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New Amsterdam goes on partial lockdown today

Mar 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New Amsterdam goes on partial lockdown today

– churches, bars, rum shops, beauty parlours ordered closed – residents must be off main roads by 7.00 p.m Churches, entertainment and drinking spots, and beauty salons in New Amsterdam,...

Search for Consultant to market Guyana’s share of Liza crude extended for second time

Mar 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Search for Consultant to market Guyana’s share of Liza crude extended for second time

The search for a Consultant to market Guyana’s share of the oil from the Liza Phase One Development Project has been pushed back for a second time. Instead of April 12, applicants now have up to...

Region Six health officials await COVID-19 test results on ailing retired nurse

Mar 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region Six health officials await COVID-19 test results on ailing retired nurse

Health Officials in Region Six are awaiting the results on tests carried out on a remigrant nurse from New Amsterdam, who is suspected to have contracted the deadly coronavirus. Director of Health in...

Fuel spill by Troy Resources was sheer recklessness

Mar 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fuel spill by Troy Resources was sheer recklessness

It appears keeping up production was more important than ensuring safe operations – EPA Head The recent spill of approximately 5000 litres of fuel by Troy Resources Guyana Inc. at its Karouni Mine...

COVID-19 crisis…Some businesses hit by shortage of stocks, others closing due to lack of sales

Mar 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 crisis…Some businesses hit by shortage of stocks, others closing due to lack of sales

Several local businesses have been complaining of a shortage of stocks, while some are even closing due to the decline in sales following the Covid-19 outbreak. Based on checks done by Kaieteur News,...

Nagamootoo wants int’l inquiry into foreign interference in Guyana’s 2020 Elections

Mar 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Nagamootoo wants int’l inquiry into foreign interference in Guyana’s 2020 Elections

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has said that he hopes there will be support for an international inquiry into foreign interference in Guyana’s 2020 general and regional elections. He made these...

Dem vagabonds losing faith

Mar 30, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem vagabonds losing faith

Dem boys seh how this coronavirus mekkin’ people lose faith. Ah man went to church yesterday. When the time come fuh give testimony, he jump up. He tell the whole church how the day before he...

EVERYWHERE, THE MASKED PEOPLE

Mar 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on EVERYWHERE, THE MASKED PEOPLE

– how the COVID-19 pandemic is eerily mirroring fiction By Michael Jordan Over the past month or so, my youngest sister’s visits to my eldest sister’s home in Florida, USA, have included an...

US Embassy sends over 800 American citizens home from Guyana in two weeks

Mar 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US Embassy sends over 800 American citizens home from Guyana in two weeks

– in wake of COVID-19 pandemic The United States Embassy in Georgetown announced on Saturday that it had already helped over 800 US citizens and their families to reach the US safely in the...

Dindyal guides G Square Cavaliers to six-wicket win

Mar 30, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dindyal guides G Square Cavaliers to six-wicket win

A fine all-round performance from Marlon Dindyal guided G Square Cavaliers to a six-wicket victory over Good Success/Sans Souci/Jaguars combined when the Wakenaam Cricket Committee U19 40-over...

Ex world title contender Clive Atwell is a fighter in and outside the ring

Mar 30, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ex world title contender Clive Atwell is a fighter in and outside the ring

Born on November 11, 1988 to Lloyd Douglas and Samantha Atwell in Friendship, East Coast Demerara before being sent to live with his grandmother Margaret Douglas in the East Bank Demerara Village of...

Attacks restraining orders did not stop

Mar 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Attacks restraining orders did not stop

Imagine a scenario where you, having faced years of abuse from your significant other, bravely foster some courage to fight back, via the legal system. You take your abuser to court and the...

GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…Something in this Silent Room

Mar 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…Something in this Silent Room

by Michael Jordan Michael’s unease returned as he climbed the stairs to Lucille’s room. He reached the second floor, and the light and sounds from the brothel were cut off abruptly. Sometimes, he...

Bartica Boat Owners Association implements measures against COVID-19

Mar 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica Boat Owners Association implements measures against COVID-19

– Despite virus hitting business hard The Bartica Boat Owners Association has implemented several strict measures and rules to be followed by passengers traversing the waterways due to the...

WHO WILL CUT AND RUN!

Mar 30, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHO WILL CUT AND RUN!

The PNCR, the only substantive political force in the APNU, is locked into the past at a time when it should be reorganizing for the future. The party is widely believed to have lost the 2020 general...

Not convinced of unchanging governments in future elections

Mar 30, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Not convinced of unchanging governments in future elections

I will suggest to persons reading about Guyana’s future and the current election depravities to digest the AFC column in yesterday’s issue of Kaieteur News. It is titled, “The days of...

THE WAKE UP CALL

Mar 30, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE WAKE UP CALL

DEAR EDITOR, Coronavirus or better known as COVID-19 is a wakeup call to the entire world. We are rightfully scared, confused and worried about the future because no one has the answer to this crisis...

We, the people of the world, have a choice to mitigate our global suffering

Mar 30, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We, the people of the world, have a choice to mitigate our global suffering

DEAR EDITOR, We humans are strange creatures. We often tend to put off making important decisions and taking vital action until we hit a crisis point. We do this in both our individual and collective...

There are lingering and unanswered questions surrounding the March 2, elections

Mar 30, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on There are lingering and unanswered questions surrounding the March 2, elections

DEAR EDITOR, I applaud the wisdom, integrity and judicial acumen of the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Justice Claudette Singh and unreservedly support her every decision and...

In Memoriam

Mar 30, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on In Memoriam

DEAR EDITOR, Since the beginning of the year, there have been several articles/letters in the media about people who have made a sterling contribution to Guyana but have, sadly, “passed on.”...

Voters did not sign up for a dictatorship

Mar 30, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Voters did not sign up for a dictatorship

DEAR EDITOR, Ms. Claudette Singh has finally informed our courts (Local Press, March 28/2020) that she has the necessary authority to order a recount, ‘if necessary.’ With all of this authority...

Open Letter to Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo

Mar 30, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Open Letter to Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo

DEAR PRIME MINISTER, I write pursuant to the matter at caption. I am the brother of a quarantined individual who is currently in Government imposed quarantine on the basis that he may have COVID-19....

The actual manipulation of elections results is ‘Criminal’

Mar 30, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The actual manipulation of elections results is ‘Criminal’

DEAR EDITOR, Free, fair, and regular elections are the cornerstone of democracy. But elections cannot be free and fair when one public official in the election body meddles with the rules or unfairly...

I hope that this falls on fertile ears

Mar 30, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on I hope that this falls on fertile ears

DEAR EDITOR, I am writing about the current political stand-off in my beloved country Guyana. As an elder who saw the country torn apart by violence in the 1960s I fear that we are on that path...

Bipartisanship is beaten out of existence

Mar 30, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Bipartisanship is beaten out of existence

“Making democracy work during this crisis requires everyone to compromise”was an opinion from the New York Post editorial board dated March 18. Compromise is needed in marriage, friendships, and...

The Battle for Barbados: One Guyana Racing Stable faces off against...

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Kaieteur Sports- The battle lines are drawn. One Guyana Racing Stable is here to make history. With the post positions set for the 2025 Sandy Lane Barbados Gold Cup, all eyes are on Guyana’s rising...

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Crowds, chaos and complaints

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The folly of the cash grant distribution is a textbook case of what happens when a government,... more