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650,000+ registered to vote in upcoming elections … Former Chief Election Officers of Canada, India, Ghana to advise GECOM

Nov 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 650,000+ registered to vote in upcoming elections … Former Chief Election Officers of Canada, India, Ghana to advise GECOM

By Kemol King Recent estimates of Guyana’s population tend to place it at 750,000. Sometimes, it hits 800,000 if those doing the assessment are generous. It has not gotten much higher because...

Irfaan Ali wants Jagdeo as his Vice President

Nov 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Irfaan Ali wants Jagdeo as his Vice President

Presidential Candidate for the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Irfaan Ali, says that he wants Bharrat Jagdeo as his vice-president. During an exclusive interview yesterday on Kaieteur Radio, with...

Civil Society demands oversight role in Oil & Gas sector… says current state of unreadiness a matter of major concern

Nov 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Civil Society demands oversight role in Oil & Gas sector… says current state of unreadiness a matter of major concern

By Gary Eleazar ‘First Oil’ in Guyana, comes at a time of intensified political polarisation, fostered by the upcoming General and Regional Elections, and this rules out political bi-partisanship...

Accused pirates charged with murders of four fishermen

Nov 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Accused pirates charged with murders of four fishermen

The two men who were captured by Suriname authorities and handed over to law enforcement officers in Guyana, yesterday appeared at the Albion Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charge of murder...

GPL’s board reverses decision to sack two directors

Nov 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GPL’s board reverses decision to sack two directors

The Board of Directors for the state-owned Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has reversed a decision to sack two senior executives earlier this week. Yesterday, during an emergency meeting of the...

Probe launched after soldier’s body recovered from New River

Nov 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Probe launched after soldier’s body recovered from New River

A team comprising members of the 31 Specialist Divers from the Coast Guard at 13:35hrs yesterday recovered the body of a soldier in the river aback of the Medical Centre at Base Camp Jaguar, New...

Guyana suffering reverse prostitution

Nov 09, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana suffering reverse prostitution

Poor countries does always give concessions to encourage farrin investors. De belief is that if de pot sweet enough then more investors gun come. Guyana good at attracting investors but de only thing...

Self-declared psychiatric patient jailed

Nov 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Self-declared psychiatric patient jailed

A self-declared psychiatric patient who told the court that he needs an evaluation, was yesterday sentenced on four charges when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts for the ruling on...

Phone thief tries to negotiate jail time with magistrate

Nov 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Phone thief tries to negotiate jail time with magistrate

After a failed attempt at negotiating his jail time, Fizal Mohamed was yesterday further remanded to prison on a robbery charge. Mohamed who has a love for other people’s cell phones is before...

Placing the cart before the horse

Nov 09, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Placing the cart before the horse

Guyana has not yet signed a Crude Lifting Agreement with Exxon Mobil and its partners. Yet, we are being told that Exxon Mobil will take the first million barrels of our crude oil. Last July,...

Guyana gets US$1.7M to develop low-emission energy technologies

Nov 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana gets US$1.7M to develop low-emission energy technologies

Guyana, through the Office of Climate Change (OCC), has partnered with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to implement a project titled the...

Trophy Stall supports Boodhoo and Ali dominoes

Nov 09, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall supports Boodhoo and Ali dominoes

Trophy Stall has supported the Ryan Boodhoo and Raymond Ali birth anniversary dominoes competition which is set for tomorrow at Air Strip Road, Ogle. Entrance fee is $12,000 and the double six...

Annual reports of Indigenous Peoples’ Commission submitted to Parliament

Nov 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Annual reports of Indigenous Peoples’ Commission submitted to Parliament

The Speaker of the National Assembly Dr. Barton Scotland, yesterday received annual reports spanning 2013 to 2016 from the Indigenous Peoples’ Commission. The simple ceremony was held in the...

Trophy Stall sponsors B Class Draughts Tournament

Nov 09, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall sponsors B Class Draughts Tournament

Trophy Stall of Bourda Market continues to lend support to Sport Organisations. Recent sports awardee Mr. Ramesh Sunich yesterday came o n board and donated three trophies to the Guyana Draughts...

