November 2018

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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...

Improved healthcare at New Amsterdam Hospital

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Improved healthcare at New Amsterdam Hospital

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me space in your newspaper to express gratitude to the New Amsterdam Hospital on providing outstanding services to patients. I sincerely compliment the overall management,...

Is this the Godless law we want to live by?

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is this the Godless law we want to live by?

Dear Editor, On November 13th 2018, The Caribbean Court of Justice ruled on the following: ”The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Tuesday ruled in favour of the cross-dressing Appeal. The...

Gyrating ladies at cricket offensive to children

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Gyrating ladies at cricket offensive to children

Dear Editor, I had the pleasure of attending the Windies vs Bangladesh ICC Women’s World T20 game at Providence on November 9, 2018 in the company of some little girls crazy about cricket. It was...

This entire episode is a staged artifice designed to excite political sympathies

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on This entire episode is a staged artifice designed to excite political sympathies

Dear Editor, My contention that the seizure of the Berbice Bridge by Minister David Patterson amounts to the compulsory acquisition of private property without the payment of adequate compensation at...

City Hall looks as if it could collapse at any time

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on City Hall looks as if it could collapse at any time

Dear Editor, I go to Georgetown about five times a week and I pass near City Hall constantly. A very close look at that building tells me clearly that that building can collapse at any moment. The...

REMEMBERING OUR WAR HEROES

Nov 11, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on REMEMBERING OUR WAR HEROES

Remembrance Day also known as Poppy Day is commemorated on the second Sunday of November each year to honour all those who died in the World Wars. It is observed in a number of countries around the...

Energy Dept. to complete roadmap for oil sector by month end – Dr. Bynoe

Nov 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Energy Dept. to complete roadmap for oil sector by month end – Dr. Bynoe

Yesterday, the Department of Energy (DoE) held its first press conference since its establishment on August 1, this year. There, head of the department, Dr. Mark Bynoe gave a detailed breakdown of...

Wheelchair user perishes as fire destroys home

Nov 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Wheelchair user perishes as fire destroys home

A one-storey wooden house on the squatting area in Freeman Street, East La Penitence was yesterday destroyed by fire, which also claimed the life of one person suspected to be the owner of the house,...

Canada-bound Fly Jamaica flight crash lands at CJIA minutes after takeoff

Nov 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Canada-bound Fly Jamaica flight crash lands at CJIA minutes after takeoff

– Several sustain minor injuries, hydraulic system failure blamed Local aviation officials with the support of external agencies have launched an investigation into the circumstances that...

Water can’t wash way Guyana shame

Nov 10, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, News Comments Off on Water can’t wash way Guyana shame

Guyana shame. In fact, de whole country shame after early yesterday. A Fly Jamaica plane develop problems and had to turn back to de airport. Nobody didn’t expect wha happen when de plane land but...

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2026 Republic Bank CPL Playoffs… GAW vs. ABF – Guyana eyeing revenge following first season loss to Antigua By Clifton Ross (Kaieteur News) – The stage is set for a blockbuster clash at...

Save our stories before they disappear

Sep 17, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I asked a middle-aged woman if she knew Rabbi Washington. She vaguely recalled the name but nothing more. This is exactly how most of our collective memory works these days. When I mentioned other Guyanese public figures from the 1970s and 1980s, she drew a blank on most of...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

PPP most ruthless guerrilla fighters of all

Sep 17, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – BBC and other Western media called them irregulars. Unorthodox also sold well. I fuse elements from irregulars and unorthodox to my preference for unpredictable. Guerrilla fighters and stealth operators have still endured. In any study of both, there’s none better...

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