September 2016

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Fourth man remanded for Berbice triple-murder

Sep 23, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Fourth man remanded for Berbice triple-murder

A fourth man was yesterday charged in connection with the Berbice triple-murder in which the bullet riddled bodies of Pawan Chandradeo, Naresh Rooplall and Jaikarran Chandradeo were found in the...

Guyana crafts new policy to prevent workplace injuries, fatalities

Sep 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana crafts new policy to prevent workplace injuries, fatalities

Guyana is crafting a new policy on Occupational Safety and Health to ensure greater emphasis on preventing injuries and fatalities in the workplace. The architects say that too often the issue is on...

Region Six RDC in No Man’s Land

Sep 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Region Six RDC in No Man’s Land

… contractors fail to deliver school furniture Region Six (East Berbice/Corentyne) Democratic Council (RDC) has once again found its hands tied after several contractors have failed to deliver...

The Raphael Lindo story is a Guyanese curse

Sep 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Raphael Lindo story is a Guyanese curse

Raphael Lindo asked me not to name the international organization he works for because of the nature of his job. But he works for one of the most powerful, respected and prestigious international...

Bypass channels available for vessels to pass sunken Mazaruni dredge – MARAD assures

Sep 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bypass channels available for vessels to pass sunken Mazaruni dredge – MARAD assures

Officials from the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) met with officers from Crown Mining on Monday last to discuss efforts to remove the sunken dredge at Perimap Falls in the Mazaruni River,...

Robb Street triple-murder/arson…Prosecution tenders station diary, PM report

Sep 23, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Robb Street triple-murder/arson…Prosecution tenders station diary, PM report

The Station Diary of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters, Eve Leary, Georgetown, and a post mortem report were among four documents tendered by Police Prosecutor Neville Jeffers,...

Better Hope murder…Relatives call for speedy DNA test to ID pensioner’s killer

Sep 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Better Hope murder…Relatives call for speedy DNA test to ID pensioner’s killer

The relatives of 76-year-old David Ramkissoon are worried that by the time the police get the go-ahead to conduct DNA tests on samples taken from the suspected killer, he might flee the jurisdiction,...

Clothes vendor freed on fraud charge

Sep 23, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Clothes vendor freed on fraud charge

A case of fraudulent conversion was dismissed against Dexter Bentick, after his niece refused to give evidence, when the matter was called yesterday before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the...

The Guysuco Board is a failure

Sep 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Guysuco Board is a failure

Dear Editor, With all the subsidy from Govt. to the tune of tens of billions of dollars per crop, and with no end in sight to these and other atrocities committed by this State owned, or people-owned...

Something is wrong with this stone deal

Sep 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Something is wrong with this stone deal

Dear Editor, I read with disbelief about the CJIA Contractor’s purchase of stone, in neighbouring Suriname. We cannot even supply local stone? This country is in a downward economic spiral and...

You, Me and Suicide Prevention

Sep 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on You, Me and Suicide Prevention

Dear Editor, Choosing to kill one’s self can happen to anyone: young or old, poor or rich, educated or illiterate, doctors and dock workers, Indian-Black- Amerindian, male or female. It can happen...

We have to move beyond the PPP and PNC

Sep 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have to move beyond the PPP and PNC

Dear Editor, Everyday you and other letter writers complain about the governing system in Guyana to no avail. This comes because we are trying to fix things that cannot be fixed like Humpty Dumpty....

I have heard consistent criticism against this Govt.

Sep 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I have heard consistent criticism against this Govt.

Dear Editor, I recently made a short visit to the land of my birth. Like most Guyanese I celebrated the end of PPP rule. A period of rule that saw discrimination and corruption soaring to heights...

Without justice there can be no peace

Sep 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Without justice there can be no peace

Dear Editor, As the world observed International Day of Peace (last Wednesday), let us not lose sight that without justice there can be no peace. As the United Nations General Assembly declared this...

The woeful plight of a teacher who didn’t get his salary

Sep 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The woeful plight of a teacher who didn’t get his salary

Dear Editor, I tell you, there are people and there are people. I have learnt ages ago that it is within the very nature of Man to help one another, but why some folks do not beats me. Here is a...

Everybody knows the WPA no longer exists

Sep 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Everybody knows the WPA no longer exists

Dear Editor, I rarely ever agree with columnist Frederick Kissoon but on this particular topic, I fully agree with his analysis. There is no WPA and everyone knows it. That party died on June 13 1980...

Hadfeild Street has been taken over by mini-buses

Sep 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hadfeild Street has been taken over by mini-buses

Dear Editor, Upper Hadfield Street, between Vlissingen Road and Mandela Avenue, was recently repaired and resurfaced after being in a deplorable state for several months. The road had deteriorated...

We need to take a strong line against human trafficking

Sep 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need to take a strong line against human trafficking

Dear Editor, America’s writers are its conscience. William Faulkner, one of America’s greatest writers, states that the American Civil War was the price it had to pay for the sin of slavery. Toni...

GNBA Head launches investigation into reported corrupt practices by members

Sep 22, 2016 KNews News 1

By Kiana Wilburg Head of the Guyana National Broadcasting Association (GNBA), Leonard Craig, will be launching an investigation into allegations that two of his board members may have been involved...

Local quarry protests CJIA stone importation from Suriname

Sep 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Local quarry protests CJIA stone importation from Suriname

-Gov’t monitoring situation A deal to import stone from Suriname for the multi-million-dollar expansion project at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, has sparked protests. On...

Mining body rescues girl, 9, from sexual pact in Port Kaituma

Sep 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Mining body rescues girl, 9, from sexual pact in Port Kaituma

Representative of the Guyana Women Miners Association in Region One, Stephanie Miguel, reported yesterday that she has in her care a nine-year-old girl who has been a victim of human trafficking for...

Govt moves to sell 5,000 tonnes of used tyres dumped at Haags Bosch

Sep 22, 2016 KNews News 1

Government is moving to sell thousands of used tyres that have been left at the Haags Bosh dumpsite, East Bank Demerara. The “end-of-life” tyres have been posing a major environmental and fire...

Frightening times…Disconnect between training and needs of Region- CXC chief says

Sep 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Frightening times…Disconnect between training and needs of Region- CXC chief says

The education and training provided to students of the Caribbean is for the most part disconnected from the human resource which the region needs for its economic development. Registrar of the...

Major sectors show ‘slower-than-expected growth’ – Central Bank

Sep 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Major sectors show ‘slower-than-expected growth’ – Central Bank

-Finds export earnings for traditional sectors decreased – Predicts Govt.’s revenue will increase by year-end due to stronger tax compliance mechanisms In the past few months, Guyana’s...

Bandits robs Cumberland taxi driver after invading home

Sep 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits robs Cumberland taxi driver after invading home

The police are on the hunt for five armed bandits who in the wee hours of Wednesday evening, broke and entered the dwelling house of a Cumberland, East Canje couple and robbed them before making good...

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(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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