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Dr. Mangal says… Granger’s inaction to remedy attempts to rig the 2020 elections is troubling

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Dr. Mangal says… Granger’s inaction to remedy attempts to rig the 2020 elections is troubling

– Says country is now on the brink of disaster When he first started to critique the coalition administration, Petroleum Consultant and former Presidential Advisor, Dr. Jan Mangal, was often in...

More than 50 crewmen on SBM vessel in Brazil test positive for Coronavirus

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on More than 50 crewmen on SBM vessel in Brazil test positive for Coronavirus

– ExxonMobil assures screening measures in place for Guyana SBM Offshore, a Dutch-based company that provides Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels as well as mooring...

Cabinet of Ministers is operating – Nagamootoo insists

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet of Ministers is operating – Nagamootoo insists

…Ministers stopped operating since elections day – attorney-at-law Datadin Despite the March 2, 2020 election, after which there should be no ministers operating until a new government is...

Two months imprisonment possible if health orders flouted

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two months imprisonment possible if health orders flouted

Minister of Public Health (MoPH), Volda Lawrence, last week announced a partial countrywide lockdown as part of the response to restrict the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Sections of the...

Justice Claudette Singh must take command of GECOM now — Nandlall

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Justice Claudette Singh must take command of GECOM now — Nandlall

People’s Progressive Party/Civic,(PPP/C) Executive and Attorney- at -Law, Anil Nandlall, is appealing to Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired Justice Claudette Singh, to...

CDC calls for unified relief effort for poor and vulnerable citizens

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CDC calls for unified relief effort for poor and vulnerable citizens

…gives month’s supply of food items to 1,759 households – Director General “At minimum, the CDC would be appreciative if organizations, which are engaged in their own distribution...

Wife sees live video of home invasion in progress

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Wife sees live video of home invasion in progress

-escaping gunmen run into cousin who turns up to investigate, rob him too The members of a Republic Gardens family are counting their lucky stars after a harrowing home invasion Thursday morning. The...

Battered, decomposed body of woman found stuffed in barrel – police hunting for ‘missing’ husband

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Battered, decomposed body of woman found stuffed in barrel – police hunting for ‘missing’ husband

By Malisa Playter-Harry Villagers of Hamphire and Belvedere Squatting Area awoke yesterday morning to the bizarre news that the body of an unidentified human female was found stuffed in a blue...

Govt. greenlights private hospitals’ testing for COVID-19

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. greenlights private hospitals’ testing for COVID-19

Private Health Institutions will now be able to test for the novel Coronavirus since the Public Health Ministry has granted permission for them to acquire the needed testing kits. This was revealed...

You can’t put cat fuh watch milk

Apr 12, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on You can’t put cat fuh watch milk

Dem boys nah know wah gah done fuss – the Coronavirus pandemic or de election recount. Dem boys expect more twist in the recount. You can’t put cat fuh watch milk. Dem boys predict dem guh rig...

‘Hard-ears’ does bring heartbreak

Apr 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ‘Hard-ears’ does bring heartbreak

The first week of the partial lockdown has been ineffective. It has no positive effect on the growth of new cases and on the death rate. Stronger enforcement measures, such as a naming and shaming,...

East Berbice police find large cache of ammunition

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on East Berbice police find large cache of ammunition

The bags were retrieved by police ranks, who, upon checking inside, found 205 live cartridges and a 32″ Panasonic flat screen television. The cartridges, which were packed in boxes of various...

Easter at a time of COVID-19… Guyanese find alternatives to tradition amidst partial lock down

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Easter at a time of COVID-19… Guyanese find alternatives to tradition amidst partial lock down

By Rehanna Ramsay With the partial lockdown due to COVID -19 in full effect across the country, Guyanese are finding alternative ways to spend the Easter holidays. Social activities have been...

Man arrested as police make major ganja find in Berbice

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man arrested as police make major ganja find in Berbice

In its continued illicit drugs eradication exercise, the Guyana Police Force was able to find and destroy four cannabis (ganja) farms, together with camps and dried cannabis. The massive find came...

Body of elderly woman found at Meten-Meer-Zorg

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Body of elderly woman found at Meten-Meer-Zorg

The lifeless body of a 65-year-old woman was found on a Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara (WCD) Street on Good Friday. The deceased has been identified as Dhanjalie Umraoe of Lot 86...

Arson suspected as Bent Street house goes up in flames

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Arson suspected as Bent Street house goes up in flames

By Anastacya Peters Eight persons are now looking for alternative dwelling after their Lot B-2 Bent Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown home went up in flames early yesterday morning. The incident,...

COVID-19: The disease for which the health workers need you more than you need them

Apr 12, 2020 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on COVID-19: The disease for which the health workers need you more than you need them

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine I live in fear daily knowing the possible consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak in Guyana. While my understanding is boosted by being a...

US allowing use of blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors to treat critical patients

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US allowing use of blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors to treat critical patients

By Mike Hixenbaugh [NBC] – The Food and Drug Administration is now allowing doctors across the US to begin using plasma donated by coronavirus survivors to treat patients who are critically ill...

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!

Today we at Kaieteur News join our Christian brothers and sisters to celebrate Easter, an occasion when the supernatural exploits of the risen Christ are remembered. Although he offered his life to...

A BLESSED AND HAPPY EASTER TO ALL

Apr 12, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, News Comments Off on A BLESSED AND HAPPY EASTER TO ALL

By Pat Dial Easter 2020 has arrived and we would like to wish our readers and all consumers “A blessed and Happy Easter”. Easter really encapsulates four days – Good Friday (the day...

The Americans lead the charge, they mean business

Apr 12, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Americans lead the charge, they mean business

It has been the most unanticipated kind of intervention, given its long and influential record in the electoral history of Guyana. Today, the United States first signalled its interest, then...

Steering the masses to simplified technological wisdom… IT Consultant, Philip Inshanally, is a ‘Special Person’

Apr 12, 2020 KNews News, Special Person Comments Off on Steering the masses to simplified technological wisdom… IT Consultant, Philip Inshanally, is a ‘Special Person’

“I wanted to make a difference. As I was pursuing my IT studies, the materials that I used were all written by foreigners. Additionally, the training video courses were all taught by foreigners....

Caribbean at risk as big powers delay action on COVID-19 global economic effects

Apr 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Caribbean at risk as big powers delay action on COVID-19 global economic effects

By Sir Ronald Sanders Despite a lofty statement on March 26, the world’s richest nations, the G20, have responded poorly to the devastating effects that COVID-19 is having on the global economy,...

NIGHT OF THE BUTCHER – A brutal killer remains on the run after 18 long years

Apr 12, 2020 KNews Murder and Mystery, News Comments Off on NIGHT OF THE BUTCHER – A brutal killer remains on the run after 18 long years

By Michael Jordan Roshanie Sooklall and her four siblings grew up dirt-poor in a back street in Herstelling, East Bank of Demerara. By the time she was ten, both of her parents had died and at the...

Justice Claudette Singh called on to take control of GECOM’s narrative by boosting PR

Apr 12, 2020 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Justice Claudette Singh called on to take control of GECOM’s narrative by boosting PR

Positioning the proposed national recount as a simple process is misleading the public and setting the stage for distrust and misrepresentation of the spirit and intent of the proposed work plan of...

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Tennis Association applauds historic GYD $8 billion allocation to the sports sector in the 2025 National Budget

‘Govt. must come clean on gas-to-energy project’

– spending US$2B on a project without financial, environmental studies is criminality at its worst – WPA Kaieteur... more