April 2016

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Healthy living is key to helping to ‘Beat Diabetes’

Apr 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Healthy living is key to helping to ‘Beat Diabetes’

By Sharmain Grainger World Health Day (WHD) 2016 came and went with a few activities locally to observe the day. Since 1950, April 7 has been designated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to...

The Story within the Story…A woman and her newborn on a hospital floor

Apr 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story…A woman and her newborn on a hospital floor

By Leonard Gildarie Last Friday’s edition of the Kaieteur News carried a photo of a mom and newborn lying under a bed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). It sparked outrage and...

Book Review… The key to unlocking your potential

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review… The key to unlocking your potential

Book: Anam Cara: Your Soul Friend and bridge to Enlightenment and Creativity Author: Dr Glenville Ashby Reviewer: Tony Vendryes, MD “Tap into your Soul and unlock your creativity” is the basic...

The Baccoo speaks

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

Bodies keep turning up in the most unlikely places. The police are going to pick up a body on the roadway in the city. No one is going to know how it got there, but the police will know after...

ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community …Dual Citizenship

Apr 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community …Dual Citizenship

By Attorney Gail S. Seeram Dual citizenship refers to a person being a citizen of two countries at the same time. Persons may have dual nationality by automatic operation of different laws rather...

Micro-finance and empowerment

Apr 10, 2016 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Micro-finance and empowerment

(Excerpts from an Address given by His Excellency Brigadier David Granger, in honour of the 30th anniversary of the Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) The economic empowerment of poor...

RESTORING ONE OF GEORGETOWN’S ENDURING LANDMARKS

Apr 10, 2016 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on RESTORING ONE OF GEORGETOWN’S ENDURING LANDMARKS

A total rehabilitation of the Botanical Gardens at Regent and Vlissengen Roads will begin soon. It is being restored, re-stocked with some of the indigenous wildlife that brought Guyana fame and...

Three historic days; WI Cricket and WI Character

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Three historic days; WI Cricket and WI Character

By Dennis Nichols By the time this week’s ‘Countryman’ is published, other writers and sports commentators will have voiced their thoughts and reactions about the recently-concluded ICC World...

Maned Sloth (Bradypus torquatus)

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Maned Sloth (Bradypus torquatus)

The maned sloth (Bradypus torquatus), which is also known as the three-toed sloth, that lives only in Brazil, is one of four species of three-toed sloth. The maned sloth is now found only in...

The Joe Harmon tempest rages on

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Joe Harmon tempest rages on

Dear Editor, Amid the deluge of deserved criticism of Mr. Harmon’s appointment of Brian Tiwari as a ‘Government Adviser on Business’, some defenses of his actions are misconceived, including...

Joe Harmon and my wife; the AFC and my country

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Joe Harmon and my wife; the AFC and my country

There was a moment of complete disbelief when I read a part of Joe Harmon’s explanation for awarding Brian Tiwarie the title of business advisor. Harmon waxed lyrical about people like Tiwarie who...

Going around in circles, literally!

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Going around in circles, literally!

Roundabouts are being deployed throughout the Caribbean as a means of reducing traffic congestion. Traffic lights have proven inferior to the use of roundabouts and traffic circles when it comes to...

“Who’s calling on my dead daughter’s phone?”

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on “Who’s calling on my dead daughter’s phone?”

– Is a killer playing a sadistic game with a Charlestown family? By Michael Jordan A rather odd thing happened at Yvette Parris’ Sussex Street home in March 2011. The phone in her home...

Silence is not always the best defence

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Silence is not always the best defence

These past weeks Minister of State Joseph Harmon has been held out to be the fly in the ointment. There was the news that he had appointed businessman Brian Tiwarie as an Adviser in the field of...

Endometriosis: A common disorder in women

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Endometriosis: A common disorder in women

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Endometriosis is becoming more common and is a leading cause of infertility in women. 10% of women worldwide have endometriosis. The...

The lessons of Panama and its papers

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The lessons of Panama and its papers

By Sir Ronald Sanders The names of persons implicated in the leak of the so-called “Panama Papers” on April 3 reads like a who’s who of the politically powerful in many parts of the world....

Haags Bosch dumpsite controversy…BK settlement not yet finalised–Attorney General insists

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Haags Bosch dumpsite controversy…BK settlement not yet finalised–Attorney General insists

Government said, yesterday, that it has not yet finalized a settlement with BK International Inc., to see the company walking away from managing the Haags Bosch Landfill project. A statement from the...

Those damning forensic audits… Govt. needs to quit procrastinating and act—WPA Executive Member

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Those damning forensic audits… Govt. needs to quit procrastinating and act—WPA Executive Member

By Kiana Wilburg The abuse of power for private gain, the mismanagement of the nation’s resources and the disregard for discretion and the law of the day, have all been highlighted by the 16...

Govt moving to stamp out bribery at wharves

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt moving to stamp out bribery at wharves

As importers complain about delayed containers… Government has green-lighted a proposal submitted by Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin, to introduce a ‘Trusted Trader’ programme to...

Cop killer remanded

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cop killer remanded

Police said a farmer who was shot by the police after he allegedly stabbed and killed a GPF officer at Matthews Ridge was remanded to prison yesterday. Charged with the murder of 52-year-old Police...

Former GTU President acquitted of carnal knowledge charge

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Former GTU President acquitted of carnal knowledge charge

By Rehanna Ramsay Former President of the Guyana Teacher’s Union, (GTU) Colywn King, 52, has been found not guilty of carnal knowledge. King is acquitted some seven years after he was charged for...

Cop drowns during operation to halt illegal mining at Kaieteur National Park

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cop drowns during operation to halt illegal mining at Kaieteur National Park

A young Special Constable, who was on a Government operation to halt illegal mining around the Kaieteur National Park, is feared drowned after the vessel he was in capsized in the Amatuk Falls,...

AG Williams distances self from Harmon’s behavior

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on AG Williams distances self from Harmon’s behavior

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell The coalition of A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) is maintaining a deafening silence on allegations of corruption. Observers are...

Forensic audit finds…CJIA Chief Security Officer, other key positions left vacant for years

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Forensic audit finds…CJIA Chief Security Officer, other key positions left vacant for years

–organization structure has severe gaps In a world where coordinating security at national airports is of national importance, a forensic audit into Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan International...

Dem Willie cousin want cause trouble

Apr 09, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Willie cousin want cause trouble

There is an old saying; Where there’s Love, there is Life and where there is Unity, there is strength. De only man who know different from that is Jagdeo, that scamp. When he hear bout Unity, he...

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(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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