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The Flea beetle

Sep 06, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Flea beetle

The Flea beetle is a general name applied to the small, jumping beetles of the leaf beetle family (Chrysomelidae). This beetle species is in fact one of the insect species that has been known to...

KAMARANG

Sep 06, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Creative Corner Comments Off on KAMARANG

DAY FOUR By Michael Jordan Sealey lay in his hammock, smoking and staring at the logie’s galvanized roof. His stomach was heavy with cassiri and the labba meal he had eaten at Perez’s house. His...

A tribute to our Indigenous brothers and sisters as we celebrate Amerindian Heritage Month

Sep 06, 2009 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A tribute to our Indigenous brothers and sisters as we celebrate Amerindian Heritage Month

September is here again and the Alliance For Change (AFC) joins with all Guyana to wish our Indigenous Peoples a very meaningful as well as successful Amerindian Heritage Month. While this month...

Mormons, mormals and morons

Sep 05, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mormons, mormals and morons

There are times when some members of the political elite say the stupidest things that you cannot help but describe them as sores (mormals) or morons. Is there any government in the world that has...

Clement Rohee must resign now!

Sep 04, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Clement Rohee must resign now!

When Ministers are caught openly evading the truth, it gets them into trouble. But they resort to a traditional bulwark from which you cannot dislodge them. They would say I never said so or I never...

HOW THE PPP WON THE CONGRESS OF THE PNCR

Sep 04, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HOW THE PPP WON THE CONGRESS OF THE PNCR

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) scored an overwhelming victory at the just concluded Congress of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR). While the leader of the PNCR retained his...

Sweetness trap some thiefing ants

Sep 04, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sweetness trap some thiefing ants

Guyana is one big sugar bowl and de people is like nuff ants. Dem boys come to dis conclusion de other day when dem read de papers. Dem read bout some people who decide dat de money in de country is...

Two police officers, Khurshid Sattaur and a government that lacks vision

Sep 03, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Two police officers, Khurshid Sattaur and a government that lacks vision

I appealed to Mr. Karan Singh, when he was the “formidable one” at Guyana Water Incorporated not to fire a sewage worker that had chalked up 35 years of service. This man, in a country devoid of...

ALL GUYANESE SHOULD KNEEL

Sep 03, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ALL GUYANESE SHOULD KNEEL

The most powerful position is not standing tall on your two feet. The most powerful position is to be on your knees in prayer. All Guyanese should for the next two weeks kneel and bow before the...

KAIETEUR NEWS IS HERE TO STAY

Sep 02, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on KAIETEUR NEWS IS HERE TO STAY

To all those who called to express their support and concern for this newspaper, we express our gratitude. We are touched by the outpouring of support and especially from those who called from...

Crime, bad governance and Guyana’s image

Sep 02, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Crime, bad governance and Guyana’s image

President Jagdeo actually called on the business community to boycott the Kaieteur News when he told them that this newspaper harms the image of the country by sensationalizing crime on its front...

Mosquitoes drowned an old tourist in the “Blacka”

Sep 01, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mosquitoes drowned an old tourist in the “Blacka”

Last Friday evening, President Jagdeo told the guests at the dinner of the Private Sector Commission that crime reporting on the front page of the newspaper, particularly the Kaieteur News, is...

THIS IS AN ASSAULT ON PRESS FREEDOM

Sep 01, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THIS IS AN ASSAULT ON PRESS FREEDOM

The continued attacks on this newspaper emanating from officialdom have now reached the point where it constitutes an assault on press freedom. Strangely, those local organisations which are quick to...

EXECUTIVE FOOT DRAGGING

Aug 31, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on EXECUTIVE FOOT DRAGGING

Fabrication comes from the verb which is spelt F-A-B-R-I-C-A-T-E and means to invent or makeup for the purposes of deception. At the recent dinner hosted by the Private Sector Commission, the...

