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CARICOM Chair reiterates winner to March 2 Elections should be declared using recount results

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM Chair reiterates winner to March 2 Elections should be declared using recount results

Even as the Caribbean Court of Justice has put a stay on the declaration on the final declaration of the results of Guyana’s election, CARICOM Chair, Mia Mottley, has issued a statement calling for...

ABCEU diplomats call on GECOM to declare results using recount figures

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ABCEU diplomats call on GECOM to declare results using recount figures

The Ambassador of the United States of America, H.E. Sarah-Ann Lynch, the British High Commissioner, H.E. Greg Quinn, the Canadian High Commissioner, H.E. Lilian Chatterjee, and the Ambassador of the...

Lowenfield discards 25% of valid votes to give Coalition win

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield discards 25% of valid votes to give Coalition win

By Shikema Dey Just one day after the Court of Appeal ruled that “valid votes” must be used to determine the winner of the March 2, 2020 Elections, Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith...

Govt. signs away 130 acres of prime East Coast lands in a day

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. signs away 130 acres of prime East Coast lands in a day

– NICIL says deals to finance $30B GUYSUCO bond De facto Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, signed away 130 acres of prime lands situated on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) to several...

$352 Million ‘sea defence’ contract awarded to BK

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $352 Million ‘sea defence’ contract awarded to BK

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) has awarded a major ‘sea defence’ contract to BK International Inc. According to the Ministry of Finance’s NPTAB, the award was...

Suriname’s Bouterse accepts results of elections

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname’s Bouterse accepts results of elections

PARAMARIBO (CMC): The National Democratic Party (NDP) of President Desi Bouterse has congratulated the opposition parties on their victory in the May 25 general election and their decision to move...

Hundreds of millions in post-elections contracts…7 out of 10 ‘HIDDEN’

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Hundreds of millions in post-elections contracts…7 out of 10 ‘HIDDEN’

By Mikaila Prince Procurement laws make it pellucid that the National Procurement & Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) should publish all bid openings, so that the public could have access to...

PPP/C moves to CCJ – Court blocks GECOM from declaring election results

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C moves to CCJ – Court blocks GECOM from declaring election results

Representatives of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) have moved to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) over the ruling on the elections credibility case. The appeal to the CCJ follows...

Recount results valid for GECOM to declare – OAS

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Recount results valid for GECOM to declare – OAS

– Says aggrieved party has to mount challenge via election petition The Organisation of American States (OAS), which had mounted an electoral observation mission to Guyana’s March 2 polls and...

Mother of eight risks life to save baby from fire

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of eight risks life to save baby from fire

A Georgetown woman risked her life to save her six-month-old baby from a burning house last evening. Natasha Gittens was asleep with her husband, Jerry Jones, and eight children when her lot 54...

CCJ judges to write English exams

Jun 24, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on CCJ judges to write English exams

Dem Boys Seh… De Pee-Pee-Pee-Cee run to de CCJ. Dem appeal de decision of the Court of Appeal because it look like dem nah want tek no chance with de Lolo man. Dem boys nah give dem wrong. De man...

Different strokes for different folks

Jun 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Different strokes for different folks

It is part of unwritten conventions that governments should not sign major agreements or make major appointments after the dissolution of parliament in preparation for elections. Yet, we are...

NDC Chairman threatens to remove roadside fruit vendors at Peter’s Hall

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NDC Chairman threatens to remove roadside fruit vendors at Peter’s Hall

Persons vending fruits along the Peter’s Hall East Bank Demerara Public Road were yesterday threatened to be placed before “the court” should they not remove in three days. The vendors claimed...

107 recoveries, as COVID-19 cases increase to 206

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 107 recoveries, as COVID-19 cases increase to 206

Guyana has recorded a total of 107 recoveries to date as the total number of COVID-19 cases moves to 206, an increase of one after a whopping 21 jump in cases on Monday. During the Ministry of Public...

Policeman succumbs to injuries days after accident that killed pedal cyclist

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Policeman succumbs to injuries days after accident that killed pedal cyclist

The Guyana Police Force lost one of its ranks yesterday after he succumbed to injuries he sustained following an accident at Number 68 Public road that also killed a pedal cyclist. Corporal Navindra...

Labourer jailed for wounding Wismar businessman

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Labourer jailed for wounding Wismar businessman

On Monday, one week after he was sentenced for robbing a Wismar businessman, Keon Harlequin, a labourer also known as “Peas” of One Mile, Wismar, Linden, was given an additional one year jail...

Guyanese, media worker killed in Barbados cutlass attack

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese, media worker killed in Barbados cutlass attack

(NationNews) – SHOCK AND SADNESS spread across Barbados yesterday after two men – one a construction worker, the other a NATION photographer – were killed within minutes of each other in a...

Cops re-arrest former security guard who posed with weapons in video

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cops re-arrest former security guard who posed with weapons in video

– report being sent to DPP Jermaine Kingston, the security guard who allegedly posed with high-powered weapons while making comments that appeared to incite violence, is back in custody. A...

England v West Indies: Cricket returns with practice match

Jun 24, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on England v West Indies: Cricket returns with practice match

BBC Sport – Top-level cricket was played for the first time in the world since March as West Indies began their intra-squad warm-up match at Old Trafford. Kraigg Brathwaite, captaining his...

Countries with responsible citizens are the ones that are successful

Jun 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Countries with responsible citizens are the ones that are successful

War against COVID-19… – Emergency Physician Even as the nation awaits the outcome of the March 2, 2020 election, it continues to be faced with the daunting threat of COVID-19. But can the...

Ramjattan and Nagamootoo: Quoting Shakespeare, Spinoza and Machiavelli

Jun 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ramjattan and Nagamootoo: Quoting Shakespeare, Spinoza and Machiavelli

Here is what the great philosopher, Spinoza once wrote of humans. “I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, not to hate them but to understand them.” Three hundred years...

Cricketers back home from T&T

Jun 24, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cricketers back home from T&T

Several Guyanese cricketers who ply their trade in Trinidad and Tobago arrived home on Friday last following the cancellation of the season there due to the Coronavirus outbreak. The season was...

South America U-23 Championships doubtful this year

Jun 24, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on South America U-23 Championships doubtful this year

In January this year, the head of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Aubrey Hutson, had confirmed with Kaieteur Sport that Guyana will be hosting the ninth edition of the biennial South...

Elections traumas and nightmares continue

Jun 24, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Elections traumas and nightmares continue

What is going on here? Why is it that when Guyanese expect the Solomonic they end up with more of the hypnotic? When will the national coma end? Will it ever end, this political vegetative state? As...

Roger Harper has shown anti-Guyanese prejudice in the non-selection of Verasammy Permaul

Jun 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Roger Harper has shown anti-Guyanese prejudice in the non-selection of Verasammy Permaul

Dear Sir, Kindly allow me some space in your newspaper for this letter. After the uproar caused by the omission of Verasammy Permaul from the West Indies team to tour England for a three test series,...

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A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more