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Brutal class bias in police’s tint crackdown

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Brutal class bias in police’s tint crackdown

There are some things that cannot be hidden in a small population. Georgetown is the centre of Guyana in many, many ways. Even if you live outside of Georgetown, you will drive into Georgetown...

The CCJ Ruling: A blow to the PPP’s desire to recapture dominance

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on The CCJ Ruling: A blow to the PPP’s desire to recapture dominance

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has made its ruling on the constitutionality of the Term Limit stipulation that was enacted by a bipartisan vote of the National Assembly. That the courts were...

Dehydration in Children: Water is life

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dehydration in Children: Water is life

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Dehydration is the term doctors use when the body loses too much water. Losing too much water is a problem, because the body needs a...

The Catfish

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Catfish

Catfish (order Siluriformes) are a diverse group of bony fish. Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat’s whiskers, catfish range in size and behaviour from the heaviest, the...

Coops benefit from Ministry, ILO training

Jul 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Coops benefit from Ministry, ILO training

A three-day technical training and capacity-building workshop for cooperative movements concluded on Thursday. The exercise highlighted the importance of key areas such as effective communication,...

Cooperative enterprises are a sustainable and participatory form of business

Jul 01, 2018 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cooperative enterprises are a sustainable and participatory form of business

The United Nations has designated Saturday, July 7, 2018 as International Day of Cooperatives. The theme for the 2018 International Day of Cooperatives (IDC) is “Sustainable consumption and...

Cubans are flocking to Guyana for economic reasons

Jul 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cubans are flocking to Guyana for economic reasons

– but there’s a twist By Doreen Hemlock Special to the Miami Herald Frank Alvarez spends his days in this English-speaking nation in South America helping fellow Cubans shop. He uses his...

Writer’s Corner/Author’s Interview… My Own Growth and Inner Conflicts

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Writer’s Corner/Author’s Interview… My Own Growth and Inner Conflicts

Author: Glenville Ashby, PhD Interviewer: Literary Titan Literary Titan (LT): In your book In Search of Truth: A Course in Spiritual Psychology you provide insight into death, the afterlife, and the...

Two arrested after cops come under fire at E’bo ganja camp

Jul 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Two arrested after cops come under fire at E’bo ganja camp

More than five fields of Marijuana plants were destroyed by police on the Essequibo Coast yesterday, after an operation led to the discovery of a secluded camp in the Onderneeming back lands....

CCJ’s ruling has unintended consequences for Jagdeo

Jul 01, 2018 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on CCJ’s ruling has unintended consequences for Jagdeo

The past week was a disastrous one for former President Bharrat Jagdeo. As he waited, obviously with bated breath, for the third-term ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice in Trinidad, he did not...

Five Region 9 entrepreneurs recognised for their hard work

Jul 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Five Region 9 entrepreneurs recognised for their hard work

– receive $100,000 each to expand their businesses Thirty-three-year-old Rockcliffe Rodrigues is involved in livestock rearing despite living with a disability. Rodrigues, who resides in...

YOGA PROMOTES HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists Comments Off on YOGA PROMOTES HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

By PAT DIAL One of the greatest concerns of consumers is their health and well-being and accordingly, this column has from time to time touched on this subject. This week we will touch on Yoga, the...

The young and the brave

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The young and the brave

By Dennis Nichols The fact that our children are ‘the future’ and ‘the world’s most valuable resource’ has been thrown around as a cliché for decades. Although we know it’s true,...

Guyana Restaurant Week – Maintaining great services with standards

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus Comments Off on Guyana Restaurant Week – Maintaining great services with standards

Throughout Guyana, restaurants and other fast food services engaged in demonstrating that they have the level of service that can entice their customers to ‘explore, eat and repeat’ as the...

Understanding “I-551” Green Card & Requirements

Jul 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Understanding “I-551” Green Card & Requirements

When permanent resident status is obtained in the United States, a Form I-551 or green card is issued to evidence that legal status in the United States. The holder of a green card, or Form I-551,...

Miner who placed cutlass to woman’s neck, charged for rape

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Miner who placed cutlass to woman’s neck, charged for rape

A 49-year-old miner was on Friday remanded to prison after being charged with rape. Cedric Anderson, of Corentyne Berbice appeared before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown...

Friendship man found floating in trench

Jul 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Friendship man found floating in trench

Sixty-year-old Vernon Jackson aka “Beard man” of Church Street, Friendship, East Bank Demerara, was yesterday fished out of a trench, mere feet from where he lived. Jackson’s body was...

Final witness to testify in trial of personal trainer accused of grabbing teen’s breast

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Final witness to testify in trial of personal trainer accused of grabbing teen’s breast

A police witness will be the final witness to be called in the trial against a personal trainer who is charged for allegedly grabbing the breast of a teenage girl. Twenty-seven-year-old Michael...

An open letter to Minister Norton on the Guyana Prize

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on An open letter to Minister Norton on the Guyana Prize

Dear Minister Norton: This letter is in direct reference to the article published on June 25, 2018, under the heading, ‘With Guyana prize in limbo … Norton to take issue up with cabinet, wants to...

On men in suits and citizenship

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on On men in suits and citizenship

Dear Editor, I refer to the slight storm in a tinnin cup surrounding the presidential ambitions of Charles Ramson, Jr, granted that the young would-be the lion’s fervor seems to have been...

Are many of these animalistic attacks on women a result of mental health issues ?

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are many of these animalistic attacks on women a result of mental health issues ?

Dear Editor, Over the past few weeks we have been reading several reports in our daily newspapers (too many I think) of domestic violence perpetrated against women. In all of these reports the...

Some senior police ranks are a disgrace to the Force

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some senior police ranks are a disgrace to the Force

Dear Editor, I joined the Police Force just over 20 years ago and for that time I have served under numerous Commissioners, some good and some bad but never have I been this fearful of executing my...

A political statement with an ominous ring

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A political statement with an ominous ring

Dear Editor, Thank you for allowing me the space in your excellent paper to share my views on the state of Politics in Guyana; abysmal and disappointing to say the least. Like so many Guyanese I was...

We must try to live a life of high moral standards

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must try to live a life of high moral standards

Dear Editor, I have decided to pen this letter on moral standard and ethics from personal experience with people in Guyana as well as those out of Guyana. The word ‘ethic’ can be defined...

The flag at Stabroek Market Square does not belong to the Mayor and City Council

Jul 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The flag at Stabroek Market Square does not belong to the Mayor and City Council

Dear Editor , Please refer to a letter which appeared in your Kaieteur News issue of June 30, 2018 p 5, by Roseanne Rodgers- “Will the City Council ever get it right?” The Council wishes to make...

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