April 2011

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The perfect anthem for this election season

Apr 24, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Stella Says Comments Off on The perfect anthem for this election season

I heard a song this week that resonated with my core beliefs in a deep and meaningful way. The song is entitled, “One Tribe” and it is sung by The Black Eyed Peas. From the first time I heard...

The Guyanese and his passport: Nineteen years after

Apr 24, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Guyanese and his passport: Nineteen years after

Almost the entire nation of Guyana would not be familiar with the name Hubert Williams. He was a journalist in the seventies with the Guyana Graphic. With his Graphic colleague, Rickey Singh, he took...

The mystery of the murdered grandmothers

Apr 24, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The mystery of the murdered grandmothers

By Michael Jordan Do the names Kharpattie Shivnauth, Rajkumarie Mahadeo mean anything to you? They don’t? How about Prampattie Ramsundar, Khirul Najidam and Sukhdai Ramkilaum? Still nothing? I’m...

The Baccoo Speaks

Apr 24, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Every year there are warnings that people should avoid electrical wires, especially at this time. There are advisories that people should fly kites in open spaces. This time around there are people...

Ogunseye: Upping the ante

Apr 24, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Ogunseye: Upping the ante

A couple of weeks ago, I analysed the brouhaha that erupted in T&T after Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) Nizam Mohammed pointed out the extreme ethnic imbalance in the upper ranks...

THE IMMIGRATION CONSULTANT CANNOT BREACH HIS CLIENT’S CONFIDENCE BY REPORTING AN ALLEGATION TO THE POLICE

Apr 24, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE IMMIGRATION CONSULTANT CANNOT BREACH HIS CLIENT’S CONFIDENCE BY REPORTING AN ALLEGATION TO THE POLICE

A person acting as an immigration consultant cannot be expected to go to the police to report a matter which would violate consultant-client privilege. Thus the suggestion that a person who may have...

45% of agri contracts behind schedule

Apr 22, 2011 knews News Comments Off on 45% of agri contracts behind schedule

…but 10 more inked for $490 million An estimated 45% of contracts issued by the Ministry of Agriculture are behind schedule, authorities said yesterday. The Ministry is now taking steps to invoke...

Murders of elderly ‘home alone’ women worry cops

Apr 22, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Murders of elderly ‘home alone’ women worry cops

By Michael Jordan Homicide ranks here are worried at what appears to be a pattern of brutal murders of elderly women who live alone. Of the nine women slain so far for the year, three of them were...

Hot cross buns, always a favourite!

Apr 22, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Hot cross buns, always a favourite!

Those delicious and tasty baked buns that are so popular around this time in Guyana have taken centre stage once again. But they disappear as fast as they come. Cross buns have become a family treat...

Dem boys seh…Only in Guyana it happens

Apr 22, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Only in Guyana it happens

Only in Guyana certain things happen. A President announce publicly that if anybody cuss he, he gun cuss dem back. Only in Guyana. And he mouth set suh. Only in Guyana public figures does run to de...

The tradition of Good Friday in Guyana

Apr 22, 2011 knews News Comments Off on The tradition of Good Friday in Guyana

If there is one day that brings a noticeably quiet scene all around Guyana, it is Good Friday. It is traditionally a day when not many people are seen on the streets. Most people do not work, except...

Pele are Len’s Craft Optical/Sunburst OJ U-15 Champs

Apr 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pele are Len’s Craft Optical/Sunburst OJ U-15 Champs

Beat flamingo on penalties 5-4: Renaissance stun Camptown for 3rd Pele FC are the inaugural Len’s Craft Optical/Sunburst Orange Juice Under-15 champions following a hard fought win on penalty kicks...

Cars for next tournament’s MVPs

Apr 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cars for next tournament’s MVPs

Prepared to readily admit that he is someone that does not back down from a challenge, GT&T CEO Yog Mahadeo could not wait to respond to Sport Minister Dr. Frank Anthony’s dare for the...

Indigenous Peoples Committee selects Chairperson, Vice-Chair

Apr 22, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Indigenous Peoples Committee selects Chairperson, Vice-Chair

Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran, on Wednesday, announced Doreen Jacobis as the Chairman of the Indigenous Peoples Committee, after she was nominated by her colleagues and secured...

