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Regional Chairman says Carol Joseph is untruthful

May 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Regional Chairman says Carol Joseph is untruthful

Dear Editor, Please grant me a space in your newspaper to respond to a letter published in the daily newspaper of the Stabroek News and Kaieteur News on the 26 and 27th April 2016, written by Carol...

Two fined for bird smuggling

May 01, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Two fined for bird smuggling

Two persons appeared in the City’s Court on Friday charged with attempting to smuggle protected birds out of Guyana without a legal permit to do so. Dhanwattie Persaud, 52, and Plant Manager Kayun...

DENTAL HEALTH…Demystifying Dental Filling Procedure – FILLING THE TOOTH

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on DENTAL HEALTH…Demystifying Dental Filling Procedure – FILLING THE TOOTH

Dr. NerominiFagu Last week we spoke about what is involved in preparing a tooth for a filling. We will continue this week with putting in the filling material in the prepared cavity. There are a...

Time has come to make the NIS a competent body

May 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time has come to make the NIS a competent body

Dear Editor, Guyana today marks the first May Day under the APNU+AFC Government. It also marks the first joint Labour Day rally of the labour movement for decades. On this day I have one simple...

I would like an explanation for this land-grabbing action

May 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I would like an explanation for this land-grabbing action

Dear Editor, I repeat here a letter I published in the Kaieteur News of Sunday, November 8, 2015 (“Why the silence on this land-grabbing incident.”) . I have had no response from Kaieteur News...

NOC benefits from visit by UG social work students

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on NOC benefits from visit by UG social work students

The roosters had not yet began to crow when 26 Social Work students from the University of Guyana (UG)’s Tain Campus and their lecturer Egla October left Berbice to share their knowledge and...

DEMTOCO will assert and defend its rights

May 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on DEMTOCO will assert and defend its rights

Dear Editor, There has been in recent times a lot of discussion regarding the governments stated intention to institute legislation in the form of a Tobacco Bill. Let me from the outset state that...

Sunday Cartoon

May 01, 2016 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Cuban national fined for overstaying

May 01, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cuban national fined for overstaying

A Cuban National was fined $30,000 on Friday after she was found guilty of overstaying her time in Guyana. The charge against Elizabeth Rodriguez, 33, stated that between Saturday April 23, and...

CONSUMER CONCERNS… Rediscovering ways individuals could protect themselves from criminals

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS… Rediscovering ways individuals could protect themselves from criminals

PAT DIAL For the last 50 years at least, crime and the personal safety and security of individual citizens and their families have been a very major concern to Guyanese people. There were times...

The Missing Watch

May 01, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on The Missing Watch

There once was a farmer who discovered that he had lost his watch in the barn. It was no ordinary watch because it had sentimental value for him. After searching high and low among the hay for a long...

From 1905 to 2016; workers’ exploitation remains

May 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on From 1905 to 2016; workers’ exploitation remains

Dear Editor, Labour Day 2016 is occurring 90 years after the Caribbean Labour Leaders met in Georgetown (March 1926), where they put in place a strategy which included among other things, the...

STANDARDS IN FOCUS…ADDRESSING WORKPLACE SAFETY WITH STANDARDS

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS…ADDRESSING WORKPLACE SAFETY WITH STANDARDS

Worldwide, it is estimated that every 15 seconds a worker dies from a work related accident or disease, and 153 people experience a work related injury. These statistics represent an enormous burden...

Community Development Organisations and Local Democracy (Part 2)

May 01, 2016 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Community Development Organisations and Local Democracy (Part 2)

By Hon. Joseph Harmon, Minister of State THE FAMILY The family is the basic building block of a healthy community. It is a social unit that facilitates social intercourse and establishes and...

How can any country be so shambolic and chaotic?

May 01, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on How can any country be so shambolic and chaotic?

A quality we must at all times respect a human for is, “frankness.” One may not accept the character make-up of another person, but if that person is always inclined to speak their mind and offer...

Absent or irregular periods: Knowing when it’s not right

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Absent or irregular periods: Knowing when it’s not right

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Absent or irregular periods are periods that do not happen at all or that happen less that six to eight times a year. If a woman does not...

Fifty years later and a lot has changed

May 01, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Fifty years later and a lot has changed

Fifty years ago I was a schoolboy. I had grown up in colonial Guyana. News of independence was met with mixed reactions. After all, change is not something that people readily accept. The older folk...

Missulena

May 01, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Missulena

Missulena is a genus of spiders in the mygalomorph family Actinopodidae, sometimes called mouse spiders. There are about 17 known species in this genus, all but one of which are indigenous to...

Marketing Guyana’s products and our overseas missions

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Marketing Guyana’s products and our overseas missions

The Story within the Story… By Leonard Gildarie In my column last week, I spoke about the need for Guyana to begin to see itself as a country that can achieve its potential and become a real...

The Baccoo Speaks

May 01, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

There will be some more daring robberies on easy targets. The fact that it would be broad daylight and many people in the vicinity would not stop the bandits from carrying out their plan. The police...

The Passport Office

May 01, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Passport Office

Over 1,000 passport applications in four days cannot be responsible for the long lines seen outside the Passport Office in recent days. Two hundred and fifty applications per day are below par and...

“GIRLS IN ICT”

May 01, 2016 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on “GIRLS IN ICT”

On Thursday 28th April, the CARICOM Secretariat spearheaded the 2016 “Girls in ICT” symposium held at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre for specifically for female secondary school students....

Are due diligence reviews enough to protect Guyana from selfish, greedy companies?

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Are due diligence reviews enough to protect Guyana from selfish, greedy companies?

By Kiana Wilburg Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman recently told members of the media during a briefing that the administration will be seeking international support for due diligence...

Lasher’s race!

May 01, 2016 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Lasher’s race!

By Dennis Nichols Nineteen seventy-two was going to be a good year for Lasher. His brother Prince had come from the Mazaruni goldfields with a $10,000 windfall and two peanut-sized nuggets. He had...

A world according to Trump

May 01, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on A world according to Trump

By Sir Ronald Sanders Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy speech on April 27 did not once mention the Caribbean. The Caribbean should be grateful or there might have been a price tag for his...

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National basketball team down to 15 after intense trials

Members of the National Assembly should exercise civility towards their peers

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The following column was published two years ago in response to the same controversy that... more