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Incident at Canje Secondary School

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Please allow me a space in your newspaper to highlight some of my concerns relating to an incident at Canje secondary School. The incident involves the alleged pushing over a student on...

DENTALHEALTH….Dental HealthandDads

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on DENTALHEALTH….Dental HealthandDads

By Dr. NerominiFagu Around the world today is a special day that is dedicated to fathers. Some fathers play a dual role of both parents. These single dads sometimes are so busy taking care of their...

What do children value most from parents?

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on What do children value most from parents?

Very Valuable Answer By A Little Girl: A teacher asked a little girl: What does your DAD do? Girl replied: He works in a chocolate factory and brings lots of chocolate for me.. In the evening he...

A delayed email and an overseas visitor’s ‘Golden Jubilee’ account

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on A delayed email and an overseas visitor’s ‘Golden Jubilee’ account

By Sharmain Grainger Have you ever been convinced that you got a message from someone who left suddenly for the “great beyond”? Well I haven’t, and I hope I never do. But for a split second...

The five challenges of Independence (Part 1)

Jun 19, 2016 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The five challenges of Independence (Part 1)

(Address by His Excellency Brigadier David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana at the Dinner in honour of Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary, in New York) Guyana – a land...

THE ‘BLUE MOVIE’ MURDER

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on THE ‘BLUE MOVIE’ MURDER

– A fun-loving girl was strangled and dumped in an alleyway – Was she the victim of a pornography ring? By Michael Jordan At six feet two inches in height, Albert Forde could easily pass...

Book Review… Prisoners of our past!

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review… Prisoners of our past!

Book: Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization: Jamaica Journals, 1961 and 1968 Author: Colin Clarke Reviewer: Dr Glenville Ashby Colin Clarke’s doctoral thesis, Aspects of the Urban...

Governments failed the OAS at its 46th Assembly

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Governments failed the OAS at its 46th Assembly

By Sir Ronald Sanders The 46th General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) was not a successful event. This judgement is in no way related to the government of the Dominican...

Shaping a better future… Stakeholder group convenes, drafts modernized copyright legislation

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Shaping a better future… Stakeholder group convenes, drafts modernized copyright legislation

“Under the previous political administration, responsibility for initiating and sustaining the process fell under the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, specifically the Department of Culture....

The Baccoo Speaks

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Murders are on the increase. People seem unable to contain their emotions when confronted with any opposition, even if they are wrong. In fact, a disagreement with the assailant being in the wrong...

Flattering Annual Reports vs. those Forensic Audit Reports…THE WORRYING DISPARITIES

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Flattering Annual Reports vs. those Forensic Audit Reports…THE WORRYING DISPARITIES

By Kiana Wilburg I am no financial expert. But I don’t believe that you or I need to be one in order to see the obvious and worrying disparities between those damning forensic audit reports and the...

The Venezuelan crisis: Offers of help from neighbours

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on The Venezuelan crisis: Offers of help from neighbours

By Odeen Ishmael Much has already been written about the political, economic, financial and social crisis engulfing Venezuela. Despite having one of the world’s largest oil reserves, the country...

“The Enmore Five did not die in vain”

Jun 19, 2016 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on “The Enmore Five did not die in vain”

Thursday June 16, 2016 marked the 68th anniversary of the slaying of the Enmore Martyrs, the five sugar workers – Pooran, Surujballi, Rambarran, Harry and Lallabagee – who were killed in 1948...

Establishing the Parent-Child Relationship

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 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 stepparents. In these situations, the...

The Story within the Story…On the Hunt: A different kind of diplomacy

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story…On the Hunt: A different kind of diplomacy

By Leonard Gildarie The country in recent times has been sending off its diplomats to take up their new overseas postings. President David Granger, in his farewell messages, has been making one...

The police have their work cut out

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column 2

The jubilee is over, but there were things that lingered. One of them is the focus on the government. In the run-up to the jubilee there was a focus on the things being uncovered by the forensic...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a lung disease that makes it hard to breathe. It is a very common disease and is on...

Why does Guyana have to be such a stupid country?

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 5

Everywhere I go I meet people who would come up, introduce themselves, talk about my work, then I would hear of their plans to return to Guyana. I had a lot of such encounters during the Golden...

A Salutation to Fathers who . . .

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Countryman, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on A Salutation to Fathers who . . .

By Dennis Nichols Today is Father’s Day – a veritable afterthought to Mother’s Day and its twenty-four hours of honour and homage; eulogies and encomiums. Mom is overwhelmed with roses,...

Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)

The Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) is a large duck native to Mexico, Central, and South America. Small wild and feral breeding populations have established themselves in the United States,...

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Government and GOA sponsors Guyana’s FIBA 3×3 team for AmeriCup in Puerto Rico

Investment Committee’s mandate is financial not political

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There’s nothing quite as uniquely absurd as when someone misinterprets their job description.... more