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Pirated schoolbooks: The evil in post-colonial failure

Sep 26, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Pirated schoolbooks: The evil in post-colonial failure

If you take the amount of money the West paid to Third World oil-producing territories since the oil Arab embargo in 1973, those countries should have become developed states on par with the...

Dem boys seh…Dem gun lef de thiefing money

Sep 26, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Dem gun lef de thiefing money

There is a true, true saying, Failure is an orphan, success has many parents. When a man become successful and get plenty money he does get nuff relatives. Dem got people who only got to hear that...

Every country has corruption, beggars but…

Sep 25, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Every country has corruption, beggars but…

I sit at the People’s Parliament on High Street opposite the National Assembly everyday and what I observe on the streets has stunned me even though I have been a social activist my entire life and...

Dem boys seh…Top Cop saving he soul

Sep 25, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Top Cop saving he soul

Dem long time teacher use to frighten dem pickney by putting de wild cane pun de table. Dem commissioner who hearing de evidence in de Linden shooting decide fuh put two bible pun de witness stand....

The buck begins and stops with Uncle Donald and not with Cabinet

Sep 25, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The buck begins and stops with Uncle Donald and not with Cabinet

All executive authority resides in one person, the President. Ministers do not have original executive authority. As assistants to the President, they merely carry out responsibilities delegated to...

Dem boys seh…Is madness and stupidness in one

Sep 24, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Is madness and stupidness in one

People really mad and this madness does show up when the year coming to an end. In one week a man drive he car into a truck and kill heself, he wife and he daughter. Dem boys seh that de accident...

MONKEY BUSINESS AND LAST WRITHES

Sep 24, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on MONKEY BUSINESS AND LAST WRITHES

I have heard about having a monkey on your back but having one in your pants is ridiculous. However weird it might sound, however funny (“This ain’t no ordinary monkey darling,...

CHANGES ARE NEEDED IN THE WAY THE ECONOMY IS MANAGED

Sep 24, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on CHANGES ARE NEEDED IN THE WAY THE ECONOMY IS MANAGED

While the present administration is committed to ensuring that the major infrastructural and investment projects that were initiated under the previous PPP administration are...

Dem boys seh…Bharrat foundation is Bharrat money

Sep 23, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Bharrat foundation is Bharrat money

A foundation is something more than wha a building does stand on. It could be a thing to mek money and Bharrat know bout foundation. Dem boys seh that he starting another one now that he done build...

Let us be bound by our contracts

Sep 23, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Let us be bound by our contracts

By Khemraj Ramjattan AFC Leader It has become necessary, in view of the appalling state of affairs where as a matter of policy the Guyana Government is supporting the piracy of textbooks with the...

The Pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea)

Sep 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea)

The pygmy marmoset or dwarf monkey (Cebuella pygmaea) is a quadrupedal New World monkey native to the rainforest under-stories of western Brazil, south eastern Colombia,...

My life: Comparing the Jagdeo and Ramotar impact

Sep 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on My life: Comparing the Jagdeo and Ramotar impact

The editor of this newspaper wrote the following in his Sunday column two Sundays ago; “The elections of 2011 came and went and all eyes were now on the new kid on the block, Donald Ramotar. My...

The police are in the news for the wrong reasons

Sep 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The police are in the news for the wrong reasons

There is a lot happening these days. People are desperate to get things done in a hurry to the extent that they race around the small streets, often taking longer to get where they should because...

THE PIRATES WILL PREVAIL

Sep 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PIRATES WILL PREVAIL

How is it that the cost of pirated text books can be as low as one-fifth of the cost of original and copyrighted texts? How is it that pirated text books can compete with the originals which are mass...

Agent of Change

Sep 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Agent of Change

Next January 12, will be the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. As a boy growing up in the 1960s, Vivekananda was one of the greatest influences of my generation. It has been a source of...

The hypocrisy of it all

Sep 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The hypocrisy of it all

By Sir Ronald Sanders It is hypocritical in the extreme. The US Trade Representative has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) claiming that the Peoples’ Republic of China...

The Baccoo Speaks

Sep 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The mood in the city is one of optimism because the law enforcement officers have a lid on the daylight robberies. However, there are desperate people out there and they are planning desperate...

Sunday Cartoon

Sep 23, 2012 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

People’s National Congress Reform Column

Sep 23, 2012 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on People’s National Congress Reform Column

Clement Rohee has failed our drug strategy, failed our public security, and failed our human safety. The People’s National Congress Reform has blamed Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee’s...

How Do You Look At Failure?

Sep 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on How Do You Look At Failure?

Failure, they say, is the best teacher. We learn and have more confidence in what we know through trial and error, which onetime or another has resulted in failure. You don’t have to accept your...

Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald doing nuff wriggling

Sep 22, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald doing nuff wriggling

Sometimes people does dig hole fuh other people fall in. Uncle Donald didn’t know that dem had so much hole till he try fuh walk. One big hole was dem pirate textbooks. Fuh years, Shaik...

APNU AND THE REINVENTION OF THE PNCR

Sep 22, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on APNU AND THE REINVENTION OF THE PNCR

The PNCR was an attempt at reinventing the party of Forbes Burnham. As part of that process, the later leader of the party, Desmond Hoyte, cultivated a personality cult and aligned himself and the...

DEATH BY COPYRIGHT PROTECTION

Sep 21, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on DEATH BY COPYRIGHT PROTECTION

The guy knew what he wanted. He breezed confidently into the video store and within minutes, he had selected sixteen movies. Impressed at both the speed of his selection and the number of DVDs that...

…but also who is a great Guyanese

Sep 21, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on …but also who is a great Guyanese

A refreshing, analytical commentary appeared as the editorial for the September 1, 2012 edition of the Stabroek News. I would recommend it. It does not agree with the flattering portrait of past...

Dem boys seh…Brazzy collecting he pension

Sep 21, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Brazzy collecting he pension

When Bharrat tun president he tell people how he was Papa Cheddi protégé. De people clap. By de time he lef office de people couldn’t mention he name and Papa Cheddi name in de same...

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(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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