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IRAN WILL RESIST

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...

Why was President Jagdeo not at this funeral?

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...

So-called achievements: The hidden dimensions

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...

Pun my word!

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...

President Jagdeo should be wary of the enviromental lobby

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...

Dead silence, deadly fear

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...

President Jagdeo was at UG

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...

THE POOR NEED HELP

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...

Shri Gossai and Ranji Chandisingh are dead

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...

THE MAN WHO KEPT HIS PEACE

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...

Why is the giant invisible? Sounds like the King’s new clothes

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...

A BOY AND A GIRL

Jun 17, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A BOY AND A GIRL

It seems that hardly a day goes by without some story of sexual abuse or molestation hitting the press. The latest concerns an allegation that a teacher at a secondary school in Guyana arranged with...

The PNC’s demand for Ramsammy’s resignation

Jun 15, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PNC’s demand for Ramsammy’s resignation

The Government of Guyana has had the misfortune of introducing wire-tapping legislation at a time when the wire-tapping process in the US, could very well spell the end of the PPP Government. Of...

I GUESS IT HAS TO BE CABLE

Jun 15, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on I GUESS IT HAS TO BE CABLE

My hopes are collapsing before my eyes, literally so. This past week, a section of the old Plaza Cinema on Camp Street caved in, and with it went my hopes for a revival of the local cinema industry....

The PNC’s demand for Ramsammy’s resignation

Jun 15, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PNC’s demand for Ramsammy’s resignation

The Government of Guyana has had the misfortune of introducing wire-tapping legislation at a time when the wire-tapping process in the US, could very well spell the end of the PPP Government. Of...

HINGLISH, CHINGLISH AND MOBAMA

Jun 15, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on HINGLISH, CHINGLISH AND MOBAMA

According to information derived from essays written by schoolchildren, “The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He...

HINGLISH, CHINGLISH AND MOBAMA

Jun 15, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on HINGLISH, CHINGLISH AND MOBAMA

According to information derived from essays written by schoolchildren, “The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his...

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The Baccoo speaks

Jun 14, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

The investigation into a double murder would reveal some interesting facts. Some people are already talking about the long arm of the drug trade because just when the nation began to think that some...

THE ARTS FORUM

Jun 14, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Arts Forum Comments Off on THE ARTS FORUM

THE ARTS FORUM is devoted to the nurturing of an emerging awareness of the history, literatures, arts and culture of Guyana, the Caribbean and their peoples, wherever they may be dispersed.As a...

Making CARICOM less “at risk”

Jun 14, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Making CARICOM less “at risk”

By Sir Ronald Sanders Jamaica’s Prime Minister Bruce Golding says that the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) is “at risk”. He is right and regional leaders should shoulder the...

The Low Carbon Development Strategy

Jun 14, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on The Low Carbon Development Strategy

The new Low Carbon Development Strategy, announced last week by President Jagdeo should have come as a surprise to Guyanese. Over the last two years, the President has been rather single-minded in...

BHARRAT’S BIG GAMBLE

Jun 14, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BHARRAT’S BIG GAMBLE

If what the President of Guyana is hoping for comes true, it would be like Guyana discovering oil without the help of CGX. The only difference being that we would not need to invest a cent and our...

Men must be going crazy

Jun 14, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Men must be going crazy

This past week made for horrible reading if only because of the nature in which people were being killed and the fact that these people were women who had shared relationships with their killers. I...

The girl in the jute-bag in the Valley of Tears

Jun 14, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The girl in the jute-bag in the Valley of Tears

He was walking down Regent Street in mid-February when he spotted his old ‘squaddie’; his friend from his stint in the military; the guy that the cops believed had helped to kill Michelle Jules....

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The rebirth of David Granger’s vision

Apr 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something small-minded and, frankly, wasteful about a government that spends more time tearing down the ideas of its predecessors than building on what actually works. In Guyana, this habit has become all too familiar. Instead of treating development as a continuous...

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...

Lindsayca-CH4: what the hell

Apr 12, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall… (Kaieteur News) – It is said that hindsight is perfect vision. Given what Guyanese know now, why is Lindsayca-CH4 in Guyana? This company should not be here to help a blind man walk across the road. He would still be blind on reaching the other side of the...

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