August 19, 2018

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From Guyana to the United Kingdom… Peter Barry weaves along the winding road of success

Aug 19, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on From Guyana to the United Kingdom… Peter Barry weaves along the winding road of success

At the tender age of 23, after completing his secondary education at the East Ruimveldt Secondary School, Peter Barry commenced his tertiary tenure at the University of Guyana in pursuit of a degree...

Govt. revenue from Liza Phase 1 could be delayed due to lack of protection in oil deal …there will be implications for Guyana’s take of the profits – IMF

Aug 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. revenue from Liza Phase 1 could be delayed due to lack of protection in oil deal …there will be implications for Guyana’s take of the profits – IMF

Guyana could very well experience delays in receiving its portion of the profits from ExxonMobil’s Liza Phase One Project. This is due to the fact that the Government failed to include ring fencing...

Ministry zeroing-in on schools producing CSEC failures – says ungraded issue to be probed by CXC

Aug 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry zeroing-in on schools producing CSEC failures – says ungraded issue to be probed by CXC

Over 600 Guyanese candidates of the 12,269 who participated in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate [CSEC] examination this year failed to secure a grade. This is according to Chief...

A wife strangled in Germany and two dead women in Guyana

Aug 19, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery, News Comments Off on A wife strangled in Germany and two dead women in Guyana

By Michael Jordan The former American soldier looked me straight in the eye and told me that he was no killer. Maybe so, but surely he must be one of the unluckiest chaps I have ever met. How many...

The Baccoo speaks

Aug 19, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

The medical profession would be baffled by reports of a woman being neglected when in fact, she never visited a hospital. The news would come that the woman is a confidence trickster who was bent on...

GNBS VERIFIES THOUSANDS OF MEASURING DEVICES SO FAR FOR 2018

Aug 19, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, Standards in Focus Comments Off on GNBS VERIFIES THOUSANDS OF MEASURING DEVICES SO FAR FOR 2018

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) coordinates and spearheads the National Legal Metrology Programme, which ensures that weighing and measuring devices used in trade are accurate...

The Chinese are flexing their muscles in Guyana

Aug 19, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column, News Comments Off on The Chinese are flexing their muscles in Guyana

Guyana is home to a multitude of people from all over the world. More recently, the Chinese have been making an impact on the social landscape. They own businesses, operate in the goldfields, and...

E’bo Coast rocked by outages as GPL rushes in generators

Aug 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo Coast rocked by outages as GPL rushes in generators

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is hoping to stabilize the electricity situation, which has rocked the Essequibo Coast. GPL says it is rushing down two generators to the area with “normalcy”...

The self-destructive delegates at the PNC congress today

Aug 19, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon, News Comments Off on The self-destructive delegates at the PNC congress today

One of the political theories running through these columns of mine over the past three decades is that the Guyanese society has suffered a deep, extensive laceration of its collective psyche, and...

Miner gets 8 years for drinking buddy’s chopping death

Aug 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Miner gets 8 years for drinking buddy’s chopping death

A 28-year-old miner was last Tuesday sentenced to serve eight years imprisonment after he was found guilty of manslaughter. Gregory France, also known as Balbo, was sentenced by Judge Bovell-Drakes...

This Confounded Nonsense Must Stop: Give the Teachers the little they ask for

Aug 19, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds, News Comments Off on This Confounded Nonsense Must Stop: Give the Teachers the little they ask for

Last Sunday, I sat through an Education Roundtable discussion organized by the Buxton First of August Movement as part of its Emancipation program. The topic of the discussion was “Restoring...

How can you know if your body is resisting the insulin it’s producing?

Aug 19, 2018 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on How can you know if your body is resisting the insulin it’s producing?

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Diabetes is very prevalent in Guyana. Persons often think that it has to do with not having insulin in their body. While that is partially...

APNU believes in giving power to the People

Aug 19, 2018 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on APNU believes in giving power to the People

On November 12, 2018, Guyanese will once again get an opportunity to elect new councillors to the six old municipalities, the four new ones; and sixty-five neighbourhood democratic councils. These...

IDPADA-G has a lens trained on ordinary folk

Aug 19, 2018 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on IDPADA-G has a lens trained on ordinary folk

Something very interesting, and very uplifting, is underway in Guyana. In recent weeks, various local groups linked to the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly...

