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Exxon burns over 360 million cubic feet of gas in one month

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon burns over 360 million cubic feet of gas in one month

– will continue to pollute the atmosphere with hundreds of cancer causing toxins well into August By Kiana Wilburg For last month alone, American oil giant, ExxonMobil, burnt over 360 million...

Local courts continue to flout time limit for delivery of judgments

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Local courts continue to flout time limit for delivery of judgments

– As CCJ publishes decisions in minutes In 2009, the Guyana Parliament passed legislation making it compulsory for judges to deliver their written or oral decisions within 120 days after the...

Lowenfield “eyepass” GECOM – Sase Gunraj

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield “eyepass” GECOM – Sase Gunraj

Electoral Commissioner, Sase Gunraj, yesterday said that Chief Elections Officer(CEO), Keith Lowenfield “eyepass” the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), after it was revealed that the official...

Congratulate Irfaan Ali, GCCI tells Pres. Granger

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Congratulate Irfaan Ali, GCCI tells Pres. Granger

Arguing that the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) has won the March 2nd General and Regional Elections by some 15,000 votes, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is...

UWI Chief says world will accept no other option than recount results

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on UWI Chief says world will accept no other option than recount results

Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Sir Hilary Beckles has joined the current and past heads of CARICOM, Ralph Gonsalves and Mia Mottley, as well as the former Prime Minister of...

PPP calls on judiciary to resist abuse of its systems

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PPP calls on judiciary to resist abuse of its systems

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) is now cautioning the judiciary to ensure that its systems are not abused and manipulated by the APNU+AFC coalition, in any potential bid to delay a...

Show them you have backbone Claudette Singh

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Show them you have backbone Claudette Singh

GECOM’s chair, Retired Justice Claudette Singh, must act and do so immediately. She has no other choice. The Commission’s Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Mr. Keith Lowenfield, has repeatedly...

Rigadier is the chief cook and bottle washer

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Rigadier is the chief cook and bottle washer

Dem Boys Seh… Wherever good people go, good things does happen. Wherever evil goes, bad things does occur. Both sides of de political divide gat dem own devils. De J6aggy boy is wan wicked fella....

Decade of Dictatorship

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Decade of Dictatorship

Instead of the much-touted decade of development, Guyana, it seems, is headed for a decade of dictatorship. Unless the naked grab to hold on to power by the ruling APNU+AFC is diffused, Guyana will...

PPP/C calls for Lowenfield’s dismissal

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C calls for Lowenfield’s dismissal

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) yesterday called for the dismissal of Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, after he failed yet again to adhere to instructions of the Chair...

Pensioner found murdered at Kuru Kururu farmhouse

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner found murdered at Kuru Kururu farmhouse

A pensioner’s body was found lying in his yard at Track B, Kuru Kururu, Linden/Soesdyke Highway, East Bank Demerara (EDB) on Friday night with a chop wound to the back of his neck. The body has...

Ex-cop found guilty of dousing lover with corrosive substance

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-cop found guilty of dousing lover with corrosive substance

Ex-cop Cassandra Boucher, 31, of School Street, Albouystown, was on Friday found guilty of dousing her lover with a corrosive substance. Boucher is expected to make another court appearance tomorrow...

Bisram’s mother, accomplice guilty in $4M cop-bribing case

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bisram’s mother, accomplice guilty in $4M cop-bribing case

Sharmilla Inderjali, mother of extradited US-based businessman, Marcus Bisram, and her co-accused, Maryanna Lionel, were on Friday found guilty of offering a police officer $4M to suppress evidence....

Dalip Trading owner robbed at gun point

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Dalip Trading owner robbed at gun point

Gun-toting bandits yesterday morning robbed Angad Dalip, owner of Dalip Trading’s at his Industrial Site location at Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD). According to information received by Kaieteur...

The Palms is now COVID-19 free

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on The Palms is now COVID-19 free

The Palms Elderly Care Facility is now COVID-19 free as its final three patients have made full recoveries from the virus. The Palms reported its first case of the disease in April and within a...

Two arrested after gun tossed from car that eluded police patrol

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two arrested after gun tossed from car that eluded police patrol

Two men were on Thursday last apprehended by police ranks patrolling along Crown Dam, Industry, East Coast Demerara (ECD) for the possession of an unlicensed semi-automatic pistol loaded with nine...

IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON SMALL BUSINESSES – A WTO PERSPECTIVE

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON SMALL BUSINESSES – A WTO PERSPECTIVE

STANDARDS IN FOCUS The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) as the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Enquiry Point for Guyana has been playing a meaningful role in ensuring that businesses...

EXERCISE CARE WHEN BUYING COSMETICS

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on EXERCISE CARE WHEN BUYING COSMETICS

CONSUMER CONCERNS Most people are unaware of the importance of the human skin. The skin is one of the most important organs of the human body and provides covering for the other organs and protects...

Amitabh Bachchan, son Abhishek positive for Covid-19

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Amitabh Bachchan, son Abhishek positive for Covid-19

India (Outlookindia.com)- Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan said on Saturday he has tested positive for coronavirus and has been shifted to a hospital. In a Twitter post, he said his family and...

Invaluable sources of information which ought to be preserved for posterity

Jul 12, 2020 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Invaluable sources of information which ought to be preserved for posterity

(A heritage of service. A review of David Granger’s The British Guiana Volunteer Force, 1948-1966, ISBN 978-976-8178-27-5; The Guyana People’s Militia, 1976-1997, ISBN 978-976-8178-29-9; and The...

Principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on Principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Book Review… Book: Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies – Psychology and Chinese Medicine Author: Leon Hammer, M.D. Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Dr. Leon Hammer’s ‘Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies...

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...

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No place for little boys in a big man’s world

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There’s an old saying in Guyana: “You can’t put a little boy to do a big man’s... more