December 2008

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Murder charges reduced to manslaughter

Dec 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Murder charges reduced to manslaughter

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has instructed that the murder charges against three youths in the death of ex-convict Rickford Barker be reduced to manslaughter. This was announced on...

Bandits beat female victim with hammer

Dec 06, 2008 knews News 4

Bandits brazenly attacked and robbed 20-year-old Fiona Lam, last evening at her Lot 95 Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara home, and carted off an unknown amount of items. Kaieteur News understands that...

GT&T launches million-dollar Christmas promotions

Dec 06, 2008 knews News 1

The season for sharing and goodwill to people everywhere is here, and Christmas is a time that brings out the best in everyone. Telecommunications giant Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company...

Canada-CARICOM trade agreement ‘sideswiped by EPA’

Dec 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Canada-CARICOM trade agreement ‘sideswiped by EPA’

Canadian High Commissioner, Charles Court, has said that the Canada-CARICOM Foreign Trade Agreement (FTA) process has been sideswiped by the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Court was at the...

Protest at Chronicle fizzles

Dec 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Protest at Chronicle fizzles

Yesterday, some of the staff members of the Guyana Chronicle had planned protest action over a wage increase. Their protest fell short when, at 12:00 hours (the agreed time for the protest action to...

Little progress made to respect rights of disabled

Dec 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Little progress made to respect rights of disabled

“It might be a harsh judgement to say that Guyana has not made progress when it comes to disabled persons. There has been progress but we have not made the progress that we had anticipated...

Solid Waste Dept. intensifies cleaning efforts

Dec 06, 2008 knews News 1

The Solid Waste Department of the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown has expanded its cleansing tactics in order to ensure that the city is in an acceptable condition during the...

AIDS Secretariat honours voluntary counsellors, private organisations

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The Ministry of Health, through its National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS), on Thursday held its Annual Awards ceremony, at which it honoured voluntary counsellers and testers, and private sector...

Demerara Lioness Club hosts senior citizens

Dec 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Demerara Lioness Club hosts senior citizens

The Demerara Lioness Club yesterday held its annual Senior Citizens Care Day at the Botanical Gardens. According to the president, Mrs. Erena Persaud, the group has being doing this since 1989. She...

Beharry’s Chico Sweets sweetens 19th K&S tournament

Dec 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Beharry’s Chico Sweets sweetens 19th K&S tournament

For the third consecutive year, Beharry Group of Companies through their Chico Sweets brand will be supporting the annual Kashif and Shanghai Football tournament. Yesterday at a simple ceremony,...

Leon Grumble named Cellink Premier League MVP

Dec 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Leon Grumble named Cellink Premier League MVP

Football is probably one of the most important sports to Guyana – Robertson Leon Grumble, leading midfield player of Champion Team Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United, was voted the Most Valuable...

Health Ministry to conduct client satisfactory survey

Dec 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Health Ministry to conduct client satisfactory survey

Having received numerous complaints about the quality of service members of the public claim to be getting from health care workers, the Health Ministry will soon be conducting a Client Satisfactory...

Amrita Ramjas’Down’ with the syndrome but ‘Up’ in sports

Dec 06, 2008 knews Sports 1

By Michael Benjamin The popular Guyanese idiom ‘when life gives you lemons, make lemonade’ could not have been more strongly advocated than through the feats of Amrita Ramjas, a young...

Two secure $400,000 bail for receiving stolen property

Dec 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Two secure $400,000 bail for receiving stolen property

Sherwin Joseph, 29, of Lot 17-7 Charlotte Street, New Amsterdam, and Quacy Welcome, 22, of MNDC Housing Scheme, New Amsterdam, were yesterday granted $400,000 bail after they made their court...

Berbice whip Demerara to take Pepsi/Carib 20/20 title

Dec 06, 2008 knews Sports 2

By Sean Devers A noisy crowd watched as defending champions Demerara were whipped under lights in their own backyard by a Berbice team which looked better organized and more hungry for victory in...

GPHC’S World AIDS Day Cricket Festival set for today

Dec 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GPHC’S World AIDS Day Cricket Festival set for today

In observance of World AIDS Day, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation will be hosting a six-team cricket competition today at the Carifesta Sports Complex, Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown. The...

PUC, GWI lock horns over water billing

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‘Do not pay rates’ – PUC “Don’t pay and we will disconnect’ – GWI The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) are at loggerheads in relation to the...

Domino tournaments at Guyana Legion and Shem’s place this weekend

Dec 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Domino tournaments at Guyana Legion and Shem’s place this weekend

Domino players will be in action this Sunday, December 7 at two tournaments, the first, organized by the Black Stallion Sports Committee in collaboration with Johnny ‘Overseas’ Barnwell and Shem...

Caricom must pursue renewable energy—Director

Dec 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Caricom must pursue renewable energy—Director

It is important that, if the region is to continue on a path of economic and social development, energy sources should be economically affordable and equitably distributed. This is according to...

Trophy Stall to sponsor countrywide 15-over softball tournament

Dec 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall to sponsor countrywide 15-over softball tournament

The trophy Stall of Bourda Market/City Mall will sponsor a countrywide 15-over softball tournament to be organized by Guyana Softball League. This tournament will begin by next week and Managing...

Patient Care Assistants graduate

Dec 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Patient Care Assistants graduate

…Abiola Semple is top student Some 40 young men and women were yesterday rewarded for their hard work over the past six months at the eighth graduation ceremony for the Georgetown Public...

Ramdin happy to be Vice Captain

Dec 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Ramdin happy to be Vice Captain

Denesh Ramdin said he is delighted to be named Vice Captain of the West Indies and aims do his utmost to ensure the Windies conquer New Zealand in the upcoming series. Ramdin was appointed for the...

All systems are in place for Port Mourant horserace meet tomorrow

Dec 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on All systems are in place for Port Mourant horserace meet tomorrow

The Port Mourant turf Club will be the place to be tomorrow when the club runs off its grand one day horse race meet, at their Port Mourant Corentyne, Berbice racetrack. Six races are listed for the...

MSC says facility second to National Stadium

Dec 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on MSC says facility second to National Stadium

– takes umbrage over negative reports By Edison Jefford The management of the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) took offence to reports that seem to suggest that the club was not willing to corporate...

Digicel wants SMS interconnection by Christmas

Dec 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Digicel wants SMS interconnection by Christmas

…GT&T to respond on Tuesday Digicel Guyana yesterday called on the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) to open up text messaging between Digicel and GT&T networks in time for...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, – The two-day racing extravaganza that kicks off an action-packed month of motorsport starts today at the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) Thomaslands venue...

Punctuality is now a problem in Georgetown Schools

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(Kaieteur News) – Every school day in the city, in almost every ward, you can see scores of school children – dressed in their uniforms – ambling to school after 9:00am. The casualness of these children suggests that punctuality is no longer important to them or to their parents. But it does...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

UGGI Survey: Pt. IV

Jun 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – This is the last commentary on the University of Guyana Green Institute (UGGI) Independence 60 Survey titled: Guyana at 60: Trust, Oil, and the Society being Built. Today’s focus goes beyond the two bottom performing areas of “national government” and “foreign oil...

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