August 2020

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Mahdia miner dies following stabbing over name calling

Aug 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mahdia miner dies following stabbing over name calling

A miner, 36, is now dead after being stabbed following a heated altercation that took place on Thursday, August 8th, at Nine Miles, Mahdia in Region Eight. Dead is Seon Grant of Lot 36 De Kendren,...

Rains, clogged drains blamed on Number 53/54 flooding

Aug 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Rains, clogged drains blamed on Number 53/54 flooding

Residents in the 53/54 Villages yesterday woke up to inches of water in their yard and in the lower flat of their homes. The flooding, which resulted from an extended downpour of rain Friday night,...

AG Chambers announces review of operations

Aug 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on AG Chambers announces review of operations

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Mohabir Anil Nandlall, on Friday met with the staffers of the Ministry of Legal Affairs. In brief remarks, the Attorney General reminded the staffers...

Karawab girl, 2, exhibits no symptoms, tests positive for COVID-19

Aug 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Karawab girl, 2, exhibits no symptoms, tests positive for COVID-19

A two-year-old girl from the community of Karawab, Upper Pomeroon, is Essequibo’s latest COVID-19 patient. This information was confirmed Friday by a doctor, on the Essequibo Health Emergency...

GNBS Implores Consumers To Take Up Their Roles During Measurement Purchases

Aug 09, 2020 KNews News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on GNBS Implores Consumers To Take Up Their Roles During Measurement Purchases

STANDARDS IN FOCUS: Although the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has been executing its mandate to ensure that all weighing and measuring devices used in trade are verified (stamped), it...

GINGER AND ITS USES

Aug 09, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, News Comments Off on GINGER AND ITS USES

Consumer Concerns: By Pat Dial From time to time, this column carries articles on food items generally used by consumers. We have, for example, recently carried articles on turmeric and vinegar. The...

An invaluable source of information of a key pillar of Guyana’s foreign policy

Aug 09, 2020 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on An invaluable source of information of a key pillar of Guyana’s foreign policy

(A review of David Granger’s Forbes Burnham and the Liberation of Southern Africa.) David Granger’s Forbes Burnham and the Liberation of Southern Africa examines one of the more enlightened...

Nurturing the Garden

Aug 09, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on Nurturing the Garden

Book Review… Book: Nurturing the Garden of Joy – Provocative Essays on Relationships Author: Claudette Joy Spence Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Your Daily Word. In Nurturing the Garden,...

Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce eager to work with Govt.

Aug 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce eager to work with Govt.

– intends to hold it accountable By Malisa Playter-Harry The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce-led by its vibrant, President, Mohammed Rafeek, a businessman, has stated its intent to work...

Hoary bat (Aeorestes cinereus)

Aug 09, 2020 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on Hoary bat (Aeorestes cinereus)

Interesting Creatures… The hoary bat (Aeorestes cinereus) is a species of bat in the vesper bat family, Vespertilionidae. It lives throughout most of North America and much of South America,...

Coronavirus: A strong, prepared immune system is our best bet

Aug 09, 2020 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Coronavirus: A strong, prepared immune system is our best bet

By Dr. Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center It’s been more than six months and we are still waiting on the miracle cure for the COVID-19 infection. It...

All human choices are existentially determined

Aug 09, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on All human choices are existentially determined

After the American invasion of Grenada in 1983, my professors at the University of Toronto set about securing asylum for me in Sweden. I turned it down. I wanted to stay in the Caribbean. I never...

Our Frontline Worker of the Week is… Dr. Narash Torres

Aug 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Our Frontline Worker of the Week is… Dr. Narash Torres

“While many young people and persons without underlying conditions may fully recover, we must not rule out long-term damage, including lung scarring, heart damage, and neurological and mental...

Immigration Filing Fee Increase on October 2, 2020

Aug 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Immigration Filing Fee Increase on October 2, 2020

ImmigrationINFO Immigration News ForOur Community  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced an astronomical 80% fee increase on cost to become a U.S. citizen, obtain a green...

A Time for Healing and Building

Aug 09, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The Story within the Story Comments Off on A Time for Healing and Building

The Story Within The Story… By Leonard Gildarie One week ago, as I wrote my weekly piece, we were hours away from a key meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). For more than five...

Enhancing Parliamentary Democracy

Aug 09, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Enhancing Parliamentary Democracy

The inauguration of Guyana’s ninth executive President, Dr. Irfaan Ali, now a done deal, today provides a brief respite, a day of rest before the business of the country goes full steam ahead from...

Challenges facing the new Government of Guyana

Aug 09, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Challenges facing the new Government of Guyana

By Sir Ronald Sanders The one upside of the challenges facing the Government of Guyana after a five-month impasse in declaring the result of general elections on March 2, is that the country’s...

My aim was to play test cricket- Hemnarine Chattergoon

Aug 09, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on My aim was to play test cricket- Hemnarine Chattergoon

By Zaheer Mohamed It is the dream of every young cricketers to play at the highest level and while it is understood that not all of them will reach the pinnacle of the sport, one would expect that...

FIBA revamps Restart Guidelines for return to basketball

Aug 09, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on FIBA revamps Restart Guidelines for return to basketball

The second edition (2.0) of FIBA’s Restart Guidelines is now available for National Federations and leagues. The purpose of these guidelines is to offer direction and advice for the restart of...

Retired Headmistress, Wendy Chichester- Norville, is a ‘Special Person’

Aug 09, 2020 KNews News, Special Person Comments Off on Retired Headmistress, Wendy Chichester- Norville, is a ‘Special Person’

Remaining resourceful and dedicated to a noble cause… By Rehanna Ramsay According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, “a calling is a strong desire or duty to a particular vocation,...

Kaieteur news cartoon Aug. 09 2020

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Kaieteur News Cartoon 09/2020

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Our Court system should review two of its practices

Aug 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our Court system should review two of its practices

Dear Editor, Since the NCM in 2018, the courts have impacted on our political destiny as never before. This impact, with an election petition looming, could soon become even more game-changing. In...

Recognize the contribution of Freddie Kissoon and others

Aug 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Recognize the contribution of Freddie Kissoon and others

Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate the new President Irfaan Ali and recognize the great work of those who were involved in that struggle for free and fair elections, in particular the recount,...

Appointments must be based on skill and competence

Aug 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Appointments must be based on skill and competence

Dear Editor, A new, fresh start. We suffered five years of abuse under the coalition. A change was badly needed. But we can’t have more of the same and accept it as change. I support the...

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2026 Republic Bank CPL… Untouched Warriors face marauding Patriots...

Sep 06, 2026

By Clifton Ross (Kaieteur News) – Riding high on their unbeaten streak this season, the Guyana Amazon Warriors will now look to preserve this mini-run at Providence following a comprehensive win...

Recalling the disaster of Jagdeo’s personal summitry

Sep 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Ray Chickrie’s latest letter, published in the Kaieteur News of September 1, 2026, is an interesting exercise that should trigger a recollection of the failure of Bharrat Jagdeo’s ‘personal summitry’. His letter dealt with Guyana’s surging Middle Eastern relations. In...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

When the political shelters in the biblical

Sep 06, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – In recent times, Guyanese have been eyewitnesses to the extraordinary. The political reaches for a connection to the biblical. Many are likely to see that as offensive, corrosive, and more of the abusive. Desperation is preferred. Swinging in the wind...

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