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STANDARDS IN FOCUS…GNBS – PROVIDING CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR BUSINESSES

Oct 01, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS…GNBS – PROVIDING CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR BUSINESSES

The Conformity Assessment Department of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) is responsible for providing essential services required to facilitate the implementation of a recognized...

Financial Literacy: Our Disordered Relationship with Money (Part 1)

Oct 01, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Financial Literacy: Our Disordered Relationship with Money (Part 1)

Dr. Terence Smith, Deputy Governor, Bank of Guyana Our dysfunctional relationship with money Some individuals have indicated to me that they are having a difficult time trying to save money. Some...

Confronting police brutality; an analysis

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Confronting police brutality; an analysis

Dear Editor, The frightening thing with police brutality is, like other forms of abuse, it escalates if not confronted and stopped, and more citizens will die at the hands of those who swore to...

There, you go Freddie, yu jraa mi tong

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on There, you go Freddie, yu jraa mi tong

Dear Editor, In Freddie Kissoon’s characteristically pastiche style column last Wednesday, September 27, titled, David Granger: Guyana’s search for Nietzsche’s Ubermensch,” he seems to be...

Saying “if only” is not good enough for our children

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Saying “if only” is not good enough for our children

Dear Editor, The Child Rights Alliance (CRA) is deeply concerned about the safety and well being of children in communities across Guyana. The alleged abduction, sexual assault and murder of...

The sins of this country are laid bare for us to see

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The sins of this country are laid bare for us to see

Dear Editor, People, all over Guyana, are struggling to understand the level of depravity that enabled those who committed the brutal rape and murder of young Leonard Archibald. In the run up to the...

The main reason for Guyana’s colossal, psychic decay

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The main reason for Guyana’s colossal, psychic decay

Dear Editor, In regards to Freddie’s Kissoon article of Thursday, September 28, captioned, “There is a colossal psychic breakdown in Guyana,” this colossal, psychic decay of Guyana, can easily...

Sunday Cartoon

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Life changes and so do situations

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column 1

There comes a time when we all sit and look back at our lives. Some of the memories will bring smiles, some will rekindle a desire for the days past and some will have us asking ourselves whether we...

Song of my heart’s composing; I hear it still, I always will.

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Song of my heart’s composing; I hear it still, I always will.

Whenever I discourse politics with someone from my defining years of politics (the seventies shortly after I entered UG as a freshman), there are sad moments of reflection; reflections of my dreams...

Caribbean states will not shut up or be shut out

Oct 01, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Caribbean states will not shut up or be shut out

By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the US and the OAS. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London...

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...

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Chilling reminders that we are not safe

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Georgetown was plunged into shock and terror last week after two heinous incidents laid... more