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I urge this gentleman to contact Secretary Clinton immediately

Mar 01, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I urge this gentleman to contact Secretary Clinton immediately

Many times on this page, I have observed that the PPP Government, seventeen years in power, have chalked up more scandals than the PNC administration under Burnham which has been in power the same...

THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT

Mar 01, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT

“‘Bruce’, Blackstone Street rematch Saturday.” I saw this curious headline in the Internet edition of a Trinidad paper and wondered what it was all about. It turned out that “Bruce”...

Dem boys seh….Hide cocaine in Bharrat luggage

Feb 28, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh….Hide cocaine in Bharrat luggage

People getting desperate. Imagine that dem have all de traps and all de security and people still trying dem luck fuh smuggle cocaine. Two of dem lef England and come to Guyana, collect cocaine, put...

The Guyana Classics Library & The Caribbean Press

Feb 28, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Guyanese Literature Comments Off on The Guyana Classics Library & The Caribbean Press

– By Petamber Persaud A nation that celebrates its literature is a nation on its way to realising its full potential. Guyana is not lacking in this respect. Down the ages, the custodians of...

To OAS or not to OAS: That is the question

Feb 28, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on To OAS or not to OAS: That is the question

By Sir Ronald Sanders At a meeting of leaders of Latin America and the Caribbean on February 23, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments supported a joint “Declaration on (the) Falklands Islands...

The daily grind will be much harder

Feb 28, 2010 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The daily grind will be much harder

2010 Budget Speech By LATCHMIN PUNALALL – AFC, MP Introduction It is not sufficient for this administration to just routinely run our country. They must build it as well as actively determine...

Many are getting away with stealing

Feb 28, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Many are getting away with stealing

For as long as one can remember there have been accusations against governments of harbouring corruption. Some of us old enough are aware that during the Burnham tenure, allegations of corruption...

The Americans will finally investigate elected dictatorship in Guyana

Feb 28, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Americans will finally investigate elected dictatorship in Guyana

Arguably the finest moment in international solidarity to bring democracy and good governance to Guyana since the rigged 1968 elections, occurred on Thursday, February 25 in Washington, D.C. On that...

The Baccoo speaks

Feb 28, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

There is going to be a mad rush by some people to remove the illegal electrical connections because of a campaign that is underway. There is a funny side to all this, though. During the removal of...

WILL THE NEXT PRESIDENT REVIEW THE CONTROVERSIAL DEALS?

Feb 28, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WILL THE NEXT PRESIDENT REVIEW THE CONTROVERSIAL DEALS?

Guyanese should pay keen attention to two important developments this past week. Both of these took place outside of our borders. The first was in Thailand, where that country’s courts decided that...

FORTY YEARS OF THE REPUBLIC: When will we really be ‘One People, One Nation, with One Destiny?’

Feb 28, 2010 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on FORTY YEARS OF THE REPUBLIC: When will we really be ‘One People, One Nation, with One Destiny?’

One week ago, the People’s National Congress Reform extended greetings to all Guyanese on the nation’s achievement of forty years of Republican status. When we ushered in the Cooperative Republic...

Dem boys seh…Is thiefing and more thiefing

Feb 27, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Is thiefing and more thiefing

If is not one thief is another. Long now dem boys know that dem Regional Executive Officer does thief. Dem had one in Berbice who get in trouble wid a low bed. Money pass and he get transfer but dem...

From Jamaica with love

Feb 27, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on From Jamaica with love

The Pan-American Health Organisation paid a Jamaican consultant to analyse why Guyana’s nurses are on the move outside of Guyana. I suppose the lady meant well. After all, in the Caribbean group of...

When, boy when?

Feb 27, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on When, boy when?

Guyana had elevators in the seventies. But not many people got to ride on these because they were not located in places in which large numbers of citizens frequented. Burnham’s blackouts soon...

THE PPP REMAINS SOLID UNDER ‘THE DONALD’

Feb 26, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PPP REMAINS SOLID UNDER ‘THE DONALD’

If there was any doubt that while the opposition parties have been asleep the PPP has been doing its work, it was on Mash Day, when the PPP fielded a multi-racial band during the Float Parade. The...

Watch this tape before your vote

Feb 26, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Watch this tape before your vote

A number of persons contacted me after the Christopher Ram interview with Ralph Ramkarran to ask me if I would comment on the show in my column. I guess they knew that Mr. Ramkarran and I had some...

Dem boys seh…People mek dem boys lie

Feb 25, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…People mek dem boys lie

Is one thing fuh mek a mistake, is another thing to mek everybody know. Dem had a debate in parliament and Khemraj mek a big mistake. It tun out that he didn’t hear good. De story mek de newspapers...

Threat or obsession or both?

Feb 25, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Threat or obsession or both?

Writing in the letter pages of this paper yesterday, Dr. Prem Misir let it be known that “Freddie Kissoon and gang are no threat to the Government.” Before I come to that I need to contextualize...

NOT THE JOB FOR ‘THE DONALD’

Feb 25, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NOT THE JOB FOR ‘THE DONALD’

‘Reshuffle’ means to shuffle again or to rearrange and make new. This is an inapplicable word to apply to the Cabinet reorganizations that have taken place infrequently over the years. What we...

<<>>Is nuff shake up and big trouble

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on <<>>Is nuff shake up and big trouble

News does travel far and fast and dem boys seh that nuff news traveling. One news is that New Building Society in trouble and is serious trouble. De news is that de NBS about to collapse. Only de...

I would expect an apology from Mr. Dev too

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I would expect an apology from Mr. Dev too

In a letter in yesterday’s edition of this newspaper, Ravi Dev requested an apology over what he claims is a fiction attributed to him; that is he is an employee of the Office of the President in...

WHAT AESTHETICS?

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT AESTHETICS?

It is a bitter irony that the government could have co-sponsored a photographic display which included exhibits of our architectural heritage while at the same time erecting a massive security...

Today is Republic Day: Where is Chase, Westmaas, Kwayana?

Feb 23, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Today is Republic Day: Where is Chase, Westmaas, Kwayana?

There can hardly be any doubt about it; most school children know that Republic Day means that the country’s head is not the Queen and that republicanism means we have severed constitutional ties...

Guyana has been recolonised by foreign capital

Feb 23, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyana has been recolonised by foreign capital

Guyanese will today be engaged in bacchanal on the streets of Georgetown as part of Mash Day activities. Lost in the revelry will be the political significance of the day, which marks the fortieth...

Dem Boys Seh… Ashni bruck up parliament

Feb 23, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dem Boys Seh… Ashni bruck up parliament

Is Mash and all dem people in parliament decide that dem wasn’t going to miss it fuh nutten. Dem boys seh that dem talk fast, fast, and only Dr Ashni decide that he got to talk lang. He spend three...

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The great rediscovery

Jun 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There are few things more moving than a sudden conversion. Saul had his road to Damascus. St. Augustine heard a divine voice. And now thousands of overseas-based Guyanese are experiencing their own spiritual awakening. After decades of living in Brooklyn, Toronto, Miami,...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

Jun 21, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Local tolerance for bull-a beauty to behold

Jun 21, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese should get first prize for their tolerance for bull, their bottomless reservoir of docility. And humour. They have grown in those respects relative to their head-of-state. Whatever has taken over his head, the astonishing is what...

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