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Breaking News! Guyana records first coronavirus-related death

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News! Guyana records first coronavirus-related death

Even as elections tension continues to grip the land, the local Ministry of Public Health has confirmed Guyana’s first case of the novel coronarvirus [COVID-19]. The victim, a woman said to be in...

80 plus global organizations tell oil companies and financial institutions – Don’t conduct business with unlawful Govt.

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 80 plus global organizations tell oil companies and financial institutions – Don’t conduct business with unlawful Govt.

More than 80 global organizations have released a joint statement calling on ExxonMobil and other oil companies, as well as financial institutions contributing to the development of Guyana’s...

Court to rule on future of 2020 elections today

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Court to rule on future of 2020 elections today

Chief Justice, (Ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire yesterday listened to oral presentations from lawyers embroiled in the lawsuit against GECOM over unverified vote counts for Region Four- the nation’s...

UK Govt calls on President Granger to ensure free and fair electoral process

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on UK Govt calls on President Granger to ensure free and fair electoral process

Guyana’s former colonial master has weighed in on the political situation, through its foreign secretary, Dominic Raab. The United Kingdom, in a statement from Raab, yesterday, expressed deep...

Shuman appears in court with traditional wear

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Shuman appears in court with traditional wear

Presidential Candidate of the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) Lennox Shuman, created quite a stir yesterday at the Georgetown High Court. He turned up dressed in what he called his traditional...

GECOM Chair seeks compromise between commissioners

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM Chair seeks compromise between commissioners

With the aim of completing their work with urgency, Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission, Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh, says that she is anticipating greater compromise by the...

SUV plunges off Demerara Harbour Bridge

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on SUV plunges off Demerara Harbour Bridge

Marine Traffic for the Demerara Harbour Bridge will be temporarily halted after an SUV crashed into the bridge’s Hydraulic Cabin on Monday evening. That very cabin is responsible for all...

Ministry assures Guyana still coronavirus free – awareness symposium billed for NCC today

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry assures Guyana still coronavirus free – awareness symposium billed for NCC today

Could Guyana be struggling to implement its contingency plan fully, which is intended to ward off the novel coronavirus [COVID-19] from these shores? This question has emerged on the heels of...

Four Caricom Prime Ministers arrive in Guyana over unresolved election results

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Four Caricom Prime Ministers arrive in Guyana over unresolved election results

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell says that he will part of the team of regional prime ministers who will be accompanying the Chairman of the Caribbean Community...

Coronavirus got Exxon shaking

Mar 11, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Coronavirus got Exxon shaking

De Coronavirus put a stop to de exploitation Guyana. If is one time dem boys welcome a disaster is now. Dis past year nuff people was talking about de oil. If dem live overseas dem get vex because...

THE MASKS ARE COMING OFF

Mar 11, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE MASKS ARE COMING OFF

The President’s position in relation to the election is untenable. The President is seeking refuge in legalese – the formal and technical language of the law. What the President does not seem to...

Businessman Ghalee Khan remanded until April 1 in Brooklyn jail … fled to Guyana a decade ago

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman Ghalee Khan remanded until April 1 in Brooklyn jail … fled to Guyana a decade ago

Businessman Ghalee Khan, 42, is to remain in a New York jail until April 1, 2020. His detention was ordered by Judge Peggy Kuo on Monday, one day after he was taken into custody. He has pleaded not...

Guyanese should remain calm – Amna Ally

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese should remain calm – Amna Ally

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) through General Secretary Amna Ally called on all Guyanese to remain calm. She also called on them to desist from any activity which can lead to the...

Clarification on media being prohibited from entering GECOM media centre

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Clarification on media being prohibited from entering GECOM media centre

Last week, Kaieteur News reported that media operatives were prohibited from entering the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) media centre, which was housed at the Ashmin Building on High and...

Project Details reveal… ExxonMobil’s hammerhead Project to produce 150,000 to 190,000 barrels of heavy oil per day

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Project Details reveal… ExxonMobil’s hammerhead Project to produce 150,000 to 190,000 barrels of heavy oil per day

By Kiana Wilburg ExxonMobil’s fourth development project on the Stabroek Block will roll out at the Hammerhead well and will see the production of 150,000 to 190,000 barrels of heavy oil per day....

Man who slammed miner to the floor, slapped with murder charge

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man who slammed miner to the floor, slapped with murder charge

Twenty-six-year-old O’Neil Jeffrey, called ‘Six Boss’, a miner of Agricola, East Bank Demerara, was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared in court for allegedly killing a man who...

“Dutty’ wanted for Berbice businessman’s murder – bulletin for other suspect in slaying of Buxton teen

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “Dutty’ wanted for Berbice businessman’s murder – bulletin for other suspect in slaying of Buxton teen

Police are seeking Daniel McLennon, called “Dutty,” for the murder of Port Mourant, Corentyne businessman Lomenzo Johnny, whose bound and battered corpse was found on a farm last February. A...

Tender Board Engineers want $26M for reconstruction of Lethem Maternal Waiting Home

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Tender Board Engineers want $26M for reconstruction of Lethem Maternal Waiting Home

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday opened ¬¬¬¬¬ten bids for two major governmental projects at their Ministry of Finance office on Main and Urquhart...

Eastern begins NY flights in a week

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Eastern begins NY flights in a week

In just over a week, Eastern Airlines will join a number of other airlines on the high demand New York to Georgetown route. Formerly Dynamic Airline which ran into financial troubles, Eastern will be...

18 months for selling iPhone 11 for $8000

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 18 months for selling iPhone 11 for $8000

“Your worship, I sold the phone for next to nothing. I get $8000 for it… I does usually work hard. I have two children to look after; I don’t do these kinda things. I’m begging you for a...

Immigrants charged for illegal entry

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Immigrants charged for illegal entry

Fifteen foreign nationals were yesterday arranged before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrate Courts to answer to an illegal entry charge. Four of the defendants are...

Vagrant murder PI… Police unable to locate final witness

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Vagrant murder PI… Police unable to locate final witness

The prosecution has closed its case into the murder of Andrew Benjamin after the police were unable to locate the final witness Euchid Gill of Alberttown, Georgetown. During the last hearing of the...

Taxi driver remanded on armed robbery charge

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver remanded on armed robbery charge

Thirty-one-year-old Nicolas Chow, of 254 Freeman Street, East La Penitence, Georgetown was yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan when he appeared in the Georgetown...

Lindeners celebrate International Women’s Day …pray for continued peace!

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lindeners celebrate International Women’s Day …pray for continued peace!

As women the world over celebrated International Women’s Day, on Sunday, their counterparts from the mining town of Linden, celebrated on both Sunday and Monday. On Monday, scores of women,...

DPP responds to KN’s rape cover up story – as police confirm files sent six months ago on corruption allegations against ranks

Mar 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on DPP responds to KN’s rape cover up story – as police confirm files sent six months ago on corruption allegations against ranks

The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has responded to a Kaieteur News story about the alleged cover-up of a series of gang rapes by police ranks. A statement from the office of the...