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Banks DIH Coca Cola Football in Berbice…NA United stun front runners Mahaicony

Jun 11, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH Coca Cola Football in Berbice…NA United stun front runners Mahaicony

New Amsterdam United Football Club opened their campaign in this year’s Banks DIH Coca Cola division one competition for teams in Region 5 and 6 on a winning note. In a lone game which was played...

It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad Guyana

Jun 11, 2008 knews Letters 1

Dear Editor, The backwardness in Guyana continues as newer encounters continue to amaze me more and more. The most recent is the inability to provide change to ticket buyers at the Transport and...

The letters of T. King are all appalling

Jun 11, 2008 knews Letters 1

Dear Editor, There isn’t a time that I am not appalled when reading letters written by T. King. It happened again when I read a letter captioned “Opposition groups are trying their best to bring...

Bring the criminals in alive or dead

Jun 11, 2008 knews Letters 3

Dear Editor, Now is not the time to celebrate and praise the Joint Services, because one criminal was killed and others may have been wounded. Now is the time to tell the Joint Services to keep the...

GT&T sponsors pre-Father’s Day Golf tourney

Jun 11, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GT&T sponsors pre-Father’s Day Golf tourney

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) will sponsor this weekend’s pre-Father’s Day Medal Play Golf tournament on Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Course. The local telephone company disclosed...

The Parrot Speaks – Keeping a poker face

Jun 11, 2008 knews Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Parrot Speaks – Keeping a poker face

The Parrot has decided after looking at international news two days ago, to keep a “poker face”, not that I am playing the game. I just don’t want anyone to be able to “read my face”...

Let the lawmen share the $50M reward on offer

Jun 11, 2008 knews Letters 1

Dear Editor, I am sure most of us have given up on the Joint Services’ operation to catch ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins and his notorious gang. I myself agreed our men in uniform are no match for these...

Humans are inclined to use scripture to justify bias and ignorance

Jun 11, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Humans are inclined to use scripture to justify bias and ignorance

Dear Editor, The recent letter published in the Guyana Chronicle, entitled “Islam and Homosexuality,” acknowledges the existence of Muslims and scholars in the religion who have evinced a more...

DDL continues support for Pepsi Sonics

Jun 11, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on DDL continues support for Pepsi Sonics

Demerara Distillers Limited through its Pepsi brand last Monday renewed its sponsorship to Pepsi Sonics Basketball Club when they handed over a cheque valued in the region of $400,000 for the...

The Agriculture Investment Forum

Jun 11, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on The Agriculture Investment Forum

The two-day “CARICOM Agriculture Investment Forum” ended last Sunday and the CARICOM Secretariat has informed us that some “twenty-five projects ranging from food production to ethanol...

Christmas Falls shooting…Slain gunman identified as young Buxtonian

Jun 10, 2008 knews News 7

…had resisted pleas to leave gang All speculations have been put to rest, as relatives of the man who was killed at Christmas Falls on Friday last positively identified him as 21-year-old Otis...

Nine CANU officers fired

Jun 10, 2008 knews News 3

– acting boss among them Several officers of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) were yesterday sent home after failing their polygraph tests. According to sources, CANU’s Acting Head,...

Education Ministry moves to sack teachers in sex scandals

Jun 10, 2008 knews News 1

…head teachers also face sanctions There will be no compromising with teachers who are guilty of sexually molesting students, or even those against whom such allegations are made. This declaration...

Roger Khan saga…..Govt. did not authorize importation of sensitive equipment

Jun 10, 2008 knews News 4

“Such a request by the law enforcement agencies of Guyana would have to be approved by the relevant authorities before an application is made by the Government of Guyana to the relevant American...

Sugar price skyrockets in Berbice

Jun 10, 2008 knews News 1

…investigation ongoing into smuggling to Suriname and Trinidad The price of sugar has touched the $100 per pound mark in Berbice, and shopkeepers are claiming that Guysuco has increased the cost...

EU’s sugar subsidy remains contentious issue – GuySuCo

Jun 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on EU’s sugar subsidy remains contentious issue – GuySuCo

As the fallout from the negotiated Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with the European Union continues, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday said that it is seeking to clarify a...

Grace period ends today for licencees

Jun 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Grace period ends today for licencees

…harsher penalties for non-compliance under review The grace period allowed by the Guyana Revenue Authority for the purchase of licences for 2008 for operating businesses, motor vehicles or motor...

Man found guilty of making false robbery report

Jun 10, 2008 knews News 1

Lloyd Smith, of Supenaam, Essequibo, was convicted yesterday by Magistrate Fazil Azeez for making a false report about a robbery. According to a Police statement, on June 2 last, Smith reported at...

Assessment tool introduced to reverse trends of illiteracy

Jun 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Assessment tool introduced to reverse trends of illiteracy

The quality of education will be aptly addressed during a week-long Early Reading Grade Assessment (EGRA) workshop for education professionals, which commenced yesterday at the National Centre for...

Guianas’ Club Championship: ASC Le Geldar de Kourou crowned champs, Alpha beat US Matoury

Jun 10, 2008 knews Sports 1

By Franklin Wilson in French Guiana compliments of Digicel French Guiana’s ASC Le Geldar de Kourou were crowned champions of the inaugural Coupe des Guyanes (Guiana’s Club Championship) after...

Queenstown Pit bull attack…Victim released from hospital

Jun 10, 2008 knews News 2

It has been almost three weeks since 20-year-old Rawle Ramsaywack was mauled by three pit bulls in Queenstown, but there has yet been no action taken against the owner of the animals. This newspaper...

Bohemia residents accuse NDC chairman of theft, inefficiency

Jun 10, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Bohemia residents accuse NDC chairman of theft, inefficiency

…call for his removal It was a chaotic scene at the Bohemia Primary School, Lower Corentyne, Berbice, on Sunday as residents called for the removal of the Neighborhood Democratic Council (NDC)...

GABF Inter-Sub Association Tournament: G/town successfully defends home turf

Jun 10, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GABF Inter-Sub Association Tournament: G/town successfully defends home turf

– Siland heroics provide win By Rawle Welch It was scrappy, temperamental and overrated, but sometimes these are the elements that combine to make the Georgetown versus Linden rivalry in any...

High flying O’Neal weathers storm to bomb way to double World titles

Jun 10, 2008 knews Sports 1

Described as Guyana’s lone fighter jet, Gwendolyn ‘Stealth Bomber’ O’Neal had to weather the storm to bomb her way to double world titles on Friday night at the Phillipsburg Auditorium in St...

Pirates steal vessel, dump crew overboard

Jun 10, 2008 knews News 1

Pirates made of with a fishing vessel, at around 20:00 hrs on Sunday, after holding the crew at gunpoint and dumping them overboard in the Atlantic Ocean near Rosignol, Berbice. A release said that...

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Local Players confirmed following CPL Draft

May 16, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – The Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) draft has taken place, with the seven teams confirming the West Indian players who will form part of their squads for the 2026...

Clapping while suffering a small stroke

May 16, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time in Guyanese politics when crossing the floor required a degree of shame, or at least the decency to look nervous while doing it. A man would lower his head, avoid eye contact in Parliament, mumble something about “national interest,” and quietly migrate to...

The Caribbean’s Limits in Absorbing Other States’ Deportees

May 10, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws. The United States has that right, as does every sovereign state. All Caribbean governments...

Welcome back, brother Jagdeo

May 16, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – They say that it’s Bharrat Jagdeo. There is only one. Looks like him. Words read like him. Sounds like his speech pattern, though unheard, personally. Limited to emergencies for the sake of well-being. Welcome back, Bharrat Jagdeo: brother,...

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