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Teacher remanded on sex assault charge

Jun 07, 2008 knews News 2

A teacher attached to the Charlestown Secondary School was remanded to prison, yesterday, on a charge of indecently assaulting a student. The accused, 32-year-old Gopaul Ramatulla, made his...

Education Ministry launches sign language training

Jun 07, 2008 knews News 1

The Ministry of Education, in partnership with the Guyana Community Based Rehabilitation Programme (GCBRP), on Wednesday began a sign language training project aimed at preparing the way for greater...

Kitty man beaten for stealing electrical cord

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Kitty man beaten for stealing electrical cord

The efforts of two police officers and the curiosity of several public-spirited citizens may have been instrumental in saving the life of a 33-year-old man who was severely beaten about his body and...

‘Nasty Man’ charged with buggery

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on ‘Nasty Man’ charged with buggery

A 17-year-old murder accused and another man were yesterday remanded to prison after they were jointly charged with buggery. The duo Deon Braithwaite, 21, of X D’Urban Street, and Dellon Henry,...

‘Guyana Times’ hits the streets

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on ‘Guyana Times’ hits the streets

– President gets testy at launching President Bharrat Jagdeo was at his caustic best Thursday evening at the launching of the newly established newspaper ‘Guyana Times’ when he launched an...

Man remanded for gunpoint robbery

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Man remanded for gunpoint robbery

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday remanded an 18-year-old man after he appeared before her on a charge of robbery under arms. The accused, Rolston Row, on June 2, while being armed with a...

Freddie Kissoon – Mr. Jagdeo will end his tenure not knowing this country

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon – Mr. Jagdeo will end his tenure not knowing this country

There are things that each of us in this world know so that we can say; “I know this thing a little better than you.” I will now say to President Jagdeo that I know what the Guyanese people...

Mocha Access Road needs some attention

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mocha Access Road needs some attention

DEAR MR. EDITOR. The community of Mocha/Arcadia is situated on the East Bank of the Demerara River approximately five and a half miles from Georgetown and one and a half miles east of Ramsburg by the...

Food drives become imperative as investment forum gets underway

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Food drives become imperative as investment forum gets underway

With a mini-exhibition and some 150 participants, the Regional Agriculture Investment Forum began yesterday with Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo urging governments to focus on action-oriented...

Peeping Tom – Time to End the Debate

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – Time to End the Debate

One race has ended in the United States of America. Senator Hillary Clinton is today expected to concede to Senator Barack Obama in the race for the Democratic Nomination for the Presidency of the...

The primitive approach to communication must cease

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on The primitive approach to communication must cease

DEAR EDITOR The University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS) is the body which attends to any student welfare and ensures that the UG Administration provides a safe studying/working environment...

Infrastructural improvement moving apace for Carifesta

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Infrastructural improvement moving apace for Carifesta

Even as the monetary cost of preparing sections of the country for Carifesta is being addressed, plans are moving apace to ensure that all is ready for Guyana’s hosting of the festival of arts in...

Kudos Minister Ramsammy !

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR, I am relieved that Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy has now spoken publicly about the connection between domestic violence, health and the economy. I would like to draw attention to...

Accused in UG student’s murder freed

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Accused in UG student’s murder freed

Steve Lovell, who was charged with murdering University of Guyana student, Dennis Edghill, yesterday walked out of the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court a free man after the case against him was...

Schoolgirl stripped in class because of removable tattoo

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Schoolgirl stripped in class because of removable tattoo

…welfare department to investigate An outraged mother made her fury evident yesterday when she told the story of how her 14-year-old child was apparently stripped of her school uniform by teachers...

Double-murder suspect nabbed while fleeing from hospital

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Double-murder suspect nabbed while fleeing from hospital

Pandemonium broke out at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) at around 04:00 hrs yesterday when 27-year-old Lloyd Sadloo, who is a suspect in the murders of two Brazilian businessmen,...

Focus needs to be placed on City Council

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Focus needs to be placed on City Council

DEAR EDITOR I am quite enthused to observe the efforts by the government and more particularly by the President, for whom I want to applaud for genuinely trying to root out corruption and financial...

Correction

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Correction

The Fashion Focus Team accidentally misstated the date for the Carifesta Model Casting. The date is Sunday June 8 and not July 8 as was stated. Male and female models between the ages of 15 and 30,...

Pensioners should be paid earlier in the month

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pensioners should be paid earlier in the month

DEAR EDITOR, Every year the Accountant General in the Ministry of Finance issues a circular to Permanent Secretaries and Heads of Department setting out the dates in each month of the ensuing year...

I was there when Guyana became a sovereign nation

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR I was there at the National Park forty two years ago when the British Flag the “Union Jack” was taken down and our own Golden Arrow Head was hoisted by our own Major Desmond Roberts....

We Forgot At Our own Peril

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Editorial Comments Off on We Forgot At Our own Peril

It seems just a short while ago that this nation was plunged into torrents of mourning following two successive atrocities, the likes of which were unprecedented in Guyana. Yet it has been over four...

PNCR says… Corbin will be protected by any means necessary

Jun 06, 2008 knews News 1

The People’s National Congress Reform, at its statutory press briefing yesterday, announced that the party will take all measures necessary and required to protect its Leader, Robert Corbin. The...

Prosecutors ‘will request stiff jail terms’ for Guyanese fishermen

Jun 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Prosecutors ‘will request stiff jail terms’ for Guyanese fishermen

Authorities in Suriname’s capital, Paramaribo, say that they will lay charges against 27 Guyanese nationals for fishing without a license in the country’s waters. Additionally, they are being...

Pit bulls maul caretaker

Jun 06, 2008 knews News 1

A 25-year-old caretaker narrowly escaped death at around 18:00 hrs yesterday after he was mauled by two pit bulls he was about to feed at Oleander Gardens, East Coast Demerara. Ramdatt Singh, who...

Canada offers polygraph training for Region’s police officers

Jun 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Canada offers polygraph training for Region’s police officers

With increased emphasis being placed on polygraph testing, police officers from the Caribbean will benefit from special training in the field through an offer from the Canadian High Commission to...

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May 24, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – In celebration of Guyana’s 60th Independence Anniversary, the Lusignan Golf Club will host the Ready Mix Concrete Limited / Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport Independence...

Borrowing in an age of oil wealth

May 24, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana today enjoys one of the most enviable fiscal positions in the developing world. Its debt-to-GDP ratio remains moderate, debt servicing costs are manageable, and rising oil revenues have dramatically strengthened the country’s balance sheet. Yet these comforting...

The OAS faces a moral test in Panama

May 17, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – An attempt is now being made by a few member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), using procedural manoeuvres, to prevent a proposed “Declaration on the Rights of Persons and Peoples of African Descent” from proceeding to the OAS...

Sanctity of contract – at its gut

May 24, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – I must be franker than usual with my fellow Guyanese. Whenever I hear three words in the hallowed English Language I cringe. They are not ‘I love you.’ The three words that cause considerable unease are sanctity of contract. Hence, I must be...

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