November 2016

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

The irony of all ironies: The lady is Guyanese

Nov 06, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The irony of all ironies: The lady is Guyanese

With my tiny income, I would only contribute financially to very humane causes – saving humans, animals, medical assistance, educational purposes; things in those categories. I doubt very much I...

SUPERCATS

Nov 06, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on SUPERCATS

The Leader of the Opposition is reported to have said that the government is outsourcing the development of its green agenda. The issue here is not whether this accusation is true; the central issue...

‘Mister Coconut’ – Food for thought, and more!

Nov 06, 2016 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on ‘Mister Coconut’ – Food for thought, and more!

A ‘nutty’ digression from negativity this week. Do you ever get tired of hearing about Guyana’s fabulous natural resource potential, especially when set against our plodding economy? Large...

ImmigrationINFO ..Immigration News For Our Community…U.S. Immigration Laws – Structure & Agencies

Nov 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO ..Immigration News For Our Community…U.S. Immigration Laws – Structure & Agencies

By Attorney Gail Seeram Since many are confused and struggle to understand the structure of the U.S. Immigration system, this article will explain the divisions and duties of each agency. Prior to...

Alcohol withdrawal: The unknown effects that can literally kill

Nov 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Alcohol withdrawal: The unknown effects that can literally kill

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Alcohol misuse is on the increase worldwide. In Guyana it’s no different. It is most commonly abused drug in Guyana. The 2012 World...

The Story within the Story…Our NDCs and Town Councils need to get their act together

Nov 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story…Our NDCs and Town Councils need to get their act together

By Leonard Gildarie This past week, I was in a hot debate with a councilor of a Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) on the East Bank Demerara over the operations of the entity. The council has...

THE LOCKED AND EMPTY SHACK

Nov 06, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on THE LOCKED AND EMPTY SHACK

We should know soon. Maybe by now, you already know. Maybe, even as this story is being published, they are checking the shack. And, if they are checking the shack today, we will know if it hides a...

The Baccoo Speaks

Nov 06, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Up until a bandit was killed recently, criminal activity was a pastime for many. The young gunmen took it for granted that they would escape with whatever they planned. The result is a slight lull in...

Internet Gaming: The US-Antigua and Barbuda contention

Nov 06, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Internet Gaming: The US-Antigua and Barbuda contention

By Sir Ronald Sanders For over 12 years, the governments of Antigua and Barbuda and the United States have been involved in a contention over an award by the World Trade Organisation in favour of...

Book Review…Stemming the tide of social discord

Nov 06, 2016 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…Stemming the tide of social discord

Book: Global Bioethics: The Collapse of Consensus Editor: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. Reviewer: Dr Glenville Ashby Bioethics is not always easily defined. For starters, we can explain this discipline...

Govt. has never had the option of control over financing for this donated facility

Nov 06, 2016 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Govt. has never had the option of control over financing for this donated facility

It started with one person expressing outrage online and issuing some speculative statements intimating that the Government of Guyana was prepared to utilize public funds for the rehabilitation of...

Older persons are not an endangered species

Nov 06, 2016 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Older persons are not an endangered species

(An address by His Excellency President David Granger on the occasion of International Day of Older Persons) There are more than 700 million persons in the world who are sixty years of age and older....

The Tern

Nov 06, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Tern

Terns are seabirds in the family Sternidae that have a worldwide distribution and are normally found near the sea, rivers, or wetlands. Previously considered a subfamily of the gulls, Laridae, they...

Elections always bring out the best in Guyanese

Nov 06, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Elections always bring out the best in Guyanese

In the run up to the May 11, 2015 elections in Guyana I saw how active young people were. In just about every part of the country they could be seen going house to house, regardless of whether the...

AG wrong, State prosecutors preside over ‘highly political’ cases —DPP

Nov 05, 2016 KNews News 3

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, is claiming that Attorney General (AG), Basil Williams’s reasons for the government being “forced” to hire special prosecutors are...

