October 2015

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Zenita Nicholson: Philosophical questions

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Zenita Nicholson: Philosophical questions

I first met Zenita Nicholson in 2012 when we shared the space of Rodneyite groundings we called People’s Parliament at the junction of High Street and Brickdam directly opposite the eastern face of...

Couple, friend arrested for Drinking Buddy’s death

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Couple, friend arrested for Drinking Buddy’s death

A Ruimzeight, West Coast Demerara couple and an alleged ‘Sweet-man’ are in police custody following the death of their rum drinking partner on Monday, a day after he was allegedly beaten. Dead is...

CHI is first in CARICOM to introduce newest pacemaker option

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CHI is first in CARICOM to introduce newest pacemaker option

Taking advantage of the newest technologies to tackle prevailing heart conditions has become a regular feature at the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI). In fact, just last week, CHI implanted one of...

FFTP food drive gets Carib Foods support

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on FFTP food drive gets Carib Foods support

Much needed support was last week forthcoming to Food for the Poor Guyana Inc. (FFTP) to help boost its food drive which is being undertaken as part of the observance of World Food Day earlier this...

Hundreds Gather at Wake for Slain Police Officer Randolph Holder

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Hundreds Gather at Wake for Slain Police Officer Randolph Holder

(New York Times) On a chilly Tuesday morning in Jamaica, Queens, hundreds of police officers gathered near a towering church. Florists delivered ornate bouquets. Every stoplight, streetlamp and tree...

Trinidadian medical team performs eye surgeries at GPHC

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Trinidadian medical team performs eye surgeries at GPHC

Ten patients recently benefitted from follow-up eye surgeries which were conducted at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). The surgeries were performed by a four-man team comprising two...

Dynamic Airways discusses increased flight schedules for 2016 & golden jubilee with Tourism Minister

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Dynamic Airways discusses increased flight schedules for 2016 & golden jubilee with Tourism Minister

Tourism Minister, Catherine Hughes had a cordial meeting with the visiting Chief Operations Officer (COO) of United States-based Dynamic International Airways, John Mullins on the periphery of the...

Police Corporal charged for prisoner’s escape

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Police Corporal charged for prisoner’s escape

After 36 years of committed service to the Guyana Police Force (GPF), Corporal Noel Trotman, who is attached to the Mahdia Police Station, is being accused of allowing a prisoner to getaway....

Man jailed for exposing genitals in front neighbour

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man jailed for exposing genitals in front neighbour

Maxwell Mona, 51, a self employed man was on Monday sentenced to 12 months in prison by Magistrate Rhondel Weever at the Blairmont Magistrate’s court, when he was found guilty on a charge of...

Water Street robbery/ murder…Taxi driver pleads guilty to manslaughter

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Water Street robbery/ murder…Taxi driver pleads guilty to manslaughter

Joseph Williams, the lone accused implicated in the robbery/murder of handyman Victor Da Silva, has pleaded guilty. Williams, a taxi driver from Kitty pleaded guilty to the lesser count of...

2011 drug store owner’s murder…Defense counsel grills police witness over fingerprint precision

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on 2011 drug store owner’s murder…Defense counsel grills police witness over fingerprint precision

Police witness Salish Roopnarine was subjected to a series of questions in relation to his role in the investigations into the murder of 84 year -old drug store owner, Harold Rachpaul. Rachpaul was...

Albouystown mason before court after alleged knife attack

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Albouystown mason before court after alleged knife attack

Twenty-year-old Patrick Smith was remanded to prison on Monday after pleading not guilty to a charge of unlawful and malicious wounding when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts....

For Zenita Nicholson- Our system failed

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on For Zenita Nicholson- Our system failed

Dear Editor, Every day we walk out streets, many smiling faces we meet…but beneath those smiles there is a lot of pain. Stress and ultimately depression…that dark hole that many slip...

Do we have to burn tires to get Government’s attention in these two villagers?

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do we have to burn tires to get Government’s attention in these two villagers?

Dear Editor, It seems like if you don’t burn tires, block roads or commit outrageous acts, our authorities may never get our message clear or right. These things happen when persons are not...

