August 2008

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Costume designer trains Carifesta designers

Aug 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Costume designer trains Carifesta designers

Promising theatre costume managers and designers enlisted in the Carifesta technical theatre training programme will be able to take their skills to a higher standard with the recent training...

Aquaculture Station dedicated to slain Agriculture Minister

Aug 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Aquaculture Station dedicated to slain Agriculture Minister

There are lands available in the Mahaica/Mahaicony/Abary area for investors who are interested in large-scale aquaculture activities. Yesterday, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, said that a...

Fire threatens Maternity Ward

Aug 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Fire threatens Maternity Ward

Early yesterday morning, a fire broke out in the Maternity Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital, creating some fear and panic among staff and patients. This newspaper understands that there was no...

$Melanie Damishana man died of fractured skull$

Melanie Damishana man died of fractured skull

Aug 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Melanie Damishana man died of fractured skull

A post mortem examination performed yesterday on the remains of 19-year-old Dennis Richard, who was suspected to have been beaten to death, revealed that he died of brain haemorrhage and a fractured...

Keith Semple returns to local action today

Aug 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Keith Semple returns to local action today

MSC battle DCC in ‘Old School’ cricket match Former West Indies batsman Keith Semple will be among the past and present National cricketers who will be in action from noon today at the DCC ground...

Alpha United Carifesta Football Festival

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Double header under lights this evening at Plaisance The Alpha United Football Club’s Carifesta Football tournament continues this evening with what is anticipated to be a pulsating ‘double...

Digicel Caribbean Championship

Aug 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Caribbean Championship

‘Golden Jaguars’ Roar to 3-0 win over Dominica The Lights at the Guyana National stadium Providence was christened in fine style last evening when the ‘Golden Jaguars’ whipped Dominica 3-0 in...

MCY&S junior football camp concludes at Mahaicony

Aug 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on MCY&S junior football camp concludes at Mahaicony

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport Junior football camp in Mahaicony concluded yesterday at the Mahaicony Community Centre ground. Over its five day duration, the camp, conducted by the...

Pepsi Sonics Basketball Clinic ends

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Deemed a success despite low turnout Some forty-three school boys and girls benefited from the Pepsi Sonics Basketball Clinic which ended yesterday after two weeks, at the National Gymnasium. The...

$100,000 1st prise up for grabs in DCMCO softball cricket tourney

Aug 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on $100,000 1st prise up for grabs in DCMCO softball cricket tourney

Teams urged to register early By Sean Devers The District of Columbia Metro Cultural Organisation (DCMCO) which is based in Maryland, USA is hosting a 15-overs Softball cricket competition for teams...

BFA Coca Cola Senior League

Aug 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on BFA Coca Cola Senior League

Wins for Cougars, Rosignol, New Amsterdam and Monedderlust Cougars recorded the largest margin of victory, an 8-1 whipping of Brazilla at the Rosignol ground when rivalry in the Berbice Football...

Trophy Stall MYO Inter Jamaat Cricket

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Competition in the Trophy Stall sponsored Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) Inter Jamaat 10 overs tapeball cricket tournament is set to continue tomorrow at the MYO ground with four matches. MYO and...

Minister Frank Anthony made a huge mistake

Aug 09, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Minister Frank Anthony made a huge mistake

Dr. Frank Anthony has made a huge mistake in his political career. Once he was contesting the PPP congressional elections, he should not have been chairman of the credentials committee. Alan Munroe...

WHATEVER HAPPENEND TO DURBAN PARK?

Aug 09, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHATEVER HAPPENEND TO DURBAN PARK?

A few years ago, it was announced that some $90 million was finally being spent to restore D’Urban Park. Work did commence, and afterwards the area was flattened of its overgrowth. I do not know...

Hypocrisy abounds on the issue of alcohol consumption

Aug 09, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Hypocrisy abounds on the issue of alcohol consumption

DEAR EDITOR, The joint promotions of Banks Beer and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport is a symbol of the hypocrisy which governs our social attitudes to drinking in Guyana. The Ministry of...

GSPCA should have dealt with Ms Manbodh differently

Aug 09, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on GSPCA should have dealt with Ms Manbodh differently

DEAR EDITOR, It was extremely shocking to see the letter written by The Executive of the GSPCA chastising Ms Syaeda Manbodh. If, as they said, her letter to the newspapers was misleading the public,...

Tinsarran completely missed the point

Aug 09, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Tinsarran completely missed the point

DEAR EDITOR, I am somewhat, but not very, surprised that Mr. Navindo Tinsarran (“An absurd, insolent comparison,” 07/08/08) missed the point of Mr. Khan’s letter (Noise pollution perennial on...

Illogicality has far outweighed commonsense in this situation

Aug 09, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Illogicality has far outweighed commonsense in this situation

DEAR EDITOR, A seemingly deliberate act of neglect by a Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) has caused me to muse on the possible real motive behind such a dereliction of duty. Indeed, I am unable...

Can PPP supporters pressure the party to pick their choice for President?

Aug 09, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Can PPP supporters pressure the party to pick their choice for President?

DEAR EDITOR: After storming out of a PPP leadership meeting and reportedly shouting, “I done with you all,” or words to that effect, and then receiving a letter from the party’s General...

SUICIDE

Aug 09, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on SUICIDE

Suicide is now not just a rural problem, even though the incidence of persons within the countryside taking their lives is still very much higher than in the urban centres. Suicide is now a major...

Container truck downs two poles, car damaged

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2006 Auditor General’s report states Govt. abuses public funds…

Aug 08, 2008 knews News Comments Off on 2006 Auditor General’s report states Govt. abuses public funds…

Billions unaccounted for Despite the fact that the Auditor General Report for Guyana came in one year late, it has proved to be very revealing. The report on the audited public accounts of Guyana and...

Men batter 19-year-old to death

Aug 08, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Men batter 19-year-old to death

Dennis Richards, called Junior, 19, was sitting on the verandah of his Enterprise Gardens home when he was called out by a group of friends. A few minutes later, his girlfriend, Simone Trotman,...

Lindo Creek killings…

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Teen gang member nabbed near Ituni Police have detained a 16-year-old boy who they believe has vital information about the slaughter of the eight miners at Lindo Creek last June. Kaieteur News...

Legislations tabled for…

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Wiretapping and plea bargaining Legislation to order wiretapping, as well as to allow persons accused of committing offences to enter into plea bargaining for a reduced sentence, among others, was...

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GBF names boys’ and girls’ teams for Inter-Guiana Games...

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) has named its boys’ and girls’ teams for the basketball competition at the 2026 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG), scheduled for October 23–25...

The politics of a box of cook-up

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – During the PNC era, a gentleman who had been persuaded to participate in one of the many marches organised by the government received a box of food at the end of the proceedings. He opened it. Inside was cook-up rice and a generous piece of chicken. There was only one small...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

The Great Game: right around here

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana now has more than oil in its hands. Guyana has a strain of this century’s Great Game now hanging over its head. It’s not the Great Game played out by Britain and Imperial Russia almost 200 years ago for dominance in Central Asia. Wish it was that distant, and...

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