December 2008

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19th edition of the Kashif and Shanghai football tournament

Dec 19, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on 19th edition of the Kashif and Shanghai football tournament

Alpha United drub Cougars 10-1, Fruta Conquerors edge Rupununi By Michael Benjamin Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United, led by an Elton Browne 5 goal blitz in the 54th, 57th, 71st, 76th and 80th...

So – No more Internet Calls – Why?

Dec 19, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on So – No more Internet Calls – Why?

Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Telecoms Issue 1: VOIP Guyana’s political framework as it relates to telecommunications industries is fully mercantilist and monopolistic and as a result stifles growth....

MCYS/NAPS host HIV/AIDS workshop for Lethem All Stars

Dec 19, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on MCYS/NAPS host HIV/AIDS workshop for Lethem All Stars

By Franklin Wilson The Lethem All Star football team, which lost a close battle to Fruta Conquerors in the Kashif & Shanghai match on Wednesday evening at the Plaisance ground, yesterday...

Axes in the rain

Dec 19, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Axes in the rain

The Parrot is not surprised at the way some local media houses report on particular issues. Very topical is the intense rainfall being experienced over the last few weeks. According to reports, this...

Women given Golden League boost

Dec 19, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Women given Golden League boost

Male and female athletes have been given an equal number of events in the lucrative 2009 Golden League series. The men’s events are the 100m, 400m, 3,000m 5,000m, 110m hurdles and javelin while the...

Is there a new Mark Benschop?

Dec 19, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Is there a new Mark Benschop?

In one of my columns, I repeated a rumour that was circulating that Mark Benschop had agreed to a covenant for his release on treason charges. That bond would be that he would eschew active political...

Bharrat ban shoes from he press conference

Dec 19, 2008 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Bharrat ban shoes from he press conference

Couple weeks back Roger de Lunch man announce big and bold that de government would hold one giant party fuh all dem public servants. That woulda mean that somebody woulda buy gallons of licker and...

Courtland All Star to host 20/20 cricket competition

Dec 19, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Courtland All Star to host 20/20 cricket competition

Courtland All Star Cricket Club of Courtland Village on the Corentyne will stage a 20/20 cricket competition on Sunday and Monday December 21 and 22 at the area ground. Several teams from the Berbice...

People are gearing for an even better Christmas

Dec 19, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on People are gearing for an even better Christmas

It is that time of the year when people from far and wide come home to celebrate a unique Christmas—the kind of Christmas that only Guyanese can make happen. No one who has lived in this country...

Khan General Store Softball cricket final

Dec 19, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Khan General Store Softball cricket final

Salim guides All Star to victory over Belle Plaine A fine allround performance by Abdool Salim guided All Star to a 27 run victory over Belle Plaine in the final of Wazir Khan’s General Store 15...

Investigate or misconception will rule

Dec 19, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Investigate or misconception will rule

Perhaps sports administrators need to do more to curb selfish ambitions in their quest to develop discipline among its membership in Guyana. The International Federations are international...

Making a difference at Christmas

Dec 19, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on Making a difference at Christmas

We are pleased to note that despite all the negative talk and the actual reality of a global economic slowdown that Guyanese are, from all indications, intent on having a great Christmas this year....

HAS ROBERT MET HIS WATERLOO?

Dec 19, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HAS ROBERT MET HIS WATERLOO?

I feel really sorry for the Minister of Agriculture Robert Montgomery Persaud. It does now look as if perhaps he has bitten off more than he can chew in relation to the agriculture sector. I did...

Yet another rape accused freed

Dec 19, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Yet another rape accused freed

The court has freed yet another rape accused, this time because the victim could not be located. The accused, Rawle Critchlow, was freed on Wednesday by Justice Winston Patterson. This newspaper...

Reduction of litter and waste requires cooperation of citizenry – EPA

Dec 19, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Reduction of litter and waste requires cooperation of citizenry – EPA

It is evident that reduction of litter or waste would depend on the cooperation of everyone and is beneficial at the national level. As such, citizens are once again reminded to be conscientious and...

DEA to analyse Simels computer

Dec 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on DEA to analyse Simels computer

…conversations with Roger Khan submitted The computer that was retrieved from the law offices of defendant Robert Simels has been turned over to the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s main...

Residents live in fear of derelict building

Dec 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Residents live in fear of derelict building

For the past seven years, some residents of Sandy Babb Street, Kitty, have been holding their breath and hoping that they will be spared damage to property, injury or even death from a derelict...

Jagdeo decides who gets TV/radio licences – NFMU

Dec 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Jagdeo decides who gets TV/radio licences – NFMU

The Minister of Information, a portfolio currently held by Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo, is responsible for the issuance of licence, according to the National Frequency Management Unit (NFMU). As...

Gunmen snatch millions from phone card dealer

Dec 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Gunmen snatch millions from phone card dealer

Two men on a motorcycle yesterday escaped with millions of dollars in cash after they held a phone card dealer at gunpoint on Mandela Avenue. Reports are that the incident occurred some time around...

Judge in Roger Khan case admits evidence from dead man’s wife

Dec 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Judge in Roger Khan case admits evidence from dead man’s wife

Judge Dora Irrizary in the Roger Khan drug trafficking case in New York will allow evidence to be tendered by the state that bodyguards of the alleged drug king pin had threatened the wife of...

Top Cop peeved that ranks continue to molest people for money

Dec 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Top Cop peeved that ranks continue to molest people for money

Acting Police Commissioner, Henry Greene, has warned that persons who engage in corrupting police officers through bribery for simple matters will suffer the same fate that befalls officers who are...

Ogle Airport expansion back on track

Dec 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Ogle Airport expansion back on track

The second phase of the Ogle Airport expansion project is now ready to proceed with financing arrangements completed to allow for the release of grant financing from the European Union totaling 1.5M...

Immigration rank, other man on bail for money charges

Dec 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Immigration rank, other man on bail for money charges

An Immigration rank was yesterday placed on $200,000 bail after he made his court appearance before Magistrate Nyasha Williams-Hatmin. It is alleged that Quincy Nelson, on November 28, last, at...

One in every 20 women is a wife by age 15 in Guyana

Dec 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on One in every 20 women is a wife by age 15 in Guyana

A survey conducted by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with the Bureau of Statistics in 2006 has found that one in every 20 women between the ages of 15 – 49 were married...

Increased waste forces M&CC to add five acres to dumpsite

Dec 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Increased waste forces M&CC to add five acres to dumpsite

The Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) has been forced to add five acres of cemetery land to the Le Repentir dumpsite in order to expand the capacity of the garbage dumping facility....

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St. Stanislaus, Essequibo Islands surge to huge wins

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Beharry U19 School’s T20 Cricket tournament… Kaieteur Sports – T20 School’s Under-19 cricket action continued yesterday on the West Side at the Uitvlugt Community Center Ground, with a few...

The great rediscovery

Jun 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There are few things more moving than a sudden conversion. Saul had his road to Damascus. St. Augustine heard a divine voice. And now thousands of overseas-based Guyanese are experiencing their own spiritual awakening. After decades of living in Brooklyn, Toronto, Miami,...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

Jun 21, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Local tolerance for bull-a beauty to behold

Jun 21, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese should get first prize for their tolerance for bull, their bottomless reservoir of docility. And humour. They have grown in those respects relative to their head-of-state. Whatever has taken over his head, the astonishing is what...

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