September 17, 2017

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FIGHTING CRIME IS NOT EASY

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on FIGHTING CRIME IS NOT EASY

The good news is that the police seem to have the upper hand on the criminals but fighting crime is not an easy task. Despite the fact that the crime rate is down, many still believe that the country...

Financial Literacy: People and Numeracy (Part 2)

Sep 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Financial Literacy: People and Numeracy (Part 2)

Dr. Terence Smith, Deputy Governor, Bank of Guyana The importance of being numeracy literate Research findings from both the United States and other countries with regard to the level of numeracy in...

Desperate plea for governmental investigation at NAREI

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Desperate plea for governmental investigation at NAREI

Dear Editor, My last letter to the press, sought to have the Minister of Agriculture investigate discrimination and favourtism at my place of employment. Since then, there was no evident move on his...

This AFC person at NCN, Berbice branch should be removed

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This AFC person at NCN, Berbice branch should be removed

Dear Editor, The Coalition promised to wipe out corruption and cronyism and foster accountability and transparency but two years have passed and the Coalition is yet to address the growing corruption...

Giving back to the people who helped me to be where I am today

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Giving back to the people who helped me to be where I am today

Dear Editor, In the General and Regional elections in 2015, the people of Region 10 and Linden came out in their numbers to support the APNU+AFC Coalition and the Coalition’s participation in the...

The reasons why the Charlestown day-care centre was closed

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The reasons why the Charlestown day-care centre was closed

Dear Editor, Please refer to a letter captioned, “The Mayor is about to end a vital service to Georgetowners,” published in the Thursday, September 14, 2017 edition of your newspaper. The...

IT APPEARS THAT UG ALSO NEEDS TO CHANGE ITS TEACHING METHODOLOGIES

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on IT APPEARS THAT UG ALSO NEEDS TO CHANGE ITS TEACHING METHODOLOGIES

Dear Editor, I was amazed that the day after I wrote in the media about Human Resource Management professionals needing to adapt their approaches to staff training/learning/development in keeping...

Sunday Cartoon

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Solutions to Demerara River crossing

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Solutions to Demerara River crossing

Dear Editor, I find it incumbent on me, as former Minister of Public Works, to join the discussion with respect to the national goal of achieving an improved and efficient New Demerara Harbour...

STANDARDS IN FOCUS…TEACHING STANDARDS AT THE PRIMARY LEVEL

Sep 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS…TEACHING STANDARDS AT THE PRIMARY LEVEL

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) recently launched an initiative in collaboration with the Ministry of Education (MOE) to teach pupils at the primary school level about the use and...

Granger and UG Vice Chancellor should be held accountable for this young girl’s plight

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on Granger and UG Vice Chancellor should be held accountable for this young girl’s plight

Dear Editor, Renita Chanderballi is currently in a state of depression. Her situation has gone viral; it warrants our immediate intervention. When I heard about this story from my friend Leonard...

Proposed guiding principles of our new political party

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Proposed guiding principles of our new political party

Dear Editor, I release below the draft of the guiding principles of the new political party which I propose will take us beyond 2020. This should support discussion going forward. The Party’s...

CONSUMER CONCERN…WHITHER THE PARKING METERS?

Sep 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERN…WHITHER THE PARKING METERS?

By PAT DIAL We did not expect to revisit the Parking Meter issue so soon after the Report of the Commission of Inquiry was debated by the City Council since we felt that a more rational spirit would...

Finding Happiness

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Finding Happiness

Once a group of 50 people was attending a seminar. Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each person a balloon. Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen. Then all...

State of siege and the poetic essence of history: Donald Ramotar and Lucia

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on State of siege and the poetic essence of history: Donald Ramotar and Lucia

In a letter published about ten about ten years ago, Donald Ramotar, then General Secretary of the PPP, asked me to define and explain “the poetic essence of history” after he read my use of the...

Two dead market vendors on the seawalls

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Two dead market vendors on the seawalls

– is there a link between these two cases? By Michael Jordan Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that these two cases are connected. But some would say that it is stretching coincidence rather...

Literacy in a digital world

Sep 17, 2017 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Literacy in a digital world

“The world has changed since 1966- but our determination to provide every woman and man with the skills, capacities and opportunities to become everything they wish, in dignity and respect, remains...

American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus)

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus)

The American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) is a species of crocodilian found in the Neotropics. It is the most widespread of the four extant species of crocodiles from the Americas. Populations occur...

Doctors and lawyers: GRA has an opportunity to collect

Sep 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Doctors and lawyers: GRA has an opportunity to collect

By Leonard Gildarie In the newspaper business in Guyana, there are a number of complaints that grace our Saffon Street offices week in and week out. The top five for me are police abuse, property...

REPLACING MERCURY IN GOLD MINING

Sep 17, 2017 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on REPLACING MERCURY IN GOLD MINING

(Continued from last Sunday’s article titled: Preserving miners’ health & the environment) In keeping with Guyana’s commitments to create a truly Green state, this country will be...

Hurricane Love and passion lampoon

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Hurricane Love and passion lampoon

By Dennis Nichols Fictional romance is a diversion from reality, and comedy a cure for distress. These last few weeks reality hit home, and distress turned to destruction, displacement and death. The...

TACKLING CRIME AND VIOLENCE WITHIN THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM):

Sep 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on TACKLING CRIME AND VIOLENCE WITHIN THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM):

Some Thoughts of Fairbairn Egerton Liverpool About the Author A graduate of The Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst in England, Fairbairn Liverpool, has had considerable experience in command and...

Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A very uncomfortable condition

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A very uncomfortable condition

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a very common condition of the Intestinal system. It is estimated that 10% of the world population has...

Book Review…Guyanese hits mark with tale of secret wars and survival

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…Guyanese hits mark with tale of secret wars and survival

Book: Jumbie Story Author: Albert Cumberbatch Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby Simon and Simeon Watson are twins, ambitious young men from Guyana with a future that holds promise. They embark on an...

The Baccoo Speaks

Sep 17, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The dry season is here once more and so too are the fires. One enterprising person would set fire to some trash in a plot of land to the north of the city only to see this fire spread out of control...

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The leopard, the PAC and the great political rehearsal

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(Kaieteur News) – There is an old saying that a leopard cannot change its spots. In Guyana, we have improved upon this principle. Our political leopard does not merely retain its spots; it carries them into parliament, polishes them, frames them, hangs them on the wall and then attempts to...

Nicaragua’s Abandoned Ballot: What the OAS Can and Cannot Do

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Daniel Ortega has now said openly what his regime has demonstrated for years: the people of Nicaragua are not to be permitted to remove their rulers through elections. During celebrations marking the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, Ortega...

Who’s responsible, who will take responsibility?

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – A tragedy of catastrophic proportions is now Guyana’s to manage. An old passenger ferry boat went to the bottom. According to news reports of Saturday, 73 bodies have been recovered and 76 rescued. Taking the official count of 179 passengers on...

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