September 2013

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There are problems at GPHC, Michael

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on There are problems at GPHC, Michael

In the past two weeks I have been receiving complaints about the operations at the Georgetown Public Hospital, which to my mind is the best health institution in Guyana. I arrive at that conclusion...

The case of the murdered goatherd

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The case of the murdered goatherd

On October 12, 2001, as she had done since her husband’s death, Savitri Prasad left her home to collect her herd of goats. But this time, she did not return. It was unusual for Prasad, called...

Guyana’s social civil restlessness

Sep 22, 2013 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana’s social civil restlessness

Guyana is facing relentless restlessness as a result of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)’s chronic maladministration. Simmering civil unrest has become part of the prevalent pattern of...

High time indeed to review marijuana policies

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on High time indeed to review marijuana policies

By Sir Ronald Sanders On September 17, the Bureau of the Heads of Government of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) discussed the decriminalisation of marijuana and its production for...

THE AFC MELTDOWN IN NEW YORK

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE AFC MELTDOWN IN NEW YORK

The Alliance for Change, itself a creature of political defections, has now become a victim of political defections, with some figures from its New York grouping opting to leave the...

Child Care Protection week 2013…“We want communities more involved” – Ann Greene

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Child Care Protection week 2013…“We want communities more involved” – Ann Greene

By Javone Vickerie With its mission to stamp out violence against children in Guyana, The Child Care and Protection Agency will be looking at ways to get communities more involved as Child...

Mrs. Osborne celebrates 101 in style

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mrs. Osborne celebrates 101 in style

By Kiana Wilburg The person who said 40 is the new 30 certainly never met centenarian Margaret Irene Osborne; a feisty lover of “good music”, and the wonders of life. Osborne, who...

From the Diaspora…BAD HABITS OF GUYANESE AT HOME

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News 4

By Ralph Seeram I could not believe what I was seeing, the woman opened a large handbag and packed three boxes of the food in her handbag. I am not sure if I was shocked or surprised but I was about...

The Baccoo Speaks

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The more people think that they have a grip on a situation the more they find that nothing has changed. Everybody believes that the crime wave of 2002 and 2006 was over until they awoke to find that...

Housing and You…Electrical wiring and what can go wrong

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News 4

By Leonard Gildarie I do believe that quite a few critical things are overlooked in the process of building a home. And these can prove disastrous in the long run and costly, if not deadly. I am...

The Greater Bulldog Bat (Noctilio leporinus)

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Greater Bulldog Bat (Noctilio leporinus)

The greater bulldog bat or fisherman bat (Noctilio leporinus) is a type of fishing bat native to Latin America. The bat uses echolocation to detect water ripples made by the fish upon...

Democracy delayed is democracy denied

Sep 22, 2013 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Democracy delayed is democracy denied

By Khemraj Ramjattan, AFC Leader The results of the 1992 Regional and General Elections in Guyana which saw the PPP/Civic gaining power was heralded by that Party and its supporters as, ‘A Return...

Book Review…The Cayman Islands: Behind the Veil

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Book Review…The Cayman Islands: Behind the Veil

By Dr Glenville Ashby: Contributor J.A. Roy Bodden’s “Patronage, Personalities and Parties: Caymanian Politics from 1950-2000” requires detailed study. It is a chronicle, a political...

Responding to a political grasshopper

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Responding to a political grasshopper

Dear Editor, Mr Kit Nascimento has once more lived up to his reputation of defending any cause for a fee. On Thursday, he was the moderator at a press conference hosted by Winston...

Sunday Cartoon

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Cartoons Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Bisram more Democratic than Maxwell

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bisram more Democratic than Maxwell

Dear Editor, In a response (KN Sep 16) to my NACTA poll (published in KN Sep 15), Maxwell called me all kinds of names which are not worthy of a response. I am surprised that Maxwell engages...

Mr. Nascimento is trying to make the Marriott Hotel stench smell like perfume

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Nascimento is trying to make the Marriott Hotel stench smell like perfume

Dear Editor, Even Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo couldn’t best the cuss-out in Mr. Kit Nascimento’s Kaieteur News letter, “A wholly unprofessional attempt to monopolize a Press Conference” (21st...

An appeal to Messrs Granger and Ramjattan

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on An appeal to Messrs Granger and Ramjattan

Dear Editor, Huge commercial buildings are going up all over Georgetown. Surely, all Guyanese must welcome them once there is no sordidness to their financial origins. However, the role of the State...

Play Your Role Well

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Play Your Role Well

In traveling life’s pathway, we each have important roles to play. Some are conductors and some soloists, but the rest are heroes in the supporting cast and necessary to complete the...

The AFC is practising consensus politics

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The AFC is practising consensus politics

Dear Editor, In trust-building someone has to make the first move and act in good faith. THE AFC has done that. The AFC has supported the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Project and is willing to support...

Wakenaan/Meten-meer-Zorg murder/robberies…Speedboat operator, wife among 8 charged

Sep 21, 2013 KNews News 6

By Kiana Wilburg Pandemonium broke out around the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Middle Street yesterday, as eight of ten suspects detained for a murder and some robberies were remanded to...

OAS to probe state of corruption in Guyana

Sep 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on OAS to probe state of corruption in Guyana

The state of corruption in Guyana will be placed under the microscope next month when MESICIC, the mechanism for follow-up on the implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption,...

CPCE expels trainees over poor attendance, grades

Sep 21, 2013 KNews News 5

….can re- apply next year By Leon Suseran “We want the kind of cream of the crop, so if people are not psychologically, intellectually and socially ready for the programme, I think...

OLPF Manager shot, robbed by “bandits”

Sep 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on OLPF Manager shot, robbed by “bandits”

Abdalla Hamilton, the son of Member of Parliament, Joe Hamilton, was shot at least two times by bandits who robbed him of some $2 million yesterday afternoon, outside of the High Court. The...

Suspect arrested in Corentyne clubbing-to-death incident

Sep 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Suspect arrested in Corentyne clubbing-to-death incident

By Leon Suseran Police have arrested the suspect involved in the clubbing to death of a Corentyne vagrant. The badly beaten body of 54- year- old Ravindranauth ‘Parbattie Bucket’ Chan was...

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Legacy meets hunger in uncompromising Leopold St, Bent St final

May 01, 2026

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ decides Georgetown champions tonight Kaieteur Sports – Former champions Leopold Street stormed into the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown...

The stranger next door

May 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – As late as the early 1970s, when night fell, dinner consumed and the children completed their homework, members of the household would usually sit either in the sitting room or on the verandah and discuss various matters, but mainly the events of the day. In those days there...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

APOLOGY AND RETRACTION TO MR. DEVINDRA KISSOON

May 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – On April 29, 2026, I published in Kaieteur News, as part of The GHK Lall Column, a piece entitled “A special kind of lawyering, and at its best” (the “Column”). Mr. Kissoon has never acted for the Government on the Gas-to-Energy Project. He has never received any...

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