January 2015

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The Story Within The Story… The possibilities of a smartphone and the Internet

Jan 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The Story Within The Story… The possibilities of a smartphone and the Internet

I am very disappointed this week. We were supposed to examine the coconut industry. It has been doing superbly, so much so that I have been getting reports that Suriname is taking off a significant...

A carefully orchestrated plan by Govt. to frustrate residents of Mahdia

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A carefully orchestrated plan by Govt. to frustrate residents of Mahdia

Dear Editor, At the opening of mining week in August of last year a top level delegation from the mining sector including the chairman of GGDMA, the Chairman of GGMC and the Permanent Secretary of...

Does Caribbean Integration have practical value? Astute reflections of Owen Arthur

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Does Caribbean Integration have practical value? Astute reflections of Owen Arthur

By Sir Ronald Sanders There is no doubt about the passion of Owen Arthur, one of the Caribbean’s foremost economists and thinkers, for the economic integration of the Region. As the Prime Minister...

Anger could have caused May 11 to be identified

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Anger could have caused May 11 to be identified

When President Donald Ramotar announced the date for elections, I was certain that he did so in anger and did not take anything into consideration. First, he prorogued Parliament with the hope of...

Guyana needs an honest, dedicated and committed coalition government

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana needs an honest, dedicated and committed coalition government

Dear Editor, With the election date set for May 11, the presidential candidates of each party will begin the ritual of crisscrossing the country to make their cases to the voters. Although the...

My Sister Friend, Dr Faith Harding

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on My Sister Friend, Dr Faith Harding

Dear Editor, I met Dr. Harding well over thirty years ago and we connected almost immediately. During this period we shared our ideas and opinions on a number of social issues in Canada but...

Unlimited power leads to unlimited imagination

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Unlimited power leads to unlimited imagination

At the time of writing, there is no proclamation dissolving Parliament, yet there is an election date announced by the President. Before we come to the right or wrong of that decision, one needs to...

Freddie Kissoon replies to Vindhya Vasini Persaud

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon replies to Vindhya Vasini Persaud

Dear Editor, What follows is my point by point reply to Ms. Vindhya Persaud, daughter of Reepu Daman Persaud. First, I stand by my assertions and do so unapologetically. Secondly, Ms. Persaud wrote...

Guyana’s last frontier…the Rupununi

Jan 25, 2015 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana’s last frontier…the Rupununi

The Rupununi – properly called the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region – is the largest Region in Guyana and has a size of about 58,000 km². It is bigger than Costa Rica and six times the size...

Revitalising urban agriculture

Jan 25, 2015 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Revitalising urban agriculture

By Neilson McKenzie Significant public policy shifts highlighting the need for a resurgence of urban and peri-urban agriculture, have, in Latin America and some countries of the Caribbean facilitated...

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

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on COUNTRYMAN – Stories about life, in and out of Guyana, from a Guyanese perspective

More heroes – Wesley Autrey, Nick Vujicic, and a Guyanese Rasta By Dennis Nichols One of my favourite poems is ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ by Thomas Gray. I love the rustic...

UG to go on strike tomorrow

Jan 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UG to go on strike tomorrow

UGSS calls for solution to end “deadlock” The University of Guyana Student Society, (UGSS) is calling for a solution to end to the prolonged issue between University of Guyana, (UG)’s...

Interesting Creatures… The Bearded bellbird (Procnias averano)

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… The Bearded bellbird (Procnias averano)

The bearded bellbird (Procnias averano) also known as the campanero or anvil-bird, is a passerine bird which occurs in tropical northern South America. There are two subspecies; the nominate taxon,...

ELECTION JITTERS

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ELECTION JITTERS

It happens to the best of us; it happens to the worst of us. Everyone at some stage or the other has jitters, especially approaching a major event in our lives. The opposition parties right now have...

Understanding Emergency Room Overcrowding with Dr Zulfikar Bux

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Understanding Emergency Room Overcrowding with Dr Zulfikar Bux

Emergency rooms function as a public “safety net,” providing care to patients who have unexpected illness or injury that may result in death, disability, or severe pain if not cared for...

EU withholds EURO $28.9M support for sugar due to prorogued parliament

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on EU withholds EURO $28.9M support for sugar due to prorogued parliament

The government has been given its first clear sign of an international sanction for proroguing the Parliament. Yesterday, the European Union (EU) said that it has temporarily put on hold its two...

US$18M Specialty Hospital embarrassment… “Bankrupt” Indian firm disappears; court grants $900M judgment

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US$18M Specialty Hospital embarrassment… “Bankrupt” Indian firm disappears; court grants $900M judgment

Months after suing Indian firm, Surendra Engineering Corporation Limited (SECL), for failing to deliver on the US$18M Specialty Hospital, a local court has ordered the company to pay over $900M. But...

Female GPHC patient jumps to her death

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Female GPHC patient jumps to her death

A Meten-Meer-Zorg resident, who had been a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) since last year, ended her life last evening around 20:30hrs by jumping to her death. Dead is...

Dr. Faith Harding is dead

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Dr. Faith Harding is dead

Guyana has lost a former Government Minister, educator, women’s rights activist, community worker and psychotherapist, Dr. Faith Harding. Dr. Harding died yesterday afternoon in Guyana after a...

Con artist who went on a cell phone robbing spree remanded

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Con artist who went on a cell phone robbing spree remanded

Two days after pretending to be a detective in an attempt to seize smart phones from several students of Queen’s College, a 28-year-old ex-convict was taken before a city Magistrate on several...

‘Chatree’ threat to innocent reporters enough to unseat Govt. – Nagamootoo

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Chatree’ threat to innocent reporters enough to unseat Govt. – Nagamootoo

The atrocities the People Progressive Party (PPP) administration inflicted on the people of Guyana such as condoning a rogue Attorney General will result in a serious backlash for the Party at the...

‘Hit man’ walks free of hairdresser’s murder

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Hit man’ walks free of hairdresser’s murder

The man accused of killing West Coast Demerara hairdresser Bibi Rafeena Saymar was yesterday freed of the indictment. Troy Green, a labourer from Holmes Street, Cummingsburg Georgetown was acquitted...

A big man mek a stamp fuh do Donald wuk

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on A big man mek a stamp fuh do Donald wuk

Most people don’t know but in this country you got to be a certain age before you can marry. If you under age you parents got to sign fuh you. Jagdeo come of age yesterday and de Waterfalls boss...

Log production jumps 21 percent in 2014

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Log production jumps 21 percent in 2014

– operators request similar benefits to other sectors Large-scale forest companies and operators were called upon to increase value added production and harvesting since most forest...

GPL powers up Angoy’s Avenue

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPL powers up Angoy’s Avenue

By Leon Suseran On Thursday evening the lights of one of Guyana’s largest squatter settlements were turned on by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, ably assisted by a youngster from the area,...

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Who owns the MSC?

Oct 08, 2026

…MSC General Secretary Joe Chapman questions ownership, calls for transparency By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – With the remodeled Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) preparing to reopen its doors for...

Leave, but please explain why

Oct 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Apparently, in Guyana, the moment a person is accused of a serious offence, a mysterious administrative switch is supposed to be flipped. CLICK. The accused goes on leave. No investigation into whether the person’s continued presence could interfere with the investigation. No...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

Congrats to Drs. Ali, Jagdeo

Oct 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It must be done; avoiding out of the question. Congratulations to Excellencies Ali and Jagdeo, the former a sitting president, the latter still a president in all but title. Drs. Ali and Jagdeo must have pig iron stomachs. Whoever is halal or haram, holy or a heathen...

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