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Time for a redistribution of wealth and power, but who is up to the task?

Dec 14, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time for a redistribution of wealth and power, but who is up to the task?

Dear Editor, This week, The Kaieteur News (December 8th), carried an article headlined with a quote from APNU’s Joseph Harmon which read: ‘Guyana’s national wealth cannot be lived off by a few...

UG honours longstanding staffers at awards ceremony

Dec 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on UG honours longstanding staffers at awards ceremony

…as Emeritus Professor calls for improved financial benefits “We are not a country that likes to speak truth, we’re a country marked by more lies and half-truths than other countries I...

The Baccoo speaks

Dec 14, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

As the year draws to a close, more and more crazy things are happening. Killings are going to be recorded in increasing numbers because people seem to be less tolerant. The police are going to be...

Book Review…Poet recovers after stumbling

Dec 14, 2014 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…Poet recovers after stumbling

Book: Tangled Web of Heather’s Soul Author: Heather McLean Reviewer: Tatiana Coy (Ms Coy writes for Dr Glenville Ashby’s Caribbean Literary Guild) Do you remember when you attended high school...

Creolese snapshot – Revision of a prize-winning short story

Dec 14, 2014 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Creolese snapshot – Revision of a prize-winning short story

COUNTRYMAN – Stories about life, in and out of Guyana, from a Guyanese perspective By Dennis A. Nichols This week I am sharing a revised version of a short story I wrote many years ago, (based...

Impassable!

Dec 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Impassable!

This is the state of 7th Avenue Diamond Housing Scheme, EBD. Hailed as the largest housing scheme, drivers are forced to take other streets to make their way home. Despite complaints to the NDC,...

Stronger US dollar and lower oil prices: Effects on the Caribbean

Dec 14, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Stronger US dollar and lower oil prices: Effects on the Caribbean

By Sir Ronald Sanders Caribbean countries whose value is fixed to the US dollar should benefit, at least in the short term, from the fall in oil prices and the strengthening of the American...

Our pledge to the people of Guyana

Dec 14, 2014 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Our pledge to the people of Guyana

With an unwavering commitment to good governance, transparency and accountability we, “the Alliance For Change” commit to the people of Guyana that an AFC lead government will prioritize and...

Sixteen persons earn noteworthy birding certificates

Dec 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Sixteen persons earn noteworthy birding certificates

A two-month preliminary birding programme which was supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) , also referred to as the German Agency for...

APNU SHOULD THROW THE BALL BACK IN THE AFC’S COURT

Dec 14, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on APNU SHOULD THROW THE BALL BACK IN THE AFC’S COURT

Last Friday, I examined the counter-proposal made by the AFC to lead a pro-democracy coalition to contest next year’s general elections. I described this proposal as a case of the AFC demanding...

Bail and the possible fate of the uninformed

Dec 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bail and the possible fate of the uninformed

By Sunita Samaroo “It was a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time your worship,” said an unrepresented Andrew Gonsalves as he explained why he pleaded guilty. There Gonsalves was,...

Interventions for mosquito control in coastland communities

Dec 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Interventions for mosquito control in coastland communities

(From the Desk of the Vector Control Director, Reyaud Rahman) Since the rain has descended upon us we have noted an increase in the mosquito population. There have been numerous calls from the public...

Teardrops cascade on dead dreams: Mrs. Patricia Rodney stumbles

Dec 14, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Teardrops cascade on dead dreams: Mrs. Patricia Rodney stumbles

I told Adam Harris a few weeks ago that when I function in the media, the historian is always inside of me. I told Adam that I am not a trained journalist but a trained historian. I explained the...

What made our forebears succeed even in the absence of enabling laws?

Dec 14, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on What made our forebears succeed even in the absence of enabling laws?

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Freddie Kissoon’s column, “The Nigel Hughes formula: Can it change Guyana?” 12th December, 2014. While I have not read Nigel Hughes’ presentation on the...

The buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis)

Dec 14, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis)

The buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis), is a small shorebird. It is a calidrid sandpiper and currently considered to be the only member of the genus Tryngites. Indeed, it probably...

The strange disappearance of Levoy Taljit

Dec 14, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The strange disappearance of Levoy Taljit

By Michael Jordan There just might be one thing worse than having someone murder a loved one of yours. It’s having that loved one seemingly vanish from the face of the earth, leaving behind just...

The Story within the Story…Gold: Too Big To Fail (cont’d)

Dec 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story…Gold: Too Big To Fail (cont’d)

By Leonard Gildarie Last week’s introductory article on the vital gold sector, with its phenomenal rise within the last few years and subsequent swift descent starting last year, has expectedly...

The time when tempers flare and shoppers get fleeced

Dec 14, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The time when tempers flare and shoppers get fleeced

The year is fast coming to a close, but for all the days that passed, precious little has changed. In fact, I get the impression that things are worse. People are more tense and less caring. At the...

Sinking ship leaves rats

Dec 14, 2014 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sinking ship leaves rats

(APNU republishes this article first published on 23rd June 2013, owing to its relevance to the present plight of the People’s Progressive Party in December 2014. Minor changes have been made)...

Sunday Cartoon

Dec 14, 2014 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

APNU moves to court to challenge Govt.’s spending

Dec 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU moves to court to challenge Govt.’s spending

A Partnership For National Unity (APNU), has taken Government to court in a bid to stop what they said is the unauthorized spending of billions of dollars- monies that were disapproved in the...

Granger shuns AFC pro-democracy alliance proposal

Dec 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Granger shuns AFC pro-democracy alliance proposal

Opposition Leader, David Granger, has said that while he has not received an official invitation, he is not interested in the pro-democracy alliance proposal by the Alliance For Change (AFC) Leader,...

Brazil/Guyana cable project at ‘death’s door’- says APNU leader

Dec 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Brazil/Guyana cable project at ‘death’s door’- says APNU leader

By Kiana Wilburg Considering the damage done to the Brazil/Guyana fibre optic cable project due to grave mismanagement, Leader of A Partnership National Unity, David Granger, asserted yesterday, that...

Bandits strike at Regent Street store

Dec 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits strike at Regent Street store

Bandits escaped with money and travel documents after holding a Brazilian businessman and his Guyanese-born wife at gunpoint outside their Regent Street store at around 18.00 hrs on Thursday. The...

Justice Desiree Bernard appointed Appeal Judge in Bermuda

Dec 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Justice Desiree Bernard appointed Appeal Judge in Bermuda

Bermuda – Justice Desiree Bernard and Geoffrey Bell QC have been appointed as new Justices to the Court of Appeal. Making the announcement Thursday afternoon, Governor George Fergusson said:...

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GBF secures certified Hardwood Court in major boost for basketball...

Jun 17, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – As Guyana prepares to host the FIBA AmeriCup 2029 Caribbean Pre-Qualifiers from July 8-12 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, the Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) has made a...

No right to a firearm permit exists

Jun 17, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Years ago, there was a man who contended, “I need a firearm licence because I have a lot of money.” The then relevant officer replied, “Then you can afford security—next application, please.” The man had been so confident he would get a firearm licence...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

Jun 14, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

Carolyn Rodrigues – Birkett for UN Sec Gen. – I endorse

Jun 17, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Way to go, Excellency Ali. Excellency Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett is Guyana’s nominee for the prestigious and demanding role of United Nations Secretary General. Why not? Since everybody globally have their eyes on a wedge of Guyana’s riches,...

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