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Breaking!!!!! Region Four tabulations moving to GECOM Kingston Headquarters

Breaking!!!!! Region Four tabulations moving to GECOM Kingston Headquarters

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking!!!!! Region Four tabulations moving to GECOM Kingston Headquarters

According to several reports, the continuation of tabulations of Region Four votes has been shifted from the GECOM Media Centre housed at the Ashmin’s building, Hadfield Street, to GECOM...

Breaking news! Election results unlikely to command public confidence, says OAS observer mission as it withdraws from Guyana

Breaking news! Election results unlikely to command public confidence, says OAS observer mission as it withdraws from Guyana

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking news! Election results unlikely to command public confidence, says OAS observer mission as it withdraws from Guyana

The Observer Mission of the Organisation of American States (OAS) has signaled that it will withdraw from Guyana following the observance today of what it considers irregularities in the counting...

BREAKING NEWS! CJ says Mingo must present Statements of Poll

BREAKING NEWS! CJ says Mingo must present Statements of Poll

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on BREAKING NEWS! CJ says Mingo must present Statements of Poll

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire today admonished the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and its Returning Officer for the issues which followed her ruling. The CJ said that her ruling was...

BREAKING NEWS! Education Ministry announces two-week closure

BREAKING NEWS! Education Ministry announces two-week closure

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on BREAKING NEWS! Education Ministry announces two-week closure

One day after announcing plans to keep public schools opened in the face of the first confirmed coronavirus case, the Ministry of Education has had a change of heart. In a statement shared with the...

CARICOM Chair says… Future of Guyana is in Mingo’s hand

CARICOM Chair says… Future of Guyana is in Mingo’s hand

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM Chair says… Future of Guyana is in Mingo’s hand

Chairperson of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, has stated that the future of Guyana’s cohesion and economic stability lays in the hands of the...

GECOM Chair intervenes to regularise Region Four declaration

GECOM Chair intervenes to regularise Region Four declaration

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM Chair intervenes to regularise Region Four declaration

– tally to resume at 9AM today Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh, yesterday suspended the tabulation of votes from the Region 4 district....

US warns Guyana of consequences

US warns Guyana of consequences

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US warns Guyana of consequences

– says ‘de facto’ regimes will not receive same treatment as democratically elected ones The US is taking a tough stance on the elections developments in Guyana. Yesterday it hinted at...

Stop pussyfooting

Stop pussyfooting

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Stop pussyfooting

While GECOM continues to pussyfoot in making a verified declaration of the results of District 4, the country’s future hangs in the balance. It is incomprehensible that this nation is being led to...

Pharmacies, stores inflate prices for anti-bacterial products in face of Coronavirus

Pharmacies, stores inflate prices for anti-bacterial products in face of Coronavirus

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pharmacies, stores inflate prices for anti-bacterial products in face of Coronavirus

By: Anastacya Peters Several pharmacies and general stores in the city have inflated the prices on anti-bacterial products due to the fear of Coronavirus. Since Guyana recorded its first case of the...

EU observers want to see SOPs that Mingo used to prepare spreadsheet

EU observers want to see SOPs that Mingo used to prepare spreadsheet

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on EU observers want to see SOPs that Mingo used to prepare spreadsheet

The European Union Election Observation Mission wants to play a role in helping to verify the Statements of Polls for Region Four. The request was made yesterday by the mission to Clairmont Mingo,...

Canada’s Prime Minister’s wife tests positive for coronavirus

Canada’s Prime Minister’s wife tests positive for coronavirus

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Canada’s Prime Minister’s wife tests positive for coronavirus

(CNN) More and more of the world is working from home as the novel coronavirus spreads — and so is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Canada’s leader is currently trying to run his country in...

ExxonMobil takes all precaution, cuts travel to Guyana

ExxonMobil takes all precaution, cuts travel to Guyana

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil takes all precaution, cuts travel to Guyana

By Kiana Wilburg Even before Guyana confirmed its first Coronavirus-related death, Stabroek Block Operator, ExxonMobil has been taking several precautionary measures since news of the outbreak, one...

Breaking News!! US, UK, EU, Canada say Guyana could be isolated

Breaking News!! US, UK, EU, Canada say Guyana could be isolated

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News!! US, UK, EU, Canada say Guyana could be isolated

The Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union, and Canada, through their ambassadors have warned that if political parties don’t get their acts together, Guyana could...

Saudi Arabia to strike at key oil market for Russia

Saudi Arabia to strike at key oil market for Russia

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Saudi Arabia to strike at key oil market for Russia

By Tsvetana Paraskova www.oilprice.com : The world’s top oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, is going after Russia’s oil market share in Europe with deeply discounted Arab Light crude at up to three...

