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DONALD AND ROBERT

Jun 27, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on DONALD AND ROBERT

The Peeper had successfully predicted that Robert Corbin would have succeeded Desmond Hoyte as President. At a time when all manner of candidates were being touted as possible successors; at a time...

THE BIG EVENT OF AUGUST

Jun 26, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE BIG EVENT OF AUGUST

Now that the Golden Jaguars have been eliminated from the World Cup, all attention will be on the Big Event scheduled for this August. No, I am not referring to the Beijing Olympics. That is nothing...

Credibility gap

Jun 26, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Credibility gap

The media houses here have not assigned the importance that it deserves to the unsuccessful discussion between the President and Mr. Rickford Burke, Chairman of the Brooklyn-based Caribbean Guyana...

HOW DEEP IS THIS RIFT?

Jun 25, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HOW DEEP IS THIS RIFT?

No matter how unpopular a President is, no matter how much dislike a President attracts in society, no matter how deep is the level of apathy towards that President’s rule, a sitting President in...

Allegations of racism surface

Jun 25, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Allegations of racism surface

Racism is a term bandied about, because it is always easy for someone to accuse another of being a racist without being asked to provide proof. If someone refuses to employ an individual, and that...

Strange coincidence

Jun 25, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Strange coincidence

Dr. Roger Luncheon in Guyana and President Jagdeo in New York, about the same time, (Luncheon on Thursday, the President on Friday) spoke about the state of affairs in Guyana. After you have read...

Agriculture with a flourish

Jun 25, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Agriculture with a flourish

The Parrot has been pondering, with some level of ecstatic expectancy, a recent comment made by the Minister of Agriculture, hereinafter referred to as the MBA, on his ministry’s “Grow More”...

Another bloody scar on a bloodied nation

Jun 24, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Another bloody scar on a bloodied nation

Strange things are happening. First there was a mysterious invasion of the Kaieteur News server which caused a threatening text message to be sent to the phone of the Minister of Agriculture. Then it...

Does the President know what people want?

Jun 24, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Does the President know what people want?

While in New York to launch Carifesta, President Jagdeo made some curious political observations that he would be hard pressed to expand on and defend if he was facing the right type of media. First,...

Peeping Tom – At the end of the crooked path

Jun 23, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – At the end of the crooked path

For years, Guyanese stunned by the senseless killings in our society, especially the slaughterers at Lusignan, Bartica, Agricola and Eccles, have wondered how civilized persons could commit such...

Freddie Kissoon column – Ravi Dev, the IAC and facts (not truths)

Jun 23, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon column – Ravi Dev, the IAC and facts (not truths)

I like the Stabroek News’ reply to President Jagdeo on his (or his Government’s) decision to withdraw state-paid advertisements from that newspaper. The President’s position is that the truth...

Tony Deyal column – Tony Habla Toro

Jun 23, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on Tony Deyal column – Tony Habla Toro

The lady looked Spanish. There are a lot of people from Santo Domingo (what do you call them? Santo Domingonians?) here in Antigua, and many do not speak English. She looked tired, and she faced a...

Cartoon – June 22, 2008

Jun 23, 2008 knews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cartoon – June 22, 2008

Guyanese Literature Junction

Jun 22, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Guyanese Literature Comments Off on Guyanese Literature Junction

By Petamber Persaud In mid-1940s, Forbes Burnham took part in a poetry ‘contest’ on the top of Kaieteur Falls where he ‘defeated’ Dan Debidin only to be ‘vanquished’ by Lilian Dewar....

AFC Column – Taxing times ahead

Jun 22, 2008 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on AFC Column – Taxing times ahead

By Khemraj Ramjattan BREAK TAX LAW; GET TAX BREAK So now the explanation is out that what was passed in Parliament, the Fiscal Enactment (Amendment) Act 2003, does not reflect Government’s...

The Parrot speaks – The cartoon’s undertones are on the surface

Jun 22, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Parrot speaks – The cartoon’s undertones are on the surface

The Parrot is heartened by the recent comments made by the leader of the Palm Tree party down at the Place of CONgress in relation to the hosting of Carifesta X in August of this year. Others and I...

Blame the Government – When people act on false information

Jun 22, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Blame the Government – When people act on false information

The Head of State is having a difficult time trying to change some people but like his predecessors he is going to keep trying. This past week he was in New York and he attracted a picketing...

Freddie Kissoon column – Temporary paradise

Jun 22, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon column – Temporary paradise

I once remarked in one of these columns that once the government keeps hosting international events, we will see development in the city. If there wasn’t the Rio Summit, the Railway Embankment from...

My column – When fathers condemn their sons to criminality

Jun 22, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on My column – When fathers condemn their sons to criminality

For a long time we in Guyana had known that single-parent households were on the increase and that these households were headed by women. I had already noticed the trend where men seemed to be moving...

Peeping Tom – CAN I HAVE PERMISSION?

Jun 22, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – CAN I HAVE PERMISSION?

I was driving south along the Ruimveldt bypass – the road that connects Mandela Avenue to the East Bank Public Road – when I noticed that there is a giant billboard advertising the...

Ravi Dev column – Cultural marginalisation

Jun 22, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Ravi Dev column – Cultural marginalisation

The graphic evidence of the involvement of large numbers of teenagers in the criminal gangs that were based in Buxton (by their deaths and capture) have brought to the fore the need for an...

Caribbean leaders: The right to denounce Mugabe

Jun 22, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Caribbean leaders: The right to denounce Mugabe

By Sir Ronald Sanders “Treachery, tribalism and mass murder is all that can result from a false solution. To accept such a Zimbabwe would be a betrayal of our people, of our principles and quite...

The Baccoo speaks

Jun 22, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

An attempt at a brazen robbery in the city is going to go awry because the victim would be prepared for any eventuality. The bandits would set out to commit a robbery but they would get the shock of...

The “Roop” Column – Money and Security

Jun 22, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on The “Roop” Column – Money and Security

– Need jobs, jobs and jobs to solve crime Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA, Chairman Vision Guyana INTRODUCTION: There was finally a meeting between the President and Opposition Leader in the past week....

PEEPER NAH CRY FUH GADGET!

Jun 21, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on PEEPER NAH CRY FUH GADGET!

I will on Monday resume my series on the child soldier phenomenon. For today I wish to also break with a short-lived tradition and reply to one of my critics. Some time ago, I took the decision to...

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Eight spots open as Massy Distribution 12th Annual Schools Under-18...

Apr 18, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – From an initial field of 32 schools, the 12th Annual Massy Distribution Schools Under-18 Football Tournament, organised by the Petra Organisation has been trimmed to the final...

If you can’t respect the dead, you will have nothing but contempt...

Apr 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Years ago, I witnessed a scene that has remained with me ever since. A funeral cortège was making its way slowly along a public road, led by the hearse. Scores of vehicles driven by impatient motorists were overtaking the cortège, seemingly oblivious to the need to show...

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...

Southport – real inquiry, real results

Apr 18, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The Commission of Inquiry chaired by Sir Adrian Fulford and probing for answers into the Southport, England tragedy went live with early conclusions on Monday, April 13 Three young girls, all under the age of 10, were knifed to death, six other...

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