December 2008

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Health sector turns to retired nursing tutors – Dr Ramsarran

Dec 11, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Health sector turns to retired nursing tutors – Dr Ramsarran

The unavailability of a sufficient number of tutors to deliver courses within the nursing programme curriculum is currently being addressed by the Ministry of Health. The focus in this regard,...

Parents are neglecting their children

Dec 11, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Parents are neglecting their children

A few days ago, I saw a group of small boys roaming the streets. The look on their faces announced that they were up to mischief. They began by pelting a dog walking aimlessly on the road. Then they...

Rain, littering and floods

Dec 11, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on Rain, littering and floods

Now that the rains have indubitably arrived in what is supposed to be our season of merriment and joy, the early indications from the first downpours seem to indicate that we have not really learnt...

Soldiers missing after Cuyuni River mishap

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Soldiers missing after Cuyuni River mishap

The Guyana Defence Force has launched a search for two army ranks who are missing following a boat mishap in the Cuyuni River last Tuesday night. One of the missing ranks has been identified as...

Mob kills South Ruimveldt man on his way home

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Mob kills South Ruimveldt man on his way home

…killers identified as community police The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Hardel Haynes, 43, an electrician of Spurwing Drive, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown....

Electricity bill remains high

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Electricity bill remains high

– GPL official Oil prices on the world market have plummeted to close to $US40 per barrel, but it is unlikely that there will be a reduction in electricity rates charged by the Guyana Power and...

Murdered politician’s computer recovered

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Murdered politician’s computer recovered

– youth implicates friend Detectives have found the computer that was stolen from the home of National Front Alliance (NFA) executive member Fiesal Ferose Ali, who was brutally murdered in his...

Guyana’s last cinema gets innovative to stay in business

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Guyana’s last cinema gets innovative to stay in business

– rents out to churches, offers big-screen advertising to businesses By Michael Jordan After over five decades in existence, Guyana’s only remaining cinema is battling to stay in business,...

Contractor’s waste may cause City Hall to take action

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Contractor’s waste may cause City Hall to take action

The Mayor and City Council of Georgetown is set to take affirmative action against the contractor carrying out construction work at the old Radio Demerara Site, which according to City Mayor Hamilton...

Telethon goes to the aid of 12-year-old

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Telethon goes to the aid of 12-year-old

A second surgery has become necessary to remove a recurring tumour aback the right eye of 12-year-old Tionne Jones of Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara. On Monday, in a quest to solicit needed...

Couple remanded for trying to ‘con’Courts

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Couple remanded for trying to ‘con’Courts

A couple who probably wanted to “fancy up” their home for the Christmas holiday was remanded to prison after a court appearance before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. It was alleged...

Space is a serious issue at nursing schools – Dr Ramsarran

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Space is a serious issue at nursing schools – Dr Ramsarran

The overcrowding situation at the country’s nursing schools is perhaps one of the prices that the Ministry of Health must pay in its quest for further development of the health sector. This...

East Bank residents face water woes

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on East Bank residents face water woes

Malfunctioning wells along East Bank Demerara are causing great inconvenience to many residents who have to go without water. On Monday, residents of Grove, Bagotstown, Diamond and other villages...

What a travesty?

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on What a travesty?

Ex-presidential guard on $200,000 bail for larceny

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Ex-presidential guard on $200,000 bail for larceny

Ex-presidential guard Reginald Brown was yesterday granted $200,000 bail by acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson for allegedly stealing one Hilux pick-up, PGG 8348, property of Kalmia Mohamed,...

Suspected trunker removed from streets

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Suspected trunker removed from streets

A serial break and enter specialist was yesterday remanded to prison, after he pleaded not guilty to stealing one handbag and other items valuing $48,000, property of Nalima, on July 31. Acting Chief...

Digicel’s Christmas wish for SMS interconnection may not be granted

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Digicel’s Christmas wish for SMS interconnection may not be granted

Digicel Guyana may not be getting its Christmas wish of having Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) opening up text messaging between Digicel and GT&T networks in time for Christmas....

Guyanese charged with having sex with underage girl in BVI

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Guyanese charged with having sex with underage girl in BVI

A 30-year-old Guyanese man, Dillon Bevon Williams, who has been living in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) for approximately three years, was charged with having sex with a girl under the age of 16....

Exotic dancer fined after smashing windscreen

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Exotic dancer fined after smashing windscreen

“Ya Worship, I want you remember me when you eating your black cake this Christmas,” were the words of Wayne Walkins, 32, of 3416 Stevedore Housing Scheme, after he was sentenced by acting Chief...

No operations disrupted

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on No operations disrupted

-Deputy Commissioner General Last Thursday’s fire at the Guyana Revenue Authority Office in the Guyana Post Office Corporation Building in no way hampered any of the Revenue Authority’s...

NCN spearheads gift collection for less fortunate

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on NCN spearheads gift collection for less fortunate

As children around the world look forward to receiving toys and goodies during the Christmas season, there are families right here in Guyana who cannot afford to purchase any of these for their kids....

Beneficiaries seem disinterested — Kenneth Joseph

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Beneficiaries seem disinterested — Kenneth Joseph

The workers who have been separated from the Guyana Power and Light Company as part of the company’s rationalisation exercise seem not to be interested in the Information Technology programme which...

Special group seeks to give prisoners’children a good Christmas

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Special group seeks to give prisoners’children a good Christmas

The Women’s Ministries, the Prison Fellowship International and the Personal Ministries Department of the Guyana Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, in collaboration with the Guyana Prison...

Prisoners in knife fight still hospitalised

Dec 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Prisoners in knife fight still hospitalised

– one still critical Randy Joseph, 25, who was stabbed in his chest by another inmate at the Georgetown Prison, was still in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s intensive...

Weather will not be a challenge this year – Kashif Muhammad

Dec 10, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Weather will not be a challenge this year – Kashif Muhammad

With the 19th Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) football tournament set to start this Sunday at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in Linden, Director of the organisation Kashif Muhammad says that the rain...

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Age-Defying Tahir sets sights on CPL glory for Guyana Amazon Warriors

Sep 16, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL… – says not crossing finish line now, a waste of hard work By Clifton Ross (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Amazon Warriors have done it again, securing yet...

If you want to stop corruption, start at the top

Sep 16, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is nothing wrong with warning public officials that procurement breaches will have consequences. In fact, it is long overdue that every person entrusted with public money understands that the public purse is not a personal purse. But there is a fundamental question which...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Music lovers treated with kid gloves, coddled

Sep 16, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyanese love their music. I do, too. The problem is that Guyanese love their music much too much. It’s a big problem, a national one. Citizens clash with members of the Guyana Police Force trying to do their job, establish sanity around the Kitty area. Citizens in...

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