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The Story Within The Story…The lessons of little Leonard and the police

Oct 01, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on The Story Within The Story…The lessons of little Leonard and the police

By Leonard Gildarie Guyana watched a drama played out in Berbice recently. It shocked us to the core the depravity of some human beings. A 13-year-old was snatched not far from his home. He was doing...

How prepared is the under-40 generation for nation-building?

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, I’m writing to follow-up two recent letters which were based on a review of the 2012 population Guyana census published last year. In those letters I focused primarily on the...

Bishops’ diaspora alumni bring beneficial boost to alma mater

Oct 01, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bishops’ diaspora alumni bring beneficial boost to alma mater

…with conference focusing on post-grad choices and careers The New York Tri-State Chapter of The Bishops’ High School (B.H.S.) Alumni Association is spearheading a conference in early October at...

Clarification on that Ghana Satellite Project

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Clarification on that Ghana Satellite Project

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter published in the edition of Friday, Sept. 29th entitled “That article on Ghana had misleading information.” I submit that I should have gone into some detail in...

HORROR ON THE HIGH SEAS

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on HORROR ON THE HIGH SEAS

-what is the truth about this doomed princess? By Michael Jordan This is no romance tale about an exotic, tragic Princess from a land far, far away. This is a home-grown horror story, plain and...

Hack’s Halall Restaurant appeals for relevant intervention

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hack’s Halall Restaurant appeals for relevant intervention

Dear Editor, I am writing with regards to an article in your paper with the heading, “City garbage situation under control.” As the attached photo will show, this is very far from reality. I have...

Human safety and environmental security in the Caribbean Basin

Oct 01, 2017 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Human safety and environmental security in the Caribbean Basin

By H.E. David Granger (Address to the Perry Centre for Hemispheric Defence Studies- 2017.09.21) A motley crew of eighty-eight undocumented and unwelcome European immigrants landed on an island in the...

Health Consequences of Exposure to Mercury

Oct 01, 2017 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Health Consequences of Exposure to Mercury

This is the final installment in the series on eliminating the use of Mercury in Artisanal Gold Mining operations. In local parlance, we call these miners porkknockers, though quite a few medium...

CONSUMER CONCERNS…WIDER CONSCIOUSNESS OF CHILD ABUSE AND CHILD NEGLECT NEEDED

Oct 01, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS…WIDER CONSCIOUSNESS OF CHILD ABUSE AND CHILD NEGLECT NEEDED

PAT DIAL Every year, since 2004, Child Protection Week had been commemorated where parents and communities countrywide are reminded to be aware of and avoid abuse and neglect of children. Child...

The Baccoo Speaks

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

There is going to be another attack against the police, this time for criminal acts. And this does not involve the disappearance of cocaine or shaking down departing passengers. The attack will come...

Harris’s hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus)

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Harris’s hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus)

The Harris’s hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) formerly known as the bay-winged hawk or dusky hawk, is a medium-large bird of prey that breeds from the south-western United States south to Chile, central...

Pylori: A common cause of your stomach problems

Oct 01, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Pylori: A common cause of your stomach problems

Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine There is a bacteria that lives in the stomach of half of the world’s population and slowly causes damage. We are of course talking about...

Guyana urges no delay to judicial settlement of the border controversy

Oct 01, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana urges no delay to judicial settlement of the border controversy

By Odeen Ishmael On December 16, 2016, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon decided that the existing UN Good Offices process which began in 1990 in order to find a solution to the Guyana-Venezuela...

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

Oct 01, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on TACKLING CRIME AND VIOLENCE WITHIN THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM): Part Three

(Continued from last week) Some thoughts of Fairbairn Egerton Liverpool Police Corruption Assuming the young 19-year old police constable in conversation 2 does not have any other means of income to...

Countryman: When our children mature to ‘adult realities’

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Countryman: When our children mature to ‘adult realities’

By Dennis Nichols Today’s story is not mine; it belongs to everyone who cares about anyone in a relationship, including with our children. It is about the way we are born, how we live and relate to...

Care enough to confront!!!

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Care enough to confront!!!

‘Warn… those who are out of line… encourage the timid… help… the weak.’ Sadly, we’d rather stay quiet and be popular than speak difficult truth into the lives of others....

Book Review…Caribbean scholar pens wellness classic

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…Caribbean scholar pens wellness classic

Book: The Mystical Qigong Handbook for Good Health Author: Dr Glenville Ashby Reviewer: Jack Magnus for Readers’ Favorite, Kentucky, USA The Mystical Qigong Handbook for Good Health is a...

A bridge too little

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 3

An evaluation of the feasibility study into the proposed bridge across the Demerara Harbour Bridge should be undertaken because it does seem bizarre that with the continued increase in motor vehicles...

On Monday, I saw the evil in the PPP’s reign

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on On Monday, I saw the evil in the PPP’s reign

On Monday last, I was running late to go to Berbice, so I left the Camp Street beach in a hurry with my dog to reach home. I got caught in the morning rush hour traffic right outside the passport...

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Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport endorses Mashramani Street Football Championships

Guyana’s silence represents a shocking neglect of its national interest

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-Guyana has long championed the sanctity of territorial integrity and the rejection of aggression... more