May 2020

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Food rushed to flood-stricken Konashen

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Food rushed to flood-stricken Konashen

Senior Response Officer in the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), Captain Salim October, yesterday led a humanitarian mission to Masakenari, Konashen, in Region 9, following severe flooding caused by...

De bank hires bandits fuh guard de money

May 24, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De bank hires bandits fuh guard de money

Dem boys seh… Dem oil companies gat deep pockets. Dem also like octopus. Dem gat lang tentacles which does reach deep into guvments. Imagine dem gat a law firm in America. It mek its name from...

When people begin to believe lies, trouble lurks around the corner

May 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on When people begin to believe lies, trouble lurks around the corner

A sucker is born every minute. But it appears as if Guyana has gotten the hog’s share of suckers. When Donald Trump made his remarks about the possibility of neutralizing the coronavirus by...

125 COVID-hit E’bo families benefit from food hampers

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 125 COVID-hit E’bo families benefit from food hampers

One hundred and twenty-five food hampers were last Monday distributed to families along the Essequibo Coast. The families who benefitted are reportedly feeling the blunt effects of the COVID-19...

Leguan mourns after worker pinned to death by overturned tractor

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Leguan mourns after worker pinned to death by overturned tractor

The Essequibo island of Leguan is in deep mourning after tragedy struck Friday morning, leaving a well-known farm worker dead. Reports said that Sasenarine Persaud, known popularly as ‘Narine’,...

Address the crisis but keep the receipts — IMF to Govts on COVID-19 expenditures

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Address the crisis but keep the receipts — IMF to Govts on COVID-19 expenditures

In a special series on fiscal affairs, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on governments across the globe “to do what it takes” in launching emergency measures to address the adverse...

EPA engages businesses on proposed ban of single-use plastics

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on EPA engages businesses on proposed ban of single-use plastics

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday engaged representatives from the Private Sector Commission (PSC), along with executive members of the Georgetown, as well as, the regional...

Appoximately 300 Guyanese stranded abroad approved for return

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Appoximately 300 Guyanese stranded abroad approved for return

– must undergo COVID-19 tests The National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) on Friday greenlighted the conditional return of about 300 Guyanese stranded abroad. During a special meeting to consider...

Europe Day celebrates European Unity and Reminds of Europe’s Unique World Contributions

May 24, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Europe Day celebrates European Unity and Reminds of Europe’s Unique World Contributions

By Pat Dial On May 9, Europe Day was commemorated in Guyana and other parts of the world. Though the event was accorded some media notice, the COVID-19 problems and the overarching political impasse...

THE NEW DAWN OF DISEASE CONTROL – USING STANDARDS TO REDUCE RISKS AND ERRORS

May 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus Comments Off on THE NEW DAWN OF DISEASE CONTROL – USING STANDARDS TO REDUCE RISKS AND ERRORS

In our evermore complex, inter-connected world, with health systems undergoing new challenges and stresses, risk management in the healthcare industry has never been more important. ISO standards...

Corruption: Are we doing anything about it anymore?

May 24, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Corruption: Are we doing anything about it anymore?

The better question is this: Do we care anymore to do anything about it? And still better, do those who have a constitutional mandate to investigate reports and gather evidence, to institute charges...

GECOM is going to have to make some tough decisions in the coming weeks

May 24, 2020 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on GECOM is going to have to make some tough decisions in the coming weeks

In a matter of weeks, maybe days, the beleaguered Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will be called upon to take what will be perhaps the deepest and most critical look ever at a general elections...

Ensuring that people remain at the centre of economic and social transformation

May 24, 2020 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Ensuring that people remain at the centre of economic and social transformation

(A review of David Granger’s, Guyana’s decade of development. Overcoming crime, disease, ignorance and poverty) David Granger’s Guyana’s decade of development. Overcoming crime, disease,...

