July 20, 2020

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OAS Permanent Council could authorize all member states to sanction Guyana – Sir Ronald Sanders

Jul 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on OAS Permanent Council could authorize all member states to sanction Guyana – Sir Ronald Sanders

– Decision would be binding for CARICOM States The Organisation of American States (OAS), the world’s oldest regional body, could authorise all of its member states to sanction Guyana as they...

Illegitimacy, sanctions attract corrupt business partners in oil sector – transparency advocates

Jul 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Illegitimacy, sanctions attract corrupt business partners in oil sector – transparency advocates

By Mikaila Prince Former Petroleum Advisor to the Granger Administration, Dr. Jan Mangal and University of Houston Instructor, Tom Mitro, are in agreement that an illegitimate government suffering...

Guyana witnessed most alarming instances of “squandermania” under Granger administration – Financial Analyst

Jul 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana witnessed most alarming instances of “squandermania” under Granger administration – Financial Analyst

Upon analyzing statistics recently published by the Bank of Guyana, Financial Analyst, Sasenarine Singh is of the firm conviction that under the coalition administration, Guyana has witnessed the...

SARA has nothing to show after spending over $600M in three years

Jul 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on SARA has nothing to show after spending over $600M in three years

– Ram says agency has been a “complete and expensive failure” By Shikema Dey Since being in operation for approximately three years, the State Asset Recovery Agency (SARA), has received at...

ExxonMobil fails to come clean on number of Guyanese trained for senior positions

Jul 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil fails to come clean on number of Guyanese trained for senior positions

Since beginning its operations in 2015, ExxonMobil has boasted about the number of Guyanese it has hired. In fact, the oil giant has voluntarily disclosed that more than 50 percent of its workforce...

Guyana likely to see increase in case backlog due to insufficient judges, prosecutors – UNDP Report warns

Jul 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana likely to see increase in case backlog due to insufficient judges, prosecutors – UNDP Report warns

While Guyana has no shortage of criminal attorneys-at-law, the buildup of cases which has been affecting the judiciary for decades, is due to the fact that there are only two Criminal Courts and not...

Magnitude of alleged fraud is immaterial to elections results – Ramkarran

Jul 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Magnitude of alleged fraud is immaterial to elections results – Ramkarran

Former Speaker of the House and Presidential Candidate of A New and United Guyana (ANUG), Ralph Ramkarran, has opined that the fraud which some allege was committed during the March elections would...

City Hall to save millions on garbage contracts with acquisition of new trucks – Solid Waste Director

Jul 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall to save millions on garbage contracts with acquisition of new trucks – Solid Waste Director

With the acquisition of new trucks, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is moving closer to independent solid waste collection. This is according to M&CC Solid Waste Director, Walter Narine. In...

De truth hurts

Jul 20, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De truth hurts

Dem boys does gat fuh laugh at some of de things dem does read and hear people talk.Some people vex with the Waterfall paper fuh standing up fuh what is right. Dem same people fuget dat de waterfall...

Protecting Local Manufacturing in the height of a pandemic – Part 1

Jul 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Protecting Local Manufacturing in the height of a pandemic – Part 1

– Morning Glory Inc. takes bold steps to remain viable Among the many interconnected impacts of the global Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic is the very real threat of food security. The...

VOA is not all propaganda

Jul 20, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on VOA is not all propaganda

Before television came to Guyana, radio was popular. There was hardly a home without a radio. In my home there was a radiogram – consisting of a radio and a gramophone or record -player. The...

GCF to contest online Chess Olympiad

Jul 20, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCF to contest online Chess Olympiad

The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) has announced that twelve top chess players will represent Guyana at the revamped 2020 CHESS OLYMPIAD which will now be contested online by over 160 countries. The...

Roland Butcher calls Archer an idiot

Jul 20, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Roland Butcher calls Archer an idiot

– Says he would drop him for 3rd Test Sixty-six-year old Barbadian Roland Butcher, who made history when he became the first black man to play Test cricket for England, was very critical of...

Only four COVID-19 press engagements held in past five months

Jul 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Only four COVID-19 press engagements held in past five months

From March to July, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and the COVID-19 National Task Force (NCTF), have both conducted only four engagements with the members of the media on issues relating to the...

