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Category Archive: Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev

Minorities’ political strategy

May 10, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Minorities’ political strategy

Mr. Ralph Ramkarran, one of the possible PPP Presidential candidates for 2011, offered an interesting riposte to the calls by Mr. Eric Phillips of ACDA for Shared Governance in Guyana. Titled, “You...

The Swan

May 10, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Swan

Swans, are of the genus Cygnus, and are birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form...

Caribbean Crisis: No Time to Spare

May 10, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Caribbean Crisis: No Time to Spare

By Sir Ronald Sanders The economic crisis in the Caribbean is set to get worse rather than better. Four years ago in a book entitled, ‘Crumbled Small’, I wrote: “Small states of the...

THE PRESIDENT’S MEETING

May 09, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PRESIDENT’S MEETING

The recent meeting between the President and a number of persons within the music industry has both positive and negative dimensions, and this column seeks to analyze that meeting and suggest ways...

Has a main Georgetown Street been privatised?

May 09, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Has a main Georgetown Street been privatised?

My April 15 article was titled, “Sex in the middle of the night on top a water tank.” It was motivated by my rejection of the explanation of a murder accused in Berbice who pleaded guilty to...

PAY YOUR BILLS!

May 08, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on PAY YOUR BILLS!

Uncle Freddie has me baffled. I am confused as to how an accident can occur on top of a pothole, yet it is being alleged that the guilty party was attempting to swerve away from the pothole. I...

Mr. Jagdeo is Guyana’s Barack Obama

May 08, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mr. Jagdeo is Guyana’s Barack Obama

One wonders why Mr. Jagdeo has not as yet created waves in the region and beyond the blue sea of the Caribbean. Mr. Jagdeo, it is claimed, is of the same cloth as Barack Obama and was known for his...

What if this was your daughter?

May 07, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on What if this was your daughter?

I moved in to my new address in Turkeyen, a community that is the neighbour of the Caricom Secretariat, from Wortmanville two years ago. When the house was in its construction stage, I saw a hole in...

MANGOES ARE NOT IN SEASON

May 07, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on MANGOES ARE NOT IN SEASON

The security services have done a great job in dismantling some of the heavily armed gangs that were creating havoc in Guyana. Where they have failed is in containing minor crime, and it is a failure...

Harold Robbins’ “The Adventurers”

May 06, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Harold Robbins’ “The Adventurers”

I came home from working at UG Monday evening and knowing that I didn’t have to work the next day, decided to relax and see a movie. I went through my collection and as soon as my eyes caught...

In answer to that question

May 06, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on In answer to that question

The question often been asked of me is why are more East Indian Guyanese not speaking out against the wrongs that are being committed by the ruling PPP administration. Many years ago, a similar...

The East Indians of Guyana: The inheritance of dictatorship

May 05, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The East Indians of Guyana: The inheritance of dictatorship

The subject of philosophy makes for dreary and difficult reading. It took me three endeavours to understand Martin Heidegger’s “Being and Time.” I persisted with this difficult philosophy text...

DJ Stress shows how it should be done!

May 05, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on DJ Stress shows how it should be done!

One of the things that I have noticed that is much different within the Indian Premier League (IPL) this season as against the last is the large number of logos that players are wearing on their...

THE END OF POLITICAL COOPERATION

May 04, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE END OF POLITICAL COOPERATION

No one should delude themselves into believing that when the Alliance for Change made representations to the President of Guyana, concerning the Summit of the Americas, they were seeking a plane trip...

President Jagdeo leaves office at age 47

May 04, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on President Jagdeo leaves office at age 47

In August 2011, Mr. Jagdeo demits office. He would be 47 years of age. Mr. Jagdeo has secured a phenomenal package of retirement benefits that will no doubt see “millions” of Guyanese...

MUM’S THE WORD

May 04, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on MUM’S THE WORD

Pablo Picasso did it and Tiger Woods didn’t. What? Picasso used his mother’s surname. Had he used his father’s, he would have been Pablo Ruiz. Had Tiger used his mother’s surname he would...

May 03, 2009 knews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on

The Monica Reece Murder Mystery

May 03, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery 2

By Michael Jordan “One of these days, I gun tell you something about Monica Reece that gun shock you,” the senior police official said to me. It was December 27, 1993, eight months after Reece...

THE BENEFITS TO FORMER PRESIDENTS ARE EXCESSIVE

May 03, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE BENEFITS TO FORMER PRESIDENTS ARE EXCESSIVE

There are many ministers who are performing functions beyond their capability; they are simply not ministerial material and ought never to have been so appointed. Similarly, with each passing day it...

Some children have no chance

May 03, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Some children have no chance

Last week I edited a story about a 13-year-old girl who attempted suicide because she felt hurt by the comments her alcoholic mother kept making because a relative took in the child. Prior to the...

The Baccoo speaks

May 03, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

Fires continue to plague the country and many have been caused by what is called unknown reasons although the reason is clear. The fire that is going to strike in the coming days would be deemed to...

A patriotic appeal to Mrs. Nadira Jagan-Brancier

May 03, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A patriotic appeal to Mrs. Nadira Jagan-Brancier

The daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Jagan, Nadira, who lives in Canada, is still in Guyana attending to matters relating to her mother’s death. Last week, she commissioned her parents’ home as a...

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE POET RANDALL BUTISINGH (PART TWO OF THREE)

May 03, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Arts Forum Comments Off on AN INTERVIEW WITH THE POET RANDALL BUTISINGH (PART TWO OF THREE)

“In search of THE FINE THREAD OF TRUTH . . . journeying to the same destination” Ameena Gafoor (A.G.): There are many Guyanese writers living abroad who are writing on issues of dislocation and...

Arrival is not geographical

May 03, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Arrival is not geographical

This week, the nation commemorates Indian Arrival Day. The holiday is officially designated “Arrival Day”, putatively to recognize all the other immigrant groups that were brought by the planters...

Our Presidents and Politicians must chase after their passion, not after their pension

May 03, 2009 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Our Presidents and Politicians must chase after their passion, not after their pension

By Khemraj Ramjattan It has been some time now that President Jagdeo has been taking a walloping from the media, the Opposition, and even his bretheren from the Caribbean. This torrid period has seen...

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A MAN’S OWN TO KEEP

Apr 13, 2026

Kaieteur News – A man gets up early. He quickly does his sanitary rituals, has his breakfast, kisses his family goodbye and sets off to work. He has his problems but he does not burden the world with them. He wants to work hard and honestly so that he can provide for his family. His

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...

Wales GTE, Lindsayca, Figueroa

Apr 13, 2026

Hard truths by GHK Lall Kaieteur News – If I were to pause by State House, treat myself to an admiring look, Special Branch, CID, and the army could be summoned into action. If so for near State House, or Office of the President, imagine the reception if I strayed too close to the Bharrat...

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