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Patterson says GPL upgrade project is transparent, amid claims of favouritism

Aug 20, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Patterson says GPL upgrade project is transparent, amid claims of favouritism

Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson has assured that allegations that the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Power Utility Upgrade Programme (PUUP) project is being structured to favour a...

The president must help these three ailing ex-soldiers

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The president must help these three ailing ex-soldiers

Dear Editor, I crave a space in your well-read letter paper to pen the appeal from one soldier to another, in the person of His Excellency RTD, Brigadier, President David Arthur Granger, Commander in...

STANDARDS IN FOCUS…MAKING YOUR GOLD JEWELLERY STANDARD-COMPLIANT

Aug 20, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS…MAKING YOUR GOLD JEWELLERY STANDARD-COMPLIANT

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) continues to play a critical role in promoting standardization in the manufacturing of gold articles. In this regard, the Bureau developed a standard to...

Capitalism versus socialism; an argument

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Capitalism versus socialism; an argument

Dear Editor, In a letter in the newspaper, dated June 22, 2017 and captioned “Workers need to develop class consciousness” I discussed the need for a special effort to learn the opposing views...

Sunday Cartoon

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

CONSUMER CONCERNS…Alzheimer’s disease – Wider dissemination of information needed

Aug 20, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS…Alzheimer’s disease – Wider dissemination of information needed

By PAT DIAL Treatment of mental illness only comparatively recently became a branch of Western Medicine. From the Middle Ages to the middle of the 18th century, mental illness was regarded as being...

Learn to walk in patience and tolerate each other

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Learn to walk in patience and tolerate each other

A 30-year-old man visited his old father who could no longer see very well. As both of them sat in front of his house chatting, a dove flew in and perched on the window. The old man asked his son,...

DENTAL HEALTH…BACK TO SCHOOL CHECK-UPS

Aug 20, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on DENTAL HEALTH…BACK TO SCHOOL CHECK-UPS

By Dr. Neromini Fagu Soon children will be heading back to school and part of the school preparation checklist includes buying uniforms, school supplies and textbooks. But parents should also include...

FINANCIAL LITERACY:…Money Principles of King Solomon

Aug 20, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on FINANCIAL LITERACY:…Money Principles of King Solomon

Dr. Terence Smith, Deputy Governor, Bank of Guyana LEARNING FROM THE EXPERTS TO BUILD WEALTH The sole purpose of this financial literacy article is to provide you with more tips on money management...

GuySuCo explains the molasses – ethanol connection

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on GuySuCo explains the molasses – ethanol connection

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) would like to provide some information which it is hoped would add to the current debate on ethanol production as a viable business activity...

“The people of Guyana own these airwaves” – Pt II

Aug 20, 2017 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on “The people of Guyana own these airwaves” – Pt II

Last week we published the first part of the address to Parliamentary by Minister of Public Telecommunications, Cathy Hughes, on the hot-button topic of the merits of the Amendments to the existing...

Facts about blood in your stool

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Facts about blood in your stool

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Blood in the stool can be frightening, whether you discover it while wiping after a bowel movement or from a test ordered by...

ImmigrationINFO…Immigration News For Our Community Ò

Aug 20, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO…Immigration News For Our Community Ò

28% Jump in Deportations from the U.S. By Attorney Gail Seeram From January – July 2017, a record number of legal and illegal immigrants have immigration cases pending in immigration court across...

I never lusted for la dolce vita

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I never lusted for la dolce vita

Once again my home at Turkeyen on the Railway Embankment is in the news. It is featured in a huge PPP press release on my life and politics, and carried in full by the newspaper part-owned by Bharrat...

After ‘Mister Death’ calls!

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on After ‘Mister Death’ calls!

By Dennis Nichols There are some topics that one feels uneasy writing about, but need to. This is one. Death is an old foe with many faces. It’s the rhetorical question that answers itself with...

The emasculation of service commissions

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The emasculation of service commissions

The constitutionality of the letter purportedly sent by the government to the Police Service Commission will be decided on by the Court. There, however, remains uncertainty as to the effectiveness of...

THE EXECUTION OF ALICIA FOSTER

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on THE EXECUTION OF ALICIA FOSTER

By Michael Jordan It was the persistent sound of the gate buzzer that alerted James Foster to the danger outside. He had heard the gate being opened, a signal that his daughters, Alicia, 26, and her...

The Baccoo Speaks

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

This is the silly season. The prison problems will shift to sightings of the escaped prisoners. There are reports that two of the escapees are hiding out in the lower East Coast Demerara. However,...

The Story Within The Story…A new Demerara River bridge and our regulatory bodies

Aug 20, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on The Story Within The Story…A new Demerara River bridge and our regulatory bodies

By Leonard Gildarie We have become, as a people, immune from systems not working. We fear complaining because it becomes pointless, and in many cases, the abuse we have to endure. We are a simple...

The Margay (Leopardus wiedii)

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Margay (Leopardus wiedii)

The Margay (Leopardus wiedii) is a spotted cat native to South America. Named for Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, it is a solitary and nocturnal animal that prefers remote sections of the...

Book Review… Keys to Success

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review… Keys to Success

Book: The Black Cosmetics Kings Author: Tony Wade Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby Tony Wade’s memoir reads like a template for business success. But it is more. Wade makes a sociological statement: A...

“Taste of Guyana” scores another hit in Barbados

Aug 20, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on “Taste of Guyana” scores another hit in Barbados

The Guyanese Association of Barbados Inc. (GABI) ”Taste of Guyana” in 2016, one of the highlights of Guyana’s Independence Jubilee Celebrations in Barbados, has literally grown in popularity...

Lessons from India’s partition and Charlottesville’s strife

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Lessons from India’s partition and Charlottesville’s strife

By Sir Ronald Sanders On August 14 and 15, Pakistan and India, respectively, celebrated the 70th anniversary of their Independence from Britain, a country whose policies, as an occupier, fomented...

We are being hurt by our own silence

Aug 20, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on We are being hurt by our own silence

Guyanese must be the most tolerant people in the world, but they are also the most demanding. However, it is amazing that they are allowing standards to decline and accepting that decline in the...

Organise and Mobilise, don’t Agonise

Aug 20, 2017 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Organise and Mobilise, don’t Agonise

International Year for People of African Descent By David A. Granger Part 1 AUGUST COMMEMORATION August is an awesome month. It reminds us of the Demerara Revolt when, on the bloody morning of 20th...

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A false panacea for electoral integrity

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News – Advocates for fingerprint verification in Guyana’s elections herald it as... more