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The quiet mass murderer

Sep 02, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The quiet mass murderer

– in one moment of madness, Oral Hendricks took three innocent lives… By Michael Jordan Guyana’s crime files are replete with cases of men who suddenly became afflicted with madness and...

The Coypu

Sep 02, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Coypu

The Coypu (from the Mapudungun, koypu) or (Myocastor coypus), also known as the river rat and nutria, is a large, herbivorous, semi-aquatic rodent and the only member of the...

Driving home wearing boxer shorts only

Sep 02, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Driving home wearing boxer shorts only

I left my home on Friday morning with the unshakeable intention to attend the funeral service at 9AM of the mother of my People Parliament colleague, Charlene Wilkinson, (she was one of...

Big contracts and corruption

Sep 02, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Big contracts and corruption

The Business Dictionary defines corruption as, “Wrongdoing on the part of an authority or powerful party through means that are illegitimate, immoral, or incompatible with ethical standards”....

NO NEED FOR EXCUSES OVER SYRIA

Sep 01, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NO NEED FOR EXCUSES OVER SYRIA

The government of Guyana should not be making excuses about its abstention on a UN General Assembly Resolution concerning the situation in Syria. Guyana did the right thing by abstaining from...

The Kafkaesque land: Power and small things

Aug 31, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Kafkaesque land: Power and small things

The greatest fear this nation has about its future is the almost complete shutting out of reality by its rulers who are completely enmeshed in the old culture of their party, an organization born...

PRESS FREEDOM CARRIES NO LICENCE TO BE DISRESPECTFUL

Aug 31, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on PRESS FREEDOM CARRIES NO LICENCE TO BE DISRESPECTFUL

No journalist has a right to tell the host of a press conference that he, the journalist, is not going to listen to what is being said at the press conference if the host will not take questions. To...

Dem boys seh…Wake up Uncle Donald

Aug 31, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Wake up Uncle Donald

Dem seh that all that glitters is not gold. Some man does see woman pun de road wid nice, nice face and fancy clothes. But when yuh peep under dem dress, things does be dirty. When people see Barbie...

President Ramotar and the poetic essence of history

Aug 30, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on President Ramotar and the poetic essence of history

Many years ago, the current President of Guyana, in the letter pages of this newspaper, requested that I explain a statement in one of my columns which referred to the “poetic essence of...

APNU’s EXCUSES ARE NOT IN ORDER

Aug 30, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on APNU’s EXCUSES ARE NOT IN ORDER

One of the reasons advanced by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) for opting out of the “corruption debate series” hosted by the National Communications Network, was that a number of...

Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald proclaim Wakenaam a tourism island

Aug 30, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald proclaim Wakenaam a tourism island

Town people always believe that country people stupid. Uncle Donald pick up Toolsie and go to Wakenaam fuh a programme call Wakenaam Nite. Every night is Wakenaam Nite because de place black like...

The uncivilized den that Guyana has become

Aug 29, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The uncivilized den that Guyana has become

There can be no doubt about it, absolutely no doubt that the political culture in Guyana makes people frown on this nation. One can just imagine what goes through the minds of foreign diplomats who...

My cri de coeur

Aug 28, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on My cri de coeur

Each day, I hold back the anger. I love my fellow Guyanese. I know they are good people. But the distress and indignation of their acceptance of their daily humiliation tears your heart apart....

We must encourage discipline on our roadways

Aug 28, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on We must encourage discipline on our roadways

It does not require drastic nor draconian measures for the number of road fatalities in Guyana to reduce. All that is required is a commitment to a sustained campaign to inculcate greater...

Dem boys seh…Jagdeo gardener learn nuff things

Aug 28, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Jagdeo gardener learn nuff things

When people like go in other people house like if they own it dem does got fuh tek wha they get. A man go inside a family house wid a chopper. De owner chop he and he fight back but the owner was too...

NUTS IN A NAME?

Aug 27, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on NUTS IN A NAME?

“The fault is not in our stars but in ourselves.” This is what Cassius of the “lean and hungry look”, a gentleman that Julius Caesar said “thinks too much”, said to his...

THE LOCATION OF THE SYNTHETIC ATHLETIC TRACK

Aug 27, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE LOCATION OF THE SYNTHETIC ATHLETIC TRACK

An all weather track is a necessary but by no means a sufficient condition to ensure the international success of local athletes. Trinidad and Tobago has had synthetic tracks since the...

Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald get headache

Aug 26, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald get headache

Uncle Donald just start fuh breathe easy because Parliament shut down when he get news that set he heart beating more fast. Dem in de opposition intend fuh question every deal he government mek wid...

Who will guard the bodyguard?

Aug 26, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Who will guard the bodyguard?

– Gary Sinclair was watching his boss’ back…but no one was watching his… By Michael Jordan Even after 17 years, Gary Sinclair’s relatives are still apprehensive about talking about that...

Rum threat looming larger

Aug 26, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Rum threat looming larger

By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is a Consultant and former Ambassador to the World Trade Organization) In an unfortunate statement, attributed in several news reports to one of its spokespersons,...

Once Regional exemplars in Education, we now gone dismal!

Aug 26, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Once Regional exemplars in Education, we now gone dismal!

It was the American President Lyndon B. Johnson who said, “A third place to build a great society is in the classroom.” From what we are seeing of our students’ performance at CSEC, Guyana is...

The ethnic impact

Aug 26, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on The ethnic impact

(For more than two decades we’ve issued an annual variant of the following call. We do so once again in the wake of the Linden protests.) Not unreasonably, citizens of every society evaluate the...

The Green Vine Snake (Oxybelis fulgidus)

Aug 26, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Green Vine Snake (Oxybelis fulgidus)

The Green Vine Snake, Oxybelis fulgidus, is a long, slender arboreal Colubrid snake that inhabits Central America and northern South America. This snake is slender, about two centimetres...

You can lose yourself to a cause yet never lose your way

Aug 26, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on You can lose yourself to a cause yet never lose your way

Strange things are happening to me. But I am not scared. Last Thursday morning, I was jogging in the National Park and ran into attorney, Jailall Kissoon (no relation), Hoyte’s former...

Those visa rejections are a reflection

Aug 26, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Those visa rejections are a reflection

It was a small story hidden away in the pages of Kaieteur News. It was about the number of visitors’ visas granted to Guyanese. The story did not tell me about the numbers of people refused...

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Millington lads Guyana’s historic 1-2 finish in 100m at South...

Apr 24, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s sprinting future announced itself in emphatic fashion on the track in South American Youth Games 2026, as Ezekiel Millington powered to gold in the boys’ 100m final...

Do the right thing!

Apr 24, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – For years, we have called May 5, “Arrival Day.” It is a name that sounds inclusive but, in reality, obscures more than it reveals. It is time to end the confusion and call the day what it was always intended to be: Indian Arrival Day. In 2003, during the tenure of 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...

Never has any single company

Apr 24, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – “Never has any single company…” in a single country beaten almost every single citizen into a state of paralysis. Frankly, I’m disappointed in Chartered Accountant, Attorney-at-Law (and civil society advocate), Chris Ram. Aside: does this chap ever sleep? Mr....

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