March 6, 2019

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Gender Equality Strategy takes center stage at local Beijing +25 Summit

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Gender Equality Strategy takes center stage at local Beijing +25 Summit

As Guyana undertakes a comprehensive national-level review, the process and the achievements made in gender equality and the empowerment of women is taking center stage. The topic was highlighted at...

Incinerator site on fire

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Incinerator site on fire

Fire raged out of control at M&CC compound on Princes Street. Fire fighters and police rushed to the scene yesterday afternoon. Reports are that someone lit a small fire in the compound and with...

Bus driver charged over causing death of passengers in accident

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bus driver charged over causing death of passengers in accident

Forty-seven-year-old minibus driver, Denzil Clarke, was yesterday charged in relation to the death of two passengers, when he appeared before Magistrate Alisha George at the Sparendaam Magistrates’...

Kay’s Diamond Enterprise shooting death… Trio who went to scene with slain bandit released

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Kay’s Diamond Enterprise shooting death… Trio who went to scene with slain bandit released

Police have released the three men who were arrested outside of Kay’s Diamond Enterprise after Saturday’s bungled robbery. An official said that they were released on cash bail yesterday...

Mother of five remanded for allegedly selling ganja

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of five remanded for allegedly selling ganja

A mother of five children was on Monday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Faith McGusty after a sting operation by members of the police force allegedly exposed her for selling narcotics....

Man fined $15,000 for beating errant wife

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man fined $15,000 for beating errant wife

John Williams yesterday appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts charged with allegedly assaulting his common-law wife with a cutlass. It was alleged that...

Murdered dad was “very special” — relatives –he died from blunt trauma to the head-PM

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Murdered dad was “very special” — relatives –he died from blunt trauma to the head-PM

Excited and eager to see his bundle of joy, 25-year-old Arshad Ali of Bennet Dam, Rosignol Village, West Coast Berbice had written his child’s name in the palm of his hands. He was heading to...

Wildness!-

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Wildness!-

As anger continues to grow over the madness on the roadways by especially minibus drivers, yet another one found itself the subject of conversation yesterday. The bus, BLL 1949, crashed into a Mazda...

Women played critical role in designing Timehri roundabout

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Women played critical role in designing Timehri roundabout

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure is rapidly advancing the completion of the second of three roundabout projects to be executed by the government. Senior Engineer within the Ministry of Public...

Man freed of narcotics charge

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man freed of narcotics charge

Udoc Anthony Nedd walked out of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts a free man yesterday after a drug trafficking charge against him was dismissed by City Magistrate Dylon Bess who uphel d a no-case...

Magistrate to rule on no case submission

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate to rule on no case submission

Yesterday police prosecutor Neville Jeffers responded to the no-case submission by attorney-at-law Sanjeev Datadin that there is not sufficient evidence for his client Rick Seecharran to face a High...

Court of Appeal affirms rape convictions, 37-year sentence

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Court of Appeal affirms rape convictions, 37-year sentence

Dissatisfied that his appeal against two rape convictions and one of sexual assault, as well as a 37-year jail sentence was affirmed by the Court of Appeal yesterday, 53-year-old Linton Pompey...

Local DNA testing by the end of 2019– equipment slated to arrive soon

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Local DNA testing by the end of 2019– equipment slated to arrive soon

It has been confirmed that by the end of 2019, local deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing will be conducted at the Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory. Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan...

Spring Garden residents save 40-year-old house following apartment fire.

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Spring Garden residents save 40-year-old house following apartment fire.

The residents of Spring Garden saved a home from being engulfed in flames last Sunday night, after the bottom flat mysteriously ignited. Some-time around 20:45 hrs on Sunday night, the bottom flat of...

Cell phones a must-have in prisons

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cell phones a must-have in prisons

Continued controls in the prisons have been regularly netting prohibited items. It seems that the item of choice is none other than the cell phone. The police yesterday said that they teamed up with...

