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Farmers urged to embrace ‘two heads still better than one’ notion

Aug 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Farmers urged to embrace ‘two heads still better than one’ notion

“Two heads are better than one.” Supervisor of the Wales Estate, National Industrial Commercial and Investments Limited (NICIL), Charles Brown, left this age-old idiom with good effect with the...

Mingo/Lowenfield Kafkaesque tragedy: Can a normal mind be silent?

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mingo/Lowenfield Kafkaesque tragedy: Can a normal mind be silent?

I will never see some political icons, admirable scholars and other Guyanese personalities the same way again because of their attitude to the Kafkaesque descent of two GECOM election officials that...

Our frontline worker of the week is… Dr. Stamon Carr

Aug 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Our frontline worker of the week is… Dr. Stamon Carr

By Malisa Playter-Harry Often when we visit the public or private hospitals, our main concern is getting treated for whatever ailment that is affecting us at that time. When we leave, it is...

Checking Immigration Case Status

Aug 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Checking Immigration Case Status

ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community  By Gail S. Seeram Waiting is difficult for people in many kinds of situations, but waiting to hear about the status of your immigration case can...

What Emancipation?

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The Story within the Story Comments Off on What Emancipation?

The Story Within The Story… By Leonard Gildarie (“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”- Edmund Burke) As I wrote yesterday, it was 1st August –...

Liam Gordon: Bolton Wanderers sign Dagenham & Redbridge, Golden Jags defender

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Liam Gordon: Bolton Wanderers sign Dagenham & Redbridge, Golden Jags defender

BBC Sport – Bolton Wanderers have signed Dagenham & Redbridge and Golden Jaguars defender Liam Gordon on a two-year contract. The 21-year-old, who has won five international caps for...

The story of Navindra Samaroo

Aug 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on The story of Navindra Samaroo

An aspiring crime fighter slain by criminals… By Shervin Belgrave He was an aspiring crime fighter, but his life, ironically, was snuffed out too soon by criminals. He didn’t even have a fighting...

Golden Jaguars SMNT Head Coach recognises dedicated work of support staff

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golden Jaguars SMNT Head Coach recognises dedicated work of support staff

With Guyana set to make its second successive trip to the pinnacle of men’s competition in Concacaf, the Concacaf Gold Cup in July 2021, Head Coach of the Guyana Football Federation SMNT, Márcio...

Former National Champion Drayton plotting comeback

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former National Champion Drayton plotting comeback

By Calvin Chapman It has been nine years to date since former 800m champion, Philip Drayton, has competed but he is confident that he has what it takes to regain his middle distance crown and usurp...

Crisis and Opportunity

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Crisis and Opportunity

The Novel Coronavirus has earned itself the title of a catastrophe of Biblical proportions, not only in how rapidly it spreads or how fatal it is but how devastating its consequences have been on the...

Climate Change killing the Caribbean one cut after the other

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Climate Change killing the Caribbean one cut after the other

By Sir Ronald Sanders Amid the feverish work to cope with both the public health and economic effects of COVID-19 on their populations, Caribbean governments can be forgiven for dropping their guard...

Mabel Jones is a ‘Special Person’

Aug 02, 2020 KNews News, Special Person Comments Off on Mabel Jones is a ‘Special Person’

For her tireless contribution to the health sector… By Enid Joaquin Possessed with the tenacity of a bulldog, Mabel Bernadette Jones, despite many challenges, never gave up on her dream of...

GBA to hold Boxing seminar for Referee and Judges August 8 and 9

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBA to hold Boxing seminar for Referee and Judges August 8 and 9

President of the Guyana Boxing Association and Vice President of the Americas Boxing Confederation (AMBC), Steve Ninvalle, has organised a two-day virtual seminar for Referee/Judges of the English...

Kaieteur News Cartoon

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Kaieteur News Cartoon

Both Granger and Ali have a limited opportunity act in the best interest of Guyana

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Both Granger and Ali have a limited opportunity act in the best interest of Guyana

Dear Editor, As we emerge from this exhausting and debilitating few months, please allow me to describe ‘tomorrow’ as I see it. Now that it is clear that a new Government is likely to be sworn in...

Authentic Black consciousness is not, by definition, anti any other race or ethnicity

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Authentic Black consciousness is not, by definition, anti any other race or ethnicity

Dear Editor, On behalf of OVP, I salute those who painted the words “BLACK LIVES MATTER” on the road in front of the monument honouring the great 1763 Revolution. It is a creative and profoundly...

The public deserves factual reporting and informed analysis

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The public deserves factual reporting and informed analysis

Dear Editor, Two of your Sunday columnists have ended their columns with KN citing interference with their viewpoints. Guyanese who I conversed with say the two columnists got away with more than...

America’s president is behaving bizarrely

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on America’s president is behaving bizarrely

Dear Editor, It is either a sign of the times or a sign of the apocalypse. I start with the mighty United States, as I probe for any glimmer of sanity that is forthcoming amidst the strange new...

It is time for GECOM to end this election saga and move the country forward

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is time for GECOM to end this election saga and move the country forward

Dear Editor, The right to free speech is not necessarily the right to be taken seriously. The much vented views of persons like David Hinds, Lincoln Lewis, Vincent Alexander and a few others...

Our Police Force continues to disappoint me as a citizen

Aug 02, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our Police Force continues to disappoint me as a citizen

Dear Editor, It is with a heavy heart that I write this letter about our police force, which I understand is mandated to serve and protect, regardless. Of course, it is expected that a murder or...