A Brooklyn woman has been convicted in the killing and dismemberment of a friend and neighbor whose remains were discarded on Long Island.

A Suffolk County jury took only a few hours to convict Leah Cuevas of second-degree murder, Newsday reported. Prosecutors say she killed 28-year-old Chinelle Latoya Thompson Browne, a mother of four, in a dispute over rent and utility payments in the summer of 2014. Browne was renting a room from Cuevas. Some of the Guyana-born immigrant’s remains were found in an abandoned lot in Bay Shore on July 9. Her head and arms were found days later in three different locations about 25 miles west in Hempstead. Trial testimony detailed the discovery of Browne’s blood inside Cuevas’ Brooklyn apartment. Prosecutors say Cuevas stabbed Browne 39 times. Neighbors had said Browne had gotten into a fight with Cuevas just before she went missing. Cuevas faces 25 years to life in prison when she’s sentenced Jan. 14.(Kaieteurnews.com/photo:Kaieteurnews.com)…[+]

Days after Chairman of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), Clinton Williams, defended his acquisition of several mining blocks in the Cuyuni, Region Seven, the issue is refusing to go away.  Former Auditor General, Anand Goolsarran, in his weekly column, Accountability Watch in Stabroek News on Monday, questioned whether GGMC’s board was even made aware of the transaction. As Chairman of the Board, there had been criticisms that Williams abused his authority to help his friend, Ivor English, acquire eight blocks of mining lands last year.(Kaieteurnews.com/photo:Kaieteurnews.com)…[+]

U.S.   –  After favorable initial reactions from Twitter, reviews from film critics seem to confirm an overwhelmingly positive response to “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” The film currently holds a 97% “fresh” rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes with only two critics to have posted negative reviews thus far.(CNN.COM/photo:cnn.com)…[+]

GUYANA-Minister of State, Joseph Harmon has rapped former President Bharrat Jagdeo over his comments that the. controversial Edul Ahmad land lease was revoked in 2009. Harmon said that Government has no record of this claim. He therefore called on Jagdeo to bring the evidence. Harmon made this charge yesterday. He made it clear that contrary to Jagdeo’s claims that the lease was terminated back in 2009, the Guyana Lands and Survey Authority could attest to the lease never being terminated, until recently.“The lease (was) not terminated (in 2009),” Harmon asserted, in response to Jagdeo’s defense. (KAIETEUR NEWS/ kaieteurnewsonline.com)…[+]

/abonnement/GUYANA-The young man who lost his left eye during a confrontation with police following a botch robbery at Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, Sunday morning is well known to lawmen. Devon Forde has been described by police as a known criminal, having been charged previously with carjacking a few years ago. Police confirmed that Forde was one of three men who robbed a taxi driver and stole his car back in 2009. However a police source who spoke to this newspaper could not say if Forde and his accomplices were ever convicted for that crime. On another occasion, Forde was also charged with simple larceny when it was alleged that he stole a bicycle. That case was dismissed.(KAIETEUR NEWS/ kaieteurnewsonline.com)…[+]

WASHINGTON-U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will face a military court on charges of desertion and endangering fellow soldiers, the U.S. Army announced Monday. Gen. Robert Abrams, the commander of U.S. Army Forces Command, ordered the court-martial on Monday, breaking with the U.S. military officer overseeing Bergdahl’s preliminary hearing who recommended that Bergdahl be referred to a special court-martial and face no jail time. Abrams on Monday ordered Bergdahl’s case to a general court-martial, which means Bergdahl could face life imprisonment if convicted of “misbehavior before the enemy by endangering the safety of a command, unit or place.” Bergdahl disappeared from his base in Afghanistan in June 2009 and was held in captivity by the Taliban until the U.S. released five Taliban detainees in a controversial exchange for Bergdahl in May 2014. (CNN/ myfox8.com)…[+]