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Friends with benefits

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Friends with benefits

Dem Boys Seh… Dem boys seh if you want turn Minister in de Pee Pee Pee Cee, yuh gat to befriend Jagdeo. De man does reward he friends with Minister wuk. Fuss was he friend, Manny. De man was a...

VOA is not all propaganda

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on VOA is not all propaganda

Before television came to Guyana, radio was popular. There was hardly a home without a radio. In my home, there was a radiogram – consisting of a radio and a gramophone or record-player. The radio...

GNBS ban use of dial scales

Aug 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GNBS ban use of dial scales

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has decided to ban the use of domestic dial scales for trade in the local and commercial markets. This was according to a press releases it sent out...

Villager arrested for murder of Crane’s shepherd

Aug 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Villager arrested for murder of Crane’s shepherd

A villager has been held in connection with the murder of Darrel James, 21, who was found with his throat slashed near a community ground at Crane, West Coast Demerara (WCD). Kaieteur News...

Fire destroys home of visually impaired association official

Aug 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys home of visually impaired association official

President of the Guyana Association for the Visually Impaired (GAVI), Leon Amsterdam, 61, and his family, lost their Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara (WBD) home two Sundays ago to fire. Amsterdam’s...

Security guards placed at Charity market after break-ins

Aug 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Security guards placed at Charity market after break-ins

After more than five months and a series of break-ins, security guards will finally be posted at the Charity marketing area, on the Essequibo Coast. This is according to the Regional Chairman of...

Fishers willing to comply with Covid-19 measures, asking for Corentyne River to be reopen

Aug 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fishers willing to comply with Covid-19 measures, asking for Corentyne River to be reopen

With hundreds of families affected due to the closure of the Corentyne River for the past five months, the fishers are asking for the river to reopen. They said that they are willing to comply with...

CDC team sent to Region 9 after surge in COVID-19 cases over the weekend

Aug 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CDC team sent to Region 9 after surge in COVID-19 cases over the weekend

– COVID-19 cases pass 500 mark A team of six Civil Defence Commission (CDC) personnel was sent to Region Nine in response to an overwhelming rise of COVID-19 cases over the weekend. The team...

Estate worker found dead in tug

Aug 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Estate worker found dead in tug

An Albion estate worker was found lifeless in the tug, which he was working in at the backdam of the Albion Estate. Dead is Latchman Balram, 36, of Lot 126 Auchlyne Village, Corentyne, Berbice....

‘Mental preparations helping players to adjust’ – Omar Khan

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Mental preparations helping players to adjust’ – Omar Khan

GAW players in Quarantine in T&T ahead of CPL By Sean Devers This is the eight season of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) since the inaugural tournament in 2013 and 33 matches will be played...

New York crash leaves mom, two children dead

Aug 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New York crash leaves mom, two children dead

NEW YORK, N.Y. (CBS NewYork) — Tragedy struck an immigrant family in the Bronx. Two vehicles carrying loved ones were struck by a truck upstate Sunday night. A mother and two her children are dead....

Unanimously agreed by RMA’s, Affiliates, Elite Clubs and endorsed by FIFA

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Unanimously agreed by RMA’s, Affiliates, Elite Clubs and endorsed by FIFA

GFF’s Pre-Season Window Extended Georgetown: The GFF 2020/2021 Pre-Season Transfer Window has now been extended to August 23, 2020 in order to accommodate any hindrances that interested parties...

Julius Faerber is my neighbour

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Julius Faerber is my neighbour

DEAR EDITOR, This writer at the time of writing this letter is residing at Lot WD 107 Government Quarters, Post Office Street – Leonora, West Coast Demerara and my neighbours are President Irfaan...

40th Anniversary of Guyana’s lone Olympic Medal

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on 40th Anniversary of Guyana’s lone Olympic Medal

And still no honour for Mike Parris By Sean Devers Sixty-two-year-old Michael Anthony Parris is only Boxer from the English-speaking Caribbean to win an Olympic Medal and is still the only Guyana to...

A woman made of the finest steel

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A woman made of the finest steel

After the honeymoon glow of her appointment had worn off, Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh ran into a blizzard of suspicion. In view of how events played out for long months at a time, it would be...

16th DMW Festival doubtful

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on 16th DMW Festival doubtful

The 16th annual edition of Guyana’s Premier hockey tournament; the Diamond Mineral Water (DMW) International Festival, seems an uphill battle to run off in 2020 due to the negative impacts of the...

Giving the AFC nine seats is a complete act of PNC’s self-destruction

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Giving the AFC nine seats is a complete act of PNC’s self-destruction

The PNC has the Statement of Polls (SOPs). The PNC knows which Indian, African and Amerindian areas in all of Guyana that gave their votes to the APNU+AFC. Keith Lowenfield has GECOM’s SOPs. If the...

Guyana’s warmth is radiating with humility as the changing of the guard is in process

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s warmth is radiating with humility as the changing of the guard is in process

DEAR EDITOR, The show is already on the road the minute the curtain came down, the very second the honourable lady finished singing. Since the swearing in ceremony last Sunday, President Dr. Irfaan...

President’s Ali Cabinet is youthful, dynamic and one of the most qualified ever

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on President’s Ali Cabinet is youthful, dynamic and one of the most qualified ever

DEAR EDITOR, Just three days after he was sworn in as the 9th President of Guyana, President Irfaan Ali and the PPP have sworn in its full Cabinet and have begun the difficult task of healing Guyana...

The window dressing often displayed in our politics has lost most of its glamour

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The window dressing often displayed in our politics has lost most of its glamour

DEAR EDITOR, The euphoria, which Guyanese are presently caught up in is most understandable after what the country has gone through during the last five months. The support that many gave was with a...

It was my privilege to serve this country

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on It was my privilege to serve this country

DEAR EDITOR, Permit me the space, please, to share something of a personal note. It may be timely and meaningful during a period of heavy whispers and dark fears about witch-hunts and forced...

Congratulations!

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Congratulations!

DEAR PRESIDENT ALI, Congrats! Never ever forget that it is because of the Free Western Democracies (USA, Canada, Great Britain, EU) that you are in office today. The APNU+AFC would not have conceded...

Joinder parties can be the conscience of the nation

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Joinder parties can be the conscience of the nation

DEAR EDITOR, I offer sincere congratulations to the joinder parties – ANUG, LJP and TNM on their attainment of one seat in Parliament. To many, this one seat may appear insignificant. However,...

A Time for Remembrance

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Time for Remembrance

DEAR EDITOR, The time has come for our nation to finally acknowledge the massacre of the 60’s. It is with great anticipation that I await our new government’s taking of the action towards...

The future is fraught with danger and ripe with opportunity

Aug 06, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The future is fraught with danger and ripe with opportunity

DEAR EDITOR, The US council on Foreign Relation published an article entitled: ‘It Is Time to Abandon Dollar Hegemony’, on July 28, 2020. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. placed a spotlight on the US...

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Mashramani must break from the shackles of imitation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mashramani, heralded as Guyana’s grand national celebration, is often presented as a... more