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Maintenance worker charged for robbery

Dec 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Maintenance worker charged for robbery

A 27-year-old maintenance worker was on Friday remanded to prison after he was charged for robbery. Adam Duncan denied the charge that was read to him by Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore in the...

Indomitable Journalist Adam Harris, A.A. is a ‘Special Person’

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Special Person Comments Off on Indomitable Journalist Adam Harris, A.A. is a ‘Special Person’

Pull Quote: “You have to read; I always tell people you have to read. Read everything you can put your hands on because when you read, you expand your vocabulary, you expand your knowledge...

Volda Lawrence merely made public what others do

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Volda Lawrence merely made public what others do

Volda Lawrence is the Chairperson of the People’s National Congress. She defeated the likes of Joseph Harmon and the incumbent, Basil Williams. That was how she became the news last week. She was...

The Baccoo Speaks

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

A raid by the Guyana Revenue Authority on an East Coast Demerara location would discover a cache of smuggled goods. The strange thing is that every article would appear to bear the stamp of the GRA....

‘Us’ versus ‘them’, constitutional reform & shared governance

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on ‘Us’ versus ‘them’, constitutional reform & shared governance

Talks of constitutional reform and shared governance are doing the rounds again, in what have become sporadic and less than straightforward discourses anytime political power is believed to be...

Bernardo Bertolucci: Existentialist film, existentialist song

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Bernardo Bertolucci: Existentialist film, existentialist song

In one of my columns, seven years ago (Sunday, July 17, 2011) captioned, “Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris,” I wrote the following; “In 1972, one of cinema’s phenomenal...

Ectopic Pregnancy: There is a high risk of death if its undetected

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux Comments Off on Ectopic Pregnancy: There is a high risk of death if its undetected

An ectopic pregnancy is a pregnancy which is not in the normal place (the womb). Ectopic means ‘misplaced’. It occurs in about 11 in 1,000 pregnancies and is one of the leading cause of...

Minister Lawrence’s rhetoric is a recipe for losing in 2020

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Minister Lawrence’s rhetoric is a recipe for losing in 2020

First, Minister Lawrence’s comments must be contextualized. They come in the wake of the massive defeat of the PNC at the Local Government elections, which I have dubbed a mini-general election....

Scotiabank scoots

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Scotiabank scoots

The Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Bank of Guyana are becoming uneasy; they have both expressed concerns over the proposed sale of Scotiabank’s local operations to Republic Bank. The...

$52.2B is a serious investment in our Youth

Dec 02, 2018 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on $52.2B is a serious investment in our Youth

Budget 2019 made big news throughout last week with every media house reporting on the multi-facets, multi-benefits, multi programmes designed to grow the Guyana economy, a country that hovers on the...

A Christian mission aborted on the tip of a poisoned arrow

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A Christian mission aborted on the tip of a poisoned arrow

By Dennis Nichols For the past two weeks the internet has been all abuzz with the story of a failed one-man effort by a young American ‘missionary’ named John Chau, to spread the Christian gospel...

We have kept, and continue to keep our promises

Dec 02, 2018 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on We have kept, and continue to keep our promises

From the fall of the Peoples Progressive Party-PPP- in May 2015, Guyanese have been fed a daily dose of cynicism, criticism, doom and gloom, via its ‘one-man-band’ Bharrat Jagdeo. Daily, the...

Book Review…From Ruins to Wholeness

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…From Ruins to Wholeness

Book: This Is For You Author: Angel Castillo Critic: Dr. Glenville Ashby In her first published work, Angel Castillo proves her salt as a writer of enviable range. At the outset, Castillo paints a...

Interesting Creatures… Black-throated mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis)

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… Black-throated mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis)

The black-throated mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis) is a mainly South American hummingbird species. It is 10.2 cm long and weighs 7.2g. The longish black bill is slightly de-curved. The tail in...

CARICOM MUST BE ACTIVE ON HAITI

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on CARICOM MUST BE ACTIVE ON HAITI

By Sir Ronald Sanders Haiti continues to be an unsettled country politically. Demonstrations against successive governments have become almost normal, and so too, tragically, are the deaths...

The Grove/Diamond Neighbourhood Democratic Council.

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Grove/Diamond Neighbourhood Democratic Council.

Dear Editor, The Grove/Diamond Neighbourhood Democratic Council’s new members were recently installed, with the Chairperson being a female educator. As a resident and tax payer I would like to...

Georgetown has a new Mayor in the person of Pandit Ubraj Narine.

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Georgetown has a new Mayor in the person of Pandit Ubraj Narine.

Dear Editor, I cannot recall an Indo-Guyanese Mayor presiding over the affairs of the City Council and, even though refreshing, one hopes that it is not an optical move on the part of the PNC...

Is ‘the Peeper’ lobbing for his pocket or on a PR mission for the tobacco company?

Dec 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Is ‘the Peeper’ lobbing for his pocket or on a PR mission for the tobacco company?

Dear Editor, I take umbrage to a missive by Peeping Tom, “Pesticides, tobacco and social cohesion” in KN, Nov 30th. The Peeper sought to criticize the Govt’s approach on relinquishing the VAT...

Concerned Citizens of Ann’s Grove / Two Friends Exposed

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Concerned Citizens of Ann’s Grove / Two Friends Exposed

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me to respond to a letter from “Concerned Citizens of Ann’s Grove / Two Friends”, entitled “Using Land for purposes other than intended” that appeared in this...

Security officials with big guns

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Security officials with big guns

Dear Editor, The police have issued a press statement of a visit to a number of private security services in the city on Friday. The police said that the visit was to ensure “strict adherence” to...

Mr. Leroy Smith missed the boat, unfortunately

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Leroy Smith missed the boat, unfortunately

Dear Editor, I will close my thoughts on this issue regarding Mr. Leroy Smith with this correspondence on the attacks of the ‘A’ Division and the Commander, Marlon Chapman. The thrust of my...

Mr. G.K. Lall is telling us to be happily enslaved by this contract

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. G.K. Lall is telling us to be happily enslaved by this contract

Dear Editor, What’s the difference between a traitor and an educated writer, with the writer using his pen to weaken and impoverish his people, under the guise of security and national interest, to...

Twenty years from now, would we be reflecting on a Guyana that should have been?

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Twenty years from now, would we be reflecting on a Guyana that should have been?

Dear Editor, Please permit me the space in your column to highlight a disease that has agonized the Guyanese political cognition for far too long. This disease is that of political bias which has...

Confined to a classroom

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Confined to a classroom

Schools are not just a microcosm of society; they mediate it too. They best seek to ameliorate the external pressures on their pupils while equipping them better to understand and handle the world...

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Windies captain Brathwaite stresses bravery, belief ahead of Pakistan Test Series

No conflict of interest exists

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Accusations of conflict of interest have a peculiar way of rising to the surface in Guyana.... more