St. Joseph Mercy Hospital keeps up with recent influx of Cuban clients

Aug 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on St. Joseph Mercy Hospital keeps up with recent influx of Cuban clients

It is a hot August morning. Amelia Canseco sits quietly with a relative at the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital (SJMH), Kingston, Georgetown, outside the Guyana Laboratory Department. The heat doesn’t...

Karasabai man dies after mud incident in mining pit

Aug 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Karasabai man dies after mud incident in mining pit

Police are investigating the death of 26 year-old Neville Rodrigues, a miner of Karasabai Village, South Pakaraima, who died Friday morning at Jawalla Health Post while receiving treatment. According...

Fashion designer, Sonia Noel, charts course to becoming a recognized author

Aug 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Fashion designer, Sonia Noel, charts course to becoming a recognized author

– completes first book tour in United States Although she has already made her name in the fashion industry both locally and overseas, Sonia Noel has long started to expand her horizons. In...

Notice to Appear with no time and place for Removal Proceedings or Immigration Court Appearance is Invalid

Aug 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Notice to Appear with no time and place for Removal Proceedings or Immigration Court Appearance is Invalid

By Attorney Gail Seeram In its June 21, 2018, decision, the Supreme Court reversed the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Justice Sotomayor, writing for the eight-Justice majority, began her opinion by...

The Story Within The Story…A COI is needed into our Driver’s Licence system

Aug 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on The Story Within The Story…A COI is needed into our Driver’s Licence system

By Leonard Gildarie As I get older, I worry about what happens next. More importantly, my pension seems to be growing in importance in what I may need. I realize now that my NIS and old age pension...

Saffron finch (Sicalis flaveola)

Aug 19, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Saffron finch (Sicalis flaveola)

The saffron finch (Sicalis flaveola) is a tanager from South America that is common in open and semi-open areas in lowlands outside the Amazon Basin. They have a wide distribution in Colombia,...

The blight of poverty

Aug 19, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The blight of poverty

Book: The Ice Migration Author: Jacqueline Crooks Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Novelist Jacqueline Crooks stares down the prayerful optimist in The Ice Migration. And blink she doesn’t. This...

This Govt doesn’t understand industrial relations – The case of the Teachers’ strike

Aug 19, 2018 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on This Govt doesn’t understand industrial relations – The case of the Teachers’ strike

The major partner in the Coalition government, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), is this weekend holding its Congress amidst disquiet among the working class and concern about the...

Can cannabis’s CBD help mend our brokenness?

Aug 19, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Can cannabis’s CBD help mend our brokenness?

By Dennis Nichols It’s funny how we often think of an issue in black and white. Most of my fellow Guyanese I talk with about marijuana use see it as either a bad thing or a good thing. They tend to...

The police force should not become a political footstool

Aug 19, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The police force should not become a political footstool

The Guyana Police Force must not be turned into a political footstool. It makes no sense trying to change the Guyana Police Force, on the pretext of improving security, while at the same time...

Prof. Thomas’ cash payout proposal: Don’t even go there

Aug 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Prof. Thomas’ cash payout proposal: Don’t even go there

Dear Editor, Here is an idea that should be given top priority. Guyana needs to build up an entrepreneurial class. Guyana needs to develop a class of Guyana’s Product Brands. (Currently Guyana...

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Ebo McNeil delivers 1500m bronze at South American Youth Games

Apr 23, 2026

…Ezekiel Millington to contest 100m finals today Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s Ebo McNeil delivered a strong performance on the track in Panama, claiming bronze in the boys’ 1500m final at the...

Glenn Lall has raised some important concerns

Apr 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something fundamentally incongruent about a country standing atop one of the most promising oil frontiers of the 21st century while simultaneously deepening its reliance on external debt. Guyana today embodies that contradiction. It is hailed as the world’s...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

Mohameds Extradition – the latest episode

Apr 23, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – It is obvious that there are two sets of folks who want Messrs. Azruddin Mohamed and Nazar “Shell” Mohamed out of Guyana. Persons of interest in the first set take the form of the Government of Guyana, specifically the hostile PPP leadership...

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