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The Kinkajou (Potos flavus) or honey bear

Apr 19, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Kinkajou (Potos flavus) or honey bear

The kinkajou (Potos flavus), also known as the honey bear, like the Sun Bear, is a rainforest mammal of the family Procyonidae related to the olingo, ringtail, cacomistle, raccoon, and coati. It is...

NO OBSTRUCTIONS TO APPOINTING A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY

Apr 19, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NO OBSTRUCTIONS TO APPOINTING A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY

There is not going to be a parliamentary debate into the motion tabled by the Leader of the Opposition calling for a criminal probe into the problems of CLICO (Guyana). There has been a ruling that...

We will not be prisoners of the past!

Apr 19, 2009 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on We will not be prisoners of the past!

“We will not be prisoners of the past! I’m here to talk about the Future!” – President Barack Obama at the 5th Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, April 17, 2009. There is no doubt that...

Raphael Trotman got an invitation

Apr 18, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Raphael Trotman got an invitation

I only knew (and I guess 99% of the Guyanese people too) that Mr. Trotman got an invitation from President Jagdeo and met with the Head of State when I read that the Kaieteur News solicited a comment...

WE NEED A NEW MINISTRY

Apr 18, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WE NEED A NEW MINISTRY

Flooding has been a historical phenomenon in Guyana. We have had floods in this country since colonial days and despite the great efforts made by the then authorities, houses along the coast had to...

Knack gah knack back

Apr 17, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Knack gah knack back

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you is an old saying in de Bible. Trust and don’t pay is a saying dat Guyanese mek up. GECOM occupy a man property and didn’t pay rent and de man...

Who tried to kill Maria van Beek?

Apr 17, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Who tried to kill Maria van Beek?

My sympathy goes out to Mrs. Maria van Beek, her family and immediate relatives. I know what it is like to face death after being attacked for non-robbery reasons. In 2004, at 5.30 A.M. gunmen...

THE STATE OF PLAY

Apr 17, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE STATE OF PLAY

The President was very firm when he addressed the issue of Members of Parliament who had failed to submit their declarations to the Integrity Commission. Despite the fact that the opposition was...

What nonsense is this: Leave this poor woman alone

Apr 16, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on What nonsense is this: Leave this poor woman alone

Since when are we a caring nation? I must be living in another country. The young lady who lost two of her kids in the Hadfield Street fire, was known to me when I lived on Hadfield Street,...

THE TOURISM BUBBLE

Apr 16, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE TOURISM BUBBLE

I suppose it is understandable that in a year in which there were three mass massacres that visitor arrivals to Guyana would decline. That such a decline was only by five per cent should indicate to...

Kite flying can be hard

Apr 15, 2009 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Kite flying can be hard

The Parrot was out flying a kite. Oh what an onerous experience it was. The heat from the scorching sun caused excessive tanning. A few moments of exposure resulted in darkened pigmentation. The real...

Sex in the middle of the night on top a water tank

Apr 15, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Sex in the middle of the night on top a water tank

I know there is a study in the US (which I cannot put my hand on through the internet) in which it showed that male judges tend to be less draconian in their sentencing structure on domestic violence...

THE FUTURE OF THE PNCR AND THE PPP

Apr 15, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE FUTURE OF THE PNCR AND THE PPP

In life there are things that happen that have unintended consequences. Both of Guyana’s main political parties, the People’s National Congress Reform and the People’s Progressive Party are now...

BEYOND ALL EXPECTATIONS

Apr 14, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BEYOND ALL EXPECTATIONS

In my life I have had only one kite. It was bought for me when I was three years old and my parents never had to buy another. That one kite was used for my entire-kite-flying days. At the end of...

The answers of Van West Charles

Apr 14, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The answers of Van West Charles

Politics in Guyana will become even more curious, definitely tenser and naturally more enthralling when the son-in-law of the late President Forbes Burnham, Dr. Richard Van West Charles, returns home...

LET US GET READY TO RUMBLE!

Apr 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on LET US GET READY TO RUMBLE!

So, the government will only investigate CLICO (Guyana) unless there is an investigation into the collapse of Globe Trust. Have you ever heard anything so ridiculous? What is it that we have...

Flying people

Apr 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Flying people

Each Easter Monday, my topic was the migration of the Guyanese people. I would write on the flying kites and the flying owners who would soar out of Guyana after they laid up their kites. I guess I...

Radika, ah beggin’ yuh

Apr 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Radika, ah beggin’ yuh

The Parrot loves music. Let me put that in perspective; I like good music. I am not oblivious of the cliché, “one man’s meat is another man’s poison” as it relates what’s bad for me may be...

The Baccoo speaks

Apr 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

It is not by accident that this is the time when traveling on the waterways could be problematic because the elements have combined to produce conditions that are far from normal. The high tides...

G20 Summit did nothing for the Caribbean: Developing countries failed to act collectively

Apr 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on G20 Summit did nothing for the Caribbean: Developing countries failed to act collectively

By Sir Ronald Sanders Throughout the Caribbean the effects of the global financial meltdown are being seen in a human face – people are losing jobs; many are in danger of losing their homes from...

Self-interest or greed?

Apr 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Self-interest or greed?

The great US ex-slave Frederick Douglass once observed pithily that crops can never be produced without first breaking apart the earth nor can the life-giving rains come without thunder and...

WHAT ABOUT THE SMALL GUYS?

Apr 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT ABOUT THE SMALL GUYS?

Some years ago, the publisher of this newspaper, Mr. Glenn Lall learnt that the construction of a small school in Essequibo cost the taxpayers of Guyana some $50M. When Glenn looked at the building,...

Something is just not right

Apr 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Something is just not right

Housewives, more than anyone else, know that the best thing to do with limited finance is to seek the best bargains. I have had the fortune or misfortune to go shopping first with my mother, and then...

THE MONICA REECE MURDER MYSTERY

Apr 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on THE MONICA REECE MURDER MYSTERY

Does this ‘high society’ killing remain unsolved because of sloppy detective work, bad breaks that investigators had, media interference…or because someone deliberately let a suspect slip...

We criticize the Government: What about the others?

Apr 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on We criticize the Government: What about the others?

It is foolish to think that there is another institution that is powerful in a country as the State. The media, the business class, the trade unions are all formidable actors that can bring down...

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Dynastic politics is repulsive to the electorate

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(Kaieteur News) – In 2025, there was a seismic shift in Guyanese politics. For years the established parties assumed voters would remain in their accustomed enclosures, dutifully choosing between familiar flags, familiar slogans, and familiar disappointments. But then something happened last...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

Wales GTE: Many questions, no answers

Apr 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The questions came before, are coming again. Former Minister David Patterson pushed questions in and out of parliament relative to the Wales gas-to-energy project and got nowhere. The Speaker of the National Assembly, like a Roman emperor, repeatedly gave the thumbs down. ...

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