August 2020

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Motorbike bandits rob Chinese Supermarket

Aug 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Motorbike bandits rob Chinese Supermarket

Wan Li Supermarket located at Industry, East Coast Demerara, was on Saturday robbed by bandits riding a XR Honda motorcycle. According to video footage seen by this newspaper, the bandits pulled up...

Pensioner challenging 7-year sentence for sexual assault

Aug 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner challenging 7-year sentence for sexual assault

A man in his 70s is now challenging a seven-year jail sentence he was handed in 2015 for sexual assault against a minor. The man, Kenrick Morrison was sentenced on September 4, 2015, for having...

Pump attendant drops cash, flees, driver abandons bus in gas station robbery

Aug 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pump attendant drops cash, flees, driver abandons bus in gas station robbery

A female pump attendant dropped her cash and fled while a driver abandoned his bus during a robbery yesterday, at Rubis Gas Station, Public Road, Bel Air, East Coast Demerara. The robbery took place...

Jag-deo changed he name to Speedy Gonzalez

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Jag-deo changed he name to Speedy Gonzalez

Is sheer blow-blow tekkin’ place. Gail seh how people gat permanent contract. Dem boys know dat dem nah gat nothing like dat. All it mean is that the contract is nah wan fixed term contract. Dah...

Guyana to pay every cent Exxon spends… never forget this!

Aug 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to pay every cent Exxon spends… never forget this!

Exxon said they spent US$70M “locally” on bora, ochro, bajee, eggs, rice, sugar, salt, etc…and lil transpee…here and there. Guess what Guyana? Dem ain’t even got a piece of paper or a...

PPP started tenure off on wrong foot by firing public servants – Fmr. President David Granger

Aug 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PPP started tenure off on wrong foot by firing public servants – Fmr. President David Granger

Former President, David Granger is of the view that the Irfaan Ali administration commenced its tenure on a bad start after they began firing public servants just days into office. Granger, during a...

GPL apologises for power interruption

Aug 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GPL apologises for power interruption

Guyana Power and Light is apologizing for widespread blackouts at yesterday. Below is the full transcript of the company’s release explaining the cause for the power outages. “At approximately...

AG warns staff of Deeds Registry against corruption

Aug 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on AG warns staff of Deeds Registry against corruption

— recommits to addressing operational challenges Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall has warned staffers of the Deeds and Commercial Registry against corruption. In his...

Rupununi Essence Luxury Facial Cleansers: An Enduring Social Enterprise

Aug 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Rupununi Essence Luxury Facial Cleansers: An Enduring Social Enterprise

There is a deep, lasting, and systemic benefit to society and the environment when local entrepreneurship is fostered at the micro-level. The cumulative impact of small and medium sized local...

‘Shark Oil’ death sentence overturned, will now serve 18 years for manslaughter

Aug 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Shark Oil’ death sentence overturned, will now serve 18 years for manslaughter

The Court of Appeal has overturned a death sentence imposed on Herman Ally ‘Shark Oil’ for the murder of Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, Berbice resident, Roydel Sandy. Ally, ‘Shark Oil,’ was...

Basil Butcher fund and Mike’s Pharmacy donates to public institutions

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Basil Butcher fund and Mike’s Pharmacy donates to public institutions

-Fund to sponsor annual Berbice Sports Awards Programme The very popular Basil Butcher Memorial Trust Fund continues to make a positive difference in the county of Berbice as the Rose Hall Town Youth...

FIBA 3×3 rankings to remain frozen until 2021

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on FIBA 3×3 rankings to remain frozen until 2021

The International Basketball Federation – Fédération Internationale de Basketball (FIBA), had announced the freezing of individual rankings, teams and selections of 3×3 basketball. However, as...

Mike Parris 40th medal anniversary clothing line launched

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mike Parris 40th medal anniversary clothing line launched

In a surprise move to honour their dad, Michael Anthony Parris, Melissa, his eldest daughter, being the mastermind behind it all and her five other sisters chipped in with the idea to launch a...

Connection between Massy supermarket, rigged elections and fear

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Connection between Massy supermarket, rigged elections and fear

In hundreds of columns, I have sermonized of how hopeless, psychologically disheveled and psychically destroyed the Guyanese nationality is. I have incessantly argued in these articles that the...

Not again!

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Not again!

Word out on the streets is that the PPP/C government is planning to employ the former Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, and the former Minister of the Public Service, Jennifer...

Region 5 marks first COVID-19 case

Aug 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region 5 marks first COVID-19 case

Country’s surpasses 700 cases, records 23rd death Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) recorded its very first COVID-19 case after managing to stay clear of the virus since its genesis here in March....

Is the Government serious about its COVID response?

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is the Government serious about its COVID response?

DEAR EDITOR, The Government of Guyana is yet to demonstrate that it is taking the COVID-19 virus seriously. It has gazetted measures to take effect from 16 August to 31 August.The first such measure...

My grace period extends, despite my observations

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on My grace period extends, despite my observations

DEAR EDITOR, The two newspapers I deal with (SN and KN) have made clear their intentions. Courtesies, yes; space and letup, not one bit. In the flattest terms: no grace period, comrades. I disagree....

Review of Bayphase work by experts timely and welcomed

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Review of Bayphase work by experts timely and welcomed

DEAR EDITOR, I wish to publicly endorse the Government of Guyana and the Ministry of Natural Resources for undertaking a review of the work already undertaken by Bayphase Oil and Gas Consultants by a...

The PPP Government and COVID-19

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP Government and COVID-19

DEAR EDITOR, I was really hopeful with the installation of the new government, efforts to bring the COVID cases to a standstill would have been implemented right away. However, this is a far cry...

Are there no government positions for Dr. Yog Mahadeo and Mr. Sase Gunraj?

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are there no government positions for Dr. Yog Mahadeo and Mr. Sase Gunraj?

DEAR EDITOR, The new government has an unenviable task to bring Guyana out of the pit of bankruptcy and corruption to one where Guyanese can breathe free once again, where there is no fear of a...

Make the welfare Of Guyanese central to government policy

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Make the welfare Of Guyanese central to government policy

DEAR EDITOR, I once again congratulate His Excellency the President, Dr. Irfaan Ali, and the PPP/C, on their success at the March 2020 elections. Indeed, this has been a victory for our fledgling...

Guyana Oil Bonanza: Where do we go from here?

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana Oil Bonanza: Where do we go from here?

DEAR EDITOR, The Editorial “Let Payara be test case and precedent” (KN, 15th August 2020) highlights that Guyana is at a crossroads with regards to recently becoming an oil producing nation....

Guyana’s Assets – Credit to the New Administration

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s Assets – Credit to the New Administration

DEAR EDITOR, “Control by foreign interests over strategic assets could undermine a range of national interests including national security and our ability to compete in the global...

Something of grave concern

Aug 17, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Something of grave concern

DEAR EDITOR, First of all I must congratulate Dr. Frank Anthony on his appointment as Health Minister for the second time. I am confident that he will give of his best. As a concerned citizen my...

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A capital city beyond redemption?

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(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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