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A big warning to all Guyanese!

Aug 10, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A big warning to all Guyanese!

Please do not accept polling statistics and surveys that go under the name NACTA with a “pollster” by the name of, Vishnu Bisram. There is no such organization. It does not exist. There...

THE EYE OF THE NOODLE

Aug 10, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on THE EYE OF THE NOODLE

I sat in my hotel room at the Frigate Bay Hotel in St Kitt’s staring outside to get inspiration for a column when I saw these ladies in the pool with their noodles between their legs learning to...

Hopscotch at midnight

Aug 09, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Creative Corner Comments Off on Hopscotch at midnight

By Michael Jordan LINDA had been living at the new place for a week before she began to suspect that something wasn’t quite right about the house. And, like some corny, B-grade, horror movie, the...

The National Library Centenary: A series of literary evenings

Aug 09, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Guyanese Literature Comments Off on The National Library Centenary: A series of literary evenings

– by Petamber Persaud A centenary is a significant landmark. For a noble cause a centenary is a significant landmark enhanced many times over. For a noble institution like the National Library...

New book validates cricket’s role in West Indian identity

Aug 09, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on New book validates cricket’s role in West Indian identity

By Sir Ronald Sanders Clem Seecharan’s new book, From Ranji to Rohan, sports a cover photograph of what one cricket commentator describes as Rohan Kanhai’s ‘triumphant fall’ – a sweep shot...

Roger Khan and the Security Dilemmas

Aug 09, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Roger Khan and the Security Dilemmas

The calls came fast and furious in the wake of the newspaper reports: “What in the world did Simels want to see you for?” That, as a matter of fact, had been my question when publisher of the...

The Bush Master (Lachesis muta)

Aug 09, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Bush Master (Lachesis muta)

The Bush Master (Lachesis muta) is a venomous pit viper species found in South America. Two subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here. Adults grow to an...

THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING A GREAT JOB

Aug 09, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING A GREAT JOB

There will be no lie detector tests for government ministers and senior policy-makers. This is a welcome announcement by the government which should be applauded by all in society. There is no need...

The Baccoo speaks

Aug 09, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

As the old people would say in Guyana, the words have hardly left my mouth and it happens. I warned of the fires but the home owners would not listen. There will be more in the coming days. Some of...

This is sheer slackness

Aug 09, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on This is sheer slackness

For a very long time I can remember people talking about being careful about what one would say on the telephone. I had been around when the telephone was a huge heavy object and the cable was a...

Nemesis of elected dictatorship

Aug 09, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Nemesis of elected dictatorship

I will reply to Peeping Tom because I know that unlike the anonymous bloggers, a significant percentage of the reading public is acquainted with that corner in the Kaieteur News. There is a...

The last street in Stewartville

Aug 09, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The last street in Stewartville

– Savitri Persaud swears that unseen beings chased her family from their home By Michael Jordan When Savitri Persaud heard that a baby had died in the house at Back Street, Stewartville, in...

Masochism and the inexplicable mind: The nature of the PPP voter

Aug 08, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Masochism and the inexplicable mind: The nature of the PPP voter

I don’t know who Leon Suseran is. But from what I gathered from reading his opinions in the newspapers, he is a real person with that name. I have read several letters by him in the press, one of...

THE STATE MEDIA SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT THE TRIAL

Aug 08, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE STATE MEDIA SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT THE TRIAL

Not all questions carry a straightforward answer. Thus when this columnist was asked why the Guyana Times and the Guyana Chronicle newspapers carried such limited coverage of the proceedings in the...

THE U.S. IS NOT ABOUT TO REPEAT HISTORY

Aug 07, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE U.S. IS NOT ABOUT TO REPEAT HISTORY

The leader of the opposition has not been given a lifeline by the revelations in the United States court. In fact he has been placed in a most difficult position and could end up being the biggest...

Is nice people does thief and get ketch

Aug 07, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Is nice people does thief and get ketch

Is a bad thing when people thief something and dem ain’t know nutten bout it. That is wha happen to a woman at a party in BV de other night. A certain big one in de police force decide to hold a...

All the sides in the Roger Khan/Buxton saga

Aug 07, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on All the sides in the Roger Khan/Buxton saga

The first person that called to express surprise that Simels spoke to me was Mark Benschop. Shortly after, it was a prominent city lawyer. And in the same morning two Kaieteur News colleagues asked...

They have made Forbes Burnham look like a toy soldier

Aug 06, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on They have made Forbes Burnham look like a toy soldier

Today marks the death anniversary of Forbes Burnham. This is a name that haunts me all the time, not episodically, but all the time. In the supermarket, gas station, restaurant, shopping mall,...

Stamping out corruption with a little help from Uncle Sam

Aug 06, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Stamping out corruption with a little help from Uncle Sam

On the 10th anniversary of his party’s ascension to power, Forbes Burnham announced that Guyana would henceforth pursue the creation of a socialist State. He also interestingly announced that the...

Death comes suddenly!

Aug 05, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Death comes suddenly!

On Monday morning, I was asked to meet someone who was extremely close to Joseph O’Lall while he was alive. This person has not given me permission to publicise the nature of the relation and to...

NAMES ARE CALLING LIKE THE WILD WEST

Aug 05, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NAMES ARE CALLING LIKE THE WILD WEST

A lot of names are calling in the trial in New York, and with little apparent reason for so doing. At the rate at which things are going, anybody’s name can be called. The Almighty God had better...

An event in New York has saved Robert Corbin

Aug 04, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on An event in New York has saved Robert Corbin

Does Mr. Corbin know that he has competitors? The African Guyanese will not vote for the PPP in 2011 (racial tension is rising) but who says they will ballot for the PNC? Already the AFC is upping...

ON WHOSE BEHALF?

Aug 04, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ON WHOSE BEHALF?

Uncle Freddie is right. Given national security and anti-terrorism concerns, a United States firm exporting restricted items to a foreign country is not going to place the equipment into the hands of...

MINISTER RAMSAMMY SHOULD RECUSE HIMSELF

Aug 03, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on MINISTER RAMSAMMY SHOULD RECUSE HIMSELF

I am hopeful that before this column is read that the Government of Guyana would have already initiated the action that is recommended within. Further evidence has been led in the Courts of the...

A living nightmare for the Guyana Government

Aug 03, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A living nightmare for the Guyana Government

Guyana has been reduced to a comic book in the eyes of the world not by the horrendous indictments that have emerged from a New York court room from but from the unbelievable mediocrity that...

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Golden start, silent Sunday for Guyana at CARIFTA Games

Apr 06, 2026

…Guyana eyes 800m, 4x400m relay gold on final day By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s promising start to the 53rd CARIFTA Games in St. George’s, Grenada, lost momentum on...

The echo of ‘reciprocity’

Apr 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something almost medicinal about the word “reciprocity.” It rolls off the tongue with the moral authority of a proverb. It suggests balance, fairness, and the possibility that somewhere in the universe, justice is keeping tabs of what is taking place between Guyana...

The Caribbean Is Being Forced to Reconsider Trade Dependence on the...

Apr 05, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean has not set out to loosen its trade dependence on the United States. It is being driven to do so. For generations, Caribbean importers and consumers have looked first to the American market. They have done so for reasons of preference and...

Pres. Ali must see the real Suriname

Apr 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Government, Guyanese leaders, and the Guyanese people had better come quickly to their senses about Surinam. If not, these drip-by-drip intrusions will continue from Paramaribo, leaving this country looking like a global pushover, a certified patsy. Pres. Ali has...

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