December 2008

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14-man gang was to hit Albion payroll – GuySuCo official

Dec 02, 2008 knews News 1

Reports are circulating that the three gunmen who were slain last Friday on the Cromarty foreshore at Corentyne, Berbice were part of a 14-man gang that was planning to hit the GuySuCo Albion...

World AIDS Day rally: Abstain from sex, concentrate on school work — Region Three Chairman

Dec 02, 2008 knews News Comments Off on World AIDS Day rally: Abstain from sex, concentrate on school work — Region Three Chairman

In observance of World AIDS Day, approximately 200 students and teachers from 16 schools on the West Bank and West Coast of Demerara yesterday staged a march from the Leonora Square to the Uitvlugt...

GuySuCo observes World AIDS Day with exhibition

Dec 02, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GuySuCo observes World AIDS Day with exhibition

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), Ogle head office, yesterday staged an exhibition in its bid to promote safe sexual behaviour aimed at helping to reduce the scourge of the dreaded HIV/AIDS...

Quality heart care readily available in Guyana – CHI Head

Dec 02, 2008 knews News 1

The operations of the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) have evolved to such an extent over the years that Head of the Unit, Dr Gary Stephens, is of the belief that the entity has the capability to...

Pit bull mauls horse – owner seeks compensation

Dec 02, 2008 knews News 8

A horse cart operator is seeking compensation from a Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara resident whose pit bull badly mauled his horse, to the extent that the animal had to be castrated. The...

Health Ministry reports reduction in HIV cases

Dec 02, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Health Ministry reports reduction in HIV cases

Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy yesterday announced that there are only 10,000 HIV-infected persons living in Guyana, as opposed to 12,000 which was being reported by some organisations. The...

Offer of lower int’l rates unfair – Official

Dec 02, 2008 knews News 1

Digicel Guyana yesterday responded to comments made by the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company to the Kaieteur News with respect to Digicel’s complaint to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC)...

George Bacchus murder trial resumes

Dec 02, 2008 knews News 2

Justice Claudette La Bennett yesterday handed down her ruling on the voir dire that has been ongoing for the past week in Delon ‘Fatboy’ Reynolds’s case. Reynolds is accused of murdering...

The ‘Hammer’ strikes again, tame Tigers 2-0 in Namilco final

Dec 02, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on The ‘Hammer’ strikes again, tame Tigers 2-0 in Namilco final

Fifth title for 2K8 By Franklin Wilson Alpha ‘The hammer United’ underlined their status as best football club in the land with another clinical performance in disposing BK International Western...

Qualander rules GNRA yearend Championships

Dec 02, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Qualander rules GNRA yearend Championships

Junior shooters impressive The Guyana National Rifle Association staged its 2008 year-end championship for hand gunners last Sunday at the Timehri Ranges. The competition for handgun supremacy was...

Doppler radar for testing next month

Dec 02, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Doppler radar for testing next month

Coordinating Director of the Caribbean Meteorological Organisation, Terrence Sutherland, has announced that the Doppler radar tower is currently entering its completion stages, and is expected to be...

K&S maintains support of school children in Linden

Dec 02, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on K&S maintains support of school children in Linden

Some three thousand school children in the Bauxite Mining Town of Linden will have the opportunity of witnessing the opening day of play at the 19th Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) football tournament...

GSECI commits to K&S 4th place awards

Dec 02, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GSECI commits to K&S 4th place awards

Ground Structures Engineering Consultants Inc. (GSECI) is the latest corporate entity to partner the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation for the 19th edition of the tournament. Yesterday at their 212...

Small, medium-sized hotels crucial to Guyana

Dec 02, 2008 knews News 2

There have been several major infrastructural projects over the last two years, many prompted by Cricket World Cup (CWC) last year and then Carifesta last August. A lot of emphasis was placed on...

Persaud retains National Chess title

Dec 02, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Persaud retains National Chess title

Taffin Khan captures junior crown Berbician Kriskal Persaud retained his title after the National Chess Championship came to a close on Sunday at the Ocean Spray International Hotel. When play...

GDF hosts fun day

Dec 02, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GDF hosts fun day

Jacobs considers termination of ABIIT scholarship

Dec 02, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Jacobs considers termination of ABIIT scholarship

– says offer did not live up to expectations By Edison Jefford After years of sacrifice and then months of careful contemplation on whether to accept an Antigua and Barbuda International Institute...

City dwellers held with illegal firearm on Essequibo Coast

Dec 02, 2008 knews News Comments Off on City dwellers held with illegal firearm on Essequibo Coast

Louise Hopkinson, 30, and Randy Morris, 28, both of East Street, La Penitence, made their first appearance yesterday before Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty at the Suddie Magistrate’s Court, charged...

Cardinals’ XI win thriller

Dec 02, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Cardinals’ XI win thriller

The recently crowned Tapeball 20/20 Champions, Cardinals’ XI held their nerves to win an exciting one wicket victory over a Combined XI last Saturday at the NIS Sports Complex ground, Carifesta...

Milo/GFA U-21 League: GDF, Sunburst Camptown, Santos & Fruta Conquerors nail their opponents

Dec 02, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Milo/GFA U-21 League: GDF, Sunburst Camptown, Santos & Fruta Conquerors nail their opponents

The Beepat’s sponsored Milo/Georgetown Football Association Under-21 League kicked off in a blaze of sunshine, at the Camptown ground in Campbellville and ended in the cool of night at the Tucville...

BCBC/RHTYSC hosts successful First Aid Clinic – Forty cricketers and students attend

Dec 02, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on BCBC/RHTYSC hosts successful First Aid Clinic – Forty cricketers and students attend

The Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) Special Events Committee in conjunction with the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) last Thursday hosted a successful First Aid Clinic...

Opposition parties accuse PPP of reneging on promises

Dec 02, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Opposition parties accuse PPP of reneging on promises

“Promises! Promises! Promises!” is the motto of the People’s Progressive Party, according to People’s National Congress Reform executive member Aubrey Norton. He made this remark during the...

The power of poetry

Dec 02, 2008 knews Letters 1

Dear Editor, It is truly amazing to know that the beauty of expression is concealed in poetic language. This statement of truth came to me even as I am in great expectation for the coming event at...

World Aids Day observances…

Dec 02, 2008 knews News Comments Off on World Aids Day observances…

Digicel Guyana commits $2M to fight AIDS Digicel Guyana yesterday donated more than two million dollars to two non-governmental organisations (NGOs) committed to the fight against HIV/AIDS in Guyana...

A new hazard to commuters on Mandela Avenue

Dec 02, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on A new hazard to commuters on Mandela Avenue

Dear Editor, It is with great disapproval and disgust that I see many ‘organisations’ or small groups of persons standing in the middle of Mandela Avenue with boxes, soliciting money from...

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Kaieteur Sports – The stage is set for the most lucrative day in Guyana’s horse racing, today, Sunday August 23 at Rising Sun Turf Club. The weather conditions are immaculate, and 14...

Pants suit and pastel colours

Aug 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In the 1970s when I was a young employee of a large, service-oriented private-sector firm in Guyana, I was not yet a confirmed employee and therefore could not wear the prescribed uniform. But I was nevertheless expected to dress in a manner appropriate to the office. One day I...

Facts, Due Process and Fairness: The CCJ’s Test

Aug 23, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...

Electricity failing, a minister begging

Aug 23, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – First, they had their arms wrapped around demand. Then the PPP Govt confessed. It did not. They had plans and visions. Only for those to become blurred. It’s the haze of the “unusually hot” weather, stupid. What’s so hard about...

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