July 2008

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Local female football referee heightens preparation for Olympic Games

Jul 10, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Local female football referee heightens preparation for Olympic Games

Leading local football referee Dianne Ferreira-James has been heightening her preparation for officiating duties at the Beijing Olympic Games next month. Back last Sunday from a hectic high altitude...

Businessman before the courts for electricity theft

Jul 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Businessman before the courts for electricity theft

Essequibo businessman, Orlando Wong, called ‘Wongie’ of Richmond village, Essequibo Coast, appeared in court, yesterday, on a charge of fraudulently diverting electricity to his home and business...

TCL Group regional U-19 three-day cricket (2nd round): Windwards take 1st innings points from Guyana

Jul 10, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on TCL Group regional U-19 three-day cricket (2nd round): Windwards take 1st innings points from Guyana

By Sean Devers in Barbados In Association with Digicel, Pepsi, Smalta, Demerara Power Company & Lifetime Reality The Windward Islands enjoyed a two- run first innings lead against defending...

14-year-old goes missing after road accident

Jul 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on 14-year-old goes missing after road accident

A West Ruimveldt mother is desperately trying to locate her 14-year old son who disappeared on Tuesday after he was discharged from a city hospital where he was taken following an accident with a...

Mr. Bismuth Bisram in Grenada is due in Guyana

Jul 10, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mr. Bismuth Bisram in Grenada is due in Guyana

Just in case you don’t know, bismuth is a chemical in the periodic table. It is outside the scope of this essay to describe its properties but one of its values is its changing form. I am using the...

THE MEASURE OF PROGRESS

Jul 10, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE MEASURE OF PROGRESS

“It’s traditional” is one of the all-time great hits of the Trade Winds. It captures the very essence of the idiosyncratic lifestyles that West Indians have traditionally embraced, including...

These operations are not connected

Jul 10, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on These operations are not connected

DEAR EDITOR, The article “Black timber in red shipping containers” published on July 5th and written by Ms. Janette Bulkan causes one to raise the question of the real motives of Ms. Bulkan,...

A timely step towards Reconciliation

Jul 10, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on A timely step towards Reconciliation

DEAR EDITOR, Patriots and concerned citizens are quite properly critical when some folks distort our history, or make inappropriate statements. Equally so, I believe, we are duty bound to be...

An unforgivable act

Jul 10, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on An unforgivable act

DEAR EDITOR, The sexual assault/rape of a 14-year-old girl (when the story broke, she was said to be 11) by two ‘grandfathers’ is unforgivable. It’s such a pity that our laws do not allow for...

Children should enjoy the same right to protection from assault as adults do

Jul 10, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Children should enjoy the same right to protection from assault as adults do

DEAR EDITOR, After reading the two online reports “Thousands of crimes by under-10s,” and “Almost all children aged 10-15 are victims of crime,” as referenced by Mr. Williams in his letter,...

Guyanese deserve a new day where all financial misery becomes a horrible history

Jul 10, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese deserve a new day where all financial misery becomes a horrible history

DEAR EDITOR, Mining Development – this is a topic for very long dissertations as many deficiencies have become obvious in recent years. Is it not amazing that to this day there was never a...

The Commonwealth and us

Jul 10, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on The Commonwealth and us

It was noted in passing that one of the dignitaries present at the recently-concluded CARICOM Heads of Government summit was the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, His Excellency Kamalesh Sharma....

Stakeout fizzles! Gunmen escape from police cordon

Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Stakeout fizzles! Gunmen escape from police cordon

…after botched robbery Gunshots rang out early yesterday morning in the quiet community of Meadow Bank, Greater Georgetown, as three bandits managed to elude the police who had staked out the area...

Forensic team from T&T visits Lindo Creek

Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Forensic team from T&T visits Lindo Creek

– Jamaica, Barbados to send investigators More than two weeks after the discovery of the remains of eight miners at a mining camp at Lindo Creek, Upper Berbice River, a high level three-man...

