March 2018

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Guyana to host CITUR conference next week

Mar 18, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to host CITUR conference next week

Come next week, Guyana is expected to host the 24th Inter-American Committee on Tourism (CITUR) Congress. Ministers from 34 countries that are part of the Organization of American States (OAS) will...

Moves apace to upgrade regulations for pharmaceutical sector

Mar 18, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Moves apace to upgrade regulations for pharmaceutical sector

The Public Health Ministry during the past week teamed up with the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation [PAHO/WHO] to spearhead a national conversation to help upgrade...

Starr donates laptop for Deaf STEM Guyana

Mar 18, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Starr donates laptop for Deaf STEM Guyana

STARR Computer, the leading technology giant in Guyana, has partnered with STEM Guyana since their official launch. Being the leading technology company STARR keeps abreast with new technology, such...

Former educator, now wheelchair bound, appeals for a mobilised wheelchair

Mar 18, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Former educator, now wheelchair bound, appeals for a mobilised wheelchair

By Malisa Playter – Harry “I believe, I can walk again,” says Sohan Naraine well known as ‘Sir Sohan’, 61, of Lot 17 Second Street, Tain, Corentyne, Berbice. Naraine, a...

Anna Regina remembers stalwart, Brother Abdool

Mar 18, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Anna Regina remembers stalwart, Brother Abdool

Anna Regina has lost a community leader, a neighbour and a friend with the passing of Mr. Abdool Alli, known to many as Brother Abdool. Alli, 87, who was President of the Wightman Road Mosque...

Is there redemption from our tsunami of troubles?

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Is there redemption from our tsunami of troubles?

By Dennis Nichols Read the news. It seems Guyana and Guyanese are being decimated by the day, and that there’s precious little anyone can do about it. The perception is real. We are forced to keep...

The man in the battered yellow cab– Royston Waldron gravitated from cop, to bandit, to suspected serial killer

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The man in the battered yellow cab– Royston Waldron gravitated from cop, to bandit, to suspected serial killer

By Michael Jordan Burly, soft-spoken, and driving a battered yellow cab, Royston Waldron sure had many of his neighbours in Kitty fooled. Beneath that quiet façade lay a cunning, criminal mind and a...

Series of robberies cause businessman to fear for customers

Mar 18, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Series of robberies cause businessman to fear for customers

The proprietor of a Tyre shop which is located in High Street in the compound of Ashmin’s Trading Company is calling on police at the Brickdam Police Station to look into a series of robberies that...

Wife, accomplice appeal conviction for US citizen’s murder

Mar 18, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Wife, accomplice appeal conviction for US citizen’s murder

The two women including the wife of the American citizen who is also a US citizen has filed a notice of appeal or application for leave to appeal against conviction or sentence under Section 12 of...

Book Review… Was Moses an Egyptian?

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review… Was Moses an Egyptian?

Book: Moses and Monotheism Author: Sigmund Freud Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD In his last book, ‘Moses and Monotheism’, the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, raised some searching...

The way City Hall’s nominations were blatantly closed was an insult to AFC councillors

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The way City Hall’s nominations were blatantly closed was an insult to AFC councillors

Dear Editor, Upon reading a letter titled “Every Councillor has a voice at the Georgetown City Council” (SN17/03/2018), over my customary cup of coffee this morning, I couldn’t help...

Feeling Tired: Do you know it’s because of an illness?

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Feeling Tired: Do you know it’s because of an illness?

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Tiredness, or fatigue, means having less energy than usual. You feel exhausted, either mentally, physically, or both. It is a normal part...

We are living in the PPP state media era, created by Mr. Nagamootoo in 1992

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on We are living in the PPP state media era, created by Mr. Nagamootoo in 1992

Dear Editor, Following the news about the Guyana Chronicle and the termination of contract with two of its columnists, there are few issues observers of political events, media communication and...

Guest Editorial FIRING OF REX TILLERSON

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guest Editorial FIRING OF REX TILLERSON

On Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump, fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by tweet and replaced him with CIA Director, Mike Pompeo. There had been months of clashes on several foreign...

The Baccoo speaks

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

It must be madness to make some criminals in the eastern part of the country believe that they can continue with the same recklessness. They attacked a household a few hours ago, but as the saying...

Freddie’s tale of fiction

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie’s tale of fiction

Dear Editor, I am responding to Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s article of March 15, 21018, titled “What was Colvin Heath-London doing at a PNC meeting?” First, it should be made clear that...

Stop waiting…

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Stop waiting…

We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren’t old enough and we’ll be more content when they...

Mayor Compton Young was passionate about restoring Georgetown to its pristine state

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mayor Compton Young was passionate about restoring Georgetown to its pristine state

Dear Editor It is with profound sadness that the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown acknowledges the passing of former Mayor of Georgetown, Mr. Compton Young. Mr. Young served as Mayor...

The Cummingsburg Accord, the AFC and Party Politics in Guyana

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on The Cummingsburg Accord, the AFC and Party Politics in Guyana

By Dr. David Hinds Not unexpectedly, the issue of the Cummingsburg Accord has been in the news quite a lot recently. This has, of course, been prompted by the uncertainty over how the parties would...

It seems that we will lose whatever benefits we should have accrued from our oil revenue

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on It seems that we will lose whatever benefits we should have accrued from our oil revenue

Dear Editor, The reaction of the Coalition to the advice of the US Ambassador Perry Holloway is markedly indicative that we will stand to lose our dreams of becoming a wealthy nation given our vast...

The aftermath of those three deaths

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The aftermath of those three deaths

It has been a long time since so many men got killed in a single police action. This was the case on Thursday when three men got shot and killed on the Georgetown seawalls. There was a time when such...

I have little faith in the rationality of Guyanese

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I have little faith in the rationality of Guyanese

I had a superbly rich introduction to music. I grew up in Wortmanville with rock steady, ska, reggae, soul, rhythm and blues, and pop in general. But I also liked soft rock and easy listening genres....

A bus of another colour

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A bus of another colour

Dear Editor, Do the owners of the minibuses not understand what the police are telling them? It’s not the colour of the buses that’s the problem; it’s the fact that if you buy a white vehicle...

DEAFNESS

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists Comments Off on DEAFNESS

By PAT DIAL Deafness and blindness are two of the most terrible afflictions which affect both man and animals. These ailments cut off one from the world and destroy the quality of life. Sufferers...

Forbes Burnham and Cheddi Jagan did a lot for Guyanese

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Forbes Burnham and Cheddi Jagan did a lot for Guyanese

Dear Editor After reading the Cheddi Jagan bashing letter of Leyland Roopnarine (New York) “We must stop admiring our two dead Socialist Leaders” (KN, 17th March, 2018) I wondered at the gall of...

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(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

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(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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