August 2008

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First female treatment centre commissioned

Aug 14, 2008 knews News Comments Off on First female treatment centre commissioned

Guyana’s first female substance abuse treatment centre was inaugurated yesterday and is expected to cater to an initial 12 patients even as plans are engaged to expand its operation. The facility,...

UG to effect changes in journalists’ training

Aug 14, 2008 knews News Comments Off on UG to effect changes in journalists’ training

The Centre for Communications Studies of the University of Guyana, in collaboration with the United Nations Education Social and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) yesterday wrapped up its two-day...

City Hall outlines plan for enhancement funding from Gov’t

Aug 14, 2008 knews News Comments Off on City Hall outlines plan for enhancement funding from Gov’t

City Hall is yet to receive an assured sum of $15M from the government which is intended to help complete enhancement works which had commenced as part of the preparation for Carifesta X. According...

Dr. Kenneth King cremated following thanksgiving service

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One of Guyana’s most brilliant public servants, Dr. Kenneth King, who died on July 30th, 2008, was yesterday cremated following a moving and fitting prelude. A special thanksgiving service was held...

Students duly recognised after completing overseas programmes

Aug 14, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Students duly recognised after completing overseas programmes

A total of fifty-three (53) students last evening graduated with honours at the National Cultural Centre after completing over 18 months of studying and training in Professional Training overseas...

Knife-wielding ‘customer’ robs bookstore

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Police have begun investigating a robbery which was committed on the Literacy Book Store, which is located in East Street, North Cummingsburg. Around 13:30 hours yesterday, a man posing as a customer...

Water supply back to normal at West Demerara Hospital

Aug 14, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Water supply back to normal at West Demerara Hospital

— Measures to be put in place to improve connections The operations at the West Demerara Regional Hospital returned to normalcy yesterday following protest action the previous day by staffers who...

CJIA runway shutdown… Borrowed portable lights from B’dos expected today

Aug 14, 2008 knews News Comments Off on CJIA runway shutdown… Borrowed portable lights from B’dos expected today

Borrowed portable lights from Barbados are expected to arrive in Guyana today to assist in the alleviation of the tense situation at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, just as Guyana prepares to...

Health Ministry guards against Yellow Fever

Aug 14, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Health Ministry guards against Yellow Fever

Before the end of this month, Guyana is expected to receive a shipment of the Yellow Fever vaccine, free of cost from neighbouring Brazil. This is according to Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie...

Inter-Block football return to the West Dem with a bang

Aug 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Inter-Block football return to the West Dem with a bang

After a one week break the Pouderoyen Inter-Block football competition is set to return with a bang this evening at the West Demerara Secondary School ground with an unprecedented six games scheduled...

Who is who is the Goodwill swimming team continues

Aug 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Who is who is the Goodwill swimming team continues

Kaieteur Sport presents another set of youngsters who will seek to claim personal and national glory when they face off against fellow competitors from Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados in...

ITTF/GTTA Level One Coaches’ Course concludes

Aug 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on ITTF/GTTA Level One Coaches’ Course concludes

–Gabaglio challenges new coaches to work By Edison Jefford “It all depends on you–you must do the hard work. If you do not do the work you cannot reach the next level.” That was an admonition...

Courts U 11 Pee Wee champs to be crowned tonight

Aug 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Courts U 11 Pee Wee champs to be crowned tonight

Sunburst Camptown face Fruta Conquerors An exciting end to the inaugural Courts Pee Wee under-11 football tournament organized by the Georgetown Football Association is anticipated this evening at...

Alpha CARIFESTA Football Festival

Aug 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Alpha CARIFESTA Football Festival

Sunburst Camptown swamp GFC, Santos scrape past Uitvlugt By Franklin Wilson The penultimate night of group rivalry in the Alpha United Football Club/CARIFESTA Championship saw Sunburst Camptown...

Guyana Hockey Board resumes training for PAHF Under-21 Championships

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The Guyana Hockey Board is inviting its under-21 national squad members to a meeting at the Georgetown Cricket Club tomorrow August 15 at 6:00pm. The meeting is specifically to discuss preparations...

‘Six Head’ promises great fight

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By Edison Jefford Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis did not pull any punches when he promised a great fight with Howard Eastman. In fact, he dealt a low–blow that had the propensity to cripple Eastman...

DCC clinch game one in 3-match series against Bartica U-19s

Aug 14, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on DCC clinch game one in 3-match series against Bartica U-19s

Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) took a 1-nill lead after game one of their three-match under-19 Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport HIV/AIDS Awareness programme cricket series against Bartica with an...

Save us from this source of noise pollution!

Aug 14, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Save us from this source of noise pollution!

DEAR EDITOR, I write this letter not only as a concerned resident of Williamsburg, but also out of concern of the health of senior citizens like my 70-year-old mother. Recently, we saw the Ministry...

One must know how to use a resource for the purposes of success

Aug 14, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on One must know how to use a resource for the purposes of success

DEAR EDITOR, I read with tremendous disappointment, one Randolph Joseph Eleazar’s letter in SN’s Thursday edition, August 07, 2008, pushing to banish the Region’s most committed cricketer at...

Was there really a Banwaree?

Aug 14, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Was there really a Banwaree?

DEAR EDITOR, First it was the “rumal”- the female East Indian headwear – which caused a lot of furor. Now, it is Banwaree/Banwarie/Banwahree. What or who next, Mrs. Willis’ Goat or the...

An alarming correspondence

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DEAR EDITOR, Mr. Ralph Ramkarran’s correspondence (SN Aug 13) critical of my thinking on the recent PPP congress and on a particular issue in relation to him is alarming, more for its omissions...

Marriage is the only standard!

Aug 14, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Marriage is the only standard!

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to the ‘Father and Son’ commercial produced by the USAID/GHARP which is often broadcast locally. The commercial is set in front of the garage of a house where the character...

A New Capital

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Some ideas are accepted as valid but their implications may be so enormous and profound that their implementation never gets off the drawing board. This has been the fate of the idea that Guyana...

SHOCK AND AWE IS NEEDED TO BRING SANITY TO THE ROADS

Aug 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on SHOCK AND AWE IS NEEDED TO BRING SANITY TO THE ROADS

I believe we are moving too slow in relation to traffic reforms. Despite the fact that legislation has been passed in respect to the use of cell phones and the banning of music on public transport...

US and Guyana civil-military relations seminar… Top US attorney supports lifetime appointment of judges

Aug 13, 2008 knews News Comments Off on US and Guyana civil-military relations seminar… Top US attorney supports lifetime appointment of judges

A top attorney from the United States of America is highly supportive of the lifetime appointment of judges, which he said would give security of tenure to the important arm of government....

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(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

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(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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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...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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