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The Baccoo speaks

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

The police would find another of their ranks in dishonest practices. A group of policemen would be accused of providing cover for a drug dealer. This dealer would attempt to ship a quantity of...

Assistance underway for Kwakwani flood victims ─ no reports of illness

Jul 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Assistance underway for Kwakwani flood victims ─ no reports of illness

Assistance for Kwakwani residents affects by flood waters is coming very soon. The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) conducted an assessment of the flood waters yesterday. Led by Director General of the...

Hold leaders accountable and treat them accordingly as paid servants not masters

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Hold leaders accountable and treat them accordingly as paid servants not masters

There are concerns within this society that the APNU+AFC Government is either tone-deaf or doesn’t pay critical attention to its campaign commitment vis-à-vis its day-to-day management of...

The negatives of ICT are now affecting all of us

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The negatives of ICT are now affecting all of us

When I was a boy growing up I heard talk about robots taking over jobs that people were doing. It sounded like science fiction, but it was not long before it became reality. People were afraid of the...

May 2015: Death of a dream

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on May 2015: Death of a dream

There is a crescendo of disappointments with Minister Simona Broomes. The video puts her in the wrong. The reaction of many is that this type of ministerial behaviour is what Guyanese saw from PPP...

The Mantled Howler (Alouatta palliata)

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Mantled Howler (Alouatta palliata)

The mantled howler (Alouatta palliata), or golden-mantled howling monkey, is a species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central and South America. It is one of the monkey...

Heat exhaustion: It can get dangerous in the hot weather

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Heat exhaustion: It can get dangerous in the hot weather

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine We are heading into the dry season and things are getting hot. As temperatures continue to climb, it is becoming risky for those that have...

We are better together

Jul 15, 2018 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on We are better together

“The winner-take-all political culture has become dangerously dysfunctional…the tide of ideas in Guyanese politics has turned. Today, the 15th of July, marks the birthday of the new politics, a...

Joint Services rank busted transporting ganja

Jul 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Joint Services rank busted transporting ganja

Just one day after a Tactical Services Unit (TSU) rank was busted while transporting marijuana, a member of the Joint Services has been caught committing the same offence. A release stated that...

Proposal to hike Berbice Bridge toll is ridiculous

Jul 15, 2018 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Proposal to hike Berbice Bridge toll is ridiculous

This month the Demerara Harbour Bridge is observing its 40th year in service to this nation. When it was commissioned in 1978 by a very excited Prime Minister Forbes Burnham and his opposite number...

Immigration Bond & Detention Issues

Jul 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Immigration Bond & Detention Issues

By Attorney Gail Seeram Detention has become more prevalent for undocumented individuals in the United States. If an undocumented individual is detained by Immigration and Custom Enforcement...

High-pressure learning, NGSA and life skills

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on High-pressure learning, NGSA and life skills

By Dennis Nichols The recent National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examination results and an article in last Sunday’s Stabroek News on its ‘upsets and … fallout’ have set some of...

Rose Hall man dies after night of drinking with friends.

Jul 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Rose Hall man dies after night of drinking with friends.

After leaving his home on Thursday to spend time with his friends in Rose Hall Town, a 43-year-old painter of Lot 316 Swamp Section, Rose Hall Town, was found unconscious with apparent marks of...

The initial oppressive Berbice Bridge tolls were placed on the backs of Berbicians by the PPP

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The initial oppressive Berbice Bridge tolls were placed on the backs of Berbicians by the PPP

Dear Editor, Permit me to disprove the fallacious and mischievous letter which appeared in the letter column of the July 13, 2018 edition of the Kaieteur News, titled “Why Not Nationalise the...

The ERC is not a firefighting machine – ERC Chairman

Jul 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on The ERC is not a firefighting machine – ERC Chairman

The Ethnic Relations Commission [ERC] is not a firefighting machine. This was the assertion of Chairman of the ERC, Dr. John Oswald Smith, when he spoke at a forum yesterday. He underscored, “Fire...

The issue of rape: For Guyana’s children, is there an escape?

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The issue of rape: For Guyana’s children, is there an escape?

Dear editor Children are a country’s valuable resource. When will Guyana tackle the scourge of Rape? The issue of rape has reared its ugly head again ( Kaieteur News, July 13, 2018), especially as...

Farmers’ heavy duty vehicles destroying Belle West roads

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Farmers’ heavy duty vehicles destroying Belle West roads

Dear Editor, I would like the media to come at Belle West Phase Two concerning the road situation here. The farmers are driving their tractors and other heavy vehicles and damaging the roads....

Who can help verify the signature or handwriting of the late Sir Lionel Luckhoo?

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Who can help verify the signature or handwriting of the late Sir Lionel Luckhoo?

Dear Editor, Could one man’s trash be another man’s treasure? It is evident by now that if I am walking and notice a box with books on the roadside to be thrown away, I will make the time and...

There is a feeding frenzy of open corruption taking place at GGMC

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is a feeding frenzy of open corruption taking place at GGMC

Dear Editor, Allow me a small space to comment on an article published in Kaieteur News, Tue., July 3, 2018, p. 13, “Sweeping changes expected at GGMC.” How ironic it is to continue...

Government can buy the Berbice River Bridge

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government can buy the Berbice River Bridge

Dear Editor, As a kid growing up in Skeldon/Corriverton, I was among the many people of that area who dreamt of the day when there would be a bridge across the Berbice River because crossing by ferry...

Consumers must protect themselves

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Consumers must protect themselves

by PAT DIAL From time to time we have reiterated some of the important consumer rights and have enjoined consumers how to protect themselves. Despite such educative efforts, consumers still allow...

Guyanese Entrepreneur

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese Entrepreneur

Editor, Having reviewed Tuesday’s presentation, Rystad’s analyst showed that with an oil price of $70 per barrel, annual revenues from offshore activity could reach $20 billion shortly after...

NQI PROJECT ONGOING – Supports training on int’l laboratory standard

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus Comments Off on NQI PROJECT ONGOING – Supports training on int’l laboratory standard

More than twenty Laboratory Professionals from within the private and public sectors, including Inspectors and Technicians from the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) verification and...

IMPORTANCE OF PRESS CONFERENCES

Jul 15, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on IMPORTANCE OF PRESS CONFERENCES

It is a fact that since becoming the leader of the opposition, former President Bharrat Jagdeo has held a press conferences on a weekly basis. Regrettably, this has not the case with the President....

Exxon refuses to provide info to MPs on debt to be repaid by Guyana

Jul 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon refuses to provide info to MPs on debt to be repaid by Guyana

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell The debt ExxonMobil incurs to access the oil found offshore Guyana will have to be repaid by Guyana at some point. Because of this, Chairman of the Parliamentary Sectoral...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The folly of the cash grant distribution is a textbook case of what happens when a government,... more