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Vindication is not the same as vindictiveness

Sep 16, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Vindication is not the same as vindictiveness

Those who read Ravi Dev’s column on Sunday about the public intellectual would have been taken aback. It is quite unlike Dev to have gotten so personal, and with of all persons, Uncle Freddie. Dev...

Are things going to be different now, Bharrat?

Sep 15, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Are things going to be different now, Bharrat?

It has finally happened! It was the most significant political gesture made by the PPP for some time. Even though it was made at a press conference, I hope that the opposition and civil society have...

Chasm of nihilism

Sep 15, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Chasm of nihilism

Look at Guyana at the end of 1992 and compare it now as 2008 enters its last quarter. The euphoria that greeted the new government was phenomenal. In a country that knew only racial competition, the...

Kaku and the Quarks

Sep 15, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on Kaku and the Quarks

Dr. Michio Kaku is beaming. Dr. Kaku, who can be found on the Science Channel, is a professor in theoretical physics at the City University of New York (CUNY). His basic field of expertise,...

Visionaries are always ahead of their time

Sep 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Visionaries are always ahead of their time

In the field of science, many of the discoveries were made because one man saw something that the others did not. Albert Einstein studied motion, and he came up with the laws of motion that resulted...

Massive management inefficiencies and outright incompetency

Sep 14, 2008 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Massive management inefficiencies and outright incompetency

DANGER OF COLLAPSE OF SUGAR INDUSTRY The AFC sees the recent shortfall in reaching the European Union quota of 55,000 tonnes of sugar on or before 5th September, 2008, (and the massive loss of...

President Jagdeo discovers a priceless political value

Sep 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on President Jagdeo discovers a priceless political value

Speaking in Barbados to the media after the Caricom Heads agreed to endorse the EPA in Bridgetown last Wednesday, President Jagdeo said that the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) that...

The Baccoo speaks

Sep 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

Things are still hectic with people doing all the things to make others uncomfortable. In fact, there is something that is causing this misfortune and while I know what it is, I am not at liberty to...

Shame and the Public Intellectual

Sep 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Shame and the Public Intellectual

Mr Frederick Kissoon has expressed his admiration for the philosophy of Mr Eusi Kwayana. It is a pity that he does not seek to apply it to his own praxis. In a letter discussing the merits or...

CARICOM is not from Unity

Sep 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on CARICOM is not from Unity

The Parrot has made a 100. No, not runs as in cricket, that’s for Shiv; 100 published articles in this paper. Today! Oh, by the way, congratulations “Tiger” on winning cricket’s most...

War around Guyana? – Venezuela’s Aggression

Sep 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on War around Guyana? – Venezuela’s Aggression

Peter R, Ramsaroop, MBA Chairman, Vision Guyana INTRODUCTION: Many are aware that I am very pro-west in my beliefs as most Guyanese are, as evident by their interest in moving to the United States...

Oil prices are falling but nothing else

Sep 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Oil prices are falling but nothing else

During the latter part of this year and continuing this year, many airlines crumbled because of the rising oil prices. Economists and speculators began to eye an oil price of US$200 per barrel. The...

WHERE WAS THE SCRIBE?

Sep 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHERE WAS THE SCRIBE?

The developed civilizations of the West have always prided themselves in their record-keeping. Bureaucracy and its paper-keeping remain features of western civilizations despite the many destructive...

THE KALA PANI: THE BLACK WATERS

Sep 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, The Arts Forum Comments Off on THE KALA PANI: THE BLACK WATERS

The history of the West Indies is predicated on voyages across the oceans beginning with Columbus’s so-called voyages of discovery and leading up to the infamous venture of ferrying captive...

The Housefly (Musca domestica)

Sep 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Housefly (Musca domestica)

Did you know that the common housefly that is known to flutter in and around, like the mosquito, has the potential of carrying some very serious diseases which can be detrimental to mankind?...

Political Union? The devil is in the detail

Sep 14, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Political Union? The devil is in the detail

By Sir Ronald Sanders The leaders of the seven-nation Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are reported to have agreed on September 11th that their countries will form a political union...

US Elections: Issues vs. Perceptions

Sep 14, 2008 knews Clarence E. Pilgrim, Features / Columnists Comments Off on US Elections: Issues vs. Perceptions

By Clarence E. Pilgrim John McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis gave a strong and disturbing insight into their campaign strategy when he indicated that he believed that the election would be...

President Jagdeo discovers a priceless political value

Sep 13, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on President Jagdeo discovers a priceless political value

Book Review: Beautiful but tragic history

Sep 13, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Book Review: Beautiful but tragic history

During Carifesta, there was a book exhibition by Hansib, the UK-based publishing house owned by a Guyanese migrant. Unfortunately, Hansib is yet to put out any text dealing with contemporary Guyanese...

LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE

Sep 13, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE

Just before the recent summit of Caribbean leaders, held to discuss the Economic Partnership Agreement, I heard our President make a beautiful statement to the foreign press. Our President said that...

Ol’ house pun ol’ house fuh Roger Short Man

Sep 12, 2008 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Ol’ house pun ol’ house fuh Roger Short Man

Guyana got some people who don’t trust nobody but an obeah man. Even some of dem who does go to church don’t forget de obeah man because dem always believe that dem got to have back-up—God...

Murray de-confused Freddie

Sep 12, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Murray de-confused Freddie

The Parrot, like many others, both locally and in the EU, is keeping track, as they say here, of the CARIFORUM/EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Apparently I am not the only one keeping track...

Energy: Hydrogen Solutions

Sep 12, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Energy: Hydrogen Solutions

Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA INTRODUCTION: As we argue over whether to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) or not, the focus should shift rapidly to internal changes that we need to institute in...

PUBLIC RESOURCES AND PRIVATE GAIN

Sep 12, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on PUBLIC RESOURCES AND PRIVATE GAIN

Not many people fully appreciate that private education was reintroduced in Guyana through the extra-lessons syndrome. As such extra lessons must be seen as one of the means through which the private...

Emotions and dictatorship

Sep 12, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Emotions and dictatorship

When the CGX rig was expelled by Suriname’s gunboats, a group of academics held a symposium on the issue at the City Hall. I was one of the panelists. The late Ronald Waddell, during question time,...

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CHAMPSGY rolling out local sports digital database

May 26, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana has never lacked sporting talent. From football pitches in Georgetown to cricket grounds in Berbice, to emerging esports arenas, the country continues to produce athletes...

Why should the president be meeting with the leader of the

May 26, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – A reporter recently asked the president when he was going to “reach with” the leader of the opposition. Now I listened carefully to this question several times. I did so partly because I thought perhaps, I had suffered a temporary hearing malfunction, and partly because I...

The OAS faces a moral test in Panama

May 17, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – An attempt is now being made by a few member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), using procedural manoeuvres, to prevent a proposed “Declaration on the Rights of Persons and Peoples of African Descent” from proceeding to the OAS...

Liberty and living free

May 26, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Free at last! Free at last! We are finally free at last! Unfortunately, it didn’t last, made much of a difference to a great many Guyanese. Not to many in May 1966, not to many other Guyanese on this May 26, 2026. What does a 10-year-old know, can fathom, of such grand...

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