August 2009

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Queenstown is 168 years old

Aug 04, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Queenstown is 168 years old

To commemorate its 168th anniversary, the village of Queenstown, Essequibo Coast, kicked off its celebrations with a prayers session conducted by representatives of the three major religious faiths...

Van Ryck DeGroot intensifies training regimen for Shondell Alfred

Aug 04, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Van Ryck DeGroot intensifies training regimen for Shondell Alfred

By Michael Benjamin As Shondell ‘Mystery Lady’ Alfred prepares for what may possibly be the fight of her career, her opponent, Corinne Van Ryck DeGroot took time off from her training schedule to...

Vigilant work of firefighters may have saved major conflagration

Aug 04, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Vigilant work of firefighters may have saved major conflagration

Firemen early yesterday morning responded to a call from concerned citizens and quelled a fire just outside the St Barnabas Anglican Church, Regent Street and Orange Walk, Stabroek. Persons in close...

Mother seeks assistance with missing child

Aug 04, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Mother seeks assistance with missing child

An elderly mother yesterday visited Kaieteur News, seeking help to find her daughter. Mohanie Persaud, of Essequibo Coast, is appealing to the public to help her find her 24-year-old daughter, Celica...

Guyoil/Castrol sponsors team to ISKF Caribbean Karate championships

Aug 04, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyoil/Castrol sponsors team to ISKF Caribbean Karate championships

Guyoil/Castrol has again given a helping hand to the National Shotokan Karate Team to attend the 8th ISKF/CKC Karate Championships, to be hosted by the St. Lucia Shotokan Karate Association, at the...

Woman found hanging

Aug 04, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Woman found hanging

Police are investigating an apparent suicide which occurred yesterday afternoon at Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice. According to reports, Bibi Fazeela Hamid, who was said to be in her forties, was...

Guyana hunt pride and individual glory as Jamaica eye ‘double’

Aug 04, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana hunt pride and individual glory as Jamaica eye ‘double’

By Sean Devers in Jamaica In association with Digicel, Western Union,Pepsi, Smalta, TCL, Michelle Player’s Modeling Agency & Demerara Power Company With virtually no chance of winning the...

Battling to move Guyana forward

Aug 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Battling to move Guyana forward

Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana continues to commit itself towards the belief in equality, in progress and in the power of the people to achieve a progressive life. It is important that we...

Health Minister to focus more on passage of Disability Bill

Aug 04, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Health Minister to focus more on passage of Disability Bill

“We definitely hope that something will be done urgently,” said Administrative Manager of the National Commission on Disability, Ms Beverly Pile, when she commented on the need for passage of the...

Swimming pool is a result of intense lobbying

Aug 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Swimming pool is a result of intense lobbying

Dear Editor, It really boggled my mind to read in his commentary “We have to be wise and prioritise” in the August 2, Sunday edition of the Kaieteur News that the writer, Rawle Welch, was against...

Police commission $60M data centre

Aug 04, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Police commission $60M data centre

The Guyana Police Force has been the beneficiary of US$12M so far under the Security Sector Reform Programme. This was disclosed by Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee, at the commissioning of a...

Little or no hope for Guyana

Aug 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Little or no hope for Guyana

Dear Editor, As I sit and read Leon J. Suseran letter “Our nation is once again at political crossroads” Kaieteur News Sunday, August 2, 2009, all I can say there is no hope for Guyana. How can...

Press Association condemns gov’t attack on Enrico Woolford

Aug 04, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Press Association condemns gov’t attack on Enrico Woolford

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday strongly condemned the government for “its unwarranted and unprovoked attack” on veteran Guyanese journalist, Enrico Woolford, “for...

No individual or citizen can purchase ‘spy equipment

Aug 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on No individual or citizen can purchase ‘spy equipment

Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana in its articles in SN and Kaieteur News of August 1, 2009 is on the defence of denial the purchasing of the Spy Equipment CSM Laptop Model No. 7806 for the...

We encourage constructive discussion on the LCDS

Aug 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on We encourage constructive discussion on the LCDS

Dear Editor, We, The Office of Climate Change, Office of the President, have taken notice of several letters on Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) in the letters column of SN. We...

Recent developments need careful analysis

Aug 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Recent developments need careful analysis

Dear Editor, The recent developments, which have disturbed the relatively peaceful political atmosphere the country experienced over the past few months need careful analysis. What are the political...

‘Super’ news reporting

Aug 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on ‘Super’ news reporting

Dear Editor, Not only Metropolis city has super-heroes doubling as reporters; Guyana has its own superman, err, super-person reporter also! Enrico Woolford must have used binocular vision in a...

An event in New York has saved Robert Corbin

Aug 04, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on An event in New York has saved Robert Corbin

Does Mr. Corbin know that he has competitors? The African Guyanese will not vote for the PPP in 2011 (racial tension is rising) but who says they will ballot for the PNC? Already the AFC is upping...

These hot days are a signal

Aug 04, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on These hot days are a signal

Scientists have established beyond doubt that the world is heating up and that pretty soon there would be drastic changes in the climate conditions. They spoke of melting polar caps, rising sea...

ON WHOSE BEHALF?

Aug 04, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ON WHOSE BEHALF?

Uncle Freddie is right. Given national security and anti-terrorism concerns, a United States firm exporting restricted items to a foreign country is not going to place the equipment into the hands of...

Opposition leader questions road expenditure

Aug 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition leader questions road expenditure

The leader of the Parliamentary Opposition, Robert Corbin, will be seeking answers to several questions in the next sitting of the house as it relates to roads expenditure. According to Corbin, the...

Father held for raping daughter, 14

Aug 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Father held for raping daughter, 14

A forty three year old father from Sophia is presently in Police custody after allegations surfaced that he had raped his 14 year old daughter. Kaieteur News understands that the teen was taken to...

Friends to be buried side by side

Aug 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Friends to be buried side by side

Providence crash victims… – doubts linger as to who was at the wheel By Michael Jordan Best friends to the end, Richard Chinian and James Sookdeo, who perished in last Friday’s smash-up...

Takatu Bridge now open to vehicular traffic

Aug 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Takatu Bridge now open to vehicular traffic

Trade between Guyana and Brazil has shown a significant increase with the opening up of the Takatu Bridge to vehicular traffic over the weekend. Already scores of Brazilians, especially from Bon Fin,...

Policewoman dismissed, to face charges for prisoners’ escape

Aug 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Policewoman dismissed, to face charges for prisoners’ escape

Health Ministry fire… The female Lance Corporal suspected of helping arson suspects, Kurt Thierens, and Colin Jones escape from the Providence Police Station lockups has been dismissed from the...

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Kaieteur Sports – Newly imported horse from the Jumbo Jet Racing Stables, Sand Pipes stormed to a comprehensive victory in the prestigious Guyana Cup horse race at Rising Sun Turf Club on a cool...

Ten schools on one street

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(Kaieteur News) – Guyana never ceases to amaze me. There are moments when a government announces an achievement and it is done in such a manner that one is expected to feel grateful for the evidence of progress. Some of these announcements are about routine things. Yet, the announcement is made...

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...

Procurement master composer Ali on stage

Aug 24, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Those visits by Pres. Ali into places of worship may be paying off. He sees the light. He may insist that he sees god (meaning himself); I settle for light. Light is late in coming. Its speed slowed down by GPL wires and thick political darkness. But light has arrived...

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