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Insiders’ knowledge? Ventilators to fight COVID-19 arrived in Guyana before disease declared a pandemic

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Insiders’ knowledge? Ventilators to fight COVID-19 arrived in Guyana before disease declared a pandemic

– same company that supplied expired HIV test kits now accused of being single-sourced An East Bank Essequibo company that has been fingered in the supply of expired HIV rapid testing kits is...

Begin the ‘everyone wears a mask campaign’ – Doctor says to save lives

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Begin the ‘everyone wears a mask campaign’ – Doctor says to save lives

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine By now, we are all aware of the local and worldwide impacts of the coronavirus infection. Guyana is now beginning to see its share of the...

“Law does not give me power to lockdown city” – Mayor Ubraj

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “Law does not give me power to lockdown city” – Mayor Ubraj

Mayor of the City of Georgetown, Pandit Ubraj Narine, called a press conference yesterday where he sought to make it clear that he will not lock down the City. The Mayor said that he wanted to let it...

Marcus Bisram freed by Berbice Magistrate; rearrested hours later

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Marcus Bisram freed by Berbice Magistrate; rearrested hours later

Things took a surprising turn for Marcus Brian Bisram yesterday when he arrived at his Number 70 Village home. This was hours after being freed by Magistrate Renita Singh. Police ranks showed up at...

Injunction against election recount… Full Court to rule today on jurisdiction

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Injunction against election recount… Full Court to rule today on jurisdiction

The Full Court has stayed the proceeding filed against the elections recount until the determination of an appeal challenging the jurisdiction of Justice Franklyn Holder to hear the case. The Full...

CCJ closed until further notice due to COVID-19

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ closed until further notice due to COVID-19

Due to the fluid environment caused by the COVID-19, a pandemic which has created ripple effects worldwide, the Caribbean Court of Justice, which is housed in Trinidad and Tobago, has closed its...

$Penalties for infractions a slap on the wrist-EPA Head$

Penalties for infractions a slap on the wrist-EPA Head

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Penalties for infractions a slap on the wrist-EPA Head

Even though Troy Resources Guyana Inc. has been fined $1M for the spill of 5000 litres of fuel at its Karouni Mine, Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Vincent Adams, says this is...

COVID-19 puts brakes on two ExxonMobil projects

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 puts brakes on two ExxonMobil projects

As a result of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), approvals for two major ExxonMobil projects in the Stabroek Block have been stalled. This was confirmed with head of the Environmental Protection...

Two patients, who tested positive for COVID-19, now in ICU

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two patients, who tested positive for COVID-19, now in ICU

The Public Health Ministry yesterday revealed that two of the eight confirmed COVID-19 patients in Guyana have been placed in Intensive Care Unit under critical conditions. This was reported by...

Cow nah kay weh he drop he load

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cow nah kay weh he drop he load

Dem boys know dat when cow ah guh’ slaatta house, him nah kay weh ee drop he load. The Man wah part de Red Sea seeing the end of he political career and he nah kay wah he seh. Dem boys seh wah...

GUYANA IS HEADING INTO A STORM

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GUYANA IS HEADING INTO A STORM

There are about 25 countries severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The United States, the world’s most powerful nation is now the epicenter of the pandemic but most of the severely...

‘Snatcher’ stabbed by victim after grabbing fake gold chains

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Snatcher’ stabbed by victim after grabbing fake gold chains

A chain snatcher has found himself hospitalised under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing several stab wounds to his abdomen after he pounced on a Construction worker, on Sunday...

NA man nabbed with cocaine and cannabis

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NA man nabbed with cocaine and cannabis

A Trinity Street, New Amsterdam resident, who also resides at Third Avenue, Bartica, Region Seven, was on Sunday nabbed with a quantity of narcotics. According to police, the 30-year-old man, who...

Even a crisis fails to galvanise us

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Even a crisis fails to galvanise us

After an interminable interval, finally and slowly, coverage relative to the coronavirus has nudged other priorities from the headlines of Guyanese media. Despite the menaces of this global scourge,...

Mingo, Mackintosh, Police Commissioner: Moral standards

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mingo, Mackintosh, Police Commissioner: Moral standards

In the course of my newspaper career spanning 31 years, I have examined the philosophical pursuit to define moral values. It is a complex philosophical subject that is best left to the university...

Amidst COVID-19 pandemic… WHO issues guidelines to maintain essential healthcare

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Amidst COVID-19 pandemic… WHO issues guidelines to maintain essential healthcare

As the world continues to battle the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has published guidelines to help countries balance their response to the virus while...

Stewart running towards Olympic Qualification

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stewart running towards Olympic Qualification

By Calvin Chapman Guyana’s sprint ace, Akeem Stewart, in a recent interview with Kaieteur Sport has announced that since the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games will not be contested until next summer, he...

Residents adhering to Region 10 curfew – officials

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Residents adhering to Region 10 curfew – officials

The 8pm to 5 am curfew that has been implemented by the Linden Mayor and Town Council in collaboration with the Regional Democratic Council has been hailed as highly successful. This was the...

Windies female player is only female to score a ‘double’ in Inter County cricket

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windies female player is only female to score a ‘double’ in Inter County cricket

Keep working at home during Covid-19 break says Shabika Gajnabi By Sean Devers Born on July 14, 2000 at Chesney in Albion, Berbice to Albion Estate Factory worker Fajir Gajnabi and Zaleema, Guyana...

Italy’s new virus cases decline and WHO sees progress

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Italy’s new virus cases decline and WHO sees progress

(Bloomberg) – Italy appeared poised to extend its lockdown until Easter after it reported the smallest number of new coronavirus cases in almost two weeks and the World Health Organization...

National footballers stranded in Miami

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on National footballers stranded in Miami

Curtez Kellman and Jeremy Garrett, both whom have represented Guyana’s senior men’s football team, the ‘Golden Jaguars’, are currently stuck in Miami due to the current travel restriction for...

APOLOGY

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APOLOGY

Kaieteur News inadvertently published a 9”x 3” advertisement on Sunday March 29, 2020 that was requested to be cancelled. We sincerely apologise to Demerara Distillers Limited and all the...

Guyanese boxer Jermaine “El LoCo” King wins fight in Mexico

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese boxer Jermaine “El LoCo” King wins fight in Mexico

Guyana’s United States based Guyanese Super middleweight boxer, Jermaine “El LoCo” King, won his recent fight which took place on March 14, 2020 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico....

Man remanded for allegedly lashing stepfather to the head

Mar 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man remanded for allegedly lashing stepfather to the head

Twenty-six-year-old Darren Simpson of 8 Plum Park, Sophia, Georgetown was yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts....

Our country needs a legitimate and proactive government to protect our people

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our country needs a legitimate and proactive government to protect our people

DEAR EDITOR, What would be our best position to counter a Venezuelan incursion into Guyana to capture our oil? We would want a government, which can quickly tap powerful allies to stop Venezuela in...

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Chilling reminders that we are not safe

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Georgetown was plunged into shock and terror last week after two heinous incidents laid... more