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Elections 2020 – Day 49… CARICOM high level team will not be quarantined – President Granger

Elections 2020 – Day 49… CARICOM high level team will not be quarantined – President Granger

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Elections 2020 – Day 49… CARICOM high level team will not be quarantined – President Granger

By Kemol King The CARICOM high level team will not be quarantined when they arrive in Guyana. They will be tested in the countries they are coming from, and be allowed entry to Guyana, once found...

Using Exxon’s affiliates to draft Guyana’s laws, policies will have significant consequences – German NGO calls for urgent intervention

Using Exxon’s affiliates to draft Guyana’s laws, policies will have significant consequences – German NGO calls for urgent intervention

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Using Exxon’s affiliates to draft Guyana’s laws, policies will have significant consequences – German NGO calls for urgent intervention

By giving its approval for ExxonMobil affiliates to draft Guyana’s laws and policies that will be used to regulate ExxonMobil’s behaviour and that of other oil companies, the World Bank is...

No sanctions yet on Guyana: EU ambassador

No sanctions yet on Guyana: EU ambassador

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on No sanctions yet on Guyana: EU ambassador

The European Union has not started considering sanctions for Guyana as yet, as there are still hopes that the ongoing political situation can be resolved democratically. This was stressed yesterday...

Region 10 authorities probe alleged hoarding of COVID-19 medical supplies

Region 10 authorities probe alleged hoarding of COVID-19 medical supplies

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region 10 authorities probe alleged hoarding of COVID-19 medical supplies

Region 10 authorities and the Ministry of Public Health are now pondering whether to call in the police after finding a large quantity of medical supplies and other critical items stashed in a Wismar...

Guyana would be lucky if it gets anything around US$60M for next three oil lifts – Finance Minister

Guyana would be lucky if it gets anything around US$60M for next three oil lifts – Finance Minister

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana would be lucky if it gets anything around US$60M for next three oil lifts – Finance Minister

As a result of the novel coronavirus, oil prices have been collapsing at an alarming rate. In fact, the price of oil has been below US$20 for the past few days. When one considers this predicament,...

Best friends perish in Bagotstown accident

Best friends perish in Bagotstown accident

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Best friends perish in Bagotstown accident

Two young men tragically lost their lives after the car in which they were travelling, crashed into a median, a concrete fence and a utility pole on the Bagotstown Public Road, East Bank Demerara....

Health Ministry encourages public to use more home-made masks

Health Ministry encourages public to use more home-made masks

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry encourages public to use more home-made masks

While encouraging the use of masks as a form of protection against the spread of the highly infectious COVID-19 disease, the Health Ministry says that home-made masks should be the preferred option...

Extended period of school closure… Parents urged to utilise e-learning, other resources

Extended period of school closure… Parents urged to utilise e-learning, other resources

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Extended period of school closure… Parents urged to utilise e-learning, other resources

As a consequence of the extended closure of schools, the Ministry of Education is to provide guidance to parents and guardians for homeschooling their children. As was previously announced, the...

The Iron Lady getting rusty

The Iron Lady getting rusty

Apr 21, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Iron Lady getting rusty

Dem Boys lose faith in Fraudette. She tell dem boys how all the oil in Guyana can’t buy she h-intlegrity. Dem boys notice how coconut oil now worth more than crude. Dem boys seh if the future of...

Key institutions have been corrupted

Key institutions have been corrupted

Apr 21, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Key institutions have been corrupted

The presence of international observers for the recount of the ballots cast during the 2020 general and regional elections is crucial to the transparency of the process and for wider public...

String of break-ins at Number 56 Village – alcohol, home appliances and cash stolen

String of break-ins at Number 56 Village – alcohol, home appliances and cash stolen

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on String of break-ins at Number 56 Village – alcohol, home appliances and cash stolen

Three homes and a business place were the targets of thieves yesterday morning at Number 56 Village, Corentyne, Berbice. According to Gansham Totaram who operates his liquor shop at Lot 17 A Number...

Nagamootoo’s nagana and Granger’s grandevity

Nagamootoo’s nagana and Granger’s grandevity

Apr 21, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Nagamootoo’s nagana and Granger’s grandevity

There is a serious virus named nagana, whose rampage resembles that of COVID-19. It is transmitted, like the coronavirus from animals. Nagana produces the same symptoms as COVID-19. Caretaker or...

Guyana records 66th case of COVID-19

Guyana records 66th case of COVID-19

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana records 66th case of COVID-19

The Ministry of Public Health announced yesterday that Guyana has recorded its 66th case of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Up to press time last evening, the deaths remained at seven. These cases have...

Manhunt launched as four inmates escape from Lusignan Prison

Manhunt launched as four inmates escape from Lusignan Prison

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Manhunt launched as four inmates escape from Lusignan Prison

A manhunt has been launched to locate four inmates who jumped the eastern fence of the Lusignan Prison and escaped early yesterday morning. According to prison officials, the men escaped around 03:46...

