June 2009

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Taxi service owner granted bail on abduction charge

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Taxi service owner granted bail on abduction charge

Taxi service owner, Fazil Ali, also known as ‘Yuppie’, was granted $250,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Tuesday, on a charge of abduction and assault. It was alleged that...

Etwaroo Dhanraj – a relic from Bath sugar estate

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Etwaroo Dhanraj – a relic from Bath sugar estate

He is a sprightly old man living at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice. His name is Etwaroo Dhanraj but he is better known as Cheddi Basil. He joined the Staff at Bath Estate in 1935 at age 12 as a...

Brother charged with attempted murder

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Brother charged with attempted murder

Sadar Sukdeo, aka Rakesh or Hangman, was on Tuesday last remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. It is alleged that on May 23, at Uitvlugt, he unlawfully and maliciously...

Father, children escape injury in two-vehicle collision

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Father, children escape injury in two-vehicle collision

…other driver critical in hospital A driver is reportedly critical, and another and his children escaped serious injury, after two vehicles collided on the Port Mourant Public Road yesterday...

Foreign company uses bogus Demerara Sugar label

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Foreign company uses bogus Demerara Sugar label

Six years have passed since a company has been using Guyana Sugar Corporation’s label ‘Demerara Gold’ to dupe overseas-based Guyanese into buying sugar purported to be made in Guyana when in...

South R/veldt man shot during early morning robbery

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on South R/veldt man shot during early morning robbery

A South Ruimveldt resident is nursing a glancing gunshot wound to the upper part of his body following an attack on a shop at Mandela Avenue and Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, by three gunmen early...

“Not a three-headed baby…”

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on “Not a three-headed baby…”

Newborn has Meningocele – Medical Practitioner By Jenelle Carter A Medical Practitioner has stated that the baby that was delivered at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation last week,...

GT&T monopoly has held back Guyana’s economy – Dr. Luncheon

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GT&T monopoly has held back Guyana’s economy – Dr. Luncheon

The monopoly held by Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has hindered Information Technology from making the kind of contributions to Guyana’s economy that have been made in other...

Essequibo residents disgusted by constant escapes from NOC

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Essequibo residents disgusted by constant escapes from NOC

Even as police on the Essequibo Coast continue to grapple with the increasing number of escapees from the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) more delinquents are freeing themselves by any means possible...

Businessman on $1M bail

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Businessman on $1M bail

Businessman, Haresh Narine, 58, of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Berbice was yesterday placed on $1M bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, on a...

President Jagdeo warns ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur to cooperate with NCN Board

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on President Jagdeo warns ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur to cooperate with NCN Board

President Bharrat Jagdeo has warned NCN Chief Executive Officer, Mohamed ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur, to work along with the Board of Directors. Yesterday, the Head of State summoned the members of the Board...

Almost 800 MRPs lying in wait at Immigration Office

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Almost 800 MRPs lying in wait at Immigration Office

From all appearances the rush to obtain the new Machine Readable Passport (MRP) was just a façade as the Guyana Police Force reports that almost 800 of the prepared documents are still to be...

Shot wanted man ‘pays visit to family’

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Shot wanted man ‘pays visit to family’

– refuses to surrender As police on the Essequibo Coast continue their hunt for a wanted man who was shot during a confrontation on Tuesday last, they have learnt that the man is refusing to...

Al Sport / MCYS Primary Schools Windball Cricket C/ships: Five teams advance to quarter-finals

Jun 11, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Al Sport / MCYS Primary Schools Windball Cricket C/ships: Five teams advance to quarter-finals

Five teams advanced to the next stage of the Georgetown Zone in this year’s Al Sport & Tour Promotions/Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport (MCYS) Primary Schools Windball Cricket...

Fraud at City Hall… GLGOU rushes to defend cashier

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Fraud at City Hall… GLGOU rushes to defend cashier

President of the Guyana Local Government Officers Union (GLGOU), Andrew Garnett, at a press conference yesterday attempted to deflate details published in this newspaper’s breaking story of the...

Athletes collect IAAF certificates, jerseys

Jun 11, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Athletes collect IAAF certificates, jerseys

– as AAG present World Athletics Day prizes The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) held a simple Award Ceremony yesterday in celebration of the World Athletics Day that was observed on May...

Inter-Ward prize winners identified

Jun 11, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Inter-Ward prize winners identified

Ifill is deservedly MVP The Inter-Ward basketball fraternity announced the various individual award winners that were assessed from the recently concluded HJTV and Lens Craft Championship ahead of...

GDF medical outreach meets needs of Berbice residents

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GDF medical outreach meets needs of Berbice residents

More than 100 residents of two Berbice communities were beneficiaries of the expertise of the Guyana Defence Force medical corps as part of the army’s ‘Hearts and Minds’ programme. This...

C/bean Games final selection announced

Jun 11, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on C/bean Games final selection announced

The final composition of the respective teams to represent Guyana at the inaugural Caribbean Games set for July 12-19 in Trinidad and Tobago was released, during a media briefing, held in the...

KN pressmen killings… PI completion depends on final witnesses

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on KN pressmen killings… PI completion depends on final witnesses

The preliminary inquiry into the Kaieteur News pressmen killings continued again yesterday before Magistrate Nigel Hawke, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. However, the session lasted a mere 15...

Karatekas perform creditably in T&T

Jun 11, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Karatekas perform creditably in T&T

Guyanese karatekas, 3rd Dan Instructor Ganesh Babulall and Green Belt Victor Burnett returned home last Tuesday, after registering creditable performances at the Tiger Claw International...

Would Bramble emulate Vishal Nagamootoo?

Jun 11, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Would Bramble emulate Vishal Nagamootoo?

Dear Editor, The only time Guyana won a Regional Under-9 Championship in Jamaica was 1996, under the stewardship of Vishal Nagamootoo. Thirteen years later another wicketkeeper from the ancient...

Negotiations on Guyana/UK security pact set for next week

Jun 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Negotiations on Guyana/UK security pact set for next week

Talks will be held next week to determine when the Guyana Government will restart negotiations with the British Government on the US$4.7 million security pact the British have committed to funding....

Trophy Stall 15-over cricket results

Jun 11, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall 15-over cricket results

Action in the Guyana Softball League, Trophy Stall sponsored 15-over cricket competition continued over the weekend with several matches. In the first match at Perseverance, El Dorado XI defeated...

9th annual P&P Insurance Brokers cycling set for Saturday

Jun 11, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on 9th annual P&P Insurance Brokers cycling set for Saturday

National Cycling Coach Hassan Mohamed has organised the 9th annual P&P Insurance Brokers and Consultants Cycle programme and the competition peddles off from 09:00hrs on Saturday at the National...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

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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