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Civil society should be allowed to lend a helping hand

Oct 10, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Civil society should be allowed to lend a helping hand

The industrial dispute at the Psychiatric Hospital was reportedly over a pump. This dispute could have been avoided if those concerned had simply called in the “pump man.” Last year it was...

Training may be lacking

Oct 09, 2012 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Training may be lacking

Training is crucial for anyone to be a success in whatever undertaking that person chooses. We have seen great people in many spheres. We have seen athletes shattering world records; there are...

CONFUSION AND MADNESS OF THE ROADS

Oct 09, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on CONFUSION AND MADNESS OF THE ROADS

A letter-writer in one of the daily newspapers described the situation with traffic entering the city from its southern extremity as confusion. If the traffic situation there can be so...

Democratic and just behaviour

Oct 09, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Democratic and just behaviour

The main argument of this paper is that the longevity of the monopolization of political power by one ethnic group in multi-racial societies depends on the nature of its exercise. The ethnic fulcrum...

VIVA CHAVEZ!

Oct 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on VIVA CHAVEZ!

By the time this is read, Hugo Chavez will be well on his way to another term after another landslide victory. The imperialists will suffer another blow as a result of the victory of the Venezuelan...

SOME LIKE IT HOT

Oct 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on SOME LIKE IT HOT

Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you If you’re young at heart. For it’s hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind If you’re young at heart. I grew up in a grim neighbourhood but it...

Dem boys seh…Is tiefin’ and more tiefin’

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Is tiefin’ and more tiefin’

Dem boys seh de big man must be suffering from stitches in de side because of all de laughing he doing. When he look all over de world and see all dem things people does do, he does gat to chuckle....

Is there a textbook policy?

Oct 07, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Is there a textbook policy?

When the PPP/C came to power twenty years ago in 1992, the then President promised a ‘lean and clean’ government and the populace added in ‘mean’. Five years later, that President was...

The Falklands – small but remarkable

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The Falklands – small but remarkable

Thirty years ago, in May, the Falkland Islands were invaded by Argentina for the simple reason that Argentina laid claims to them. Argentina described these islands as the Malvinas. It argued...

I bought “12 Angry Men” for my daughter

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I bought “12 Angry Men” for my daughter

I would advise every citizen of this world, never to miss any special sale of old books, music records and movies. You will see gems that cannot be easily found. You will acquire items...

For a Professional Police Force

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on For a Professional Police Force

Sometimes I feel like the protagonist of “Dune” who lived for 3000 years and saw it all. Sadly the only wisdom gained is the clichéd, “The more things change, the more they remain the...

Cartoon – October 07, 2012

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cartoon – October 07, 2012

Diplomatically cutting costs

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Diplomatically cutting costs

By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is a consultant and former Caribbean diplomat) Small states in the Caribbean would do well to follow the pattern of Britain and Canada in pooling and...

Why is the PPP/C celebrating this anniversary?

Oct 07, 2012 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Why is the PPP/C celebrating this anniversary?

Why is the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) planning to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its election victory and its entry into office on 9th October 1992? What is there for the PPP/C...

Copyright Protection and the Public Interest

Oct 07, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Copyright Protection and the Public Interest

Copyright protection was designed for capitalism. It emerged in the wake of the industrial revolution. In this period, patents assumed greater importance and the capitalists saw the...

HONOUR TEACHERS WITH A PAY INCREASE RATHER THAN A DAY

Oct 06, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HONOUR TEACHERS WITH A PAY INCREASE RATHER THAN A DAY

It seems that almost every day is dedicated to some cause. There is a World Water Day, World Environment Day, International Day for Children and yesterday was World Teachers’ Day. Soon we may have...

OUR FINEST HOUR

Oct 05, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on OUR FINEST HOUR

October 5, 1992 was Guyana’s finest hour. It returned the indomitable PPP to power, this time with a civic appendage. The holding of internationally certified free and fair elections...

An old demon may be dying

Oct 05, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on An old demon may be dying

The People’s Parliament has composed a petition to present to the National Assembly when it reconvenes next week. Seeking to garner thousands of signatures, there is an energetic...

Dem boys seh…Brazzy want conductor wuk

Oct 04, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Brazzy want conductor wuk

Deh seh if yuh don’t wuk, yuh can’t eat. Some people, including some politicians and parliamentarians who dem boys know don’t really wuk, still collecting de prags. Things like duty free...

Are APNU and the PPP secretly meeting?

Oct 04, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Are APNU and the PPP secretly meeting?

One of the fundamental differences between journalism and political theory is, depending on the culture and country you are operating in, political theory has to undergo modification. Not so with...

THERE IS NO LAW ALLOWING THE BANNING OF WORKERS

Oct 04, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THERE IS NO LAW ALLOWING THE BANNING OF WORKERS

Following the assassination of Walter Rodney, the Forbes Burnham regime lost the standing that it had previously enjoyed in Africa as a result of its consistent opposition to apartheid. One year...

Dem boys seh…Shake really like water

Oct 03, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Shake really like water

Dem boys always seh is only forty people running tings in this country…Well is really forty-one when yuh add in Ali Baba De Rat. He does control the whole show from behind the scene. When he seh...

Lee and Taylor: Footnotes in the Shakespearian wind

Oct 03, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Lee and Taylor: Footnotes in the Shakespearian wind

One of the most quoted reflections of Shakespeare comes from the mouth of Macbeth; “Life’s but a walking shadow A poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no...

THE NIS NEEDS HELP

Oct 03, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE NIS NEEDS HELP

The loss of its investment in CLICO was bound to hurt the viability of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS). But even long before that debacle, the NIS was facing problems or to use the more...

Dem boys seh…Irfaat mek Uncle Donald head spin

Oct 02, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Irfaat mek Uncle Donald head spin

Being President ain’t no easy thing for Uncle Donald. He got to try and please everybody, even people who he don’t like. He got to meet people every day from all over the world and play he...

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May 01, 2026

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ decides Georgetown champions tonight Kaieteur Sports – Former champions Leopold Street stormed into the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown...

The stranger next door

May 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – As late as the early 1970s, when night fell, dinner consumed and the children completed their homework, members of the household would usually sit either in the sitting room or on the verandah and discuss various matters, but mainly the events of the day. In those days there...

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...

APOLOGY AND RETRACTION TO MR. DEVINDRA KISSOON

May 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – On April 29, 2026, I published in Kaieteur News, as part of The GHK Lall Column, a piece entitled “A special kind of lawyering, and at its best” (the “Column”). Mr. Kissoon has never acted for the Government on the Gas-to-Energy Project. He has never received any...

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