December 2016

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Sunday Cartoon

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

STANDARDS IN FOCUS…CHRISTMAS TIPS – request your warranties/guarantees when shopping

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS…CHRISTMAS TIPS – request your warranties/guarantees when shopping

For many consumers, the deciding factors for purchasing this Christmas will be based on low or affordable prices, brands or seemingly good quality, or prior knowledge of the products. Although these...

DENTAL HEALTH…IRREVERSIBLE PULPITIS

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on DENTAL HEALTH…IRREVERSIBLE PULPITIS

By Dr. Neromini Fagu Last week we spoke about reversible pulpitis and what to expect if you are diagnosed with the condition. I will continue this week with irreversible pulpitis. In severe cases the...

The Cookie Thief

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on The Cookie Thief

A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops, bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop. She was...

Accused mannequin thief begs for jail sentence

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Accused mannequin thief begs for jail sentence

Alfred Junior, a steel pan player, was placed on $40,000 bail after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Madan Kissoon to face a charge that he stole one dress valued...

CONSUMER CONCERNS…There is room for cooperation on solar energy

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS…There is room for cooperation on solar energy

PAT DIAL Within the last few weeks there have been much stirring in the media about the “Green Economy”. The term “Green Economy” includes many concepts and courses of action but in this...

Dangerously Disrespectful

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Dangerously Disrespectful

This has been the situation on the East Bank Demerara public road, in front of the Ruimveldt Police Station, for several days now, with no warning signs for the construction that is ongoing there....

Parenting and the psychiatrist for those runaways

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Parenting and the psychiatrist for those runaways

A woman once said to me that there is no manual to teach parenting. Indeed just about everyone aspires to become a parent, if only to show the world that they can procreate. Many a young mother gets...

Book Review…Light from the East

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…Light from the East

Book: Did the right sperm win? Author: Vinette Hoffman-Jackson Reviewer: Dr Glenville Ashby Caribbean writer and motivational speaker Vinette Hoffman-Jackson serves up an indelible array of precepts...

Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)

The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed...

Apostles, prophets, bishops, and a pope

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Apostles, prophets, bishops, and a pope

By Dennis Nichols Recent comments over the ‘London affair’ of a few weeks ago revived in me some thoughts and feelings about the more general affairs of the church – specifically the...

City Council needs to take revolutionary action

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on City Council needs to take revolutionary action

Dear Editor, I am writing on a topic that has been a cause for great concern of late. That is, our City Council. I believe that when we broke up the smaller district councils of urban Georgetown, we...

The baby party is over

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The baby party is over

Local manufacturers will have no choice but to increase the prices of each bottled or canned product to compensate for the environmental tax which will now be levied on both local and foreign goods....

Ministry must acknowledge past nursery school teachers

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ministry must acknowledge past nursery school teachers

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Education celebrated forty years of Nursery Education – from September 1976 to September 2016. It was most disappointing to note, that most of the teachers who were...

Thinking Green

Dec 04, 2016 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Thinking Green

If we are going to build a ‘green’ Guyana then it is imperative that at the community and individual level, we start educating ourselves to think ‘green’. The President has laid out broad...

Will the notion of an “inclusionary democracy” ever take shape?

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Will the notion of an “inclusionary democracy” ever take shape?

“Jagdeo has been Minister of Finance and he has been President for 12 years…I wish he would bring his ideas on board and let us work together,… boycotting is not the answer.” – President...

The lifestyle changes that increase heart disease risk

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on The lifestyle changes that increase heart disease risk

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Heart diseases are the number one cause of death in Guyana and worldwide. Many of these deaths can be avoidable if we adjust our...

Ways to achieve the entrepreneurial spirit

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ways to achieve the entrepreneurial spirit

Dear Editor, I will assume that we all are aware that historically acts undertaken during, immediately after both slavery and indentureship and throughout our colonial experience favored some races....

“Building a Diversified, Green Economy”

Dec 04, 2016 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on “Building a Diversified, Green Economy”

(Excerpt: Budget 2017) Our Independence celebrations this year represented one of the few bright spots in our economy in 2016. The other that is worthy of note is the outstanding achievement of the...

The Story Within The Story…Budget consultations, internal elections and madness on the roadways

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on The Story Within The Story…Budget consultations, internal elections and madness on the roadways

By Leonard Gildarie Wow! What a week. From the national budget to Prince Harry’s visit, accidents and robberies, and a mayor being voted out in Berbice months after taking office, it all indeed...

Where is alleged wife-killer ‘Frenchie’?

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Where is alleged wife-killer ‘Frenchie’?

– It’s been four years and counting By Michael Jordan Savitri Arjune stepped out of her home at 382 Herstelling, East Bank Demerara at around six-fifteen that morning of January 27, 2008....

The CEO of GUYSUCO has an ideological position on divestment

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The CEO of GUYSUCO has an ideological position on divestment

Dear Editor, The Government, according to the press, is determining other estate closures, the closure of the entire sugar industry and/or the divestment of the sugar industry, partially or wholly....

PPP Parliamentarian is appalled at this opinion of the President

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP Parliamentarian is appalled at this opinion of the President

Dear Editor, Editor’s note: This is the conclusion of Mr. Gill’s letter carried in our edition on Friday under the caption, “PPP Parliamentarian lives in fear of being mugged” Earlier this...

In 1978 I fell in love with Barbados; I still am

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on In 1978 I fell in love with Barbados; I still am

Barbados is presently celebrating its 50th year of Independence. I would like to share my thoughts on this lovely island. I went to Barbados for the first time in 1978. It was time to leave Guyana to...

Terrible service at New Amsterdam hospital

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Terrible service at New Amsterdam hospital

Dear Editor, I turned up at the N/A Hospital Dental Clinic, taking time off from my work, to have a filling done only to be told that there was no dental chair, hence, “you will have to check back...

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Kaieteur Sports – Guyana has officially begun the process of preparing to host the 2027 CARIFTA Games, marking a historic milestone for the country as it prepares to stage the premier youth and...

Lack of time and misinterpretation?

Aug 26, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The belated explanation offered by Ralph Ramkarran, former Chairman of the Constitution Reform Commission (CRC) that the present constitutional gridlock over the appointment of Guyana’s Chancellor and Chief Justice resulted from a misinterpretation by the Oversight Committee...

Facts, Due Process and Fairness: The CCJ’s Test

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...

MV Barima – a month later

Aug 26, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The night of Saturday, July 18, 2026 and the early hours of the agonising Sunday that followed are now dates etched into the memory and history of Guyanese. The first hours brought the first pieces of news of a tragedy about which none had a clue that it was really one. And...

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