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Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum)

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum)

Interesting Creatures… The Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum) is a relatively large rodent in the mara genus Dolichotis. It is also known as the Patagonian cavy, Patagonian hare, or...

Coronavirus: We were winning the race and then took our foot off the pedal

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Coronavirus: We were winning the race and then took our foot off the pedal

By Dr. Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Over the past few weeks, we have seen a surge in COVID-19 infections in Guyana. We have one of the highest death rates in the Caribbean...

Power Sharing, One Party Rule and the Current Impasse

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Power Sharing, One Party Rule and the Current Impasse

There is a tension between multiethnic cohesion and the imperatives of the winner-takes-all electoral system we have embraced. That tension is being played out in the current political impasse. Some...

Desmond Trotman and the congenital danger in Homo sapiens

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Desmond Trotman and the congenital danger in Homo sapiens

Many moons ago, I was in the mini-mart of the Shell gas station at Ogle. I honestly don’t know what happened. There are things that happen when you are in an emotional rush and you don’t know why...

Our Frontline Worker of the Week is… Dr. Balram Doodnauth

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Our Frontline Worker of the Week is… Dr. Balram Doodnauth

“We are a very diverse people with tremendous capabilities and if we work hard in service to each other we will overcome the greatest obstacles.” By Sharmain Grainger The word hero in recent...

GNBS to calibrate infrared temperature guns for COVID-19

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GNBS to calibrate infrared temperature guns for COVID-19

It is advisable that all infrared temperature guns being used to check body temperature be calibrated by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS). In a statement, the GNBS advised all...

A review of Mingo’s Region 4 fraud

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on A review of Mingo’s Region 4 fraud

By Mikaila Prince Kaieteur News is today chronicling a plethora of occasions when the Region Four Returning Officer (RO), Clairmont Mingo, had inflated the votes in his district in favor for the A...

F-1 M-1 Students Taking Full Online Courses in Fall 2020 Cannot Remain in U.S.

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on F-1 M-1 Students Taking Full Online Courses in Fall 2020 Cannot Remain in U.S.

ImmigrationINFO… Immigration News For Our Community  By Gail Seeram On July 6, 2020, the Student and Exchange Visitor Programme (SEVP) announced modifications to a temporary exemptions for...

COVID-19 death toll rises to 17

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 death toll rises to 17

One more person has died from Covid-19 and another positive case recorded as Guyana continues to battle the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Earlier yesterday, the Ministry of Public Health confirmed...

Sick to my stomach

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The Story within the Story Comments Off on Sick to my stomach

The Story Within The Story… By Leonard Gildarie Sigh! More than 130 days since the March 2nd elections, Guyana has descended into more madness. An elections executive has told his boss to go to...

Ours is the duty to build a government that works for all

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Ours is the duty to build a government that works for all

W. Hawley-Bryant in ‘The Song of Guyana’s Children’ reminds us that we are “Born in the land where men sought El Dorado, Land of the Diamond and bright shining gold, We would build up by our...

Turning Point claim Pre Caricom day dominoes title

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Turning Point claim Pre Caricom day dominoes title

Led by 15 games from Sandra Nurse and 14 games Samantha Vickery, Turning Point emerged victorious with 80 games when the final of the Pre Caricom day dominoes tournament was contested recently at R...

Yesterday, it was what if today it is what now

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Yesterday, it was what if today it is what now

By Saturday morning, the deadline had been extended to 11am. The day before, it should have been final at 2pm. On Saturday morning, what was everyone’s mind is best summed up as: will he? And then,...

Referee Assessors benefit from online training

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Referee Assessors benefit from online training

Georgetown: Ten Guyanese Referee Assessors have benefited from a two-day virtual workshop held for Assessors and conducted by Guyanese Head of the Bahamas Refereeing Department and Concacaf...

Jankie Mahadeo and Old Ma’s will

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Murder and Mystery, News Comments Off on Jankie Mahadeo and Old Ma’s will

By Michael Jordan The seawalls that protect Guyana’s coastlands from the Atlantic hold decades upon decades of secrets…secrets of hidden love affairs…of rites to unseen forces…and of murder....

Youth plunged to death in Cuyuni River – investigations find

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Youth plunged to death in Cuyuni River – investigations find

Investigations into the death of Rickford Newton, 19, revealed that the teen plunged to his demise in the Cuyuni River, Region Seven. Newton of Byderabo, Bartica died at the Georgetown Public...

Michael Anthony wants a Velodrome built in Guyana

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Michael Anthony wants a Velodrome built in Guyana

Nat Cyclist eyes qualification for 2020 Olympics By Sean Devers Twenty-three-year-old National Cyclist Michael Wickham Anthony wants to see a Cycling Velodrome built in Guyana and was training in New...

Guyanese Referees Instructors to participate in regional training programme

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese Referees Instructors to participate in regional training programme

Georgetown: Ingram Johnson and Abdullah Hamid will be among 37 of their regional counterparts to participate in FUTURO III, a Referee Instructors Programme, from July 11–15. This year the programme...

Re-thinking CARICOM Development Model After COVID-19

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Re-thinking CARICOM Development Model After COVID-19

By Sir Ronald Sanders Governments around the world, including in Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, have emerged as the principal players in the health and economic crisis caused by the...

Golf – new and improved!

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golf – new and improved!

One great concept has taken on the challenges of the day in the midst of confusion, stress, and uncertainty…golf in the city! Nexgen Golf Academy, conveniently located on Woolford Avenue in the...

NBTS Director, Dr. Pedro Lewis, is a ‘Special Person’

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News, Special Person Comments Off on NBTS Director, Dr. Pedro Lewis, is a ‘Special Person’

Helping to revive a critical public health service… By Rehanna Ramsay In 2015, the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) – a critical service provider in the public health sector was...

Kaieteur News Cartoons 12 – 2020

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Kaieteur News Cartoons 12 – 2020

The conspiracy begins with David Granger as its architect and ends with him being sworn in

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The conspiracy begins with David Granger as its architect and ends with him being sworn in

Dear Editor, The masks are finally coming off and the identity of the riggers of elections and thieves of votes of citizens is being laid bare. Those, including myself I must confess, who thought it...

The situation in Guyana

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The situation in Guyana

Dear Editor, As human beings, we all have our beliefs and interpretation of past and current events. This shapes our attitudes and, in the case of the media, editorial policy and proclivities. The...

Time to end this nightmare

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time to end this nightmare

Dear Editor, Justice Claudette Singh’s letter on July 9, 2020, requesting Mr. Keith Lowenfield to submit the recount report signaled to the entire world that she was ready to move on with declaring...

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A shameful abdication of leadership

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The PPPC government has reached a new low in its spineless defense of the lopsided Production... more