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Local businesses should get better than equal concessions

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Local businesses should get better than equal concessions

Concessions are one of the means countries like Guyana can attract foreign investors. And there have been many in the past years. These concessions are generally granted after the investors discuss...

Interdicted police rank among seven arrested for firearm

Jun 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Interdicted police rank among seven arrested for firearm

Ranks on police mobile patrol operating in Onderneeming, West Bank Demerara, detained seven men after a .38 revolver with a spent shell in its chamber was found in very close proximity of the group...

Gambling addiction: Are you betting your life away?

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Gambling addiction: Are you betting your life away?

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Gambling addiction is the uncontrollable urge to keep gambling despite the toll it takes on your life. Gambling basically means that...

‘Don’t speed,’ driver of snake bite victim told

Jun 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Don’t speed,’ driver of snake bite victim told

By Leonard Gildarie An all too familiar story is here again. Many of us have travelled abroad and there is one thing that is highly evident in those more developed places…the rule of law, or at the...

Cries of Anguish, Cries of Hope: The Poetry of Christena Williams

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cries of Anguish, Cries of Hope: The Poetry of Christena Williams

Book: Black Gold Author: Christena AV Williams Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Her tone and unremitting cadence define a soul rebelling against mediocrity, lassitude and pervasive vices. At the...

Diversifying our energy matrix – a considerable challenge and an opportunity

Jun 17, 2018 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Diversifying our energy matrix – a considerable challenge and an opportunity

Greening the energy sector in Guyana, by substantially increasing investment in renewable energy, provides an opportunity to make a significant contribution to addressing the challenges of 1)...

Rigging and the 2020 Election… Decisions have Consequences; Party politics in Guyana is ignorant

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Rigging and the 2020 Election… Decisions have Consequences; Party politics in Guyana is ignorant

The difference at the 2011 and 2015 elections was made by a combination of a section of Indian Guyanese electorate which rebelled against the PPP and cast their lot with the AFC, and the Independent...

Re-migrants from Venezuela claiming mineral-rich land must prove citizenship – Min. of Foreign Affairs

Jun 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Re-migrants from Venezuela claiming mineral-rich land must prove citizenship – Min. of Foreign Affairs

Re-migrant Guyanese from Venezuela claiming land in Ekereku, Region Seven must be able to prove their citizenship to the satisfaction of immigration authorities, a statement from the Ministry of...

Some are more equal than others

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Some are more equal than others

The death of Beyoncé Ross, a national schools’ cycling champion has spiraled into a debate as to whether Guyana’s political rulers should enjoy superior medical attention from that...

UG governance: I do not want any recognition

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on UG governance: I do not want any recognition

The nephew of the Guyanese icon, Moses Bhagwan, Mr. Naim Chan, invited me and David Hinds on his daily morning programme on CNS Channel 6 to discuss the 38th death anniversary of Walter Rodney last...

In 2018 the PPP is attempting the same ruse: play the racial card

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on In 2018 the PPP is attempting the same ruse: play the racial card

Dear Editor, In a previous letter I indicated that in 2013, on the eve of GECOM`s consideration of Mr. Boodoo`s application for a renewal of contract, the PPP started a campaign accusing the...

Fatherhood – Dying for honour

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Fatherhood – Dying for honour

By Dennis Nichols Today’s piece is not meant to be a spoiler on this good day reserved to honour fathers and fatherhood; it’s simply honest commentary. Honour is justly bestowed on those...

Titanoboa

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Titanoboa

Titanoboa is an extinct genus of snakes that is known to have lived in present-day La Guajira in northeastern Colombia. Fossils of Titanoboa have been found in the Cerrejón Formation, and...

Don’t Panic When Faced With a Request For Evidence

Jun 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Don’t Panic When Faced With a Request For Evidence

Many of our clients are already very nervous while awaiting decisions related to their immigration status. The last thing they want to receive in the mail is a Request for Evidence from U.S....

Moraikobai Village Council sworn in Toshao Colin Adrian re-elected

Jun 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Moraikobai Village Council sworn in Toshao Colin Adrian re-elected

The new Moraikobai Village Council, Mahaicony River, Region Five, was sworn in on June 14. The Oath of Office was administered by Returning Officer, Sandie Ross, in the presence of Regional Executive...

Triple ‘C’ Consultancy is on a mission to boost e-Agriculture

Jun 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Triple ‘C’ Consultancy is on a mission to boost e-Agriculture

E-Agriculture can be defined as a global community of practice, where people from all over the world exchange information, ideas, and resources related to the use of information and communication...

Couple guilty of fatally stabbing relative at Skull City

Jun 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Couple guilty of fatally stabbing relative at Skull City

Their appearance throughout their trial was perhaps the only time Vishwantie Ragnauth and her reputed husband, Nyron Thakurdyal, spent time together, following the demise of her uncle who was stabbed...

We want elections that are free and fair, and free from fear

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on We want elections that are free and fair, and free from fear

Dear Editor This issue of race that some seek to trivialise while others use as a wedge in this society must make us all intolerant of such behaviour because what it sets out to do is to keep us...

Correction to Vishnu Persaud’s letter

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Correction to Vishnu Persaud’s letter

Dear Editor, Please publish the following correction to the letter in my name which you so kindly published in your publication of Saturday, June 16, 2018. In my letter, I have inadvertently said...

A most glaring example of stupidity and ignorance

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A most glaring example of stupidity and ignorance

Dear Editor, Please allow me the space and time to address a most glaring example of stupidity and ignorance on the part of the Security Guard and Police Officer, both of whom could have caused that...

What you should know about Sickle Cell trait

Jun 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on What you should know about Sickle Cell trait

BY ROBERT FRASER R.N, B.S “The cure for poverty is not money but knowledge” – Sir Arthur Lewis (West Indian Nobel Laureate) World Sickle Cell Day would be observed this week: What is Sickle...

Bharrat Jagdeo attempt to create an uncertain atmosphere must be questioned

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bharrat Jagdeo attempt to create an uncertain atmosphere must be questioned

Dear Editor, There was a time in this country, when uncertainty was the word of the day. I hope those times have not since been forgotten, the uncertainty of whether you will live, die or be robbed....

This monument belongs at Highbury

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on This monument belongs at Highbury

Dear Editor, On May 5th 1838, some 180 years ago the first batch of 128 East Indian Immigrants landed at plantation Highbury, on the East Bank of the Berbice River. It is important that as Guyanese...

B Division Police boost tremendous success in fight against crime

Jun 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on B Division Police boost tremendous success in fight against crime

– Murder, robbery down, crime decrease by 41% The police in B Division (Berbice) led by Assistant Commissioner Lyndon Alves are boasting of tremendous success in their fight against crime and...

NCN’s horrid image quality for FIFA’s World Cup

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on NCN’s horrid image quality for FIFA’s World Cup

Dear Editor This letter is addressed to NCN. As the official broadcaster for FIFA’s World Cup, why are you providing the Guyanese public with horrid image quality? Normally, your quality is...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more