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Who is next?

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Who is next?

We view as sinister the decision, by the Ministry of Public Health, to single out for COVID-9 testing Mr. Timothy Jonas, a member of the opposition party, A New and United Guyana (ANUG). Mr. Jonas...

Mingo’s tabulation inflated in favour of APNU+AFC – Recount shows

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mingo’s tabulation inflated in favour of APNU+AFC – Recount shows

A statement of recount (SOR) produced during the national recount of votes has revealed that the tabulation produced for one polling division by Region Four returning officer Clairmont Mingo was...

COVID-19 & The Oil Industry … Guyana lucky to get early wakeup call – energy strategist, Anthony Paul

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 & The Oil Industry … Guyana lucky to get early wakeup call – energy strategist, Anthony Paul

By Kiana Wilburg The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the oil industry can be seen as an early wakeup call for Guyana, the latest entrant to the global oil producers club, says Local...

Medical Council warns doctors… Act professionally at this time or lose your licences

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Medical Council warns doctors… Act professionally at this time or lose your licences

The Medical Council of Guyana is warning doctors to act professionally during this testy political times or face the loss of their licences. The statement of the Council would come as a national...

Over 40 persons arrested, charged for breaching curfew in Region 4

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Over 40 persons arrested, charged for breaching curfew in Region 4

The Guyana Police Force has arrested over 40 persons for breaching the 6pm to 6am curfew implemented by the Public Health Ministry to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus This was disclosed by...

Linkages between ExxonMobil, State contractors should be under microscope – petroleum advisor

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Linkages between ExxonMobil, State contractors should be under microscope – petroleum advisor

Finding contractors or independent experts without ties to major oil companies is a dilemma all governments of producing nations face. But when a close relationship has been identified between an oil...

Commission decides no opening of ballot boxes after 5PM – as 48 boxes completed for Day 4

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Commission decides no opening of ballot boxes after 5PM – as 48 boxes completed for Day 4

With the aim of ensuring that their staffers and relevant stakeholders do not exceed the allotted 07:00PM deadline, Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (ret’d) Claudette...

Entire ward quarantined as another Palms resident positive for COVID-19

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Entire ward quarantined as another Palms resident positive for COVID-19

Another resident of the Palms Geriatric Home has fallen ill to the dreaded COVID-19 virus. Sources close the facility confirmed that the new COVID-19 case has been discovered there. Kaieteur news...

Timothy Jonas sees sinister move to deprive him from Recount Process

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Timothy Jonas sees sinister move to deprive him from Recount Process

Chair of A New and United Guyana (ANUG) Timothy Jonas has claimed that he received a curious call from the Ministry of Health claiming that he was suspected of having Covid-19. In a video posted on...

Dem parties fighting fuh tek over prablem

May 10, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dem parties fighting fuh tek over prablem

Dem boys looking on at de cockfight wha tekkin’ place. HAP-New+Hay-Eff-See fighting de Pee-Pee-Pee-Cee fuh power. Dem like two rundown batteries. Dem two had dem chance and all dem prove is dat all...

GTT recognises frontliners who are moms

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GTT recognises frontliners who are moms

For Mother’s Day this year, GTT has applauded moms who are also frontline workers – and have provided the platform for a few special moms to share their stories that speak to the impact of this...

A message from Ghana’s President: End dependence on charity of European nations and grow your own country

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on A message from Ghana’s President: End dependence on charity of European nations and grow your own country

At noon today, Kaieteur Radio will be airing a most powerful message from the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo where he tells world leaders that it is time to end dependence on the charity of...

Police arrest Corentyne couple with marijuana, scale in home

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Police arrest Corentyne couple with marijuana, scale in home

Police, acting on information, has arrested a couple who had a quantity of narcotics at their home. Police said on Friday that about 05:15hrs, ranks in Berbice went to the home of an Ankerville,...

Certification of medical laboratories

May 10, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on Certification of medical laboratories

The National Standard that guides laboratories to conform to dispense quality services to consumers is the GYS 170:2009 Standard, General requirements for the operation of a laboratory. This standard...

Ministry widens net to catch asymptomatic COVID-19 patients

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry widens net to catch asymptomatic COVID-19 patients

The Public Health Ministry has cast its net wider to catch symptomless patients but who are nevertheless carriers of the highly-infectious and deadly COVID-19 disease, so says Director of Regional...

REFLECTIONS ON INDIAN IMMIGRATION DAY

May 10, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on REFLECTIONS ON INDIAN IMMIGRATION DAY

By Pat Dial On 5th May every year, Guyana celebrates Immigration Day which was ostensibly to commemorate the peopling of Guyana in the 19th century by indentured immigrants from various countries in...

Recount optimism despite grave misgivings

May 10, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Recount optimism despite grave misgivings

Wars in Kuwait and Iraq were the precedents that set the bar high with information flashes, flows, and failures being reproduced near instantaneously to stationary residences, which was followed...

Remarkable educator, Kashwar Ramnauth, is a ‘Special Person’

May 10, 2020 KNews News, Special Person Comments Off on Remarkable educator, Kashwar Ramnauth, is a ‘Special Person’

By Malisa Player-Harry When the name Kashwar Ramnauth is mentioned in Rose Hall, way up in Corentyne, Berbice, it can easily trigger a tsunami of positive vibes. This is owing to the fact that for...

Tied to no one’s apron strings: The Caribbean in an emerging new world

May 10, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Tied to no one’s apron strings: The Caribbean in an emerging new world

By Sir Ronald Sanders Developing countries, including Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states, would make a grave mistake if, in the wake of the economic crisis they now face, they decide to diminish...

Exposure is the media’s protector

May 10, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Exposure is the media’s protector

The members of the media have the power to end the abuse which they have suffered at the hands of supporters of the APNU+AFC. They have the means of exposure but have refused to identify those who...

Coalition supporter arrested after ruckus

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition supporter arrested after ruckus

A number of APNU+AFC supporters were yesterday arrested by police officers, after being accused of misbehaving, mere meters away from the Arthur Chung Convention Centre (ACCC), where the national...

Alive or dead? A half-century old family mystery

May 10, 2020 KNews Murder and Mystery, News Comments Off on Alive or dead? A half-century old family mystery

By Michael Jordan It was several years ago that she contacted me; this woman that I’d never seen before, to help her solve a case that happened before I was born. The details she gave me were...

Never before has Guyana experienced such diplomatic environment

May 10, 2020 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Never before has Guyana experienced such diplomatic environment

Over the last few days, though the environment is somewhat calm, there is still an undercurrent being whipped up by external interference. What is happening to Guyana’s election shares similarity...

Coalition launches Operation ‘Eagle Eye’ to pick up discrepancies

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition launches Operation ‘Eagle Eye’ to pick up discrepancies

The APNU/AFC Coalition has code-named their recount operation ‘Eagle Eye’. According to Campaign Manager, Joseph Harmon, they are carefully keeping an eye on the ongoing national recount of...

Lessons to be learned this year

May 10, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The Story within the Story Comments Off on Lessons to be learned this year

By Leonard Gildarie I am a not a big party animal or drinker. Occasionally, I would take a beer and I like vodka and coconut water. But these have to be in moderate quantities. I find that there are...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more