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A walk in the countryside!

Jul 05, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A walk in the countryside!

One of the signal failures of the PPP administration has been the neglect of rural Guyana. True. Roads, schools, bridges and other infrastructure have been much improved in these areas. However, what...

De PNC protest meet Antigua

Jul 04, 2008 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De PNC protest meet Antigua

Yesterday, dem boys sit back and dem watching de news. All of a sudden dem see Oscar Clarke at de CARICOM Summit and dem perk up. Now, is nothing unusual fuh people who ain’t involve in running a...

There is a lot of confounded noise

Jul 04, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on There is a lot of confounded noise

As far back as the Medieval Ages people were suspicious of those who protest a lot or those who simply spoke too much. They knew that when someone displayed such traits that person was either hiding...

Homeward bound

Jul 04, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Homeward bound

The Parrot has an opinion on frustration. Generally, depending on how you look at it, frustration can be increased or “diluted” to some level of “consolation”. The dilution can be possible...

Refusal to identify

Jul 04, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Refusal to identify

Someone came up to me on Regent Street on Tuesday afternoon and referred to my Tuesday Kaieteur News page. He made an interesting observation. Before we get into that, my Tuesday piece looked at the...

STOP THE PUSSYFOOTING

Jul 04, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on STOP THE PUSSYFOOTING

The government of Guyana has found itself embarrassed. It has asked the Americans for help in identifying a forensic pathologist to carry out examinations on the remains of the men killed at Lindo...

$5 per kWh is unacceptable!

Jul 03, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on $5 per kWh is unacceptable!

My average monthly consumption of electricity is around 300 units per month. This means that at a rate of $52 per kilowatt hour (kWh), I pay around $15,000 to $16,000 per month. And despite this, the...

The gods are destroying people

Jul 03, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The gods are destroying people

Remember that ancient Greek saying, “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad”? This phrase has become quite common place in political commentary. Dictators, sensing that the end is near,...

The Parrot speaks – Health conscious bandits?

Jul 02, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Parrot speaks – Health conscious bandits?

The Parrot, from my vantage point perched high up, has always taken an aerial view of the “keep fit” craze that has taken Guyana by storm over the years. Given my anatomical make-up, there seems...

THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN – I have a video

Jul 02, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN – I have a video

One thread of President Bharrat Jagdeo’s style of politics that I continue to lament is his weak PR responses. It is not confined to Mr. Jagdeo but the entire PPP leadership. You want to believe...

Peeping Tom – EDUCATION IS IN DEEP CRISIS

Jul 02, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – EDUCATION IS IN DEEP CRISIS

Let us not be fooled by the deservedly happy faces on those top students who recently sat the National Grade Six Assessment, or what was previously referred to as the Common Entrance Examination....

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The giant that never woke up

Jul 01, 2008 knews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The giant that never woke up

Which Guyanese do not like their country? You will hardly find such people. They are countless number of Guyanese who aren’t coming back from the foreign lands to which they migrated. But those...

Guyana is between a rock and a hard place

Jul 01, 2008 knews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyana is between a rock and a hard place

I have always felt that the present economic model and the management of Guyana’s economy could not adequately control inflation. The government may be able to control the exchange rate and the...

Tony Deyal – A switch in time

Jun 30, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on Tony Deyal – A switch in time

The whole cricket world was talking last week about Kevin Pietersen’s “switch hitting” when he changed from right-handed to left-handed during a one-day game between his team, England and New...

The Freddie Kissoon column – DECENT PEOPLE

Jun 30, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Freddie Kissoon column – DECENT PEOPLE

There are no scientific laws governing normative or psychological behaviour of human beings. There are no scientific principles that inhere in the movement of history. One great historian once wrote...

Peeping Tom – Let the facts speak for themselves

Jun 30, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – Let the facts speak for themselves

On Saturday, I overheard a conversation between some men about the incident involving Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys. In fact, I heard more than one group of persons discussing this matter over the...

Sunday cartoon – June 29, 2008

Jun 29, 2008 knews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday cartoon – June 29, 2008

Blame the government – Carelessness erodes the best intentions

Jun 29, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Blame the government – Carelessness erodes the best intentions

There has been another prison escape and, once more, the people are left to wonder whether the money going to the Police and the security services is well spent. Over the past three years, the...

Guyanese Literature

Jun 29, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Guyanese Literature Comments Off on Guyanese Literature

By Petamber Persaud For the month of June, I will feature a few bridegrooms of Guyanese literature; men married to their craft to produce outstanding literary offspring. Martin Carter Martin Carter...

The Arts Forum

Jun 29, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, The Arts Forum Comments Off on The Arts Forum

Today’s column brings you another Episode in an article by Professor Emeritus Kenneth Ramchand. The first Episode was published three Sundays ago. Professor Ramchand first introduced the study of...

The case for intervention in States

Jun 29, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The case for intervention in States

By Sir Ronald Sanders By the time this is read, Robert Mugabe would have proceeded with his farcical election for the Presidency of Zimbabwe and been declared winner by the Elections Commission he...

THE ‘‘ROOP’’ COLUMN…CYBER CRIME – Understanding the Threat

Jun 29, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on THE ‘‘ROOP’’ COLUMN…CYBER CRIME – Understanding the Threat

INTRODUCTION: This last week, someone allegedly used the Internet Protocol (IP) address assigned to Kaieteur News to send a message to the Minister of Agriculture. So far, it has not been traced...

The Parrot speaks – “…Time cannot erase…”

Jun 29, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Parrot speaks – “…Time cannot erase…”

The Parrot would never dream of even contemplating any boast of being in possession of an iota of ability to entertain in the form of singing. Despite my talent in this department being zero, zilch,...

The AFC column – A MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT

Jun 29, 2008 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The AFC column – A MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT

A delegation representing the AFC and comprising the Leader, Mr. Raphael Trotman, M.P., Clayton Hall, General Secretary, and David Patterson, M.P. met with President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday last at...

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Same plantation, new overseers

Apr 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time when Guyana was spoken of, not entirely jokingly, as Bookers Guyana. Bookers was not a man. It was the giant foreign-owned sugar concern whose influence stretched so wide that if you sneezed in Georgetown, someone in a London boardroom probably approved the...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

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...

Ravaged by tyrants

Apr 19, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – What do you think, Guyanese? “The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.” Pope Leo XIV said so in Cameroon. I salute this fine American, this vicar of Christ growing in his role. What about others (leaders)? Those who “manipulate...

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