Dr. Anthony fires probing response to Hilaire

Apr 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dr. Anthony fires probing response to Hilaire

Guyana’s Minister of Sport Dr. Frank Anthony has dispatched a strongly worded response to WICB CEO Ernest Hilaire, who answered some of the concerns raised by the Honorable Minister in a letter...

The ERC missed an excellent opportunity to demonstrate its independence

Apr 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The ERC missed an excellent opportunity to demonstrate its independence

Dear Editor, In a statement released on Monday night (04/18/11) the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) informed the public that it has launched an investigation into statements made by ACDA’s...

Soldier charged with manslaughter

Apr 22, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Soldier charged with manslaughter

Twenty-three year-old Guyana Defence Force Lance Corporal, Curt Belgrave, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday, to face a charge of manslaughter. The soldier allegedly shot and...

The Publisher’s Note on Kissoon was in bad taste

Apr 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Publisher’s Note on Kissoon was in bad taste

Dear Editor, It was in bad taste and in poor judgment for the publisher to add a note to the end of Freddie Kissoon’s column 4-20-2011, indicating that Kissoon had attacked “people’s...

Rogue minibus operators creating chaos

Apr 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rogue minibus operators creating chaos

Dear Editor, I would like to point out that the majority of minibus operators respect the agreements made with the Government and charge commuters the regular fares. It is a few rogue operators who...

Beach Volleyball tourney fixed for Berbice

Apr 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Beach Volleyball tourney fixed for Berbice

The Berbice Volleyball Association’s (BVA) will on Monday (Easter Monday) stage its two man (two- aside) beach volleyball competition at the Popular No63 Beach Corentyne Berbice beginning at 09:00...

A tempestuous calm before the storm as Fraser and Bess prepare for showdown

Apr 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on A tempestuous calm before the storm as Fraser and Bess prepare for showdown

There is an old idiom that says ‘empty barrels make the most noise.’ If there is any credence to this adage then it stands to reason that quiet dispositions depict substance and worth. Further,...

Investment in HIV/AIDS has increased phenomenally- Health Minister

Apr 22, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Investment in HIV/AIDS has increased phenomenally- Health Minister

From an investment of zero dollars in 1989, Guyana’s investment in the fight against HIV/AIDS has mounted to more than US$2B on an annual basis. This is according to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie...

PPP propaganda machine at work to deceive Guyanese again

Apr 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP propaganda machine at work to deceive Guyanese again

Dear Editor, The PPP does not do many things well. However, they have a propaganda machine that has been of great service to them, even if it comes at the expense of the development of Guyana. Let me...

Guyanese cricketers continue to shine in T&T

Apr 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese cricketers continue to shine in T&T

Guyanese cricketers continue to shine in the various competitions being played in Trinidad and Tobago at a time when club cricket in this country is arguably at an all-time low due to lack of...

Mr. Khemraj’s conclusions are biased and directed towards support for the AFC

Apr 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Khemraj’s conclusions are biased and directed towards support for the AFC

Dear Editor, The letters by Theron Khemraj, with all his charts and economic data, are all good for the political appetite of this nation and should be welcomed, but his conclusions are all biased...

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‘Need For Speed’ meet and greet set for West Central Mall this...

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Kaieteur Sports – Karting action returns this month with bigger and better prizes, following the announcement that Jumbo Jet Events is staging the Need for Speed event, where over GYD $17 million...

The law of numbers is catching up with us

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(Kaieteur News) – Every day you pick up the newspaper and you are greeted by another tragedy on our roads. It has become so routine that we scarcely have time to absorb one horrific accident before another takes its place. Just two days ago, three persons lost their lives in a devastating road...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

God’s gift to Guyanese

Jun 04, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – No! It’s not oil. It’s bigger. It’s neither mountains nor minerals, seas and forests. Grand, indeed; but wrong again. None of those even come close to God’s greatest gift to Guyanese. All of them. Whoever is such a Gulliverian figure...

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