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Ending 50 years of Venezuela and Guyana contention

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Ending 50 years of Venezuela and Guyana contention

By Sir Ronald Sanders The decision by the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, to refer the 51-year old contention between Guyana-Venezuela to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) should be...

Region Six admin approves transportation, electricity subsidies for sugar workers, children

Feb 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Region Six admin approves transportation, electricity subsidies for sugar workers, children

A decision to unanimously support the motion to finance transportation for children of workers who were severed from the Skeldon Estate and Rose Hall Estate came in for high praise. The motion which...

US-based Foundation engages Ministry on fast-tracking law for organ harvesting

Feb 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on US-based Foundation engages Ministry on fast-tracking law for organ harvesting

Guyana could soon start to put in motion legislative measures to foster organ harvesting. This is in light of what has been described as a fruitful meeting on Friday last, between senior officials of...

Miss Earth Guyana re-launched under new management

Feb 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Miss Earth Guyana re-launched under new management

By Sharmain Grainger Guyana has for a number of years been inundated with a whirlwind of pageantry activities from the level of individual villages to national affairs. However, a pageant that is...

My column… Going back to the days of horror in Guyana

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on My column… Going back to the days of horror in Guyana

At the turn of the century, Guyana experienced its worst crime wave. Suddenly sleepy villages became the object of police hunts and near incessant gunfire. Many people died; some because they dared...

Murder and Mystery…A YEAR OF DEADLY CARJACKINGS

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Murder and Mystery…A YEAR OF DEADLY CARJACKINGS

It was a sunny Friday, twenty years ago, in February 1998, that 22-year-old taxi driver Davo Narine left home to pay an electricity bill at the Guyana Power and Light’s Main Street, Georgetown...

Where are our Human Resource Management leaders?

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where are our Human Resource Management leaders?

Dear Editor, When I reflect on the constant edifying public interventions of our Guyanese professionals in virtually all fields: Accounting, Auditing, Economics, Engineering, Education, Finance,...

The Story within the Story… We have no respect for the laws or public service

Feb 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story… We have no respect for the laws or public service

By Leonard Gildarie I was heading to work on Friday along the East Bank Demerara when in the Providence area, in front of the Princess Casino, the traffic started to slow down. The reason became...

ImmigrationINFO…Immigration News For Our Community Ò.. Trump Immigration Framework = End Chain Migration + End Visa Lottery + Border Wall + Legal Status for DACA

Feb 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO…Immigration News For Our Community Ò.. Trump Immigration Framework = End Chain Migration + End Visa Lottery + Border Wall + Legal Status for DACA

By Attorney Gail Seeram No bill or legislation has been introduced by the Trump administration and no legislation has been signed into law. All you have heard is a whole lot of talk on immigration....

Guyana: The presence of fear, the absence of humanity

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 2

One morning in the last week, as I was walking on the seawall with my dog, policeman Roy Profit, of the TSU office, drove up alongside and began to discuss with me the topic of random traffic stops....

Why has Education Ministry turned its back on N.A Multilateral?

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why has Education Ministry turned its back on N.A Multilateral?

Dear Editor, It is with great concern and deep-seated frustration that I pen this letter, to ascertain why Officials at the Ministry of Education including the Minister of Education have turned their...

Nagamootoo is pretending to ‘defend’ the PPP’s older leaders so as to target his nemesis

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Nagamootoo is pretending to ‘defend’ the PPP’s older leaders so as to target his nemesis

Dear Editor, I have noted the statements by the Prime Minister Nagamootoo in the Guyana Chronicle with some amusement, where he expresses solidarity and mounts, in his view, a defence of older...

PNCR has lost a dedicated comrade/worker in Councillor Junior Garrett

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on PNCR has lost a dedicated comrade/worker in Councillor Junior Garrett

Dear Editor, Almost a week ago, I received a message that read “Good night, Comrade Nestor, Comrade Garrett passed away today”. At first, I was in denial but a second message came from another...

Interesting Creatures… King Penguin [Aptenodytes patagonicus]

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… King Penguin [Aptenodytes patagonicus]

The king penguin [Aptenodytes patagonicus] is a large species of penguin, second only to the emperor penguin in size. There are two subspecies: A. p. patagonicus and A. p....

The ones we pay to protect and serve are harassing us for more money

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The ones we pay to protect and serve are harassing us for more money

Dear Editor Permit me a space to vent my concern as a young man who just ‘started life’. I am a health professional and an employee of one of the most reputable health entities in Georgetown. I...

The infamous Willie Lynch letter – Fake or fact?

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The infamous Willie Lynch letter – Fake or fact?

By Dennis Nichols It surfaced sometime in the nineteen seventies, and hit the internet in 1993. I got a copy of it from a friend in 2008, and read in disbelief. Many have dubbed it pure fiction but...

The unilateral acts of the Town Clerk are tarnishing the entire council

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The unilateral acts of the Town Clerk are tarnishing the entire council

Dear Editor, I write this letter to you in my personal capacity as a citizen of Georgetown, a councillor, and in response to the an article carried in today’s Stabroek News (3/2/2018) entitled...

Guyana presents ExxonMobil with a gem of an opportunity to erase its negative image

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana presents ExxonMobil with a gem of an opportunity to erase its negative image

Dear Editor, I have been most excited at the discovery of petroleum products in Guyana and welcome the involvement of ExxonMobil in this venture. ExxonMobil is positioned to make massive profits from...

Tips to help you quit smoking

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux Comments Off on Tips to help you quit smoking

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Unfortunately there are about one billion smokers worldwide. According to statistics, half of them will die as a result of their tobacco...

The Good Offices Process continues

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Good Offices Process continues

During a ‘conversation’ hosted recently by the University of Guyana, the most important contribution actually came from the floor and not the panel of experts. It was Mr. Neville Bissember, a...

The oil company, not the government, must pay for oil spills

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The oil company, not the government, must pay for oil spills

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News is wrong in its contention that the government is obligated to pay for oil spills caused by ExxonMobil’s operations (see, for example, KN 30-1-2018 “Contract reveals…...

Book Review…An imaginative stroll through life’s thorny path

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…An imaginative stroll through life’s thorny path

Book: COME LET US SING ANYWAY Author: Leone Ross Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby Against the backdrop of London’s hustle and bustle, Jamaica’s quaintness and intemperance, and Africa’s...

Carjacker tries to uplift vehicle from police station

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Carjacker tries to uplift vehicle from police station

Police have nabbed a suspected carjacker known as ‘Bourda Rat’, who had repeatedly tried to claim ownership of a stolen car that police had impounded last year. The suspect was arrested yesterday...

Venezuela’s aggression has hindered Guyana’s development

Feb 04, 2018 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Venezuela’s aggression has hindered Guyana’s development

Venezuela’s claims to over 150,000 km² of Guyana’s land space and a large part of its hydrospace have their origins in its rejection of the 1899 award of the international tribunal as a nullity....

Justice GUYA PERSAUD, 96, PASSES

Feb 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Justice GUYA PERSAUD, 96, PASSES

Guyana’s oldest legal luminary died a few days ago at his adopted home in Trinidad and Tobago. Ninety-six- year-old Guya L.B. Persaud served as a High Court and Appellate Court both in Guyana...

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The PPPC does not practice political inclusion

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPPC) has mastered the art of political rhetoric.... more