Dr. Zulfikar Bux – an ER Specialist on a mission to help end COVID-19

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Dr. Zulfikar Bux – an ER Specialist on a mission to help end COVID-19

By Sharmain Grainger Originating in Wuhan, China in late 2019, COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, within a matter of months, was able to spread its contagious tentacles across the globe, not only...

Big Tech Censorship amid a Global Pandemic

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Big Tech Censorship amid a Global Pandemic

By Glenville Ashby, PhD “If all Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They will have enough to eat and a bed over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his...

An Essential Study on Culture and the Psychology of Racism

May 24, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on An Essential Study on Culture and the Psychology of Racism

Book: Conflict of Identity: From the Slave Trade to Present Day – One Man’s Healing in Benin, Africa Author: Glenville Ashby, PhD Reviewer: Sherwyn Besson “Healing is possible only when the...

Barred antshrike (Thamnophilus doliatus)

May 24, 2020 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on Barred antshrike (Thamnophilus doliatus)

Interesting Creatures… The barred antshrike (Thamnophilus doliatus) is a passerine bird in the antbird family. It is found in the Neotropics from Tamaulipas, Mexico, through Central America,...

The unintended consequence of the 2020 Election

May 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on The unintended consequence of the 2020 Election

I have concluded that there is at least one unintended consequence of the 2020 election. I had joined others in dubbing the election the “mother of all elections,” because I felt that the...

A song for me and the heroes I see from my window

May 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A song for me and the heroes I see from my window

My bedroom window faces the Arthur Chung Conference Centre. Since the recount began, I often look through the window at the people who brave the elements to fight for rights that humans are entitled...

Ambulance Driver, Oswald Bedlow, is our Frontline Worker of the Week

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ambulance Driver, Oswald Bedlow, is our Frontline Worker of the Week

By Sharmain Grainger Change sometimes can be hard, especially when it is drastic, even to the point of the unfamiliar. Adapting to drastic change could be excruciating for some who see it more as a...

ImmigrationINFO: Understanding Visa Availability and Priority Dates

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO: Understanding Visa Availability and Priority Dates

By Gail Seeram Many of my clients often ask why the wait is so long for the issuance of visas. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) sets the number of immigrant visas that may be issued to...

The establishment and development of the Institute of Internal Auditors – Guyana Chapter

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on The establishment and development of the Institute of Internal Auditors – Guyana Chapter

By John Seeram The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Global has declared the month of May – International Internal Audit Awareness Month, as have been the practice over the years. Hence, I...

Weary and barely hanging on

May 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The Story within the Story Comments Off on Weary and barely hanging on

The Story Within The Story… By Leonard Gildarie Yesterday was Day 18 of the National Recount of the March 2 votes. Our journey from December 21, 2018 has been nerve-wracking and more than a...

1, 049 ballot boxes recounted in 18 days

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 1, 049 ballot boxes recounted in 18 days

On the 18th day of the National Recount exercise, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) managed to complete the recount of an additional 85 ballot boxes, the second highest number since the recount...

Guyana is our home – we must make it comfortable for all

May 24, 2020 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana is our home – we must make it comfortable for all

Come Tuesday Guyana would mark 54 years of political independence from Britain. Whereas ours is a relatively young nation, in this global competitive environment, we have to quicken the pace in...

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WIN cannot break the PPP/C’s political stranglehold unless it first...

Aug 25, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The results of the 2025 general and regional elections were a shocker. And anyone who now claims that they predicted the performance of We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) coming should seriously consider going into the fortune-telling business. WIN did not merely emerge from the...

Facts, Due Process and Fairness: The CCJ’s Test

Aug 23, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...

The man from WIN slipped

Aug 25, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I think that the Hon Leader of the Opposition (LOO), Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, blundered. Three Local Govt seats in hand. One went to the Hon Ms. Amanza Walton-Desir’s Forward Guyana Movement. Good! The second should have gone to the APNU. Would have been reflective of...

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