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U.S. Supreme Court Block Trump’s Attempt to End DACA

Jun 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on U.S. Supreme Court Block Trump’s Attempt to End DACA

ImmigrationINFO: By Attorney Gail Seeram On June 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to block President’s Trump attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme...

Concede… for the sake of country!

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery, News Comments Off on Concede… for the sake of country!

By Leonard Gildarie Today makes 111 days since the March 2nd elections. The matter is before the courts as I write. It was scheduled to be heard at 11am, on a Saturday at the Court of Appeal,...

The lessons learnt from the Enmore Martyrs are manyfold

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The lessons learnt from the Enmore Martyrs are manyfold

Last Tuesday (16th June) the nation marked 72 years since five sugar workers, on the East Coast Demerara estates, died as a consequence of a political system that had no tolerance for the right to...

A blue canvas bag by the foreshore

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Murder and Mystery, News Comments Off on A blue canvas bag by the foreshore

By Michael Jordan “One of these days y’all gon hear that I dead.” This was the prophecy that Radica Mohan, a young sales clerk from Best Village, West Coast Demerara, made to one of her close...

Mike Parris…. the unsung Hero Guyana’s lone Olympic Medalist in 40 years

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mike Parris…. the unsung Hero Guyana’s lone Olympic Medalist in 40 years

By Sean Devers This is the story of 72-year-old Micheal Anthony Parris who is the only Boxer from the English-speaking Caribbean to win an Olympic Medal and is still the only Guyanese to do so....

Reflecting on the history of Rehabilitation Services in Guyana

Jun 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Reflecting on the history of Rehabilitation Services in Guyana

…as Rehabilitation Week 2020 [June 21 – 26] is observed Rehabilitation Services in Guyana began 71 years ago in a small room under the X-ray department at the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Coalition will accept one outcome only- it won

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Coalition will accept one outcome only- it won

However poorly the coalition looks currently, the president appears worse, as all responsibility tiers up to him for the continuing deceptions and delays, that all seem to point to only one...

Caribbean among countries unfairly targeted by US Senators over Cuba

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Caribbean among countries unfairly targeted by US Senators over Cuba

By Sir Ronald Sanders Three U.S. Senators, who have done little to advance the interests of the Caribbean and with whom requests for meetings by many Caribbean Ambassadors are usually shunted to...

GOA mooting virtual Olympic Day activities

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GOA mooting virtual Olympic Day activities

On 23 June, Olympic Day is celebrated all around the world and hundreds of thousands of people both young and old get moving and participate in sporting and cultural activities, such as runs,...

NIS says untrue sugar workers not receiving benefits

Jun 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NIS says untrue sugar workers not receiving benefits

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) has dismissed an article published on June 19 that claimed that it has stopped the payments of the Sickness and Injury Benefits to sugar workers. In a statement...

GuySuCo misses first crop target by 9,500 tonnes sugar

Jun 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo misses first crop target by 9,500 tonnes sugar

– union says factories stacked with many retirees The first crop of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) at the three estates- Albion, Blairmont and Uitvlugt- has now concluded after being...

GFF President congratulates Martin Braithwaite Christensen

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF President congratulates Martin Braithwaite Christensen

Georgetown: The Guyana Football Federation President, Wayne Forde, has extended congratulations to Martin Braithwaite Christensen who scored his maiden goal on June13th playing for his new club FC...

Guyanese sculptor/artist, Francis Ferreira, is a ‘Special Person’

Jun 21, 2020 KNews News, Special Person Comments Off on Guyanese sculptor/artist, Francis Ferreira, is a ‘Special Person’

Creating treasures to last for generations to come… By Rehanna Ramsay Art is a gift endowed with attributes that live on for centuries, even after its creator fades from this earth. Its...

Kaieteur News Cartoon 21-2020

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Kaieteur News Cartoon 21-2020

Grossly unfair to sugar workers

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Grossly unfair to sugar workers

Dear Editor, I read in the media that the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is not processing sickness and accident claims from sugar workers since the commencement of this year due to Guysuco’s...

Concerned about promotion of alcohol products for Father’s Day

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Concerned about promotion of alcohol products for Father’s Day

Dear Editor We are concerned at the numerous promotions of alcohol products by businesses for this Father’s Day. We know that alcohol consumption creates problems for men and their families. The...

The Coalition has proven itself to be quixotic, Napoleonic, and farcical

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Coalition has proven itself to be quixotic, Napoleonic, and farcical

Dear Editor, The demise of the APNU+ AFC reminds me of three situations. The first is to be found in one of the world’s classic novels; the other is recorded in the annals of human history; while...

APNU+AFC and its apologists have resorted to trying to discredit the CARICOM observer report

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU+AFC and its apologists have resorted to trying to discredit the CARICOM observer report

Dear Editor, After appearing to welcome the few CARICOM election scrutineers who were able to be mustered for a vote recount caused by GECOM Returning Officer Mingo’s failure to perform his duties,...

I believe most media houses have chosen to ignore APNU+AFC

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on I believe most media houses have chosen to ignore APNU+AFC

Dear Editor, A number of key players and institutions have at different times raised issues that keep casting doubts about the elections process and thus outcome, and have led me to question whether...

We are heading down a sad road into dictatorship

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We are heading down a sad road into dictatorship

Dear Editor, Please permit me a space to vent my opinion in your letter section. Last year, the Court of Appeal ruled that the majority in the parliament is 34. Now anyone in the entire world would...

It is our people, and not natural resources that really matter

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is our people, and not natural resources that really matter

Dear Editor I want to commend without any reservations your Editorial of today, (Wednesday 17 June), entitled “Restarting and Rehabilitating” – very timely and appropriately placating....

Harmon-hired American lobbying firm lied in recent article

Jun 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Harmon-hired American lobbying firm lied in recent article

Dear Editor “Bart S. Fisher is a partner in JJ&B, which represents the APNU + AFC Coalition” is the disclaimer on an op-ed in the Washington Examiner written by the high priced...

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DDL signs new 5-year collective labour agreement with unions

DDL signs new 5-year collective labour agreement with unions

L-R Outgoing HR Director Ms. Moneeta Singh-Bird; General Secretary of the GLU, Mr. Carvil Duncan; Chairman of the... more