November 2008

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Bishop leads Holmes Street triumph in Guinness football competition

Nov 23, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Bishop leads Holmes Street triumph in Guinness football competition

National midfield player Shawn Bishop led Holmes Street, Tiger Bay to a 1-0 win over Charles Street as play in the Guinness “Greatest in De Street” four-a-side football competition kicked off...

Merundoi preview

Nov 23, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Merundoi preview

Determination is the buzz word this week in Merundoi! Anil’s fight with Tiger has more repercussions as Sonny is not prepared to let it go and so Anil storms out of the house. Guess where he’s...

National coach confident as volleyballers prepare for Inter-Guiana Games

Nov 23, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on National coach confident as volleyballers prepare for Inter-Guiana Games

By Michael Benjamin Guyana’s male and female U-19 volleyball team leave Guyana next Wednesday for French Guiana, to participate in the Tri-nation, Inter-Guiana Games Volleyball Championships,...

The Baccoo speaks

Nov 23, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

The last of the electrocutions for this year will occur east of the city and this will not be a judicial execution. It is amazing that of all the dangerous things people treat electricity as though...

From ‘drug addict’ to useful comedian

Nov 23, 2008 knews News Comments Off on From ‘drug addict’ to useful comedian

By Alex Wayne Even a drug addict can become a man of phenomenal value if given the correct treatment, love and much needed supervision for rehabilitation. Kirk ‘Chow Pow’ Jardine, who is one of...

Yuh stupidy or wha?

Nov 23, 2008 knews Features / Columnists 1

The Parrot always hears stupid questions being asked. Actually I love to hear them. What I hate sometimes are the replies. Somehow people don’t respond “appropriately”; by this I mean with a...

Attempted N/A jail break…

Nov 23, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Attempted N/A jail break…

Six prisoners to be charged Charges are likely to be instituted against some six inmates of the New Amsterdam Prison in connection with last Saturday’s attempted jailbreak. Contrary to earlier...

NBS contributes to North Essequibo Cricket

Nov 23, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on NBS contributes to North Essequibo Cricket

Friday at a simple ceremony, the New Building Society, Essequibo branch, located in Richmond Village, Essequibo Coast made a contribution of two hundred thousand dollars towards the staging of a...

‘I am ready to go’ – Minister Jeffrey

Nov 22, 2008 knews News 19

“President Jagdeo told me if I cannot support the Government’s position on the EPA, then I should leave the Cabinet,” Minister of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation, Dr. Henry...

Coast Guard rank,friends arrested with stolen army weapon

Nov 22, 2008 knews News 4

The M35 Browning pistol that was recently stolen from an army vessel has been recovered. Army sources say that the weapon and 12 matching rounds were found yesterday in the possession of a Coast...

Fidelity Polar beer probe…

Nov 22, 2008 knews News 1

Charges recommended for 13 more Customs officers The Director of Public Prosecutions is expected to advise shortly on a report prepared by a Presidential commission that was set up to investigate the...

Attempted N/A jail break…

Nov 22, 2008 knews News 4

Woman charged for taking in hacksaw blade One woman has been remanded to prison after being charged in connection with last Saturday’s attempted jailbreak at the New Amsterdam Prisons. Rookmin...

USS Kearsarge medical team saves Moruca girl

Nov 22, 2008 knews News 4

…helicopter was blessing in disguise – brother This past Tuesday, November 18, pilots from the U.S. Marine Heavy Helicopter (HMH) Squadron 464, currently embarked aboard the USS Kearsarge...

National Week of Testing…

Nov 22, 2008 knews News Comments Off on National Week of Testing…

11,584 tested, 98 found to be positive More than 10,000 persons were tested for HIV during this week, surpassing the target set by the Ministry of Health and the National AIDS Programme...

City Hall may halt construction of controversial building in Subryanville

Nov 22, 2008 knews News Comments Off on City Hall may halt construction of controversial building in Subryanville

Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green has said that his officers are trying to ascertain whether or not the developer is building the structure in conformity with the plan submitted to the Central Planning...

Access roads to Berbice Bridge far from completion

Nov 22, 2008 knews News 1

The access roads to the Berbice River Bridge will not be fully completed for the opening of the bridge in December. Yesterday, a source close to the project confirmed that while vehicles will be able...

Oil price plummets to below $US50 per barrel…

Nov 22, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Oil price plummets to below $US50 per barrel…

AFC adamant that December electricity rates should reflect this …but PNCR demands immediate reduction Alliance For Change Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan, says that in light of the fact that the...

UPS drug bust defendants remanded

Nov 22, 2008 knews News 1

– Jamaican national in lineup Despite relentless arguments by defence lawyers Vic Puran and Glenn Hanoman, Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton remanded two women in connection with the drug...

Police First Aid competition… ‘B’ Division wins Smellie Cup

Nov 22, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Police First Aid competition… ‘B’ Division wins Smellie Cup

For the second year in a row, the ‘B’ Division Team has taken home the gold in the Guyana Police Force First Aid Competition for the Smellie Cup; and the captain of that team, Lance...

USS Kearsarge wraps up humanitarian mission

Nov 22, 2008 knews News 1

Some organisations that have benefited from the USS Kearsarge ‘Continuing Promise 2008’ have officially had their projects handed over to them. Yesterday, the Houston Community High...

Another Kearsarge project nears completion

Nov 22, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Another Kearsarge project nears completion

Yesterday, soldiers of the USS Kearsarge engineering team were busy applying the finishing touches to the East Ruimveldt Community Centre. On site, engineers were seen filling potholes at the...

Fruta EBFA under 13 league launched

Nov 22, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Fruta EBFA under 13 league launched

13 clubs to vie for top spot By Michael Benjamin Following a two year hiatus, and under a newly elected executive committee, football returns to the East Bank Demerara after the timely corporate...

Reports on GOAL Project groundless – Jones

Nov 22, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Reports on GOAL Project groundless – Jones

By Rawle Welch Barbados Football Association (BFA) President Ronald Jones came out in defence of his beleaguered counterpart Colin Klass, who has been accused by some sections of the society of...

Breeze Dream Shopping Spree draws winners

Nov 22, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Breeze Dream Shopping Spree draws winners

This month’s winners of the ‘Breeze Dream Shopping Spree’ were yesterday drawn, and the six winners are Kamela Luckhoo of 27 Friendship, East Bank Demerara; Chatmatie Muthu of 12 Soesdyke;...

R&F Mining sponsors Motor Bike for 19th K&S MVP

Nov 22, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on R&F Mining sponsors Motor Bike for 19th K&S MVP

The Most Valuable Player of the 19th Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) knock-out Football Extravaganza will ride away with one brand new JH 125 Motor Bike compliments of R&F Mining Company. At a...

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2026 IMC Over-40’s World Cup… Akmal/Ghani fifties push...

Oct 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Adnan Akmal and Sheharyar Ghani punched fifties to help Pakistan rally to a 7-wicket win over India when World Cup action continued yesterday at the Guyana National Stadium,...

Either way Rodrigues-Birkett cannot lose

Oct 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett was thrust unexpectedly and suddenly into the contest for the position of United Nations Secretary-General. A woman presently occupies an important diplomatic post – Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations – was nominated belatedly...

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...

Jagdeo’s funeral march symphony Part II

Oct 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s number one political detector of danger, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, attended an evening of reflection for Mr. Robert Corbin, one-time deputy prime minister and opposition leader. In trademark fashion, he came armed with his own classical composition: the Jagdeo...

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