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Jun 28, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on We are ignoring a national treasure
By Adam Harris For the past few months I have been focusing on one woman. I met her 13 years ago when she was sprightly. As now, the rains were here but in greater intensity. The place she called...Jun 28, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The case of the vanished child
Could I help a family bring closure to a mystery that had happened half a century ago? By Michael Jordan She contacted me last week; this woman that I’d never seen before, to help her solve a case...Jun 28, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Michael Jackson: Larger than life
I was having dinner with my wife at New Thriving when my daughter called my phone to inform me that Michael Jackson had died. When she was a little primary school kid, my daughter, like most girls...Jun 28, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Firefly or Lightning Bug
They are locally referred to as the Candle Fly but in many parts of the world these winged beetles are commonly called fireflies or lightning bugs. Falling within the family Lampyridae these insects...Jun 28, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Creative Corner Comments Off on The Ring
By Michael Jordan Part Four — Night Screams She was standing by Wayne’s crib when Maxwell entered the room. Her body was half-turned to the door as if she had been listening for his...Jun 28, 2009 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on An Amerindian Affair
By Raphael Trotman AFC Leader The PPP/C activists are busy at spreading a ridiculous rumour that the AFC intends to close the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs when it gets into government. However, as...Jun 27, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on ‘Dankey’ cart mentality and permanent colonial brainwashing
Many writers of the Third World genre take the position that colonialism has left a permanent laceration on the psyche of the colonial subject. A few of these thinkers, in the seventies, sought a...Jun 27, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PPP IS IN A TANGLE
While every member of the People’s Progressive Party has a right to respond to criticisms of the party, its history and its leadership – both present and past – not every response can...Jun 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ADAM FORMING NEWSPAPER
Any problems Adam Harris has are about to end. He will soon become a rich man and all his worries and fears about the future will soon be a thing of the past. Adam is opening his own newspaper....Jun 26, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Nuff people going to Michael Jackson wake
Dem boys lef wid dem mouth open de other day when Priya get vex because de Waterfalls paper ask if dem moving de pavement dwellers because de Caricom summit coming. Was a simple question and if is...Jun 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Is Guyana dead or dying?
One of Guyana’s most prominent citizens, very well educated, with lots of money and also a strident critic of the Jagdeo presidency, said to me on the telephone on Monday morning, that he is losing...Jun 25, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Harry joins Rickey Singh in shouting “eureka.”
One day, in last year, I saw an incredible article by Rickey Singh. I grew up as a little boy in Wortmanville knowing this popular journalist, Rickey Singh. My sister lived next to Singh at the...Jun 25, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NOTHING CAN BE DONE!
The recent Auditor General Report on the public accounts of Guyana, indicating abuse of the procurement laws of Guyana, is not the first such report in which such a charge has been made. Similar...Jun 24, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Victims of groupthink
I wrote a few columns ago that I intend to answer some of the questions I encounter from my readers. I began that policy with an essay on why Moses Nagamootoo failed to attract support from PPP...Jun 24, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on IRAN WILL RESIST
If you listen and look at only the BBC and CNN you may be tempted to believe that Iran is in the throes of an Orange Revolution. Thank goodness, however, that Al Jazeera is around and allows far more...Jun 22, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Why was President Jagdeo not at this funeral?
Last Thursday, many Guyanese living in the Tri State area made the sacrifice to attend the funeral of the late Sri Prakash Gossai. The funeral took place not on a weekend, but on a workday and...Jun 22, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on So-called achievements: The hidden dimensions
Don’t you find it funny when you read statistics about – how many schools there are in Guyana compared to when the PNC was in power; how many healthcare centers have been opened up compared...Jun 22, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on Pun my word!
Love! Sure the word is formed on purpose out of the prettiest soft vowels and consonants in the language. William Thackeray Barry Lyndon, my General Semantics professor at Carleton University always...Jun 20, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on President Jagdeo should be wary of the enviromental lobby
In a previous column, I had suggested that the fate of President Jagdeo’s Low Carbon Development Strategy depended on the outcome of this December’s meeting in Copenhagen. The President is hoping...Jun 20, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Dead silence, deadly fear
You learn everyday of how terribly disappointing this country can be. A few weeks ago, I did a column on the expulsion of a student at Mae’s High School in Subryanville, just two weeks after the...Jun 19, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on President Jagdeo was at UG
I heard on Wednesday morning that Mr. Jagdeo was going to be at UG in the afternoon of the same day to speak to the University community. I immediately rearranged my itinerary for that day. I always...Jun 19, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE POOR NEED HELP
Once again Glenn Lall, the publisher of this newspaper, is doing a wonderful thing by assisting the family of the woman who was struck down on Wednesday on the East Bank Public Road. Glenn is one of...Jun 18, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Shri Gossai and Ranji Chandisingh are dead
As a person trained in history, I always regret when history-makers die and leave incoming generations with no paper on which to read their inner thoughts. One day, I hope to put my essays, started...Jun 18, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE MAN WHO KEPT HIS PEACE
Ranji Chandisingh, who died this past week, has endured more than his share of vilification for his break from the PPP in 1975. Through it all, he has never explained or justified his decision along...Jun 17, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Why is the giant invisible? Sounds like the King’s new clothes
I quote President Jagdeo; “When we run down our country all the time, then every immigration officer feels that every Guyanese wants to run away.” (press briefing last Saturday at the Caricom...Your children are starving, and you giving away their food to an already fat pussycat.
Apr 11, 2026
…GBF eyes impact at 3×3 debut in Games Kaieteur Sports – Guyana has officially begun its preparations for a historic debut in basketball at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland,...Apr 11, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – There was once a time when Guyana remembered what a spine felt like. In the 1970s, Forbes Burnham did not dabble in the evasions of “balanced statements.” He called apartheid by its proper name, broke relations with South Africa, and barred the traffic of sport and commerce...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...Apr 11, 2026
Kaieteur News – On April Fool’s Day, in another publication, I called for the Guyana Government to scrap talks on the proposed Corentyne Bridge to Suriname. I wasn’t fooling around, but serious as a root canal (without Novocain). On April 3, in Demerara Waves again, the Georgetown...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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