March 2017

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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...

DPP orders reopening of Courtney Crum-Ewing murder case

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on DPP orders reopening of Courtney Crum-Ewing murder case

Six months after a tearful Regan Rodrigues walked out of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts proclaiming his innocence, having been freed of the murder of political activist, Courtney Crum-Ewing,...

$1B drug contract awarded 3 days before 2015 elections…New GPC fails to deliver – Ministry of Public Health

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on $1B drug contract awarded 3 days before 2015 elections…New GPC fails to deliver – Ministry of Public Health

On May 8, 2015, the last working day before the General and Regional Elections, a billion-dollar drug contract was awarded to New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (New GPC). But, “up to now, there...

Wales sugar workers storm out of ministers’ outreach

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Wales sugar workers storm out of ministers’ outreach

…over non-payment of severance benefits By Brushell Blackman Cane harvesters attached to the Wales Sugar Estate yesterday stormed out of a ministers’ outreach programme at the Patentia Community...

Alleged breaches on duty free concessions… GRA demands businessman pay $212M in duties, taxes

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged breaches on duty free concessions… GRA demands businessman pay $212M in duties, taxes

A Berbice businessman has taken the Minister of Finance and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to court over a decision to cancel his concessions and make him pay more than $200M in customs duties...

Moruca farmer hacked to death

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Moruca farmer hacked to death

-suspect in custody The mutilated body of a 52-year-old man was found on the trail to his farm yesterday morning in the Moruca Sub-district, Region One (Barima/Waini). The deceased has been...

Lethem cop charged for sexually assaulting female doctors

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem cop charged for sexually assaulting female doctors

Osbert Paul, a corporal in the Guyana Police Force, who is attached to the Lethem Station, was yesterday arraigned before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Paul...

Firefighters arrested after raiding home of former colleague

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Firefighters arrested after raiding home of former colleague

– While putting out blaze Four firefighters were arrested on Thursday after they reportedly raided the home of one of their former colleagues while putting out a blaze at Mandela Avenue,...

Govt. behave like a sweet man and he wife

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Govt. behave like a sweet man and he wife

De government like dem li’l children who got nuff toys and don’t even look at dem till another child pick up one. Dem have big people like that. Some woman got clothes and shoes hang up and not...

TUC calls for probe into emergency drug contract

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on TUC calls for probe into emergency drug contract

– says failure to act indicts Govt The Guyana Trades Union Congress (TUC) is not satisfied that the letter of the law was followed in the recent procurement of drugs and pharmaceuticals for the...

Harmon avoids directly answering questions on contract for emergency drugs

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Harmon avoids directly answering questions on contract for emergency drugs

Media operatives were left somewhat disappointed yesterday when Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, avoided giving a direct answer to questions regarding the recent procurement of emergency...

Digicel Regional First-Class cricket…Red Force fall for 202, Jaguars 38-1

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Regional First-Class cricket…Red Force fall for 202, Jaguars 38-1

By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with Stag Beer, Cascadia Hotel & Vnet Communications Led by Isaiah Rajah (41) and a 71-run stand between Imran Khan (36) and Yannic Cariah (33), Trinidad...

Petra Organisation Futsal Tournament…Camp Street ‘All Stars’ dream go north against West Front Road

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Petra Organisation Futsal Tournament…Camp Street ‘All Stars’ dream go north against West Front Road

-Champs Bent Street beat Stevedore Camp Street All Stars dream of duplicating their notable Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Competition performance went north of reality after being subjected...

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– Golden Arrowhead girls’ power on display at Fesupo in Chile (Kaieteur News) – Despite the chilly conditions here in Santiago, Chile, three of Guyana’s four female lifters at the 2026...

What is Love?

Sep 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – High in the Himalayas, I asked the Guru a question that seemed simple enough. “Guruji, what is love?” He smiled. “You have come a long way to ask a question that most people answer every day without understanding.” I laughed. “Then tell me. What is love?”...

Crime thrives on weak justice, illegal guns and dirty money

Sep 20, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer only a matter for the police. It is weakening societies, draining economies and obstructing development. It is also testing public confidence in courts, governments and democratic institutions. The...

Visa review – political hand, where I stand

Sep 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Mohameds have come out with eyes blazing. It’s all they have in their arsenal. But it’s good enough for the job before them. They see, they fear, a political hand in the sudden “visa review” by the U.S. State Department of that stamp held by Guyana’s Justice...

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