March 2020

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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...

The crafters of our Constitution foresaw the likelihood of citizens ignoring measures to thwart the spread of infectious diseases

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The crafters of our Constitution foresaw the likelihood of citizens ignoring measures to thwart the spread of infectious diseases

Dear Editor, I wish to thank Ms Sherlina Nageer (MPH) for her queries concerning a statement attributed to me this week in your newspaper about measures the Ministry of Public Health can implement to...

Response to David Granger 20th March 2020 Statement

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Response to David Granger 20th March 2020 Statement

Dear Editor, I read President David Granger’s 20th March, 2020 statement and despite the little ray of hope I may have held that he would act in a way that would place country before party so that...

Damage has been done and that may not be repairable

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Damage has been done and that may not be repairable

Dear Editor, I look back this first time at Elections 2020 and cringe that some of the things that I had identified have come to pass. I would have preferred to be embarrassingly wrong on all counts;...

Whatever comes out from the courts will not solve our ingrained and destructive political problems

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Whatever comes out from the courts will not solve our ingrained and destructive political problems

Dear Editor, This is my second letter to the newspapers in all of my more than threescore years. I wish to refer to my first letter, which was published in July 2019. The subject of that letter was...

Region Four results… I don’t buy Mingo’s numbers; who vex, vex! – Dominic Gaskin

Mar 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region Four results… I don’t buy Mingo’s numbers; who vex, vex! – Dominic Gaskin

– Investigate wrong doings at GECOM By Shikema Dey Former Business Minister and Director of Business, Dominic Gaskin, has publicly stated that he does not “buy” the numbers used by District...

Stalled electoral process, security threats, coronavirus cause Carter Center, EU observers to withdraw from Guyana

Mar 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Stalled electoral process, security threats, coronavirus cause Carter Center, EU observers to withdraw from Guyana

Two electoral observer missions have withdrawn from Guyana, citing concerns about developments here. The European Union Observer Mission put out a brief statement yesterday notifying of its decision...

Court allows political parties to join elections recount proceedings

Mar 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Court allows political parties to join elections recount proceedings

The Court is still in the preliminary stages of hearing application by A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC)-aligned Ulita Moore to block the national recount of the...

Flawed elections results could damage Guyana’s int’l standing – US State Dept.

Mar 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Flawed elections results could damage Guyana’s int’l standing – US State Dept.

The US State Department has come forward with another statement warning Guyana of the consequences that would follow if it announces official elections results based on a flawed tabulation. Again,...

COVID-19 safety precautions… Limited journalists, lawyers, spectators allowed to enter high court

Mar 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 safety precautions… Limited journalists, lawyers, spectators allowed to enter high court

Limited media personnel, lawyers and representatives of the varying political parties and spectators were allowed entry into the Georgetown High Court yesterday where the hearing into an injunction...

BOG asks banks to: reduce interest rates, defer loan payment, waive ATM fees

Mar 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on BOG asks banks to: reduce interest rates, defer loan payment, waive ATM fees

The Bank of Guyana (BoG) has asked commercial banks to take steps to reduce the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on customers. According to correspondence seen, Governor of BoG, Dr. Gobind Ganga,...

IMF says Guyana among countries least prepared to tackle coronavirus

Mar 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on IMF says Guyana among countries least prepared to tackle coronavirus

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Guyana has been ranked as one of the least prepared countries in the western hemisphere to tackle the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). In a document...

All ballot boxes taken back to GECOM HQ

Mar 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on All ballot boxes taken back to GECOM HQ

The containers which hold the ballot boxes from the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections have been transported from the Arthur Chung Convention Center [ACCC] back to the Guyana Elections...

Guyana fighting a war without ammunition

Mar 21, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana fighting a war without ammunition

Dem boys worried. Dem boys wives happy though. Nuff men now staying home. Some of dem wife does barely see dem when de day done. Now de wives praying dat de day done quick quick because dem ah see...

Domestic pressure is also important

Mar 21, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Domestic pressure is also important

International isolation must be backed by domestic pressure if the country’s ongoing and protracted political crisis is to be resolved. So far, there has been more of the former than the latter. It...

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Regional titles decided as ExxonMobil U18 Championships continue...

Oct 30, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The ExxonMobil Under-18 Football Championships will continue on October 30 and 31, with fixtures scheduled across six districts as teams battle for regional honours and places in...

The King comes to a colony that never quite became free

Oct 30, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The King’s official visit to Guyana is an occasion for ceremony, the polishing of old silver and the remembering of a history that we might otherwise prefer to leave undisturbed. There will be speeches about friendship, partnership and the enduring bonds between our two...

Are We All Ukrainians?

Oct 25, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 19 October, accepting the award of Ukraine’s Order of Merit, I said that my commitment to Ukraine rests on a principle essential to small nations everywhere: sovereignty is the freedom to govern ourselves, preserve our identity and decide our future....

Jagdeo’s PPP: PNC sensation, WIN, raw realities Pt I

Oct 30, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – PPP General Secretary, Cde Bharrat Jagdeo, showed again that he is one step ahead of the crowd. A PPP-PNC Xmas card. A neat package of joy. Has the potential to give hope, generate inspiration. Maybe even heal some long-festering national wounds. On the surface, what...

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