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The Story Within The Story… Leadership in frightening times!

Mar 29, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The Story within the Story Comments Off on The Story Within The Story… Leadership in frightening times!

By Leonard Gildarie I did have intentions to write, in my old age, about my experiences. From jail time to phone calls to newspaper columnist to radio guy. My battle with depression, and suicide in...

Frontline warning…

Mar 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Frontline warning…

Doctors and nurses on the frontline of Coronavirus crisis are appealing to members of the public—“Stay home! We beg you!” I’m Nick and we are the Belfast respiratory team. We are now in the...

In response to COVID-19 and excess global oil supply…

Mar 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on In response to COVID-19 and excess global oil supply…

Frontera Energy slashes more than 50% of 2020 capital plan, accelerates cost-saving initiatives CGX Resources’ partner on the Corentyne and Demerara blocks offshore Guyana has announced that it...

Bartica implements ‘Stay Home’ measures

Mar 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica implements ‘Stay Home’ measures

The Municipality of Bartica has sent out a public advisory which states that the town must implement the “Stay Home” public advisory. To this end, all sporting and recreational venues are ordered...

Elections 2020: Heidegger on conscience

Mar 29, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Elections 2020: Heidegger on conscience

I have a number of regrets, like all persons who have lived and are living. One of these is that I do not think I possess the intellectual capacity, the intellectual endowment, to fully understand...

I am not joining the rhetoric that reduces the current impasse before us to “rigging”: I know better

Mar 29, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on I am not joining the rhetoric that reduces the current impasse before us to “rigging”: I know better

Another week has ended and still no solution to the impasse that resulted from the elections of March 2. Everyone, it seems, wants it to end so that they can go on with their lives. Or so they say....

Interesting Creatures… The Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra)

Mar 29, 2020 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… The Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra)

The Galápagos tortoise or Galápagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) is the largest living species of tortoise. Modern Galápagos tortoises can weigh up to 417 kg (919 lb). Today, giant tortoises...

Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A very uncomfortable condition

Mar 29, 2020 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A very uncomfortable condition

________________________________________ By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a very common condition of the Intestinal system. It is...

Coalition cites independence in face of int’l condemnation

Mar 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition cites independence in face of int’l condemnation

The incumbent Coalition Government has claimed a state of “sovereignty” in response to Guyana’s Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Riyad Insanally being hauled before the US Government. This...

Vodun: The Fate of Free Will

Mar 29, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on Vodun: The Fate of Free Will

Book: Vodou Cosmology and the Haitian Revolution in the Enlightenment Ideals of Kant and Hegel Author: Vivaldi Jean-Marie Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Vodou evokes a schizophrenic response among the...

Former Pele Captain succumbs to Covid-19

Mar 29, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former Pele Captain succumbs to Covid-19

Georgetown Football Association (GFA) club, Pele FC, are in mourning following the untimely death of one of their founding members and former Captain, Wendell Manifold, who was a fatality of the...

A commendable contribution to security sector policy-making

Mar 29, 2020 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A commendable contribution to security sector policy-making

(A review of David Granger’s: The police and the public, public security and public trust) David Granger’s book, The police and the public: public security and public trust, displays a deep...

The days of a comfortable House majority appear to be clearly over

Mar 29, 2020 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The days of a comfortable House majority appear to be clearly over

There has perhaps, been no other time in recent history when the results of general and regional elections seem to be trying to nudge and point us towards the long desired goal of the major parties...

What cricket means to West Indians The early days of West Indies cricket

Mar 29, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on What cricket means to West Indians The early days of West Indies cricket

While the first International ‘test’ match was played in 1844 between Canada and the USA and Australia faced England in the first official test match in 1877, it took the West Indies 51 years...

Kaieteur News Cartoon 29 – 2020

Mar 29, 2020 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Kaieteur News Cartoon 29 – 2020

We need some assurance

Mar 29, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need some assurance

DEAR EDITOR, I buy and read your paper every day and I am appreciative of your team’s commitment to bring each story to us and keeping the world informed on local and international issues. Please...

Where do we stand in Guyana? What steps have been taken?

Mar 29, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where do we stand in Guyana? What steps have been taken?

Dear Editor, To date, we have not made any posts pertaining to COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease 19). The current situation has caused me to do so on Thursday, March 26 2020. COVID 19, caused by the...

Response to Charles Ramson

Mar 29, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Response to Charles Ramson

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter published in the Kaieteur News newspaper dated Friday, March 27, 2020 captioned “Ministers no longer hold their offices; no longer entitled to publicly funded...

Make a hard decision and save lives

Mar 29, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Make a hard decision and save lives

Dear Editor, Right upfront, I say that the only thing that matters to me currently is our preparations, our readiness, and our precautions taken (or not actually so being), in response to the...

If this political crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic don’t pull us together, nothing will

Mar 29, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on If this political crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic don’t pull us together, nothing will

Dear Editor, If the events that followed the March 2 General and Regional Elections, coupled with the present COVID 19 outbreak, do not motivate us as Guyanese to pull together for what may be the...