March 2015

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Mash Day murder trial…Accused denied knowledge of killing

Mar 18, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Mash Day murder trial…Accused denied knowledge of killing

– Police witnesses Police witnesses testifying in the trial of the duo implicated in the mob killing of Enterprise, East Coast Demerara businessman, Kumar Mohabir, told the court yesterday that...

Miner crushed after pit wall collapses

Mar 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Miner crushed after pit wall collapses

A 41-year-old miner was killed yesterday after the wall of a pit collapsed on him at Puruni Backdam, Region Seven. According to reports, Sandiford Edwin was working in a mining pit, some 30 feet...

Court orders arbitration again for sacked Skeldon estate worker

Mar 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Court orders arbitration again for sacked Skeldon estate worker

Weeks after a controversial ruling, a sugar worker from Berbice is to have another shot at being reinstated at the Skeldon estate where he had been working. This is because a court has ruled that the...

UG Vice Chancellor reacts to accusations of poor management

Mar 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UG Vice Chancellor reacts to accusations of poor management

– says he is responsible for reduced deficit Not only is Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG), Professor Jacob Opadeyi, denying that the University’s Administration has breached a...

“No country in the world has achieved gender equality”- UNFPA Executive Director

Mar 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on “No country in the world has achieved gender equality”- UNFPA Executive Director

At a recent United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) forum, held under the theme “Empowering Women, Empowering Humanity: Picture it!” the Executive Director of UNFPA reported on...

Guyanese grandpa beaten, killed in Florida home

Mar 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese grandpa beaten, killed in Florida home

Lehigh Acres, Florida, USA — A grandfather was doused with bleach and beaten before being killed in his own home. Intruders entered the home of Hemchand Bhagwandin, 68, and his wife, Sabitree...

I know of no deal with Simone De Nobrega – DPP

Mar 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on I know of no deal with Simone De Nobrega – DPP

– Murder trial star witness not in prison serving five-year sentence The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack has dismissed reports that she struck a deal with convicted...

PAHO/WHO urges food processors to reduce salt in products

Mar 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PAHO/WHO urges food processors to reduce salt in products

In effort to ensure that children eat more fresh foods, the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) has called on the food processing industry to reduce the amount of...

Bordering on anarchy

Mar 18, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Bordering on anarchy

It can be argued that the execution-style killing of anti-government protestor/political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing will go down in our country’s annals as not only one of the most shocking...

A DIFFERENT PNCR

Mar 18, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A DIFFERENT PNCR

The Alliance For Change is perfectly right. The past should not enslave you. Even if you accept the premise that APNU is essentially the PNCR, the fact remains that the PNCR of today is fundamentally...

GBHCA promotes healthy living in the workplace

Mar 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GBHCA promotes healthy living in the workplace

In an attempt to promote healthy lifestyles, the Guyana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBCHA) has commenced training 20 employees of their member organisations, in order to equip them with peer...

Coastal areas advised to prepare for “exceptional” spring tides

Mar 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Coastal areas advised to prepare for “exceptional” spring tides

Citizens along the coast can expect to experience “exceptional” spring tides for the duration of March 17 through March 24. The advisory released by the Ministry of Public Works, noted that high...

New data reveal transgender is most at-risk population

Mar 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New data reveal transgender is most at-risk population

– NAPS Programme Manager While keen attention has long been directed to populations at high risk for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), such as Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) and Commercial...

Pregnant sex worker remanded on robbery charge

Mar 18, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Pregnant sex worker remanded on robbery charge

A pregnant sex worker who allegedly decided to use her trade to lure a client for her associates to rob, found herself before the court yesterday to answer to robbery charges. Tamika Kennedy, 20,...

Lawyer takes GECOM to court over ID card issuance

Mar 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Lawyer takes GECOM to court over ID card issuance

Months after he managed to force Government to overturn a policy mandating applicants for new passports to submit a birth certificate issued within six months, a lawyer has gone to court for the...

PPP leadership attacks Cheddi Jagan’s daughter

Mar 18, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on PPP leadership attacks Cheddi Jagan’s daughter

In a blistering, volcanic attack on the daughter of Cheddi Jagan, the PPP leadership is so far gone that it would appear that we are seeing the last fling of a dying regime. The blitzkrieg, carried...

It’s clear that PPP failed to make Guyana safe

Mar 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on It’s clear that PPP failed to make Guyana safe

– APNU+AFC The recent Latin America Public Opinion Poll (LAPOP) survey which showed that Guyanese lack confidence in the Guyana Police Force (GPF) was used by A Partnership for National Unity...

Bus driver gets five months for chopping reputed wife

Mar 18, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Bus driver gets five months for chopping reputed wife

City Magistrate Annette Singh sentenced a Sophia bus driver to five months imprisonment, after he was found guilty of chopping his reputed wife. Leroy Johnson was found guilty as charged for the...

Miner jailed for armed robbery

Mar 18, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Miner jailed for armed robbery

A city magistrate sentenced an East La Penitence miner to 48 months imprisonment after he was found guilty of robbery under-arms. Raphael Hintzen, 22, was found guilty of robbing Ryburn Fraser and...

Duo charged with break and enter, receiving stolen property

Mar 18, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Duo charged with break and enter, receiving stolen property

Two men made an appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Monday. To answer to charges of break and enter and receiving stolen property. Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry read the...

Man jailed, fined for marijuana possession

Mar 18, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man jailed, fined for marijuana possession

A 21- year- old man was given a three-year jail term by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, on Monday after he admitted to the court that he had a quantity of marijuana in his possession....

They are dodging Jagdeo’s challenge

Mar 18, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on They are dodging Jagdeo’s challenge

Dear Editor, It‘s no surprise to anyone that the opposition leader Mr. Granger and the entire pack of crooks from APNU+AFC categorically refused and backed away from former president Bharrat...

Desperation has set in

Mar 18, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Desperation has set in

Dear Editor, Based on his recent columns in this paper, Ralph Seeram seems to want to add to the perception that some in the diaspora have lost touch with what is going on in Guyana. How can Ralph...

GENESIS OF PPP RACISM

Mar 18, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on GENESIS OF PPP RACISM

Dear Editor, Some years ago when I wrote that the PPP had deliberately kept its supporters at the mental and psychological level of coolies, the PPP triumphalists/apologists such as Vishnu Bisram,...

Some laws reduce magistrates to being robots

Mar 18, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some laws reduce magistrates to being robots

Dear Editor, Two criminal matters reported in the March 17, 2015, issue “Man ( age 21) gets 3 years for 16 grammes of cannabis:, and “Youth (age 22) gets second change after armed...

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Kaieteur Sports – Guyanese amateur boxing continues to find its spark, and this time it’s Ken Harvey lighting the fuse. At the 4th Youth South American Games in Panama City, the young pugilist...

Pause the decision!

Apr 16, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – What should have been a straightforward decision concerning the renewal of CARICOM’s Secretary General’s term has now developed into a major controversy within the Community. And it is not advisable that the issue be swept under the carpet. We were told that the Prime...

The Cost of Netanyahu’s Wars

Apr 12, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was announced on 7th April, 2026, the immediate reaction across much of the world was relief. By 8th April, that relief was reflected in a sharp fall in oil prices after weeks in which conflict...

From Nixon to Trump

Apr 17, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – It was President Richard Nixon who liked to play at the crazy man routine. For reasons still unfathomable to me, he developed a fondness for the madman syndrome, liked to be seen as such. One of those foaming-around-the gills, out-of-control, fiends...

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