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May 03, 2020 KNews News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on Addressing occupational safety and health amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
Keeping safe and healthy in the workplace is important at any time, but even more so in times like these. Organisations across the globe on April 28 commemorated Occupational Safety and Health Day....May 03, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists Comments Off on LABOUR DAY AND TRADE UNIONISM
Last week Friday, May 1st, just two days ago, Labour Day was celebrated as a national holiday. It is customary for this column to notice commemorative holidays before they occur but we would have had...May 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Why Trump is moving closer to punishing China for the coronavirus
(Yahoo Finance) For months, the story of official Washington’s stance towards China amid the coronavirus pandemic has been a bit of a split screen. On one side, China “hawks” have pushed for a...May 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man shot 4 times during argument over motorcycle
A 27-year-old Georgetown man is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after he was shot four times by his close friend during an argument over a motorcycle. The victim...May 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on MMG launches bill payment promotion
Mobile Money Guyana (MMG) on Friday launched a $310,000 month-long bill payment promotion to encourage more customers to utilize this mobile method to pay bills. In a statement issued by GTT’s VP...May 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel Guyana gives back to healthcare workers
Digicel Guyana has been supporting doctors and nurses on the frontline amid the current COVID-19 pandemic, and with calls across the nation for social distancing, the company has made it clear to its...May 03, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Catastrophic times call for timely and inspiring leadership
“We were hearing from low- and moderate-income and minority communities that this was the best labour market they’d seen in their lifetime,” he said. “It is heartbreaking, frankly, to see...May 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on The inside story of the Wuhan virus laboratory blamed by President Trump for releasing Covid-19
(The Telegraph) – A state-of-the art facility purpose-built to handle research into the world’s most deadly pathogens, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) played a crucial role in...May 03, 2020 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The PPP has been pushing for a limited recount of the votes
Sometimes you simply have to admire the leadership of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP). That group does not understand what it is to be duplicitous. Take for example its latest uttering that...May 03, 2020 KNews APNU Column, Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review – Guyana’s Public Service: change, conformity and continuity
(A Review of David Granger’s Guyana’s Public Service: Change, conformity and continuity) David Granger, Guyana’s 8th Executive President, is reforming the Public Service to ensure the impartial...May 03, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on Book review… Bygone Days Come Alive
Book: A Country Boy – More Ossie Stories Author: Earl McKenzie Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD In the bucolic setting of bygone Jamaica, the life of Oswald Johnson, fondly called Ossie, unfolds....May 03, 2020 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Coronavirus: It’s not all bad
By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Over the past weeks, I have been trying my best to update you on the Covid-19 infection, and it has been mostly bad news thus far. There...May 03, 2020 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… Blue-winged Teal
The blue-winged teal (Anas discors) is a small dabbling duck from North America. It has reportedly been found in South American territories too. The scientific name is derived from Latin Anas...May 03, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on The Case for Power Sharing: Benefits
Power Sharing as a possible solution to Guyana’s ongoing ethno-political problems has resurfaced as part of the political discourse. Understandably the parties and supporters which feel that they...May 03, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Electoral insanities unseen in modern times
What goes through the mind of the leadership of APNU+AFC is a process no genius in psychoanalysis can fathom. With each day that passes the unthinkable is done by the election commission that sets...May 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Our ‘Frontline Worker’ of the Week is Dr. Bibi Mohamed
“Becoming a doctor is really about knowing your strengths and knowing your best and highest use as a human being, it also requires having the capacity to care for others.” By Sharmain Grainger As...May 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Local humanitarian efforts mount to aid Guyana’s most vulnerable in wake of COVID -19 crises
John Donne’s famous poem, Meditation XVII, gives us the line, “No man is an island, entire of itself” encapsulating the interdependence of human beings on each other for survival. Today, the...May 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Eligibility for U.S. Government Benefits due to Coronavirus and the “Public Charge” Rule
ImmigrationINFO Immigration News ForOur Community By Attorney Gail S. Seeram With over 30 million people unemployed in the U.S. and availability of certain U.S. government benefits, many lawful...May 03, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The Story within the Story Comments Off on The Story Within The Story… It can never be normal again!
By Leonard Gildarie Life as we know it can never be normal again. The world was chugging merrily along with civil wars, hunger, the growth of giants like Amazon and Google, and of course, China....May 03, 2020 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on GECOM must enforce Code of Conduct surrounding recount and assert its authority
All things being equal the National Recount should start this week. The journey, while having some hiccups, the fact that we have been able to come this far, Guyana can be proud. This is in spite of...May 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lockdown thing… Bringing party vibes to your living room
By Shikema Dey You’ve probably heard at least once the saying “every tinin cup knack, I deh” used to describe someone who never misses a party. Whether it be the hype weekends at the Strip,...May 03, 2020 KNews Murder and Mystery, News Comments Off on The clock of death and other ‘hard to explain’ stories
By Michael Jordan A clock that brings death to those who lie close to it…chairs that rock untouched by hand or breeze…ghostly figures that flit along passageways.. No, this isn’t the plot for...May 03, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wayne Jones described as the ‘Gary Sobers’ of Softball cricket Despite never playing hardball cricket
By Sean Devers It very rare for someone who has never played any hardball cricket to become arguable the best softball batsman ever in Guyana but 60-year-old left-hander Wayne Jones proves this can...May 03, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on iBET Supreme’s FIFA 20 ‘League of Champions’ eSports Round of 16 completed, Bremner, Cummings among favourites
The iBET Supreme FIFA 20 ‘League of Champions’ eSports championship which got underway just a week ago is now at the quarter-final stage with the Round of 16 being completed in a series of close...May 03, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former Guyana Open champion Sukhram remains positive despite delay
By Zaheer Mohamed Around the globe, stadiums and sports arenas have plunged into silence in recent months with the corona virus (COVID-19) outbreak bringing tournaments to a standstill. As...Your children are starving, and you giving away their food to an already fat pussycat.
May 30, 2026
Beharry Schools Under-19 Cricket Tournament… – Tournament to focus on growing core value among youths through cricket By Clifton Ross Kaieteur Sports – The Beharry Group of Companies...May 30, 2026
Peeping Tom… (Kaieteur News) – The countdown has begun. In homes across Guyana, television sets will soon be tuned to one thing and one thing only — the FIFA World Cup 2026. From Georgetown to Lethem, from Berbice to Bartica, football fever will once again take over the country. Sleep...May 17, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – An attempt is now being made by a few member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), using procedural manoeuvres, to prevent a proposed “Declaration on the Rights of Persons and Peoples of African Descent” from proceeding to the OAS...May 30, 2026
Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The world was crumbling long before China’s strongman Xi Jinping said so. The leader of the free world surrenders the high ground, the first flakes fly, the crumbling begins. Standards fragment. Come alarmingly close to a world shredded, left...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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