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The Baccoo Speaks

Jul 22, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

It is clear that some things will happen regardless of whether there are alerts. There was the fire caused by familiar circumstances; there was the road accident and there was the river accident....

The Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco)

Jul 21, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco)

The Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco) is the largest and arguably best known species in the toucan family. It is found in semi-open habitats throughout a large part of central and eastern South America....

The Chief Justice ruling: The story of opposition betrayal

Jul 21, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Chief Justice ruling: The story of opposition betrayal

This column here is not a commentary on the preliminary statements of the Chief Justice ruling into the budget cuts. One area that is clear among the Chief Justice pronouncements is that the Ministry...

GUYANA IS BECOMING AMERICANIZED

Jul 21, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GUYANA IS BECOMING AMERICANIZED

Too much television, like too much knowledge, can be a bad thing and more so if the television programming is primarily from one source. In Guyana television was introduced very late. It was not...

Dem boys seh…Wha happen to de water cannon?

Jul 21, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Wha happen to de water cannon?

De government buy a water cannon that coulda build five house. When de thing come dem boys know right away that it didn’t worth de money. Somebody cut a deal and wid de kickbacks dem bring de...

Dem boys seh … Government people avoiding Linden

Jul 20, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh … Government people avoiding Linden

All over de world when police shoot without reason dem does get charge wid murder. Jamaica wha got more killing than Guyana doesn’t mek joke wid dem police who step out a line. But dem in Guyana...

Tragedy in Linden: Time for a national government

Jul 20, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Tragedy in Linden: Time for a national government

You are not going to believe this. I know it may not be the right thing to say, but I will say it, because it pierces my psyche. When I heard that the police shot the protestors and many died and...

CALM, NEGOTIATIONS, AND A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY

Jul 20, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on CALM, NEGOTIATIONS, AND A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY

Those three persons who were killed on Wednesday in Linden during a protest demonstration did not have to die. It is so terrible and heartbreaking to think about what has happened and the pain and...

ALL RIGHTS ARE LIMITED

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ALL RIGHTS ARE LIMITED

A Partnership for Nation Unity (APNU) should not fall victim to the Alliance for Change (AFC) strategy of deflecting criticism from itself towards the partnership. This is what the AFC is trying to...

Paramountcy: Then and now

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Paramountcy: Then and now

In philosophy there is the concept of “substance and form.” The two are inseparable. Substance is the inherent totality of elements in an object. Form is structure of the elements. The contents...

Dem boys seh…Kwame go fuh start mischief

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Kwame go fuh start mischief

Wha is play fuh li’l boy is dead fuh crappo. Dem got problems in Linden. People dead. Before Gee Nah mek peace it decide fuh pour gasoline pun fire. And is Kwame who decide to do...

Dem boys seh… De government people ain’t mekking mistake

Jul 18, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… De government people ain’t mekking mistake

Rohee is wuss that Mother Hen. He offering de police more protection than a hen offering she chicken. Dem boys didn’t know that things suh bad and dem decide to criticize de police. Rohee launch an...

Apaan Jaat: Then and now

Jul 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Apaan Jaat: Then and now

The PPP has been in power since 1992. And with each passing day, the mirror reveals its hidden tales. As the years come and go, the sixties have been made simple, ironically by the PPP, for those who...

WHY NOW?

Jul 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHY NOW?

In light of the tabling of a Bill in the National Assembly to amend the Deeds Registry Act, we reproduce below a column on this subject which was first published in December 2009. I have held firmly...

Parvati’s parvanimity

Jul 17, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Parvati’s parvanimity

In April 2004, the internal affairs department of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) initiated a probe into duty free concession letter for vehicles. It was driven by the discovery of a SUV that had...

TIME FOR UNCLE DONALD TO MOVE MORE QUICKLY

Jul 17, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on TIME FOR UNCLE DONALD TO MOVE MORE QUICKLY

One of the campaign promises of the PPPC was a review of the VAT. And one of the first significant policy acts of the Donald Ramotar administration was to appoint a three-man committee to examine...

Dem boys seh…CGX find one bottle cooking hile

Jul 17, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…CGX find one bottle cooking hile

Competition does really show who got money. Dem boys seh that dem gun really see who can spend when Delta reduce its airfare. When de Easy Plane come it start fuh offer really cheap fares....

Dem boys seh… Some people ain’t got no shame

Jul 16, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Some people ain’t got no shame

Other thing does always full people eye. Dem boys talk bout de fancy boat that somebody see and dem decide that dem gun buy one fuh de police suh when dem got to go and sport dem got a boat fuh go up...

The radical in the legislative assembly in the 1940’s

Jul 16, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The radical in the legislative assembly in the 1940’s

Guyana has had many persons with claims to be champions of the working class. But there is only one who can lay claim to being the radical of Guyana‘s workers and its supreme working class hero....

DOZE WERE THE DAYS

Jul 16, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on DOZE WERE THE DAYS

When it comes to sleep apnea and other sleep disorders I am a snore-house of knowledge. What was a gentle fluttering noise emanating musically from my olfactory organs when I was in my prime (if, as...

Dem boys seh … Ohh Pee shock a diplomat

Jul 15, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh … Ohh Pee shock a diplomat

Ohh Pee in a bad way. It need a complete overhaul. A foreign diplomat visit de place and he seh that he get a shock fuh know that that is de headquarters of the President. De welcome mat stink from...

The Linden electricity rate increase issue

Jul 15, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Linden electricity rate increase issue

By Gerhard Ramsaroop Historically, the bauxite industry in Linden had to produce excess electricity in order to facilitate the periodic peak operation of the famous walking draglines. The excess...

Killers among us

Jul 15, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Killers among us

– five sadistic suspects remain at large By Michael Jordan On the surface, they look just like you and me; five ordinary people who would not merit a second glance.But police believe that...

Politicians have contributed to fraud in the country

Jul 15, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Politicians have contributed to fraud in the country

It has been some time since there has been so much news about irregularities in Government circles. It has also been some time since a President has been under so much pressure. President Donald...

WATCH THEM, UNCLE DONALD!

Jul 15, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WATCH THEM, UNCLE DONALD!

It was not Cheddi Jagan who was the architect of the neglect of Guyana’s foreign relations that eventually led to the embarrassment of the past week. Cheddi Jagan came to power with the treasury...

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Golden start, silent Sunday for Guyana at CARIFTA Games

Apr 06, 2026

…Guyana eyes 800m, 4x400m relay gold on final day By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s promising start to the 53rd CARIFTA Games in St. George’s, Grenada, lost momentum on...

The echo of ‘reciprocity’

Apr 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something almost medicinal about the word “reciprocity.” It rolls off the tongue with the moral authority of a proverb. It suggests balance, fairness, and the possibility that somewhere in the universe, justice is keeping tabs of what is taking place between Guyana...

The Caribbean Is Being Forced to Reconsider Trade Dependence on the...

Apr 05, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean has not set out to loosen its trade dependence on the United States. It is being driven to do so. For generations, Caribbean importers and consumers have looked first to the American market. They have done so for reasons of preference and...

Pres. Ali must see the real Suriname

Apr 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Government, Guyanese leaders, and the Guyanese people had better come quickly to their senses about Surinam. If not, these drip-by-drip intrusions will continue from Paramaribo, leaving this country looking like a global pushover, a certified patsy. Pres. Ali has...

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