October 28, 2008

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Berbice Diwali Motorcade

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Guyana/Suriname river tragedy…

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Last Victim’s body found Henry Gonsalves, Roy Ramdass laid to rest The body of the last known missing person from the ill-fated passenger boat which sank in the Corentyne River last Friday has been...

Army questions woman, grenade-toting lieutenant

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Top army officials yesterday arranged a confrontation between the Anira Street resident and the lieutenant who had allegedly threatened to bomb the woman’s home. Police also took a statement from...

Bent Street killing

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Suspect says accomplice slit driver’s throat over fare A prime suspect in the Sunday night murder of taxi driver Vibert Assanah, 58, is claiming that an associate slit Assanah’s throat during an...

Teen gets 61 years jail

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Escaped prisoner Theon Smith, 17, who also goes by several other aliases, was yesterday sentenced to 61 years’ imprisonment when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. Smith...

Barry Dataram saga…

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Lawyers, Attorney General make final arguments Attorneys-at-law Vic Puran and Glen Hanoman, the attorneys for Barry Dataram, and the Attorney General Doodnauth Singh made their final arguments...

Essequibo teen runs away from home

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The parents of 15-year-old Amrita Layne are pleading for her safe return home, after she left for school on Wednesday and never returned home. According to the teen’s mother, Dhanmattie Mohabir, of...

Barama yet to fulfill conditions under tax and duty concessions

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Despite benefiting from tax and duty concessions, it is disappointing to note that the veneer plant to be set up by Barama Company Limited is yet to be installed, according to Minister of Agriculture...

Alpha successfully defend Cellink Premier League Championship

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Edge Sunburst Camptown on goals, both teams end with 30 points By Franklin Wilson The second annual Cellink Premier League Championship ended in classical style on Sunday evening when defending...

SLEEPING IS A THING OF BEAUTY

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Word is out that if you fall asleep on the job, Kaieteur News will publish your photograph on the front page. Ever since this newspaper published on its front page a photograph of senior operative of...

Victim of acid attack loses eye but glad to be alive

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Colin Benjamin, 44, is counting his lucky stars after he survived an acid attack some two weeks ago. According to Benjamin, he was out partying with friends at Demico House on the evening of the...

Linden clean sweep Georgetown

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-Trinidadian Lewis voted MVP By Rawle Welch Even one of the biggest crowds to descend at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall for sometime could not rally a visibly rusty and uninspiring Georgetown senior...

Outdated court rules partly responsible for backlog

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Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) representative Marco Nicola has said that the justice sector is a key factor in Guyana’s competitiveness programme. He contends that the independence of the...

MSC Carib Sixes 1st division cricket

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Party-like atmosphere anticipated at Malteenoes today A party-like atmosphere for the entire family is anticipated today as most of Guyana’s top cricketers aim to light up the Malteenoes ground on...

Diwali Scrabble tourney to be contested today

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A keen contest is anticipated when the country’s top scrabble players converge this morning at the Court’s Sports Club, Main Street, Georgetown for the Open Diwali Competition, sponsored by the...

Women rob clothes vendor

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– make off with cash, jewellery and bank card Sharda Gobin, of Lot 8 Riverview, Ruimveldt, wept hysterically when she related that two women robbed her of cash, a bank card and a gold ring on...

Guyana men and women crowned Caribbean Sevens champions

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– fails to make it to World Cup finals in Dubai Guyana men and women were crowned Caribbean Sevens Rugby Champions at the Winton Park Rugby ground in Nassau, Bahamas. This is the third year in...

Water wastage continues…

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‘I don’t know where we are heading with this’ – Karan Singh Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), Karan Singh, has said that Guyanese continue to predominantly waste...

Ansa Mc Al Trading RHTY&SC ten/10 cricket

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Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar advance to final, Albion beat Bermine Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) overcame early jitters to arrest Police by 26 runs to secure a place in the finals...

GTM contributes to Malika’s surgery

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The Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Group of Companies [GTM], in keeping with its policy of assisting the less fortunate, has made another financial donation. This time, the...

Cancer patient commits suicide at GPHC

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Pandemonium broke out at the Georgetown Public Hospital in the wee hours of yesterday when a patient of the institution stabbed himself in the neck four times, shortly after 02:00 hours. Reports are...

Reflecting on the past

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Dear Editor„ The melody from the theme song for CARIFESTA 2008 sung by our youthful Lisa Punch, is excellent. It was played incessantly, and rightly so, before and during the festival; and it still...

Weightlifter Cozier cops three bronze in Puerto Rico Games

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Following a superb display of raw power and determination, national weightlifter, Sean Cozier, competing in the 94kg class, lifted a total of 265kgs to capture three bronze medals in the Criolla Cup...

It is high time the CARIFESTA Secretariat pays for services rendered

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Dear Editor, This is a most shameful and outrageous act by the Ministry of Culture and the CARIFESTA Secretariat to withhold payments for services rendered for the CARIFESTA X events. At a time when...

Mackeson Senior League

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Ann’s Grove maul Black Stallion, Victoria Kings edge Plaisance Ann’s Grove mauled Black Stallion 4-0, while Victoria Kings edged Plaisance by the odd goal in three when rivalry in the Mackeson /...

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Bayroc National Stadium Guyana’s only World Athletic-certified

Aug 15, 2026

By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur Sports) The Bayroc National Stadium in Linden has emerged as Guyana’s only track and field facility currently listed as certified by World Athletics. According to track and...

Guyana should refuse to become an accomplice in the suffocation of...

Aug 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) For months now Cuba has been under U.S. pressure. It is being starved of the resources it needs for energy in the face of the collapse of its electricity grid. And only a handful of individual and groups in Guyana have been brave enough to come forward and to condemn the imperialist...

Nicaragua’s Abandoned Ballot: What the OAS Can and Cannot Do

Aug 02, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Daniel Ortega has now said openly what his regime has demonstrated for years: the people of Nicaragua are not to be permitted to remove their rulers through elections. During celebrations marking the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, Ortega...

CCJ President should take the wise step

Aug 15, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) I think that CCJ President, Dr. Winston Anderson, has only one option. My recommendation is that he tenders. From what is now concretised in the public record, most likely throughout the region, he is radioactive. If the allegations were from one colleague, I...

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