March 2009

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Nephew knifes uncle to death

Mar 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Nephew knifes uncle to death

A 41-year-old canecutter was knifed to death in an alleyway at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara, at around 14:20 hrs yesterday, during an altercation with his 25-year-old nephew. Andrew Benjamin,...

Kidney patient re-admitted to GPHC

Mar 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Kidney patient re-admitted to GPHC

– claims he is unable to retain fluids Recipient of a kidney during the most recent transplant operation undertaken at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Retired Major, Winston...

Killers reportedly used assault rifles

Mar 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Killers reportedly used assault rifles

… Pomeroon double murder Police have detained a 25-year-old in connection with the murders of Romeo and Clint De Agrella, whose bullet-riddled bodies were found on Monday in the Atlantic...

Police take over security at CLICO

Mar 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Police take over security at CLICO

Police ranks were deployed to the CLICO Head Office on Camp Street as reports of threats to staff are being investigated. The move by the police stemmed from action by the Judicial Manager, Maria van...

C’bean governments should apply adaptation policies

Mar 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on C’bean governments should apply adaptation policies

– St. Lucia PM Saint Lucia’s Prime Minister, Stephenson King, is urging Caribbean governments, as a matter of priority, to develop, strengthen and apply national and regional adaptation...

Intense attraction with a tragic end

Mar 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Intense attraction with a tragic end

– Diamond mother tells how she ended up in a relationship with a man who has caused her sons to be locked up for manslaughter By Neil Marks Latchmin is still seething with anger and despair,...

Students’ attendance rates affected by home and school-based factors

Mar 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Students’ attendance rates affected by home and school-based factors

– Education official Although there has been no major research done in Guyana in recent times to substantiate the root cause of students’ absenteeism, it has been established that this problem...

Runaway teen found

Mar 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Runaway teen found

After being missing for eight days, 11-year-old Andre Pratt, also known as Ron, was found lingering at the Plaisance Car Park on Friday night last.. The youth of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank...

God’s angels, a tragic suicide and a mother’s tears

Mar 25, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on God’s angels, a tragic suicide and a mother’s tears

I once did an essay on this page titled, “God’s perfect children.” The point was that the PPP leaders in government were indeed God’s angels. You trace the governments that have been...

Minorities all

Mar 25, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Minorities all

Not unexpectedly, the Report of the UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues has generated some controversy, locally. Any analysis that touches on our fractious politics can be counted on, as if...

BETTER NEEDS TO BE DONE NEXT TIME

Mar 25, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BETTER NEEDS TO BE DONE NEXT TIME

If the just concluded two international one day matches between England and the West Indies at the National Stadium was an administrative dress rehearsal for next year’s ICC World Twenty20...

NIS losing close to $1 million daily – Cristopher Ram

Mar 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on NIS losing close to $1 million daily – Cristopher Ram

…as CLICO debacle ripples across financial sector As a result of the $6.9B investment in Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) Guyana, the National Insurance Scheme is losing close to $1M per...

Exports down significantly

Mar 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Exports down significantly

…company freezes employment – John Fernandes’ CEO By Nadia Guyadeen Chief Executive Officer of John Fernandes Limited, Chris Fernandes, says that exports are down significantly where his...

Bullet-riddled bodies and bloodstained boat found at Pomeroon

Mar 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Bullet-riddled bodies and bloodstained boat found at Pomeroon

– father and son believed slain after returning from Venezuela The bullet-riddled decomposing bodies of a father and son, along with their bloodstained boat, were found at around 13:00 hrs...

Woman electrocuted at Land of Canaan

Mar 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Woman electrocuted at Land of Canaan

Mystery surrounds the death of Ms. Ula Brown, also known as “Ms Brown”, a supervisor attached to the Secret Villa Hotel, Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara. Brown was pronounced dead on...

$Baby suffers fractured skull, four others hospitalised as man goes berserk$

Baby suffers fractured skull, four others hospitalised as man goes berserk

Mar 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Baby suffers fractured skull, four others hospitalised as man goes berserk

Four members of a Mahaica family, including a six-month-old baby who sustained a fractured skull, are hospitalised after a man went berserk when a case of domestic violence spiraled out of control...

KN journalists turned away from OP

Mar 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on KN journalists turned away from OP

Kaieteur News Editor-in-Chief Adam Harris and reporter, Fareeza Haniff, were yesterday turned away from the Office of the President in Shiv. Chanderpaul Dr. because they were not in possession of...

Senna pod deaths due to dehydration, overdose

Mar 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Senna pod deaths due to dehydration, overdose

A post mortem preformed on the remains of five-year-old Afiena and three-year-old Aliyah Ramdeen, revealed that the two died of dehydration due to an overdose of a laxative. The post mortem also...

HEALTH MINISTER’S WORLD TB DAY MESSAGE 2009

Mar 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on HEALTH MINISTER’S WORLD TB DAY MESSAGE 2009

Today is World TB Day. It is an opportune time for me to remind Guyanese of my warning more than five years ago that TB is likely to become our greatest Public Health Challenge. This public Health...

UNAIDS committed to helping reduce TB/HIV co-infection

Mar 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on UNAIDS committed to helping reduce TB/HIV co-infection

Significant progress has been made in the local Health Ministry’s fight against Tuberculosis (TB) which is evident in the fewer number of cases of the disease detected last year, according to...

Court Registrar concerned about bias in conduct of investigations

Mar 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Court Registrar concerned about bias in conduct of investigations

Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes, in a letter to Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene, on behalf of his client, Supreme Court Registrar, Sita Ramlal, says that his client welcomes a thorough...

An apology to Patrick van Beek

Mar 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on An apology to Patrick van Beek

Patrick van Beek, the husband of Commissioner of Insurance, Maria van Beek, severed ties with CL Financial in January 2006. He worked with a Caribbean Money Market Brokers Limited, a subsidiary of CL...

Deworming exercise gaining results

Mar 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Deworming exercise gaining results

As the Ministry of Health continues its national deworming exercise in the country, Health Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has said that so far there are indications that there is a significant...

Ravens enforce Royal beating

Mar 24, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Ravens enforce Royal beating

emphatically take NLE title By Edison Jefford It is popular basketball parlance that there is always a sixth man on the court apart from a conventional starting five. Ravens proved that idiom true...

Uprising stun Tigers, Conquerors swamp Thomas

Mar 24, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Uprising stun Tigers, Conquerors swamp Thomas

By Franklin Wilson Day two of the 2nd annual Banks Premium Beer Cup produced the biggest upset to date when former division-one champs Uprising stunned the new division-one kings, BK International...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

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...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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