October 2020

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Ministry mulls turn system for Stabroek park bus drivers

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry mulls turn system for Stabroek park bus drivers

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Home Affairs Minister is moving to develop a rotation system for bus drivers at the Stabroek area. The initiative falls under efforts by the Ministry to ease...

Bus tunin’ UFO

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Bus tunin’ UFO

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Dem gan place sanitation tent near dem bus parks. Dem ah put am deh fuh people fuh wash dem hand before dem join de bus. Dem boys wan tell dem dat some of dem...

One law for me and one law for you

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on One law for me and one law for you

Kaieteur News – The media has a duty to cover and to report matters of public interest. But the media must do so within the confines of the law. At present, there are regulations governing the...

Taking advantage of the situation

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Taking advantage of the situation

Kaieteur News – Everyone who listened to reggae music in the early 1990s would remember the haunting, soulful voice of Garnett Silk, the Jamaican phenomenon who was set to be the new reigning...

NPTAB opens over 700 bids (Con’t)

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NPTAB opens over 700 bids (Con’t)

Kaieteur News – Following the passage of the emergency $330B budget, government is now in a rush to expend the remainder of funds on projects before the end of this fiscal year. As such, the...

NPTAB opens bids for 65 projects

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NPTAB opens bids for 65 projects

Kaieteur News – Following the passage of the emergency $330B budget, the government is now in a rush to expend the remainder of funds on projects before the end of this fiscal year. With this,...

MOH records 26 new COVID-19 cases

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on MOH records 26 new COVID-19 cases

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health recorded 27 new COVID-19 cases yesterday. Of the cases, twenty-one new cases were recorded in Region Four, four in Region Three while one new case each...

APA collaborates with Ministry of Amerindian Affairs on the development of Indigenous People

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APA collaborates with Ministry of Amerindian Affairs on the development of Indigenous People

Kaieteur News – On Wednesday, the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) met with the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs to discuss ways in which the organisation can further support the development...

West Coast Demerara grocery, house burglarized

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on West Coast Demerara grocery, house burglarized

Kaieteur News – A grocery store and a man’s home were burglarized mere hours apart on the West Coast Demerara this week. According to a police report, the grocery store located at Lot 14 Anna...

Volda Lawrence a no-show at CID

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Volda Lawrence a no-show at CID

Kaieteur News – The Chairperson for the People’s National Congress (PNC) and Former Health Minister, Volda Lawrence, yesterday failed to present herself at the Criminal Investigation...

Two of three prison escapees recaptured

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two of three prison escapees recaptured

Kaieteur News – Two of the three murder suspects that recently escaped from the Lusignan Prison, East Coast Demerara, were yesterday recaptured and placed back in custody where they are...

Shepherd plans to make full use of unexpected opportunity; replaces injured Bravo for NZ Tour

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shepherd plans to make full use of unexpected opportunity; replaces injured Bravo for NZ Tour

Guyanese Fast bowling all-rounder Romario Shepherd has been selected to replace Trinidadian Dwayne Bravo for to West Indies Tour of New Zealand which begins on November 27 with a T20 contest. The...

Minimal to no risk of oil spill from vessel – CDC

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Minimal to no risk of oil spill from vessel – CDC

Kaieteur News – There is a minimal to no risk of an oil spill from the Nabarima Floating Storing and Offloading (FSO) vessel, which was reported to be listing off of the Venezuelan coast since...

BCB starts planning for historic Semi- Professional Tournament in 2021

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB starts planning for historic Semi- Professional Tournament in 2021

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) earlier this year had unveiled plans to host a historic Semi-Professional Tournament. Sadly, the BCB was forced to temporarily shelve those plans due to the ongoing...

Aliann Pompey elected as EXCO member of World Oympians Association

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Aliann Pompey elected as EXCO member of World Oympians Association

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s four-time Olympian; Aliann Pompey, was yesterday elected as an Executive Committee Member of the World Olympians Association with responsibility for female...

Guyana is under the test of time and the patience of tolerance

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana is under the test of time and the patience of tolerance

DEAR EDITOR, Guyana’s nightmare continues with criminal characters and elements pervading their professions in a most diabolical manner, unravelling the fragile protection that is offered in...

Banking officials and politicians in Guyana are high-risk fools

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Banking officials and politicians in Guyana are high-risk fools

Kaieteur News – What you are about to read from my pen here is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I swear on my parents’ grave the words here are the truth. Here is the...

Vintage professionalism, compassion and kindness

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Vintage professionalism, compassion and kindness

DEAR EDITOR, My family and I had an interesting experience last week Sunday. This was in response to a medical emergency in Queen Street, Kitty. Arrived promptly, was the ambulance with a crew of...

Do Guyanese American votes matter?

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do Guyanese American votes matter?

DEAR EDITOR, The US Presidential and Congressional elections are on November 3, a week from Tuesday. In addition to national elections, there are state contests for Governors, state and local...

Not a time to call for power sharing

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Not a time to call for power sharing

DEAR EDITOR, On the morning news on Voice of Guyana (October 21), I listened to President Irfaan Ali’s call for reconciliation and, as I understood it, for a resolution to engage and solve the...

It’s 2020; days of race entitlement are over

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on It’s 2020; days of race entitlement are over

Dear Editor, I dare say, the days of any member of the two main racial groups in Guyana believing that because of their race, they, as a group, are entitled to be at the helm of the Government, are...

The critical inclusion of games at schools

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The critical inclusion of games at schools

DEAR EDITOR, It is difficult not to be impressed by the published reports of the Minister of Sports’ busy schedule of interactions with respective sports organisations. However, this reader must...

The precursor to the resource curse

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The precursor to the resource curse

DEAR EDITOR, As Government and opposition continues to ignore the call to investigate the giveaway of the Kaieteur and Canje Blocks, the public is privy through Kaieteur News to review the stark...

We had Exxon where and when it was vulnerable

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We had Exxon where and when it was vulnerable

DEAR EDITOR, There was a recent article in Bloomberg, which noted that “ExxonMobil Corp plans to lay off an unspecified number of employees.” This is yet another indication of what the condition...

The prodigal son has returned

Oct 22, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on The prodigal son has returned

Kaieteur News – Former Natural Resources Minister, Robert Persaud, is back. The PPP’s prodigal son has returned and has been gifted the specially created position of Foreign Secretary. The...

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Bread, circuses and the price of silence

Sep 03, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Juvenal, the Roman satirist, looked upon his fellow citizens nearly two thousand years ago and wondered what had become of a people who once cared passionately about the affairs of the Republic. “We have sold our votes,” he wrote, before observing that the Roman citizenry...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

Aug 30, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

Silence and sloth

Sep 03, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The death plunge of the MV Barima qualifies as a national catastrophe; an unprecedented local human tragedy. Obvious beyond argument, above denial. Yet, in its grim aftermath, there’s the reverse of what should be happening. With intensity and honesty. With frequency...

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