November 2014

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Decomposing body of elder found bound, gagged in ransacked house

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Decomposing body of elder found bound, gagged in ransacked house

The decomposing body of Claude Class, a 79-year-old pensioner was yesterday morning found with his hands bound, and his mouth gagged in the Samaroo Dam, Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara (WBD) home he...

CG bandits shoot taxi driver, grab rice farmer’s cash

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CG bandits shoot taxi driver, grab rice farmer’s cash

Two bandits on a CG motorcycle yesterday grabbed approximately $1.5M from a waiting taxi, shooting the driver in the process on Enmore Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD). The injured driver was...

14,000 CARICOM Skills Certificates issued – says CARICOM Secretary General

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 14,000 CARICOM Skills Certificates issued – says CARICOM Secretary General

– but efforts still continue to address hassle-free travel Some 14,000 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) skills certificates have been issued to date, allowing Caribbean nationals to secure...

Ailing pregnant woman being treated in Venezuela

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ailing pregnant woman being treated in Venezuela

…needs $1.5M for final surgery In their quest to further garner funds for her treatment in Venezuela, the family of 21-year-old Samantha Persaud are still seeking an additional $1.5M to complete a...

PPP worries GECOM may be caught off guard

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on PPP worries GECOM may be caught off guard

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Clement Rohee, said yesterday that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will have to start from square one to prepare for General Elections....

US Embassy warns its citizens over Parliament’s demonstrations

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on US Embassy warns its citizens over Parliament’s demonstrations

The United States (US) Embassy in Georgetown has warned its citizens to avoid the Parliament Building where demonstrations by the Opposition parties took place yesterday. The protest actions followed...

Health Ministry pays close attention to unofficial points of entry, West African visitors

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry pays close attention to unofficial points of entry, West African visitors

– As efforts are made to stave off Ebola Virus While the Ministry of Health is satisfied that immense measures are in place at its official ports of entry – Cheddi Jagan International and the...

City Hall pays pensioner $2.6M

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall pays pensioner $2.6M

…recipient was born in 1954 but had been working since 1946 As the country continues to brace itself for history making events occurring within the political spectrum, the controversial City Hall...

Drunken wedding guests stone Imam’s house

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Drunken wedding guests stone Imam’s house

…because of noise nuisance complaint A neighbourhood wedding turned bitter early Monday morning when the residence of Safir Ali Warisali and his family, who live at 2G Independence Street, La...

The PPP has finally self-destructed

Nov 11, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PPP has finally self-destructed

What the PPP did yesterday when it prorogued Parliament was to push the PNC to the wall so that the PNC hasn’t got anywhere to go but to fight back. What the PPP did yesterday is to put the PNC in...

Alleged electrical fire consumes Ogle home

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged electrical fire consumes Ogle home

Ogle Residents Roy and Sherry Rupchand along with their children and grandchildren are now homeless after an unexpected fire destroyed their house Sunday morning. The fire started around 10:00 hours...

“TT” vehicle series to start soon

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on “TT” vehicle series to start soon

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is expected to commence the new motor vehicle registration “TT” series, shortly. According to the authority, Commissioner General of the GRA, Khurshid Sattaur,...

EU to support capacity building within GECOM

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on EU to support capacity building within GECOM

Upon request of the Guyana Government and of the Guyana Elections Commission [GECOM], the European Union [EU] recruited two experts, Mr. Alexander Gray (UK) as an International Technical Assessor...

Council still to deal with deteriorating Stabroek Market Wharf

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Council still to deal with deteriorating Stabroek Market Wharf

The Market and Public Health Committee of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is yet to schedule a meeting to deal with issues affecting vendors occupying sections of the badly...

Diplomatic community briefed on Parliament’s suspension

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Diplomatic community briefed on Parliament’s suspension

The local diplomatic community was yesterday afternoon briefed by President Donald Ramotar at the Office of the President on the developing Parliamentary situation. The Head of State, according to a...

Canecutter jailed for beating drunken wife who refused to cook

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Canecutter jailed for beating drunken wife who refused to cook

Mahadeo Ramnarine, 43, a cane cutter of Betsy Ground, East Canje, Berbice and a father of five who inflicted a beating on his wife, after returning home from work and found that she did not cook...

Arrest warrant issued for two absent witnesses

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Arrest warrant issued for two absent witnesses

Arrest warrants have been issued for two absent witnesses as the preliminary inquiry continues in the Caracas house demolition shooting death case being conducted in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s...

PROROGUING A MARRIAGE

Nov 11, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on PROROGUING A MARRIAGE

Guyanese have added a new word to their lexicon. It is “prorogue”. Yesterday a man heard that the President had prorogued parliament. He asked his friend what that meant. The friend was not keen...

Two more witnesses testify in Hogstye Backdam murder trial

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Two more witnesses testify in Hogstye Backdam murder trial

The second murder trial of the man and his son who are charged with killing a farmer in 2011 is continuing in the Berbice High Court. On trial are Krishna, called ‘John’, 50, cattle and rice...

Hung jury for man accused of killing cousin

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Hung jury for man accused of killing cousin

The trial of Mark Major ended in a hung jury yesterday, after the mixed-twelve member panel failed to reach a unanimous verdict in relation to the accused for the offence of murder. Major, who is...

Creating history

Nov 11, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Creating history

Yesterday was historic in more ways than many Guyanese would care to remember. For perhaps the first time since Guyana became an independent nation, its Parliament was prorogued. It is now on record...

Technician granted $250,000 bail on causing death charge

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Technician granted $250,000 bail on causing death charge

Delroy Welford was placed on $250,000 bail for his involvement in an accident, which resulted in the death of a woman earlier this month. The former air conditioning technician, of 77 Cummings Lane,...

Businessman booked for illegal firearm and ammo

Nov 11, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman booked for illegal firearm and ammo

Robert Hussain, a businessman appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition. It is...

Seasoned politicians have to take some criticisms in stride

Nov 11, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Seasoned politicians have to take some criticisms in stride

DEAR EDITOR, Many years ago, PNCR leader Hugh Desmond Hoyte felt he was being unfairly and persistently chastised by the Stabroek News. These frequent criticisms often took the form of editorials he...

Enfeebled voice of a common person!

Nov 11, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Enfeebled voice of a common person!

DEAR EDITOR, Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, “whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” When I browse the national news of the country, invariably what I hear is only one thing,...

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…Guyana replaces Antigua and Barbuda for Nicaragua tournament (Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s senior men’s national basketball team has been handed a major opportunity to advance its...

The square peg legacy

Oct 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Burnham’s dream of ‘Guyanization’—a euphemism for replacing the colonial administrative class with locals loyal to the new order was, at its core, a nationalist ideal. But ideals without discipline often lead to farce. The result was a bureaucracy filled with...

Haiti: When the Promise of a Haitian-Led Solution Begins to Fade

Oct 11, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Who speaks for Haiti? It is a question the international community can no longer avoid. For years, governments and international organisations have insisted that the country’s deepening crisis must have a “Haitian-led solution”. The principle is...

Seeram: Did the Commies takeover

Oct 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – On the next occasion that Guyana’s Hon Attorney General, Mohabir Anil Nandlall, SC, MP, OE, CCH, opens his book of wisdom and expounds on the rule of law and respect for the law (and of laws, not men), I have a humble addition for inclusion in his encyclopedia. There is...

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