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Smart City Solutions continues to defy our government

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Smart City Solutions continues to defy our government

Dear Editor, The MOVEMENT AGAINST PARKING METERS (MAPM) expresses its dissatisfaction and disgust that in spite of Central Government’s suspension of the parking meter by-laws, Smart City Solutions...

ORO-ANTRAL COMMUNICATION

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ORO-ANTRAL COMMUNICATION

By Dr. Neromini Fagu You may find it surprising to hear that your nasal passage is connected to your mouth. Have you ever drank something and then coughed violently or laughed really hard only to...

CONSUMER CONCERNS…HANSEN’S DISEASE (LEPROSY) IS CURABLE AND NON-HEREDITARY

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS…HANSEN’S DISEASE (LEPROSY) IS CURABLE AND NON-HEREDITARY

PAT DIAL At the end of January, World Leprosy Day was observed worldwide and in Guyana, Dr Karen Cummings, Minister within the Public Health Ministry launched a month of activities on Sunday 29th...

We stand in solidarity with Latoya Nugent

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on We stand in solidarity with Latoya Nugent

Dear Editor, We stand in full solidarity with Latoya Nugent, co-founder of the Tambourine Army of Jamaica and executive director of WE-Change, who was arrested by members of the Counter-Terrorism and...

He is the best person to lead a third party is 2020

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on He is the best person to lead a third party is 2020

Dear Editor, I read the exchange between Christopher Ram and Tacuma Ogunseye about the coming of the third party and wasn’t surprised at the news. It was bound to happen. Once the AFC got overtaken...

Draft revised Code of Conduct still a bland document

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Draft revised Code of Conduct still a bland document

Dear Editor, The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) considers the Draft Revised Code of Conduct an improvement over the original version but still too bland and generalized to serve as an...

STANDARDS IN FOCUS…STANDARD – PROTECTING OUR PRIVACY AND DATA

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS…STANDARD – PROTECTING OUR PRIVACY AND DATA

As consumers and users of technology, we are often distracted by the amazing features of the Internet of Things that we don’t even take a minute to think about what this means for our privacy and...

Commonwealth Free Trade: a British straw man?

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Commonwealth Free Trade: a British straw man?

By Sir Ronald Sanders A Commonwealth Free Trade Area (FTA) would go down in India “like a lead balloon”. That’s the opinion of Indian Member of Parliament, Shashi Tharoor, as British...

The Baccoo Speaks

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Social services are being called on to do much more than anticipated. In the coming days there will be a rash of reports of children being abused by people close to them. One such case will involve a...

I’m not going anywhere, but my soul is pained

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I’m not going anywhere, but my soul is pained

During the anti-parking meter protest on March 9, (Dr. David Hinds missed being clamped by seconds last Friday, as we left a television interview with Malika Ramsey), a middle-aged woman with a mixed...

The PPP destroyed the nursing programme

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The PPP destroyed the nursing programme

The presence of people in protests at a time when these very people stayed in the woodwork claiming fear of victimization is a sure sign that social conditions have changed. It is also a sign that...

The Story within the Story…Somebody has to be punished for the Nurses’ exam fiasco

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story…Somebody has to be punished for the Nurses’ exam fiasco

By Leonard Gildarie The headline in Kaieteur News screamed it: only 23 out of 179 candidates secured overall passes. We are referring to the worrying Nurses’ State Final exams. Those results itself...

Book Review… A dramatic picture of life

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review… A dramatic picture of life

Book: Teachers are human too Author; Yaundeen Wright Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby At the outset Jamaican-born educator Yaundeen Wright gives her first lesson…and it an essential one. It is gratitude....

Consumers’ Rights stay in focus

Mar 19, 2017 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Consumers’ Rights stay in focus

Guyana joined the rest of the world and commemorated World Consumer Rights Day on Wednesday March 15, 2017 under the theme ‘Building a Digital World Consumers can Trust’. Since 2015, the Consumer...

Colin Clarke’s murder: Carjacking or execution?

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Colin Clarke’s murder: Carjacking or execution?

By Michael Jordan From what his friends and family told me last week, taxi driver Colin Clarke made quite a few fatal errors on Friday, November 27, 2015. First, he picked up a tall,...

Anhinga

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Anhinga

The anhinga (/ænhjKaY/; Anhinga anhinga), sometimes called snakebird, darter, American darter, or water turkey, is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. The word anhinga comes...

The morning after the Executive Order

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The morning after the Executive Order

The decision of the Ministry of Communities to issue an order suspending the parking meters bylaws offers an opportunity for a resolution of the problems of the controversial parking meter contract....

Social cohesion and multiculturalism

Mar 19, 2017 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Social cohesion and multiculturalism

(Excerpts from an address by HE David Granger at a Social Cohesion Validation workshop on March 16, 2017) The Cooperative Republic of Guyana, according to its Constitution, is “…an indivisible,...

Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Painful and Debilitating Illness

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Painful and Debilitating Illness

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Have you ever had or seen someone who has Chikungunya? It’s a terribly painful and debilitating time. The joint pains and stiffness are...

Immigrant Population in the United States

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Immigrant Population in the United States

By Attorney Gail Seeram The recent attack on immigrants and promise of mass deportation bring to light the question of “how many immigrants (legal and illegal) really live in the U.S., and where...

LANGUAGE LAPSES & GUYANESE ENGLISH

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on LANGUAGE LAPSES & GUYANESE ENGLISH

By Dennis Nichols English is a fascinating and beautifully-complex language. But Guyanese ‘Creolese’ (along with what’s commonly referred to as Broken English) is something else. A young...

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Jagdeo is a liability to Irfaan Ali

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Bharrat Jagdeo has long represented an unsettling paradox in Guyana’s politics. He... more