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BEWARE OF THE DOG

Jul 09, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on BEWARE OF THE DOG

The newspaper headlines read “Dangerous Dogs Act”. I know about Lassie and Rin Tin Tin but, I thought, this is ridiculous. When I was growing up the cinema was divided into three seating areas...

MR. GREENDIGE WAS NOT AT FAULT

Jul 09, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on MR. GREENDIGE WAS NOT AT FAULT

The Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee was not ill-advised on whether he was required to vote on a question before the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament. If indeed it was true that...

Dem boys seh…Benn want fuh mek heself important

Jul 08, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Benn want fuh mek heself important

Nutten should surprise this nation no more. Private hotel a shut down or sell out but de government tekking US$60M taxpayer dollars fuh build a US$20M Marriott. Dem renting US$900,000 generator fuh...

The paradox of our time

Jul 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on The paradox of our time

By George Carlin The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but...

Anger and Violence

Jul 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Anger and Violence

A childhood friend of mine is visiting from Toronto. He’s a psychologist and family therapist by training and specialises in “anger management’. I showed him the letter by Lincoln Lewis,...

This is no time for a weaker Caribbean Community

Jul 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on This is no time for a weaker Caribbean Community

By Sir Ronald Sanders At the opening of the 33rd Conference of the 15-Nation Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), the incoming Chairman, St Lucia’s Prime Minister, Kenny Anthony, called...

Silence is not golden for the government

Jul 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Silence is not golden for the government

The attacks against the government are unending and apparently unceasing. It would seem that the last days of President Bharrat Jagdeo sparked these attacks. Indeed he pursued the development of the...

The Baccoo Speaks

Jul 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

These are trying times, with the politicians keeping the nation on tenterhooks with their shenanigans. The language in the media is what is going to fuel the pace of the conversation, and in the end...

We, too, have our work cut out

Jul 08, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on We, too, have our work cut out

By Khemraj Ramjattan AFC Chairman I wish to publicly apologise to the many supporters, members, and the public at large who rightly felt frustrated and angry at the absence of Trevor Williams at the...

Ethnic power and ideological racism: Comparing presidencies in Guyana

Jul 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ethnic power and ideological racism: Comparing presidencies in Guyana

This is the title of an eighty-page research I did over a two-year period that looked at the practice of racism by the Guyana Government during the tenure of Bharrat Jagdeo. It will be tendered by my...

The Turnip-tailed Gecko (Thecadactylus rapicauda)

Jul 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Turnip-tailed Gecko (Thecadactylus rapicauda)

The Turnip-tailed gecko (Thecadactylus rapicauda) is a species of gecko widely distributed from Mexico southward through Central America and into South America as far south as Brazil, and on many...

IS THE PNCR WILLING TO CEDE THE LEADERSHIP OF APNU?

Jul 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on IS THE PNCR WILLING TO CEDE THE LEADERSHIP OF APNU?

For a party that has not won a free and fair election in over twenty years, and which on its own may never win such an election, it is surprising that the PNCR is yet to recognize the wisdom of...

The Leonora axe murders

Jul 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The Leonora axe murders

– he lured his family into the house, and slaughtered them one by one… By Michael Jordan This is part horror story, part ghost story, and now that I have your attention, let me tell you what...

Cartoon – July 08, 2012

Jul 07, 2012 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cartoon – July 08, 2012

Dem boys seh…De opposition confusing demself

Jul 07, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De opposition confusing demself

Dem had a lot of noise about conflict of interest because Shaatie wife get confirm in she wuk at Office of de Auditor General. Well Uncle Donald now seh that de opposition don’t know wha dem...

THE PRIVATE SECTOR NEEDS STRONG AND FEARLESS LEADERSHIP

Jul 07, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PRIVATE SECTOR NEEDS STRONG AND FEARLESS LEADERSHIP

The Private Sector Commission recently found itself in a ticklish position. On the very day that it elected a new Chairman, it was reported in the media that the said individual was no longer...

Dem Boys Seh… Jagdeo on de run or in hiding?

Jul 06, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Boys Seh… Jagdeo on de run or in hiding?

Whenever people hear somebody on de run or in hiding everybody know that is something terrible and shameful dem do. Tek de case of Jagdeo. He was executive president. In a fight, he was like a...

The recent rise of pessimism

Jul 06, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The recent rise of pessimism

It must have been heartbreaking for the average Guyanese citizen to see what is taking place in the land of optimism, an optimism born out of the results of the November 28 national elections. The...

START WITH THE GUYANA POLICE FORCE

Jul 06, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on START WITH THE GUYANA POLICE FORCE

If the government is serious about corruption it should begin its anti-corruption campaign within the most corrupt institution in Guyana: the Guyana Police Force (GPF). And a good place within the...

The Guyanese mind: The ubiquity of mediocrity

Jul 05, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Guyanese mind: The ubiquity of mediocrity

When a nation cannot rise above the prevailing ethos of mediocrity, it will fail to take its place in the modern scheme of things. When a society cannot judge between the simple wrongs and rights of...

Dem boys seh…Dr Rammie paving de way fuh thief

Jul 05, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Dr Rammie paving de way fuh thief

Dem have an old saying, ‘When chicken hawk miss chicken he does carry grass’. That is wha happen wid Dr Rammie. When he been at de drugs Ministry he nevah use to worry bout licence. He...

Government and the opposition need to sign codes of conduct

Jul 05, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Government and the opposition need to sign codes of conduct

Kaieteur News is not looking for any awards. But God knows, the contribution of this newspaper over the past year in exposing wrongdoing in government has far surpassed the efforts of the opposition...

A brighter day dawns

Jul 05, 2012 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A brighter day dawns

There is a saying that before the storm there is calm. Another saying goes that the darkest hour is just before the dawn. Guyana’s present situation can be likened to any of those...

Dem boys seh…De hamma man seh he accept de Chinee bid

Jul 04, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De hamma man seh he accept de Chinee bid

De airport expansion going ahead. Dem didn’t have no tender because de man wid de hammer seh that he satisfy and de law cover he ass. He did explain that de Chinee people come wid de money and de...

The revelation and denial of the Prime Minister of Guyana

Jul 04, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The revelation and denial of the Prime Minister of Guyana

Yesterday morning Dr. David Hinds of APNU, Gerhard Ramsaroop and Michael Carrington of AFC participated with me and Mark Benschop in a picketing exercise outside the PM’s office in Kingston over...

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Same plantation, new overseers

Apr 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time when Guyana was spoken of, not entirely jokingly, as Bookers Guyana. Bookers was not a man. It was the giant foreign-owned sugar concern whose influence stretched so wide that if you sneezed in Georgetown, someone in a London boardroom probably approved 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...

Ravaged by tyrants

Apr 19, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – What do you think, Guyanese? “The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.” Pope Leo XIV said so in Cameroon. I salute this fine American, this vicar of Christ growing in his role. What about others (leaders)? Those who “manipulate...

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