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The Baccoo speaks

Sep 27, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

Already there have been more fires in recent weeks than there have been all year. People want to blame the weather conditions but the truth is that the spirits are enjoying what they do best—cause...

LANDSCAPE AND IDENTITY

Sep 27, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Arts Forum Comments Off on LANDSCAPE AND IDENTITY

RE-ENCOUNTERING GUYANA IN AN INTERVIEW WITH MARK MCWATT By LUCY EVANS LUCY EVANS is working on a doctoral thesis on Caribbean literature at Leeds University, focusing on texts that mediate the genres...

Change the failed anti-drugs strategy

Sep 27, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Change the failed anti-drugs strategy

By Ronald Sanders In my commentary last week I made the point that the greatest destabilising force confronting the Caribbean and Central America is drug trafficking and its attendant crime,...

Provocateurs and Rants

Sep 27, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Provocateurs and Rants

One of the most unfortunate developments in Guyana has been the rise of the “rant” in public discourse – especially on TV and the press – in the political realm. In these rants,...

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS FOUR HUNDRED MILLION?

Sep 27, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS FOUR HUNDRED MILLION?

In one of the episodes of The Cosby Show, Bill Cosby took the decision to show his kids what responsibility is. He decided that the kids should assume the role of adults and pay rent for their...

You know a voice when you’ve heard it repeatedly

Sep 27, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on You know a voice when you’ve heard it repeatedly

It is hardly amazing at the number of distractions that life in Guyana affords. Just about every day something crops up and easily overshadows some earlier event that has been grabbing national...

kAMARANG

Sep 27, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Creative Corner Comments Off on kAMARANG

Day Seven …he fled down the airstrip, chased by a woman’s screaming head. He fled towards Kamarang Point where the airstrip ended and the forest began. And as he reached the forest, Shirleen’s...

Diary of a tax-evading, sleaze-ball named Frederick Kissoon

Sep 27, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Diary of a tax-evading, sleaze-ball named Frederick Kissoon

I am still at a loss to find out why President Bharrat Jagdeo used the term “sleaze-ball” to describe me at one of his press conferences. Apart from my public appearance in Kaieteur News, I am...

The Monkey Frog

Sep 27, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Monkey Frog

Monkey frogs are a group of tree frogs (Phyllomedusa hypocondrialis, phyllomedusa sauvagii) which are characterized by long limbs and a lack of webbing between their toes. This last trait allows them...

MORAL DECAY IN GUYANA AND THE ROLE OF THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY

Sep 27, 2009 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on MORAL DECAY IN GUYANA AND THE ROLE OF THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY

By Sheila Holder, MP and AFC Vice-Chair MORAL DECAY IN GUYANA Members of the Jagdeo government have no regard for boundaries – be they of decency, the law, or that which is acceptable conduct...

Robert and he seeds

Sep 27, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Robert and he seeds

By way of a number of e-mails, telephone calls and letters to the management, people have been asking that the column Dem Boys seh be a daily feature. After careful discussion and consideration we...

Stone was stoned when he made that film

Sep 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Stone was stoned when he made that film

What I find inexplicable about the American film maker, Oliver Stone, and the Caribbean economist, Professor Norman Girvan, is that despite all their panegyrics of Castro’s Cuba and Venezuela’s...

WHAT IS EARNED SHOULD NOT HAVE CONDITIONS ATTACHED

Sep 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT IS EARNED SHOULD NOT HAVE CONDITIONS ATTACHED

There is an age-old adage which states that impediments should not be placed in the way of a man receiving what is rightly due to him. Thus, if someone has worked, he should be allowed to receive his...

WHAT IS EARNED SHOULD NOT HAVE CONDITIONS ATTACHED

Sep 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT IS EARNED SHOULD NOT HAVE CONDITIONS ATTACHED

Stone was stoned when he made that film

Sep 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Stone was stoned when he made that film

RAISE YOUR FLAGS AND WAVE FOR THE PPP!

Sep 25, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on RAISE YOUR FLAGS AND WAVE FOR THE PPP!

When the tens of thousands of PPP supporters assemble at Good Hope for their party’s pre-election rally in 2011, when they begin to wave their party flags in the air and cheer as the big belly man...

Doodnauth lef in limbo

Sep 25, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Doodnauth lef in limbo

De other day dem boys was going home. Dem deh pun de road and dem ain’t see a living soul. It was early in de night but yet de road empty. Dem boys remember the crime ways of a few years ago and...

I hope Kurshid Sattaur is watching

Sep 25, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I hope Kurshid Sattaur is watching

Mr. Khurshid Sattuar, head of the Guyana Revenue Authority, should take a long, reflective look at what happened to Mr. Doodnauth Singh. Mr. Sattaur has taken on the role of witch-hunter for his...

And the band played on: Kwame Mc Coy and elected dictatorship

Sep 24, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on And the band played on: Kwame Mc Coy and elected dictatorship

To avoid getting into legal trouble, I will not make a definitive statement on the Kwame Mc Coy incident. I have heard the tape. The voice sounds like Mr. Mc Coy. Mr. Mc Coy says that it’s not his...

Better was expected from our President

Sep 24, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Better was expected from our President

For a long time, the media and the public have been waiting on the President to hold a press conference. Ever since the revelations in the Robert Simels trial, both the media and the public were...

TIME TO BREAK THE SILENCE!

Sep 23, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on TIME TO BREAK THE SILENCE!

While the dispute between the West Indies Cricket Board of Control and the players’ association seems no nearer to resolution, the most important stakeholders, the cricketing public are being left...

The serpent bites those who are ignorant of history

Sep 23, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The serpent bites those who are ignorant of history

I have chatted with hundreds of former employees of the Burnham Government who had close ties with the leadership in those days. My repetitive question was why when the dictatorial instincts were...

Don’t go out into the streets; evil waits!

Sep 22, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Don’t go out into the streets; evil waits!

The WPA had President Burnham in profound mental confusion. A regular pamphlet, “Yamvine,” was put out detailing information about security matters that only could come from top insiders...

TESTING THE POLITICAL WATERS

Sep 22, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on TESTING THE POLITICAL WATERS

Sometimes when politicians want to do something but are unsure about what reaction the intended action will attract, they test the political waters. They do this in a variety of ways. They may, for...

The PNC’s and Mr. Corbin’ silly game

Sep 21, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PNC’s and Mr. Corbin’ silly game

The PNC at the moment under the control of Robert Corbin cannot be that bereft of intellectual skills that it cannot make even elementary analysis of socio-political phenomena. The Leslie Ramsammy...

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Same plantation, new overseers

Apr 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time when Guyana was spoken of, not entirely jokingly, as Bookers Guyana. Bookers was not a man. It was the giant foreign-owned sugar concern whose influence stretched so wide that if you sneezed in Georgetown, someone in a London boardroom probably approved the...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

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...

Ravaged by tyrants

Apr 19, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – What do you think, Guyanese? “The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.” Pope Leo XIV said so in Cameroon. I salute this fine American, this vicar of Christ growing in his role. What about others (leaders)? Those who “manipulate...

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