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Freddie Kissoon column – Lie detector and electricity theft

May 19, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon column – Lie detector and electricity theft

The introduction of the polygraph test is going to open up President Bharrat Jagdeo and his Government to more ridicule in the entire social parameters of this territory. As you would have noticed, I...

Tony Deyal column – HAVE A NICE DAY!

May 19, 2008 KNews Tony Deyal column Comments Off on Tony Deyal column – HAVE A NICE DAY!

It was one of those days. It could have been Labour Day, the holiday I believe best represents the Caribbean character and culture. Put simply, in every Caribbean country Labour Day is a public...

Peeping Tom – The man for the job

May 19, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – The man for the job

Do not be deceived by a cow. Despite being made of blood, skin, flesh and bones, it is an extremely sturdy animal, as many motorists have found out to their detriment. Even if you are driving at one...

The Roop Column – HOLY COW! – PPP vs. PNC – Stop the bickering

May 18, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Roop Column – HOLY COW! – PPP vs. PNC – Stop the bickering

By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Chairman Vision Guyana INTRODUCTION: This is a never-ending topic, but it is getting worse. This was a GINA Official Release this week: “PPP/C govt. response to global...

The Sir Ronald Sanders Column – Dominica: Poverty and potential

May 18, 2008 KNews Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The Sir Ronald Sanders Column – Dominica: Poverty and potential

By Sir Ronald Sanders Right now it would be difficult to convince any banana farmer in the Caribbean island of Dominica that the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), initialled between the European...

The AFC Column – Voices of Its Principles

May 18, 2008 KNews AFC Column Comments Off on The AFC Column – Voices of Its Principles

What about a polygraph test, Mr. President? By Khemraj Ramjattan Chairman – AFC The recent surge of demonstrations sponsored by the PNC, especially coming so soon after being paid $100 million,...

Peeping Tom – So It is Written; So Shall It Be

May 18, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – So It is Written; So Shall It Be

Kaieteur News has nothing to fear from the new newspaper that is due to come on stream soon. Kaieteur News is not worried at all about another newspaper being published in Guyana. Those who in their...

Ravi Dev column – The dearth of theory

May 18, 2008 KNews Ravi Dev Comments Off on Ravi Dev column – The dearth of theory

One of the fallouts of the demise of Marxism as the dominant world-view of our political elites has been a dearth of alternative theoretical models to account for the political behaviour of our...

Freddie Kissoon – The permanent game that kills Guyana’s future…

May 18, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon – The permanent game that kills Guyana’s future…

President Jagdeo has come out against the present activities of the PNC. He zeroed in on the alleged misuse of scrutineer money. The sum is about 100 million dollars. Without offering all the details...

The Parrot Speaks – Buddy’s should tell the naysayers where the wind is falling

May 18, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Parrot Speaks – Buddy’s should tell the naysayers where the wind is falling

The Parrot has noticed the obsession a certain media entity has with the sale of the Buddy’s International Hotel and everything that surrounds it. I want to make it pellucid that I am in no way...

The Baccoo speaks

May 18, 2008 KNews The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

There is always calm before a storm and this time around the calm is due to the pressures that the law enforcement officials placed on people who were making the society nervous. However, some people...

The Arts Forum – A Tribute to Roy Heath (1926-2008)

May 18, 2008 KNews The Arts Forum Comments Off on The Arts Forum – A Tribute to Roy Heath (1926-2008)

The Arts Forum offers an occasional page of related topics intended to sensitize students and the general readership to neglected areas of our social history and our rich and diverse cultural...

Extend the polygraph test to our Parliamentarians

May 18, 2008 KNews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Extend the polygraph test to our Parliamentarians

Lie detector tests are here and they have been put into effect even before the country has legislation to justify their use. The first set of people to undergo the tests are those drug enforcement...

Blame the Government – When civilized people can’t talk to each other

May 18, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Blame the Government – When civilized people can’t talk to each other

People talk to each other in the civilized world, and when they fail to agree on something they talk again. If they still fail, then they seek mediation. It is like a husband and a wife; they do not...

Freddie Kissoon – Iconoclastically positive

May 17, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon – Iconoclastically positive

In my piece for Monday last, I indicated that there were two forthcoming essays on the complex process that characterized the relationship of Africans with the closing years of Forbes Burnham and the...

Peeping Tom – Corbin & Jagdeo Have the Solutions

May 17, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – Corbin & Jagdeo Have the Solutions

I came home to find my granddaughter emptying her piggy bank. Curious I asked her what she was going to buy this time with her small savings. Her answer surprised me. She answered that the money was...

Dem boys seh – Don’t send de boss fuh buy nutten

May 16, 2008 KNews Dem Boys Seh Comments Off on Dem boys seh – Don’t send de boss fuh buy nutten

When a bug bite you, you does really scratch and of late, bug biting a lot of people. One bite Da Silva and he call a press conference. De whole issue was a li’l thing. Buddy sell he hotel and is...

Peeping Tom – ME NAH EAT BREAD

May 16, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – ME NAH EAT BREAD

I am not a bread man. The only time you will find me having bread is at Christmas time. Then I must have bread to soak in my pepperpot. Even then I do not buy my loaves from any bakery. I bake my own...

Blame the government – Making decisions in the best interest

May 16, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Blame the government – Making decisions in the best interest

The government recently announced that it is prepared to do everything in its power to fight crime and to ensure that Guyana is a country in which people can live as normal citizens. One of the...

The Parrot Speaks – Somebody give Uncle Bob a phone nah

May 16, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Parrot Speaks – Somebody give Uncle Bob a phone nah

The Parrot continues to find amusement in the uncalled for, unjustified and unpatriotic protests organised by the folks at Palm Tree jungle. In the first place it is laughable that people are...

Freddie Kissoon – Oh, this country!

May 16, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon – Oh, this country!

A police van turned up with personnel dressed in bullet-proof vests and big guns. Alongside the lawmen was a pick-up with GPL officials. No, it wasn’t a case of an enraged family that violently...

Cartoon – May 11th, 2008

May 15, 2008 KNews Cartoons Comments Off on Cartoon – May 11th, 2008

Peeping Tom – What concessions went with this deal?

May 15, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – What concessions went with this deal?

I am grateful for the acknowledgment by the government that Queens Atlantic Investments, to whom the Sanata Complex has been leased, got more than the tender offered. This is clearly a different...

Freddie Kissoon – The last words of Joseph O’Lall

May 15, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon – The last words of Joseph O’Lall

I sat for four hours in Joseph O’Lall’s Prashad Nagar home interviewing him. Part of our exchange I did for one of these columns. A huge section of that conversation Mr. O’Lall restricted from...

Peeping Tom – Life’s greatest tribulation

May 12, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – Life’s greatest tribulation

Money, they say, is the root of man’s greatest anxieties. Those without are in need of more, and those with a great deal never seem content with what they have. Money, therefore, brings its fair...