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“We are ready for Elections!” – GECOM

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “We are ready for Elections!” – GECOM

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is prepared and ready to produce free, fair and credible general and regional elections on Monday. That was expressed by the Chair, (ret’d) Justice Claudette...

T&T hopes talks with Guyana lead to getting oil, gas for downstream industries

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on T&T hopes talks with Guyana lead to getting oil, gas for downstream industries

While it has engaged Guyana on the technical assistance it is able to offer, Energy Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Franklin Khan is hopeful that discussions on co-operation between the two could...

Triple murder convict assaults prosecutor after jailed for life

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Triple murder convict assaults prosecutor after jailed for life

Sentenced to life imprisonment for the Sophia triple murders, 51-year-old Gavin Graham yesterday launched an attack on State Prosecutor Tiffini Lyken, dousing her with a non-corrosive liquid...

Convicted ex-GRDB accountant collapses in prisoners’ chute

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Convicted ex-GRDB accountant collapses in prisoners’ chute

Yesterday, just over two weeks after he was convicted for omitting $145M from a Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) ledger, the entity’s ex-accountant Peter Ramcharran, who is serving a three-year...

Cash-jet pilot loses $100M private hangar lawsuit against CJIA

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cash-jet pilot loses $100M private hangar lawsuit against CJIA

– given permission to take movable property A pilot who built a private hangar at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) but is now in jail in the United States, has lost a $100M lawsuit...

Hit-and-run death of teen… Driver denies owning damaged car registered in his name

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Hit-and-run death of teen… Driver denies owning damaged car registered in his name

Balram Nellie, the driver who police have detained in relation to the death of 17-year-old Kwon Trotz, is denying ownership of a vehicle that is registered in his name. This is according to police...

Political parties sign electoral code of conduct.

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Political parties sign electoral code of conduct.

Representatives of various political parties assembled at Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM)’s Kingston office yesterday for a hasty signing of the GECOM code of conduct, just three days before...

Taxi driver sent to jail for inappropriately touching girl, 11

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver sent to jail for inappropriately touching girl, 11

One year after he was charged for touching the private parts of an 11-year-old girl, Rishi Seepersaud, 40, a taxi driver, of Station Street, Kitty, was yesterday found guilty of the offence and...

Man critical after shot during fight over bar stool at night club

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man critical after shot during fight over bar stool at night club

A fight at the popular Blue Martini Club over who initially sat on a stool, turned bloody, with one man being shot twice. The injured man, 51-year-old Neil Dutchin of Lot 4 North Road, Bourda, is...

Don’t touch li’l children

Feb 29, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Don’t touch li’l children

Dem always got sick people and dem boys don’t mean people wid cold and fever. Dem mean people who sick in dem mind. Guyana got nuff of dem sick people. Dem boys was in de court when a magistrate...

The connection between slo’ fyaah/mo’ fyaah, Buxton and the NCM

Feb 29, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The connection between slo’ fyaah/mo’ fyaah, Buxton and the NCM

There is no sociologist I know who writes on Guyana that has rejected the paradigm traditionally used in academic literature to describe this nation – a plural society. In Guyana, the bifurcation...

LIFE WILL GO ON AFTER MONDAY!

Feb 29, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on LIFE WILL GO ON AFTER MONDAY!

Elections will come and go on Monday. After the elections, there will be a winner and a loser. The winner will be elated. The loser will be deflated. But that is the system under which a government...

Mahdia bus driver shot dead during armed confrontation

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mahdia bus driver shot dead during armed confrontation

A 36-year-old bus driver was on Thursday evening fatally shot while engaged in a scuffle with a miner. Dead is Cleon Gomes of 111 Miles, Mahdia, Region 8. Gomes was shot to his left shoulder at...

Man charged for allegedly killing friend with scissors

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man charged for allegedly killing friend with scissors

Twenty-four-year-old Oral Benjamin, a miner, of Port Kaituma, was yesterday arraigned before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, after he was charged for allegedly...

Community in shock over Rose Hall businessman’s gruesome death

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Community in shock over Rose Hall businessman’s gruesome death

An outpouring of tributes flooded social media when the news sank in that popular businessman Lomenzo “Sham” Johnny had been brutally murdered just a short distance away from his home and...

Woman dies after being struck by car driven by cop

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Woman dies after being struck by car driven by cop

A 58-year-old pedal cyclist was on Saturday last killed after she was struck down while riding along the Anna Catherina Public Road, West Coast Demerara. Dead is Romona Hunt called “Mitzy.”...

Prisoner asks to serve time for girlfriend caught smuggling ganja to him

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoner asks to serve time for girlfriend caught smuggling ganja to him

A prisoner awaiting trial for murder has requested that he serve a sentence for his girlfriend who was nabbed trying to smuggle marijuana to him. The woman was arrested at around 08.00 hrs yesterday...

Trini supplier sues GuyOil over $80M for breach of contract

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Trini supplier sues GuyOil over $80M for breach of contract

A Trinidad company is heading to court, asking for over $80M from the state-owned Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil). The contract with Commissiong and Company Limited was ended by GuyOil last year after a...

Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship Guyana to face Cayman Islands in tomorrow’s Round-of-16 clash

Feb 29, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship Guyana to face Cayman Islands in tomorrow’s Round-of-16 clash

Having ended as the runner-up team in Group D of the Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship and earning a place in the round-of-16, Guyana’s ‘Lady Jags’, ranked #23 in Concacaf will oppose...

Vishaul, Hemraj give champions lead

Feb 29, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Vishaul, Hemraj give champions lead

FLORENCE HALL, Jamaica, CMC – Discarded Test left-hander Vishaul Singh was eyeing his ninth first class hundred as five-time reigning champions Guyana Jaguars took command of their sixth round...

Meditating sisters escape unhurt as fire strikes at Yoga Centre

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Meditating sisters escape unhurt as fire strikes at Yoga Centre

A fire of unknown origin, yesterday, badly damaged the Brahma Kumaris Raja Yoga Centre located in Kingston, Georgetown. The incident occur around 04:30hrs, luckily the persons that were in the...

Clarification

Feb 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Clarification

In a report yesterday in Kaieteur News under a headline ‘Crime Chief targeting me – Roger Khan’, it was stated that he was preparing to file a lawsuit against the Commissioner of Police,...

GFF commissions UEFA donated buses; to bolster GFF Youth Development Programme

Feb 29, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF commissions UEFA donated buses; to bolster GFF Youth Development Programme

The bilateral relationship between the Guyana Football Federation and The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), mere months old has already began to bear fruits with the latter entity...

Venture, Khan lead Sans Souci to WCC/Bel Air Rubis/Trophy Stall T20 title

Feb 29, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Venture, Khan lead Sans Souci to WCC/Bel Air Rubis/Trophy Stall T20 title

Led by sterling all-round performances from Seon Venture and Kamal Khan, Sans Souci defeated Good Success by six wickets when the teams collided in the final of the Wakenaam Cricket Committee/Trophy...

FBF Windball Cricket continues

Feb 29, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on FBF Windball Cricket continues

Latest play in the Forbes Burnham Foundation (FBF), National Sports Commission (NSC), AL Sport & Tour Promotions “Hit It For 50” Schools Windball Cricket continued at the National Gymnasium...

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…Peeping Tom Morally Right. Legally wrong Kaieteur News- The situation concerning the disputed parliamentary seat held... more