Files for Pradoville Two, Cricket World Cup handed over…Way paved for police to commence criminal probe

Nov 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Files for Pradoville Two, Cricket World Cup handed over…Way paved for police to commence criminal probe

The way has been cleared for police to start investigating two major cases that involved transactions that took place under the Bharrat Jagdeo administration. Two forensic audit reports- the...

Security firm under probe for misusing licensed guns -police official

Nov 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Security firm under probe for misusing licensed guns -police official

A security form is under scrutiny for the alleged misuse of its licensed firearms, and police are also keeping a close eye on another firm for similar misuse. This was disclosed yesterday by a senior...

US$25M investment stalled…City businessman appeals for Govt intervention

Nov 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on US$25M investment stalled…City businessman appeals for Govt intervention

A city businessman is appealing to Government for help over a running battle with a seven- storey construction on Camp and Robb Street. The property being developed by RNK Investment Limited is owned...

Brazen bandits tie up, beat, rob Black Bush gas station owner

Nov 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Brazen bandits tie up, beat, rob Black Bush gas station owner

Two brazen bandits yesterday terrorised a Yakusari North, Black Bush Polder, Berbice businessman before escaping with cash and phone cards. According to residents of the farming community, the...

Diamond shooting… Slain bandit’s father urges youths to find jobs

Nov 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond shooting… Slain bandit’s father urges youths to find jobs

Having witnessed his 20-year-old son’s lifeless body in a mortuary with bullet wounds, a La Penitence, Georgetown father is calling on all youths to stop robbing people and to go out and look for a...

Death of elderly female pedestrian…DPP recommends charges for senior cop

Nov 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Death of elderly female pedestrian…DPP recommends charges for senior cop

The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recommended that an Assistant Superintendent of Police be charged with causing the death of 65-year-old Anmanie Deonarine, whom he struck...

Bosai buys Matthews Ridge manganese project

Nov 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bosai buys Matthews Ridge manganese project

A Canadian company that was developing the Matthews Ridge, Region One, manganese mine, has announced that it has sold the project to Bosai Minerals Group Co. Limited, a Chinese company that has...

Granger’s steady appearance in the Parliament is historic –Nagamootoo

Nov 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Granger’s steady appearance in the Parliament is historic –Nagamootoo

The steady appearance of President David Granger within the Chambers of Parliament is not only historic but a sure sign of respect for the home of democracy. This statement was made by Prime...

De govt shutting out dem contractor

Nov 05, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De govt shutting out dem contractor

All dem crooks who use to manipulate de tenders to suit dem friends so vex that dem joining de bunch that hollering how business bad. Fuh dem business was always good because dem was like lice pun de...

Soldiers triumphantly march to third straight ISAAC title

Nov 05, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Soldiers triumphantly march to third straight ISAAC title

By Edison Jefford The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) triumphantly marched to a third straight Inter -Service Annual Athletics Championships (ISAAC) title yesterday at the National Track and Field Centre...

PREV 46 474849 50 NEXT LAST

West Ruimveldt Primary reign supreme in Demerara Zone of Future...

Jun 01, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – West Ruimveldt Primary, a consistent face in the Future Warriors Tapeball for Primary Schools tournament, powered by ExxonMobil Guyana, overcame their final-round jitters from...

Absenteeism at School

Jun 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There are a great many children each day who are not attending school. When some are asked why they are not at school, they lie by claiming that their parents do not have money to send them to school. The blame is rightly placed on the parents, but for the wrong reasons. It...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

Get something right, please

Jun 01, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – First, it was a sacred emblem, the National Flag during the Diamond Jubilee Independence celebrations, which showed its opposition to being pushed around and treated like a yoyo. From there things went from a national embarrassment to a national...

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Listen to the The Glenn Lall Show

Follow on Tik Tok @Glennlall

THE BLUNT OF THE DAY

Sports

Features/Columnists

Sir. Ronald Sanders

The GHK Lall Column

Publisher’s Note

Weekend Cartoon

Bridge Watch

> Berbice Bridge […]