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The Story Within The Story…The malls…are we prepared for stiff competition?

The Story Within The Story…The malls…are we prepared for stiff competition?

Aug 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on The Story Within The Story…The malls…are we prepared for stiff competition?

By Leonard Gildarie Before the year is out, another major development on the East Coast of Demerara, on the outskirts of the city, is set to open its doors. No, it is not oil-related. Rather,...

Minister Trotman meets with lumber yard and hardware reps

Minister Trotman meets with lumber yard and hardware reps

Aug 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Trotman meets with lumber yard and hardware reps

– Focuses on impact of large quantities of imported pine wood On Friday last, Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman met with several lumber yard and hardware representatives to discuss...

Immigration News For Our Community…Two New Immigration Bills – RAISE Act stops legal Immigration & Dream Act of 2017, helps young immigrants

Immigration News For Our Community…Two New Immigration Bills – RAISE Act stops legal Immigration & Dream Act of 2017, helps young immigrants

Aug 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Immigration News For Our Community…Two New Immigration Bills – RAISE Act stops legal Immigration & Dream Act of 2017, helps young immigrants

By Attorney Gail Seeram RAISE ACT – “The bottom line here is that the President believes we should have a merit-based system of immigration in this country,” the first official told...

The paradox of our time

The paradox of our time

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Food For Thought Comments Off on The paradox of our time

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 enjoy it less. We...

K/News staffer bribery case…PCA makes recommendation but cops fail to uplift file

K/News staffer bribery case…PCA makes recommendation but cops fail to uplift file

Aug 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on K/News staffer bribery case…PCA makes recommendation but cops fail to uplift file

Is the Guyana Police Force really serious about ending corruption within its ranks? This is the question relatives of the late Kaieteur News staffer, Harry Brijmohan are asking. Brijmohan had accused...

DISCRIMINATION

DISCRIMINATION

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on DISCRIMINATION

It’s not a secret that the country’s justice system is being hobbled by a lack of resources, personnel and the technology to make it more efficient. Justices have to share secretaries and spend...

Changing the Game in America By all means necessary

Changing the Game in America By all means necessary

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Changing the Game in America By all means necessary

Dear Editor, The world knows that President Trump has never been in elected political office, is a rank outsider coming from the private sector business world. However, from this viewpoint it is...

Guyana; dwindling population, increasing garage

Guyana; dwindling population, increasing garage

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana; dwindling population, increasing garage

Dear Editor, The Guyana Government is finding it necessary to create three or more garbage dump sites, around the country. What at first is surprising; Guyana has a dwindling population, yet the...

Jagdeo lost a great opportunity to move this country forward

Jagdeo lost a great opportunity to move this country forward

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo lost a great opportunity to move this country forward

Dear Editor, Bharrat Jagdeo, the current leader of the People’s Progressive Party is doing everything in his power to become president of Guyana again and in his desperate effort to get back into...

The national discourse cannot afford to ignore large scale emigration

The national discourse cannot afford to ignore large scale emigration

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The national discourse cannot afford to ignore large scale emigration

DEAR EDITOR, My letter last week (Our falling population: Shouldn’t we be concerned about this? – KN July 30) highlighted the issue of Guyana’s stagnant population growth indicated by recent...

Sunday Cartoon

Sunday Cartoon

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

The GGCI with this behavior has shown its true colours

The GGCI with this behavior has shown its true colours

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The GGCI with this behavior has shown its true colours

Dear Editor, It is with much disgust and regret that I highlight a grave misgiving that was perpetuated by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry. This institution launched a magazine some...

Tremendous more needs to be done for sports in Guyana

Tremendous more needs to be done for sports in Guyana

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Tremendous more needs to be done for sports in Guyana

Dear Editor, In the last 16 months, Guyana basketball has hosted the Caribbean Basketball Confederation Under 16 Championships for men and women. Our men finished as the second-best Under 16 team in...

Food for the Buxton gunmen and Ms. Bone

Food for the Buxton gunmen and Ms. Bone

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Food for the Buxton gunmen and Ms. Bone

Dear Editor, I did an opinion piece apart from my daily column for Monday, July 24, 2017 titled “Why did Buxton reject the 2017 prison escapees?” After publication, that is the very day, the...

FINANCIAL LITERACY: Teenagers and Money Management

FINANCIAL LITERACY: Teenagers and Money Management

Aug 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on FINANCIAL LITERACY: Teenagers and Money Management

Teenagers’ lack of readiness to manage money The U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, set up to assist the American people in understanding financial matters and making...

