May 2015

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GOOD MANNERS!

May 29, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GOOD MANNERS!

There was once a war on bad manners. It was not successful. The war ended, and the bad manners raised the flag of victory. Some people simply do not understand what manners are about. There are some...

Christopher Ram is new Bar Association President

May 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Christopher Ram is new Bar Association President

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) held its Annual General Meeting last Friday, May 20, 2015 where a new Executive Council was elected for the fiscal year 2015/2016. Those chosen to serve for the...

Credit union demands GuySuCo stop deductions after owed $154M

May 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Credit union demands GuySuCo stop deductions after owed $154M

A major credit union of the cash-strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has demanded that the state-owned company cease making deductions after it (the union) ended up being owed over $150M....

Mining and logging impact, Toshaos’ elections among priorities

May 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mining and logging impact, Toshaos’ elections among priorities

– Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Ministry By Sunita Samaroo The effects of major industries like mining and logging on Amerindian communities, as well as the holding of Toshao elections,...

Taxpayers can now check status of licence transactions online

May 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Taxpayers can now check status of licence transactions online

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is appealing to taxpayers for more use of its online facilities. The call came as the agency announces the introduction of another online facility for taxpayers...

Canje man remanded on robbery with violence charge

May 29, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Canje man remanded on robbery with violence charge

A man who was allegedly nabbed by police following a lively chase in Canje, Berbice, has been remanded to jail on a charge of Robbery with violence. Alex Beepat, 19, of Sheet Anchor, East Canje,...

Brazilian slapped with attempted murder charge

May 29, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Brazilian slapped with attempted murder charge

A Brazilian miner was remanded on an attempted murder charge, when he made an appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Ivor Nascimento De Costa was not required to plead to the charge...

Hot oil on husband lands woman in court

May 29, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Hot oil on husband lands woman in court

Twenty-nine year-old Onica Gilead of Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice, appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs Marcus in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of attempted...

Some heads should roll at NCN, GINA and the Chronicle

May 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some heads should roll at NCN, GINA and the Chronicle

Dear Editor, I am opposed to any wholesale dismissal of members and supporters of the PPP from the Public Service. There should be no witch-hunting. But there are exceptions in my book—like the...

Please ensure that the Golden Arrowhead has the correct specifications

May 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Please ensure that the Golden Arrowhead has the correct specifications

Dear Editor, I am indeed pleased at what appears to be a rejuvenated pride among my fellow Guyanese for matters that are symbolic of us as a nation state. The essence of a nation cannot be reflected...

Equality, consideration and respect for persons with disabilities in Guyana

May 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Equality, consideration and respect for persons with disabilities in Guyana

Dear H.E. President David Granger and Hon. Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, I didn’t mind waking up before sunrise on 11th May, 2015. I didn’t mind waiting in line outside of my designated...

The evidence suggests that these people are bent on stabbing the government in the back

May 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The evidence suggests that these people are bent on stabbing the government in the back

Dear Editor, It is the height of lunacy for the David Granger administration to continue keeping these heads of corporations and other government agencies in place when the available evidence...

President Granger’s Ministers will perform much better than those in the PPP government

May 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Granger’s Ministers will perform much better than those in the PPP government

Dear Editor, Before I get to the real substance of this letter, I would like to just let the public understand that with the demise of the PPP leadership, quite a few people have told me about the...

We could change this culture of littering in the city

May 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on We could change this culture of littering in the city

Dear Editor, A major challenge facing the city of Georgetown is the culture of littering. We use culture deliberately because this current negative environmental action, by some of our citizens,...

PPP mismanagement of resources wounds economy – Finance Minister

May 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP mismanagement of resources wounds economy – Finance Minister

Guyana’s economy is wounded. It seems to be the instant recognizable image appearing on the blackboard as the Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, gets closer to understanding just what his new...

Jagdeo no show at PPP independence rally

May 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo no show at PPP independence rally

… was to be one of the main speakers The grand March and Rally at the Port Mourant Train Line Dam as part of the National Independence activity planned by the PPP/C attracted a smaller than usual...

MFK murder plot…Charge Sergeant with conspiracy to commit murder – DPP says

May 28, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on MFK murder plot…Charge Sergeant with conspiracy to commit murder – DPP says

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised the police to charge a Sergeant with conspiracy to commit murder. The advice stems from investigations into the murder of businessman Mohamed F...

If UG is not transformed in five years, I am a failure – Education Minister

May 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on If UG is not transformed in five years, I am a failure – Education Minister

If the University of Guyana (UG) is not transformed into a thriving institution within five years, recently appointed Minister of Education, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine, is prepared to accept a failure...

Albouystown murder suspect nabbed five and a half years later

May 28, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Albouystown murder suspect nabbed five and a half years later

They say every rope has an end. This saying is true for Albouystown resident, Steve Allicock, a suspect in the 2009 murder of Wendell Tappin. Allicock was captured last Monday at Soesdyke, where he...

Man, 73, gets 20 years for murder

May 28, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man, 73, gets 20 years for murder

Seventy- three year old, Donald Mapp, called Chetty, was yesterday sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of his friend, Winsel Roger Edwards. The sentence was handed down by Justice Roxanne...

Jagdeo is MIA

May 28, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jagdeo is MIA

When people get a dose of dem own medicine dem can’t swallow it. It bitter like gall or no good fuh dem soul. But dem like give people medicine. Jagdeo and he friends was de best at giving...

World soccer rocked as top officials held in U.S., Swiss graft cases

May 28, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on World soccer rocked as top officials held in U.S., Swiss graft cases

ZURICH (Reuters) – Seven of the most powerful figures in global soccer faced extradition to the United States on corruption charges after being arrested on Wednesday in Switzerland, where...

Jack Warner released on multimillion-dollar bail

May 28, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jack Warner released on multimillion-dollar bail

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Austin Jack Warner was released on TT$2.5 million (One TT dollar = US$0.16 cents) bail after he appeared in a magistrate court with respect to a request by the...

Shameful! Says Lara on Chanderpaul’s omission

May 28, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shameful! Says Lara on Chanderpaul’s omission

Legendary West Indies batting icon Brian Lara has described the axing of Shivnarine Chanderpaul as shameful and has called on the West Indies Cricket Board to give the left-handed Guyanese an...

“Dominicans were looking forward to seeing Shiv” -WICB VP

May 28, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on “Dominicans were looking forward to seeing Shiv” -WICB VP

Nathan disappointed with Shiv’s treatment By Sean Devers Speaking on Andre Mason’s live Radio programme in Barbados on Tuesday night West Indies Cricket Board Vice-President, Dominican Emmanuel...

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Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club junior players enjoy tours

Apr 29, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Thirty junior cricketers of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club last week enjoyed a one day tour to the Garden city and also region three. The visit was organised by the...

A lesson the PSC missed

Apr 29, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is no question that Guyanese would have noticed the brooch worn by Delcy Rodríguez during her recent visits to Grenada and Barbados. Nor is there any doubt that for Guyanese the depiction of the Essequibo as Venezuelan on that brooch cuts deeply. But it does not follow...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

A special kind of lawyering, and at its best

Apr 29, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – For those with Biblical contexts, it said: “no man can serve two masters at the same time.” Sage advice due to its practicality. Divided loyalty is one. Playing one against the other is second. And always coming out ahead when the first two wrangle...

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