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Eion Greaves Appreciation Concert highlights work of a musical pioneer

May 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Eion Greaves Appreciation Concert highlights work of a musical pioneer

–Singer bestowed with special honour from UN accredited body By Rehanna Ramsay Patrons of the Eion Greaves Appreciation Concert, held at the National Cultural Centre,(NCC) last weekend were no...

Signature required for Green Card & Work Permit upon delivery

May 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Signature required for Green Card & Work Permit upon delivery

By Attorney Gail Seeram U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced that the agency is now phasing in use of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS)’s Signature Confirmation...

Taxi driver Colin Clarke’s murder: Carjacking or execution?

May 06, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Taxi driver Colin Clarke’s murder: Carjacking or execution?

By Michael Jordan From what his friends and family told me, taxi driver Colin Clarke made quite a few fatal errors on Friday, November 27, 2015. First, he picked up a tall dreadlocked man near a bar...

American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus)

May 06, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus)

The American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) is a species of crocodilian found in the Neotropics. It is the most widespread of the four extant species of crocodiles from the Americas....

The Baccoo speaks

May 06, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

The madness in Suriname will test the relationship between the local police and their counterparts in the neighbouring republic. Guyanese over the years have left to seek the hospitality of the...

Criminality has reached maddening heights

May 06, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Criminality has reached maddening heights

Some things cannot be explained by a rational person. At the same time, people can be more cruel than some animals. Indeed, animals can be exceedingly cruel. A man called me from the Essequibo Coast...

Guyana: always the mundane, never the magical

May 06, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana: always the mundane, never the magical

I was born into a political environment that was anti-colonial, pro-Third World, heavily left-wing in ideological orientation, assertive in Black pride. Those instincts have never left me, though I...

The PPP and African Guyanese: You don’t destroy the psyche of a community, and then beg for votes as if nothing happened

May 06, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on The PPP and African Guyanese: You don’t destroy the psyche of a community, and then beg for votes as if nothing happened

I ended last week’s column with quotes from three PPP leaders on their interpretation of my politics. Their central thrust was two-fold. First, they contended that I was only concerned with the...

Famous photographer captures Spirit of the Caribbean in new book

May 06, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Famous photographer captures Spirit of the Caribbean in new book

Book: New York New York: A Visual Hymn Photographer: Richard Koek Interviewer: Glenville Ashby, PhD I met Dutch-Argentinian photographer Richard Koek at a social event in New York City....

Understanding Asthma

May 06, 2018 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Understanding Asthma

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Asthma is a chronic (long-term) disease of the lungs. It inflames and narrows the airways. These are tubes that carry air into and out of...

Access to information is a democratic right

May 06, 2018 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Access to information is a democratic right

(Excerpts from an address by H.E. David Granger to the Guyana Press Association on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day 2016) It is my considered opinion that the State is obliged to preserve,...

NEC agrees … the decades of neglect must end!

May 06, 2018 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on NEC agrees … the decades of neglect must end!

The Alliance For Change held its second quarterly National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting for this year at the Georgetown Club on Tuesday May 1st, the same day that thousands of workers across the...

US$460M “bonus” is a seditious act

May 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on US$460M “bonus” is a seditious act

Dear Editor, Guyana has agreed to pay Exxon’s Esso – US$460M Bonus, labelling it pre-contract costs. That is 2,500% higher than US$18M that was received by the Government of Guyana and...

NEW NATIONAL STANDARD FOR TYRES AVAILABLE

May 06, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus Comments Off on NEW NATIONAL STANDARD FOR TYRES AVAILABLE

Since the commencement of its product monitoring programme, the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has been monitoring tyres to ensure they meet the requirements of the available national...

Fourteen year old goes missing

May 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Fourteen year old goes missing

Fourteen-year-old, Adasier Jones of Lot 338 BB Eccles, Housing Scheme was last seen leaving her home on May 1 in the afternoon and has not returned since. The teen was reportedly going out with a...

GTT needs to improve Bartica service

May 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on GTT needs to improve Bartica service

Dear Editor, I am deeply frustrated with the attitudes of the technicians and their supervisor in the manner they handle my complaints. It has forced me to write this letter. On Monday, a truck came...

Oscar Ramjeet recants

May 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Oscar Ramjeet recants

Dear Editor, I now recall that weeks after APNU/AFC, won the elections I wrote to the new government offering my services to the administration. I suggested employment in the Financial Services...

Man remanded for stealing from store owner

May 06, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man remanded for stealing from store owner

A 35-year-old labourer on Friday faced Magistrate Leron Daly after he allegedly stole from a rental storeowner. The court heard that between April 30 and May 1 at Lot 7 North Road, Georgetown, Seon...

Juvenile court to be established soon

May 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Juvenile court to be established soon

Days after Ian Henry was released from the State Detention, the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) and Rights of the Child Commission (RCC) announced that they will be working together to...

THE CYBER CRIME BILL IS REPULSIVE AND MUST BE WITHDRAWN

May 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE CYBER CRIME BILL IS REPULSIVE AND MUST BE WITHDRAWN

Dear Editor, The controversial Cyber Crime Bill No.16 of 2017 is profoundly undemocratic. Its fundamental premise, is perverse, namely that social peace will be secured by protecting the reputation...

Vendor gets two years for wounding friend

May 06, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Vendor gets two years for wounding friend

Neville Haynes of 419 North East, La Penitence, stood without remorse before Magistrate Leron Daly, as he was sentenced to two years imprisonment for chopping his friend over a bicycle dispute. It...

We should reflect on Karl Marx

May 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on We should reflect on Karl Marx

Dear Editor, May 5 marks 200 years since the birth of one of the greatest revolutionary thinker of all times. I refer to none other than the German philosopher, Karl Marx. Several celebratory...

Attorney General reacts to Oscar Ramjeet

May 06, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on Attorney General reacts to Oscar Ramjeet

Dear Editor, Reference is made to a letter under the pen of Mr Oscar Ramjeet in the Stabroek News and Kaieteur May 4, 2018 editions purporting to be responding to a letter from the Attorney General...

INDIAN ARRIVAL DAY

May 06, 2018 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists Comments Off on INDIAN ARRIVAL DAY

by PAT DIAL Yesterday, 5th May, Indian Arrival Day was commemorated. Arrival Day is one of the significant days in the Holidays Calendar in that it marks the building of a greater Guyanese nation....

GUYANA GETS HIGHEST RANKING IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING

May 06, 2018 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on GUYANA GETS HIGHEST RANKING IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING

In the latest United States State Department Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, Guyana has moved up from last year’s Tier 2 ranking to a Tier 1 ranking. This means that the country now fully...

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President’s College upstage Santa Rosa to advance into Quarters

Anticipation without preparation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Vice President of Guyana, ever the sagacious observer of the inevitable, has reassured... more