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The journey and the dream has begun

Feb 08, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on The journey and the dream has begun

By Rawle Welch & Freddie Kissoon The last time a West Indies cricket team commenced a tour with so much positive statements being splashed across the pages of the mainstream media of the...

Economic Task Force – Another CARICOM step in the right direction

Feb 08, 2009 knews Clarence E. Pilgrim, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Economic Task Force – Another CARICOM step in the right direction

By Clarence E Pilgrim At a time when the world continues to experience a financial crisis, the 13th Meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) held in...

Protecting our children! – The Childcare and Protection Agency Bill of 2008

Feb 08, 2009 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Protecting our children! – The Childcare and Protection Agency Bill of 2008

By Mrs. Latchmin Budhan – Punalall MP Alliance For Change Anyone reading the newspapers over the last two weeks would have been horrified at the numerous incidents in which “our children –...

Mashramani float parade lacking corporate sponsorship

Feb 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Mashramani float parade lacking corporate sponsorship

The culmination of Mashramani, the float parade, may not be as grand this year as it was last year, since many of the corporate sponsors are not supporting Mashramani as they should, or are at least...

Century partnership from Crandon, Dowlin keeps Guyana in the fight

Feb 08, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Century partnership from Crandon, Dowlin keeps Guyana in the fight

After Barbados amass 495-8 declared By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Carib Beer, Hanes, TCL & Trophy Stall The smiles were back on the faces of everyone at the Windwards ground here...

Central Bank unable to detect ‘dirty money’

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Central Bank unable to detect ‘dirty money’

…eagerly awaits money laundering legislation The Central Bank of Guyana is at present unable to detect dirty money – money that has been earned through illegal means and has been...

Police question Canada-based immigration consultant

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Police question Canada-based immigration consultant

…investigate cash-for-visa scam Detectives at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department at Eve Leary have questioned Canada-based immigration consultant Balwant Persaud in...

President puts Dr Luncheon’s resignation on hold

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on President puts Dr Luncheon’s resignation on hold

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that he has asked Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, to remain in his post as Chairman of the Board of the National Insurance Scheme for...

Second kidney transplant patient discharged from hospital

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Second kidney transplant patient discharged from hospital

Retired Guyana Defence Force Major Winston George, the second kidney transplant patient, has been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. George was discharged and was...

Ramson is new Attorney-General

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Ramson is new Attorney-General

Justice of Appeal, Senior Counsel Charles Ramson snr., was yesterday sworn in as the new Attorney-General of Guyana, replacing long serving Senior Counsel Doodnauth Singh, who recently retired....

Soldiers breached army’s standing orders

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Soldiers breached army’s standing orders

An investigation by the Guyana Defence Force has revealed that ranks were in breach of the Force’s Standing Orders during last December’s boat collision at Cuyuni, which claimed the lives of two...

Photographer charged with fondling girl, 10

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Photographer charged with fondling girl, 10

Magistrate Sherdell Issacs-Marcus, on Thursday, granted a 54-year-old man his pre-trial liberty in the sum of $50,000 when he appeared before her on a charge of indecent assault. Kenrick Grinion, of...

TSU ranks moved to Brickdam lock-ups

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on TSU ranks moved to Brickdam lock-ups

The four Tactical Services Unit ranks, including a lance corporal, who were placed under close arrest after they were allegedly nabbed attempting to collect a sum of money from a drug suspect, are...

Court records in AFC bid for Region 10 seat missing

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Court records in AFC bid for Region 10 seat missing

The Alliance For Change (AFC), in a statement issued to the media yesterday, expressed its concern over the disappearance of the entire records of the pleadings in the hearing which is to determine...

One and five-dollar coins could be withdrawn

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on One and five-dollar coins could be withdrawn

There is a strong possibility that the Bank of Guyana will soon withdraw the local one and five dollar coins from circulation. This is according to Central Bank Governor Lawrence Williams, who said...

Brutal stepfather denied bail

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Brutal stepfather denied bail

Twenty-two-year-old Wayne Anthony Aulder was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Yohance Cave on a charge of feloniously wounding a 15-year-old boy on February 4. He was not required to plead....

Works Ministry moves to demolish stalls in Soesdyke

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Works Ministry moves to demolish stalls in Soesdyke

The Ministry of Public Works yesterday moved to demolish some stalls located on the Linden/Soesdyke Junction, but the efforts of the workmen were halted when the occupants of the stalls refused to...

Surveillance continues in post-flood communities

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Surveillance continues in post-flood communities

– Dr Persaud Although the Ministry of Health has noticeably scaled down its monitoring of flood-related illnesses in most communities, Chief Medical Officer Dr Shamdeo Persaud yesterday...

Teleconferencing crucial to regional business – Jagdeo

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Teleconferencing crucial to regional business – Jagdeo

There is need for proper teleconferencing facilities within the region to improve the communication systems, thus saving the time wasted on travel around the region for simple meetings. This is...

Wales strike: GAWU says workers will not receive extra 0.79 percent API

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Wales strike: GAWU says workers will not receive extra 0.79 percent API

In keeping with their threat to continue their strike action, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) workers at the Wales Estate downed their tools for the third day in protest over the non payment...

I am no killer!

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on I am no killer!

His battle-scarred body bears evidence of a tough life, but this Lodge resident declares: I am no killer! By Michael Benjamin A resident of Norton Street, Lodge, whom his fellow villagers dubbed a...

Umpiring error helps Hinds (134) continue prolific season

Feb 07, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Umpiring error helps Hinds (134) continue prolific season

Barbados reach 298-4 against Guyana on opening day By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Carib Beer, TCL, Hanes & Trophy Stall On the birth anniversary of the late great Jamaican singer...

Nicolette Fernandes through to tough semi-final clash

Feb 07, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Nicolette Fernandes through to tough semi-final clash

Nicolette Fernandes is the only negatively handicapped player that has made it to the semi-final stage of the Open category in the Bounty Farm Ltd. Handicap squash tournament. On Thursday evening...

Prison escapee recaptured at home

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Prison escapee recaptured at home

– relatives detained Surajnarine Singh, the 20-year-old convict who escaped from the Camp Street Prison in Georgetown a week ago, was recaptured yesterday at his Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara...

Fishermen donate cash to legless colleague

Feb 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Fishermen donate cash to legless colleague

Fishermen from Pritipaul Singh Investments have come to the aid of disabled seaman Russell Cornelius, even as his employers remain mum on his fate. The crewmen from 15 vessels attached to Pritipaul...

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Kellogg’s Senior Indoor Hockey championship concludes

Nov 10, 2026

– GCC Elite overturn Saints to claim Women’s Open crown as Bounty GCC, Antonio’s Hickers also win titles (Kaieteur News) – GCC Elite came from behind to win the Kellogg’s...

No good deed goes unpunished

Nov 10, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Among those who joined the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar in 44 BC was Marcus Junius Brutus, a man Caesar had previously pardoned after the civil war. Caesar had spared his life, restored him to favour and trusted him. Brutus repaid this generosity by helping to put a...

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...

U.S. midterms – the Guyanese challenge – Pt. III

Nov 10, 2026

Kaieteur News – Donald Trump made himself into a winner. He also made himself a loser. No close midterm results to contest. No tight seat margins that call for bruising, delaying, upending battles. The American people spoke, their will prevailed. What’s the lesson for Guyanese? Is there...

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