May 2020

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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...

Roles and responsibilities of the Audit Committee

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Roles and responsibilities of the Audit Committee

By John M. Seeram The month of May is designated International Internal Audit Awareness Month by the Institute of Internal Auditors, Global (IIAG). The Guyana Chapter is affiliated to the IIAG, hence...

Harmon contradicts Ramjattan on Carter Center’s approval

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Harmon contradicts Ramjattan on Carter Center’s approval

It appears that government is unclear who denied the approval for the Carter Center’s Observer Mission’s flight into Guyana for the ongoing national recount. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the...

Immigration INFO: What to Expect in Immigration Removal Proceedings?

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Immigration INFO: What to Expect in Immigration Removal Proceedings?

Removal proceedings (or “deportation”) can be initiated against a lawful permanent resident or undocumented noncitizen (collectively referred to as “noncitizens”). Removal & deportation...

US Congressman Jeffries calls American ‘intervention’ in Guyana’s politics ‘outrageous’

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US Congressman Jeffries calls American ‘intervention’ in Guyana’s politics ‘outrageous’

– had formerly urged for US intervention under previous administration Prominent American Congressman, Hakeem Jeffries, has called what he termed US interventions in Guyana’s politics as...

Our ‘Frontline Worker of the Week’ is Dr. Dwayne Kellman

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Our ‘Frontline Worker of the Week’ is Dr. Dwayne Kellman

By Sharmain Grainger Another week has dawned but there is no end in sight to the deadly rampage of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) across the globe. Here in Guyana, we’ve recorded 94 cases with 10...

Guyana taken off European Commission’s money laundering list

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana taken off European Commission’s money laundering list

Guyana has been delisted from the European Commission’s money laundering list, joining countries like Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka and Tunisia, as...

3 new COVID-19 cases recorded as tally moves to 97 – 825 persons now tested

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 3 new COVID-19 cases recorded as tally moves to 97 – 825 persons now tested

The Ministry of Public Health has recorded three new COVID-19 cases taking the total to 97 as of May 9, 2020. Of these 97 cases, Guyana has recorded 10 deaths and 35 recoveries. So far, 825 persons...

After this, we will never see some Guyanese the same way again

May 10, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on After this, we will never see some Guyanese the same way again

No one in their right mind should be glad that the 2020 election nightmare occurred. Guyana deserves to have democracy, social peace, economic take off that have been stalled since Independence. But...

World Rugby releases return to play guideline

May 10, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on World Rugby releases return to play guideline

The coronavirus pandemic has affected sport in a major way with all activities being halted but it is expected that the world will overcome this deadly disease that emerged from Wuhan, China, but...

GBTI, DemBank to facilitate online uploads to MMG wallets

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GBTI, DemBank to facilitate online uploads to MMG wallets

Mobile Money Guyana (MMG) has partnered with The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Limited (GBTI) and Demerara Bank Limited (DBL) to provide the added convenience of online uploads to MMG wallets....

A broader explanation of the current impasse

May 10, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on A broader explanation of the current impasse

After ten weeks without a declared winner of the March 2 elections, it is time to ask serious questions about Guyana’s future. Why has this impasse been so prolonged with no end in sight anytime...

M&TC of Bartica launch Sports Wall of Fame in observance of 4th Anniversary as a Town

May 10, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on M&TC of Bartica launch Sports Wall of Fame in observance of 4th Anniversary as a Town

Terrence Archer and Diane Ferreira-James heads 10 Sports Personalities inducted By Franklin Wilson It is always a good thing to heed good advice and in this instance, the famous Tradewinds, led by...

CSEC, CAPE students to sit exams in July ─ results expected in the first week of September

May 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CSEC, CAPE students to sit exams in July ─ results expected in the first week of September

Students across the CARICOM Region will sit the annual Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) assessments in July. This was...

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GDF, Slingerz stay perfect in GFF Elite League

Sep 15, 2026

…Western Tigers, Fruta Conquerors pick up first win By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Elite League is beginning to take shape, and while the season is still...

Resource sovereignty without institutional competence is an illusion

Sep 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In his column, entitled, “Sovereignty in the Age of Oil” Chris Ram, in making the argument that storage, a refinery and even a national oil company could improve energy security without giving Guyana effective control over production, technology, capital, markets or the...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Minister Persaud pointing the way

Sep 15, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – I have always seen Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr. Vindya Persaud, as different from her cabinet colleagues. Slightly different only. I take whatever the territory gives. Give thanks. Small starts lead to large developments....

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