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Sunday Cartoon

Feb 01, 2015 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

It would be patriotic to ask the EU to withhold funds so the PPP cannot undermine political stability

Feb 01, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on It would be patriotic to ask the EU to withhold funds so the PPP cannot undermine political stability

Dear Editor, Dr. Ashni Singh has once again turned his quarrelsome sights on critics of the Government. Joining his colleagues, Messrs Ramotar and Rohee, in particular, he has cavailed against...

Eighth edition of “Guyana where & what” launched

Feb 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Eighth edition of “Guyana where & what” launched

Published by Gem Madhoo-Nascimento of G.E.M.S. Inc., the eighth edition of “Guyana where & what”, the premier pocket-sized guidebook on Guyana, is now available for visitors to Guyana and...

ImmigrationINFO: Imigration News For Our Community

Feb 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO: Imigration News For Our Community

Winning in U.S. Immigration Court By Attorney Gail Seeram, [email protected] Most immigrants living in the United States, whether legal or illegal, fear being placed in deportation/removal...

Sri Lanka’s new president reverses ‘revenge politics’ of Rajapaksa regime

Feb 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sri Lanka’s new president reverses ‘revenge politics’ of Rajapaksa regime

– Country’s chief justice reinstated two years after impeached by former govt. Sri Lanka’s new president has reinstated the country’s chief justice, who was impeached two years ago...

The Story within the Story… Affordable Home Insurance In Guyana

Feb 01, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Story within the Story… Affordable Home Insurance In Guyana

By Leonard Gildarie They say that life comes in a full circle. While writing on the housing situation in Guyana for over two years, and having brought the curtain down, I thought that was it for such...

Book Review… Bible of West Indian Cricket is a must read!

Feb 01, 2015 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review… Bible of West Indian Cricket is a must read!

Book: WI in Test Matches…Facts and Feats 1928-2013 Author: Ramnarine Sambhudat (Shako) Review: Dr Glenville Ashby WI in Test Matches: Facts and Feats 1928-2013 is an exhaustive study of a game...

Interesting Creatures…

Feb 01, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures…

The Mussurana The mussurana or musurana (Portuguese muçurana) is a genus (Clelia) of colubrid snakes found in Central America and South America, from Guatemala to Brazil. They specialize in...

Three months later…Mother of 14-year-old accident victim accuses police of pushing her around

Feb 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Three months later…Mother of 14-year-old accident victim accuses police of pushing her around

The mother of a 14-year old boy who was killed last October in a road accident at Enmore, East coast Demerara, has lost all confidence in the police to guarantee her justice. Ancilla Peters’s son,...

The Baccoo Speaks

Feb 01, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

There is no end to the drive by young men to deprive honest people of their hard earned earnings. And to support them are the guns that they have managed to acquire. This development has not gone...

Stemming the tide in Indigenous education

Feb 01, 2015 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Stemming the tide in Indigenous education

By Nigel Hughes I have been privileged enough, since my entry into politics, to have visited several indigenous communities in Regions 1, 2, and 9. There has been a disturbing recurring trend in the...

Who killed teacher Melissa?

Feb 01, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Who killed teacher Melissa?

By Michael Jordan At around 11:30 hrs on Saturday, April 7, 2007, Tristan Grant, a student, went to the home of a school teacher at Lot 134 Hippani Oval in Retrieve, Linden, to show her a school...

The unhelpful geopolitics of Energy in the Caribbean

Feb 01, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The unhelpful geopolitics of Energy in the Caribbean

By Sir Ronald Sanders US commentators are predicting the death of PetroCaribe, the Venezuelan oil initiative in the Caribbean, and the ascendancy of United States as the dominant player in the...

Why young people will vote for APNU

Feb 01, 2015 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Why young people will vote for APNU

Young people, throughout Guyana, are gradually coming to understand how the People’s Progressive Party Civic – PPPC – has been fooling them for over two decades. They have realised how the PPPC...

The government never gave mega increases to workers

Feb 01, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The government never gave mega increases to workers

Technology is really going places and it is taking me with it. A few years ago if I wanted to research a topic I had to rush to some library where there were tomes of Encyclopedia Britannica. Of...

Vomiting and Diarrhea: Dr Zulfikar Bux shares ‘The do’s and don’ts’

Feb 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Vomiting and Diarrhea: Dr Zulfikar Bux shares ‘The do’s and don’ts’

We have all had the displeasure of having an episode of vomiting or diarrhea, or both. It’s not the best feeling in the world and can make our lives very uncomfortable. Medication, illicit drugs,...

Do Caricom leaders prove that the white race is superior?

Feb 01, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Do Caricom leaders prove that the white race is superior?

Have you read a biography of the man who in a survey, the British people voted, even above William Shakespeare, as the most admired citizen in the history of the UK? When you read about Winston...

Guyana among Caribbean nations to hold elections this year

Feb 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana among Caribbean nations to hold elections this year

NY New Amsterdam News: At least five general elections are scheduled to be held in the 15-nation Caribbean trade bloc this year, including three in the politically volatile Southern Caribbean region,...

Blame the law, not the magistrates!

Feb 01, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Blame the law, not the magistrates!

This year is an important year for constitutional law. It marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, the document which introduced the principle that even the King should be subject to the law....