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Environmental, occupational and health safety in the mining sector

Jul 30, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Environmental, occupational and health safety in the mining sector

Gold mining is a major economic sector. Prior to the discovery of oil, it was the country’s largest foreign exchange earner. The country produced almost 642,000 ounces of gold last year and gold...

‘Golden Jaguars’ Head Coach Márcio Máximo to maximise all options to qualify for Rd of 16

Jul 30, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Golden Jaguars’ Head Coach Márcio Máximo to maximise all options to qualify for Rd of 16

2021 Concacaf Gold Cup With the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) announcing that this nations Senior Men’s National Team (SMNT) aka as the ‘Golden Jaguars’ has qualified for its second...

RHTYSC, MS/BCB Basil Butcher Memorial Project to assist dozens of cricketers

Jul 30, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC, MS/BCB Basil Butcher Memorial Project to assist dozens of cricketers

Dozens of less fortunate cricketers drawn from cricket clubs across the Berbice Coastline and Linden would benefit shortly from the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club/Berbice Cricket Board...

Lincoln Lewis, Henry Jeffrey and the role of the newspaper since WW2

Jul 30, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Lincoln Lewis, Henry Jeffrey and the role of the newspaper since WW2

There is a disclaimer at the bottom of my columns from management which explicitly asserts that these reflections, viewpoints, emanations, outlooks, offerings, analyses are not necessarily the...

Debating a concept that is still ill-defined

Jul 30, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Debating a concept that is still ill-defined

DEAR EDITOR, There are some writers and politicians who are advocating for the implementation of shared governance as a way out of the nagging political crisis that strikes the country at regular...

The PPP/C has the numbers in its favour, the APNU+AFC does not

Jul 30, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP/C has the numbers in its favour, the APNU+AFC does not

DEAR EDITOR, Daniel Kahneman, Israeli psychologist and economist and 2002, Nobel Memorial Prize Nobel Laurate once said; “ There is something fundamental about the human mind, namely, that humans...

OWEN ARTHUR’S PASSING

Jul 30, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on OWEN ARTHUR’S PASSING

DEAR EDITOR, The passing of former Prime Minister of Barbados, Owen Arthur, is a great loss to Caribbean intellectual thought, practice and leadership. I co-authored with him in 1985 a UWI published...

Arson attempts, why so many, why now?

Jul 30, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Arson attempts, why so many, why now?

DEAR EDITOR, Though we are in some form of peace time, this one is of the kind that is most sensitive to the touch. And as I try to make some sense of the recent spate of arsons, I question why so...

The solution to Guyana’s problem

Jul 30, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The solution to Guyana’s problem

DEAR EDITOR, What is the solution to Guyana’s problem? I have the answer but it depends on whether those concerned will want to embrace my solution that has always worked and is guaranteed to work...

We shall not be bullied nor shall we stand by quietly and watch these women, or anyone else, being bullied

Jul 30, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We shall not be bullied nor shall we stand by quietly and watch these women, or anyone else, being bullied

DEAR EDITOR, The vile and baseless attacks on: the Barbadian Prime Minister and former CARICOM Chair, Mia Mottley; Chairperson of the GECOM, retired Justice Madam Claudette Singh; Chief Justice Madam...

Govt. fails to act on recommended charges against Troy Resources

Jul 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. fails to act on recommended charges against Troy Resources

Eight months later… The Ministry of Social Protection is yet to act on the charges, which it recommended against Troy Resources Guyana Inc. (TRGI) some eight months ago. The recommended charges...

Surviving COVID-19 could mean a life-time of complications

Jul 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Surviving COVID-19 could mean a life-time of complications

– Emergency Medicine Specialist warns – stresses need to embrace preventative measures There have been many reports of COVID-19 recoveries, a development that many have lauded. But based on...

Malaysia’s Ex-leader sentenced to 12 years for corruption

Jul 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Malaysia’s Ex-leader sentenced to 12 years for corruption

– fined US$49 million (South China Morning Post) – A Malaysian court on Tuesday sentenced former prime minister Najib Razak to 12 years in jail and fined him 210 million ringgit (US$49.3...

‘Smoke and Mirrors’…How APNU+AFC failed to fool the international community

Jul 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Smoke and Mirrors’…How APNU+AFC failed to fool the international community

By Kemol King A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) has lost its bid for re-election in the March 2 General and Regional Elections. This began to make itself evident very...

Evidence debunks APNU+AFC’s claim that elections cases not related

Jul 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Evidence debunks APNU+AFC’s claim that elections cases not related

The APNU+AFC continues to push the narrative that the legal battles brought by Ulita Moore and Eslyn David are not connected. However, evidence proves that the cases are similar. Coalition members...

Man, 74, dies trying to enjoy pension money he just collected

Jul 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man, 74, dies trying to enjoy pension money he just collected

Morris Edwards called Budd, 74, of Lower Pomeroon is believed to have drowned while returning home to enjoy the pension he had just collected. Edwards’ body was discovered yesterday by a Pomeroon...

T&T says one of three imported COVID-19 cases came from Guyana

Jul 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on T&T says one of three imported COVID-19 cases came from Guyana

Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Health announced yesterday three new imported cases of the novel Coronavirus Dr. Erica Wheeler, country representative for the World Health Organization, had...

Coalition flouting COVID-19 restrictions

Jul 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition flouting COVID-19 restrictions

Despite COVID-19 orders which prohibit gathering in public spaces, executives and supporters of the ruling coalition, the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), yesterday...

Nation bids farewell to veteran trade unionist, Komal Chand

Jul 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Nation bids farewell to veteran trade unionist, Komal Chand

By Shervin Belgrave Scores of persons turned up yesterday at the home of a veteran trade unionist and Member of Parliament, the late Komal Chand, to pay their last respects and bid him farewell....

Guyanese must call on oil companies to dedicate portion of CSR budget towards climate change efforts – CGX Head

Jul 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese must call on oil companies to dedicate portion of CSR budget towards climate change efforts – CGX Head

Since the discovery of oil equivalent resources in the Stabroek Block five years ago, oil and gas companies have been gripped by a renewed sense of desire to execute aggressive exploration...

Hammie mouth do mo dan slip

Jul 29, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Hammie mouth do mo dan slip

Dem Boys Seh… Dem boys bin jump but nah bin surprise when Hammie open he mouth the other day. He bin tell the de facto Presithent dat he should nah bother with the Constitution and the law and...

The cruel and cold-hearted electoral bandits

Jul 29, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The cruel and cold-hearted electoral bandits

Those who are complicit or engaged in defending the rigging of the elections of 2nd March, 2020 do not deserve any respect. Their actions are contemptuous of all Guyanese, regardless of who they...

How our leaders let foreigners rape us

Jul 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on How our leaders let foreigners rape us

Guyanese, We, the owners of this country, can barely secure small concessions for our oil, gold, diamond, bauxite and other precious minerals and for logging. Yet, our leaders share out huge swathes...

No political motive behind Anna Catherina’s beating – Police

Jul 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on No political motive behind Anna Catherina’s beating – Police

Although investigations into the beating of a woman at Anna Catherina are not yet completed, police sources believe that there is no political or racial motive behind the attack. The woman,...

The Last Plantation

Jul 29, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Last Plantation

It is not without irony that the logo of Troy Resources, one of the major companies exploiting our gold is, well, the Trojan Horse. Stripped of its heroic dimensions, the story of the conquering of...

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Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival returns for 19th edition

Let us not be silent witnesses!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Ray Daggers walked from Corriverton to Charity. It was a journey so epic it might have... more