Elected dictatorship on a hot August night

Aug 31, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Elected dictatorship on a hot August night

I don’t know the names of the journalists that covered Mr. Jagdeo’s presentation at the dinner hosted by the Private Sector Commission last Friday evening but if the “older heads”...

UNEXPECTED HANGINGS AND OTHER PARADOXES

Aug 31, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on UNEXPECTED HANGINGS AND OTHER PARADOXES

One of the chores that I most enjoy in this phase of my life is putting my children to sleep. Initially, my wife and I alternated nights – one night Zubin, the other Jasmine. Increasingly, and...

KAMARANG

Aug 30, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Creative Corner Comments Off on KAMARANG

Day Three The cops came about an hour after Sealey entered the Jaguar’s Den. He was sitting by the bar, watching Alvin Benn sweep a number of beetles and cigarette butts into a spade. “Beetles...

National Library Centenary, part 4

Aug 30, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Guyanese Literature Comments Off on National Library Centenary, part 4

By Petamber Persaud When last have you played such folk games like ‘farmer in the dell’, ‘coloured girl in the ring’, ‘in and out the bluebells’, ‘wah? who seh wah?’, ‘chi chi, bum...

The Baccoo speaks

Aug 30, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

There is no end to the motor violence and once more there is going to be a deadly crash. The young drivers are going to be under the influence and the police are going to become really angry. At the...

The UN: Small States interests and support for Finland

Aug 30, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The UN: Small States interests and support for Finland

By Sir Ronald Sanders Small countries, such as those in the Caribbean, depend upon an efficient and well balanced Security Council at the United Nations to help to safeguard them from adventures by...

Disciplined Forces: Beyond Cosmetic “Reform”

Aug 30, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Disciplined Forces: Beyond Cosmetic “Reform”

The barefaced and contemptible murder and robbery of Dweive Kant Ramdass perpetrated by members of the GDF, followed by the equally outrageous and despicable robbery committed by members of the...

DE PEEPING AND DE SEEING

Aug 30, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on DE PEEPING AND DE SEEING

Everybody Peeping and dem seeing all de thiefing, Everybody Peeping and dem noticing how dem hiding And dem dodging and confusing And de helicopter coming fuh do some more peeping Because soldier...

Interesting Creatures… The Catfish

Aug 30, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… The Catfish

Catfish (order Siluriformes) are a diverse group of bony fish. Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat’s whiskers, catfish range in size and behaviour from the heaviest, the Mekong...

Who needs this embarrassment?

Aug 30, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Who needs this embarrassment?

By Adam Harris One of the moist embarrassing things to happen to a traveller is to go to the airport, bid farewell to relatives and friends, even if temporarily and then get detained and even denied...

The man who fell off the earth

Aug 30, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The man who fell off the earth

By Michael Jordan If you find this headline misleading, or if you think it’s sensational, then it probably is. But this is exactly what seems to have happened to this 67-year-old man with the...

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Ken Harvey opens South American Youth Games account in Panama with...

Apr 17, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Guyanese amateur boxing continues to find its spark, and this time it’s Ken Harvey lighting the fuse. At the 4th Youth South American Games in Panama City, the young pugilist...

Pause the decision!

Apr 16, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – What should have been a straightforward decision concerning the renewal of CARICOM’s Secretary General’s term has now developed into a major controversy within the Community. And it is not advisable that the issue be swept under the carpet. We were told that the Prime...

The Cost of Netanyahu’s Wars

Apr 12, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was announced on 7th April, 2026, the immediate reaction across much of the world was relief. By 8th April, that relief was reflected in a sharp fall in oil prices after weeks in which conflict...

From Nixon to Trump

Apr 17, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – It was President Richard Nixon who liked to play at the crazy man routine. For reasons still unfathomable to me, he developed a fondness for the madman syndrome, liked to be seen as such. One of those foaming-around-the gills, out-of-control, fiends...

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