November 11, 2018

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I am optimistic of a higher voter turnout than 2016 …says Valerie Adams Yearwood.

Nov 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on I am optimistic of a higher voter turnout than 2016 …says Valerie Adams Yearwood.

APNU Campaign Manager Valerie Adams-Yearwood, at a press briefing on Friday, said that all systems are in place for the upcoming Local Government Elections tomorrow, and expressed optimism of greater...

Kaieteur-News-Cartoon-Nov.-11–2018

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Kaieteur-News-Cartoon-Nov.-11–2018

South Korea officially opens Honorary Consulate

Nov 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on South Korea officially opens Honorary Consulate

Guyana and South Korea strengthened diplomatic relations with the official opening of an Honorary Consulate in Georgetown. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Acting Prime Minister, Carl Greenridge,...

AFC and the LGE results: Death at a funeral

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on AFC and the LGE results: Death at a funeral

I would say three momentous episodes were poised to enable this country to have a stable, optimistic future with a place in the sun for all citizens, their children and the next generation. They are...

Energy Dept. developing Ethics Policy to strike out corrupt behaviour –Dr. Bynoe …Encourages National Assembly to draft same for MPs

Nov 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Energy Dept. developing Ethics Policy to strike out corrupt behaviour –Dr. Bynoe …Encourages National Assembly to draft same for MPs

By Kiana Wilburg In the interest of reducing the potential for corruption or even the mere perception of it in the oil sector, Head of the Energy Department, Dr. Mark Bynoe, revealed that an Ethics...

Murder near a melon farm nine years ago

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Murder near a melon farm nine years ago

By Michael Jordan There are at least three people who know for sure what happened nine years ago at Number 63 Beach, Corentyne. One of them is a girl named Susan Hernandez. The second is a mysterious...

Memorializing the war dead at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month! (Pt. 2)

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Memorializing the war dead at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month! (Pt. 2)

By Dennis Nichols Today, November 11th, Guyana, (and indeed the world) remembers – the courage, the carnage, and the folly of the first Great War of the 20th century that ended 100 years ago. Many...

Angry, old white American men and their young Guyanese counterparts

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Angry, old white American men and their young Guyanese counterparts

Earlier this week, in my compound, my dog bolted from my grasp and ran straight into an oncoming car. I chased behind her and the vehicle came to a halt. The driver was the youngster likely to...

Firemen cause the country tremendous embarrassment

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Firemen cause the country tremendous embarrassment

Sometime back an individual sent me one of those jokes that people usually circulate on social media. It was about a bird that collapsed on the ground during extremely cold weather. Up came a cow and...

Party control of Local Government: A mini-general election tomorrow

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Party control of Local Government: A mini-general election tomorrow

Tomorrow Guyanese participate in their second local government election in two years—the first time in fifty years that there would be consecutive elections of this type. The PNC government of that...

Patterson stalling UN’s assistance to enhance security of GECOM’s database – PPP Commissioner

Nov 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Patterson stalling UN’s assistance to enhance security of GECOM’s database – PPP Commissioner

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (ret’d) James Patterson has been accused of delaying an offer from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) of technical...

Harbour Bridge to close for five hours

Nov 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Harbour Bridge to close for five hours

The Demerara Harbour Bridge is scheduled to be closed to vehicular traffic for five hours today as a result of needed maintenance on two transom beams. According to the bridge’s General Manager...

Book Review… The psychodynamics of oppression

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review… The psychodynamics of oppression

Book: Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian Author: Maureen Warner-Lewis Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Maureen Warner-Lewis projects Archibald Monteath onto a multiplex tapestry of history....

Interesting Creatures… Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)

The eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) is a New World cottontail rabbit, a member of the family Leporidae. It is one of the most common rabbit species in North America. The eastern...

Kerosene stove destroyed La Penitence home

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Kerosene stove destroyed La Penitence home

Days after a 48-year-old wheelchair user, Arlene Moses, was burnt alive in her Freeman Street, East La Penitence home, the fire department suspects that the blaze, which saw the one storey wooden...

Tomorrow is Local Government Elections. Vote for….

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Tomorrow is Local Government Elections. Vote for….

The constitutionally-protected right and duty to vote allows eligible Guyanese to play a meaningful role in determining who will manage the affairs of government that will impact their lives and...

Understanding the different germs that can infect us

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Understanding the different germs that can infect us

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine We are all prone to getting infections. They are so many different infections that are caused by different germs. Doctors treat infections...

Ministry of Health takes awareness on oral health to schools in E’bo.

Nov 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry of Health takes awareness on oral health to schools in E’bo.

Since the mouth is doorway to our bodies, it is believed that a good oral health often results in good general health. In observing this year’s Oral Health Month, the Ministry of Public Health...

Identity and dignity lost with the CCJ

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Identity and dignity lost with the CCJ

By Sir Ronald Sanders The referenda, held individually in Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada, on replacing the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)...

Voting is a powerful way of voicing your opinion

Nov 11, 2018 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Voting is a powerful way of voicing your opinion

The journey towards democratic renewal began in earnest on Tuesday, September 9, 2014, when then Leader of the Opposition Brigadier David Granger, wrote to President Donald Ramotar urging him to hold...

Elect representatives who will solve your community problems

Nov 11, 2018 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Elect representatives who will solve your community problems

In the last few days, a few politicos and social commentators have suggested that the low voter turnout by the disciplined forces last week when they had the chance to cast their votes early, was...

Shaheed’s Girls Orphanage was torched

Nov 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Shaheed’s Girls Orphanage was torched

By- Tracey T. Squires Investigations into the recent fire at the Shaheed’s Girls Orphanage at Oleander Gardens, on the East Coast of Demerara, have determined that the building was deliberately set...

Is Guyana facing an economic meltdown?

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Is Guyana facing an economic meltdown?

Guyana’s politicians are notorious for scaremongering. And when it comes to the economy, there is no shortage of persons who will drive fear in the hearts of Guyanese about a possible economic...

This lobby against Copyright is fuelled by contempt for Guyana’s creative persons

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on This lobby against Copyright is fuelled by contempt for Guyana’s creative persons

Dear Editor, My colleague Freddie Kissoon’s article on Sunday, Nov 4 Kaieteur News is extremely puzzling because he has never written anything about the creative industry before; much less from a...

These firefighters have disgraced the nation and the Guyana Fire Service

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on These firefighters have disgraced the nation and the Guyana Fire Service

Dear Editor, I am so disappointed having learnt about the wholesale theft by ranks of the Guyana Fire Service of personal properties belonging to the crew and passengers of the crash-landed Fly...

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