Miner gets 7 years for manslaughter

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Miner gets 7 years for manslaughter

In an act of mercy, the Suddie High Court yesterday granted a reduced sentence of seven years, to a miner who pleaded guilty to manslaughter. The accused, 23-year-old Devanand Singh was charged with...

Injured schoolboy gets support from Region Five administration

Mar 06, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Injured schoolboy gets support from Region Five administration

Shawndelle Melville, the mother of an 11-year-old lad, has been given monetary and material support to aid with his care and recovery in the hospital. The lad fell and severely injured himself while...

GECOM and the bloodthirsty ignorance of history by the PPP

Mar 06, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on GECOM and the bloodthirsty ignorance of history by the PPP

It is this writer’s opinion that GECOM is not being candid about elections preparations. This columnist did not support President Granger’s action outside of the Carter formula to appoint a GECOM...

Respect for the rule of law, the constitution, and electoral transparency paint the way forward for Guyana

Mar 06, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Respect for the rule of law, the constitution, and electoral transparency paint the way forward for Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, Permit me space to respond to some of the false assertions and political spins that pervade the letter columns across the spectrum of print-media in recent days. In particular, I...

We need no more evidence that the PPP is not fit to govern

Mar 06, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need no more evidence that the PPP is not fit to govern

Dear Editor, As a young woman in politics very rarely am I surprised by an act done by or a statement released from the Opposition. Surely I shouldn’t have to explain why since the PPP, while I was...

Breach sealed at Providence

Mar 06, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Breach sealed at Providence

DEAR EDITOR, During springtide, a section of the earthen embankment was breached at Providence, East Bank Demerara, along the Demerara River, which resulted in localized flooding. However, residents...

It is reasonable to conclude that this investigation was lopsided

Mar 06, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is reasonable to conclude that this investigation was lopsided

DEAR EDITOR, The Stabroek News of Wednesday, 27th February, 2019 on page 13 carried a story under the caption “Internal probe clears G.R.D.B. Staff in erroneous Panama Rice Shipment, and as I read...

Why the daily burning at Le Repentir Cemetery?

Mar 06, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why the daily burning at Le Repentir Cemetery?

DEAR EDITOR, I pen this letter to highlight a very annoying issue. For the past week or so there has been daily burning of debris at Le Repentir Cemetery by persons cleaning. This issue is an ongoing...

Lent is a time of reconciliation

Mar 06, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lent is a time of reconciliation

DEAR EDITOR, Today we begin the Season of Lent. It is one of the important seasons for many Christian denominations. Lent means ‘spring’; it is a springtime where we are renewed and refreshed...

Our Stabroek Market Clock

Mar 06, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our Stabroek Market Clock

DEAR EDITOR, The new Mayor and the Councillors of the City of Georgetown have done one of the best things, to forfeit the grant made by the kind courtesy of the American Embassy of Georgetown,...

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Amazon Warriors go top with 53-Run win over Lahore Qalandars

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The Guyana Amazon Warriors maintained their unbeaten start to the ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League, securing a decisive 53-run victory over the Lahore Qalandars at the Guyana National Stadium on...

Should Minister Edghill resign?

Jul 27, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There have been calls for Minister Juan Edghill to resign. But very few of those making that demand have justified the basis for doing so. Is it by virtue of the doctrine of ministerial responsibility? If so, there is no basis to do so as yet. The doctrine of ministerial...

Transparency, sovereignty, and the challenge of power

Jul 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Few issues test the sovereignty of small states more severely than requests made by powerful friends. How should a country respond when cooperation is expected, but the proposed terms exceed its legal, financial and institutional capacity? That question...

Barima-deflections, dissembling, and the damning

Jul 27, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There’s human devastation. Still, the PPP Govt commits to deflection. The MV Barima disaster qualifies as extreme domestic devastation. Families and communities battered. The nation bowed. Rather than strengthening citizens in a time of tribulation, the government...

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