July 2008

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Caribbean company focuses on Diaspora market

Jul 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Caribbean company focuses on Diaspora market

Caribbean Governments and the private sector in the region are fast focusing on the vast Caribbean Diaspora market in the U.S. even as a U.S.-based company continues to increase its specialty in this...

Guyana’s boxers excel in Trinidad

Jul 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana’s boxers excel in Trinidad

– Already secure 2 gold, 3 silver medals Guyana’s boxers at the Junior Caribbean Amateur Boxing Association Championships in Trinidad and Tobago excelled in their respective fights to be...

Policeman charged for illegal weapon possession

Jul 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Policeman charged for illegal weapon possession

Police Constable Tamesh Rawana yesterday appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court for the illegal possession of firearm and ammunition. Rawana appeared before Magistrate Yonnasseh Cave on...

It’s on, Eastman vs. Lewis

Jul 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on It’s on, Eastman vs. Lewis

McNeal Promotions along with Stanford Solomon of Solomon Enterprises has agreed to promote the eagerly anticipated clash between new middleweight champion Howard Eastman and former world champion...

Walter A. Jordan (1926-2008)—from post master to columnist

Jul 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Walter A. Jordan (1926-2008)—from post master to columnist

Walter .A. Jordan, who died at his Tucville home Thursday evening, is being missed by a number of friends and organizations, not least the Guyana Post Office Corporation with which he worked. He was...

Baboolall still going strong after 27 years

Jul 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Baboolall still going strong after 27 years

With over 27 years in the business of motor racing, Trinidad and Tobago’s most popular race car driver Tanko Baboolall shows no sign of slowing down too soon as evident by the improvements he’s...

Rahaman willing to take the risk

Jul 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Rahaman willing to take the risk

-Need to adjust quickly to new car By Rawle Welch Just imagine having the luxury to ditch a car that had provided you with great joy and success for most of your career for a new and faster one, but...

GABF coaches’ clinic cancelled

Jul 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GABF coaches’ clinic cancelled

–DC Jammers due in August By Edison Jefford The unprecedented surge in airfare to travel between Guyana and the United States of America struck local sports when the Guyana Amateur Basketball...

Barbados 185 all out vs. Jamaica

Jul 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Barbados 185 all out vs. Jamaica

WILDEY, Barbados – Barbados, replying to Jamaica’s first innings total of 255, were dismissed for 185 about 40 minutes before the tea break on the second day of their fifth and final round match...

Bajans, Guyanese and the Politics of Hate

Jul 26, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Bajans, Guyanese and the Politics of Hate

DEAR EDITOR, It is finally happening. Guyanese immigrants in Barbados are now being murdered. The attack in which Christopher Griffith was killed, and Seelochanie Samuels wounded, was not merely the...

The interest of our citizens comes first

Jul 26, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on The interest of our citizens comes first

DEAR EDITOR, I read with utter amazement in the Kaieteur News of Sunday 20th July 2008, an article captioned: “Twenty Million dollar Amerindian Village handed over.” Immediately, “The world is...

Love is free

Jul 26, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Love is free

E-mails are in the in-things these days. The only mails I get in my letter box, which is nailed onto my gate, are bills – water bills, electricity bills and telephone bills. This is quite...

Democracy inside three memoranda

Jul 26, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Democracy inside three memoranda

I read the Mirror newspaper every week (online of course; I would not take my money to buy that thing). I do not read the Chronicle. For many, that would be a fault of mine. If you are a social...

MCY&S Inter Bloc fever hits West Side

Jul 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on MCY&S Inter Bloc fever hits West Side

Pouderoyen to kick off Wednesday under lights The Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport countrywide Inter-Bloc Football competition is set to invade the West Demerara from next Wednesday and will be...

This phenomenon may be an inclination of Berbicians mentality

Jul 26, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on This phenomenon may be an inclination of Berbicians mentality

DEAR EDITOR, Live call-in programmes on Berbice TV stations have become more and more embarrassing in the recent months. There has been no other time in previous years whereby persons who call in to...

Court of Appeal Amendment Bill 2008… Legislation described as ‘recipe for disaster’

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Court of Appeal Amendment Bill 2008… Legislation described as ‘recipe for disaster’

The Court of Appeal (Amendment) Bill 2008 was yesterday described as a ‘recipe for disaster’ by Alliance for Change, Member of Parliament, Khemraj Ramjattan, when the Bill was debated in the...

Businessman gunned down on Brickdam

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Businessman gunned down on Brickdam

…killers escape with over $2 million Akbar Alli, 35, was shot and killed yesterday afternoon by two bandits opposite King Solomon’s Enterprise, on Brickdam. Reports reaching Kaieteur News stated...

Gunmen snatch $100M in diamonds

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Gunmen snatch $100M in diamonds

– in daring Church Street robbery Gunmen escaped with millions of dollars in diamond, gold and cash yesterday during a daring daylight heist at the Battle Green Diamond Mineral Establishment in...

AFC leader wins trip to Beijing Olympics

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on AFC leader wins trip to Beijing Olympics

Scotiabank’s recent ‘Bound for Beijing’ promotion concluded with the grand drawing of an all expense paid trip to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing China. And the winner was none other...

34 Peace Corps volunteers swear-in for two-year stint in Guyana

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on 34 Peace Corps volunteers swear-in for two-year stint in Guyana

…commit to build on legacy of predecessors Following an eight-week pre-service period, 34 men and women of various ages yesterday took the oath of office as the latest Peace Corps volunteers to...

US citizen remanded on drug trafficking charge

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on US citizen remanded on drug trafficking charge

A United States of America citizen who was nabbed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, on Wednesday last with cocaine has been remanded to prison. Amirah Yamien Mitchell, 21, made her...

Mahaica ‘terrorist’ turns self in

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Mahaica ‘terrorist’ turns self in

A Mahaica resident, who allegedly terrorized his neighbour on Wednesday, turned himself into police at the Mahaica Police Station, yesterday. The man, who allegedly indiscriminately discharged his...

Prison death suspects still to be identified – police official

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Prison death suspects still to be identified – police official

Despite an almost two-week investigation, police officials are reportedly no closer to identifying the persons who tortured prison inmate, Edwin Niles. A police official told Kaieteur News...

Oliver Hinckson sedition PI begins

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Oliver Hinckson sedition PI begins

Oliver Hinckson, who is charged with advocating a terrorist act, possession of arms and ammunition, and sedition, made yet another appearance yesterday before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa...

Bird smuggler busted in New York

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Bird smuggler busted in New York

A passenger on a flight from Guyana was charged recently with smuggling 13 finches into the United States to use in bird-singing contests, authorities said. Customs agents noticed bird feed in the...

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Kaieteur Sports – Timehri United’s impressive run in the 2026 Elite League Qualifiers came to a somber end on Sunday after they suffered a 2-0 defeat to Camptown Football Club in the...

The politics of appointment

Jun 23, 2026

(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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