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Strategic malaria interventions yield successful results

Mar 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Strategic malaria interventions yield successful results

(From the Desk of the Vector Control Director, Dr Reyaud Rahman) In 2014 we saw our efforts bear fruit. These efforts were characterised by the creation of new structures, the strengthening of...

The PPP and Intellectual Property

Mar 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP and Intellectual Property

Dear Editor, I am glad to see Stabroek News has covered the PPP’s blatant theft of Francis Bailey’s video footage in a recent advertisment. Three years ago, as is his typical of inimitable and...

The showpiece called the Rodney Commission

Mar 29, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The showpiece called the Rodney Commission

The Walter Rodney Commission of inquiry was long in coming. I remember that the first time that this issue came up Rupert Roopnaraine was a Member of Parliament. There was an issue over a word in the...

GRDB and the rice industry

Mar 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GRDB and the rice industry

The Story within the Story… By Leonard Gildarie As uneasiness continues within the rice industry over outstanding payments and prices for paddy during this ongoing crop, last week we started to...

Drinking Poison: The punishment behind it

Mar 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Drinking Poison: The punishment behind it

By Dr Zulfikar Bux One who is depressed and has suicidal thoughts will often think of ways to take their life. Drinking poison is a common way of suicide in Guyana. It is portrayed in movies as a...

Testing Week helped with stabilisation of HIV – Dr Singh

Mar 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Testing Week helped with stabilisation of HIV – Dr Singh

Introduced as a strategic tactic to help raise awareness about the Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), the Ministry of Health’s National Week of Testing,...

Book Review…A brilliant revival of a dying art

Mar 29, 2015 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…A brilliant revival of a dying art

Book: “Mammie’s Folklore Stories” Author: Eva David-Swain Reviewer: Dr Glenville Ashby Nostalgic, vivid and imaginative. These are just a few words to describe “Mammie’s Folklore...

If heckling is a criminal offence, then the police have been grossly negligent for decades

Mar 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on If heckling is a criminal offence, then the police have been grossly negligent for decades

Dear Editor, I write in solidarity with Vanessa Kissoon. This young woman has been bearing too much on her own. I have hesitated in the past to say anything about her travails because I did not want...

Lee Kuan Yew’s Caribbean rescue in the Commonwealth

Mar 29, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Lee Kuan Yew’s Caribbean rescue in the Commonwealth

By Sir Ronald Sanders Lee Kuan Yew, who led Singapore for three decades, died on March 23rd. He was a remarkable man who is best remembered for courageous leadership that converted a tiny island...

IS THIS HOW WE TREAT OUR NATIONAL HEROES?

Mar 29, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on IS THIS HOW WE TREAT OUR NATIONAL HEROES?

As of last Thursday, the fund that was launched by the Kaieteur News to benefit the children of the slain Courtney Crum Ewing had not yet reached one million dollars. This is surprising considering...

The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

Mar 29, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), sometimes known as the fish eagle, sea hawk, river hawk, or fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm...

Article 13 and what it means to the “new” Guyanese

Mar 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Article 13 and what it means to the “new” Guyanese

By Zena Henry Sporadically, Article 13 of Guyana’s Constitution has been used to remind citizens of their role in the political system. More recently, with two political parties coming together,...

Disturbing rise in the incidence of rape

Mar 29, 2015 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Disturbing rise in the incidence of rape

By Latchmin Sarah Punalall, Chairperson of Women for Change Within recent months quite a number of women were raped across our country. In recent days, the nation was thrown for a loop – twice...

Really, in which ways am I contaminated and have deteriorated?

Mar 29, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Really, in which ways am I contaminated and have deteriorated?

Well known letter writer in the Stabroek News and Kaieteur News and a critic of the PPP’s dictatorial governance, GHK Lall, has made some pyrotechnical accusations against me. Inflammatory...

Guyana should be gearing for a ‘green economy’

Mar 29, 2015 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana should be gearing for a ‘green economy’

The first principle of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development states that “Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development. They are entitled to a healthy and...

Corruption and the Guyana Police Force

Mar 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Corruption and the Guyana Police Force

By Dale Andrews The undisputed findings of the LAPOP Survey; the comments being made about the investigation into the Neesa Gopaul murder; the current claims that Courtney Crum-Ewing’s reports of...

The Baccoo Speaks

Mar 29, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

People always seek to escape from the routine and the coming weekend provides such an opportunity. But that same opportunity is going to be provided to some people whose preoccupation is to torment...

ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community …Establishing the Parent-Child Relationship

Mar 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community …Establishing the Parent-Child Relationship

By Attorney Gail Seeram In current times, the dynamic of the family unit has changed. It is a norm to see children born to unwed parents and children raised by step-parents. In these situations,...

Jagdeo’s illegal radio licences refuse to die…PSC demands equitable elections campaign access for Opposition

Mar 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo’s illegal radio licences refuse to die…PSC demands equitable elections campaign access for Opposition

– issue seen as critical to fair elections The unfair distribution of radio licences by the ruling party in late 2011 to mainly close friends, shortly before General Elections, continues to...

Seawall bodies baffle investigators…Evidence suggests school girl murdered despite ‘suicide’ note

Mar 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Seawall bodies baffle investigators…Evidence suggests school girl murdered despite ‘suicide’ note

Police yesterday remained baffled by the gruesome killings of two women and a man, whose bodies were found near the Kitty seawalls and at Turkeyen and Annandale within a five-day span. Detectives are...

Preparations in the making for Presidential debates – Dr. Anthony

Mar 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Preparations in the making for Presidential debates – Dr. Anthony

– To be organized by PSC Minister of Culture Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, who forms part of the elections campaign team set up by the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), has indicated...

ABC countries meet with army on elections protocol

Mar 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ABC countries meet with army on elections protocol

A team of high ranking officers of the Guyana Defence Force headed by Chief of Staff, Brigadier Mark Phillips recently met with envoys representing the ABC countries. The meeting which was dubbed...

“Mongoose” pleads guilty to brutal murder of 7-year-old

Mar 28, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on “Mongoose” pleads guilty to brutal murder of 7-year-old

Murder accused Fazal ‘Mongoose’ Mohamed, also called ‘Boy’, 23, of No. 67 Village, Corentyne, Berbice has finally pleaded guilty to murdering a seven-year-old lad. This was his third trial....

Jagdeo wants to feel relevant – APNU+AFC

Mar 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo wants to feel relevant – APNU+AFC

Executive members of A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) sought to set the record straight yesterday on the grouping’s position on development in Guyana. They also...

COI hears…Top Cop, Laurie Lewis issued Gregory Smith’s passport in 1999

Mar 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on COI hears…Top Cop, Laurie Lewis issued Gregory Smith’s passport in 1999

Amid suggestions that lone suspect and former Sergeant of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Gregory Smith, was a member of an intelligence unit, it was revealed that a passport issued to him in 1999...

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The path forward for the Caribbean

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- When the Cold War ended, western liberalism declared its victory over communism. It immediately... more