August 2008

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Ex-convict jailed for stealing exhaust

Aug 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Ex-convict jailed for stealing exhaust

After admitting to stealing a truck exhaust and informing the court that he served time previously for theft, Satyesh Johan was sent to prison once again and urged to change his ways. Johan made his...

FFP supports ‘Grow More’ campaign

Aug 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on FFP supports ‘Grow More’ campaign

Several local farming groups and the Environmental Committee Health Organisation (ECHO) were yesterday presented with a quantity of farming equipment compliments of Food for the Poor Guyana Inc. The...

Wortmanville residents undertake community enhancement

Aug 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Wortmanville residents undertake community enhancement

Carifesta preparation in the city has been significantly boosted by the efforts of residents living in Wortmanville, and according to Minister of Culture Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony, during a...

Yonex record mixed fortunes on T&T tour

Aug 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Yonex record mixed fortunes on T&T tour

Yonex Badminton Club Junior Team lost then won in their latest matches in the Inter Club Round Robin Tournament being played in Trinidad and Tobago. Tuesday they lost to Shuttle Force Badminton Club...

GSL Banks DIH 15-over Softball cricket tournament

Aug 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GSL Banks DIH 15-over Softball cricket tournament

Good Fortuin win lone game played last weekend Only one game was possible when play continued last Sunday in the Guyana Softball League Banks DIH sponsored 15-over Softball cricket tournament. The...

Registration for ECCB Academy set for tomorrow at the Lusignan

Aug 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Registration for ECCB Academy set for tomorrow at the Lusignan

The opening ceremony of the East Coast Cricket Board’s Annual Academy for young people will take place at the Lusignan Community Centre on Monday, August 11, 2008 at 10.00 a.m. The theme for the...

Sports Ministry, NSC express condolences to family of the late Edward Singh

Aug 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Sports Ministry, NSC express condolences to family of the late Edward Singh

The ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the National Sports Commission (NSC) expressed sincere sympathy to the family and friends of the late Edward Ramkarran Singh who passed away, at age 50,...

Guyana Karate team invited for ISKF World Shoto Cup tourney

Aug 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Karate team invited for ISKF World Shoto Cup tourney

The Guyana Japan Karate Association received an invitation from the International Shotokan Karate Federation of Canada to participate in the 2008 ISKF World Shoto Cup which will be held in Toronto,...

Guyana to host ITTF Level 1 Coaching and Women’s Forum

Aug 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana to host ITTF Level 1 Coaching and Women’s Forum

The Guyana table Tennis Association will be hosting an International Table Tennis Federation level one (1) coaching and women’s development programme schedule to commence at 10:30am and will run...

Suriname using DCC as warm up for World Cup match against Haiti

Aug 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Suriname using DCC as warm up for World Cup match against Haiti

Suriname’s Head Coach Jaliens Kenneth says that they will be using the Digicel Caribbean Championship (DCC) as warm up for their all important World Cup Qualifying match up against DCC defending...

Wheat Up cycle road race set for Sunday

Aug 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Wheat Up cycle road race set for Sunday

The Annual Wheat Up cycling road race sponsored by National Milling Company (NAMILCO) will take place on Sunday starting at 08:00 hours. The Race will roll off from Namilco head office at Agricola...

Shabazz and staff impressed with young players in training

Aug 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Shabazz and staff impressed with young players in training

Technical Director of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Jamaal Shabazz said he and his staff are very impressed with the commitment of the young players drafted into the senior squad preparing for...

A commendable response

Aug 07, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on A commendable response

DEAR EDITOR, As an update, I wish to commend GT&T for promptly responding to my concerns. Following the visit of a technician, the issue relating to the phone cards was rectified, though the...

An absurd, insolent comparison

Aug 07, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on An absurd, insolent comparison

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to the letter “Noise pollution perennial on the Essequibo Coast” (Kaieteur News 04/08/08). Mr. Khan considers the “sermons of priests” as “lawlessness” and believes...

Some things in life are difficult to fathom

Aug 07, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Some things in life are difficult to fathom

DEAR EDITOR, The way our law and order functions is definitely one, and finding a sober reason why some people in position of authority do what they do is another. Often times, the things that we see...

Fatal road accidents still a great distress

Aug 07, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Fatal road accidents still a great distress

DEAR EDITOR, The increase in the number of fatal road accidents is still a great distress to our country as it further reduces the already low population numbers we have here in Guyana (a population...

Every sane Guyanese should be wary of President’s Chavez’s carrot stick diplomacy

Aug 07, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Every sane Guyanese should be wary of President’s Chavez’s carrot stick diplomacy

DEAR EDITOR, I continue to believe the letters columns in the private media serve an extremely useful purpose for Guyanese who have views to share, concerns to be raised and questions to be answered....

Witness to dictatorship

Aug 07, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on Witness to dictatorship

Alexander Solzhenitsyn is dead at the age of 89. Maybe not many Guyanese know of him and this is a pity. He has been called the greatest Russian writer of the twentieth century and in 1970 won the...

The PPP congress: 15% is alarming

Aug 07, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PPP congress: 15% is alarming

In countless columns, my analytical position on congressional voting in both parties, PPP and PNC, is that it is not a wholly democratic process. By this I do not mean lobbying. To canvass for votes...

The 29th Congress did choose the PPP presidential candidate

Aug 07, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The 29th Congress did choose the PPP presidential candidate

The 29th Congress of the ruling People’s Progressive Party is over and very little has changed. True, a plagiarist has been appointed to the Central Committee, and true there were some surprises...

Jagdeo Third Term… Out of the question-Corbin

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Jagdeo Third Term… Out of the question-Corbin

A suggestion by the People’s Progressive Party’s member, Reepu Daman Persaud to seek to have the Constitution of Guyana amended to have President Bharrat Jagdeo serve a third term in office...

Six charged with Lusignan murder

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Six charged with Lusignan murder

Six men, including three brothers and their father, were remanded to prison when they appeared before Magistrate Yohanseh Cave at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court charged with the murder of...

Little Diamond tragedy… Alcohol, speeding blamed for fiery deaths

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Little Diamond tragedy… Alcohol, speeding blamed for fiery deaths

Relatives of Sachin Singh and Wajeed Shaw were yesterday still unable to accept the fact that the two young friends had died in the horrific pre-dawn crash at Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara. But...

Non-receipt of EPA permit delays Marriott

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Non-receipt of EPA permit delays Marriott

…environmental study to be completed in one month’s time Adam Development/Urbahn Associates, LTD (ADUA), in a statement yesterday, announced that the sod-turning ceremony to mark the start of...

Nude body found in Skeldon backlands

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Nude body found in Skeldon backlands

– victim may have been sodomised The nude decomposed body of a man suspected to be of East Indian ancestry was discovered yesterday in the Number 69 Village, Corentyne backlands about half mile...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, – The two-day racing extravaganza that kicks off an action-packed month of motorsport starts today at the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) Thomaslands venue...

Punctuality is now a problem in Georgetown Schools

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(Kaieteur News) – Every school day in the city, in almost every ward, you can see scores of school children – dressed in their uniforms – ambling to school after 9:00am. The casualness of these children suggests that punctuality is no longer important to them or to their parents. But it does...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

UGGI Survey: Pt. IV

Jun 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – This is the last commentary on the University of Guyana Green Institute (UGGI) Independence 60 Survey titled: Guyana at 60: Trust, Oil, and the Society being Built. Today’s focus goes beyond the two bottom performing areas of “national government” and “foreign oil...

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