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GECOM probes allegations of irregularities at Mabaruma polls …delays declaration of results

Nov 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM probes allegations of irregularities at Mabaruma polls …delays declaration of results

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has launched an investigation into allegations that absentee persons, including someone who died recently, voted in the Municipality of Mabaruma at Monday’s...

Another senseless hospital tragedy

Nov 15, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Another senseless hospital tragedy

There are three pressing things on my mind, and I will pass the exigency of an analysis of the phenomenal LGE 2018 results to expatiate on these morbidities, hoping that when I get back to the LGE...

Triple therapy regimen recommended to help Guyana meet 2020 MDA goal

Nov 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Triple therapy regimen recommended to help Guyana meet 2020 MDA goal

Guyana, through its health sector, was in 2017 able to reach the accepted target of 65 percent coverage of its filaria Mass Drug Administration [MDA] programme for the first time in its history....

An encounter with disorderly policemen

Nov 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on An encounter with disorderly policemen

Dear Sir, Please allow me space in your paper to have another one of my horrifying encounters with police known to the world. I feel it is necessary to publicise these instances of police brutality...

Noting the economic decline

Nov 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Noting the economic decline

Editor, In a desperate attempt to deceive the electorate, leading up to the 2015 general election, the APNU/AFC coalition government propounded one the most vacuous and misleading manifestos ever....

An indication of rejection?

Nov 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on An indication of rejection?

Dear Editor The results for the Local Government Election (LGE) showed that approximately 32% of the voting population cast their votes while the remaining 68% did not vote. What this means is that...

Deceived by that Blaze Advertisement

Nov 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Deceived by that Blaze Advertisement

Dear Editor, I wish to bring to your attention the appalling actions of the largest telecommunications provided to Guyana. Today November 14, GTT placed a sprawling ad in the centre of the local...

The strength of the PPP lies in more than ethnic loiyalties

Nov 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The strength of the PPP lies in more than ethnic loiyalties

Editor, The results of the recent Local Government Elections have confirmed what most Guyanese already know, namely, that the PPP remains the largest and the most popular political party in the...

Horrified by elections results

Nov 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Horrified by elections results

Dear Editor, I am horrified by results of the local government elections in Guyana. Thoughts of Phantom squads and theft of national assets trample through my mind. Then I ask myself the hard...

The inconspicuous obvious

Nov 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The inconspicuous obvious

Editor, The recent ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) pertaining to the issue of cross dressing in Guyana is indicative of the trajectory of homosexuality in this nation. The masquerade...

The people with the power have no intention of saving our biodiversity

Nov 15, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The people with the power have no intention of saving our biodiversity

Dear Editor For some time now, I have been deluded. I thought that there must come a time when the people with the power – the leaders of the big corporations, which really run all the human...

North Korea’s nuclear shell game

Nov 15, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on North Korea’s nuclear shell game

(Republished from The New York Times) President Trump, who styles himself a master deal maker and reader of people, claimed to have put an end to the North Korean nuclear threat with his meeting in...

Only 28% voters turnout in G/town …PPP wins Buxton

Nov 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Only 28% voters turnout in G/town …PPP wins Buxton

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has announced that the voter turnout in Georgetown was very poor for this year’s Local Government Election. In fact, according to GECOM, only 28 percent of...

Integrity Commission to take MPs, state officials to court over undeclared assets

Nov 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Integrity Commission to take MPs, state officials to court over undeclared assets

The Integrity Commission will be taking legal action against Members of Parliament, (MP) and other state officials that have failed to declare their assets in keeping with the law. The names...

No provision exists to prevent managers from borrowing against Natural Resource Fund –NRGI highlights

Nov 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on No provision exists to prevent managers from borrowing against Natural Resource Fund –NRGI highlights

By Kiana Wilburg Based on its examination of the coalition Government’s Green Paper on the Natural Resource Fund (NRF), international experts have found that there is no provision in place to...

Policeman shot as ‘Sindicato’ attacks vessel in Cuyuni -victim medivaced to city hospital

Nov 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Policeman shot as ‘Sindicato’ attacks vessel in Cuyuni -victim medivaced to city hospital

A 38-year-old Guyanese policeman was shot in the lower back around noon yesterday, reportedly by suspected members of the dreaded Venezuela Sindicato gang. At the time he was travelling with...

