October 2020

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PAHO, IOM sign agreement to improve health of 70 million migrants in the Americas

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PAHO, IOM sign agreement to improve health of 70 million migrants in the Americas

Kaieteur News – More than 70 million migrants living across international borders in the Region of the Americas are set to benefit from a joint agreement signed yesterday by Carissa F. Etienne,...

GAPLF cancels all events for 2020

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GAPLF cancels all events for 2020

The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation has issued a release notifying its members and the public that no event would be held for 2020. Following is the full text of that release. “Due to the...

D’Urban Park Lion’s Club donates canes in observance of World Sight Day

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on D’Urban Park Lion’s Club donates canes in observance of World Sight Day

Kaieteur News – There are currently 14,000 persons in Guyana who are visually impaired and almost 3,000 who are blind. In fact, according to Dr. Arlene Bobb-Semple, an ophthalmologist attached...

National basketball player calls for more competition in Linden

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on National basketball player calls for more competition in Linden

By Calvin Chapman Guyana and Victory Valley Royals’ Power Forward, Harold Adams who was part of the historic Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) senior men’s team that won the nation’s...

AFC in 2020: Does life have meaning?

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on AFC in 2020: Does life have meaning?

Kaieteur News – In the life of every human, dead and living, they once experienced a moment in which they listened to a song, read the headline in the newspaper about a prominent place, heard...

Champion of Champions dominoes commences today

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Champion of Champions dominoes commences today

Under strict Covid-19 guidelines, the Champion of Champions Dominoes competition commences today at R and R Domino Club, 76 Meadowbrook Gardens at 13:30hrs. Senior Organising Secretary of the Guyana...

Those deleted social media posts

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Those deleted social media posts

Kaieteur News – There is this practice that is extremely dangerous in which the reckless and malicious engage and get away with every time. Calculating people, so-called popular participants in...

BCB restarts Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh Coaching sessions under strict Covid-19 guidelines

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB restarts Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh Coaching sessions under strict Covid-19 guidelines

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) one week ago recommenced its 2020 Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh Coaching programme after a stoppage of six months due to the corona virus pandemic. The Programme is being...

APNU+AFC continues to lose its stripes and strides

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU+AFC continues to lose its stripes and strides

DEAR EDITOR, Kaieteur News – As the saying goes, “silence is golden.” Many in the Guyanese society chose to remain silent with guilty conscience during the election period and post-election...

Red Thread concerned about issues affecting poor people

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Red Thread concerned about issues affecting poor people

DEAR EDITOR, Kaieteur News – The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people all over the world, some more than others, but we want to focus on what is happening to us in Guyana. We are concerned...

Johnny Nash – three score and twenty equals the hits

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Johnny Nash – three score and twenty equals the hits

DEAR EDITOR, Kaieteur News – I do not think that the word ‘iconic’ does Johnny Nash justice. It takes a great step in the right direction, but falls short somehow; don’t ask me how, but...

Freddie Kissoon is wrong to believe he can denigrate Black leaders and replace them with his voice

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon is wrong to believe he can denigrate Black leaders and replace them with his voice

DEAR EDITOR, Kaieteur News – Even a cursory glance of the recent articles of Freddie Kissoon reveals that he is on a crusade to take down Afro-Guyanese leaders and, more presumptuously, to tell...

Li’l street criminals and big white collar criminals

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Li’l street criminals and big white collar criminals

DEAR EDITOR, Kaieteur News – I touch upon the daily news, and it usually has coverage about young men caught and jailed. It is the regular fare of robbery on the street, burglary from property,...

No stone unturned in the pursuit of drug traffickers

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on No stone unturned in the pursuit of drug traffickers

DEAR EDITOR, Kaieteur News – The contents of the Granger COI into the actions of CANU’s James Singh were never meant to be public; the COI was set up as a means to railroad Singh. What...

COVID-19 exposes true reality

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on COVID-19 exposes true reality

DEAR EDITOR, Kaieteur News – Hyper-reality is an image or simulation, or an aggregate of images and simulations, that either distorts the reality it purports to depict or does not in fact...

GT&T will now be forced to get its act together

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on GT&T will now be forced to get its act together

DEAR EDITOR, Kaieteur News – At last the liberalising in the communications sector in Guyana is an old wish come through for me and the time for GT&T to take their knees off the necks of...

Poor people snatching phones, politicians snatching oil blocks

Oct 09, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Poor people snatching phones, politicians snatching oil blocks

Kaieteur News – From top to bottom, Guyanese society is riddled with those who snatch what belongs to others, especially from the poor and the helpless. Snatching is so chronic that this...

APNU+AFC may have obstructed SARA’s probe into Canje, Kaieteur awards – Global Witness report

Oct 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC may have obstructed SARA’s probe into Canje, Kaieteur awards – Global Witness report

Kaieteur News – The A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) government may have deliberately stonewalled the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) in its probe of the...

Local Content Policy must be hinged on realistic assessment of company’s needs vs. what nation can supply – expert

Oct 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Local Content Policy must be hinged on realistic assessment of company’s needs vs. what nation can supply – expert

Kaieteur News – As Guyana continues its efforts to develop a robust Local Content Policy, Chatham House Associate Fellow, Dr. Valerie Marcel has cautioned that the document would not be...

If conditions change dramatically, renegotiation is a reasonable demand

Oct 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on If conditions change dramatically, renegotiation is a reasonable demand

Trinidad Prime Minister says… Kaieteur News – It is important to maintain the sanctity of contracts, like Production Sharing Agreements signed by Governments with oil and gas companies. But...

Opposition calls for PPP to regularize Success squatters

Oct 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition calls for PPP to regularize Success squatters

– says they would have done it in their second term Kaieteur News – The A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) opposition is calling on the People’s...

Four more to testify in Gary Best dangerous driving trial

Oct 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Four more to testify in Gary Best dangerous driving trial

Kaieteur News – Four more witnesses are expected to testify against Former Guyana Defence Force Chief of Staff, Gary Best, in the trial for his dangerous driving charge in relation to the death...

Cop who told driver not return with less than $5000 busted

Oct 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cop who told driver not return with less than $5000 busted

Kaieteur News – A Guyana Police Force (GPF) traffic rank attached to the Brickdam Police Station was busted by top officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs for allegedly trying to use...

‘Crack’ gets 10 years for killing of Mahaica rice farmer

Oct 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Crack’ gets 10 years for killing of Mahaica rice farmer

Kaieteur News – Former murder accused, Paul James was yesterday sentenced to serve 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing of Mahaica rice farmer, Hardat Kissoon....

Gov’t moves to finalize Electronic Communications and Transactions Bill

Oct 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t moves to finalize Electronic Communications and Transactions Bill

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commence under the new Government of Guyana, has initiated moves to advance the reform and modernization of the business sector. Against...

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Aug 24, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Newly imported horse from the Jumbo Jet Racing Stables, Sand Pipes stormed to a comprehensive victory in the prestigious Guyana Cup horse race at Rising Sun Turf Club on a cool...

Ten schools on one street

Aug 24, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana never ceases to amaze me. There are moments when a government announces an achievement and it is done in such a manner that one is expected to feel grateful for the evidence of progress. Some of these announcements are about routine things. Yet, the announcement is made...

Facts, Due Process and Fairness: The CCJ’s Test

Aug 23, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...

Procurement master composer Ali on stage

Aug 24, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Those visits by Pres. Ali into places of worship may be paying off. He sees the light. He may insist that he sees god (meaning himself); I settle for light. Light is late in coming. Its speed slowed down by GPL wires and thick political darkness. But light has arrived...

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