July 2008

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GRDB ignores court order, milling co. files contempt order

Jul 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GRDB ignores court order, milling co. files contempt order

Despite a court order preventing the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) from enforcing the suspension of the operating license of the Mahaicony Rice Mills Limited, the milling entity continues to...

GTUC plans retaliation against Govt’s withholding of subvention

Jul 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GTUC plans retaliation against Govt’s withholding of subvention

Government’s continued intent to withhold the subvention from Critchlow Labour College (CLC) was yesterday regarded as a sinister plan and one that will soon attract retaliation from the Guyana...

TCL Group regional U-19 three-day cricket (2nd round)

Jul 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on TCL Group regional U-19 three-day cricket (2nd round)

Cottoy (8-89) befuddles Guyana, but defending champs register come-from-behind win By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Digicel, TCL, Pepsi, Smalta, Demerara Power Company & Lifetime...

GLU, Woodlands Hospital at war over employees’ union dues

Jul 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GLU, Woodlands Hospital at war over employees’ union dues

– 29 employees claim they never signed deduction forms… The Guyana Labour Union (GLU) is threatening to “walk the streets” if the Woodlands Hospital refuses to meet with the...

Enhancement of the East Demerara Water Conservancy

Jul 12, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Enhancement of the East Demerara Water Conservancy

DEAR EDITOR, This letter serves to respond to Peeping Tom’s comments published in the Kaieteur News on Wednesday July 09, 2008 in relation to the $500M spent to enhance the capacity and...

The extra-lessons phenomenon

Jul 12, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on The extra-lessons phenomenon

DEAR EDITOR, Some teachers of the Vryman’s Erven Secondary School are keeping extra lessons during this August vacation, and are collecting monies for this service from students. Isn’t this...

Some two dozen minibuses impounded in West Demerara

Jul 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Some two dozen minibuses impounded in West Demerara

The Police Traffic Department in West Demerara has clamped down on vehicles, especially minibuses, that have breached the traffic laws. More than 20 minibuses were impounded yesterday at the Leonora...

The imbalance that breeds balance

Jul 12, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on The imbalance that breeds balance

DEAR EDITOR, One just has to read the letters pages of the Guyana Chronicle to find out how disgustingly biased and slanted our country’s national newspaper is. It is ludicrous and disgusting to...

Ammo find in prison… Colonel, army ranks appear before Board of Inquiry

Jul 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Ammo find in prison… Colonel, army ranks appear before Board of Inquiry

Several army ranks, including a colonel and a staff sergeant, appeared before a Board of Inquiry this week as investigations continued into the discovery of ammunition on a prisoner who had done a...

Similar but different

Jul 12, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Similar but different

DEAR EDITOR, I felt much joy and sadness reading Vishnu Bisram’s letter “It is never too late to pursue an education” (KN 9/7/2008). There are so many similarities between the New York and...

CARICOM observers say Grenada elections free and fair

Jul 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on CARICOM observers say Grenada elections free and fair

A team of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) observers has deemed the recent General Elections in Grenada free and fair. According to a CARICOM statement, a core team of Electoral Observer Mission arrived...

Obscenity seems to be defining our society

Jul 12, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Obscenity seems to be defining our society

DEAR EDITOR, We are living in a society that has been getting from bad to worse every day, because we have fallen morally, intellectually and spiritually. The purpose of this letter is to inform the...

A serious diplomatic situation

Jul 12, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on A serious diplomatic situation

No one takes seriously the excuse offered by the United States Government that logistics and resource constraints were responsible for the world’s foremost superpower being unable to offer the...

The Hunt for the ‘Black Box’ is on

Jul 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on The Hunt for the ‘Black Box’ is on

– premiere scheduled for this weekend. One of the more elusive sources of wealth and power in the Guyanese section of the New Cariland is the black box, an entity that visits the country every...

Moses is my preference, but “the Donald” should prevail

Jul 12, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Moses is my preference, but “the Donald” should prevail

I do not know when I ever pretended to be impartial when it comes to the potential Presidential candidates of the ruling People’s Progressive Party. I may have been objective in my analyses, but I...