Sunshine Snacks/Farfan & Mendes Junior Indoor Hockey Championships GCC Clubs dominate night two

Nov 09, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sunshine Snacks/Farfan & Mendes Junior Indoor Hockey Championships GCC Clubs dominate night two

The Sunshine Snacks Under-21 girls’ competition of the Junior Indoor Hockey Championships produced a nail-biting finish when the pre-tournament favourites, GBTI GCC Spartans scored a lone goal in...

Agriculture, tourism in Region Seven receive timely boost… as Air Services Limited adds scheduled flights to serve communities

Nov 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Agriculture, tourism in Region Seven receive timely boost… as Air Services Limited adds scheduled flights to serve communities

Minister of State, Mrs. Dawn Hastings-Williams, yesterday morning, joined Air Services Limited (ASL) Guyana at the launch of their Cuyuni Mazaruni (Region Seven)-scheduled service, which will cater...

Letter to the Sports Editor State of Football in Guyana

Nov 09, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor State of Football in Guyana

Dear Sir, It is with continued disgust and a sense of betrayal that I pen this letter to you once again. With a snap election called by Mr. Forde for the 9thNovember where the few legal members of...

Meten-Meer-Zorg Masters to visit Laluni for limited over cricket match

Nov 09, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Meten-Meer-Zorg Masters to visit Laluni for limited over cricket match

A selected Meten-Meer-Zorg Masters will travel to Laluni, which a picturesque exciting Amerindian village located on the Soesdyke, Linden Highway, to play the host in what is expected to be an...

Death sentence appeal for ex-GDF Coast Guardsmen further delayed – Trial Judge’s minute book found, court still to locate records by shorthand reporters

Nov 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Death sentence appeal for ex-GDF Coast Guardsmen further delayed – Trial Judge’s minute book found, court still to locate records by shorthand reporters

There has been another delay in the start of the hearing of an appeal for former Guyana Defence Force Coast Guardsmen, Sherwin Hart, Devon Gordon and Deon Greenidge, who are challenging their death...

Guyoil/Tradewind Tankers under-18 school football league Lodge and Annandale flying high

Nov 09, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyoil/Tradewind Tankers under-18 school football league Lodge and Annandale flying high

Lodge Secondary and Annandale Secondary are tied at the top of the points table following the completion of round two of the Guyoil/Tradewind Takers Secondary School league that is being contested...

Retailer denies allegations by Food and Drug Dept. – Claims items exposed were never imported by him

Nov 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Retailer denies allegations by Food and Drug Dept. – Claims items exposed were never imported by him

A Mon Repos Retailer has denied the allegations that he knowingly imported four containers packed with expired goods from Canada for the purpose of distribution to the local market. The Government...

Forde proud with GFF’s achievement during 1st term at helm Executive to return unopposed

Nov 09, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Forde proud with GFF’s achievement during 1st term at helm Executive to return unopposed

The current Executive Committee (ExCo) of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) that is being headed by Wayne Forde will return t o office unopposed today when the ordinary congress and elections is...

Guyana not having substantive Chancellor in over a decade concerns regional body

Nov 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana not having substantive Chancellor in over a decade concerns regional body

Over the last 14 years, Guyana has failed to appoint a substantive office holder to the position of Chancellor of the Judiciary. This deficiency was a concern raised by the Caribbean Association of...

ECCB’s Elizabeth Styles 40-over Continues tomorrow Sachin Singh’s ton highlights last round action

Nov 09, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on ECCB’s Elizabeth Styles 40-over Continues tomorrow Sachin Singh’s ton highlights last round action

Sachin Singh registered the only century in the latest round in the ECCB’s Elizabeth Styles 40-over cricket tournament on Sunday last, while Alex Persaud and Brandon Jordon made half-centuries AT...

GT Beer / Keep Your Five Alive Futsal D-Day has arrived

Nov 09, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GT Beer / Keep Your Five Alive Futsal D-Day has arrived

D-Day has arrived for the four remaining teams in this year’s GT Beer / Keep Your Five Alive Futsal Competition labeled ‘Battle of the Ballers’. The venue for tonight’s showdown between the...

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Marian Academy faceoff with Santa Rosa for Pee Wee’s U11 title

The tirade against the independent media continues unabated

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- In every democracy worth its salt, the press serves as the watchdog, the thorn in the side... more