April 2015

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Eusi Kwayana: A Guyanese Political Legend turns 90

Apr 05, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Eusi Kwayana: A Guyanese Political Legend turns 90

Dear Editor, Today, April 4, 2015, Eusi Kwayana turns 90. It is difficult to properly analyze modern Guyanese politics without taking into consideration Eusi Kwayana’s wide ranging contributions....

A STEADY DIET OF ELECTION-TIME PROMISES

Apr 05, 2015 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A STEADY DIET OF ELECTION-TIME PROMISES

As is their wont during election season, the PPP/C continues to demonstrate an appalling lack of imagination and creativity. For the fifth consecutive campaign season, the party and its acolytes...

Elisabeth Harper is an unmitigated hypocrite

Apr 05, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Elisabeth Harper is an unmitigated hypocrite

No one like Elisabeth Harper has the right to become the Prime Minister of Guyana. Our elected officials must be people of such standards that their values not only preserve the essential fulcrums on...

Essequibo Coast Ramble

Apr 05, 2015 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Essequibo Coast Ramble

Countryman – Stories about life, in and out of Guyana, from a Guyanese perspective By Dennis Nichols This week’s ‘Countryman’ takes a rest from the lunacy that has over the past few weeks,...

The Fulvous Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna bicolor)

Apr 05, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Fulvous Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna bicolor)

The fulvous whistling duck or fulvous tree duck (Dendrocygna bicolor) is a whistling duck that breeds across the world’s tropical regions in much of Central and South America, the West...

GHL Lall wants to know who my friends; why?

Apr 05, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on GHL Lall wants to know who my friends; why?

Dear Editor, This is my second reply to the second letter of GHL Lall who has made three accusations against me which I honestly thought I have answered satisfactorily but Mr. Lall persists for...

$20B expended to provide water services countrywide – GWI

Apr 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on $20B expended to provide water services countrywide – GWI

– 30,000 households enjoy service for the first time Over the past 15 years the water sector has seen significant transformation in the different regions where more persons are receiving...

David Granger is the people’s expectation for what a President embodies

Apr 05, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on David Granger is the people’s expectation for what a President embodies

Dear Editor, In this election campaign, David Granger finds himself on the front line of the most brutal attacks from the PPP, especially from Jagdeo who said he would do everything in his power to...

Let us give Carl Greenidge his jacket

Apr 05, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let us give Carl Greenidge his jacket

Dear Editor, The history of the debt relief effort for Guyana goes back to at least 1987 when the G-7 countries at their annual meeting actively began the process to cancel some of the debts of...

Corruption and the Guyana Police Force (cont’d)

Apr 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Corruption and the Guyana Police Force (cont’d)

By Dale Andrews The excuse when officialdom is confronted with substantiated allegations of police corruption is the timeworn response which refers to a few deviants or “bad apples” as not...

THE ORPHAN’S DEADLY GUARDIANS

Apr 05, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on THE ORPHAN’S DEADLY GUARDIANS

By Michael Jordan On the morning of Tuesday, December 17, 2002, residents of the Greater Georgetown area known as ‘Sophia Front’ made a horrifying find. Lying in a drain near the Liliendaal...

Book Review…The Story of a Cultural Icon…In his own words

Apr 05, 2015 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…The Story of a Cultural Icon…In his own words

Book: The Half that’s Never Been Told Author: Doctor Dread Reviewer: Dr Glenville Ashby Doctor Dread may just prove to be as gripping a story teller as he was a record producer. In this revelatory...

Dealing with snake bites

Apr 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Dealing with snake bites

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Guyana being in the tropics is well known for the various species of snakes that inhabit it. Snakes like every other animal have to survive. They will eat to live and will defend...

What answers can we give to our rice farmers?

Apr 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on What answers can we give to our rice farmers?

The Story within the Story… By Leonard Gildarie Rice remains an integral part of our diet. It is loved. It is a necessity. We have been talking about rice in the last few weeks and its impact on...

The rulers of the darkness of the world

Apr 05, 2015 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The rulers of the darkness of the world

President Donald Ramotar has dismissed suggestions that Courtney Crum-Ewing was “assassinated.” Ramotar, addressing a West Berbice Chamber of Commerce meeting on Saturday 21st March, claimed that...

Guyana really changed for the worse

Apr 05, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Guyana really changed for the worse

There was a time when Guyana was a garden of happy people. In fact, the world described us as the most hospitable people in the world. And indeed we were. We opened our doors to strangers. Those of...

HOAXES AND PRANKS

Apr 05, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HOAXES AND PRANKS

The United States Embassy in Guyana has become very touchy these days. Last week this newspaper published an April Fools’ Day prank about the fictional withdrawal of four visas to unnamed top...

The Baccoo Speaks

Apr 05, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Holidays are synonymous with road accidents. It is as if madness overcomes people. The next few hours are going to be traumatic for some people as a speeding vehicle collides with another. The wreck...

The different malaria tests and why they are important

Apr 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The different malaria tests and why they are important

(From the Desk of the Vector Control Director, Dr Reyaud Rahman) Malaria is among Guyana’s major infectious diseases. It accounts for thousands of cases per year. Treating this disease can cost...

Corruption thrives in secret places

Apr 05, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Corruption thrives in secret places

“Government ought to be all outside and no inside…Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it’s a fair presumption that secrecy means...

Dismembered Buxton woman…Labourer plotted murder with two others

Apr 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Dismembered Buxton woman…Labourer plotted murder with two others

Victim’s laptop, phone found in Bent St. house Detectives on the East Coast of Demerara are making further inroads into the mystery of how United States of America-based Guyanese businesswoman...

Ramotar’s scholarship promise unfulfilled… Nation’s top CSEC students should not be made to endure such deceit – APNU

Apr 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar’s scholarship promise unfulfilled… Nation’s top CSEC students should not be made to endure such deceit – APNU

As one of the country’s top performers at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) still awaits an explanation as to why government has not honoured its promise of a scholarship, the...

Court blocks Govt. from using IDB funds

Apr 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Court blocks Govt. from using IDB funds

The High Court in a ruling this week blocked the Government from spending a US$32.16M loan recently disbursed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Chief Justice (ag), Ian Chang, made the...

Father of 29 remanded for coke in charcoal

Apr 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Father of 29 remanded for coke in charcoal

Fifty-eight year-old Linden businessman Colin Prescod, a timber exporter, was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of trafficking in narcotics, when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya...

Drug purchasing policy will not change – Ramsammy

Apr 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Drug purchasing policy will not change – Ramsammy

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) administration has no intention to review its drug purchasing policy if re-elected to office subsequent to the May 11 General and Regional Elections. This...

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Guyana Development Bank: Promise, Potential and Peril

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(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again,...

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