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Believe in your Bloodline

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Believe in your Bloodline

One time, I saw a documentary on championship racehorses; the kind you see running the Kentucky Derby. It’s not a coincidence that those horses end up being the fastest horses in the world....

African Revitalization Movement forum today for Bagotville Community Centre

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on African Revitalization Movement forum today for Bagotville Community Centre

The Cuffy 250 Committee, in collaboration with La Retraite/Stanleytown Development Group, Bagotville Cultural Circle and Good Intent-Sisters African Revitalization Movement, will hold a forum on...

From the Diaspora…Kaldor Budget and Black Friday February 16, 1962

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…Kaldor Budget and Black Friday February 16, 1962

By Ralph Seeram Mr. Forbes Burnham dealt with the harsh tax measures introduced by what was known as the Kaldor Budget and ended his speech by working on the emotions of his audience in the manner of...

Sunday Cartoon

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Shed falls on schoolboy

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Shed falls on schoolboy

Kelon Fredericks, a 12-year-old pupil of the Suddie Primary School is now nursing a broken leg after a shed housed in the compound of the Suddie Public Hospital fell around him. Fredericks can count...

The Baccoo Speaks

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The local drug situation is becoming a serious thing. There is a lot of cocaine in Guyana waiting to be shipped to locations where the money rests, but so many things are in the way. For one, the...

Beware of those Public-Private Partnerships!

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Beware of those Public-Private Partnerships!

“P3s should be called P12s, Public-Private Partnerships to Plunder the Public Purse to Pursue Policies of Peril to People and the Planet for all Posterity.” – Canadian impressionist Greg...

Housing and You…Attempting to rein in those runaway costs

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Housing and You…Attempting to rein in those runaway costs

By Leonard Gildarie Most folks I know are working class and never had the opportunity to hold three or four million dollars at any one time. It is an intimidating situation. The money looks a whole...

Degu (Octodon degus)

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Degu (Octodon degus)

The degu (Octodon degus) is a small caviomorph rodent that is endemic to the matorral ecoregion of central Chile. It is sometimes referred to as the brush-tailed rat, and is also...

ELEVEN IN ONE TERM

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ELEVEN IN ONE TERM

The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago has become a folk hero for some in Guyana. Is it that they so much admire the Prime Minister? If so, they have been strangely silent on her performance. Not...

Deborah Backer, 14th April 1959 – 21st March 2014

Mar 30, 2014 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Deborah Backer, 14th April 1959 – 21st March 2014

Deborah Jan Osman-Backer, Attorney-at-Law, former Deputy Speaker and Member of the National Assembly, died on Friday 21st March 2014, aged 54. Deborah Backer, most likely, came the closest to being...

Missosology Guyana – Useful concept or puzzling forum?

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Missosology Guyana – Useful concept or puzzling forum?

By Kiana Wilburg Over the past two weeks, Kaieteur Entertainment discussed at length, several aspects of pageantry in Guyana. Particular focus was also given to the Miss World Guyana Pageant. The...

Who has Kamla’s files? Who has the PPP’s files?

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Who has Kamla’s files? Who has the PPP’s files?

The sacking of a Trinidadian Minister by his Prime Minister over his verbally threatening behaviour towards a flight attendant in the air has whetted the appetite of the Guyanese people. Then the...

ImmigrationINFO …Immigration News For Our Community

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO …Immigration News For Our Community

How can a Green Card Holder (Permanent Resident) file for a Family Member? By Attorney Gail Seeram, [email protected] The most common question presented to my office is how can a green card holder...

An unfair Budget to the workers

Mar 30, 2014 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on An unfair Budget to the workers

The presentation of the 2014 National Budget saw the Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh speaking for almost three hours, but it would have been better if he had saved the Members of Parliament in the...

Has the government really done that for workers?

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Has the government really done that for workers?

When I was a young boy and bored in school, I would get together with some friends and we would throw up some riddles. And some of these riddles were difficult. When I became older there were still...

Managing family and business successfully

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Managing family and business successfully

… A housewife shares her inspiring story By Kiana Wilburg The housewife is undoubtedly the guardian angel of the home. She is the protector, companion, resolute negotiator and the best caretaker of...

Re-thinking Caribbean Tourism again

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Re-thinking Caribbean Tourism again

By Sir Ronald Sanders Most of the Caribbean tourism groups have claimed the recent change in the Air Passenger Duty (APD) as ‘a complete victory’ for the Caribbean. The ‘victory’ is hardly...

DEADLY GUARDIANS

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on DEADLY GUARDIANS

– The killing of an orphan boy By Michael Jordan On the morning of Tuesday, December 17, 2002 residents of the Greater Georgetown area known as ‘Sophia Front’ made a horrifying find. Lying...

A mystery why this government is allowed to destroy this nation

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A mystery why this government is allowed to destroy this nation

Dear Editor, In a letter to this newspaper (“Freddie Kissoon explains his non-response to Bacchus” July 17, 2013) I outlined my reasons why I will not reply to some of my critics. I listed some...

Book Review…Explosive book on race and incarceration reverberates beyond US

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Book Review…Explosive book on race and incarceration reverberates beyond US

Book: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander( Dr Glenville Ashby, Reviewer Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of...

Countryman – Stories about life, in and out of Guyana, from a Guyanese perspective

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Countryman – Stories about life, in and out of Guyana, from a Guyanese perspective

Guyana is home, but cutting cane is hell! Pt. 2 The ‘legend’ of Balgobin By Dennis A. Nichols (Continued from last Sunday) In Part 1 of my story, I spoke of my relative unpreparedness for...

BREAKING NEWS… Taxi driver shot dead in car

Mar 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on BREAKING NEWS… Taxi driver shot dead in car

The body of a taxi driver, with what appeared to be a bullet wound to the head, was found today at Strathspey, East Coast Demerara. Roopchand Darshan, 24, called ‘Dave’, or ‘Papi’...

Port Kaituma killer succumbs…14 days after burning wife and four children to death

Mar 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Port Kaituma killer succumbs…14 days after burning wife and four children to death

Lenus La Cruz, the father who torched his Port Kaituma house with his wife and four children inside, has succumbed to injuries he sustained while committing the crime. The 50-year-old businessman,...

Guyanese bid farewell to Deborah Backer

Mar 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese bid farewell to Deborah Backer

Hundreds of Guyanese gathered at St. Andrews Kirk yesterday. Some spilled over into the compound. They were there to pay their final respects to former Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly,...

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The Opposition is engaged in self-sabotage

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- You know, I never thought I’d see the day when elections in Guyana would become something... more