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What cricket means to West Indians…. Bangladesh make clean sweep of make shift Windies

May 18, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on What cricket means to West Indians…. Bangladesh make clean sweep of make shift Windies

In July of 2009 Bangladesh came to the Caribbean and after a strike by the senior players, a make shift side was assembled. Led by Floyd Reifer, West Indies lost by 95 runs in Jamaica and by four...

WE ARE ALL INNOCENT HERE!

May 18, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WE ARE ALL INNOCENT HERE!

A great deal of misinformation continues to be peddled about the 2020 General and Regional Elections. This happens when the narrative keeps shifting. Once you begin to stretch the truth, you have to...

GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…TAKEN TO THE DEATH WARD

May 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…TAKEN TO THE DEATH WARD

He thought again about the array of love-bites on Michael’s chest. No…those weren’t marks of love…those were marks inflicted by some frenzied, voracious thing. He flinched as the image of a...

Over two months after…Police still to give update on cop’s fatal shooting of bus driver

May 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Over two months after…Police still to give update on cop’s fatal shooting of bus driver

It’s been over two months since a police sergeant accidentally shot and killed Mahdia bus driver Cleon Gomes, but officials are yet to give an update on the outcome of the probe. Kaieteur News...

SOMEWHAT REASSURING

May 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on SOMEWHAT REASSURING

DEAR EDITOR, President David Granger, following a visit to the Arthur Chung Convention Centre, has reiterated an earlier committment that he will abide with the decision taken by GECOM following the...

Concerns of Farmers of Left Bank Abary

May 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Concerns of Farmers of Left Bank Abary

DEAR EDITOR, The savannah lands of the Left bank of Abary were leased to 12 farmers for the main purpose of cattle rearing. These lands are separated by wired fence line since the third depth is...

Brazilian dies after severing leg in freak accident

May 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian dies after severing leg in freak accident

A 65-year-old Brazilian miner was killed at around 08:00 hrs yesterday after severing one of his legs in a freak accident at Oku Backdam, Cuyuni/Mazaruni. Police said that Taburico Valeriano De...

Pandemic Impact on Globalization and Human Emotions

May 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pandemic Impact on Globalization and Human Emotions

DEAR EDITOR, This COVID pandemic has shaken human behaviour in Guyana, the diaspora and globe. What was earlier so ‘normal’ is replaced by ‘a new normal’. Globalization and emotions are...

Would claim be disavowed?

May 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Would claim be disavowed?

DEAR EDITOR, Everyday it seems we are in for continued barrage of instances, to borrow a suitable description, ‘inanities’. The headline “ ‘Government’ congratulates Granger on...

REFLECTIONS

May 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on REFLECTIONS

DEAR EDITOR, I have thought long and hard about writing this reflection and making it available. Nevertheless, here goes. Thanks to the PPP, and later the PPP/C, I have had the privilege of...

A grave and serious insult and affront to the ABCE countries

May 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A grave and serious insult and affront to the ABCE countries

DEAR EDITOR, I write as a very concerned Guyanese regarding the very unintelligent and crass response and refusal by the Guyana GOVERNMENT, and its refusal of the return of the Carter Center...

Charity begins at home

May 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Charity begins at home

DEAR EDITOR, Back in the day, when the PPP was the minority party, they hated everything American. Today, they are calling for the Carter Center Foundation to observe the Recount Process of the...

Lamaha Park couple robbed at gunpoint in home

May 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lamaha Park couple robbed at gunpoint in home

Bandits relieved a Lamaha Park, Greater Georgetown couple of jewellery, cell phones and a laptop after holding their victims at gunpoint at around 03:15 hrs yesterday. Delroy West, a commercial bank...

At times, you got to feel sorry for Lindeners

May 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on At times, you got to feel sorry for Lindeners

DEAR EDITOR, At times, you got to feel sorry for Lindeners as they only have one source of information which is the PNC. The PNC had bankrupted Guyana in the past which is why Linden is a depressed...

A gargantuan fraud by the PPP that failed: Really?

May 18, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A gargantuan fraud by the PPP that failed: Really?

As of Sunday, when this column is being typed, less than a quarter of 2,339 ballot boxes have been touched. At the time of typing (Sunday), 528 ballot boxes have been cleaned. On Thursday, before the...

We must condemn these actions

May 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must condemn these actions

DEAR EDITOR, The failure of the Chairperson of GECOM to demonstrate her control and command of the recount process at the Conference Centre speaks volumes, and at the same time confirmed that GECOM...

The president has spoken, his should be the last word

May 18, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The president has spoken, his should be the last word

A kind conclusion would be that it is a game of blind man’s bluff. A harsher one would be that it is indicative of the mindlessness of a mob bent on fostering mischief. Like the rest of Guyana, we...

WHEN THE CONTACT TRACERS CAME

May 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on WHEN THE CONTACT TRACERS CAME

– remembering another deadly pandemic By Michael Jordan The vehicle with the health workers stopped outside the city home just after 8:30 p.m. A man and a woman got out, went to the gate, and...

Granger nixes Williams, Forde claim that recount is illegal

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Granger nixes Williams, Forde claim that recount is illegal

Incumbent President David Granger today says that he will accept the declaration of the results of the March 2, 2020 elections using the final figures of the ongoing national recount exercise. The...

Our oil has been hijacked

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Our oil has been hijacked

Our responsibility is to share, with our readers, oil-related developments that impact on the country. To our chagrin, many of these reports have been negative and with far-reaching implications for...

National election recount ‘illegal’ – AG Williams, Forde

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on National election recount ‘illegal’ – AG Williams, Forde

…party will accept result – Anna Ally Attorney General, Basil Williams, has claimed that the national recount exercise currently ongoing at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre is in fact...

Guyana should have say in all oil companies’ spending – TT expert, Anthony Paul

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana should have say in all oil companies’ spending – TT expert, Anthony Paul

By Kiana Wilburg When the Stabroek Block deal was released in 2017, several international experts cringed upon noting the alarming loopholes the Coalition Government left unaddressed. Two years...

Suriname arrest 9 Guyanese fishermen, seize boats

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname arrest 9 Guyanese fishermen, seize boats

Surinamese authorities have reportedly arrested nine Guyanese fishermen who they said were in the waters of that neighbouring country illegally. According to a report of the Dagblad Suriname...

Carter Center protest quelled as one arrested

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Carter Center protest quelled as one arrested

An early morning protest that was staged yesterday by members of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) saw one being arrested. PPP/C supporters turned up with placards in front of the...

Commissioners split on handling of recount observations

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Commissioners split on handling of recount observations

By Kemol King The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has not yet discussed and decided on how it will treat with the observations being made during the National Recount, particularly claims that...

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Guyana Cup rematch on the cards in President’s Cup feature

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The field will be a packed one on Sunday November 29, at Rising Sun Turf Club when the President’s Cup horse race meet shoots off. More than 100 horses have thrown their names...

Who says the government does not listen?

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Who says the government does not listen? That is an unfair accusation. The government does listen. In fact, it listens very attentively. The only problem is that it appears to have a rather selective hearing. It can hear a whisper from certain quarters of the private sector...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

Sinking ship, bailing out-US midterms – Pt. II

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – U.S. Vice President, J.D. Vance is among the first bailing from a sinking ship. The Iran War led to the ashes of defeat in the midterms. President Trump suddenly sheds his crazy man persona. Now talks of working with Democrats. From America I wing to Guyana, and Vice...

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