October 2016

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Oct 23, 2016 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Let us fix this very broken country

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, On January 29, 1963, President John F. Kennedy made a speech on Education to the US Congress and it is still relevant in our Guyana’s context today. He said ‘…for the individual,...

STANDARDS IN FOCUS…STANDARDS FOR COCONUT WATER AND COCONUT OIL

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS…STANDARDS FOR COCONUT WATER AND COCONUT OIL

The hosting of the coconut festival by the Ministry of Business and the various supporting groups seems to have drawn the attention of many towards the economic, nutritional and other values of...

Eradicating poverty, synthesizing modern and 19th century Guyanese methodologies

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Eradicating poverty, synthesizing modern and 19th century Guyanese methodologies

CONSUMER CONCERNS PAT DIAL Every year on 17th October, the anniversary of the United Nations Day for the Eradication of Poverty is commemorated and people in public life all over the world join in...

How about an army retiree to inquire into this one?

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on How about an army retiree to inquire into this one?

Dear Editor, Since the present school term started, I’ve been taking my kids almost every day to the DeKendren Nursery and Zeelugt Primary schools and more than once kittens and pups could be seen...

What has become of Buxton cricketers?

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on What has become of Buxton cricketers?

Dear Editor, It warms my heart to see the media highlighting the plight of the disadvantaged in this country. As a Buxtonion and an ardent cricket enthusiast I just couldn’t resist penning this...

DENTAL HEALTH…THE DENTAL DRILL

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on DENTAL HEALTH…THE DENTAL DRILL

By Dr. NerominiFagu If there is one thing about dentistry that brings fear to people about dentistry it is probably the sound of the dental drill. Known as the dental drill in layman’s term, the...

Granger and Nagamootoo see this misery almost every night

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Granger and Nagamootoo see this misery almost every night

Do you know who generates improvement in this country? The press! If the press does not highlight that a kite is stuck in a transformer, a road has a crater deeper than the Atlantic Ocean, a high...

Minimizing the frequency of your asthma attacks

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Minimizing the frequency of your asthma attacks

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine As we become more industrialized, there is increased air pollution. This along with other factors has led to an increase in cases of...

The Dung Beetle

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Dung Beetle

Dung beetles are beetles that feed partly or exclusively on dung. A dung beetle can bury dung 250 times heavier than itself in one night. Many dung beetles, known as rollers, roll dung into round...

Trees hold up the sky

Oct 23, 2016 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Trees hold up the sky

By HE David Granger Guyana is at the very centre of the Guiana Shield; one of the world’s last remaining blocks of virgin tropical rainforests. Guyana’s international commitment to sustainable...

The Baccoo Speaks

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The police are under pressure to keep the society safe, but political pressure will endure other ideas. The issue of crime was a major determinant in the change of political power. So it is that...

Book review… The dubious legacy of Barack Obama

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book review… The dubious legacy of Barack Obama

Book: Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion Editors: Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby Supporters of the 44th president of the United States will cringe at...

Reversing a dangerous trend

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Reversing a dangerous trend

The recent release of the Caribbean Human Development Report highlighted just about what everyone knows but pays little attention to. It talks about the vulnerable people in the society—the women,...

Time to bring out the army?

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Time to bring out the army?

The Story within the Story By Leonard Gildarie This past week has been a tough one for me. I have been saying it over and over again. We are losing too many of our own unnaturally, and there seems no...

Did you thank God today?

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Did you thank God today?

A man reached 70 years of age and was affected by a disease which made him unable to urinate. The doctors told him that he needs an operation to cure the disease. He agreed to do the operation as the...

Banking: Is the US making a stick to beat its own back?

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Banking: Is the US making a stick to beat its own back?

By Sir Ronald Sanders Caribbean governments have rightly focused on the severe consequences for their countries of the withdrawal of correspondent banking relations from regional banks by...

Global superfruit is abundant in Guyana

Oct 23, 2016 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Global superfruit is abundant in Guyana

Today marks the culmination of Coconut Awareness Week 2016 and an extremely informative, entertaining Coconut Festival. For the first time in the history of Guyana, we dedicated a special week to...

Raise the retirement age

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Raise the retirement age

Teachers should not have to retire at age 55. This is the age when teachers have become more matured and experienced at teaching. Yet this is the very age when they have to say goodbye to the...

A knife in the back and killers long gone

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on A knife in the back and killers long gone

By Michael Jordan The ‘bush’ is perhaps the easiest place to kill a man. Someone could stick a knife in your back and be long gone before they find your remains…if they ever do. That’s...

Haiti’s Guyana chapter in a tale worth telling

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Haiti’s Guyana chapter in a tale worth telling

By Dennis Nichols Before 2004 I didn’t know anyone of Haitian origin. By mid-2005 I was visiting the family of a Haitian child I taught at E.P. Roberts Primary School in Nassau, Bahamas, and...

B-1/B-2 VISITOR VISAS FOR BUSINESS AND PLEASURE…

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on B-1/B-2 VISITOR VISAS FOR BUSINESS AND PLEASURE…

By Attorney Gail Seeram The “visitor” visa is a nonimmigrant visa for persons desiring to enter the United States temporarily for business (B-1) and for pleasure or medical treatment (B-2). As...

One confesses to killing Mahaicony shop owner with frying pan

Oct 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on One confesses to killing Mahaicony shop owner with frying pan

– “That 14-year-old is a bandit, he still denying”- police source By Romila Boodram Bibi Nesha Shairoon’s killers went to her Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home to commit a...

Govt. welcomes any intervention by Opposition to move Guyana forward -Joe Harmon

Oct 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. welcomes any intervention by Opposition to move Guyana forward -Joe Harmon

By Kiana Wilburg Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, asserted yesterday, that the government welcomes any intervention by the Opposition on issues that will essentially move Guyana forward. The Cabinet...

Male security guard shot by fleeing bandit

Oct 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Male security guard shot by fleeing bandit

Electronics City security guard, 27-year-old Quacy Anthony Joseph, was shot during a robbery which took place within the electronics store in the Fogarty’s building, Water Street at around 11:00hrs...

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Guyana begins installation of first FIFA Arena mini-pitches

Oct 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana has moved closer to delivering its first two FIFA Arena mini-pitches, with installation works now underway at Haslington on the East Coast of Demerara, marking a...

Jagdeo’s olive branch may have a snake in the grass

Oct 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – At the ‘wake’ of former Leader of the PNCR, Robert Corbin, Bharrat Jagdeo began talking about political cooperation, and the need to move beyond political divisions. But faced with this olive branch, the sensible citizen should reach for a comfortable chair, a strong cup of...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

The Robert Corbin effect

Oct 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – This man’s Robert Herman Orlando Corbin’s handiworks needs a longer, slower look. In dying, it seems that Mr. Corbin is more alive. Certainly, his spirit has taken on a motivating quality, a pervading strength. Who would have believed? I wouldn’t have gone so...

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