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Recount votes in Region 4 and establish a Table of Patriotic Governance

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Recount votes in Region 4 and establish a Table of Patriotic Governance

DEAR EDITOR, This is a historic moment for the best display of Guyanese Ethical and Transformational Leadership of the highest calibre. The Roraima Institute (TRI) is a Washington-based, Guyanese...

Let’s be sensible

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let’s be sensible

DEAR EDITOR, Viruses are older than human existence. In 1918, we had the Spanish flu which infected 500 million and killed 20 million to 50 million people. We had the SARS outbreak of 2002 to 2004....

Do not bring sanctions down on us!

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do not bring sanctions down on us!

DEAR EDITOR, I am begging “the newly established parties,” ANUG, TCI, CG, TNM, LJP, URP and PRP, as stated in the letter to the foreign powers, dated March 27, to desist from calling down...

On leadership and the pursuit of unity

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on On leadership and the pursuit of unity

DEAR EDITOR, If the coming of a global pandemic which may take millions of lives in its path does not foster goodwill and unity among us, then unity is not our leaders hearts’ true objective....

Let Democracy and the Will of the people prevail

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let Democracy and the Will of the people prevail

DEAR EDITOR, I do not subscribe to the idea of shared governance or an inclusive government as a result of March 2, 2020 General Elections impasse, as some Guyanese have been ventilating of recent....

Guyana’s future is to become the Singapore of South America!!!

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s future is to become the Singapore of South America!!!

DEAR EDITOR, I wish to contest some of the views expressed in an article published in the Kaieteur News on 25 March 2020, titled ‘Bloomberg Paints Gloomy Economic Picture of Guyana’. I find the...

Guyana Elections and the Constitution

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana Elections and the Constitution

DEAR EDITOR, I have been looking on with interest at the PPP and their alignment with Foreign governments (United States, Canada, Britain and the Organization of American states) seeking to have...

Power sharing is the only way out of our draining problems

Mar 31, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Power sharing is the only way out of our draining problems

DEAR EDITOR, Though I am pessimistic about the prospects of power sharing in this country, I see it as the only way out of our draining problems. The winner-take-all results over each elections cycle...

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...