June 2009

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Is goat and sheep if things continue

Jun 12, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Is goat and sheep if things continue

Dem boys remember how dem get vex when Bharrat get involve and mek de NCN Board tek back dem decision to suspend Fuzzy. Was one set of talking and grumbling but none of de Board members coulda seh...

Immigration issues

Jun 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Immigration issues

Dear Editor, In reaction to the move by the Barbadian government to crack down on undocumented workers, which includes many Guyanese, President Bharrat Jagdeo in a press briefing last month indicated...

Fruta Conquerors FC receives timely assistance

Jun 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Fruta Conquerors FC receives timely assistance

Footballers of the Fruta Conquerors FC recently benefited from the benevolence of former President Mr Sheldon Braithwaite, now based in the United States of America. Last Tuesday, on the Tucville...

Berbice Busta Champion of Champions final slated for Sunday

Jun 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Busta Champion of Champions final slated for Sunday

RHTYWSB will start as favourites, when they clash with Rose Hall Canje in the final of the 2009 Busta Champion of Champions cricket tournament on Sunday, at the Canje Welfare Centre. RHTYSWB with...

Chinese medical team takes health care to Berbice

Jun 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Chinese medical team takes health care to Berbice

The Ministry of Health is continuing its programme of taking health to various communities around the country. On Saturday, a Chinese Medical team will be in the Corentyne area. The team will include...

Looking for a legacy in all the wrong places

Jun 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Looking for a legacy in all the wrong places

Political observers have to be blind not to see that Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo is in a rush to find a legacy and leave it emblazoned on the pages of Guyanese history. After 2011, Mr. Jagdeo would have been...

‘GDF rank’ remanded for unlawful wounding

Jun 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on ‘GDF rank’ remanded for unlawful wounding

Despite a plea to Magistrate Melissa Robertson and an explanation that she was frustrated about being abused by her partner, 23-year-old Lindany Phillips, who claims to be an “active member” of...

Engineering needs

Jun 12, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Engineering needs

The protracted communications in the press taking issue with the premises of official initiatives to bring some long-term relief to our endemic flooding pattern on the East Coast of Demerara...

Man snatches security guard’s gun

Jun 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Man snatches security guard’s gun

Police in the city are trying to track down a man who snatched a gun from a female security guard attached to the Guyana Revenue Authority. Reports reaching this newspaper stated that the guard was...

Ministry Inter-Block football continues Sunday at Victoria

Jun 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Ministry Inter-Block football continues Sunday at Victoria

Play in the Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture Inter-Block football competition continues Sunday at the Victoria Community Centre Ground. The competition was suspended for three weeks due to water...

Pursue Climate Change adaptation with same eagerness to benefit from mitigation

Jun 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Pursue Climate Change adaptation with same eagerness to benefit from mitigation

Dear Editor, Worldwide, there is a groundswell of calls to take mitigative action to stem Climate Change. In this respect, Guyana appears to be taking the initiative to preserve its forest cover and...

Guyana modifies extradition law

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Guyana modifies extradition law

Attorney General and Minister of Affairs, Charles Ramson, is gearing to table in the National Assembly, the Fugitive Offenders (Amendment) Bill that will allow Guyana to lawfully extradite fugitives...

Gunman shoots two on Norton Street

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Gunman shoots two on Norton Street

Two young men, Christopher McLean, 17, and Richard Philadelphia, are currently in the Balwant Singh Hospital having undergone surgery for gunshot wounds sustained last night on Norton Street, Lodge,...

Coast Guard trade bullets with hijackers

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Coast Guard trade bullets with hijackers

– rescue fishing crew Members of the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard traded gunshots with the occupants of a speedboat coming from neighbouring Venezuela yesterday, shortly after rescuing...

Teen killed in freak accident

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Teen killed in freak accident

…Pinned by father’s truck that slipped off jack A 17-year-old boy from Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara, was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital, minutes after he was crushed by...

Garbage crisis… City Hall pays $5M to contractors

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Garbage crisis… City Hall pays $5M to contractors

City Hall was yesterday able to pay contractors $5M of the amount owed to them for garbage disposal works. However the payment, which represents a fraction of the actual amount, owed will not be...

Another woman stabbed by spurned lover

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Another woman stabbed by spurned lover

– broken blade lodged in abdomen One day after the country witnessed yet another domestic violence case that had a fatal ending, a 34-year-old woman was rushed to the hospital yesterday...

Doodnauth Singh being evacuated

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Doodnauth Singh being evacuated

Former Attorney General Doodnauth Singh is being flown out to the United States to undergo immediate heart intervention. Mr Singh was admitted to Balwant Singh Medical Centre last week suffering from...

New North West Organics coffee hits local shelves today

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on New North West Organics coffee hits local shelves today

Amidst promises of a $325,000 packaging vacuum from the Agriculture Ministry, another all natural organically produced product was launched yesterday to add to the local coffee variety available on...

President Jagdeo assents to new law securing his financial future

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on President Jagdeo assents to new law securing his financial future

On May 28, last, Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo assented to the controversial Former Presidents (Benefits and Facilities) Bill bringing it into to law, securing his financial and other benefits when he...

Warder lands in jail for taking drugs into prison

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Warder lands in jail for taking drugs into prison

He was supposed to be a part of the team responsible for reforming prisoners but instead Glen Lewis had other ideas.The former Prison Officer of Cumberland Village was on Monday last sentenced to a...

DFID’s £5M Trust Fund to boost C’bean growth

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on DFID’s £5M Trust Fund to boost C’bean growth

The British government’s Department for International Development (DFID) has established a Trust Fund for £5 million to boost growth and reduce poverty in the Caribbean. The announcement came from...

Ramsaroop criticises IMF report

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Ramsaroop criticises IMF report

…claims critical issues not addressed Recently recruited Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance For Change, Peter Ramsaroop, yesterday slammed the recently released International Monetary Fund...

NGOs highlight need for sexual offences bills to be tabled in Parliament

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on NGOs highlight need for sexual offences bills to be tabled in Parliament

On Tuesday last, Red Thread, in conjunction with Help and Shelter, again dealt with the issue of the need for the Sexual Offences Bill to be tabled in Parliament. This decision they say should be in...

US citizens remanded for drug trafficking

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on US citizens remanded for drug trafficking

Two US citizens were remanded to prison on Tuesday last after appearing before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton. It was alleged that the two 24-year-olds, Tracy-Ann Samuels and Asha Smallwood, on...

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(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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