Why is the APNU-AFC making the same mistakes the PPP/C made?Why is the APNU-AFC making the same mistakes the PPP/C made?

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why is the APNU-AFC making the same mistakes the PPP/C made?Why is the APNU-AFC making the same mistakes the PPP/C made?

Dear Editor, I would like to continue my discussion on the changing behavior of the Guyanese society; basically how the Guyanese society works. However, on this occasion, we will examine the...

They want to sell out Guysuco

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on They want to sell out Guysuco

Dear Editor, THE king sits in Dunfermline town Drinking the blude-red wine; ‘O whare will I get a skeely skipper To sail this new ship o’ mine?’ O up and spak an eldern knight, Sat at the...

People have to wait for years for lands they applied for

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on People have to wait for years for lands they applied for

Dear Editor, Guyana is the land of many waters and it also has land. Thus citizens are fighting to acquire land and water, and the people of the land have to wait days and years before they acquire...

A plea for the confirmation of the Chancellor of the Judiciary

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A plea for the confirmation of the Chancellor of the Judiciary

Dear Editor I read in the papers that the Honorable Chancellor has sought to explain the position in the High Court Registry. In doing so he explained that in 1983 he had just qualified as a lawyer...

It is your fault!….EU raps ex-President Ramotar over suspension of Euros 25M

Oct 27, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on It is your fault!….EU raps ex-President Ramotar over suspension of Euros 25M

– says Parliamentary suspension was the cause The European Union (EU) is refusing to take blame for the state of Guyana’s sugar industry. Yesterday it criticised the suspension of Parliament...

South India to celebrate Diwali on Nov 10, North India will celebrate on Nov 11

Oct 27, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on South India to celebrate Diwali on Nov 10, North India will celebrate on Nov 11

– India High Commissioner As confusions over the date Diwali should be celebrated in Guyana continue, the Indian High Commissioner to Guyana, Mr. Vijayaratnam Mohalingam, is saying that...

Cops detain five, recover murdered farmer’s phone

Oct 27, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Cops detain five, recover murdered farmer’s phone

Police may be close to solving the murder of Good Hope, East Coast Demerara farmer, Shiraz “Amir” Ali, after arresting five men and recovering his cell phone. Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said...

Army conducts major jungle exercise

Oct 27, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Army conducts major jungle exercise

…investors, citizens must feel safe in GDF hands – Pres. Granger By Jarryl Bryan Following the successful staging of exercise ’Greenheart’ by at least two battalions and a support company...

GAWU, GuySuCo at loggerheads over pay increases

Oct 27, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GAWU, GuySuCo at loggerheads over pay increases

…as Govt. calls strike action politically motivated Agriculture Minister, Noel Holder, is of the view that current strike action organized by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union...

Cops probe sudden death of Rights activist, Zenita Nicholson

Oct 27, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Cops probe sudden death of Rights activist, Zenita Nicholson

– after allegedly being abused by her partner By Romila Boodram The sudden passing of human rights and LGBT activist, Zenita Nicholson, by way of an alleged suicide, has shown that even the...

Opposition denies instigating countrywide sugar strike

Oct 27, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition denies instigating countrywide sugar strike

…as Union presses for talks with GuySuCo for 2015 salary increase The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has denied that a countrywide strike in the sugar industry was in anyway instigated by the...

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(Kaieteur News) – The field will be a packed one on Sunday November 29, at Rising Sun Turf Club when the President’s Cup horse race meet shoots off. More than 100 horses have thrown their names...

Who says the government does not listen?

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Who says the government does not listen? That is an unfair accusation. The government does listen. In fact, it listens very attentively. The only problem is that it appears to have a rather selective hearing. It can hear a whisper from certain quarters of the private sector...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

Sinking ship, bailing out-US midterms – Pt. II

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – U.S. Vice President, J.D. Vance is among the first bailing from a sinking ship. The Iran War led to the ashes of defeat in the midterms. President Trump suddenly sheds his crazy man persona. Now talks of working with Democrats. From America I wing to Guyana, and Vice...

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