February 2019

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Brandon Harding is Carib Soca Monarch second year in a row

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Brandon Harding is Carib Soca Monarch second year in a row

GTT Jingle and Song Competition winner 2011, Brandon Harding, has won the Carib Soca Monarch crown for the second year in a row. Last year, Harding beat out 14 other contestants in the finals...

Milo schools’ football tournament…CWSS makes commanding start

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milo schools’ football tournament…CWSS makes commanding start

In any school football tournament that Linden’s Christianburg/Wismar Secondary School (CWSS) has entered in recent years, the team has always been pegged to be one of the favourites, following...

There is too much sickening ignorance in the seat of official authority

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on There is too much sickening ignorance in the seat of official authority

There is absolutely nothing any man or woman can do to remove the repugnant edicts that the seat of authority imposes on the Guyanese citizenry. By the seat of authority, I don’t mean the Cabinet...

GuyanaNRA Smallbore Section shoots off 2019 with .22 Pistol competition

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GuyanaNRA Smallbore Section shoots off 2019 with .22 Pistol competition

Michael Tang (Senior) and Satya Dayaram (Junior) tops rivals The Smallbore Section of the Guyana National Rifle Association shot off its calendar events for this year on Saturday last with a .22...

This is the cake that Jack baked

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on This is the cake that Jack baked

– novelty cake decorator, Lystra Jack Lystra Jack is a baker who has been in the business for six years, with her Pike Street bakery, which she dubbed Piece A Cake & Cupcakes. The...

Mother pleads for word on daughter in Germany

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mother pleads for word on daughter in Germany

Farida Mohamed last saw her daughter about 14 years ago. The 17-year-old, Christine Erulin, was preparing to migrate to Germany to live with her father Stephane, and stepmother. Since then,...

Kitchen Garden Tips…Growing Ginger

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Kitchen Garden Tips…Growing Ginger

You might think growing ginger (Zingiber Officinale) in your kitchen garden is a mere novelty, a horticultural gimmick that will never pay back the time and effort you need to put in. But, once you...

The Rise and Fall of a Hero

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Rise and Fall of a Hero

After his non-eventful appearance at the book launch, he became more desperate. It had been two months since he had arrived back home but he was still to make any inroads into the upper social...

The Millennial Perspective…On Colourism and Beauty

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on The Millennial Perspective…On Colourism and Beauty

When I was in primary school, there was a girl who I heard some Indo-Guyanese boys call the ugliest girl in school. She didn’t have many friends, and she’d get teased a lot, about how dark...

GECOM is frustrating democracy

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM is frustrating democracy

Dear Editor, The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has a sordid history. It was a tool in the hands of the PNC in rigging elections in the pre-1992 days. One of the deals brokered by the Carter...

A phantom is running for the highest office

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on A phantom is running for the highest office

Dear Editor, Guyana has just staked out another dubious first. It has a phantom running for the highest office in the land. If at this early and hysterical stage of the game the candidate has all but...

We seem to be living in a surreal society

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on We seem to be living in a surreal society

DEAR EDITOR, We seem to be living in a surreal society. The groundswell of complaints is more than the waters that flow in the Demerara, Berbice and Essequibo Rivers. And the complaints emanate from...

Sittlington is destroying SOCU’s reputation

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sittlington is destroying SOCU’s reputation

Dear Editor, The Coalition Government is clearly under an intense attack from a corrupt cabal that is intent on dismantling SOCU and any chances it had to deliver evidence of financial criminal and...

There are inconsistencies in money transfer services

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on There are inconsistencies in money transfer services

Dear Editor, This letter comes to you in support of Tony Vieira’s letter, Money transfer services fleecing poor Guyanese, which appeared in your February 15, 2019 issue. Tony’s concerns as it...

The Hypocrisy of Freddie Kissoon

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Hypocrisy of Freddie Kissoon

Dear Editor, It required patience, Freddie, but I am overwhelmingly disappointed of this ‘mercenary’ other self-emergence. I understand the many that desire the serf-hood status of that...

It is time we stand up to the foreign companies

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is time we stand up to the foreign companies

Dear Editor, As is my daily custom I’ve been up just after 4am filling up on K. News. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, one of the finest newspapers in Guyana and the Caribbean bar...

City Council needs a PR Department

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on City Council needs a PR Department

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to the misleading article that was published in the Friday January 15, 2019 edition of your Newspapers captioned “Why does M&CC need a P.R...

“An Investigation needs to be done at the ER Burrowes School of Art”

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on “An Investigation needs to be done at the ER Burrowes School of Art”

The Honourable David A. Granger, President of the Republic of Guyana 16/2/2019 Dear President Granger, I am seeking your intervention on having an investigation done on a state-owned educational...

Guyana of old is gone forever

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Guyana of old is gone forever

Guyana is not in a very safe neighbourhood any longer. And though it does not help, this is neither in degree nor scale related to anything connected to the increasing hysteria surrounding upcoming...

Six years later…Captains in Mazaruni River crash that left 10 dead listed for trial

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Six years later…Captains in Mazaruni River crash that left 10 dead listed for trial

The captains of the two boats that were involved in a collision on January 22, 2013 in the Mazaruni River, which left 10 persons dead, have been listed to go on trial for manslaughter. They will...

Exxon’s subsidiary has insufficient assets to cover spills …No Permit until this is fixed-EPA

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon’s subsidiary has insufficient assets to cover spills …No Permit until this is fixed-EPA

By Kiana Wilburg Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Vincent Adams, is not convinced that ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) has the...

Background checks on all oil companies will feature in next licensing round -Dr. Bynoe assures

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Background checks on all oil companies will feature in next licensing round -Dr. Bynoe assures

By Kiana Wilburg When the Energy Department initiates another licensing round for offshore blocks next year, background checks will be done on all competing companies. This assurance was given by...

Rusal orders kitchen to stop cooking for workers

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Rusal orders kitchen to stop cooking for workers

-key meeting tomorrow to find solutions to stalemate Bauxite workers of Rusal, in Upper Berbice, Region Ten, are digging in their heels, and refusing to budge in the second day of standoff against...

Public Service College faces a diversity problem -Senior Director, Lawrence Paul

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Public Service College faces a diversity problem -Senior Director, Lawrence Paul

In 2015, the Coalition Government entered office, and announced that one of its priorities would be the restructuring of the public service. For years, the public service has been criticised for poor...

Minister takes control of Local Authorities as Commission shuts doors

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Minister takes control of Local Authorities as Commission shuts doors

The State, more particularly the Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, will have control over the local authorities given that the Local Government Commission, (LGC) effectively shut its doors,...

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(Kaieteur News) – Guyana has moved closer to delivering its first two FIFA Arena mini-pitches, with installation works now underway at Haslington on the East Coast of Demerara, marking a...

Jagdeo’s olive branch may have a snake in the grass

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(Kaieteur News) – At the ‘wake’ of former Leader of the PNCR, Robert Corbin, Bharrat Jagdeo began talking about political cooperation, and the need to move beyond political divisions. But faced with this olive branch, the sensible citizen should reach for a comfortable chair, a strong cup of...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

The Robert Corbin effect

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(Kaieteur News) – This man’s Robert Herman Orlando Corbin’s handiworks needs a longer, slower look. In dying, it seems that Mr. Corbin is more alive. Certainly, his spirit has taken on a motivating quality, a pervading strength. Who would have believed? I wouldn’t have gone so...

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