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Crowd support vital for ‘Jaguars’ : Surinamese crowd was intimidating – Shabazz

Jun 17, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Crowd support vital for ‘Jaguars’ : Surinamese crowd was intimidating – Shabazz

By Franklin Wilson Crowd support for Sunday’s return game between Guyana and Suriname is very important for the ‘Golden Jaguars’. So says Technical Director of the Guyana Football Federation,...

Berbice cyclist killed in road accident

Jun 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Berbice cyclist killed in road accident

Early yesterday morning, a West Berbice cyclist reportedly died as a result of an accident with a vehicle belonging to the Guyana Police Force, on the Cotton Tree Public Road. Dead is Angad Chan, a...

Inaccurate media report could affect GWI/City Hall debt resolution process

Jun 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Inaccurate media report could affect GWI/City Hall debt resolution process

– PUC Chairman Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Justice Prem Persaud, is concerned that inaccurate reports in some sections of the media could have an adverse effect on the...

Melissa Humphrey snares GT&T Golf tourney

Jun 17, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Melissa Humphrey snares GT&T Golf tourney

Experienced female golfer Melissa Humphrey won last Saturday’s Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) sponsored pre-Father’s Day Medal Play golf tournament and in the process ruined the...

House-to-house registration funds allocation…

Jun 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on House-to-house registration funds allocation…

Appeal Court rules in favour of AFC/ROAR The Appeal Court yesterday ruled that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) should proportionately allocate monies to the Parliamentary opposition parties...

BFA U-15 League : Wins for New Amsterdam United, Corentyne Links and Rosignol United

Jun 17, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on BFA U-15 League : Wins for New Amsterdam United, Corentyne Links and Rosignol United

The Berbice Football Association U-15 League competition continued last Saturday at the All Saints Scot’s Church Ground with three games. There were wins for Corentyne Links, Rosignol United and...

AIDS still prevalent in Caribbean

Jun 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on AIDS still prevalent in Caribbean

Progress has been made in efforts to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, notably the reduction in mother-to child transmission in all countries and the significant increase in persons...

Housewife succumbs after embassy vehicle accident

Jun 17, 2008 knews News 1

After almost one week of being hospitalized having been struck by a United States Embassy vehicle, 22-year-old Shonette Williams succumbed to her injuries. According to her relatives, the housewife,...

Day/night matches now possible at Nat’l Stadium

Jun 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Day/night matches now possible at Nat’l Stadium

The Guyana National Stadium now has the capability to hosting day/night cricket matches, thanks to a number of special lights which have been installed and erected. According to Walter Willis,...

Guyana Cultural Association Caribbean Awards to honour Forbes Burnham

Jun 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Guyana Cultural Association Caribbean Awards to honour Forbes Burnham

The 2008 Guyana Cultural Association Wordsworth McAndrew Awards will recognize the achievements of individuals and contributions by social and business entities in cultural development, at its...

Herstelling acid attack…

Jun 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Herstelling acid attack…

Accused said he was victim A Police witness in the Herstelling acid attack yesterday testified that, although one of the accused complained about being burnt, he saw no marks consistent with the...

Mahdia Inter-Block fixtures drawn

Jun 17, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Mahdia Inter-Block fixtures drawn

Campbelltown will clash with Air Strip when the first ever Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport sponsored Mahdia Inter-Block Football competition kicks off on June 27 in Region 8. This was decided...

GCA’s Ordinary General Meeting set for tomorrow at GCC

Jun 17, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GCA’s Ordinary General Meeting set for tomorrow at GCC

There will be an Ordinary General Meeting of the Georgetown Cricket Association tomorrow starting at 5:30 pm at the Georgetown Cricket Club. Several matters are scheduled to be discussed. All Members...

Eighth-of-May gets Food for the Poor assistance

Jun 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Eighth-of-May gets Food for the Poor assistance

The Eighth of May Primary School on the Essequibo Coast was the latest school to receive substantial assistance through the Food for the Poor Sanitation Project which is geared at improving...

Peeping Tom – IT’S TRADITIONAL!

Jun 17, 2008 knews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – IT’S TRADITIONAL!

A grieving mother who had just lost her son related to reporters what a good boy he was. According to the mom, the lad worked for $5,500 per week. Each week he would only keep $500 for himself and...

Literacy being monitored closely in schools

Jun 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Literacy being monitored closely in schools

– Minister Baksh In order to ensure that favourable results are derived from the various literacy programmes in primary schools, as well as to determine the efficacy of teachers in this...

Tri-Lake farmers benefit from agro tourism investment

Jun 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Tri-Lake farmers benefit from agro tourism investment

Several Amerindian communities are accelerating moves to maximise the lucrative opportunities offered at the just concluded Regional Agriculture Investment Forum held in Guyana over two days from...

Freddie Kissoon – Credibility, image and dictatorship

Jun 17, 2008 knews Freddie Kissoon 8

As the days pass on in the rule of the PPP, your mind keeps going back to the reign of Burnham. It is hard to escape the memories of struggle in the Burnham era. But each memory is tainted with the...

Ministry declares war on child labour

Jun 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Ministry declares war on child labour

The Ministry of Labour has begun an intense public awareness crusade against child labour. The campaign, which is taking the form of advertisements, posters, bulletins and banners, was launched on...

25 venues in G/town and its environs to host CARIFESTA X activities

Jun 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on 25 venues in G/town and its environs to host CARIFESTA X activities

Georgetown will be the hub of activities for the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) X, which will feature 10 days of more than 100 cultural events during the period August 22 to 31. Approximately...

‘Fine Man’s top lieutenants captured

Jun 16, 2008 knews News 5

Police officials said yesterday that they had captured two men whom, they say, are top lieutenants of fugitive Rondell ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins. It is unclear when and where the men were captured, but...

Girl, 15, gang-raped, murdered

Jun 16, 2008 knews News 11

– nude body dumped Fifteen-year-old Shelisha Khan left her Lancaster, Mahaica home on Saturday night to purchase food, and the next time she was seen by her relatives was at the Lyken Funeral...

Pensioner kills young robber

Jun 16, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Pensioner kills young robber

-16-year-old accomplice nabbed A 65-year-old farmer shot a young robber dead after the youth and a 16-year-old accomplice attacked him at his Lower Kara Kara, Linden home at around 21:30 hrs on...

Gunmen stage daring robbery outside prisons

Jun 16, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Gunmen stage daring robbery outside prisons

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Two gunmen staged a brazen robbery on Saturday night just about 200 yards from the gate of the New Amsterdam Prisons, and made a clean escape. The victims, who did not...

East Berbice road work halted

Jun 16, 2008 knews News Comments Off on East Berbice road work halted

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – All road work in East Berbice /Corentyne has been put on hold. This is as a result of inclement weather. Chairman of Region Six, Zulfikar Mustapha, said that tomorrow,...

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WIN cannot break the PPP/C’s political stranglehold unless it first...

Aug 25, 2026

(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

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...

The man from WIN slipped

Aug 25, 2026

(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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