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Reflections on growing up in a racial landscape

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Reflections on growing up in a racial landscape

By Dennis Nichols ‘Race’ has practically become a four-letter word for some Guyanese – although it’s simply a categorization of humans into groups, based on anatomical similarities and...

Bail for construction worker charged for raping girl, 15

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Bail for construction worker charged for raping girl, 15

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on Friday released a construction worker on bail in the sum of $250,000 after a charge of rape was read to him. Calvin Mann, 26, of Timehri, East Bank Demerara, is...

Guyana leads the charge for Caribbean Land Management Initiative

Oct 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana leads the charge for Caribbean Land Management Initiative

By Kemol King Guyana is hosting and spearheading the Partnership Initiative for Sustainable Land Management (PISLM), a plan which aims to revolutionise land management in the Caribbean region....

President David Granger is guest at Linden prayer Breakfast …presents 48 bicycles to students.

Oct 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on President David Granger is guest at Linden prayer Breakfast …presents 48 bicycles to students.

President David Granger was the guest of honour at a Prayer Breakfast held at the Watooka Complex on Wednesday. He was accompanied by Minister within the Ministry of Communities Valerie Adams-...

Another teen escapes from NOC

Oct 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Another teen escapes from NOC

A 17-year-old male who was sentenced to the New Opportunity Corps on the Essequibo Coast, escaped from the facility last Monday after allegedly pushing down a 61 year old social service assistant....

Indian national hangs Guyanese lover in Antigua, kills self -woman’s 3 yr-old son found dehydrated nearby

Oct 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Indian national hangs Guyanese lover in Antigua, kills self -woman’s 3 yr-old son found dehydrated nearby

Antigua is rocked by an apparent murder-suicide involving a Guyanese mother. Shocked relatives in Guyana, confirming her death yesterday, said that the businesswoman from Kitty, sells hair products...

Kaieteur-News-Cartoon-Oct.-21-2018

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Kaieteur-News-Cartoon-Oct.-21-2018

WORKSHOP HOSTED TO IMPROVE REGISTRATION OF BIOLOGICS AND BIOSIMILAR

Oct 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on WORKSHOP HOSTED TO IMPROVE REGISTRATION OF BIOLOGICS AND BIOSIMILAR

The Government Analyst –Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) commenting on a recent workshop hosted in the Department’s Boardroom with the 120 years old Swiss Pharmaceutical and Diagnostic Giant...

Garvey: Relevant today more than ever

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Garvey: Relevant today more than ever

Book: Marcus Garvey Author: Rupert Lewis Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Rupert Lewis’ Marcus Garvey is the quintessential study of the man behind one of the most ambitious economic initiatives...

Black Vulture

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Black Vulture

The black vulture (Coragyps atratus) also known as the American black vulture, is a bird in the New World vulture family whose range extends from the southeastern United States to Central...

STANDARDS IN FOCUS … Standards are useful for shaping local Agriculture

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS … Standards are useful for shaping local Agriculture

As we continue to look closely at Agriculture during October and celebrate the successes of the sector, standards must be at the back of our mind as the guiding tools and principles that will help to...

The baccoo speaks

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The baccoo speaks

The situation in the prison system is about to improve with better and more secure accommodation for the prisoners. However, there seems to be a race among errant young men to fill the prisons. One...

There are jobs but the takers are few

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on There are jobs but the takers are few

Guyana was once a country of carpenters, masons and other artisans. These people were in such number that the Caribbean countries reached out to them for their skills. Barbados, in particular,...

Consumer Concerns… CARIBBEAN BEEKEEPERS CONGRESS AND ITS NOVEMBER CONFERENCE

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Consumer Concerns… CARIBBEAN BEEKEEPERS CONGRESS AND ITS NOVEMBER CONFERENCE

BY PAT DIAL Honey has always held the attention of consumers from time immemorial. In Stone Age times, honey was gathered from the hives of wild bees and in all ancient Civilizations honey was much...

What is it about life that Khemraj Ramjattan doesn’t understand?

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on What is it about life that Khemraj Ramjattan doesn’t understand?

One of the most prominent and definitely of the most popularly known retired judges in this country said to me as I was standing in a bracing position at the glass counter in the DSL supermarket on...

The APNU+AFC Coalition has collapsed: It has become a PNC government

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on The APNU+AFC Coalition has collapsed: It has become a PNC government

Guyana is governed by a coalition of six parties—five of them under the umbrella of APNU. Three of the parties have little or no name recognition. While the other three are known nationally, only...

Cancer: Is there a way to know if you have it?

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cancer: Is there a way to know if you have it?

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Cancer occurs when a part of the body malfunctions and produces more tissues than can be destroyed. After a while, there is excess tissue...

The PPP must be judged on its record and not its rhetoric

Oct 21, 2018 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The PPP must be judged on its record and not its rhetoric

Lest we forget, the Peoples Progressive Party – PPP – in its 23 years in office showed scant regard for local democracy. The PPP showed little interest in empowering the people in order for them...

Benschop tore up Ramotar at Harvard University

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Benschop tore up Ramotar at Harvard University

Ten days after former president Donald Ramotar published a narcissistic letter in the Stabroek News in which he waxed lyrical about the delivery of justice, freedom and tolerance under the PPP rule,...

We need to see BBCI’s financial statements to justify toll increases

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need to see BBCI’s financial statements to justify toll increases

Dear Editor, The Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated (BBCI) on 16 October 2018 had announced across the board increases for both vehicles and boats. The percentage increase for various classes of...

Berbice Bridge Toll hike proposal is ridiculous

Oct 21, 2018 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Berbice Bridge Toll hike proposal is ridiculous

Despite what was said last week at the PPP’s press conference, the average Guyanese and foreigner believes that the latest BBCI proposal to hike Berbice River Bridge tolls lives right down there...

PPP engaged BBCI in 2014 and had win-win solutions

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP engaged BBCI in 2014 and had win-win solutions

Berbice Bridge Company Inc. (BBCI) has held both the PPP and APNU responsible for not honouring increases in tolls pursuant to the Berbice Bridge Act and the Concession Agreement. The Berbice Bridge...

Jagdeo’s deceptive promise of the bridge exposed

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo’s deceptive promise of the bridge exposed

Dear Editor, Bharrat Jagdeo’s continuous deceptive promises of his party caring for the Guyanese people have just been cruelly exposed, with the announcement by the Berbice Bridge Company of newly...

CANADA EXPECTS $$BILLIONS FROM MARIJUANA

Oct 21, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on CANADA EXPECTS $$BILLIONS FROM MARIJUANA

On Wednesday October 17, Canada legalized the use of recreational marijuana. It joined Uruguay as the only two countries in the world that make marijuana legal for anyone over eighteen years. Uruguay...

Escapee Travis Evans recaptured at Soesdyke

Oct 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Escapee Travis Evans recaptured at Soesdyke

‘fast-tracking’ Mazaruni prison construction Luck ran out for fugitive and murder accused Travis Evans yesterday when he was recaptured at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara. Acting on information from...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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