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Derelicts watching the derelicts?

Jun 13, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Derelicts watching the derelicts?

The Parrot always knew that one day, unfortunately, the derelict building at the corner of Hadfield and Smyth Streets, would collapse. It was a disaster waiting to happen. Fortunately, no one was...

Father’s Day Masters Football Festival fixed for Sunday

Jun 13, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Father’s Day Masters Football Festival fixed for Sunday

The Rastafari Patriarchs football team will be staging a Special All-day Masters football Festival on Sunday at the Tucville Community Ground. The six participating teams are Carib Masters, GT All...

De Chinee has landed

Jun 13, 2008 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists 1

Wheh laugh deh, cry deh, but then again, all skin teeth nah laugh. Dem boys tekking two beer de other night when a man walk up and call fuh a stiff drink. Dem boys nevah know this man to drink suh...

Republic Bank Right Start cricket: Jackman, Reid lead Tutorial to impressive win

Jun 13, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Republic Bank Right Start cricket: Jackman, Reid lead Tutorial to impressive win

Play in the Berbice leg of the Republic Bank Right Start national schools U-15 40-over cricket competition continued in the Ancient County with one game in the New Amsterdam/Canje district. In the...

Broken trail highlights path of fleeing gunmen

Jun 12, 2008 knews News 6

…no more than a day ahead of security forces The Joint Services ranks pursuing gunmen in the Christmas Falls area are convinced that the men are still in the general location. This was based on...

Rohee chastises police over response to domestic violence

Jun 12, 2008 knews News 3

The Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, yesterday lambasted the ranks of the Guyana Police Force for their inability to properly treat with reports of domestic violence. He noted that on many...

West Demerara hire car drivers strike for increased fares

Jun 12, 2008 knews News 1

The impact of the rising cost of fuel was cited as the main factor that prompted several hire car drivers who ply the Crane/Vreed-en-Hoop Stelling route to commence an intense strike action...

NAC survey reveals PLWHAs most discriminated against by family

Jun 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on NAC survey reveals PLWHAs most discriminated against by family

The problem of stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) continues to be a major challenge, and is most prevalent within families, according to the preliminary results of...

Raffel Douglas home again, declined to cooperate with the US

Jun 12, 2008 knews News 1

“I am no snitch” Former local basketball executive Raffel Christopher Douglas, who was extradited from Trinidad to the United States almost three years ago, is back home after pleading guilty in...

Supreme Court Registrar returns to work

Jun 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Supreme Court Registrar returns to work

Registrar of the Supreme Court, Sita Ramlal, returned to work yesterday after a recent, prolonged illness. She was met with a warm welcome and loud applause. Ramlal, who was hospitalised overseas,...

Co-op member was spying for pirates

Jun 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Co-op member was spying for pirates

– Berbice fishing official Berbice fishermen are claiming that one of their own members was a spy for a prominent pirate gang, which was broken earlier this year by Suriname authorities. ...

Manickchand launches National Domestic Violence Policy

Jun 12, 2008 knews News 1

…says not another talk shop, support services, legal aid already in place Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand, yesterday launched the National Domestic Violence Policy...

National Hardware adds Chinese vehicles to imports

Jun 12, 2008 knews News 1

At a ceremony on Tuesday, National Hardware (Guyana) Limited Group of Companies officially launched its new line of vehicles that are currently manufactured and assembled in China. These vehicles are...

Govt. concedes inevitability of FOI legislation

Jun 12, 2008 knews News 2

…but PPP never discussed the legislation – Ramotar The People’s Progressive Party has never consulted internally on whether it would support a Freedom of Information Legislation. This...

$Youth thrown into lock-ups with fractured leg after police beating$

Youth thrown into lock-ups with fractured leg after police beating

Jun 12, 2008 knews News 3

As Police up the ante against crime, several allegations of brutality and torture have been surfacing. The latest allegation comes from a 26-year-old Grove, East Bank Demerara resident, Patrick...

John, Bryan to spearhead Guyana’s team at Latin C/ships

Jun 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on John, Bryan to spearhead Guyana’s team at Latin C/ships

Caribbean champions Michelle John and Nigel Bryan will spearhead Guyana’s team at the upcoming Latin American Cadet and Junior Table Tennis Championships in Cartegena, Colombia from June 13-17....

MCY&S Inter Bloc football set for Madiha

Jun 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on MCY&S Inter Bloc football set for Madiha

Already making waves in the areas it has started, the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports Inter Bloc football tournaments aimed at reviving and reinvigorating the sport at the Grass Roots level is...

Ministry to unveil child labour combat plan today

Jun 12, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Ministry to unveil child labour combat plan today

As Guyana joins the international community in observing World Day against Child Labour, the Minister of Labour, Manzoor Nadir, is urging parents to protect their children from premature employment....

CARICOM Secretary-General hails Bolt’s achievement

Jun 12, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on CARICOM Secretary-General hails Bolt’s achievement

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana- H.E. Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has offered congratulations to athlete Usain Bolt and has...

Sexual molestation in schools…

Jun 12, 2008 knews News 1

Teachers concerned over image of institutions Even as the Education Ministry continues to put measures in place to curb the incidences of sexual molestation in schools, several teachers are claiming...

Team spirit high ahead of Saturday’s clash with Suriname

Jun 12, 2008 knews Sports 1

-Klass renews call for local support from business community By Rawle Welch President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Colin Klass in an interview with Kaieteur Sport yesterday at the...

New growth industry

Jun 12, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on New growth industry

Like the poor, natural disasters have always been with us. Recently, however, the incidences of natural disasters have been gradually increasing – due probably to the shifting climatic...

Freddie Kisson – Facts can be verified

Jun 12, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 8

Here is a quote from one of the Peeping Toms yesterday: “When Dev exposed…the dangers inherent in his (Frederick Kissoon) argument about an elected dictatorship, Freddie had no answer….” Ravi...

A well written and thoughtful piece on the plight of women

Jun 12, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on A well written and thoughtful piece on the plight of women

DEAR EDITOR, Sharma Solomon must be congratulated on his article captioned ‘More should be done to protect women and girls in our society’. I do hope the relevant groups are listening, since this...

The teaching profession is falling into disrepute

Jun 12, 2008 knews Letters 2

DEAR EDITOR, Tell me what in the world we can say about the recent spate of sexual acts committed by teachers in the Georgetown area, and the many others that go unnoticed and unreported in the...

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CAREBACO Juniors 2026 Jamaica: Guyana secure four medals with Singles...

Aug 21, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana junior athletes proudly represented the Golden Arrowhead at the CAREBACO Junior Badminton Championships, held in Jamaica from August 14–18, 2026. Guyana captured the...

The students who never turned up

Aug 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – A report in yesterday’s Kaieteur News that some 35,000 students across the Caribbean absconded from the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations ought to make every education policymaker sit up and take note. The figure is startling, but before we begin...

Haiti – Stop the money flow to Organised Crime

Aug 16, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Haiti’s plight must not be forgotten because it is no longer a regular feature of international headlines. The suffering has not diminished. Between January and early June 2026, at least 2,310 people were killed, 1,106 were injured and 99 were kidnapped,...

Loving Exxon

Aug 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It is why I like these swashbucklers operating out of Spring, Texas. They know how to keep others on their toes, and to lull their partners in host counties to sleep. There was Big Chief Darren Woods during his 31st July second quarter report breaking open the champagne. ...

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