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Health Ministry has one year drugs, medical supplies under new procurement system

Apr 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry has one year drugs, medical supplies under new procurement system

The new procurement system for drugs and medical supplies as envisioned by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) is now bearing fruit, as shortages of these key items to the health sector will...

CARICOM to be represented at G7 Summit

Apr 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM to be represented at G7 Summit

The current and previous chairmen of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been invited to attend the 44th G7 Summit by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Trudeau made the...

Isn’t it time we get real?

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Isn’t it time we get real?

Dear Editor, The United Nations is unfit for purpose, not by accident but by design. Here we have an organisation consisting of one hundred and ninety three states that can be paralysed by any one...

Smuggling of our birds

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Smuggling of our birds

Dear Editor, In Stabroek News Friday April 06/18, it was reported that two men were arrested on Wednesday at JFK Int’l Airport in New York for illegally smuggling finches from Guyana. What is also...

Salute to Guyana’s Troy Doris

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Salute to Guyana’s Troy Doris

Dear Editor All Guyana is abuzz with the news that Troy Doris won gold in the men’s Triple Jump at the Commonwealth Games 2018.Good for you Troy! All Guyana is deliriously happy and proud of...

Former Linden Town Week delegates to lead March against Abuse!

Apr 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Former Linden Town Week delegates to lead March against Abuse!

In a press briefing on Friday, Mayor of Linden, Wanneka Arrindell, emphasized that the Linden Mayor and Town Council will stand in support of the Linden delegates who though no longer are pursuing...

Our absence was a stand of solidarity with the citizens of Georgetown

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our absence was a stand of solidarity with the citizens of Georgetown

Dear Editor Please allow me to respond to a letter in KN 04/11/2018 edition, “The green monsters must not be allowed to defile our citizens”. The writer questions why Sherod Duncan and I were...

Caribbean Voice unveils prizes for suicide prevention fundraiser raffle

Apr 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean Voice unveils prizes for suicide prevention fundraiser raffle

Financing for suicide prevention does not always come easy. This has moreover sometimes translated to some suicide prevention organisations barely being able to meet the costs associated with...

Fed up with rampant corruption in Neighbourhood Democratic Councils

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Fed up with rampant corruption in Neighbourhood Democratic Councils

Dear Editor, The citizens of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana are fed-up with the rampant corruption at almost every twenty-seven (27) Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) which operate under...

If we can’t have a precedent, we will never have a deterrent to excessive power by Govt. Officials

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on If we can’t have a precedent, we will never have a deterrent to excessive power by Govt. Officials

Dear Editor, The call from civic society to have the Government renegotiate the PSA with Exxon has dwindled down to two men; Nigel Hinds and Chris Ram. It is not that the common folks in society are...

Perilous fear and mistrust in the trade union community

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Perilous fear and mistrust in the trade union community

By Lincoln Lewis There exist perilous fear and mistrust in the trade union community, and ignoring these could be to the workers and nation’s detriment. This government’s handling of sugar...

Cartoon – April -15- 2018

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cartoon – April -15- 2018

Who will guard the bodyguard? – Gary Sinclair was watching his boss’ back…but no one was watching his…

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Who will guard the bodyguard? – Gary Sinclair was watching his boss’ back…but no one was watching his…

By Michael Jordan Even after all these years, Gary Sinclair’s relatives are still apprehensive about talking about that night when the gunmen came for him; are still imploring me not to raise up a...

Baffling that businesses in the gold sector have serious issues with producing routine documents

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Baffling that businesses in the gold sector have serious issues with producing routine documents

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter written by ‘A concerned miner’ titled, “Gold Board killing the golden goose” (KN April 14). I was wondering when such a development would occur, and knew...

The woman with the roving eye and the man in the middle

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The woman with the roving eye and the man in the middle

The preponderance of single mothers is being cited as the reason for young criminals taking to the streets to make life miserable for the people who are trying to earn a living. It would seem that...

Interesting Creatures… The Bull Shark [Carcharhinus leucas]

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… The Bull Shark [Carcharhinus leucas]

The bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas), also known as the Zambezi shark (informally “zambi”) in Africa, and Lake Nicaragua shark in Nicaragua, is a requiem shark commonly found...

A strange thing, but then again, Guyana is a strange place

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A strange thing, but then again, Guyana is a strange place

When I was small, I would accompany relatives to pay the light-bill at the GPL office on Main Street. Next to the GPL building was a huge empty lot right at the western corner of Main and New Market...

THE VET AND YOUR PET…CHOOSING A DOG AS YOUR COMPANION ANIMAL

Apr 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on THE VET AND YOUR PET…CHOOSING A DOG AS YOUR COMPANION ANIMAL

By Dr. Steve Surujbally Let us this week look at some specific considerations associated with choosing a dog as your companion animal. After all, we don’t want the animal to make a round-trip back...

WHAT EXACTLY IS 20/20 VISION?

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Dr Karen Persram, Features / Columnists Comments Off on WHAT EXACTLY IS 20/20 VISION?

Most people are familiar with the eye chart, either from the doctor’s office or the optometrist’s office. The Snellen eye chart is the most common. It was developed by Dr. Herman Snellen. The...

Book Review…The genius of poetic activism

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…The genius of poetic activism

Book: To Be the Daylight Author: Charlotte Mandel Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Charlotte Mandel has long proven her salt as an inimitable poet. Expectedly, with bated breath we wait her...

Why Democracy continues to be undermined in Guyana

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Why Democracy continues to be undermined in Guyana

Some people have asked me to explain why the current government, despite its many promises to govern differently from the PPP, has turned out to be no different from its predecessors as far as far as...

Painkillers: Use them to kill your pain; not you

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Painkillers: Use them to kill your pain; not you

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Painkillers are very helpful when we are having pains that may be caused by headaches, arthritis, injuries or many other painful...

The Commonwealth: What’s in it for small states?

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The Commonwealth: What’s in it for small states?

By Sir Ronald Sanders Writing in the British Guardian Newspaper on April 10, my colleague, Professor Phillip Murphy, the Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London,...

The next leader of the PNCR

Apr 15, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The next leader of the PNCR

This year’s Congress of the People’s National Congress Reform will not elect a new leader. But this year’s Congress will be about political succession within the PNCR. It has to be. David...

Rivers and water security

Apr 15, 2018 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Rivers and water security

(Address of His Excellency Brigadier David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, to the 8th World Water Forum, Brasilia, Brazil) Water is life. Without water there can be no life....

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The third parties will not survive this year’s elections

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The fate of third parties in this year’s general and regional elections is as predictable... more