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Elections date in limbo as GECOM meeting ends abruptly

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Elections date in limbo as GECOM meeting ends abruptly

A key meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) ended abruptly last evening with no consensus on a date for General and Regional Elections. It will raise questions exactly what the...

Jagdeo practicing to boss Irfaan

Jan 25, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Jagdeo practicing to boss Irfaan

De way things going nobody can’t doubt that whoever de PPP put as president it gun be Jagdeo running de country. De man stand up de odda day and seh that he party gun open back three sugar...

Newborn dies after placed in toilet

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Newborn dies after placed in toilet

Police are to question a 25-year-old mother in connection with the death of her newborn, which was fished out of a toilet at Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara, yesterday. Reports indicate that the...

Senior cop charged with rape of girl, 13

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Senior cop charged with rape of girl, 13

A senior member of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) who is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl was yesterday charged and remanded for the offence. Seecharran Singh, 31, an Assistant Superintendent of...

$550M Cocaine in lumber… Stephen Vieira, Nazim Gafoor freed, two others jailed for five years

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on $550M Cocaine in lumber… Stephen Vieira, Nazim Gafoor freed, two others jailed for five years

Two of the four men who were charged after the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) discovered $550M worth of cocaine hidden in dressed lumber, have been convicted of the crime. In her ruling...

Regal Sports U19 Tourney to bowl off tomorrow in Wakenaam

Jan 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regal Sports U19 Tourney to bowl off tomorrow in Wakenaam

Regal Sports and Wakenaam Cricket Committee Under-19 40-over competition is set to bowl off tomorrow with two matches. Good Success/Sans Souci and Jaguars Combined will take on G Square...

Prizes presented to champions of GUYOIL/Tradewind Tankers Football League

Jan 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Prizes presented to champions of GUYOIL/Tradewind Tankers Football League

The Guyana Oil Company (Guyoil) confirmed that the there will be a second season of the GUYOIL/Tradewind Tankers school football league during yesterday’s prize giving ceremony for the...

Jaikaran’s XI overcome Persaud’s XI in U19 fixture

Jan 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jaikaran’s XI overcome Persaud’s XI in U19 fixture

Vikash Jaikaran’s XI defeated Navindra Persaud’s XI by 99 runs when the teams collided in a 40-over U19 fixture yesterday at the Gandhi Youth Organisation ground. Batting first, Vickash...

Concacaf Nations League Local based Golden Jaguars commence training for Belize clash following GFF Talent ID process

Jan 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Concacaf Nations League Local based Golden Jaguars commence training for Belize clash following GFF Talent ID process

An extended Guyana-based national squad will this weekend commence the Guyana Football Federation’s two-month preparations for the final round Concacaf Gold Cup and Nations League home...

PPP will criminalize non-release of info in oil industry

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on PPP will criminalize non-release of info in oil industry

Transparency bodies and the media alike had an uphill task trying to get hold of the oil contracts signed by the APNU+AFC government, especially that which was signed with oil giant, ExxonMobil. The...

Third child succumbs to cancer treatment at GPHC

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Third child succumbs to cancer treatment at GPHC

The third child has succumbed to cancer treatment which was administered at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Six-year-old Sherezer Mendonca reportedly took her last breath yesterday...

Cop arrested in deadly West Dem motorbike accident

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cop arrested in deadly West Dem motorbike accident

A policeman was yesterday taken into custody for Wednesday’s horrific accident on the West Bank of Demerara which left a teenage pillion rider dead. According to officials, Orrin Parris, 26,...

Charrandass’ vote is irreversible – Lawyers argue

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Charrandass’ vote is irreversible – Lawyers argue

Attorneys-at-law, Anil Nandlall and Sanjeev Datadin have both argued that the no-confidence vote by expelled Member of Parliament, Charrandass Persaud, is irreversible. The lawyers based their...

The University of Guyana should be privatized

Jan 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The University of Guyana should be privatized

The strength of the University of Guyana has always been its students. The students have been good, but it is the university which has failed them – rather, the governments which have...

New Voters… Registration, claims and objections could be done in two weeks – Jagdeo

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on New Voters… Registration, claims and objections could be done in two weeks – Jagdeo

Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo, says that claims and objections to clear up current issues being raised by the government about the voters’ list could be undertaken in two weeks. At his...

Let National Assembly determine fiscal terms for oil contracts – Dr. Jan Mangal

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Let National Assembly determine fiscal terms for oil contracts – Dr. Jan Mangal

Former Petroleum Advisor to the Government, Dr. Jan Mangal is of the firm view that the National Assembly should be the body determining the fiscal terms to be used in oil contracts. He insists that...

Executed taxi driver was on police radar – Crime Chief says cops still seeking motive

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Executed taxi driver was on police radar – Crime Chief says cops still seeking motive

As police continue to seek a motive for the execution-style killing of taxi driver Kelvin Walters, Crime Chief Lyndon Alves has disclosed that the 38-year-old victim had been on the police...

M&CC announces citywide clean-up and fumigation …to pre-empt dengue outbreak

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on M&CC announces citywide clean-up and fumigation …to pre-empt dengue outbreak

Acting on information received from the Caribbean Public Health Agency, of a dengue outbreak in Jamaica, City Hall’s Medical Officer, Suzette Reynolds, announced plans to conduct a citywide...

US-Guyana explore areas for deeper cooperation on energy, security

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on US-Guyana explore areas for deeper cooperation on energy, security

Officials from Guyana and the United States of America recently met to explore areas for deeper cooperation on energy and security. This was outlined in a missive to the media yesterday....

Concerned Guyana government urges dialogue as Venezuela’s woes worsen

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Concerned Guyana government urges dialogue as Venezuela’s woes worsen

Amidst deadly violent protests, political standoffs and de-recognition of the current Nicolas Maduro-led Venezuela by the US, the Government of Guyana is expressing concerns. The situation in...

Ali vows to resuscitate E’bo rice industry

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Ali vows to resuscitate E’bo rice industry

Presidential Candidate of People’s Progressive Party Civic [PPP/C], Irfan Ali met with supporters in Region Two [Pomeroon/Supenaam] yesterday, in anticipation of what may be an early election in...

MOU signed to address land titling for Indigenous peoples

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on MOU signed to address land titling for Indigenous peoples

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs and Amerindian Peoples Association (APA), yesterday morning, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the proposed International land and...

No automatic repossession of hire purchase items – redraft Bill proposes

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on No automatic repossession of hire purchase items – redraft Bill proposes

Director of the Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC), Dawn Cush, on Tuesday said the time has come for the Hire Purchase Bill to be redrafted to offer more protection to...

Farmer arrested after found tending 11 acres of ganja cultivation

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Farmer arrested after found tending 11 acres of ganja cultivation

Police on Wednesday during an intelligence-led operation found and destroyed six cannabis cultivation at Seven Miles, Millie’s Hideout, Linden. The approximately 11 acres of cultivation had...

EPA inspects DDL’s environmental compliance

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on EPA inspects DDL’s environmental compliance

Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Vincent Adams, yesterday toured the operations of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) at Diamond, during which he was afforded an...