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Peeping Tom – Time to End the Debate

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – Time to End the Debate

One race has ended in the United States of America. Senator Hillary Clinton is today expected to concede to Senator Barack Obama in the race for the Democratic Nomination for the Presidency of the...

The primitive approach to communication must cease

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on The primitive approach to communication must cease

DEAR EDITOR The University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS) is the body which attends to any student welfare and ensures that the UG Administration provides a safe studying/working environment...

Kudos Minister Ramsammy !

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR, I am relieved that Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy has now spoken publicly about the connection between domestic violence, health and the economy. I would like to draw attention to...

Focus needs to be placed on City Council

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Focus needs to be placed on City Council

DEAR EDITOR I am quite enthused to observe the efforts by the government and more particularly by the President, for whom I want to applaud for genuinely trying to root out corruption and financial...

Pensioners should be paid earlier in the month

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pensioners should be paid earlier in the month

DEAR EDITOR, Every year the Accountant General in the Ministry of Finance issues a circular to Permanent Secretaries and Heads of Department setting out the dates in each month of the ensuing year...

I was there when Guyana became a sovereign nation

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR I was there at the National Park forty two years ago when the British Flag the “Union Jack” was taken down and our own Golden Arrow Head was hoisted by our own Major Desmond Roberts....

We Forgot At Our own Peril

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Editorial Comments Off on We Forgot At Our own Peril

It seems just a short while ago that this nation was plunged into torrents of mourning following two successive atrocities, the likes of which were unprecedented in Guyana. Yet it has been over four...

Thanks to the Acting Chief Justice the judiciary seems to be the executive branch’s Achilles heel

Jun 06, 2008 KNews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR, I will let Mr. Terrence Duncan provide a direct response to Mr. Kwame McCoy’s letter, “Criticisms of the judiciary are the cross-checks and balance of power”, (Kaieteur News, June...

My experience at GPL has left a bitter taste in my mouth

Jun 06, 2008 KNews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR, It is with great consternation that I pen this letter after an entire working afternoon was spent at GPL, Main Street. I accompanied a family member to GPL on Wednesday, 2008-06-04 with...

Teachers must perform their duties with purpose

Jun 06, 2008 KNews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR, From the start of this year to present time I have read of three incidents of teachers being sexually involved with students. One of those incidents was involuntary, but sadly the other...

Peeping Tom – WHAT ABOUT PHYSICS?

Jun 06, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – WHAT ABOUT PHYSICS?

I am a science aficionado and someone fervently concerned about the decline in the standards of science education in Guyana. This past week, my concern was deepened when I picked up the newspaper and...

A poorly conducted competition

Jun 06, 2008 KNews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR, A few weeks ago I watched what I believe was a poorly conducted Spelling Bee competition at the Republic Bank in Rose Hall Town. I say ‘poorly conducted’ because I believe it was...

Freddie Kissoon – The Ancient Mariner in Guyana

Jun 06, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon 1

How can anyone from the British Commonwealth who did the British school examination, General Certificate of Examination (GCE) ever forget that poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel...

What is CARICOM doing to help?

Jun 06, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is CARICOM doing to help?

DEAR EDITOR, I write in relation to the editorial carried in Kaieteur News of June 05, 2008. The responses by most Caribbean countries for their treatment of Guyanese have been varying, but are along...

These are not interchangeable terms

Jun 06, 2008 KNews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR, For quite some time we have been reading and/or hearing of various airlines offering, starting or contemplating Direct Flights from Guyana to North America, when the correct terminology...

‘Do so not like so’

Jun 06, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on ‘Do so not like so’

DEAR EDITOR, Kwame McCoy waxes pontificatingly about the right and propriety of criticism of the judiciary, as a means of, and here he purloins Justice Chang’s point in his initial response,...

Blame the government – Freedom of Information is coming

Jun 06, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Blame the government – Freedom of Information is coming

It would seem that a day does not go by without a finger being pointed at the government and this is what life is about because people should constantly be examining their government. It is they who...

The Parrot Speaks – Corbin’s CANTFESTA

Jun 06, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Parrot Speaks – Corbin’s CANTFESTA

The Parrot firmly believes that R.H.O Corbin is confused, since there is no other word or reason to describe his position on CARIFESTA X. This is an event to make us proud; an event that was the...

Dem boys seh – Madness tek over

Jun 06, 2008 KNews Dem Boys Seh Comments Off on Dem boys seh – Madness tek over

This week some people do so much stupidness that dem boys start to wonder whether was de world coming to an end. To start dem had Bappo who always believe that in this day and age de best thing to do...

Treat Guyanese with respect

Jun 06, 2008 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Treat Guyanese with respect

Guyanese have for years been subjected to humiliations at national airports throughout the Caribbean. Many have tried to enter regional countries, only to be turned back by less than friendly...

Exchange Rates

Jun 05, 2008 KNews Exchange Rates Comments Off on Exchange Rates

Currencies Buying Selling US $ 203.24 205.66 CA C$ 202.76 205.09 Pounds £ 403.07 408.07 Euro € 323.97 328.03

PNCR Protest Almost Incident Free

Jun 05, 2008 KNews The Gallery 1

Ravi Dev Column – Independence and the National Question

May 25, 2008 KNews Ravi Dev Comments Off on Ravi Dev Column – Independence and the National Question

I’ve always had mixed emotions when I think about our “independence”. I am old enough to have experienced firsthand the violent wrenching apart of our peoples that preceded this supposedly...

The Baccoo speaks

May 25, 2008 KNews The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

There was the electrocution of which I spoke the other day and there is going to be yet another. It is as if people are not interested in living to see the end of the year because they are trying to...

Ronald Sanders – Dominica: Poverty and Potential (Part 2)

May 25, 2008 KNews Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Ronald Sanders – Dominica: Poverty and Potential (Part 2)

By Sir Ronald Sanders A few years ago, Hugh O’Shaughnessy, an English journalist writing about the Caribbean island of Dominica, said that it was the only territory that Christopher Columbus would...

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Mehidy magic (4-23), headline Warriors 6-wicket cakewalk win over...

Sep 12, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL…GAW vs. TKR (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors signed off their run at home with a huge bang after handing long-time rivals Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) a 6 wicket...

Should Guyana build a small refinery?

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The public discourse, thus far, on a refinery for Guyana asks some legitimate questions about cost, management, financing and commercial risk. But it makes a fundamental analytical mistake of evaluating the proposed Guyanese refinery as though its purpose were to become another...

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...

Jagdeo on breaches, accountability Pt 1

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Great to see Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President, taking control. Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Regional Executive Officers, and assorted others summoned to a session with the new Minister for Virtue and against Vice. Dr. Jagdeo is the best man for that job. He knows the...

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