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Reforming Guyana’s libel laws is long overdue

Oct 06, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Reforming Guyana’s libel laws is long overdue

Kaieteur News – Libel laws are a holdover from a time when the powerful protected their persons, practices, and turf against undesired intrusion, exposure, and truths that embarrass. It is time...

Guyana has power to demand that Field Development Plans ensure evolution of local content capacities – Expert

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana has power to demand that Field Development Plans ensure evolution of local content capacities – Expert

Kaieteur News – If Guyana wants to ensure there is early consideration of local content, then it would be wise to request that oil companies embed opportunities for maximum use of indigenous...

AGM replaces local contractor with Chinese company

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on AGM replaces local contractor with Chinese company

Kaieteur News – When foreign company Zijin Mining Group secured ownership of Aurora Gold Mines (AGM) in August, it had laid off a significant number of local business, and by extension,...

Public’s cooperation, behavioural changes key to stopping spread of COVID-19 – CMO (ag)

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Public’s cooperation, behavioural changes key to stopping spread of COVID-19 – CMO (ag)

Kaieteur News – New acting Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Narine Singh, is bringing to the table more than three decades of institutional knowledge of Guyana’s healthcare system. According...

Victim in E’bo hotel “mystery” shooting dies

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Victim in E’bo hotel “mystery” shooting dies

Kaieteur News – One of the victims ambushed in what is being called a “mystery” shooting that occurred on September 29 has died. The victim, according to reports, died yesterday at the...

Retired GPHC nurse succumbs to COVID-19

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Retired GPHC nurse succumbs to COVID-19

Kaieteur News – A retired nurse from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) passed away early yesterday morning due to the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The nurse, Mark King, was 55...

City cop committed to stand trial for killing mentally ill man in 2018

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on City cop committed to stand trial for killing mentally ill man in 2018

Kaieteur News – A City Constabulary Lance Corporal, who allegedly shot and killed a mentally ill prisoner in 2018, was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court for murder. The...

Police need help identifying injured pedal cyclist

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Police need help identifying injured pedal cyclist

Kaieteur News – Police are trying to ascertain the identity of a pedal cyclist who is presently at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in a critical condition. The pedal cyclist...

Guyana to serve as Vice Chair of WHO’s Executive Board

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to serve as Vice Chair of WHO’s Executive Board

Kaieteur News – Guyana has been elected to serve in the position of Vice President to the Executive Board. According to a statement released by Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, who will...

Venezuelan cook found murdered in Big Hope Backdam – two suspects arrested

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuelan cook found murdered in Big Hope Backdam – two suspects arrested

Kaieteur News – A 28-year-old Venezuelan cook was on Sunday last found murdered in a mining pit at Big Hope Backdam, Cuyuni, Region Seven. The woman has been identified as Dimas Emilia Lezama...

Suspect nabbed with firearm after shooting cop

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Suspect nabbed with firearm after shooting cop

Kaieteur News – A police officer was yesterday shot while on patrol duty with colleagues at Guyhoc Park, East La Penitence, Georgetown. The shooting incident took place sometime after 18.00hrs....

It nah wuk suh!

Oct 06, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on It nah wuk suh!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De nurse now feeling de heat, literally. Dem deh out in de hot boiling sun protesting and de heat coming down from above. Dem nurses engage in political...

Time for the people to take action

Oct 06, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Time for the people to take action

Kaieteur News – Ninety-eight (98) new coronavirus cases were recorded yesterday. Based on the global average at least three of these persons will die. The deaths are going to pile up. With more...

Less than two weeks remain for GABF uniform competition

Oct 06, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Less than two weeks remain for GABF uniform competition

The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) is reminding school teams and clubs that it’s uniform design competition which opened for entries on September 20th has less than two weeks to go for...

GOVERNMENT LEADERS

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GOVERNMENT LEADERS

You do NOT fool anyone on the Canje and Kaieteur blocks. Cut the Crap. Tell the TRUTH! Disclose fully. Who is getting the billions on those blocks?

Volunteers keep COVID-19 hotlines going – Ministry

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Volunteers keep COVID-19 hotlines going – Ministry

Kaieteur News – There are several COVID-19 hotlines functioning in Guyana. These hotlines are operated largely by volunteers, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Health....

COVID-19 death toll now at 92

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 death toll now at 92

– 95 new cases recorded Guyana yesterday recorded two new COVID-19 deaths bringing the toll to 92. The deaths announced by the Ministry of Health are those of a 38-year-old male and an...

ANUG shines spotlight on constitutional reform

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ANUG shines spotlight on constitutional reform

– as 28th anniversary of democracy is observed Kaieteur News – On the 28th anniversary of the return of democracy in Guyana, the A New and United Guyana (ANUG) decided to remind the new...

Young MLC students recount road to CSEC success

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Young MLC students recount road to CSEC success

Despite COVID-19 challenges… Kaieteur News – Students, who wrote the Caribbean Secondary Examination Certification (CSEC) this year, were faced with the unprecedented challenge of sitting a...

Improving education amid a pandemic

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Improving education amid a pandemic

(Message by His Excellency, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana on the occasion of World Teacher’s Day 2020 celebrated under the theme: “Teachers: Kaieteur...

Democracy is sacrosanct

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Democracy is sacrosanct

(Message by His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the restoration of democracy in Guyana.) Kaieteur News...

One in 10 worldwide may have had COVID-19 – WHO

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on One in 10 worldwide may have had COVID-19 – WHO

Kaieteur News – One in 10 people around the world may have contracted COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, at a special meeting of WHO leaders. A top official said the estimate...

Laser treatment for kidney stones introduced at Mercy Hospital

Oct 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Laser treatment for kidney stones introduced at Mercy Hospital

Kaieteur News – Surgical Associates Guyana has introduced laser treatment of kidney stones at the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. According to a press release, the first case of a kidney stone...

‘Golden Jaguar’ forward Callum Harriott in fine form, making Sky Bet League Two Team of the Week

Oct 06, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Golden Jaguar’ forward Callum Harriott in fine form, making Sky Bet League Two Team of the Week

Daily Gazette – Colchester United pair Ben Stevenson and Golden Jaguar Callum Harriott have been named in the League Two EFL Team of the Week. The U’s duo was in fine form in their...

The PNC: Six successful leaps then a leap into the chasm

Oct 06, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PNC: Six successful leaps then a leap into the chasm

Kaieteur News – The PNC is the second oldest political party in Guyana and has become a gigantic force in political manoeuvrings since it was born in the fifties. It held state power from 1964...

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National basketball team down to 15 after intense trials

Members of the National Assembly should exercise civility towards their peers

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The following column was published two years ago in response to the same controversy that... more