May 2016

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Business mogul lauds CHI’s evolution

May 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Business mogul lauds CHI’s evolution

– stresses importance of maintenance Guyanese have a tendency of not caring things. This view was recently amplified by business mogul, Mr. Yesu Persaud, as he spoke of a new Catherisation...

Eastern Airline /One Guyana Air gets clearance for flights between Guyana, US

May 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Eastern Airline /One Guyana Air gets clearance for flights between Guyana, US

Eastern Airlines One Guyana Air has been granted approval by the United States Department of Transportation and the Government of Guyana for flights to New York and to Miami. The carrier is expected...

Captured jaguar escapes

May 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Captured jaguar escapes

Lima Sands residents have reported that the last jaguar which was caught by a resident known as “Pigey” escaped from the trap in which he was housed for the last two weeks or so. After the...

Govt official crashes into market, fails to appear in court

May 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt official crashes into market, fails to appear in court

The Police are alleging that on May 8 last, at Bath, West Coast Berbice, Abel Seecharran, of Woodley Park, West Coast Berbice, an officer attached to the Office of the Prime Minister, Fort...

Report on Public Service COI presented to Speaker, Opposition Leader

May 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Report on Public Service COI presented to Speaker, Opposition Leader

Minister of State Joseph Harmon presented copies of the Commission of Inquiry into the Public Service Report to several organizations and agencies. He had earlier presented Opposition Leader Bharrat...

Region Five, Six students benefit from 60 bicycles

May 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Region Five, Six students benefit from 60 bicycles

-under President Granger’s ‘Five Bs’ Programme Sixty students from five schools across Mahaica-Berbice (Region Five) and East Berbice-Corentyne (Region Six), benefited from bicycles under...

1000 young Guyanese to perform at Flag- Raising Ceremony

May 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 1000 young Guyanese to perform at Flag- Raising Ceremony

At the stroke of midnight on May 25, the Golden Arrowhead will be hoisted to celebrate Guyana’s Golden Jubilee of Independence anniversary. For Guyanese that would have seen the very first flag...

REMEMBERING THE LEADER OF INDEPENDENCE

May 19, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists 1

As the month of May dawns upon the nation, almost every Guyanese at home and in the Diaspora is preparing to celebrate the country’s 50th Independence Anniversary. Since assuming office a year ago,...

CIVIL RECOURSE OR AUTOMATIC SEIZURE?

May 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on CIVIL RECOURSE OR AUTOMATIC SEIZURE?

It is advised that in Government, the right hand must always know what the left hand is doing. One Minister is said to have given a logging company a deadline by which to establish a wood processing...

Well over 1000 abortion cases documented in 2015

May 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Well over 1000 abortion cases documented in 2015

The Ministry of Public Health has recorded 800 reported cases of abortions for 2015. However Chief Medical Officer Dr. Shamdeo Persaud believes this figure may be higher. Abortion has been legal in...

Police arrest escapee

May 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police arrest escapee

Investigators are working to enhance whatever forensic evidence they have available in addition to conducting a few identification parades using known felon, Marlon Abel. Abel, 33, of Rose Hall Town...

Black Bush Polder teen to face judge and jury for murder

May 19, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Black Bush Polder teen to face judge and jury for murder

Navendra Basdeo, called ‘Phone’, 19, of 14 Johanna, North Black Bush Polder will have to stand trial for murder in the next criminal session of the Berbice High Court. That was following the...

‘Child father’, taxi driver jointly charged with ‘maid of honour’ murder

May 19, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on ‘Child father’, taxi driver jointly charged with ‘maid of honour’ murder

The two men accused of murdering Simone Hackett were jointly charged with the woman’s murder, yesterday. The new charge comes following the withdrawal of individual murder charges by the Director...

My analysis of one year of Coalition power begins

May 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

The Stabroek News analysis of the first year of Coalition power left out the cruel mistreatment of the Stabroek Market vendors. It is the brute force in the eviction that depresses me. I grounded...

Young motorcyclist killed by speeding Car

May 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Young motorcyclist killed by speeding Car

Dead is 21-year-old Inshain Jameer, also known as Sugar, a farmer of Tempie, West Coast Berbice. According to reports, Jameer left home on Saturday afternoon to purchase tractor parts in Bush Lot,...

How to achieve a viable economy

May 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on How to achieve a viable economy

Dear Editor, The country can do well if qualified and experience persons are employed in the public sector. There are many qualified persons seeking jobs that can turn this country around. We all...

Causing death driver remanded

May 19, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Causing death driver remanded

Glensford Stephens, a father of two who has since been implicated in the deaths of four persons was slapped with four separate charges of causing death, yesterday. He allegedly caused the death of...

The things I see in Guyana that disgust me

May 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The things I see in Guyana that disgust me

Dear Editor, As we get closer to celebrating fifty years of independence. I remember as a youngster growing up in Guyana, doing silly, immature thing, things that we all do as youngsters. I do...

Robbery/home invasion on Land Court judge…Defendant denies involvement in robbery

May 19, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Robbery/home invasion on Land Court judge…Defendant denies involvement in robbery

…says he was shot twice by police Robbery accused/Warren McKenzie/ has vehemently denied robbing Land Court judge Nicola Pierre. In an unsworn testimony, yesterday, when the trial continued in the...

More criticism about Correia from Arjoon-Martins

May 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on More criticism about Correia from Arjoon-Martins

Dear Editor, Minister Patterson’s address at the Ogle Airport renaming was significant to NATA. That our concerns had not fallen on deaf ears and were deemed to have merit and his recognition...

I will defend the interests of Region 5

May 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I will defend the interests of Region 5

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter that was published in the Guyana Chronicle dated Sunday 16th May, 2016 under the caption “This man is trouble for Region 5” and it was written by a person who...

BaiShanLin asks UN boss to “remind” Guyana of treaty obligations

May 18, 2016 KNews News 3

– demands GRA return its vehicles in seven days – wants diplomatic solution – claims actions have implications for all investors The seizure of two high-end vehicles last month from...

Gafoor’s multi-billion $$ settlement will be comfortably covered – P&P Insurance

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gafoor’s multi-billion $$ settlement will be comfortably covered – P&P Insurance

It has been little more than a week since a catastrophic fire struck at the Gafoor’s Houston Complex. CEO Gafoor had estimated his losses to be in excess of $12 billion. The fire is believed to...

Teens remanded for murder of retired professor

May 18, 2016 KNews News 2

Drama unfolded at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday following a court hearing for five teenagers charged with the murder of retired professor Pairadeau Mars. Relatives of the accused...

Govt. to examine options for $5.2B NIS investment caught in CLICO debacle – Finance Minister

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to examine options for $5.2B NIS investment caught in CLICO debacle – Finance Minister

…Says litigation would just be a “long drawn-out process” By Kiana Wilburg Taking the course of litigation may not be on the table at the moment when it comes to Government recouping the $5.2B...

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Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

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...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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