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A THIRD TERM FOR PRESIDENT JAGDEO?

Aug 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A THIRD TERM FOR PRESIDENT JAGDEO?

A picture appeared in one of the daily newspapers showing President Bharrat Jagdeo sandwiched between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. The photograph...

Ten years of Jagdeo: Faustian journey

Aug 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ten years of Jagdeo: Faustian journey

Guyana is a difficult country to administer because it is a complex society. I chose the word “society” over “polity” because the former concept takes in a range that is much wider than...

Ten years of Jagdeo: Leviathan rises

Aug 12, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ten years of Jagdeo: Leviathan rises

Mr. Jagdeo became a morally elected president after the 2001 elections. Before that he was given the presidency by Freedom House therefore he had to “humble” as the Rastas would say. The PPP big...

Congress is the highest decision-making forum

Aug 12, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Congress is the highest decision-making forum

It is not beyond the reach of the delegates to the forthcoming Congress of the People’s National Congress Reform to take action from the floor to ensure that all the concerns about transparency in...

Ten years of Jagdeo: A stranger comes knocking

Aug 11, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ten years of Jagdeo: A stranger comes knocking

Today marks the day in 1999, when Mr. Jagdeo much to the surprise of all Guyanese (I take the liberty of saying, all) in and out of this land, became President of the Republic. In 2008, I would have...

The PNC was rebuilt with a little help from the imperialists

Aug 11, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The PNC was rebuilt with a little help from the imperialists

Supporters of Forbes Burnham believed in him. They saw him as a political saviour. Most believed his every word and would follow him to the ends of the world. Even when he decried imperialism and...

Opinion polls and the public’s moral conscience

Aug 10, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Opinion polls and the public’s moral conscience

The revelation in a US Court and the revelations about contracts within the local drainage and irrigation sector should have adversely affected the popularity of two ministers of the government, Dr....

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,...

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Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ kicks off Georgetown Leg...

Apr 14, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Street football excitement is set to return to the capital city as the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Championship resumes with its highly anticipated Georgetown leg,...

Mental illness does not always look like “madness”

Apr 14, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – For many people, the idea of mental illness is tied to a very specific image: someone wandering the streets, talking to themselves, behaving in ways that are clearly “not normal.” Because of this, it can be difficult to accept that a person who looks calm, speaks clearly,...

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...

PPP’s special talent for partners – local and foreign

Apr 14, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Whatever gifts Guyana has, the PPP cohort holding the reins of government has better ones. It is astonishing the people that are engaged to deliver big projects for this country. One poor performing group, or a shorthanded one, I could understand. But rich, steady streams...

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