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Apr 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on In response to COVID-19… Govt. orders partial, countrywide lockdown for one month
-6pm-6am curfew; citizens restricted to home -no parties, seawalls, clubs, creek, pool, religious gathering -police has authority to stop vehicle, vessel, airplane; make arrests Government has...Apr 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. officials were planning for coronavirus before WHO confirmed name of disease
The recent explanation provided by the Ministry of Public Health in an effort to dispel rumours of insider trading in the sole sourcing of 14 ventilators from Caribbean Medical has only evoked more...Apr 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Court of Appeal ruling on elections recount set for Sunday
By Rehanna Ramsay The Court of Appeal is set to rule tomorrow, on the application filed by the APNU- AFC‘s Ulita Moore, against the decision of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to hold a...Apr 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Shoppers ignore ‘social distancing’ to make last minutes purchases
By Renay Sambach A large number of shoppers flocked to the Stabroek Market and stores nearby yesterday to make what seemed like last minute purchases. This came on the heels of word that city markets...Apr 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 disrupts ExxonMobil’s drilling plans for Guyana
In light of current travel restrictions resulting from the novel Coronavirus, ExxonMobil has made plans to adjust drilling activities offshore Guyana. Kaieteur News was able to confirm this with...Apr 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on OAS willing to return and observe elections recount – Secretary General
The Organization of American States (OAS) is willing and ready to resend its Observer Mission to Guyana to observe the National Recount of ballots from the March 2, 2020 General and Regional...Apr 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM team must supervise elections recount – Jagdeo
Leader of the Opposition, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has called on the return of the High-Level Team from CARICOM to supervise the National Recount of Ballots from the March 2, 2020 General and Regional...Apr 04, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The government is incapable of responding to the coronavirus threat
It was quite surprising to learn that the Guyana Elections Commission had to vote again on a decision to recount the ballots cast at this year’s General and Regional Elections. GECOM had already...Apr 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Local businesses donate food to citizens
As the country goes on partial lockdown through the implementation of curfews, the temporary closure of businesses and a general economic slowdown, it is only natural that some families will have to...Apr 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Submit Skills Certificate application online – Foreign Affairs Ministry urges
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has taken extra measures to protect its staffers and visitors from COVID-19. It is now urging persons applying for the Certificate of Recognition of CARICOM Skills...Apr 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Psychological evaluation for man who allegedly murdered daughter to get rich
Thirty-three-year-old Ganesh Ramdain, a construction worker of 14 Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday remanded to prison for the murder of his 11-year-old daughter. Ramdain, was arraigned...Apr 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Giftland robbery suspect remanded for another charge
Twenty-one-year-old Nicholas Singh, of 1818 D’Urban Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, who was arrested for a robbery at the Giftland Shopping Mall a few months ago, was on Thursday remanded to...Apr 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on As COVID-19 toll rises… Health Ministry promotes ‘mental health’ tips
With the emergence of the novel coronavirus here in Guyana and growing numbers around the world, it is quite normal, natural and expected that anxiety will increase and people will become worried and...Apr 04, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on To support Mingo’s tabulation is evil
You never know the inner Freudian drives that reside in the subterranean parts of the human mind, until an occasion arises and those neatly repressed instincts escape from the id, finds a seat on the...Apr 04, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Foreign presence, interest and influence
It is going to have to come down to this: since we refuse to talk with one another, then this means that the vacuum and role have to be filled by somebody. Since, there is no welcoming of any...Apr 04, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sarwan gives Skerritt Administration passing grade Wants stronger Regional First-Class tourney
By Sean Devers Former West Indies batsman Guyanese Ramnaresh gave new CWI President Ricky Skerritt’s Administration a passing grade and would like to see better facilities in the Caribbean to...Apr 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GAWU appeals for temporary closure of sugar estates
Amid the Coronavirus outbreak, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) is calling on the Chief Industrial Relations Manager, Deodat Sukhu, under the Guyana Sugar Corporation...Apr 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 impact… IPED waiving fees, restructuring clients’ loans; working by appointments only
As a number of commercial banks and other institutions continue to grapple with the fallouts of COVID-19, the Institute of Private Enterprise Development Limited (IPED) has also joined in taking...Apr 04, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mohamed hopeful for November race meet
Head of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sport Club (GMR&SC) and active Rotary Demerara member; Rameez Mohamed, during an invited comment with Kaieteur Sport yesterday, explained that he fears the...Apr 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Recount: I have my doubts, and they are not minimal
Dear Editor, So Gecom has finally agreed to a recount. From my standpoint, though welcome, that is not news, but simply representative of the delayed inevitable, the greatest of anticlimaxes. Call me...Apr 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Closing municipal markets without an alternative, risks compounding the impact of Covid-19
DEAR EDITOR, The Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown should be taking measures to enable social distancing, without threatening the food supply of the citizens of Georgetown, and the...Apr 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nigel Hughes’ views on Guyana’s race problem are well-meaning, but incorporate a number of fallacies
DEAR EDITOR, In the current tense and contentious political and social climate (conflict over the March 2 elections and the potential spread of Covid-19), an emerging debate now centres around...Listen to the man that is throwing Guyanese bright future away
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Kaieteur Sports – The Dennis DeoRoop-trained horse, Stolen Money, dominated the field to claim victory in the feature event at the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club, Bush Lot East Berbice on...Kaieteur News – The government has embarked on an ambitious infrastructure development spree. It has initiated major... more
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