Economic Partnership Agreement… Guyana’s signature dependent on upcoming consultations

Jul 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Economic Partnership Agreement… Guyana’s signature dependent on upcoming consultations

Guyana’s official signature to the Economic Partnership Agreement, which is due to come on stream at month’s end, is dependent on an imminent consultation process to be conducted shortly....

New site at Lusignan for garbage disposal: Puran Bros snaps up $1M monthly contract

Jul 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on New site at Lusignan for garbage disposal: Puran Bros snaps up $1M monthly contract

Government has signed a million-dollars-per-month contract with Puran Brothers Disposal Service to truck garbage to a new landfill site at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara. The deal was inked on...

Asbestos, the EPA, the other EPA and the media

Jul 12, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Asbestos, the EPA, the other EPA and the media

Let me make it quite clear here and now: as an opinion-maker in this country, I will not support any campaign by the Government of Guyana against the signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement...

QC student robs taxi driver at gunpoint

Jul 11, 2008 knews News Comments Off on QC student robs taxi driver at gunpoint

Police have detained a 15-year-old Queen’s College student who allegedly robbed a taxi driver at gunpoint in Kitty yesterday. The teen was allegedly nabbed with a .32 pistol, which he had used in...

House to House registration… GECOM chairman’s explanation inexplicable – Dr Luncheon

Jul 11, 2008 knews News Comments Off on House to House registration… GECOM chairman’s explanation inexplicable – Dr Luncheon

Revelations by the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr Steve Surujbally, that the low number of registrants emanating from the House to House registration process may be...

GRA vs Fidelity Investment… Khurshid Sattaur, Dr Safeek engage in war of words

Jul 11, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GRA vs Fidelity Investment… Khurshid Sattaur, Dr Safeek engage in war of words

Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, has described as unfortunate, Wednesday’s statements of corruption at Customs by Fidelity Investments Inc, the...

Slaughtered miners… Jamaicans to determine the identity of the bones, skulls

Jul 11, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Slaughtered miners… Jamaicans to determine the identity of the bones, skulls

– Trinidad forensic experts visit Lindo Creek A team of Jamaican pathologists and forensic scientists are expected in Guyana shortly to conduct examinations on the skeletal remains found at...

Driver hospitalized after car bursts into flames

Jul 11, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Driver hospitalized after car bursts into flames

The driver of a Volkswagon suffered sever burns to both feet when his vehicle burst into flames after it overturned on the Strathspey Public Road, East Coast Demerara when it was clipped by another...

C.N. Sharma testifies in challenge to radio denial

Jul 11, 2008 knews News Comments Off on C.N. Sharma testifies in challenge to radio denial

CNS Channel Six owner, Chandra Narine Sharma, took the stand in the action brought against the Attorney General and the Elections Commission by Norman Chapman and Mortimer Yearwood as the matter...

Decomposed body found in Canje Creek

Jul 11, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Decomposed body found in Canje Creek

– suspected to be missing bird catcher Police in Berbice have recovered a decomposed body believed to be that of bird catcher Marcellus Francis. The body was discovered yesterday afternoon...

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Dharry accepts Lorusso challenge, eyes IBO title defence in Guyana

Sep 30, 2026

By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – Six months after etching his name into Guyana’s boxing history, Elton Dharry is ready to embark on another chapter of his career, and he has already accepted a...

The practice is the doctrine

Sep 30, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The call for renewal within the PPP is essentially a call for the removal of the oligarchy which now controls that party and dominates state policy. But to posit, in the same breadth that a political party exists principally to win elections is a different proposition...

Crime thrives on weak justice, illegal guns and dirty money

Sep 20, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer only a matter for the police. It is weakening societies, draining economies and obstructing development. It is also testing public confidence in courts, governments and democratic institutions. The...

The duty and power of the media

Sep 30, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – CNN, MS Now, and Politico enraged. A broadside was their presidential; gift. Banned from the White House pool. In Moscow, Pyongyang, Beijing, that’s normal. Not in America’s Washington. To the courts this has gone. A test to determine the substance and resilience...

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