Unlicensed driver takes niece on deadly ride… Girl, 11, killed; brother injured

Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Unlicensed driver takes niece on deadly ride… Girl, 11, killed; brother injured

-suspect flees scene An unlicensed driver slammed a Canter truck into a parked, sand-laden vehicle near Coverden, East Bank Demerara yesterday, killing his 11-year-old niece and injuring her...

GECOM commissioner dies in US

Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GECOM commissioner dies in US

Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) member, Lloyd Joseph, who was the People’s National Congress Reform nominee on that body, died on Monday. Joseph, an attorney at law, of Lot 279 Republic Park,...

Two geriatrics in court for sexually molesting 14-yr-old girl

Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Two geriatrics in court for sexually molesting 14-yr-old girl

Walter Raleigh Tappin, aka Alton, 88, and his counterpart, retired police officer Cedric Cooke, 70, of Maria’s Johanna Wakenaam, Essequibo Island, were each placed on $150,000 bail when they...

Delta episode at CJIA… Passenger faces lifetime ban

Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Delta episode at CJIA… Passenger faces lifetime ban

The head of the company responsible for the ground handling services for Delta Airlines has broken a lance with Works Minister Robeson Benn over the incident that led to the grounding of a flight out...

British training – will it work for Guyana?

Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on British training – will it work for Guyana?

Three years ago a team of British police trainers were in Guyana. Their mission was to train members of the Tactical Services Unit to operate in a professional manner so that they apprehend criminal...

DHB to be partially closed to traffic for two weeks

Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on DHB to be partially closed to traffic for two weeks

The Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) will be partially closed to vehicular traffic for approximately two weeks to facilitate some repair and maintenance work which will be done on the Retractor Span of...

Linden/Kwakwani road almost impassable

Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Linden/Kwakwani road almost impassable

Incessant rainfall has reduced the Linden/Kwakwani road to a trail that is virtually impassable, in some areas. This situation, apart from making a journey that was already too long and tedious, even...

Minibus fares hike experiences hiccups

Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Minibus fares hike experiences hiccups

Minibus fares hike experiences hiccups The new minibus fare structure, which was implemented and endorsed by the Guyana Public Transportation Association (GPTA) on Monday, has caught many members of...

Commerce Minister silent on fare increase

Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Commerce Minister silent on fare increase

The new fare scheme implemented and endorsed by the Guyana Public Transportation Association (GPTA) and the General Minibus Association of Guyana (GMAG) yesterday attracted silence from the Minister...

Barbers/cosmetologists to become self-reliant in fight against HIV/AIDS

Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Barbers/cosmetologists to become self-reliant in fight against HIV/AIDS

In order to ensure that behavioural changes which can lend to better lifestyles remains constant in local communities, Youth Challenge Guyana (YCG) yesterday intensified its collaboration with...

Drug trafficker jailed, fined $3.7M

Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Drug trafficker jailed, fined $3.7M

Overseas-based Guyanese Percival Ross yesterday pleaded guilty to trafficking in narcotics and was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and fined $3.743 million with an alternative of six months...

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Petra fine-tunes preparations for Republic Bank U18 football league

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…Eight schools receive final briefing and equipment ahead of Sunday’s kickoff By Kester Williams (Kaieteur News) – With the countdown to kickoff gathering momentum, the Petra Organisation...

The PNCR and the power-sharing fairy tale

Oct 14, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – When it comes to shared governance, the historical evidence suggests that the party’s commitment to sharing power is limited to talk. The PNCR does not practice what it preaches. When the PPP/C is in office, the PNCR discovers the virtues of inclusive governance,...

Haiti: When the Promise of a Haitian-Led Solution Begins to Fade

Oct 11, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Who speaks for Haiti? It is a question the international community can no longer avoid. For years, governments and international organisations have insisted that the country’s deepening crisis must have a “Haitian-led solution”. The principle is...

Guyana Development Bank Board

Oct 14, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Just as I suspected. A Guyana Development Bank board of directors that fits the PPP mold perfectly. Some names that ring a certain way. Some faces from barren places. A dash of color. People in whom the party, the government, have confidence that they could see a cow,...

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