Access to justice

Access to justice

Aug 06, 2017 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Access to justice

(Remarks by HE David Granger at the Opening Ceremony of the Upper Demerara Magistrates’ District on August 3, 2017) Access to justice is the foundation of a democratic nation and the hallmark of...

The Baccoo Speaks

The Baccoo Speaks

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

An argument is going to turn deadly when two men fail to settle a dispute over money. One of them would have promised to repay a loan but he would renege on his promise. His partner would become very...

The complaints and ‘Aesh’ Deonarine

The complaints and ‘Aesh’ Deonarine

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The complaints and ‘Aesh’ Deonarine

There has been a lot of complaining these past few days, not that there has not been a lot in the past. In fact, for as long as the coalition government has been in office there have been complaints....

2017 growth rate revised downward

2017 growth rate revised downward

Aug 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 2017 growth rate revised downward

…as sugar, forestry, mining and light manufacturing sectors contract By Kiana Wilburg Finance Minister Winston Jordan had initially projected for the economy to reach a 3.8 percent growth rate for...

Officially, there are four legally recognized religions in Guyana

Officially, there are four legally recognized religions in Guyana

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Officially, there are four legally recognized religions in Guyana

Dear Editor, Your distinguished and loyal columnist Freddie Kissoon in his Aug 05, 2017 feature stated that “The Muslim wedding ceremony and funeral services are the shortest in the three main...

Facts about minimizing your risks of acquiring type 2 diabetes

Facts about minimizing your risks of acquiring type 2 diabetes

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Facts about minimizing your risks of acquiring type 2 diabetes

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Diabetes is classified into two types. Type 2 diabetes is the more common of the two types and tends to occur during the earlier phases of...

Bees and jungles: My country 14 years ago

Bees and jungles: My country 14 years ago

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Bees and jungles: My country 14 years ago

In 2003, I went to La Grange cemetery. It was the burial of my wife’s uncle. I was deeply disgusted at the site and sight of what was before me. This was not a burial ground. This was an abandoned...

PRESS FREEDOM IN A FREE LAND

PRESS FREEDOM IN A FREE LAND

Aug 06, 2017 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on PRESS FREEDOM IN A FREE LAND

By Hon. Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo It sounds like an understatement, but Guyana today does enjoy a free press. Media ownership is mostly private and far outstrips and outweighs the limited...

THE POST-MEAL RITUAL OF THE TOOTHPICK

THE POST-MEAL RITUAL OF THE TOOTHPICK

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Dental Health, Features / Columnists Comments Off on THE POST-MEAL RITUAL OF THE TOOTHPICK

By Dr. Neromini Fagu It is a common sight to see displays of wooden toothpicks on tables at home and in restaurants. For many West Indians, it is simply part of the dining experience. A lot of people...

Bed and Breakfast standard supports good and affordable local accommodation

Bed and Breakfast standard supports good and affordable local accommodation

Aug 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus Comments Off on Bed and Breakfast standard supports good and affordable local accommodation

Bed and breakfast accommodation providers have a lot to gain from the implementation of the Bed and Breakfast standard, as they work to satisfy the accommodation needs of many foreigners visiting...

Badminton’s Shuttle time programme held in Linden

Badminton’s Shuttle time programme held in Linden

Jun 23, 2021

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Badminton Association Team of President Gokarn Ramdhani, Vice President Ayanna Watson and Secretary Emelia Ramdhani along with National and International Champions...

RHTYSC hosts first Tribute to Municipality Workers Programme for Rose Hall Town

RHTYSC hosts first Tribute to Municipality...

Jun 23, 2021

Hutson re-elected to serve another term

Hutson re-elected to serve another term

Jun 23, 2021

‘Selectors went for experience with Guyana Jaguars’- Sarwan

‘Selectors went for experience with Guyana...

Jun 23, 2021

T&T pugilist arrives in Guyana tonight

T&T pugilist arrives in Guyana tonight

Jun 23, 2021

Warner Brothers secure place in final; Shieldstown, Young Guns triumph

Warner Brothers secure place in final;...

Jun 23, 2021

Interview with Leyland DeCambra, founder of the WPA UK branch

Kaieteur News – I met Leyland DeCambra at the beginning of the 70s. It was a friendship that has lasted ever since.... more

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Kaieteur News – The good news is that the global coronavirus pandemic is coming to an end. The bad news is that it... more

Democracy too precious in CARICOM not to defend it abroad

By Sir Ronald Sanders More commonality was shown by CARICOM countries in a vote on Tuesday June 15 at the Organisation of... more

Flooding and Public Accounts Committee

By GHK Lall I think of the two areas above prioritised today, and they both contain what once stirred encouragement, but... more