December 2008

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Nabaclis house collapses with family inside

Dec 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Nabaclis house collapses with family inside

While most people are busy cleaning their homes, preparing for the Christmas holidays, Ann Waldrond and her eight children are thanking their saviour for sparing their lives after their two-bedroom...

Christmas shopping intensifies in city

Dec 07, 2008 knews News 1

The much anticipated day to mark the birth of Jesus Christ is just about 18 days away and Christmas shoppers are hastening to cash in on the many bargains around the city. The capital city was a hive...

The more things change, the more they remain the same

Dec 07, 2008 knews Letters 1

Dear Editor, For many years, I’ve had nothing but admiration for the United States’ financial system. I went around, like so many others, proclaiming it to be the gold standard of capitalism. Was...

Disability Week concludes with concert

Dec 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Disability Week concludes with concert

The curtain came down on the observance of National Week for Persons with Disability yesterday with a simple concert at the National Gymnasium. The event, which kicked off just around 15:30 hours,...

Bisram’s utopia can be another group’s hell

Dec 07, 2008 knews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Vishnu Bisram, in his analysis of whether former British Colonial Territories were better off as independent nations, cites the conclusions of the late Professor William McCord that only...

Berbice River Bridge to be closed to navigation

Dec 07, 2008 knews News 1

The main navigation channel through the retractor span of the Berbice River Bridge will be closed to navigation from Monday to Christmas Eve. In a notice issued to the public, the Berbice Bridge...

Water woes at McDoom

Dec 07, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Water woes at McDoom

Dear Editor, I am living in McDoom, East Bank, Demerara. Every single month the water pump has a problem; always breaking down and no senior person at GWI is saying anything. Whenever this happens,...

Jonestown shrine would be better placed at Port Kaituma

Dec 07, 2008 knews Letters 2

Dear Editor, I read with interest an article appearing in Kaieteur News, dated Monday, November 17th 2008, wherein an idea was expressed, which I think is a very good one, to erect a shrine/monument...

We must bring closure to this episode, and make sense of the pardon(s) graciously granted by our President

Dec 07, 2008 knews Letters 2

Dear Editor, We should all compliment His Excellency, the President, for pardoning both Mark Benschop last year and Phillip Bynoe recently. The statement by Phillip Bynoe is of course interesting,...

The betrayal of our senior citizens

Dec 07, 2008 knews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Largely because of the progress in the treatment of certain diseases associated with aging, the life expectancy of senior citizens has risen considerably. As a consequence, since the...

NAME AND SHAME

Dec 07, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on NAME AND SHAME

The government should not allow itself to be drawn into any name and shame campaign so as to force businesses to reduce prices. The Government of Guyana should avoid the compulsion to enter into such...

The rains are here but no flooding

Dec 07, 2008 knews Features / Columnists 1

The rains are here and given the experience of 2005 when heavy rains created havoc with national life to the extent that there were fears that the sea defence would collapse, people are once more...

Eight teams advance to quarter- finals

Dec 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Eight teams advance to quarter- finals

By Franklin Wilson Half of the teams who made it to the group of sixteen round in the inaugural Guinness ‘Greatest of de Street’ Football competition have been knocked out with the others...

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Johnson named in Guyana team for first two Carib Beer matches

Dec 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Johnson named in Guyana team for first two Carib Beer matches

National squad to begin encampment from Tuesday By Sean Devers The Guyana senior selectors have named West Indies left-hander Leon Johnson in a 13-man squad for the first two Carib Beer regional...

Guyanese Literature Junction

Dec 07, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Guyanese Literature Comments Off on Guyanese Literature Junction

by Petamber Persaud When the National Book Fair 2008 ended on Wednesday, December 3, at the Wisburg Secondary School in Wismar, Linden, there was a large degree of satisfaction mixed some amount of...

Ross cops 2nd at Musclemania World C/ships in Pro division

Dec 07, 2008 knews Sports 4

Guyana’s first professional Bodybuilder Hugh Ross has continued to keep the Golden arrowhead aloft by copping the runner spot from a field of 41 competitors at the Musclemania World...

Apologise? Compensate? Well, pardon me!

Dec 07, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Apologise? Compensate? Well, pardon me!

The Parrot read with interest the recent utterances of former treason accused, Phillip Bynoe, who was pardoned by Uncle Bharrat last week. Bynoe was in hiding for just over six years following the...

The Baccoo speaks

Dec 07, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

Every time it rains the idiots come out and create havoc. This time around they are going to seek out the trenches full of water to the detriment of their passengers because they simply cannot obey...

Ministry coach assisting K&S bound Lethem team

Dec 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Ministry coach assisting K&S bound Lethem team

Side to arrive in the City December 15 Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports football coach Dennis ‘Chow’ Hunte is currently in Lethem working with a representative team from the area,...

Alpha strengthening for K&S combat

Dec 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Alpha strengthening for K&S combat

Aiming for CONCACAF Club C/ships in 2K9 By Franklin Wilson They have conquered all and sundry on the local scene in what has been the most successful year of their 19 year history and Alpha ‘The...

Bad deals for whales and the Caribbean

Dec 07, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Bad deals for whales and the Caribbean

By Sir Ronald Sanders For several years, at the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the six independent countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and Suriname have...

The oil is ours

Dec 07, 2008 knews Peeping Tom 4

Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Chairman, Vision Guyana INTRODUCTION: Last year, right about this time, I first introduced the concept that any oil reserves we find in Guyana are that of the citizens, not...

DCC are Pepsi Cup GCA cricket champions

Dec 07, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on DCC are Pepsi Cup GCA cricket champions

Records victory against Everest in crucial last round match By Sean Devers Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) took the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Pepsi Cup 40-overs first division cricket...

Sustaining sugar in Demerara

Dec 07, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Sustaining sugar in Demerara

The inquiry into the precipitous fall in the production figures of the East Demerara plantations has been handed over to the Minister of Agriculture. While the details have not been released, his...

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Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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