March 2020

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A national response is needed

Mar 13, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A national response is needed

DEAR EDITOR, Guyana has recorded its first death due to the Coronavirus – COVID-19 – and from all appearances, we are scrambling to put systems in place, as we are unprepared. The...

When will international aircraft arrivals be suspended here?

Mar 13, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on When will international aircraft arrivals be suspended here?

DEAR EDITOR, While there is no question that the coronavirus is a crisis situation for even the developed countries, I am extremely upset that as the Trump administration is now doing in respect to...

Why line up for COVID-19 and not Silicosis, E. coli and other pathogens?

Mar 13, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why line up for COVID-19 and not Silicosis, E. coli and other pathogens?

DEAR EDITOR, I view with amazement the long line up at pharmacies, hardware stores and outlets for masks and sanitizer. While I refrain from such a hysteria, I am left to wonder why the level of...

More than Oil Money

Mar 13, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on More than Oil Money

DEAR EDITOR, As a Guyanese citizen, I was disappointed to see the New York Times’ coverage (March 6, 2020) of the political crisis in Guyana. Anatoly Kurmanaev’s article “Crisis Deepens in Tiny...

We have two viruses to overcome

Mar 13, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have two viruses to overcome

DEAR EDITOR, I think that, given our political obsessions, what I share today may trigger dismissal and indifference on the part of most citizens. But the fact is that COVID-19 is now here, with one...

Breaking news! Reg. 4 RO threatened with contempt proceedings

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking news! Reg. 4 RO threatened with contempt proceedings

Returning Officer (RO) for Region Four, Clairmont Mingo, was this afternoon threatened with contempt of court proceedings by Attorney-at-Law, Anil Nandlall on behalf of Reeaz Holladar. The letter...

BREAKING NEWS! GECOM Chair suspends tabulation of Reg. 4 votes

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on BREAKING NEWS! GECOM Chair suspends tabulation of Reg. 4 votes

Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh has suspended the tabulation of votes from the Region 4 district. This suspension has occurred in an effort to...

breaking news – Region four returning officer to use spreadsheet; refuses to use statements of poll to ascertain votes – Opposition nominated Commissioner

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on breaking news – Region four returning officer to use spreadsheet; refuses to use statements of poll to ascertain votes – Opposition nominated Commissioner

Opposition nominated Commissioner Sase Gunraj said that returning officer for district four, Clairmont Mingo is attempting to use a spreadsheet in his return to the process of tabulating the votes...

Breaking News – GECOM allows one member of each observer group, political party into command centre

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News – GECOM allows one member of each observer group, political party into command centre

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) reopened it’s Ashmin’s building command centre at High and Hadfield streets, early this morning. The building serves as the office of the returning...

Guyana records first coronavirus case – Victim died yesterday after arriving recently from NY

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana records first coronavirus case – Victim died yesterday after arriving recently from NY

Even as elections tension continues to grip the land, the local Ministry of Public Health has confirmed Guyana’s first case of the novel coronarvirus [COVID-19]. The victim, Ratna Baboolall said to...

Oil price war could slow ExxonMobil’s projects – Charles Ramson Jr.

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Oil price war could slow ExxonMobil’s projects – Charles Ramson Jr.

By Kiana Wilburg In light of the oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, American oil giant ExxonMobil, which has sold off some of its global assets to focus on operations in Guyana, will now...

Region Four declaration unlawful – CJ orders return to vote tabulation process

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region Four declaration unlawful – CJ orders return to vote tabulation process

Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George yesterday issued an order for the Returning Officer (RO) for District Four, Clairmont Mingo, to return to the legally prescribed procedure for tabulating the votes...

Presence of all officials entitled to witness vote tabulation not necessary – Chief Justice Roxane George

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Presence of all officials entitled to witness vote tabulation not necessary – Chief Justice Roxane George

Several persons are entitled to be present at a vote count, according to section 86(1) of the Representation of the People Act. They are the returning officer and such other election officers as he...

Former Deeds Registrar fined $4.5M on fraud charge

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Former Deeds Registrar fined $4.5M on fraud charge

Former Deeds Registrar, Azeena Baksh, who was charged in 2017 for procuring over $4M by false pretence, was yesterday found guilty of the offence and spared jailed time, but ordered to reimburse the...

