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Still no response to Corbin from CARICOM chair

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Still no response to Corbin from CARICOM chair

…multi stakeholder petition in train Leader of the main opposition party Robert Corbin says that there has been no response to date by Chairman of the Caribbean Community, Hubert Ingraham,...

Concerning traffic and traffic lights – Purpose or Pretence?

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Concerning traffic and traffic lights – Purpose or Pretence?

By Rustom Seegopaul In the times leading up to the ICC Cricket World Cup in Guyana, the country was all abuzz about the traffic lights that were being given to the Government of Guyana by the...

Peeping Tom – So It is Written; So Shall It Be

May 18, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – So It is Written; So Shall It Be

Kaieteur News has nothing to fear from the new newspaper that is due to come on stream soon. Kaieteur News is not worried at all about another newspaper being published in Guyana. Those who in their...

Lloyd Griffith, from headmaster to blind advocate

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Lloyd Griffith, from headmaster to blind advocate

By Yannason Duncan He describes himself as “friendly and easy to approach,” but 59-year-old visually impaired Lloyd Griffith, of Suddie Village, Essequibo Coast, is a firm believer in the common...

Ravi Dev column – The dearth of theory

May 18, 2008 KNews Ravi Dev Comments Off on Ravi Dev column – The dearth of theory

One of the fallouts of the demise of Marxism as the dominant world-view of our political elites has been a dearth of alternative theoretical models to account for the political behaviour of our...

Freddie Kissoon – The permanent game that kills Guyana’s future…

May 18, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon – The permanent game that kills Guyana’s future…

President Jagdeo has come out against the present activities of the PNC. He zeroed in on the alleged misuse of scrutineer money. The sum is about 100 million dollars. Without offering all the details...

A Goebbels culture held aloft by the opposition

May 18, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Goebbels culture held aloft by the opposition

Dear Editor, The fascist Minister of Propaganda in Hitlerite Germany, Herr Goebbels, is on record as having said that a lie is more believed when it is a big lie. He is further reported to have said...

The Parrot Speaks – Buddy’s should tell the naysayers where the wind is falling

May 18, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Parrot Speaks – Buddy’s should tell the naysayers where the wind is falling

The Parrot has noticed the obsession a certain media entity has with the sale of the Buddy’s International Hotel and everything that surrounds it. I want to make it pellucid that I am in no way...

Neighbour’s heroic efforts save teenager’s life

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Neighbour’s heroic efforts save teenager’s life

For the past few weeks Guyanese have been bombarded by stories of murders, accidents and horrific deaths, but a life-changing event turned a simple, hard-working sales representative into a...

The Baccoo speaks

May 18, 2008 KNews The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

There is always calm before a storm and this time around the calm is due to the pressures that the law enforcement officials placed on people who were making the society nervous. However, some people...

The birth of a university

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on The birth of a university

– the story of the Nations University One morning in September 1978, a young man from England was seated at the back of the hall at the Lilian Dewar Teacher Training College, in the building...

GCCI set to award seven business categories this year

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on GCCI set to award seven business categories this year

For the eighth year running, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) will be recognising businesses and their contributions to Guyana. According to the Chamber, this year the...

The Arts Forum – A Tribute to Roy Heath (1926-2008)

May 18, 2008 KNews The Arts Forum Comments Off on The Arts Forum – A Tribute to Roy Heath (1926-2008)

The Arts Forum offers an occasional page of related topics intended to sensitize students and the general readership to neglected areas of our social history and our rich and diverse cultural...

Fashion Village for Carifesta well underway

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Fashion Village for Carifesta well underway

The Carifesta Fashion Village is going to be excellent, assures Chairman of the Carifesta Fashion Focus Committee, Sonia Noel. Noel said that the current committee has been working day in and day out...

Retracting the letter that Ms. Alleyne-Persico did not write

May 18, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Retracting the letter that Ms. Alleyne-Persico did not write

Dear Editor, I am hereby requesting the IMMEDIATE retraction of the piece titled “A Practical Guide to Visiting Guyana for CARIFESTA” published in the letters section of your paper on Saturday 17...

Is Ms Burton really a true trade unionist?

May 18, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Ms Burton really a true trade unionist?

Dear Editor, I continue to observe evolving events over the years, and I have become increasingly disillusioned by many things. I make one such reference to Ms. Ali’s letter in Kaieteur News, 6th...

President not meeting CNS 6 on suspension

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on President not meeting CNS 6 on suspension

President Bharrat Jagdeo is not inclined to lift the suspension of the broadcast licence for CNS Channel 6, but would rather the matter be handled in court. On Friday, the President, who had...

Lusignan Prison undertakes fruit, vegetable project.

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Lusignan Prison undertakes fruit, vegetable project.

The Lusignan Prison, in collaboration with Food For The Poor Guyana Inc., has undertaken a project, and the Guyana Prison Service has undertaken a project to plant fruit and vegetables at the prison....

Extend the polygraph test to our Parliamentarians

May 18, 2008 KNews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Extend the polygraph test to our Parliamentarians

Lie detector tests are here and they have been put into effect even before the country has legislation to justify their use. The first set of people to undergo the tests are those drug enforcement...

We need to make every effort to avoid wasting water

May 18, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need to make every effort to avoid wasting water

Dear Editor, Inasmuch as I have reported here within these columns over the past years that the villages of Cumberland and Canefield, in East Canje, have been receiving water from the Cumberland...

The violations of human rights by Mugabe must not go unnoticed

May 18, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on The violations of human rights by Mugabe must not go unnoticed

Dear Editor, Throughout Africa, Zimbabwe is seen as one of the engineers of the anti-colonial struggle, with its now President, Mr. Robert Mugabe, leading the charge. Independence came after much...

Interesting Creatures in Guyana

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Interesting Creatures in Guyana

The Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) A pelican is any of several very large water birds belonging to the bird family ‘Pelecanidae’ that possess a distinctive pouch under the beak....

Blame the Government – When civilized people can’t talk to each other

May 18, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Blame the Government – When civilized people can’t talk to each other

People talk to each other in the civilized world, and when they fail to agree on something they talk again. If they still fail, then they seek mediation. It is like a husband and a wife; they do not...

The damage to public property

May 18, 2008 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The damage to public property

The destruction of property is almost as worrying as the crime situation, and it is time that something drastic is done. We keep hearing that stray animals caused vehicles to crash, sometimes with...

Guyana to seek US help for info on Roger Khan’s operations here

May 17, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to seek US help for info on Roger Khan’s operations here

Local police may be writing the United States and its embassy here to find out about alleged murder hits ordered by Shaheed Roger Khan, a Guyanese businessman who is implicated in drug trafficking in...

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(Kaieteur News) – In 2025, there was a seismic shift in Guyanese politics. For years the established parties assumed voters would remain in their accustomed enclosures, dutifully choosing between familiar flags, familiar slogans, and familiar disappointments. But then something happened last...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

Wales GTE: Many questions, no answers

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(Kaieteur News) – The questions came before, are coming again. Former Minister David Patterson pushed questions in and out of parliament relative to the Wales gas-to-energy project and got nowhere. The Speaker of the National Assembly, like a Roman emperor, repeatedly gave the thumbs down. ...

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