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There is much talk about corruption

Apr 05, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on There is much talk about corruption

Guyana, the land of Many Waters, but the country that can never provide its people with adequate supplies of potable water is indeed a mystery. The global economic crisis that saw huge problems in...

The strange case of Mohamed Ibrahimi

Apr 05, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The strange case of Mohamed Ibrahimi

By Michael Jordan Now that the guns are relatively silent, and the killing spree seems to have ended, this is perhaps as good a time as any to look back at some of the unsolved cases that sprung out...

Guyana’s future as seen by a USAID report

Apr 05, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana’s future as seen by a USAID report

The USAID –Guyana Country Strategy, 2009-2013 is a document that will reinforce the pessimism that overwhelms a majority of people who live in this country. Like the Gay Mc Dougall Report submitted...

The Pink-toed Tarantula (Aviculara avicularia)

Apr 05, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Pink-toed Tarantula (Aviculara avicularia)

The pink-toed tarantula (Aviculara avicularia) is a species of tarantula native to South America, Costa Rica to Brazil and the southern Caribbean. This species is sometimes called the Guyana pinktoe,...

THE JUDICIARY IS NOT AN AUXILIARY OF THE HOME AFFAIRS MINISTRY

Apr 05, 2009 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on THE JUDICIARY IS NOT AN AUXILIARY OF THE HOME AFFAIRS MINISTRY

By Khemraj Ramjattan, Chairman of AFC The Ministry of Home Affairs has an executive responsibility to provide assistance to the Police. But the Judiciary is not the Ministry of Home Affairs. It is...

What do Castro and Chavez have in common?

Apr 04, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on What do Castro and Chavez have in common?

Fidel Castro would have lived an embarrassing life as a leader if he was still in charge after Barack Obama became the President of the US. Obama is a living testimony of the ignominious collapse of...

Frustration and stress at the Licence Revenue Office

Apr 04, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Frustration and stress at the Licence Revenue Office

Tens of thousands of motor vehicle owners from Parika to Mahaica have to line up on Smyth Street, outside of the Licence Revenue Office (LRO), in order to take out their Road Service Licence (LRC)....

THE MONEY GONE!

Apr 03, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE MONEY GONE!

When the Minister of Finance made his long-winded statement in the National Assembly concerning CLICO (Guyana), I indicated that nothing that he said could be considered comforting to policyholders...

Guyana’s sociology has suddenly disappeared

Apr 03, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana’s sociology has suddenly disappeared

The report of the UN consultant, Gay Mc Dougall, on racial divisions in Guyana and her open castigations of the role of the Government of Guyana in maintaining a climate of ethnic polarisation with...

Is spelling and copper in dem tail

Apr 03, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Is spelling and copper in dem tail

World leaders meeting fuh discuss money. Dem talking bout who can help who and who can mek adjustments, suh de whole world and poor people looking on. Some of dem lost dem wuk and dem only hearing...

They shoot horses, don’t they?

Apr 02, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on They shoot horses, don’t they?

At the memorial service for Mrs. Jagan on Monday evening at Freedom House, one of the speakers spoke of Mrs. Jagan’s love for the Georgetown seawall and he lamented the state that it is in. I know...

BURIAL OR CREMATION?

Apr 02, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BURIAL OR CREMATION?

With the rapid pace at which stem cell research is being conducted and the encouraging results which tests have so far yielded, within the next thirty years, unless some cataclysmic event takes...

The Karan Singh affair: Lessons to be learnt

Apr 01, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Karan Singh affair: Lessons to be learnt

In this life, the most extreme probability or unbelievable possibility lurks around the corner. Life brings the impossible with it. When you think you have seen it all, there comes another...

IT CAN HAPPEN

Apr 01, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on IT CAN HAPPEN

Ever since the Guyana Times came out, I have begun to look differently upon toilet paper. I do not read the Guyana Times but I have been kept abreast by friends who share the same concerns that I...

WHOSE IDEA IS THIS?

Mar 31, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHOSE IDEA IS THIS?

Wakenaam is a tiny island in the Essequibo. Except for a handful of families, the island is almost deserted because of the abysmal lack of employment for young people. Rice and cash crops are still...

AFTER JAGAN IS JAGDEO

Mar 30, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on AFTER JAGAN IS JAGDEO

In any political dictionary of Guyana, the name Jagan has to be followed by the name Jagdeo. With the passing of Mrs. Janet Jagan it is safe to say that we have reached the end of the Jagans’...

An outspoken life has consequences

Mar 30, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on An outspoken life has consequences

One of the things I will always remember Eusi Kwayana for, was a piece of advice he gave to me many, many moons ago. Eusi is a unique human being in this world. I read a cynical and vexed statement a...

LIVE AND LET DYSON

Mar 30, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on LIVE AND LET DYSON

“Frankly speaking I don’t understand Duckworth-Lewis. I just wait for the umpire’s decision.” Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian Captain When Gene Tunney knocked out Jack Dempsey to win the...

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The Baccoo speaks

Mar 29, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

The inevitable of which I warned last week has happened. The nation must now conduct its state funeral in dignity. But this is not the end of the visit by the grim reaper. Another well known figure...

Dominica: A Whale of A Pride

Mar 29, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Dominica: A Whale of A Pride

By Sir Ronald Sanders It’s not often that the leader of a small country is bold enough to resist the desires of larger or richer countries. But, Dominica’s Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, did...

Financial Regulation

Mar 29, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Financial Regulation

Last week we initiated the discussion on necessary changes that may be needed in the regulatory and supervisory regimes of our financial system, in light of the demonstrated failures exposed locally...

RESPECT IS DUE TO MRS. JAGAN

Mar 29, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on RESPECT IS DUE TO MRS. JAGAN

One day in the eighties, I was taking a stroll past a stadium in one of the Caribbean islands, a track and field meet was going on, and I decided that I should take a peek inside. Upon approaching...

The great equaliser

Mar 29, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The great equaliser

News travels fast, so fast that sometimes the person responsible for its dissemination hardly gets a chance to open his mouth before the news is gone. Friday night was like any other night except...

Mrs. Janet Jagan; the last of the world’s great, ideological purists

Mar 29, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mrs. Janet Jagan; the last of the world’s great, ideological purists

Mrs. Janet Jagan has died. She was a mother and a grandmother therefore condolences are in order. My task in life is to write about my country in the hope that one day these notes will help the...

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FIFA bans former GFF General Secretary Ian Alves over sexual...

May 05, 2026

By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – Former Guyana Football Federation (GFF) General Secretary, Ian Alves, has been banned from all football-related activities for five years after the world...

The PPP was always likely to constrict freedom

May 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is a habit, which we have developed with a certain skill in Guyana. That habit is the borrowing large words from abroad and using them to explain local developments. One such phrase “the resource curse.” It has the sound of intellectualism. But before we surrender to...

A Pin, a Principle, and the Integrity of the Caribbean

May 03, 2026

Territorial claims are decided in court, not worn on a lapel By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – There are moments in international affairs when a seemingly small act reveals a much larger contest of principle. The recent controversy over the wearing, during official engagements in the...

Essequibo: we shall fight, we shall never surrender

May 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Essequibo is Guyana’s. Essequibo will never be conceded. Never compromised. Essequibo is ours, forever be ours. We shall fight everywhere. We shall never surrender. Never Essequibo, so help me God. Noble, stirring words. Indeed, soaring, lofty convictions,...

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