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Book Review… Blazing a path to success

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review… Blazing a path to success

Book: Get on the Bike Author: Marsha Norman Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby Marsha Norman sets the tone with perfect imagery. A bicycle represents movement, a means of taking a rider to a specific...

ImmigrationINFO: Understanding Visa Availability and Priority Dates

Dec 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO: Understanding Visa Availability and Priority Dates

By Attorney Gail S. Seeram Many of my clients often ask why the wait is so long for the issuance of visas. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) sets the number of immigrant visas that may be...

Deliver the Golding Report on CARICOM

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Deliver the Golding Report on CARICOM

By Sir Ronald Sanders What has become of the Report of a Jamaican Commission that reviewed the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)? It has been almost 9 months since the Commission’s...

For our Rights Groups: Paedophilia – a sexual orientation?

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on For our Rights Groups: Paedophilia – a sexual orientation?

By Dennis Nichols As a child, I used to hear the term ‘follow-pattern’ often. It was a puerile expression which meant that someone was mimicking you either in mockery, flattery, or to provoke an...

The Baccoo speaks

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

Gone are the days when only the rich were targeted by bandits. No one is safe these days, because there are some young men who want money from any source. There are going to be reports of many people...

Man gets 20 years for rape

Dec 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Man gets 20 years for rape

A man who had a criminal past and was reportedly on a list of names recommended to and pardoned by the President back in 2015 has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for the rape he committed not long...

The signing bonus has to be deposited in the Consolidated Fund

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The signing bonus has to be deposited in the Consolidated Fund

It is disappointing to hear the arguments which are being made by government officials – those who should know better – in relation to the banking of the US$18M received from Exxon Mobil as a...

Last UN hurdle before Int’l Court on Venezuela border controversy

Dec 17, 2017 KNews News 1

With only a few days remaining for the year, Guyana is readying itself to battle in the International Court of Justice over the Venezuela border controversy. Yesterday, President David Granger noted...

More people can be employed using the same amount of money

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on More people can be employed using the same amount of money

Dear Editor, I would like to take this opportunity to ask Lincoln Lewis and other Union Leaders to not ask for hefty pay increases for workers as the money has to be found, by Guyana Government of...

Track record should be seen as a Company’s CV

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Track record should be seen as a Company’s CV

Dear Editor, Former shadow minister of foreign affairs for 23 years in the opposition benches and now the real deal in the coalition, Carl Greenidge, after admitting that he was the one who advised...

Misconduct in public office: The US$18,000,000 Exxon Signing Bonus

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Misconduct in public office: The US$18,000,000 Exxon Signing Bonus

Dear Editor I am appalled at the explanation given by President David Granger with respect to the non-transparency and unaccountability of the US$18,000,000 signing bonus from ExxonMobil to Guyana....

There is no wrong in this society that cannot be corrected by us as citizens

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is no wrong in this society that cannot be corrected by us as citizens

Dear Editor There is no wrong in this society that cannot be corrected by us as citizens of this nation. Attention is being given to two critical issues- ExxonMobil bonus and sugar. Following the...

Mr. Edghill is urged to check the records before making wild accusations

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Edghill is urged to check the records before making wild accusations

Dear Editor, Reference is made to a letter published in the Thursday December 14, 2017 edition of Stabroek News, under the headline, “Demerara River Bridge, Ministry of Citizenship digitising of...

City Council has systems to track the use of its firearms

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on City Council has systems to track the use of its firearms

Dear Editor, Please refer to a letter which appeared in your daily’s issued Saturday, December 16, 2017 “When will the slackness at City Hall stop?” by Shanta Singh (pg6). The Mayor and City...

Failure of public enterprises manifests the fact that governments should not run business

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Failure of public enterprises manifests the fact that governments should not run business

Dear Editor, The Honorable Finance Minister in his Budget 2018 speech forecast a deficit of $12.8 billion in the overall performance of the Public Enterprises (PEs). He further pointed out that even...

Philosophy: Where did Homo sapiens go wrong?

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

The question of why people violate others has plagued civilization from day one. Two great 20th thinkers had opposing ideas about the answer. Arthur Koestler explained that of all animals, an...

Affordable housing in sanitary and safe communities

Dec 17, 2017 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Affordable housing in sanitary and safe communities

(Excerpts from Budget 2018 presentation by Hon Valerie Patterson-Yearwood MP) In May 2015, in recognition of this salient fact, the APNU+AFC Administration embarked on a journey toward “The Good...

What does it mean when you hear someone is septic?

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on What does it mean when you hear someone is septic?

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Sepsis is a common condition that accounts for over 6 million deaths worldwide every year. Persons often talk or hear about someone being...

Our legal team wanted Venezuela to know as little as possible

Dec 17, 2017 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Our legal team wanted Venezuela to know as little as possible

VIn recent weeks, there has been much public and diasporic debate about the US$18M that ExxonMobil has set aside to help pay the legal and other fees when the United Nations sends Venezuela’s...

A case of been there, done that

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column 3

The government collected US$18 million from ExxonMobil as a signing bonus and opened a floodgate of criticisms. The most recent of the criticisms was that “they intended to steal it,” that...

MURDERING WOMEN

Dec 17, 2017 KNews Editorial Comments Off on MURDERING WOMEN

One of the most discussed topics in the country, and rightly so, is crime. It has impacted the lives of many citizens, not just the victims or relatives of the victims, but others who are trying to...

Granger promises to prosecute corrupt officials

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Granger promises to prosecute corrupt officials

The oil sector is known for its ability to compromise some of the most “upstanding” politicians on earth. Instances of this irrefutable fact can be found in many countries such as Chad,...

Speaker disallows Motion to add Exxon US$18M bonus to Consolidated Fund

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Speaker disallows Motion to add Exxon US$18M bonus to Consolidated Fund

…PPP/C signals intention to seek legal action Before the passage of the 2018 budget, Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr. Barton Scotland, yesterday, disallowed a motion of adjournment from the...

Man says he killed, secretly buried child two years ago

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Man says he killed, secretly buried child two years ago

cops to search for grave today The mystery of exactly what happened to little Daniel Adolphus two years ago may finally be solved. Detectives are to travel to Richmond Hill, Essequibo, today, to look...

President, First Lady host luncheon for seniors

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on President, First Lady host luncheon for seniors

President David Granger and First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger, yesterday hosted a special Christmas luncheon for senior citizens. It was the First Couple’s way of honouring them for their service to...

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GFF U17 Youth Ensemble Programme gets underway this weekend

Sep 11, 2026

– Elite U17 competition to run simultaneously as new feature (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Under-17 Youth Ensemble Programme will kick off nationally this weekend,...

What is happiness?

Sep 11, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – This time, I went to Guru, I asked him what I thought was the most important question of all. “Guru,” I said, “what is happiness?” He smiled. “You have come a long way to ask a very difficult question.” “Isn’t happiness simply being happy?” “No,” he...

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...

Amerindian Heritage Month – the best celebration

Sep 11, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The best manner in which Guyana’s indigenous can be honored in this their Heritage Month is through a credible Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the MV Barima catastrophe. An avoidable tragedy now written in blood on the books of Guyana. The callous, reckless, and...

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