July 2008

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Walter Jordan dies at home

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Walter Jordan dies at home

Walter Jordan, the man who once wrote the column ‘Watch Your Language’ in the pages of this newspaper, and father of Kaieteur News reporter Michael Jordan, passed away at his Tucville home last...

Guyana Watch visits Port Mourant

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Guyana Watch visits Port Mourant

Numerous children among the patients Among the 556 patients that took advantage of the Guyana Watch team being in Port Mourant, Berbice yesterday, were some 192 children. The Guyana Watch medical...

Vendors peeved at constant break-ins at Bourda Market

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Vendors peeved at constant break-ins at Bourda Market

The fury of several vendors at the Bourda Municipal Market raged yesterday morning when it was discovered that bandits were able to access the supposedly secured facility and successfully broke and...

GRPA targets men to help reduce violence against women

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GRPA targets men to help reduce violence against women

In recognition that the number of women prone to acts of violence have been mounting over the years, the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA) is working towards putting corrective...

Third former runs away, mother worried

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Third former runs away, mother worried

Another teen has reportedly run away from home. Fifteen-year-old Elita Roberts, a third form student of North Ruimveldt Multilateral School was last seen on Wednesday, wearing blue Capri jeans and a...

Suspected soldiers rob taxi driver, one nabbed

Jul 25, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Suspected soldiers rob taxi driver, one nabbed

Edward Jerrioh, a young man attached to the Sheriff Taxi Service, was robbed and shot shortly after he had just finish dropping off a female relative in West Ruimveldt on Wednesday night. According...

TCL Group regional three-day U-19 cricket (final round)

Jul 25, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on TCL Group regional three-day U-19 cricket (final round)

T&T vs. Guyana game set for intriguing second day By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Digicel, TCL, Pepsi, Smalta, Demerara Power Company & Lifetime Realty It’s come down to...

Cellink Plus Premier League

Jul 25, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Cellink Plus Premier League

Second round kicks off tonight By Franklin Wilson First round leaders Sunburst Camptown, the only unbeaten team so far will be aiming to stretch their lead when the second and decisive round of the...

Barbados in trouble against Jamaica

Jul 25, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Barbados in trouble against Jamaica

TCL Group WI Under-19 Challenge (Round 5) WILDEY, Barbados – Barbados, replying to Jamaica’s first innings total of 255, reached 86 for five when stumps were drawn on the opening day of their...

Caribbean Amateur Boxing Association Championships

Jul 25, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean Amateur Boxing Association Championships

Akeem Alexander opens with impressive win for Guyana – GABA National C/ships final night set for tomorrow 3:00pm Akeem Alexander got things off for the Guyanese boxers attending the Caribbean...

Hoping something will stick

Jul 25, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Hoping something will stick

DEAR EDITOR, Many commentators are alleging that the current government is some sort of “dictatorship”. However, it seems to me that such complainers are generally anti-PPP or have links to...

Will these circumstances ever be revealed?

Jul 25, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Will these circumstances ever be revealed?

DEAR EDITOR, Will we ever know how, (now deceased prisoner), Edwin Niles was able to secure seven .22 rounds of ammunition while he was out working at Camp Ayanganna, under the supervision of the...

The Grade 6 Assessment process creates inferiority complex

Jul 25, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on The Grade 6 Assessment process creates inferiority complex

DEAR EDITOR, I eagerly leap to endorse the opinion and recommendations of Anand Persaud the “The Grade 6 assessment should be abolished” SN, Wednesday July 9th. This is indeed one negative in our...

Progressive views are being stifled by various fears

Jul 25, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Progressive views are being stifled by various fears

DEAR EDITOR, On 23 July, 2003, Members of Parliament were challenged when they had to consider outlawing discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in the Guyana Constitution. Fundamentalist...

Shoddy service being offered by speedboat operators in Demerara River

Jul 25, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Shoddy service being offered by speedboat operators in Demerara River

DEAR EDITOR, Reading one of the daily newspapers (Monday, July 21st), I saw a caption “Indecent language on the speedboats” and decided to read what it was all about. What the writer wrote is...

The Lamaha Embankment squatters

Jul 25, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on The Lamaha Embankment squatters

The Lamaha Embankment is a narrow strip of Government reserve. It formerly served as the railway lines for trains coming in and out of what in colonial Guyana used to be old Georgetown. That was...

Hard Time paper hit real hard times

Jul 25, 2008 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Hard Time paper hit real hard times

Dem boys, when dem tekking a drink, does sing ‘Missy lass she gold ring’. Now dem boys always want to know wheh Missy been when she lass she ring. If she was living at Bartica dem woulda seh that...

For not taking over the GPA

Jul 25, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on For not taking over the GPA

The government is often accused of being responsible for everything and when it is not being accused it is expected to solve every problem or to deal with every issue. In Guyana this has been the...

CHEDDI UNDERSTOOD POVERTY

Jul 25, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on CHEDDI UNDERSTOOD POVERTY

I was heartened recently when I read in the newspaper that Food for the Poor had constructed a small, not expensive nor fancy, home for someone who was disabled. The home was constructed on land...

“Show me yuh company and…”

Jul 25, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on “Show me yuh company and…”

The Parrot has read the letter from the Boss of the Guyana De-Press Association (GDPA), DE Shop-Brawl, in which he debunked the notion that he might be a member of any political party or being so...

Divorce politics from economics

Jul 25, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Divorce politics from economics

Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Introduction: It is of no small interest with which I’ve watched the furor that has arisen over basically simple matters of economic need and the machinations of our...

Eburnation

Jul 25, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Eburnation

Many, many years ago on this page I did a column on an aberration that has continued unto this day. Before I come to that let me say that I believe when critics of the Government point to the lack of...

Woman, 72, breaks wall to escape blaze

Jul 24, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Woman, 72, breaks wall to escape blaze

– three homeless A 72-year-old Victoria woman was pulled to safety in the nick of time after fire of unknown origin engulfed her two-flat wood and concrete Victoria, East Coast Demerara...

M/ca villager terrorises neighbours with firearm

Jul 24, 2008 knews News Comments Off on M/ca villager terrorises neighbours with firearm

– victims forced to hide in their house Police on the East Coast of Demerara have launched a search for a prominent Mahaica resident who terrorised his neighbours by discharging several rounds...

American woman busted with coke at CJIA

Jul 24, 2008 knews News Comments Off on American woman busted with coke at CJIA

Drug agents from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday arrested a 21-year old female national of the United States of America who tried to smuggle more than a kilogram of cocaine through...

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Kellogg’s Senior Indoor Hockey championship concludes

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– GCC Elite overturn Saints to claim Women’s Open crown as Bounty GCC, Antonio’s Hickers also win titles (Kaieteur News) – GCC Elite came from behind to win the Kellogg’s...

No good deed goes unpunished

Nov 10, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Among those who joined the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar in 44 BC was Marcus Junius Brutus, a man Caesar had previously pardoned after the civil war. Caesar had spared his life, restored him to favour and trusted him. Brutus repaid this generosity by helping to put a...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

U.S. midterms – the Guyanese challenge – Pt. III

Nov 10, 2026

Kaieteur News – Donald Trump made himself into a winner. He also made himself a loser. No close midterm results to contest. No tight seat margins that call for bruising, delaying, upending battles. The American people spoke, their will prevailed. What’s the lesson for Guyanese? Is there...

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