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Chronic Pains: There are more treatment options than you may know

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Chronic Pains: There are more treatment options than you may know

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine We all experience pains from medical conditions or injuries. Most of the time, the pain is self-limiting. For some, their pain can persist...

Interesting Creatures… Corallus hortulanus

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… Corallus hortulanus

Corallus hortulanus is a non-venomous boa species found in South America. No subspecies are currently recognized. Adults grow to an average of 5 and 6.5 feet (1.5–2 m) in length. This species...

Police seeking help to identify man who died in hit and run accident

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Police seeking help to identify man who died in hit and run accident

Police are pleading with the public to assist them in identifying a man who was killed in a hit and run accident. The body is presently at the Lyken Funeral parlour. The accident is said to have...

Count your votes and declare your winner: I will see you in 2025 shouting for democracy again

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Count your votes and declare your winner: I will see you in 2025 shouting for democracy again

Let me start today’s column with a plain and unambiguous statement. I support free and fair elections. I am constantly reminded that back in the day, I was part of a brigade that laid down our...

Know the facts about COVID-19 and help stop the spread of rumors

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Know the facts about COVID-19 and help stop the spread of rumors

FACT 1 Diseases can make anyone sick regardless of their race or ethnicity. Fear and anxiety about COVID-19 can cause people to avoid or reject others even though they are not at risk for spreading...

Immigration Questions & Answers

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Immigration Questions & Answers

ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community By Attorney Gail Seeram Through this “Question & Answer” column, our goal is to answer your immigration questions. We appreciate your...

Pooran, Ramnarine win Bhagelu pool tourney

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pooran, Ramnarine win Bhagelu pool tourney

Navishaul Pooran and Vickram Ramnarine emerged champions of the Throlokie Bhagelu pool competition which was contested yesterday at Carlosh Sports Bar in Good Success, Wakenaam. Pooran and Ramnarine...

‘GOA made ‘significant’ donation to Boxers in Cuba’ – Juman-Yassin

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘GOA made ‘significant’ donation to Boxers in Cuba’ – Juman-Yassin

Virus is not yet a massive impact but will affect Boxers qualifying According President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) K Juman-Yassin the Global Pandemic Corona Virus has not yet had a...

Murder and Mystery The murdered ‘ghetto girls’

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Murder and Mystery, News Comments Off on Murder and Mystery The murdered ‘ghetto girls’

By Michael Jordan They were both in their late teens. They both lived in a squalid little street in the city. And within a year, they were both dead. It was around 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, December 15,...

Former GuyanaNRA member Claude ‘Alfy’ Duguid passes on Remembered as an accountable and meticulous person

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former GuyanaNRA member Claude ‘Alfy’ Duguid passes on Remembered as an accountable and meticulous person

Former Executive member of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GuyanaNRA) and a former Smallbore Section Vice Captain, Claude ‘Alfy’ Duguid passed away on Tuesday last following a period of...

I feel I have all right to be angry…Listen to my story

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on I feel I have all right to be angry…Listen to my story

I am Guyanese. I am a man. I am black. I am angry. Some would describe me as an angry, black Guyanese man. I have no control over being Guyanese, being black, and being male. The only thing I have...

WPA joins call for a national recount – but wants ending to “winner takes it all” governance

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on WPA joins call for a national recount – but wants ending to “winner takes it all” governance

Member of the governing coalition, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has joined the calls for a national recount of ballots from the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections. Furthermore, the...

Covid-19 Pandemic Basketball coach urging his troops to stay fit and focused

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Covid-19 Pandemic Basketball coach urging his troops to stay fit and focused

Junior Hercules, the head coach of the national men’s basketball team which he guided to Guyana’s first Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championship win in July, 2018 in Suriname, during...

Nurse crashes into Community Center fence; escapes with minor injuries

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Nurse crashes into Community Center fence; escapes with minor injuries

A woman who has been identified as a nurse from East Canje, Berbice, yesterday afternoon crashed into the recently completed zinc fence of the Welfare Center Ground in her community. According to...

CARIFTA Chess Championships postponed

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on CARIFTA Chess Championships postponed

The CARIFTA Junior Chess Championships have now joined the Track and Field and Swimming Championships in being postponed in wake of the coronavirus outbreak in the Caribbean Region. It had already...

The Story Within The Story… Two evils!

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The Story within the Story Comments Off on The Story Within The Story… Two evils!

By Leonard Gildarie “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” – John F. Kennedy. The past three weeks have placed Guyana dangerously on the brink and...

Guyana: future leader or outcast?

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Guyana: future leader or outcast?

Guyana is in grave danger of being ostracised in the regional, hemispheric and global communities. As I write, the General Elections, which were held on March 2, still have no final count, and...

BCB Congratulates Berbice Trophy Stall U-15, Female teams for inter county titles

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB Congratulates Berbice Trophy Stall U-15, Female teams for inter county titles

The President and Executives of the Berbice Cricket Board is extending congratulations to the Management and players of the Berbice’s Trophy Stall Under-15 and Female teams for winning their...

Cops probe torching of Bush Lot butchery

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cops probe torching of Bush Lot butchery

Police are attempting to identify the culprits behind the torching of a butcher shop at Bushlot Village, West Coast Berbice. Investigators revealed that the shop, which was owned by Latchmin Azeez,...

AAG suspends all activities

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on AAG suspends all activities

The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) has become the latest sports association to suspend all activities following growing fears of the coronavirus pandemic. In a release to the media on Friday,...

State pulls liquor license of Guyana restaurant in Queens for flouting governor’s orders

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on State pulls liquor license of Guyana restaurant in Queens for flouting governor’s orders

[New York daily News] – New Oriental Guyana Restaurant on Liberty Ave. in Jamaica, Queens was shut down by the State Liquor Authority (SLA) on charges of violating Governor Andrew Cuomo’s...

The Coronavirus and Food and Nutrition Security in the Caribbean

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on The Coronavirus and Food and Nutrition Security in the Caribbean

By Dr Lystra Fletcher-Paul, former Subregional Coordinator for the Caribbean Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) As the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly unfolds around the world...

Kaieteur News Cartoon 22/2020

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Kaieteur News Cartoon 22/2020

A political solution is needed to what has become a political problem

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A political solution is needed to what has become a political problem

Dear Editor, Guyana’s election results are no longer a count problem. The count would reveal a winner and other (defeated) side would reject it. The behaviour of the government over the last couple...

Guyana’s racial and ethnic diversity – blessing or curse, or both?

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s racial and ethnic diversity – blessing or curse, or both?

Dear Editor, There are at least two schools of thought on the issue of diversity. One school sees diversity as having negative consequences, while the other sees diversity as desirable and stress its...

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