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Immigration News For Our Community End to Self-Scheduled InfoPass Appointment – Scheduling Only with Pre-Authorization

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Immigration News For Our Community End to Self-Scheduled InfoPass Appointment – Scheduling Only with Pre-Authorization

The new Information Services Modernization Program is replacing the current self-scheduled InfoPass appointment system that allows anyone to make an appointment on-line or at their...

GDA hosts ‘Eating with Music’ event for diabetics

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GDA hosts ‘Eating with Music’ event for diabetics

The Guyana Diabetes Association (GDA), during the week, hosted a successful event themed, “Eating with Music.” Persons living with diabetes were treated to hearty meals filled with low-carb...

25 years for Kaieteur News; 16 days in jail for me

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, The Story within the Story Comments Off on 25 years for Kaieteur News; 16 days in jail for me

By Leonard Gildarie What I am about to say is deeply personal. I have not spoken to my family or my colleagues at work about bringing this out. If fact, very few of my colleagues even knew...

GO-Invest urges local miners to partner with international business

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GO-Invest urges local miners to partner with international business

Local miners were urged to take advantage of opportunities posited through participation in the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Convention (PDAC) 2019; an international conference...

Guyana’s historiography: An iconoclastic input

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana’s historiography: An iconoclastic input

I am writing this column here in complete oblivion that I am a social activist. The analysis that will follow is the work of an academic. I am writing these notes as if I was requested to lecture to...

Is the world really one?

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Is the world really one?

By Dennis Nichols At times like this, (post-December 21, 2018) our country’s fanciful motto – One people; One nation; One destiny, seems hopelessly unachievable. Nevertheless it’s a very...

The Thrush

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Thrush

Thrushes make up the Turdidae, a family of passerine birds that occurs worldwide. These are plump, soft-plumaged, small to medium-sized birds, inhabiting wooded areas, and often feed on the...

Tips on how you can get the best out of your doctor’s visit

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux Comments Off on Tips on how you can get the best out of your doctor’s visit

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine The average doctor’s appointment lasts 10 minutes. Lots of people are aware of this fact; but have you ever actually stopped to...

Book Review…Fear – Our Biggest Enemy

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…Fear – Our Biggest Enemy

Book: Irie the Caterpillar Author Latoya Wakefield Illustrator: Kavion Robinson Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Latoya Wakefield makes a definitive statement on the one emotion that prevents us...

First Regional Radio conference opens

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on First Regional Radio conference opens

More than 40 regional radio broadcasters, drawn from Indigenous Communities in Regions One, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine and the Voice of Guyana in Region Four, are participating in the first ever...

Milo School’s football tournamentAnnandale and PC clinch semifinal spots

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milo School’s football tournamentAnnandale and PC clinch semifinal spots

Omari Glasgow bagged a brace to guide his team, Annandale Secondary, to an emphatic 4-0 victory over Charlestown Secondary in the first quarterfinal of the ongoing seventh Milo School’s football...

The Youth Corps…hope for the future

Mar 31, 2019 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Youth Corps…hope for the future

Address by His Excellency Brigadier David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana at the launch of the Guyana Youth Corps, March 28, 2019 Young people are this country’s future. It...

There is no chaos, no confusion, no crisis in Guyana

Mar 31, 2019 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on There is no chaos, no confusion, no crisis in Guyana

President David Granger said the perception of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) that the current political situation is causing a decline in business is a misperception. Last...

I question the use of subvention by the Ordinance Fortlands NDC

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on I question the use of subvention by the Ordinance Fortlands NDC

Dear Sir, It is with concern that I write you with regards to the above subject matter. There was a remaining balance of $ 395,000.00 (Approximate) after upgrading the council’s office interior and...

Guyana: Love at first visit

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana: Love at first visit

Dear Editor, Like most Americans, the only thing I knew about Guyana is that a very tragic event transpired some 40 years ago in the jungle that featured a megalomaniac preacher. There is a saying...

Are our human resource our greatest assets or is the saying balderdash?

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are our human resource our greatest assets or is the saying balderdash?

Dear Editor, Since the unfortunate deaths of the two daughters of Mr. Desmond Hoyte on the Soesdyke/ Linden Highway over four decades ago, there have been several multi casualty accidents on various...

An appeal to President Granger to get IPL 2019 on NCN

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on An appeal to President Granger to get IPL 2019 on NCN

Dear Editor, At the advent of the Coalition Government, a Ministry of Social Cohesion was created. Public expectation was high, given the degree of polarization that has plagued this nation even...

Why was Hughes, Fields & Stoby the producer of this maritime conference ?

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why was Hughes, Fields & Stoby the producer of this maritime conference ?

Dear Editor, A rather unusual event took place on Wednesday, March 27, 2019 – one that raised several questions in my mind. I am referring to the ‘Guyana’s New Maritime Landscape,...

That issue of dual citizenship

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on That issue of dual citizenship

It is time for a decision. It cannot be the beginning of one, or part of one, but a final one. It must be written in the immovable stone of hard principle. It starts with individuals on this matter...

CCJ sets May 10 for hearing of No-Confidence motion cases

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ sets May 10 for hearing of No-Confidence motion cases

By Feona Morrison All three cases relating to the No-Confidence Motion will be regarded and treated as urgent, President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders,...

National Assembly to sit on April 11…All Govt. MPs with dual citizenships to attend

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on National Assembly to sit on April 11…All Govt. MPs with dual citizenships to attend

The National Assembly will have a sitting on April 11 with all Government parliamentarians, including those who have dual citizenships, to attend, says Minister of State, Joseph Harmon. According to...

Fly Jamaica makes staffers redundant; hopes for return in “couple” of months

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fly Jamaica makes staffers redundant; hopes for return in “couple” of months

Fly Jamaica has told its staffers that it is experiencing cash problems and are making redundant effective tomorrow. Fly Jamaica is also hoping to start flying again in a few months but, in the...

GRA calls on Financial Institutions to make reports on accounts held by US Citizens

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GRA calls on Financial Institutions to make reports on accounts held by US Citizens

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is mandated under the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) to report accounts of United States (US) citizens to the US Internal Revenue Service (US-IRS) on...

Two charged for stealing firearm in church yard

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Two charged for stealing firearm in church yard

Brenton Charles and Quacy Sealy, who are no strangers to the courtroom, yesterday returned to answer a charge of stealing a firearm along with matching ammunitions from a church compound. It was...

PPP will not support more funds for GECOM’s election readiness – Opposition Leader

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on PPP will not support more funds for GECOM’s election readiness – Opposition Leader

President David Granger had assured that the funding to ensure the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is ready for General and Regional Elections, will be made available, but the Leader of the...

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2026/27 West Indies Regional 4-Day Championships Round 2…GHE vs WWIV Day 2 – Volcanoes trail by 210 runs ahead of Day 3 By Clifton Ross Kaieteur Sports – Clinical half-century knocks...

Dynastic politics is repulsive to the electorate

Apr 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In 2025, there was a seismic shift in Guyanese politics. For years the established parties assumed voters would remain in their accustomed enclosures, dutifully choosing between familiar flags, familiar slogans, and familiar disappointments. But then something happened last...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

Wales GTE: Many questions, no answers

Apr 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The questions came before, are coming again. Former Minister David Patterson pushed questions in and out of parliament relative to the Wales gas-to-energy project and got nowhere. The Speaker of the National Assembly, like a Roman emperor, repeatedly gave the thumbs down. ...

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