September 2009

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Hubert girls impressive as Carib win School of Nations House sports

Sep 27, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Hubert girls impressive as Carib win School of Nations House sports

Jamelle and Tiffany Hubert displayed impressive talent, while Carib House conquered the other houses as School of Nations concluded their annual track & field inter house championship at the...

The Monkey Frog

Sep 27, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Monkey Frog

Monkey frogs are a group of tree frogs (Phyllomedusa hypocondrialis, phyllomedusa sauvagii) which are characterized by long limbs and a lack of webbing between their toes. This last trait allows them...

Mayor Dennis Richardson hosts Digicel Kick Start footballers

Sep 27, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Mayor Dennis Richardson hosts Digicel Kick Start footballers

Urges players to do everything they can to improve their skills – Sunderland, England: The eight Digicel Kick Start Clinics players who concluded their one week coaching stint at the Sunderland AFC...

MORAL DECAY IN GUYANA AND THE ROLE OF THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY

Sep 27, 2009 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on MORAL DECAY IN GUYANA AND THE ROLE OF THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY

By Sheila Holder, MP and AFC Vice-Chair MORAL DECAY IN GUYANA Members of the Jagdeo government have no regard for boundaries – be they of decency, the law, or that which is acceptable conduct...

Robert and he seeds

Sep 27, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Robert and he seeds

By way of a number of e-mails, telephone calls and letters to the management, people have been asking that the column Dem Boys seh be a daily feature. After careful discussion and consideration we...

UG fires lecturer for inappropriate behaviour

Sep 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on UG fires lecturer for inappropriate behaviour

The University of Guyana Council (UGC) has fired one of its lecturers for inappropriate behaviour following a meeting Wednesday night. Although it was unclear last evening whether the lecturer was...

US embassy staffer arrested for rape

Sep 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on US embassy staffer arrested for rape

An employee of the United States Embassy has been arrested for rape and is likely to face the courts tomorrow. Kaieteur News understand that the staffer committed the offence on Sunday on a...

Three Rose Hall businesses go up in flames

Sep 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Three Rose Hall businesses go up in flames

By Melissa Johnson ROSE HALL TOWN, CORENTYNE – Fire of unknown origin destroyed a two-storey building that housed three business entities at Rose Hall Town on the Corentyne, yesterday. In the...

Suriname deports illegal Guyanese nationals

Sep 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Suriname deports illegal Guyanese nationals

By Ivan Cairo PARAMARIBO, Suriname — Law enforcement officials in Suriname have disclosed that over the past several days a large number of illegal Guyanese nationals were deported to Guyana. Also...

Kwame, Julius sex tape hits the streets

Sep 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Kwame, Julius sex tape hits the streets

Risking arrest, activist Mark Benschop yesterday caused a stir in the Stabroek Market area after he used a music vendor’s cart to play a taped sex conversation of a government official, prompting...

36-foot whale dies

Sep 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on 36-foot whale dies

The 36-foot whale which had drifted ashore at Almond Beach, Morawhanna, Region One, has finally died. For the past four days, the Ministry of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Guyana Defence...

Gunman grabs Kissoon’s payroll

Sep 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Gunman grabs Kissoon’s payroll

Two officials from A H&L Kissoon’s Limited were left traumatised yesterday, after a lone gunman grabbed a $2M payroll from them as they sat in a car on Camp Street. Police said that the...

Stone was stoned when he made that film

Sep 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Stone was stoned when he made that film

What I find inexplicable about the American film maker, Oliver Stone, and the Caribbean economist, Professor Norman Girvan, is that despite all their panegyrics of Castro’s Cuba and Venezuela’s...

WHAT IS EARNED SHOULD NOT HAVE CONDITIONS ATTACHED

Sep 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT IS EARNED SHOULD NOT HAVE CONDITIONS ATTACHED

There is an age-old adage which states that impediments should not be placed in the way of a man receiving what is rightly due to him. Thus, if someone has worked, he should be allowed to receive his...

What is the obsession with polls in Guyana?

Sep 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on What is the obsession with polls in Guyana?

Dear Editor, I recall the day I met Vishnu Bisram – February 10, 1990 – at a meeting on Liberty Avenue, attended by approximately 300 Guyanese activists. At this meeting the World Union of...

A passing sexual fetish?

Sep 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on A passing sexual fetish?

Dear Editor, Being in a crowded New York subway car is no fun. You are literally pushed up against hundreds of cultures from around the world, all with its nauseating odours and its alien, even...

Only good environmental governance can sustain real development in Latin America

Sep 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Only good environmental governance can sustain real development in Latin America

Dear Editor, Old dancing partners, with new faces, are making well-coordinated steps across the countries of Africa and Latin America. In the face of the global financial recession and, what appears...

Self confessed murderer remanded

Sep 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Self confessed murderer remanded

Also charged with possession Damian Griffith, also known as Damian Marks, appeared in court last Thursday to face multiple charges, including murder and narcotics possession. According to reports,...

Dragging of feet and a frustrated pensioner

Sep 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Dragging of feet and a frustrated pensioner

Dear Editor, I am writing on my father’s behalf. His name is Seegobin and he currently resides overseas. My father’s local address is lot 151 Shieldstown, West Bank Berbice. His NIS # is...

Ex-GPL employees face Magistrate

Sep 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Ex-GPL employees face Magistrate

Two ex-Guyana Power and Light employees yesterday appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate, Melissa Robertson, charged with demanding money with menace. It is alleged that on September 23, last, at...

Plantain farmers hit by infestation

Sep 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Plantain farmers hit by infestation

…Agriculture Ministry ‘studying’ the issue Plantain farmers in Rosenanti Tuschen Backlands, East Bank Essequibo are being severely affected by Sigatoka disease which has taken over their farms....

A man with a passion for education has passed

Sep 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on A man with a passion for education has passed

Dear Editor, It is with deep sorrow that I write to express my sincere condolences to the family of the late Randolph Gordon, who passed away on September 24, 2009. I met Mr. Gordon some years ago...

Shooter remains critical, two youths undergo surgery

Sep 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Shooter remains critical, two youths undergo surgery

Four days after the gun brawl at the National Gymnasium, Jermaine Langevine, remains critical, while two of the youths shot underwent surgery. Dwayne Wharton, 17, and Terrence Edwards, 15, underwent...

The silence of the political opposition

Sep 26, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on The silence of the political opposition

The silence of the opposition in the face of serious national issues is something of concern for the more that 44 per cent of the population that voted against the current rulers of the nation. And...

Minister vetoes Grove NDC’s bid to increase rates

Sep 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Minister vetoes Grove NDC’s bid to increase rates

Residents of the Golden Grove/Diamond area will not see any increase in their rates for this year, according to the Local Government Ministry. A notice posted in yesterday’s edition of Kaieteur...

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(Kaieteur News) – The results of the 2025 general and regional elections were a shocker. And anyone who now claims that they predicted the performance of We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) coming should seriously consider going into the fortune-telling business. WIN did not merely emerge from the...

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

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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...

The man from WIN slipped

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(Kaieteur News) – I think that the Hon Leader of the Opposition (LOO), Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, blundered. Three Local Govt seats in hand. One went to the Hon Ms. Amanza Walton-Desir’s Forward Guyana Movement. Good! The second should have gone to the APNU. Would have been reflective of...

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