Cops seek Cuban national for strangling of Bourda woman

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cops seek Cuban national for strangling of Bourda woman

Police believe they know who strangled 67-year-old Marva Oudkerk in her Lot 241 Bourda Street, Georgetown home last October. Their prime suspect is Lopez Perez Jair, a 31-year Cuban national, for...

Four charged with Rose Hall businessman’s murder

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Four charged with Rose Hall businessman’s murder

Four men charged with the murder of a Corentyne businessman made their first appearance yesterday at the Number 51 Court before Magistrate Alex Moore. Satram Kushlay also known as “Steve...

Guyana don’t miss nutten

Mar 12, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana don’t miss nutten

Hardly anything does miss Guyana. Every style Guyanese see pun TV dem does adopt. De men even adopt a New York Jail style, wheh prisoners who don’t have belt walking wid dem pants waist by dem...

Coronavirus death… President warns against public gatherings, non-essential travel

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coronavirus death… President warns against public gatherings, non-essential travel

– monitoring of borders stepped up; contact tracing begins The following is a statement by President David Granger last evening: Guyanese, it is my sad duty to announce Guyana confirmed its...

Repairs commence for damaged Harbour Bridge Hydraulic Cabin – Should be completed by Friday

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Repairs commence for damaged Harbour Bridge Hydraulic Cabin – Should be completed by Friday

Marine Traffic will soon be back on stream following Monday evening’s mishap on the Demerara Harbour Bridge, which caused severe damage to the Hydraulic Cabin that is responsible for retractions....

Holness promises accurate information from Jamaica House

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Holness promises accurate information from Jamaica House

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday afternoon urged Jamaicans not to consider coronavirus a death sentence. “The disease is not a death sentence…if you follow the...

Govt. lost five years of oil and gas capacity building – Lars Mangal

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. lost five years of oil and gas capacity building – Lars Mangal

The Government of Guyana has lost some five years of oil and gas institutional capacity building and the development of an agenda for the sector. This is according to Guyanese oil and gas...

West Indies O-50s vs New Zealand O-50s Mohammed, Fareed shine but West Indies go down to New Zealand

Mar 12, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Indies O-50s vs New Zealand O-50s Mohammed, Fareed shine but West Indies go down to New Zealand

‘Spin twins’ Fareed Hosein and Azad Mohammed engineered a batting meltdown then threatened with the bat but could not deliver the knock-out punch as West Indies Over-50s lost to New Zealand...

CJ’s ruling on declaration of Region Four results… “We are vindicated” – Anil Nandlall

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CJ’s ruling on declaration of Region Four results… “We are vindicated” – Anil Nandlall

By Shikema Dey Attorney-at-law and People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) Executive Anil Nandlall believes that the party has been vindicated after Chief Justice Roxanne George ruled that the...

Prison officer allegedly continues to threaten woman from cell

Mar 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Prison officer allegedly continues to threaten woman from cell

Almost one month after being charged for allegedly threatening a woman and breaching a protection order, George Selman, a serving member of the Guyana Prison Service, of 42 Lyng Street, Charlestown,...

Hetmyer, Shepherd and Paul back for Jaguars

Mar 12, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hetmyer, Shepherd and Paul back for Jaguars

West Indies Romario Shepherd, Keemo Paul and Shimron Hetmyer have returned from the West Indies tour of Sri Lanka and have been included in a strong Guyana Jaguars 13-man Squad to face leaders...

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Age-Defying Tahir sets sights on CPL glory for Guyana Amazon Warriors

Sep 16, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL… – says not crossing finish line now, a waste of hard work By Clifton Ross (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Amazon Warriors have done it again, securing yet...

If you want to stop corruption, start at the top

Sep 16, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is nothing wrong with warning public officials that procurement breaches will have consequences. In fact, it is long overdue that every person entrusted with public money understands that the public purse is not a personal purse. But there is a fundamental question which...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Music lovers treated with kid gloves, coddled

Sep 16, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyanese love their music. I do, too. The problem is that Guyanese love their music much too much. It’s a big problem, a national one. Citizens clash with members of the Guyana Police Force trying to do their job, establish sanity around the Kitty area. Citizens in...

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