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The Baccoo Speaks

Oct 28, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

There is going to be yet another murder because humankind in this place is crazy. A simple argument is going to end in death because one of the people involved is going to be egged on by those around...

No right to pass by on the other side: Kofi Annan and the UN

Oct 28, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on No right to pass by on the other side: Kofi Annan and the UN

By Sir Ronald Sanders “The Security Council took no responsibility for the situation in Rwanda and the growing number of lives lost, and its key members flatly denied the notion that a genocide was...

Another view of politics

Oct 28, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Another view of politics

(Excerpts from speech delivered to Caribbean Hindu Conference NYC July 7th, 2012) I’ve been asked to say a few words about “Raj Neeti – translated by the organizers as “politics” –...

HOW DOES ONE QUALIFY FOR ENTERTAINMENT TAX CONCESSIONS?

Oct 28, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HOW DOES ONE QUALIFY FOR ENTERTAINMENT TAX CONCESSIONS?

Earlier this year, the government indicated that it would be granting import licences for the importation of chicken. This decision came in the wake of a shortage of poultry on the local...

That Commission of Inquiry has exposed many shortcomings

Oct 28, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on That Commission of Inquiry has exposed many shortcomings

On July 18 three people were shot and killed in Linden. Immediately, President Donald Ramotar announced that he was going to launch an independent investigation into the shooting. The result is a...

The worst infamy ever uttered in Guyana’s parliamentary history

Oct 28, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The worst infamy ever uttered in Guyana’s parliamentary history

Mark Benschop has a tape of an interview with Donald Ramotar a year before he became the President. Benschop sought Ramotar’s views on a traffic incident involving Ramotar’s son, Alexei, and my...

The Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)

Oct 28, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)

The Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a cosmopolitan species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotypic...

Denying Opposition its ‘Right of Reply’ will be a development down a slippery slope

Oct 28, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Denying Opposition its ‘Right of Reply’ will be a development down a slippery slope

By Khemraj Ramjattan AFC Leader Over the past few weeks the viewing public of the National Communications Network (NCN) has been bombarded with lengthy discourses from members of the minority PPP/C...

Sunday Cartoon

Oct 28, 2012 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

ONE HOUR OF TIME

Oct 28, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on ONE HOUR OF TIME

A man came home from work late again, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door. “Daddy, may I ask you a question?” “Yeah, sure, what is it?” replied the...

Don’t cry for me Agricola

Oct 28, 2012 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Don’t cry for me Agricola

The Agricola riot of 11th October was a direct result of the People’s Progressive Party’s sectarian social and security policies over the past 20 years. The PPPC administration, more than all...

Dem boys seh…Another Bee gone to jail

Oct 27, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Another Bee gone to jail

Donald tek note. Italy sentence one of its own Prime Ministers to four years in jail fuh tax fraud. Guyana got nuff people who not only involve in tax fraud but who also thief government money...

THE OPPOSITION SHOULD YIELD TO THE GOVERNMENT’S RIGHT TO PREPARE ITS OWN BUDGET

Oct 27, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE OPPOSITION SHOULD YIELD TO THE GOVERNMENT’S RIGHT TO PREPARE ITS OWN BUDGET

The first sitting of the present session of the National Assembly did not go well. The outcome does not augur well for relations between the government and the opposition. The two sides of the...

President Ramotar’s logic

Oct 26, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on President Ramotar’s logic

Your only access to the road is via a waterway. But the waterway is privately-owned. Sailing then is your main method of transport. You bought a boat. You took the boat into the water...

PANIC IN THE OPPOSITION CAMP

Oct 26, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on PANIC IN THE OPPOSITION CAMP

The Opposition is in a quandary over the Linden Commission of Inquiry. Panic seems to be stepping in and this has led to an intensification of calls for the Minister of Home Affairs to resign....

Dem boys seh…Another one bite de dust

Oct 25, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Another one bite de dust

Coconut tree does fall one by one; awarra does fall one by one and lime does fall one by one. Is just suh Bharrat friend falling into trouble. Ed Ahmad fall because he see other people money and he...

PARLIAMENT IS IN CRISIS

Oct 25, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on PARLIAMENT IS IN CRISIS

Guyana’s reputation as parliamentary democracy is going to suffer disrepute unless there is a significant improvement in what takes place in parliament. At present what is occurring in...

The tenth parliament or the failed parliament?

Oct 25, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The tenth parliament or the failed parliament?

In philosophy there is a school of thought that goes back to the 18th century but it was the 20th century radical French thinker of post-war Europe, Jean Paul Sartre, who popularized...

Dem boys seh…Brazzy ketching he hand again

Oct 24, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Brazzy ketching he hand again

Couple months back de government bring in some cow, but no bull, because dem plan to artificially inseminate de cow. But until then de plan was fuh Leslie jump dem cow because he was de...

WHY IS CIVIL SOCIETY WEAK?

Oct 24, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHY IS CIVIL SOCIETY WEAK?

There has long been the recognition amongst the political leaders of Guyana, that race and ethnicity were important factors in Guyana’s political development. Some of the foremost leaders of the...

The PNC is desperately trying to survive

Oct 24, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PNC is desperately trying to survive

It would not only be foolish, but repugnantly indecent for any informed, mature citizen anywhere in the world to deny the great and historic role in this country’s evolution of the...

Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald get big birthday sport

Oct 23, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald get big birthday sport

Everything does come to light. Dem boys seh suh de other day. Now a man claim how he buy $3 million worth of equipment fuh wuk pun de landfill site. Everybody was happy because dem sure de...

CHRISTMAS LOOKING GOOD!

Oct 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on CHRISTMAS LOOKING GOOD!

The government and the opposition had better amend the laws of Guyana to prescribe life imprisonment without any possibility of parole for the offense of battery. If they do not, then a small group...

De-recognizing the reality of changing power

Oct 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on De-recognizing the reality of changing power

The preparation of the 2013 national budget began since August. To date, the government has not consulted the combined opposition. It is doubtful it will. The indications the past eleven...

Dem boys seh…Domestic violence really rampant

Oct 22, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Domestic violence really rampant

People thiefing water and Irfaat seh that he gun jail who he ketch. Well dem boys seh that people thiefing everything and every day. A man decide to thief a thing wid another man. De problem he had...

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Build one road, collect one fortune

May 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time in Guyana when a contractor was a man with dusty boots, a tape measure hanging from his waist, a pencil wedged between his ears and enough sunburn to qualify as roasted plantain. These days, however, a contractor is anybody with a Gmail address, a freshly...

The Caribbean’s Limits in Absorbing Other States’ Deportees

May 10, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws. The United States has that right, as does every sovereign state. All Caribbean governments...

Guyana open for business

May 15, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Minister of Public Works, His Eminence, Bishop Juan Edghill said it well. “Guyana is open for business.” Thanks, Lordship. Being open for business shouldn’t mean that Guyana is happy giving away its business. Giving it to outsiders to the detriment...

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