March 2020

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DPP likely to receive report this week on cop’s fatal shooting of bus driver

Mar 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on DPP likely to receive report this week on cop’s fatal shooting of bus driver

The police sergeant who accidentally shot and killed Mahdia bus driver Cleon Gomes last February may know soon whether he will face manslaughter charges. An official expressed optimism that police...

ACDA: From re-colonization to profits

Mar 23, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on ACDA: From re-colonization to profits

On Friday, March 13, the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) issued a statement in condemnation of the international observers because they unambiguously and unanimously rejected the...

GUYANESE FICTION…SOMETHING MALEVOLENT COMES

Mar 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GUYANESE FICTION…SOMETHING MALEVOLENT COMES

(An excerpt from the upcoming novel “LIVING WITH THE MASTERS” by Valerie Coddett and Harold A. Bascom) Introduction: Valerie Coddett, who was born in New Amsterdam Berbice, began collecting art...

GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…Confronting Lucille

Mar 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…Confronting Lucille

“I gotta ask you something.” He thought he saw a flash of watchfulness. “What?” “You—” His throat felt clogged. “You ever went to a place named Kamarang?” Her eyes narrowed...

An old law for a new battle

Mar 23, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on An old law for a new battle

The coronavirus threatens our existence. Guyana is too poor, too small and with a too undeveloped health system to withstand a local coronavirus epidemic. Those in the developed world, with stronger...

We are not Alone, the World is Watching

Mar 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We are not Alone, the World is Watching

DEAR EDITOR, Your editorial (March 22) is right that “we are now alone in Guyana” but in reality we are not alone as the world cares and is watching what has been taking place since March 2....

The diaspora human capital could play a critical role in the oil and gas sector

Mar 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The diaspora human capital could play a critical role in the oil and gas sector

DEAR EDITOR, In a recent article published on Mar 8, 2020, Social Scientist Dr. Lear Matthews pointed out that high levels of skilled emigration tend to slow economic growth and noted that in the...

Who will stand up for the law?

Mar 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Who will stand up for the law?

DEAR EDITOR, The Commonwealth Observer Group, led by former Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Arthur, has issued preliminary statements before withdrawing from Guyana a week ago. Mr. Arthur alluded to...

We must remain ever vigilant to protect our democracy and constitutional rule

Mar 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must remain ever vigilant to protect our democracy and constitutional rule

DEAR EDITOR, The recent statement of President Granger on the afternoon of Saturday March 21 on “Civil violence in the Mahaica-Berbice Region 5” appeared to be surreal. More especially, coming so...

The race fallacy

Mar 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The race fallacy

DEAR EDITOR, Do you even know what you are supporting? At the outset, allow me to state that I write this piece in my personal capacity and my views do not represent or reflect any of the...

Who is of the people and for the people?

Mar 23, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Who is of the people and for the people?

Attorneys rip them off when they come, through misleading them and leading them down darkened alleyways in which they are hopelessly lost. They come out from their legal ordeals mostly heavily...

Stabroek Block contract allows ExxonMobil to weather storm at Guyana’s expense

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Stabroek Block contract allows ExxonMobil to weather storm at Guyana’s expense

By Kiana Wilburg Crisis or not, the Stabroek Block Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) will always leave ExxonMobil and its partners with good outcomes all at Guyana’s expense. And the prevailing...

Only credible and transparent counting can produce legitimate results – EU Ambassador

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Only credible and transparent counting can produce legitimate results – EU Ambassador

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the European Union (EU), Fernando Ponz Cantó said that only credible and transparent counting can produce legitimate results. The Ambassador was, at...

Caribbean Airlines grounds int’l flights – as T&T records 40 new cases of COVID-19

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean Airlines grounds int’l flights – as T&T records 40 new cases of COVID-19

Under threat but unrelenting, the world has been gradually taking up a battle stance to combat the pernicious impact of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. The tactical response, ranging from closure of...

Energy Dept. fails to reveal key details on crude sale to GY-EITI

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Energy Dept. fails to reveal key details on crude sale to GY-EITI

By Kiana Wilburg When it came to the fore that Guyana would be selling three million barrels of its share of oil from the Liza Phase One Project to Shell Western Supply and Trading Limited (SWSTL),...

It is not too late for Guyana – Canadian High Commissioner

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on It is not too late for Guyana – Canadian High Commissioner

Canadian High Commissioner Lilian Chatterjee has said that it is not too late for Guyana to respect the will of the Guyanese people and produce credible election results. She was, at the time,...

Presidential order on coronavirus not tantamount to ‘jail time’ – Deputy Chief Medical Officer

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Presidential order on coronavirus not tantamount to ‘jail time’ – Deputy Chief Medical Officer

Deputy Chief Medical Officer (DCMO), Dr Karen Gordon- Boyle, is seeking to address concerns about the Presidential orders issued recently in wake of the coronavirus cases. According to the DCMO, the...

Guyana needs a fresh start

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana needs a fresh start

General and Regional Elections, held every five years, are divisive and disruptive. They end up in legal challenges, protests and the muddying of Guyana’s international image. They polarize our...

Mingo de Ringo declared BINGO numbers!!!

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Mingo de Ringo declared BINGO numbers!!!

Kaieteur News ain’t playing BINGO. It playing quiz. It offering a free trip to China via first class to whoever can first answer the question: Who is the President-elect of Guyana? Dem gat some...

Power sharing is not a substitute for free and fair elections

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Power sharing is not a substitute for free and fair elections

The late Satnarayan Maraj, the Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha of Trinidad and Tobago, and a close personal friend of former Guyanese President Desmond Hoyte, appeared once on a...

FDA warns against fake COVID-19 test kits

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on FDA warns against fake COVID-19 test kits

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been actively monitoring firms marketing products related to COVID-19 with a special eye for fraudulent coronavirus diagnostic, prevention and...

Fiery disaster averted at Georgetown Prison

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fiery disaster averted at Georgetown Prison

Twenty-six-year- old Odel Roberts a prisoner at the Camp Street Prison, on Friday around 16:30hrs lit a newspaper and a piece of mattress and threw it at an inmate who refused to lend him his cell...

Hijacked car found stripped at Mocha

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Hijacked car found stripped at Mocha

Twenty –eight –year-old Kevin Persaud, a taxi driver, of South Ruimveldt Gardens, Georgetown is unable to work after he was robbed of his car and a sum of cash. The incident occurred around 01:30...

WHO using messaging service to share COVID-19 facts

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on WHO using messaging service to share COVID-19 facts

The World Health Organisation has been taking full advantage of modern ways to share facts about the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to billions of people around the world. On Friday, the WHO...

Put politics aside, come together and fight COVID-19 – GTUC urges

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Put politics aside, come together and fight COVID-19 – GTUC urges

The Guyana Trade Union Congress [GTUC] has weighed in on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, calling on citizens and workers to embrace all measures that have been put in place by government, health...

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(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) has been internationally praised as an attempt to convert natural capital into financial capital without cutting down forests. The country’s vast tropical rainforest, covering more than 85% of national territory, functions as...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

The saga of Elizabeth Shivpersaud

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Kaieteur News – It’s one of those situations crying out for help. The best I can do, other than offering professional help, is to raise an alarm about a case that is worrying in all of its elements. It’s the Saga of Elizabth Shivpersaud. If this distressed, shorthanded, hollow-eyed,...

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