July 2014

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Five member team set up to investigate PNC Kissoon/ Clarke incident

Jul 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Five member team set up to investigate PNC Kissoon/ Clarke incident

A five member disciplinary team has been set up to investigate the “incident” between APNU Parliamentarian Vanessa Kissoon and People’s National Congress (PNC) General Secretary, Oscar Clarke....

Suggestions to curb the frequent accidents in the aviation sector

Jul 13, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Suggestions to curb the frequent accidents in the aviation sector

Dear Editor, The frequency of aircraft accidents/incidents in the domestic aviation sector has been most alarming, and must be a matter of concern for everyone in the aviation industry and also for...

Once homeless handicap gets own shelter

Jul 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Once homeless handicap gets own shelter

..compliments of Edward B. Beharry and Company Ltd. and Habitat for Humanity Guyana Inc. A few years ago, a homeless handicap, humbly requested his sustenance, beside the traffic lights of Vlissengen...

TB on the decline in Guyana

Jul 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on TB on the decline in Guyana

Thanks to the National Tuberculosis Programme, Tuberculosis (TB) has been on a constant decline in Guyana. In fact, within the past 18 months Guyana has seen 150 fewer new cases of persons affected...

The Importance of truly loving each other

Jul 13, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on The Importance of truly loving each other

‘…We are all members of one family, it’s time we start living that way’ The good book says we are all our brothers’ keepers and has a responsibility to look out for each others’ well...

Tony’s Auto Spares winner receives car, hampers

Jul 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Tony’s Auto Spares winner receives car, hampers

Tony’s Auto Spares ‘kick off’ promotions rewarded winners yesterday. One lucky East Coast Demerara resident walked away with one Nissan March Motor Car. The launch was held at the company’s...

The death of Walter Rodney: Some points to ponder

Jul 13, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The death of Walter Rodney: Some points to ponder

Dear Editor, I would like to place on record as I have done several times in print, my position on the death of Walter Rodney. The opportunity this time is a letter by Abu Bakr (“Those who see...

What is Guyana’s budgetary allocation for roads in the Bartica/Potaro area?

Jul 13, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is Guyana’s budgetary allocation for roads in the Bartica/Potaro area?

Dear Editor, The United Minibus union (Bartica Branch) under the leadership of its Chairman Keith Blair protested outside of the Bartica Regional Democratic Council (RDC) and Neighbourhood Democratic...

Beware of cash

Jul 13, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Beware of cash

Increasingly these past few days we have been getting reports of people being robbed of cash sometimes as little as $300 as was the case last week. In every case the perpetrator is after cash. Today...

The PNC’s intentional sidelining of Vanessa Kissoon

Jul 13, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PNC’s intentional sidelining of Vanessa Kissoon

Dear Editor With the sidelining of Vanessa Kissoon by the Peoples National Congress (PNC) one is left to ask what is actually happening in the PNC. I believe that the sidelining of Vanessa Kissoon by...

From the Diaspora…CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, SUPPORT ORPHANAGES IN GUYANA

Jul 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, SUPPORT ORPHANAGES IN GUYANA

By Ralph Seeram Do you remember playing as a child – running, laughing and jumping with no worries in the world except when it’s time to go home? Playing is critical for young children and...

Reaching out to the less fortunate

Jul 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Reaching out to the less fortunate

The Demerara Charitable Foundation has been making donations to the less fortunate in the Muslim community. On Friday, Kishan Puran led a team to the old mosque in Alexander Village where the first...

What to make of all this negativity?

Jul 13, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on What to make of all this negativity?

Dear Editor, Recently the media, especially this week’s newspapers, contained a series of articles and letters which paint so much negativity concerning the future of and for our young people that...

Sunday Cartoon

Jul 13, 2014 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Why join the Commonwealth?

Jul 13, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Why join the Commonwealth?

By Sir Ronald Sanders The Institute of Commonwealth Studies at London University held a colloquium on Thursday July 10 on the subject of “Why join the Commonwealth?” I was invited to be a lead...

Music, Lyrics, Innuendo and Hypocrisy

Jul 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Music, Lyrics, Innuendo and Hypocrisy

Countryman – Stories about life, in and out of Guyana, from a Guyanese perspective By Dennis Nichols In almost any place on Earth, people like to talk about the good old days. We in Guyana...

Berbician wins ‘Emerging Voices’, $1M prize

Jul 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Berbician wins ‘Emerging Voices’, $1M prize

Vishalie Sookram of Black Bush Polder, Berbice was declared the winner of the E-Networks Emerging Voices Bollywood Singing Competition last Friday evening when the show aired on E-Networks Channel 1...

The Baccoo Speaks

Jul 13, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Nothing is changing despite advance warning. The young educated men are out on the streets and they have guns. Indeed, the police should routinely stop young men and search them, but the society is...

Book Review…Exploring the healing power of friendship

Jul 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Book Review…Exploring the healing power of friendship

Book: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O’Donohue Critic: Dr. Glenville Ashby Anam Cara is a philosophical exploration of life’s purpose that dwarfs the works of pioneers in this field...

GNCPP not part of LEAD Project

Jul 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GNCPP not part of LEAD Project

By Zena Henry The emergent Think Tank group Guyana National Council Public Policy (GNCPP) has re-enforced its independence as an agency committed to involving civil society in the process of national...

THERE IS NO NEED FOR LEGISLATION TO CAP ANY BENEFITS TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT

Jul 13, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THERE IS NO NEED FOR LEGISLATION TO CAP ANY BENEFITS TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT

There are many people who would not have given a hoot if it were some other President, from some other party, who was enjoying the post-presidency benefits now being showered on former President...

Only one other leader had what David Granger has

Jul 13, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Only one other leader had what David Granger has

Denis Chabrol contacted me and put to me a number of questions on the announcement of Aubrey Norton’s contesting the leadership of the PNC. After reading Mr. Chabrol’s publications of my answers,...

US- based Enterprise support group offers assistance for university education

Jul 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on US- based Enterprise support group offers assistance for university education

A group of patriotic Guyanese calling themselves ‘The Enterprise Support Group (ESG) USA Inc.’ has left the door open for ambitious students from their home village to access university...

My country is what it is because…

Jul 13, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on My country is what it is because…

Ever since a friend loaned me the book ‘From Third World to First—The Singapore Story: 1965-2000’ I have been looking at my country with a range of emotions. I have felt anger, pity, sorrow,...

The paddy farmers’ plight

Jul 13, 2014 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The paddy farmers’ plight

The spate of protests in the rice industry tells its own tale of deception and exploitation. The most recent public protests saw hundreds of paddy farmers last week burning tyres and blockading the...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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