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Lindo Creek and the need for proper record keeping

Mar 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Lindo Creek and the need for proper record keeping

By Leonard Gildarie This past week, the inquiry into the Lindo Creek killings of eight miners got into full swing. I cannot even begin to talk about how much this incident affected me in 2008....

Bar Association, Judiciary did not get their money’s worth

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Bar Association, Judiciary did not get their money’s worth

Capacity building is fundamental to any oil and gas industry. In Guyana’s case, it will be an absolute necessity for every ministry, learning institution and even the Judiciary to adequately...

Messing with the law, and paying a ‘heavy’ fine

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Messing with the law, and paying a ‘heavy’ fine

By Dennis Nichols Here’s another in a growing list of distractive stories to turn our minds away from the messy, stressy annoyances of daily life in Guyana. In every society people are...

Cartoon (11th March 2018)

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cartoon (11th March 2018)

The OECD: a robust response required

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The OECD: a robust response required

By Sir Ronald Sanders Small states, including those in the Caribbean, are justifiably troubled by the continuous efforts by the member-states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

Motorcyclist cop, pedal cyclist hospitalized after collision

Mar 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist cop, pedal cyclist hospitalized after collision

A pedal cyclist and a Detective Constable are presently admitted to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after a collision between the two along the Fyrish Public Road. Detective Const. Dellon Chapman,...

Psychological drama hits the mark

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Psychological drama hits the mark

Book: Mouths Don’t Speak Author: Katia D. Ulysse Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD With sheer artistry Katia D. Ulysse delivers a captivating narrative, a case study, no less, that will...

Vincentian Adrian Saunders appointed President of the CCJ

Mar 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Vincentian Adrian Saunders appointed President of the CCJ

BY Oscar Ramjeet Vincentian Adrian Saunders has been appointed the third President of the Caribbean Court of Justice. The announcement was made yesterday by the outgoing President Sir Denis Byron at...

Common myths about antibiotics

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Common myths about antibiotics

Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine What’s the right way to use antibiotics? I am often confronted by patients who have become ill and tried an antibiotic of their choice,...

CCJ can make positive changes to Caribbean social order – Outgoing President

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists Comments Off on CCJ can make positive changes to Caribbean social order – Outgoing President

By Peter Richards PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The outgoing President of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Sir Dennis Byron says the court, which was established in 2001, to...

Maintaining Standards in the Production of Rice

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus Comments Off on Maintaining Standards in the Production of Rice

The harvesting of the first rice crop for 2018 is ongoing in the various rice producing regions of Guyana, and while farmers are aiming to maximize profits from their yields, millers are aiming to...

The Caique [Pionites melanocephalus]

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Caique [Pionites melanocephalus]

The caiques [/kaɪˈiːk/ or /kɑːˈiːk/] are species of parrots in the genus Pionites. They are relatively small and stocky, with a short, square tail and very bright colours. Their typical...

My testimony at the Lindo Creek massacre inquiry last Friday

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on My testimony at the Lindo Creek massacre inquiry last Friday

Since I was the first media operative that owner of the Lindo Creek diamond mine, Leonard Arokium, contacted after he discovered that his eight employees on the site were murdered, I was asked to...

COCAINE AND GANJA

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists Comments Off on COCAINE AND GANJA

by PAT DIAL Over the past year there have been several incidents reported in the media of drug addicts attacking and assaulting citizens going about their ordinary business. These drug addicts wander...

An unexpected boost in the fight for reparations

Mar 11, 2018 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on An unexpected boost in the fight for reparations

Guyana’s National Reparations Commission is one of the more active of counterpart organizations in the Caribbean Community, so it is little wonder that the issue was one of the key agenda items at...

The ‘House of Horror’ murders

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The ‘House of Horror’ murders

By Michael Jordan Several years ago when you took a trek up the West Bank Demerara Public Road to Goed Intent, you would have seen a large, empty lot, overgrown with weeds and with a solitary mango...

Fires and their displacement potential

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Fires and their displacement potential

There were three fires this past week, and while it is not unusual for Guyana to experience fires, it is unusual for there to be so many in different parts of the city almost simultaneously. The most...

Hinterland agriculture and development

Mar 11, 2018 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Hinterland agriculture and development

“Food security is threatened, also, by the phenomenon of climate change. Extreme weather – the cycle of droughts and floods, the overtopping of the seawalls and swollen rivers – have resulted...

Children Needing Consent of Both Parents

Mar 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Children Needing Consent of Both Parents

By Attorney Gail Seeram Unless a child is accompanied by both parents while traveling internationally, the adult accompanying the child must have a note from the child’s other parent...

The Baccoo speaks

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

The perception that crime is still high in Guyana is forcing the police to be more on the alert. Indeed the pressure on the criminals in the city exposed the situation in the eastern part of the...

Twenty-five questions for Ms. Kimberly Brasington of Exxon Mobil Corporation

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on Twenty-five questions for Ms. Kimberly Brasington of Exxon Mobil Corporation

Dear Editor, ExxonMobil’s Kimberly Brasington, Senior Director, Public & Government Affairs, recently made several comments to the media and at public/private gatherings in Guyana that give...

The termination of my column in the state-owned media will not still my interest or activism

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on The termination of my column in the state-owned media will not still my interest or activism

Dear Editor, It is public knowledge that my contract with the state-owned Guyana National Newspaper Limited (GNNL) for the column “Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis” was terminated. This did not...

Guyana can no longer be held ransom by GuySuCo

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on Guyana can no longer be held ransom by GuySuCo

Dear Editor, There is no doubt we are sailing into uncharted waters in Guyana. There is a new Government, yes, a new one. Systems are being changed. Mistakes are being made. And of course, we cannot...

In all my public years, I have never seen such an obsession

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on In all my public years, I have never seen such an obsession

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter written by Vishnu Bisram in the SN of March 9, 2018 titled, “Kissoon’s claim does not hold water,” in which he asserts that I was the letter editor at Kaieteur...

Attorney General Basil Williams was not excluded from Oil and Gas forum for judiciary

Mar 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on Attorney General Basil Williams was not excluded from Oil and Gas forum for judiciary

Dear Editor, I refer to the article in the Saturday, March 10, 2018 edition of the Kaieteur News entitled “Attorney General excluded from Oil and Gas forum for judiciary”. Please be...