March 2010

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Oh Judgement! Thou art fled to brutish beasts

Mar 03, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Oh Judgement! Thou art fled to brutish beasts

I can remember vaguely that I did a column many moons ago with this title. It is one of my favourite quotes and will stay in my mind forever. I have used it so often in my home that my daughter has...

TSU ranks accused of theft from Linden house

Mar 03, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on TSU ranks accused of theft from Linden house

Two ranks from the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) of the Guyana Police Force have been placed under close arrest for allegedly going into a Linden house and stealing cash and jewellery. Kaieteur News...

How can morality improve the GTU’s ability to bargain?

Mar 03, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on How can morality improve the GTU’s ability to bargain?

Dear Editor, Mr. Leon Suseran’s letter, captioned, “Teachers need to vote with their heads and not their hearts” at the upcoming GTU elections, left out a very important fact. That is, that Mr....

Guyanese are responsible for Phagwah celebration in NY

Mar 03, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese are responsible for Phagwah celebration in NY

Dear Editor, Phagwah will be celebrated at public locations in the NY metro area this weekend in a grand way, perhaps even bigger than in Guyana — on 6, 7 March in Richmond Hill, Queens, by two...

Victim identified as St. Gabriel’s student

Mar 03, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Victim identified as St. Gabriel’s student

By Latoya Giles The young boy who drowned in the Guyana Water Incorporated reservoir on Mandela Avenue, on Monday, has been identified as 10-year-old St Gabriel’s Primary school student, Akeem...

THIS IS A SAD WAY FOR A CHILD TO DIE

Mar 03, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THIS IS A SAD WAY FOR A CHILD TO DIE

On Phagwah Day, a young man met his death while swimming with friends in a reservoir or backwash being constructed for Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI). The youth either did not heed the warnings that...

Govt. defers $1.4B debt owed by GuySuCo

Mar 03, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. defers $1.4B debt owed by GuySuCo

Shadow Finance Minister Winston Murray during the debates in the National Assembly had questioned a loan in excess of $2B loan to the Guyana Sugar Corporation on the basis of the fact that it could...

Lindeners have been reduced to minions

Mar 03, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lindeners have been reduced to minions

Dear Editor, Once more I have to bring to the attention of the public the continuous erosion and defilement of people of this town and region. Good governance at the local level is perpetually...

Holi Thoughts

Mar 03, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Holi Thoughts

Once again we in Guyana have experienced a happy confluence of religious commemorations that reflect our rich diversity. In the midst of the Christian season of Lent, the Muslim community celebrated...

Reputed husband butchers mother of two

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Reputed husband butchers mother of two

(By Mondale Smith and Jenelle Carter) The lives of two baby girls, aged two years and four months have forever been altered. Their mother is dead with multiple stabs and chop wounds about her body,...

Youth drowns in GWI reservoir

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Youth drowns in GWI reservoir

The death of a young man in the Guyana Water Incorporated reservoir on Mandela Avenue, near the Shirley Field-Ridley Square, should serve as a deterrent to youths who despite repeated warnings,...

Abusive husband burns down home

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Abusive husband burns down home

Less than an hour after he was released from police custody for beating his reputed wife, a 42-year-old carpenter torched the family’s Farm squatting area, West Bank Demerara home. It was just...

Tuschen man sets himself alight in house

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Tuschen man sets himself alight in house

A Tushen man yesterday afternoon reportedly set himself alight in his house. Ishmail Khan, 29, of 1620 Tuschen, West Bank Essequibo, took the drastic action yesterday afternoon after learning that...

Dem Boys Seh… Phagwah had nuff fire

Mar 02, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Boys Seh… Phagwah had nuff fire

El Nino spoil de Phagwah celebration. Nuff people couldn’t find water to spray one another but dem always got de innovative ones. One man find water from somewhere and was selling at $100 a bucket....

Fireman killed, cyclist injured in Grove crash

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Fireman killed, cyclist injured in Grove crash

A Phagwah Day outing ended tragically for 23-year-old fireman, David Mc Kenzie, after he was killed in a crash at around 19:00 hrs yesterday while riding his motorcycle near Grove, East Bank...

Nationwide disconnection campaign begins today – GWI

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Nationwide disconnection campaign begins today – GWI

On February 15, last, executives at Guyana Water Incorporated announced that they would begin a massive disconnection campaign throughout the country in an effort to recover almost $6 billion in...

Indian Cultural Centre celebrates Phagwah

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Indian Cultural Centre celebrates Phagwah

Phagwah was celebrated on the lawns of the Indian Cultural Centre at 67 Bel-Air, New Haven, Georgetown yesterday. President Bharrat Jagdeo, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, High Commissioner of India,...

Police arrest Phagwah revelers at the Kendra

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Police arrest Phagwah revelers at the Kendra

Phagwah celebrations for some did not end as expected yesterday when police ranks arrested six male revelers at the annual event held at the Kendra in Prashad Nagar. Angry relatives who converged...

ECHO streamlines climate change activity for children

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on ECHO streamlines climate change activity for children

– El Nino to be major focus Children involved in the Environmental Community Health Organisation (ECHO) Eco-Clubs will be exposed to information about the impact of the current El Nino...

Prosecution closes case after calling 13 witnesses

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Prosecution closes case after calling 13 witnesses

… Angoy’s Avenue poison death trial Attorney at law Mursaline Bacchus is expected to proffer legal arguments when the trial of murder accused Kemraj Gopaul continues today at the Berbice High...

Correction:

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Correction:

In an article citing several local films produced in Guyana on Page 14 of the Sunday, February 28, 2010 edition of Kaieteur News, one film titled The Right and The Wrong was inadvertently attributed...

One hospitalised after chopping incident in Leguan

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on One hospitalised after chopping incident in Leguan

– Two in custody, one at large The usually quiet island of Leguan was sent into uproar on Sunday evening when three brothers carried out a brutal cutlass attack after cornering three young men...

Guyana needs to redefine its foreign policies – Norton

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana needs to redefine its foreign policies – Norton

The foreign policy issues have become multi-dimensional, multi-disciplinary and multi-ministry and as such there is a need to change the country’s approach. This is according to Shadow Foreign...

Opposition Parliamentarians want to see greater co-operation

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition Parliamentarians want to see greater co-operation

Over-crowded schools with limited teachers; and hospitals without doctors are just some issues Opposition Members of Parliament say need to be addressed, but they wonder if they are being ignored at...

Rice straw, molasses project touted as new cattle feed

Mar 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Rice straw, molasses project touted as new cattle feed

Government is examining alternative ways for feeding cattle. A recent initiative of mixing rice straw with molasses and urea may be the answer to the growing cost of feed, according to the plans. On...

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Hetmyer (111*) scorches Queen’s Park Oval, as TKR plummet to...

Sep 01, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL… GAW vs. TKR Kaieteur Sports – Shimron Hetmyer dropped a nuke at the Queen’s Park Oval, as his breathtaking 111 not out scorched the Trinbago Knight Riders, who...

The tragedy of a society that has stopped reading

Sep 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time in Guyana when a child caught reading a book was considered a good thing. Today, if you see a child quietly reading for twenty minutes, you may want to call the police. Something unusual is happening. The child is either studying, hiding from his parents, or...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

Aug 30, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

World-class and back of class

Sep 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Aussies are now on the bandwagon. Guyana is a world class mining place. Before the Australians, Americans from Exxon were waxing brightly about Guyana’s world class oil reservoirs. And, before the Australians and Americans, there was the irrepressible Mohamed Irfaan...

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