. The...

Guyana rice faces threat from proposed WTO price cuts

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Guyana rice faces threat from proposed WTO price cuts

We’re not sitting idly by – Agri. Minister Guyana is facing a major threat to its rice market in the European Union (EU), with a possible cut in earnings, following a proposal at the World...

West B’ce teen electrocution…Former cop on $5M bail

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on West B’ce teen electrocution…Former cop on $5M bail

Leroy Robertson, a former policeman, who is charged in connection with the death of his 18-year-old lover, Shonnette Culley, at her Number 40 Village, West Coast Berbice home one month ago, has been...

Another ‘fix-man’ electrocuted

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Another ‘fix-man’ electrocuted

The police are investigating what seems to be an electrocution at Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara, which resulted in the death of 35-year-old Elton Dutchin. Dutchin’s brother, Stanley,...

Feds grab JFK Terror suspects

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Feds grab JFK Terror suspects

– Trio taken to U.S. by private jet Trinidad Guardian – The three men wanted on charges of plotting to blow up John F Kennedy International Airport in New York last year were extradited...

Rehabilitation Week…Speech and language therapy

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Rehabilitation Week…Speech and language therapy

Darin is one of many children currently attending the Speech Clinic at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. Speech and Language Therapy is one of the several rehabilitation services available to...

Symposium held in observance of Rehab Week

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Symposium held in observance of Rehab Week

In a bid to highlight the various rehabilitation services offered by the Ministry of Health and their importance to the society, the Rehabilitation Services Division has engaged its annual week of...

ERC meets IAC over Stabroek News cartoon

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on ERC meets IAC over Stabroek News cartoon

Yesterday, the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) met with representatives of the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) to discuss a complaint made by the latter over a cartoon which appeared in the June 15...

Round-the-clock surveillance as rainfall intensifies

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Round-the-clock surveillance as rainfall intensifies

In light of intense rainfall experienced over the past few days across Guyana, the Ministry of Agriculture has been closely monitoring the situation. As a routine check to make sure that pumps and...

HIV-positive persons now receiving treatment earlier

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on HIV-positive persons now receiving treatment earlier

By Melanie Allicock Guyana has taken the crucial and controversial decision to have Persons Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) begin receiving antiretroviral treatment earlier in their illness. Health...

B.K., GNIC make monetary donations to GTI

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on B.K., GNIC make monetary donations to GTI

The Government Technical Institute (GTI) has a new Board of Directors and yesterday during a meeting, B.K. International and the Guyana National Industrial Inc. (GNIC), donated monies towards the...

Gay Guyanese man was discriminated against

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Gay Guyanese man was discriminated against

— U.S. judge rules New York (New York Law Journal) – An immigration judge has been pulled from a case for showing apparent bias and making unfounded assumptions about homosexuals. The 2nd...

City Mayor discusses car park issues with stakeholders

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on City Mayor discusses car park issues with stakeholders

City Mayor Hamilton Green has taken his concerns about the recent seizure of the Stabroek Car Park from the control of the municipality to the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce, and also has plans to...

Jamaican to receive CARICOM Triennial Award for Women

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Jamaican to receive CARICOM Triennial Award for Women

An outstanding Jamaican woman will be awarded the Caribbean Community’s Triennial Award for Women for her sterling contribution to national and regional development especially in the field of...

Man remanded for robbery under arms

Jun 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Man remanded for robbery under arms

A man broke down in tears yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court after he was remanded to prison for robbery under arms. The accused, Randy Morris, appeared before Magistrate Hazel...

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Kaieteur Sports – President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Wayne Forde, has announced that Guyana’s Junior Jaguars will participate in the inaugural FIFA Global U-15 Boys...

Income tax thresholds

Jun 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The government has done it again. It has indicated that workers can look forward to an increased income tax threshold of $200,000 by the end of the decade. One Facebook comment hit the nail on the head. It urged the government to file for intellectual bankruptcy. Increasing the...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

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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...

Churches as moral compass

Jun 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – President Ali got that one right. Institutions such as churches have a duty to function as “society’s moral compass.” I couldn’t agree more with the president. Commend him. More commendations for Excellency Ali: “together let us find the soul of this...

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