Where are the genuine and humble among our wise and learned?

Jul 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where are the genuine and humble among our wise and learned?

DEAR EDITOR, I speak about shared governance of the widest breadth, and the reflexive passionate condemnations rage. I think I have a better sense of what it is to be a child molester, betrayer, and...

Racial dog whistles

Jul 20, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Racial dog whistles

Anything and everything ever said at one time or the other is fair game to attack and minimize, even liquidate opposing positions. In the climate lived in today, it would appear that no adult has...

In a virtual political stalemate, winner-takes-all governance is definitely not a solution

Jul 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on In a virtual political stalemate, winner-takes-all governance is definitely not a solution

DEAR EDITOR, The Political Stalemate: The 2020 election recount results have confirmed that there is a virtual political stalemate in Guyana. The PPP/C won with 50.69% of all the votes and 33...

Guyana is not holding its breath to know the ruling from the High Court because the result is as clear as the unwritten word “valid”

Jul 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana is not holding its breath to know the ruling from the High Court because the result is as clear as the unwritten word “valid”

DEAR EDITOR, Last Wednesday, US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo announced visa sanctions for Guyanese Officials and their families that took immediate effect for “undermining democracy.” The...

Political dynamite loaded with terrifying and horrifying brutish consequences

Jul 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Political dynamite loaded with terrifying and horrifying brutish consequences

DEAR EDITOR, Vincent Alexander’s letter of Saturday July 18, published in three of the dailies is indicative of the strategic thinking by the three plus seven cabal. By now, Alexander’s letter...

Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad

Jul 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad

DEAR EDITOR, When I first called David Granger a hypocrite, a month ago on 17th of March, and then questioned “his personal credibility and honestly”, on the 22nd March, I was severely criticized...

People like Jeffrey, Hinds and the ordinary Joe

Jul 20, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on People like Jeffrey, Hinds and the ordinary Joe

Every academic in and out of Guyana should see the four-month election impasse as a priceless fountain of information that takes in psychology and philosophy. If there weren’t these four months,...

Guyana: I can’t stop loving you

Jul 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana: I can’t stop loving you

DEAR EDITOR, I am a music lover and when I listen to the song “I can’t stop loving you” composed and written in 1957 by country singer Don Gibson in 1957, I remember my days living at Perth...

COVID-19 CASES MOVE TO 336

Jul 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 CASES MOVE TO 336

Guyana continues to see a steady rise in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. Yesterday, the Ministry of Public Health confirmed another nine positive cases, bringing the national count to 336....

Food for the Poor delivers five new homes to Corentyne families

Jul 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Food for the Poor delivers five new homes to Corentyne families

Food for the Poor Guyana on Friday said that it handed over five newly built houses to low income families living in Corentyne, Region Six. Project Manager of Food for the Poor, Jiya Edward,...

Contact tracing is an effective method to tackle Guyana’s rise in COVID-19 cases — PAHO Rep.

Jul 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Contact tracing is an effective method to tackle Guyana’s rise in COVID-19 cases — PAHO Rep.

The Pan American Health Organization has noted its support for the Public Health Ministry to conduct a wider scope of surveillance, in wake of an increase of COVID -19 cases countrywide. In this...

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West Indies, New Zealand meet in Sobers’ country to celebrate...

Jul 19, 2026

(Cricinfo) – The statue of Sir Garry Sobers at Kensington Oval stands 12 feet tall. His memory casts a much longer shadow, especially now that he is gone. Tributes have flown in from all over...

A critique of an argument never made

Jul 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Terence Yhip is perfectly entitled to disagree with my understanding of the Resource Curse. Serious questions of political economy have never advanced through unanimity. What he is not entitled to do, however, is attribute arguments to me that I never made and then proceed to...

Transparency, sovereignty, and the challenge of power

Jul 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Few issues test the sovereignty of small states more severely than requests made by powerful friends. How should a country respond when cooperation is expected, but the proposed terms exceed its legal, financial and institutional capacity? That question...

Earthquakes after earthquakes

Jul 19, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall… (Kaieteur News) – Venezuela had one earthquake, then more. Death and destruction on a wide scale. I shrink from forces larger than life, bigger than man. Guyanese were in the middle of one earthquake, when another crashed down on their heads. Seems like...

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