All Georgetown will be pleased with selection of New Mayor – Min. Lawrence …APNU holds on to city with 28.3% voter turnout

Nov 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on All Georgetown will be pleased with selection of New Mayor – Min. Lawrence …APNU holds on to city with 28.3% voter turnout

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has regained control of Georgetown, despite losing ground to the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) at Monday’s Local Government Elections (LGE). Volda...

PPP reps. to force transparency and accountability agenda with increased seats on City Council – Opposition Leader

Nov 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on PPP reps. to force transparency and accountability agenda with increased seats on City Council – Opposition Leader

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) intends to use its increased seats on the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to ensure that transparency and accountability are returned to the institution that...

Three witnesses remain in PI of teen who ‘jumped’ from car

Nov 14, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Three witnesses remain in PI of teen who ‘jumped’ from car

Police Prosecutor Neville Jeffers is expected to call three remaining witnesses to testify in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of, Sasia Adams, who reportedly jumped from a moving...

Team Trinidad makes it three in three at CMRC – King and Truelove crowned champions!

Nov 14, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Team Trinidad makes it three in three at CMRC – King and Truelove crowned champions!

The 2018 Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) came to a close officially Monday evening when the awards ceremony concluded at Guyana’s Ramada Princess Hotel at Providence,...

12 interdicted to allow the police probe to continue

Nov 14, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on 12 interdicted to allow the police probe to continue

One day after12 fire fighters were released on $100,000 station bail each for allegedly stealing from passengers aboard the Fly Jamaica aircraft that crash-landed at the Cheddi Jagan International...

Caribbean Court orders Guyana to strike down “cross-dressing” law

Nov 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean Court orders Guyana to strike down “cross-dressing” law

The Caribbean Court of Justice, yesterday, handed the transgender community a victory when it made a landmark ruling that Guyana’s “cross-dressing” law is unconstitutional. The law, in...

Canadian based Dias gives back to ‘old’ club – Malteenoes receives donation of cricket gear

Nov 14, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Canadian based Dias gives back to ‘old’ club – Malteenoes receives donation of cricket gear

Sixty-three-year- old former Malteenoes division one middle order batsman Victor Dias donated among other cricket gear, six bats, a quantity of red and white balls, coloured and white batting and...

New GVF President Levi Nedd attends FIVB Conference in Mexico

Nov 14, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on New GVF President Levi Nedd attends FIVB Conference in Mexico

Newly elected President of the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF), Levi Nedd, left the country yesterday to attend a meeting of The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (International Volleyball...

Barbados Foreign Affairs Minister and delegation call on Minister of Education

Nov 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Barbados Foreign Affairs Minister and delegation call on Minister of Education

Minister of Education Dr. Nicolette Henry, received a delegation led by Barbados Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Sandra Husbands, and included David Commissiong, Ambassador of Barbados to...

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Tucker sets three South American records

Oct 16, 2026

…74-year-old captured three silver, one bronze at World Masters Powerlifting C/ships (Kaieteur News) – Guyana made an impressive start to the 2026 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF)...

Constructive Engagement with the rough edges edited out

Oct 16, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It is said that one should not speak ill of the dead. But there is something about the tributes paid to deceased persons that encourages the living to improve the reputation of the dead. At the recent evening of reflection for Robert Corbin, Bharrat Jagdeo appeared to have...

Haiti: When the Promise of a Haitian-Led Solution Begins to Fade

Oct 11, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Who speaks for Haiti? It is a question the international community can no longer avoid. For years, governments and international organisations have insisted that the country’s deepening crisis must have a “Haitian-led solution”. The principle is...

1 board, 1 minister, 6 years, 27,000 pensioners

Oct 16, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It is the Guyana Way. The law provides. The numbers spiral. The wait intensifies. The suspense pierces. Sounds like a PPP Govt production. It is. On standby with hand outstretched are 27,000 Guyanese. They have given their labours to Guyana. They are NIS...

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