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Countryman: Our fatally-feral North West riverain frontier

Sep 04, 2016 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Countryman: Our fatally-feral North West riverain frontier

By Dennis Nichols Guyana’s Essequibo North West, edged by Venezuela’s eastern border, is unique and untamed. Far from the ‘civilizing’ influence of Georgetown (and Caracas) its rivers and...

Cell phone theft in Guyana

Sep 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

Videos have been posted online showing local bandits robbing business places. The bandits go after the cash registers But they also go after customers, robbing them of their money and their cellular...

Guyana’s First People – Preserving our Culture and Land for Life

Sep 04, 2016 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana’s First People – Preserving our Culture and Land for Life

The caption was the overarching theme of the 4-day conference of Indigenous Leaders – 212 exactly, who travelled from communities all across Guyana in late August to participate in the annual...

The suspension of this NCN journalist is wrong

Sep 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The suspension of this NCN journalist is wrong

Dear Editor, It is with shock that I learned on September 2, 2016, that the Sports Editor for National Communications Network (NCN) – Ms. Jocelle Archibald-Hawke has been suspended for one...

Reasons you may be found Inadmissible into the U.S.

Sep 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Reasons you may be found Inadmissible into the U.S.

By Attorney Gail Seeram It is erroneous to believe that once you have a B-1/B-2 tourist visa or newly issued immigrant 04visa that you will have no problems entering the United States. A visa to the...

The Skua

Sep 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Skua

Skuas are a group of seabirds with about seven species forming the family Stercorariidae and the genus Stercorarius. The three smaller skuas are called jaegers in the Americas. The English word...

One set of rules for the PPP/C and another set for APNU/AFC

Sep 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on One set of rules for the PPP/C and another set for APNU/AFC

Dear Editor, As a citizen of Guyana who has voted in several elections, I wish to make some comments on a few issues I have observed within the past year of APNU/AFC assuming the seat of power. In...

We seem to be self-destructive

Sep 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on We seem to be self-destructive

Each day something happens to make me wonder whether we are a self-destructive people. We start to import things that are readily available in Guyana, right down to bottled water. I am sure that I...

Sharing a few ‘remedies for the flu’

Sep 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Sharing a few ‘remedies for the flu’

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine The “flu”, or influenza as it better known, is certainly not an eagerly anticipated episode in one’s life. It is a few days of...

Corentyne Action Plan

Sep 04, 2016 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Corentyne Action Plan

(Excerpt from an address by His Excellency Brigadier David Granger President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, to the 12th Annual Berbice Expo and Trade Fair on August 19, 2016) Guyana has not...

The Baccoo Speaks

Sep 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Road accidents are always something to cause concern. Drunk driving is prevalent in Guyana despite the efforts by the police to embarrass the perpetrators. There was one accident that was thought to...

Mayor and her Town Clerk do not want a forensic audit

Sep 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mayor and her Town Clerk do not want a forensic audit

Dear Editor, The refusal by the Town Clerk of Georgetown to accept and place on the agenda of Council for its Statutory Meeting, a motion to be discussed regarding the holding of a forensic audit of...