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Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus Comments Off on MORE COMPANIES ARE BECOMING INTERNATIONALLY CERTIFIED WITH TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND TRAINING FROM THE GNBS.
As Guyana prepares for the economic boom from oil and gas, more companies are requesting technical assistance and training from the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS). More of these local...Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner injured in Manchester inferno, four others homeless
A 65-year-old woman is nursing burns about her body following a fire that consumed the home she lived in with four others. Injured is Ingrid Morgan of Manchester Village, Corentyne, Berbice,...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists Comments Off on PHAGWAH AND ITS MEANING
PAT DIAL It is customary to write about festivals before they arrive. Today, we shall depart from the custom of this column and write about Phagwah, which was celebrated as a national holiday a few...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Special Person Comments Off on Artist, lecturer and conservator, Philbert Gajadhar, is a ‘Special Person’
By Rehanna Ramsay “I see art as a catalyst for reuniting our people … bringing the people of Guyana together; as a catalyst of social cohesion, and I certainly believe that we can achieve it.”...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Guyana’s record-keeping leaves much to be desired
It would amaze me how the foreign media houses could easily go way back in time to resurrect information about anyone or any event. A leading person dies and there would be clippings of things...Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Region Three businesses resist CCAC INSPECTION
The Competition and Consumers Affairs Commission has just began its promised countrywide business inspection, and findings are that an extremely high percentage of business are actually...Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem Customs Officer shot while colleague cleared gun
A Customs Officer stationed at Lethem, Region Nine, was shot in the foot yesterday. According to reports, Irvine Dey, was shot by a colleague while the man was clearing his gun. Dey was rushed...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks
When people fail to pay attention to whatever they are doing there is bound to be disaster. Such would be the case when a child would suffer burns because its mother in the kitchen would not...Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Police discover over 1,000 grams of cannabis in minibus
The trafficking of cannabis continues to be a prevalent issue Police ranks on Friday unearthed an excess of 1,000 grams of cannabis in a minibus travelling along the East Coast Demerara Public...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on House to House registration
Thousands of Guyanese live and work, legally and illegally, in other countries. Many of them are economic migrants seeking employment. Many see themselves as temporary migrants. Their intention is to...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A house divided against itself cannot stand
The General and Regional Elections which are to date scheduled to be held in 2020, require young blood and new thinking to play a more leading role in taking this nation into what will inevitably be...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Discussion of the Ethnic Security Dilemma would yield nothing positive
In one of his recent columns, Freddie Kissoon observed the failure of African Guyanese activists to respond to interventions by three Indian Guyanese scholars on the so-called Ethnic Security...Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Diabetes Association to strengthen drive against disease
In yet another drive to fight diabetes in Guyana, the Guyana Diabetes Association have already chartered out a course with the main objective being to unleash a forcible battle against the...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Immigration News For Our Community End to Self-Scheduled InfoPass Appointment – Scheduling Only with Pre-Authorization
The new Information Services Modernization Program is replacing the current self-scheduled InfoPass appointment system that allows anyone to make an appointment on-line or at their...Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GDA hosts ‘Eating with Music’ event for diabetics
The Guyana Diabetes Association (GDA), during the week, hosted a successful event themed, “Eating with Music.” Persons living with diabetes were treated to hearty meals filled with low-carb...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, The Story within the Story Comments Off on 25 years for Kaieteur News; 16 days in jail for me
By Leonard Gildarie What I am about to say is deeply personal. I have not spoken to my family or my colleagues at work about bringing this out. If fact, very few of my colleagues even knew...Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GO-Invest urges local miners to partner with international business
Local miners were urged to take advantage of opportunities posited through participation in the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Convention (PDAC) 2019; an international conference...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana’s historiography: An iconoclastic input
I am writing this column here in complete oblivion that I am a social activist. The analysis that will follow is the work of an academic. I am writing these notes as if I was requested to lecture to...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Is the world really one?
By Dennis Nichols At times like this, (post-December 21, 2018) our country’s fanciful motto – One people; One nation; One destiny, seems hopelessly unachievable. Nevertheless it’s a very...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Thrush
Thrushes make up the Turdidae, a family of passerine birds that occurs worldwide. These are plump, soft-plumaged, small to medium-sized birds, inhabiting wooded areas, and often feed on the...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux Comments Off on Tips on how you can get the best out of your doctor’s visit
By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine The average doctor’s appointment lasts 10 minutes. Lots of people are aware of this fact; but have you ever actually stopped to...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…Fear – Our Biggest Enemy
Book: Irie the Caterpillar Author Latoya Wakefield Illustrator: Kavion Robinson Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Latoya Wakefield makes a definitive statement on the one emotion that prevents us...Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on First Regional Radio conference opens
More than 40 regional radio broadcasters, drawn from Indigenous Communities in Regions One, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine and the Voice of Guyana in Region Four, are participating in the first ever...Mar 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milo School’s football tournamentAnnandale and PC clinch semifinal spots
Omari Glasgow bagged a brace to guide his team, Annandale Secondary, to an emphatic 4-0 victory over Charlestown Secondary in the first quarterfinal of the ongoing seventh Milo School’s football...Mar 31, 2019 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Youth Corps…hope for the future
Address by His Excellency Brigadier David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana at the launch of the Guyana Youth Corps, March 28, 2019 Young people are this country’s future. It...

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MOE/Beharry Secondary School’s Under-19 T20 tournament finals…BEI vs. Annandale Secondary Kaieteur Sports – After more than a decade-long absence from the school system, competitive youth...Aug 25, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – The results of the 2025 general and regional elections were a shocker. And anyone who now claims that they predicted the performance of We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) coming should seriously consider going into the fortune-telling business. WIN did not merely emerge from the...Aug 23, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...Aug 25, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – I think that the Hon Leader of the Opposition (LOO), Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, blundered. Three Local Govt seats in hand. One went to the Hon Ms. Amanza Walton-Desir’s Forward Guyana Movement. Good! The second should have gone to the APNU. Would have been reflective of...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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