Contempt charge looms over GECOM Chair, CEO, Mingo and Commissioners

Contempt charge looms over GECOM Chair, CEO, Mingo and Commissioners

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Contempt charge looms over GECOM Chair, CEO, Mingo and Commissioners

Attorney-at-Law Anil Nandlall, on behalf of Reeaz Holladar, will make an application to the Chief Justice today at 10:30 am for a contempt charge to be brought before several Guyana Elections...

Granger tells CARICOM, OAS elections were lawful

Granger tells CARICOM, OAS elections were lawful

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Granger tells CARICOM, OAS elections were lawful

President David Granger met with Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and representatives of the Organization of the American States (OAS) at the Ministry...

Lime, orange and cherry mekking millionaires

Lime, orange and cherry mekking millionaires

Mar 13, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Lime, orange and cherry mekking millionaires

Dem got a true, true saying, a woman can sit down pon de shelf fuh a long time but as soon as one man tek she off is a whole tribe running to get she. De same thing happening in dem stores and...

File on teen’s hit-and-run death for DPP next week

File on teen’s hit-and-run death for DPP next week

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on File on teen’s hit-and-run death for DPP next week

Police will seek advice, soon, on whether they can charge 21-year-old Balram Nellie for the hit-and-run death of 17-year-old Kwon Trotz. The teen was killed on February 14, last, on the Farm Public...

Coronavirus – the origin

Coronavirus – the origin

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coronavirus – the origin

By Nateshia Isaacs It was New Year’s Eve 2019 when health officials in China realised that a problem was brewing. A growing number of people were developing a rapid cough and fever before getting...

PPP wants Region Four ballot boxes opened

PPP wants Region Four ballot boxes opened

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PPP wants Region Four ballot boxes opened

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is of the view that the best scenario to determine, accurately, the votes cast in favour of each list of candidates contesting the Region Four general and...

Confirmed case of Coronavirus… Quarantine recommended for more than 12 family members of first victim

Confirmed case of Coronavirus… Quarantine recommended for more than 12 family members of first victim

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Confirmed case of Coronavirus… Quarantine recommended for more than 12 family members of first victim

– self-isolation recommended as test kits dwindle In keeping with safeguards to prevent an outbreak, more than a dozen family members of Guyana’s first novel coronavirus [COVID-19] victim are...

Coalition accuses Jagdeo of racial incitement; submits videos to ERC

Coalition accuses Jagdeo of racial incitement; submits videos to ERC

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition accuses Jagdeo of racial incitement; submits videos to ERC

The A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) has filed a complaint to the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) complaining that General Secretary of the People’s...

The declared results have to be in accordance with the Statements of Poll

The declared results have to be in accordance with the Statements of Poll

Mar 13, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The declared results have to be in accordance with the Statements of Poll

We have some supermen and superwomen in this country. They actually believe that they can defy international opinion and resist established democratic norms. They are woefully mistaken and misguided....

Coronavirus victim was briefly attended to at Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital

Coronavirus victim was briefly attended to at Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coronavirus victim was briefly attended to at Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital

The woman who has been recorded as Guyana first case of the coronavirus, was briefly attended to at the privately-operated Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital. The hospital in a statement said that the...

CJIA intensifies coronavirus prevention measures

CJIA intensifies coronavirus prevention measures

Mar 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA intensifies coronavirus prevention measures

Airport staff at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, in addition to the routine screening of passengers by port health officials, are equipped with gloves and masks while processing passengers....

Olympic Kremlin crowned Horse-of-the-Year at One Guyana Thoroughbred Racing Awards

Olympic Kremlin crowned Horse-of-the-Year at One Guyana Thoroughbred...

Feb 02, 2025

Kaieteur Sports-Olympic Kremlin, the star of Slingerz Stables, was named Horse of the Year at the One Guyana Thoroughbred Racing Awards held on Friday evening in Berbice. The Brazilian-bred...

Guyana Squash Association celebrates historic Doubles Court opening

Guyana Squash Association celebrates historic...

Feb 02, 2025

Western Tigers will be 50 this year ‘2025’

Western Tigers will be 50 this year ‘2025’

Feb 02, 2025

UG Honours outstanding athletes at Annual Sports Awards and Dinner

UG Honours outstanding athletes at Annual Sports...

Feb 02, 2025

East Bank Pool Club set to Cue Off 2025 Eight-Ball C/ship today

East Bank Pool Club set to Cue Off 2025...

Feb 02, 2025

Guyana Police Force Senior Officers defeat visiting Canadian New Western Cricket Club in friendly cricket match

Guyana Police Force Senior Officers defeat...

Feb 02, 2025

The government is in choppy waters

Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The government stands like a beleaguered captain at the helm of a storm-tossed ship, finds itself... more

OAS Secretary General Election and renewed OAS Consensus

Antiguan Barbudan Ambassador to the United States, Sir Ronald Sanders By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News- The upcoming election... more

Half price electricity by half year

Hard Truths By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- I will take half price electricity. Midyear is a good time for me. I will count... more