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Court blocks CARICOM-supervised recount – High level team withdraws

Mar 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Court blocks CARICOM-supervised recount – High level team withdraws

“It is clear that there are forces that do not want to see the votes recounted for whatever reason. Any Government which is sworn in without a credible and fully transparent vote count process...

Main ports of entry to close tonight for two weeks amid Coronavirus concerns

Mar 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Main ports of entry to close tonight for two weeks amid Coronavirus concerns

Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Egbert Field announced yesterday at a Ministerial Task Force press conference that the country’s two main ports of entry – the...

Gov’t sets up four facilities for Coronavirus victims – No more self-quarantine

Mar 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t sets up four facilities for Coronavirus victims – No more self-quarantine

“The government has set up four major quarantine sites for the victims who have been tested positive for Coronavirus. Also, anyone who tests positive for the Coronavirus will be subjected to...

“Serious consequences” for those who seek to benefit from electoral fraud – U.S. Govt.

Mar 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “Serious consequences” for those who seek to benefit from electoral fraud – U.S. Govt.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned Guyana that the individuals who seek to benefit from electoral fraud and form illegitimate governments/regimes will be subject to a variety of serious...

GECOM deliberately delayed recount to make way for injunction – Commissioner Sase Gunraj

Mar 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM deliberately delayed recount to make way for injunction – Commissioner Sase Gunraj

Another day has passed, and the highly anticipated national recount of ballots of the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections is now considerably farther from fruition. This time, interim...

Alleged Cuban strangler remains on the run

Mar 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged Cuban strangler remains on the run

With Guyanese caught up in elections tension and the Coronavirus scare, relatives of Marva Oudkerk are hoping that investigators remain focused on nabbing her killer. The prime suspect, 31-year-old...

Prisoners to wear masks when at court

Mar 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoners to wear masks when at court

The judicial system has set up new precautionary procedures in order to protect their workers from contracting the deadly coronavirus. They have also implemented other measures to safeguard the...

Abattoir workers still not able to work after crane crash

Mar 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Abattoir workers still not able to work after crane crash

Almost three weeks after a crane owned by John Fernandes Limited fell onto the Municipal Abattoir and resulted in severe damage to the building located at Water Street, Georgetown workers are still...

City Hall leased plot of land at GNIC ground to businessman

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on City Hall leased plot of land at GNIC ground to businessman

The attempt to damage the Guyana Cricket Board’s owned Stanford T20 practice facility on the Western Half of the GNIC cricket ground on Woolford Avenue by a local businessman, who evicted National...

EXPOSE THEM!

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on EXPOSE THEM!

One female reporter from this newspaper was brought to tears last Friday when she was harassed and intimidated outside of GECOM’s headquarters. She openly witnessed the same treatment of her...

Sinclair is Brand Ambassador for Jacobs Jewellery and Pawn Shop

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sinclair is Brand Ambassador for Jacobs Jewellery and Pawn Shop

Jacobs Jewellery and Pawn Shop, owned by former West Indies U-19 and Guyana First-Class Cricketer Steven Jacobs, on Monday signed 20-year-old Guyana off-spinner Kevin Sinclair as Brand Ambassador for...

‘Do not mistreat patients’ – Deputy RHS Director advises health sector officials

Mar 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Do not mistreat patients’ – Deputy RHS Director advises health sector officials

Occupational burnout, fatigue, stigma or physical and psychological violence must not force health workers to mistreat their parents, cautioned Dr. Veronica Griffith, Deputy Director of Regional and...

Independence A, Zeeburg triumph

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Independence A, Zeeburg triumph

Independence A defeated Meten-Meer-Zorg by six wickets, while Zeeburg thumped La Grange by 173 runs when the latest round of matches in the West Demerara Cricket Association President’s Cup T20...

Persaud XI overcome Balgobin XI by 21 runs

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Persaud XI overcome Balgobin XI by 21 runs

Aryan Persaud XI defeated Ushardeva Balgobin XI by 21 runs when the West Demerara Cricket Association staged its first U19 trial game on Saturday last. Aryan Persaud XI batted first in a match which...

Deadly power struggle inside the PNC

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Deadly power struggle inside the PNC

The question is not maybe. There is no maybe about it. The PNC (not APNU) is currently in the throes of a power struggle over the way out of the election malady. It appears at the moment that the...

FIFA appoints Normalisation committee in T&T Wallace and VPs removed after three months

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on FIFA appoints Normalisation committee in T&T Wallace and VPs removed after three months

Wired868 – FIFA has disbanded the Board of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) with immediate effect and will appoint a Normalisation Committee on the island. The decision was...

Ballot boxes – the next tormenting frontier

Mar 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ballot boxes – the next tormenting frontier

COVID-19 – what the hell is that? Whatever it is, it doesn’t matter to us; there would be supporters – committed and diehard – of the two parties left in the running, the only...

ABRA / RAFTRC Goodwill Individual Match Anderson Perry and Scott Glanville are top shots

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on ABRA / RAFTRC Goodwill Individual Match Anderson Perry and Scott Glanville are top shots

On Sunday last at the Crabbs Rifle Range in Antigua and Barbuda, the Goodwill Tour undertaken by the Royal Air Force Target Rifle Club (RAFTRC) of England came to an end with an Individual Match at...

The question of “total recount”

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The question of “total recount”

DEAR EDITOR, It is public knowledge that what has been described as a “total recount”, seemingly inspired, perhaps instigated, by CARICOM, of the votes cast in the ten (10) districts at the...

What the credible recounting of ballots is expected to achieve?

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on What the credible recounting of ballots is expected to achieve?

DEAR EDITOR, Most Guyanese would agree that there is never a moment in Guyana that lacks interest and excitement, especially since the 2011 Elections. Hardly anyone anticipated that a total recount...

TO Mr. GRANGER; DO NOT DEFY SECRETARY OF STATE, MIKE POMPEO

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on TO Mr. GRANGER; DO NOT DEFY SECRETARY OF STATE, MIKE POMPEO

DEAR MR. GRANGER, On the occasion of Secretary of State Pompeo’s message of warning, I send you this message: (1) I have nothing but goodwill and cheers for you personally, as well as for a few...

Guyana-Canada Business & Professional Corporation condemns attempts to rig Guyana Elections

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana-Canada Business & Professional Corporation condemns attempts to rig Guyana Elections

DEAR EDITOR, The Guyana-Canada Business & Professional Corporation (GCBPC) calls upon the Canadian Government to immediately suspend all economic and financial relations with Guyana until...

Open letter to stakeholders

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Open letter to stakeholders

DEAR STAKEHOLDER, In light of the uncertainty we are all facing in our ordinary lives with the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), we wish to assure you that Creditinfo’s number one priority is the...

Query on Covid-19

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Query on Covid-19

DEAR EDITOR, I would like to clarify whether there is indeed 7 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Guyana as of March 16, 2020, as it appears was initially published by the Chronicle, based on the website...

All seems not well

Mar 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on All seems not well

DEAR EDITOR, The stalling of the votes recount, silence from the one who ordered it and the possibility of another court round send a troubling message that all seems not well in the main party which...