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This all-fancy, super rich miner is merciless

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This all-fancy, super rich miner is merciless

Dear Editor, Here is an incident of terrible exploitation of small miners by an all-fancy super rich miner. A small miner paid this all-fancy, richest gold miner in Guyana and perhaps the largest...

Oh, how I long for the good days at DEMBA!

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Oh, how I long for the good days at DEMBA!

Dear Editor, On a Sunday in last year, I heard a radio programme on the Fire Service whereby a senior officer was saying that he paid a visit to Linden, and in examining and being informed on the...

Guyana is a “frontier country” heading down the slope

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana is a “frontier country” heading down the slope

Dear Editor, Guyana is on the path of having a Government with absolute economic and political powers. If you look at most “frontier countries”, which are countries that have vast wealth of...

At age 13, I stopped attending the Mash celebrations

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on At age 13, I stopped attending the Mash celebrations

Dear Editor, I may be wrong but two differences between the developed and the undeveloped (developing included) are critical analysis and actions arising from these analyses. Critics are influential....

The hullaballoo over VAT on tuition fees

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The hullaballoo over VAT on tuition fees

Columnist Freddie Kissoon constantly says that Guyana is a land of misguided people who seem unable to comprehend what is good for them and what is needed. I do not always agree with him, but there...

THE AFC MAY BE ABSORBED BY APNU

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE AFC MAY BE ABSORBED BY APNU

History is repeating itself in different ways. In 1964, the PNC under Forbes Burnham joined with The United Force (TUF) to oust the PPP from power; in 2011, forty-seven years later, APNU joined with...

Book Review…An author’s guidelines to self-realisation

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…An author’s guidelines to self-realisation

Book: New Beginnings Author: E. Lloyd Smith Reviewer: Dr Glenville Ashby E. Lloyd Smith’s New Beginnings joins the slew of self-help books that has flooded the marketover the last decade. We...

The heart has its reasons, Mr. Persaud

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The heart has its reasons, Mr. Persaud

I would like to thank longstanding public servant, Mr. Nowrang Persaud for the kind words he penned on me in a letter to the newspapers. Mr. Persaud hopes that I continue my human rights activism. I...

Meningitis: Difficult to detect; life-threatening consequences

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Meningitis: Difficult to detect; life-threatening consequences

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine On Friday last, I saw a child with this condition and he is very sick. It bothers me and I didn’t sleep much that night. He is very sick...

Guyana was not ready then, but we certainly are now!

Mar 05, 2017 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana was not ready then, but we certainly are now!

Early last week the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph company (GTT) fulfilled a promise to Essequibians to bring them faster, easily accessible internet by June 2017. The company was able to complete...

The survivors’ wellbeing is not always guaranteed…

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on The survivors’ wellbeing is not always guaranteed…

By Sharmain Grainger It’s a gift from God they say. You’re blessed they say. But exactly what do you say to those women whose blessing of conceiving and giving birth turns out to be a living hell...

Manufacturing sector needs to take stock of itself – Finance Minister

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Manufacturing sector needs to take stock of itself – Finance Minister

-says more can be done, urges innovation By Kiana Wilburg When sugar cake and plantain chips from other islands can reach local shelves and be sold out in days, it signals that Guyana’s...

The Baccoo Speaks

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The political scene is going to be even more interesting, with the opposition calling on the government to remove certain taxes and protesting the actions contemplated in the sugar industry. The...

U.S. Deportation Statistics and tips to avoid expulsion

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on U.S. Deportation Statistics and tips to avoid expulsion

By Attorney Gail Seeram President Barack Obama was the champion of deportation as he deported or removed the most legal and illegal immigrants than any other President before him. A total 2.4 million...

Institutions and the green state

Mar 05, 2017 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Institutions and the green state

(Address by HE David Granger at the Launch of the Department of the Environment on March 1, 2017) The Department of the Environment is central to Guyana’s transition towards a ‘green state’....

The Story within the Story…Everyone must pay their fair share of taxes, but…

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story…Everyone must pay their fair share of taxes, but…

By Leonard Gildarie There is an old saying that two things are a must: death and taxes. This past week, especially so, the debate has been on implementation of a 14 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on...

The Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis)

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis)

The southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus Eubalaena. Approximately 10,000 southern right whales are...

Musings on a 47-year journey while losing my hair

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Musings on a 47-year journey while losing my hair

By Dennis Nichols I was 17 when I first listened to the lyrics of the Beatles quaint and light-hearted ‘When I’m sixty-four’. It was a strange, fanciful tune, and I smiled at its futuristic...