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Miner stabbed after heated argument with friend

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Miner stabbed after heated argument with friend

Victor Davis, a 41-year-old miner of Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara, was stabbed in the abdomen on Thursday by a man known to him after he and the man had a confrontation. According to...

The GOOD in Good Friday – three days after

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The GOOD in Good Friday – three days after

By Dennis Nichols Many years ago, during the heyday of C.N. Sharma’s ‘Justice for All’ television programme, the popular host sought to ridicule the use of the term ‘Good Friday’ to...

Autocratization is present in Guyana since 2015

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Autocratization is present in Guyana since 2015

In political theory, autocratization is the gradual erosion of rights and freedoms whose beginning is almost indiscernible, and by the time the society sees its creeping nature, essential freedoms...

Region-wide training for CAPE’s Green Engineering teachers

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Region-wide training for CAPE’s Green Engineering teachers

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) says it will be undertaking a three-day training exercise to prepare teachers to deliver the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE)’s new...

The Caribbean: Facing a Fatal Fate

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The Caribbean: Facing a Fatal Fate

By Sir Ronald Sanders High-tide flooding is set to become an every-other-day affair in coastal areas along the Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast of the United States of America by the year 2100. It...

EASTER CELEBRATIONS

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on EASTER CELEBRATIONS

In Guyana and in many other Western nations, Easter is celebrated by mostly Christians who believe that Jesus’ death and resurrection were to forgive them of their sins. It is probably the second...

A recipe for bloody murder

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on A recipe for bloody murder

By Michael Jordan Let’s get a 31-year-old widower. Mix him with a lonely, love-struck married woman, add in a wealthy and jealous husband, and what do you get? You get a recipe for bloody murder....

Interesting Creatures… Bare-tailed woolly opossum (Caluromys philander)

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… Bare-tailed woolly opossum (Caluromys philander)

The bare-tailed woolly opossum (Caluromys philander) is an opossum from South America. It was first described by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. It is characterized by a grey head,...

Pomeroon River body identified as Charity man

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Pomeroon River body identified as Charity man

The body which was discovered in the Pomeroon River last Monday, has been identified as 26-year-old Orlando Naughton of Charity squatting area, Pomeroon. According to police, the dead man was...

A woman targeted as a drug courier

Apr 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on A woman targeted as a drug courier

By Telesha A. Jules On October 10, 2017, I was travelling from Ogle International Airport in Guyana to Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados. I checked in at the LIAT airline counter and...

A tradition is fast disappearing

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on A tradition is fast disappearing

Kite flying appears to be a dying tradition. In years gone by there would have been kites in the sky almost after Mashramani. Boys would have used the coconut pointers to make kites. These would be...

Neither the PPP/C nor APNU+AFC can point a finger of purity to the other

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Neither the PPP/C nor APNU+AFC can point a finger of purity to the other

Dear Editor, Some elected officials either don’t care or are forgetting that we are living in an era where information is easily retrievable and transmitted. No amount of denying, as happened the...

The Alphabet of Life

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on The Alphabet of Life

[A] Accept others for who they are and for the choices they’ve made even if you have difficulty understanding their beliefs, motives, or actions; [B] Breakaway from everything that stands in the...

Guyana needs humanitarian procedures for Venezuelans

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana needs humanitarian procedures for Venezuelans

Dear Editor, This statement has been prompted by our organizations having had an opportunity to interact with a delegation of Venezuelan citizens currently residents in Guyana. Guyana has remained...

The Baccoo speaks

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

Every so often there would be a misadventure. This is going to be the case over this period when the tides are high and people try to make the best of the opportunities presented to them. A group...

WPA OA salutes the stand taken by four GNNL board members

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on WPA OA salutes the stand taken by four GNNL board members

Dear Editor, The WPA OA salutes the stand taken by four board members of the Guyana National Newspapers Limited (GNNL), Bert Wilkinson, Tabitha Sarabo-Haley, Karen Davis and Ruel Johnson in resigning...

Guyana… a solar state

Apr 01, 2018 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana… a solar state

(Address by H.E. David Granger President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana at the Founding Conference of the International Solar Alliance, New Delhi, Republic of India, on March 11, 2018) The...

The PPP losing power in 2015 was necessary

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP losing power in 2015 was necessary

Dear Editor, I must advise at the outset that even though the PPP is still run by an Executive Committee in between Congresses, it is my observed view that the post 1992 set of PPP leaders have no...

Mercury contamination is a matter of urgency

Apr 01, 2018 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Mercury contamination is a matter of urgency

A most distressing situation was discovered recently at one of Guyana’s leading agencies in the production sector. The nation learnt that the staffers of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission...

To Australia: That’s definitely “not cricket!”

Apr 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on To Australia: That’s definitely “not cricket!”

DEAR EDITOR, The fundamental nature of cricket being a gentleman’s game is memorialized in the preamble to the MCC’s laws of cricket relating to “the spirit of the game,” which...

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Futebol Real Brazil executive Naranda Wislon visits Guyana

The GRA is batting out of its crease

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again demonstrated a perplexing propensity... more