June 2009

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The Domestic Violence policy alone will not solve the problems

Jun 23, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The Domestic Violence policy alone will not solve the problems

Dear Editor, In June 2008, the National Domestic Violence policy was launched. We believe that the lack of any real coordinated implementation of this policy should be a cause for national concern....

Security Guard remanded for assault

Jun 23, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Security Guard remanded for assault

A 29-year-old security guard attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital was yesterday remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate, Melissa Robertson, for threatening language. It was alleged that...

Man beats wife’s paramour, lands in court

Jun 23, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Man beats wife’s paramour, lands in court

Forty-seven-year old Mark Woolford, of 148 Cato Street, Agricola, was yesterday ordered to pay a fine of $45,000 or spend 18 months’ imprisonment, after he pleaded guilty to assault causing actual...

The fight to finance standing forests

Jun 23, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The fight to finance standing forests

Dear Editor, China is one of the world’s largest carbon dioxide emitters because of its heavy industrialization and urbanization. China is more focused on a cumulative emission budget over the 21st...

Ramkarran replies to Ogunseye

Jun 23, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Ramkarran replies to Ogunseye

Dear Editor, Mr. Tacuma Ogunseye, in his letter of June 21, challenges me to “demonstrate political maturity and integrity by publicly correcting (my) falsification of an important development in...

Support for National Martyrs Day

Jun 23, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Support for National Martyrs Day

Dear Editor, I write in support of a letter captioned, “Let’s have a National Martyrs Day” under the hands of Fazel Khan, printed in the Kaieteur News, Monday June 22, 2009. I wish to state...

Vendor still critical after being shot

Jun 23, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Vendor still critical after being shot

Troy De Mattos, 41, of Shirley Field-Ridley Square, West Ruimveldt, who was shot on Saturday is said to be in a critical but stable condition. Up to press time yesterday, De Mattos was still being...

Is the government encouraging corruption?

Jun 23, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Is the government encouraging corruption?

The Auditor General has once more revealed what can only be termed blatant disregard for accounting procedures and for the rule of law. The most damning comment to come out in the wake of the report...

Police attempt to return seized cellular phone without memory card

Jun 23, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Police attempt to return seized cellular phone without memory card

A West Bank Demerara cattle farmer who was arrested for recording his conversation with a police rank at the Wales Police Station is refusing to take possession of the instrument, after discovering...

Boxers on S&S Promotions’ card intensify training sessions

Jun 23, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Boxers on S&S Promotions’ card intensify training sessions

As the time draws closer for his bantamweight championship bout with Dexter Marques, Leon ‘Hurry Up’ Moore stepped up his training with a six-round sparring session against several boxers...

Gardner performs creditably in USA Musclemania championship

Jun 23, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Gardner performs creditably in USA Musclemania championship

…Says love for country inspired achievement Approximately one year after a scintillating performance at the Musclemania Superbody competition in the United States of America that earned him that...

Tenelec Berbice 1st division 50-over cricket: Rose Hall Canje, Police join RHTWSB and Albion in semis

Jun 23, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Tenelec Berbice 1st division 50-over cricket: Rose Hall Canje, Police join RHTWSB and Albion in semis

Any hopes West Berbice had of reaching the semi-finals of the Tenelec Berbice first division 40-over cricket competition were washed away by torrential rain, which left the Canje ground waterlogged,...

Witness places ‘Blondie’ at crime scene

Jun 23, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Witness places ‘Blondie’ at crime scene

“… she was the only person with what appeared to be a gun.” Yesterday as the Ashanti ‘Blondie’ Shultz murder trial commenced, the first witness to take the stand before Justice William...

Sunburst Camptown cart off Football Festival

Jun 23, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Sunburst Camptown cart off Football Festival

Western Tigers are a no show Sunburst Camptown defeated Fruta Conquerors 2-1 to cart off the Marlon Hendricks trophy and $80,000, when the finals of the Camptown Football Festival concluded at the...

Gunmen rob businessman, tenant, flee with $3M in cash, jewellery

Jun 23, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Gunmen rob businessman, tenant, flee with $3M in cash, jewellery

Popular Diamond, East Bank Demerara businessman, Motielall Beharry, was beaten and robbed of an estimated $2.7 M in cash and jewellery by three gunmen who invaded one of his properties around 23:30...

Munroe should make the truth public

Jun 23, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Munroe should make the truth public

By Edison Jefford I was taken aback yesterday when I learnt that the General Secretary of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has distant himself from a recent interview with Kaieteur Sport...

Broad Street fatal accident driver denied bail

Jun 23, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Broad Street fatal accident driver denied bail

…more charges likely A 27-year-old mother of two was yesterday remanded by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Ashley Pieters, of 33 Lyng Street,...

Health workers graduate from IT course

Jun 23, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Health workers graduate from IT course

A number of health workers graduated yesterday from a six weeks training program dealing with Information Technology, which was hosted by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with CDC. At the...

ICC Twenty20 Championship : Eyes of the cricket world on the Region

Jun 23, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on ICC Twenty20 Championship : Eyes of the cricket world on the Region

By Rawle Welch The ICC Twenty20 Cricket Championship will be played in three Caribbean countries next year and the challenge for the region right now is whether we could do a job comparable to what...

Todd overcomes weather, strong field to win GEB Golf tourney

Jun 23, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Todd overcomes weather, strong field to win GEB Golf tourney

Gavin Todd defied inclement weather and a strong field to secure victory in last weekend’s, GEB Security Service sponsored Medal Play Tournament, at the Lusignan Golf Club. Playing off a handicap...

NBTS satisfied with pace of blood donation

Jun 23, 2009 knews News Comments Off on NBTS satisfied with pace of blood donation

Ten months after issuing an advisory on a severe shortage of blood, the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) has now reported that such a shortage no longer exists. National Blood Donor Manager...

Police want ‘Wild Hog’

Jun 23, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Police want ‘Wild Hog’

Clarence Williams, called ‘Wild Hog’, is wanted by the police for escaping from the New Amsterdam Prison between June 1 and June 2, last. Williams was on remand on a charge of break and enter and...

Grand meet billed for Norman Singh Turf Club July 19

Jun 23, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Grand meet billed for Norman Singh Turf Club July 19

Horseracing lovers are assured of an action packed day of exciting races when the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club (NSMTC) stages a one-day meeting at the Club’s Bel Air #6 Village, West Coast...

Shooting suspect in custody, victim goes into hiding

Jun 23, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Shooting suspect in custody, victim goes into hiding

Police are looking for an 18-year-old woman whose boyfriend shot her in the hip during a heated argument at Jeep Landing Kwakwani waterfront about 22:00 hours, Sunday night. The woman, Ann Louden,...

Invaders record lone win in Ann’s Grove Inter-Block football

Jun 23, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Invaders record lone win in Ann’s Grove Inter-Block football

Invaders recorded the lone victory last weekend, when play in the Ann’s Grove leg of the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport organised Inter-Block football programme got underway. On Saturday last,...

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Sep 12, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL…GAW vs. TKR (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors signed off their run at home with a huge bang after handing long-time rivals Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) a 6 wicket...

Should Guyana build a small refinery?

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The public discourse, thus far, on a refinery for Guyana asks some legitimate questions about cost, management, financing and commercial risk. But it makes a fundamental analytical mistake of evaluating the proposed Guyanese refinery as though its purpose were to become another...

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...

Jagdeo on breaches, accountability Pt 1

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Great to see Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President, taking control. Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Regional Executive Officers, and assorted others summoned to a session with the new Minister for Virtue and against Vice. Dr. Jagdeo is the best man for that job. He knows the...

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