Adherence to COVID-19 social distancing measures still not as expected

Adherence to COVID-19 social distancing measures still not as expected

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Adherence to COVID-19 social distancing measures still not as expected

With the number of COVID-19 cases now at 66, and the death toll at 7, it is expected that Guyanese will take heed of the necessary precautions implemented to protect themselves and their families...

CJIA doing internal work during downtime

CJIA doing internal work during downtime

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA doing internal work during downtime

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) is using the current downtime to attend to internal work as lockdown measures remain in place at the country’s two international airports. Both the...

Elections – Guyana’s own national sport

Elections – Guyana’s own national sport

Apr 21, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Elections – Guyana’s own national sport

This might be found jarring, but there are no sports. And since there are no sporting events, there is nothing else for the multitudes following teams and heroes engaged in competitive combat. For...

Guyanese man, 21, killed in NY crash after friend speeds through stop sign

Guyanese man, 21, killed in NY crash after friend speeds through stop sign

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man, 21, killed in NY crash after friend speeds through stop sign

New York (New York Daily News) – A 21-year-old Queens man died in a horrific crash early Sunday after an unlicensed driver he knew from high school sped through a stop sign and slammed into his...

“His leadership and philosophy served as a guiding principle,”

“His leadership and philosophy served as a guiding principle,”

Apr 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on “His leadership and philosophy served as a guiding principle,”

– Ivor Carrington On passing of former Pele FC President, William ‘Billy’ Braithwaite Former President of the Pele Football Club (PFC), William ‘Billy’ Braithwaite who succumbed to the...

Driver, porter jailed 4 years, fined for trafficking narcotics

Driver, porter jailed 4 years, fined for trafficking narcotics

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Driver, porter jailed 4 years, fined for trafficking narcotics

Twenty-eight-year-old Lawrence Harper, a porter, of 592 Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, and Stanley Mann, 32, a driver, of 7 Industry, East Coast Demerara, were yesterday jailed and fined for...

‘It was difficult to play for West Indies in the 80s’ says former WI ‘B’ Batsman Andy Jackman

‘It was difficult to play for West Indies in the 80s’ says former WI ‘B’ Batsman Andy Jackman

Apr 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘It was difficult to play for West Indies in the 80s’ says former WI ‘B’ Batsman Andy Jackman

By Sean Devers Former Guyana and West Indies ‘B’ team batsman Andrew Fitz Donald Jackman was born in Georgetown on January 27, 1963 and is one of three brothers who played Youth Cricket for...

AAG content with hosting CARIFTA Games in 2022

AAG content with hosting CARIFTA Games in 2022

Apr 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on AAG content with hosting CARIFTA Games in 2022

The President of the Amateur Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Aubrey Hutson has confirmed during an interview with Kaieteur Sport yesterday that the one year push back of the Caribbean Free...

Health Ministry refutes claims of not helping all regions in COVID-19 fight

Health Ministry refutes claims of not helping all regions in COVID-19 fight

Apr 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry refutes claims of not helping all regions in COVID-19 fight

Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence in a statement has refuted claims that were made by some health care workers, of not receiving help from the Government in the fight against the Coronavirus...

We want peace not conflict

We want peace not conflict

Apr 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We want peace not conflict

DEAR EDITOR, It never stops with the PPP until they get their own way. Thankfully, someone succeeded in getting GECOM to recognise that with the coronavirus social distancing is critical to prevent...

GECOM’S role in declaring the winner should be a mere formality

GECOM’S role in declaring the winner should be a mere formality

Apr 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM’S role in declaring the winner should be a mere formality

DEAR EDITOR, The way the law has been setup since 1992 (with the counting of ballots at place of poll) has made the role of GECOM in the declaration of the winner a mere formality. Consider these...

D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life with Region 3 Jamboree

D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life...

Nov 21, 2024

Kaieteur Sports – The D-Up Basketball Academy is gearing up to wrap its first-of-its-kind, two-month youth basketball camp, which tipped off in September at the Tuschen Primary School (TPS)...

Campbell Eyes Eighth Men’s Physique Title in Final Amateur Outing

Campbell Eyes Eighth Men’s Physique Title in...

Nov 21, 2024

Alphonso, Fung-a-Fat, Munroe among top performers as Stena Drilling Junior Skill Level Tournament concludes

Alphonso, Fung-a-Fat, Munroe among top performers...

Nov 20, 2024

Guyana’s finest Physiques to battle for Glory at Mr. Guyana National Seniors Championship

Guyana’s finest Physiques to battle for Glory...

Nov 20, 2024

CWI names West Indies Test Squad for home series against Bangladesh

CWI names West Indies Test Squad for home series...

Nov 20, 2024

Georgetown romp to 292-run win over Select XI

Georgetown romp to 292-run win over Select XI

Nov 20, 2024

Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more

Rising Gun Crimes in the Caribbean: Urgent Action required by all

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – There is an alarming surge in gun-related violence, particularly among younger... more

Exxon contract can be changed

…Hard Truths By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- The sacred U.S. Constitution in its original form was and is a compact with... more