March 2012

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DEVELOPMENT FOR WHOM?

Mar 25, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on DEVELOPMENT FOR WHOM?

We hear a great deal about development in our country. When persons come from outside of Guyana and speak about development they often make reference to some physical structure that has...

Parliament honours longest serving Speaker’s Confidential Secretary

Mar 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament honours longest serving Speaker’s Confidential Secretary

She has been there as a Confidential Secretary to the Speaker of the National Assembly for 26 years. She has served every Speaker from Sase Narine to Raphael Trotman and for that she was the...

They want to kill the messenger

Mar 25, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on They want to kill the messenger

The power of the press can never be underestimated. This past week I got an up close and personal look at the effect Kaieteur News has on the people who insist that there will always be corruption...

The strange demise of the peace-loving mechanic

Mar 25, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The strange demise of the peace-loving mechanic

– Who could have killed Marlon Welcome, and why? By Michael Jordan To find a killer, know the victim. That’s the advice a very good detective once gave me. I’ve taken his advice....

Emergence of drug-resistant TB should be a wake-up call – WHO

Mar 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Emergence of drug-resistant TB should be a wake-up call – WHO

Reports of tuberculosis (TB) cases with severe patterns of drug resistance are increasing, said experts who attended a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in Geneva on 21-22 March....

Collaboration of organisations crucial to address violence

Mar 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Collaboration of organisations crucial to address violence

– Help and Shelter Rep. Addressing the scourge of domestic violence, child abuse and other such issues in any society is no easy task. However, not only has it been proven, but experts the world...

From the Diaspora… RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL IN GOOD OLD USA

Mar 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora… RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL IN GOOD OLD USA

By Ralph Seeram He was thirsty and wanted some ice tea, his young relative wanted some Skittles, and so he stepped out to buy them at the corner convenience store outside the gates of his...

ImmigrationTALK: How to Get a Copy of your Immigration File

Mar 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationTALK: How to Get a Copy of your Immigration File

By: Attorney Gail S. Seeram, Many immigrants (legal and illegal) often file multiple immigration petitions before actually getting their status legal in the United States. Also, some...

Sailor dies after jumping overboard

Mar 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Sailor dies after jumping overboard

Vishnu Narine, a 42-year-old sailor of Golden Fleece, Essequibo Coast, lost his life after he decided to take a plunge in the Essequibo River around 14:00 hours on Friday. The...

Thieves attack cattle farm of former judge

Mar 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Thieves attack cattle farm of former judge

Thieves attacked a cattle farm belonging to Justice Claudette Singh, located just opposite her residence at Phoenix Estate, West Coast Berbice in the wee hours of yesterday morning....

Man found dead after falling from parked motor bike

Mar 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man found dead after falling from parked motor bike

Lakshminarine Persaud, 38, was on Friday night found dead outside a popular Brazilian restaurant Churrascaria e Peixaria at 48 Light and Fourth Streets, Georgetown.. According to...

Investigations ongoing in ten kilos cocaine thrown over airport fence

Mar 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Investigations ongoing in ten kilos cocaine thrown over airport fence

… no further arrest made The police said, yesterday, that investigations are ongoing into the matter of 10 kilos of cocaine which was found on the premises of the Cheddi Jagan International...

Almost one year later… Eyewitness and police a no show in court for Sheriff Street fatal accident

Mar 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Almost one year later… Eyewitness and police a no show in court for Sheriff Street fatal accident

Almost a year after 35-year-old truck driver Sewcharran Persaud Ugraj was killed in an accident on Sheriff Street, in Georgetown, his relatives fear that justice will not be served....

T&T lays 17 charges against Guyanese for sex with girl, 11

Mar 24, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on T&T lays 17 charges against Guyanese for sex with girl, 11

(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) A-30-year-old Guyanese national charged with 17 counts of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl was refused bail by an Arima Magistrate. Darel Ricardo Martin...

Engineer says technical incompetence driving up cost of large projects

Mar 24, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Engineer says technical incompetence driving up cost of large projects

Cites specialty hospital Leading geotechnical engineer Charles P. Ceres says that technical incompetence drives up costs on large infrastructure projects. Such technical incompetence is...

Woman douses man with hot water mixed pepper sauce

Mar 24, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Woman douses man with hot water mixed pepper sauce

A 55-year-old man is now at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Burn Care Unit, nursing injuries to his neck, back and hands as a result of hot water, mixed with...

THERE IS A BETTER WAY!

Mar 24, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THERE IS A BETTER WAY!

Budget Day has been announced and almost by reflex one trade union has outlined its expectations that include the usual approaches to increasing workers’ income through raising the income...

Another reality of life

Mar 24, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Another reality of life

The Guyanese society for all that may be said about the people is still coy when it comes to sex. The nation sees young people flaunting their sexuality, sometimes to the disgust of the older...

Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald gun get beat

Mar 24, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald gun get beat

Guyana looking fuh hile many, many years now. Bad Jenny who use to name de Rat, decide that he gun put de cart before de donkey. And de donkey gun dress up in gold and diamond and...

Assessment vs. Examination…

Mar 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Assessment vs. Examination…

DEAR EDITOR, The National Grade Two Assessment is an examination. It may be diagnostic, but it is an examination. It is an examination simply because it awards a score for what students know. Five...

Frederick Kissoon is being vilified on Facebook

Mar 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Frederick Kissoon is being vilified on Facebook

DEAR EDITOR, Your readers are well aware that I’m no fan of Kaieteur News columnist, Frederick Kissoon. His daily vilification of the PPP/C Administration; his inability to acknowledge...

Perhaps the solution is too simple

Mar 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Perhaps the solution is too simple

DEAR EDITOR, I am reminded of Mr. R.B.O. Hart and his regular newspaper articles in the past “Things that bother me.” In the months prior to the elections in 2011, the Government...

Logging in Guyana

Mar 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Logging in Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, I read the recent News item about logging in Guyana. It was a bit alarming to learn that “prime commercial timbers are being overcut by 30 times the natural rate of...

Misinformation about issues at OLPF

Mar 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Misinformation about issues at OLPF

DEAR EDITOR, I have noticed that in articles which you have carried on the resignation of Mr. Sesh Sukhdeo as the OLPF head and on the current management issues within the project, that...

Peeping Tom is blinded by the truth

Mar 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Peeping Tom is blinded by the truth

DEAR EDITOR, Does it surprise anyone that Peeping Tom would write such a “juvenile exercise” in political journalism? One would be hard pressed to fathom the loss of support for...

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GBF secures certified Hardwood Court in major boost for basketball...

Jun 17, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – As Guyana prepares to host the FIBA AmeriCup 2029 Caribbean Pre-Qualifiers from July 8-12 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, the Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) has made a...

No right to a firearm permit exists

Jun 17, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Years ago, there was a man who contended, “I need a firearm licence because I have a lot of money.” The then relevant officer replied, “Then you can afford security—next application, please.” The man had been so confident he would get a firearm licence...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

Jun 14, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

Carolyn Rodrigues – Birkett for UN Sec Gen. – I endorse

Jun 17, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Way to go, Excellency Ali. Excellency Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett is Guyana’s nominee for the prestigious and demanding role of United Nations Secretary General. Why not? Since everybody globally have their eyes on a wedge of Guyana’s riches,...

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