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The imbroglio surrounding the 2020 elections is starkly revealing

Mar 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The imbroglio surrounding the 2020 elections is starkly revealing

DEAR EDITOR, It is revealing the naked grab for power by the APNU+AFC based on the promise of black gold, gushing forth from the Atlantic. It is also revealing the weaknesses of the WPA in its role...

The High Court ruling will assist us in understanding where we go from here

Mar 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The High Court ruling will assist us in understanding where we go from here

DEAR EDITOR, I agree wholeheartedly with all the demands for transparency, credibility, accountability, fairness and obedience to the law in every aspect of the election cycle. I, most certainly, do...

I believe the situation is still salvageable

Mar 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on I believe the situation is still salvageable

DEAR EDITOR, No government installed based on an electoral result that includes the unverified District 4 tabulation will be recognised as legitimate. Even to the dense, this much must be clear....

Pausing and recalibrating and engaging

Mar 09, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Pausing and recalibrating and engaging

We are perched on a knife’s edge of disturbed and distressed humanity. No court ruling is going to ease that, as it wrestles against any sensible containment. As a society of varied communities, of...

Lowenfield prepares to announce elections results – Opposition commissioners refuse invitation to meet

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield prepares to announce elections results – Opposition commissioners refuse invitation to meet

Opposition-nominated commissioners have refused to meet as a Commission. They refused an invitation by Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, to a meeting which suggested that he is prepared to...

“Every vote must count” – CARICOM Chair tells political parties

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “Every vote must count” – CARICOM Chair tells political parties

– urges completion of electoral process “Every vote must be made to count; and transparently so,” said Chairman of the Caribbean Community [CARICOM], Ms. Mia Mottley. Speaking in this very...

CJ to rule today on jurisdiction to hear elections results case

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CJ to rule today on jurisdiction to hear elections results case

In an emergency sitting held at the Georgetown High Court on Saturday, Chief Justice (Ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire, heard preliminary arguments in the case filed against the Guyana Elections...

Democracy under serious threat

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Democracy under serious threat

The international observers –including the Caribbean Community, Carter Centre, Commonwealth and the Organization of American States – have denounced the controversial declaration made by the...

Any Govt. sworn in with flawed tabulation would be illegitimate – US State Department

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Any Govt. sworn in with flawed tabulation would be illegitimate – US State Department

The US State Department has come forward with a damning statement for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC), following the...

Opposition parties request for recount rejected

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition parties request for recount rejected

A request to have a total recount done for the Region Four general and regional elections results has been rejected by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). This comes after days of commotion over...

Norway, France, St. Vincent & the Grenadines gravely concerned about electoral process

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Norway, France, St. Vincent & the Grenadines gravely concerned about electoral process

Three of Guyana’s diplomatic partners have expressed grave concern for the credibility of Guyana’s electoral process. They are namely France, Norway and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. The...

Former elections chief calls for consensus healing talks now between political parties

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Former elections chief calls for consensus healing talks now between political parties

Former chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Major General (Ret’d), Joseph Singh, is calling for consensus to help heal Guyana. “Mature leadership reaching across the political...

Assistant Police Commissioner Thomas ‘busted’ from Divisional Commander to Patrol Officer

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Assistant Police Commissioner Thomas ‘busted’ from Divisional Commander to Patrol Officer

– a day after refusing order to put Elections Commissioner, others out of GECOM Centre From Divisional Commander to patrol officer. That’s the fate of Assistant Police Commissioner, Edgar...

Claudette ain’t talking bout nutten

Mar 08, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Claudette ain’t talking bout nutten

Is one thing when you do and is anodda thing when you don’t. Is now dem boys realize that people like get you to push you mouth in things that don’t concern you. This whole question of de...

Scare Them brothers, accomplice plead guilty

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Scare Them brothers, accomplice plead guilty

Two Samaroo brothers who are known as “Scare Them” and are well known to the authorities, and an accomplice have pleaded guilty to a charge of robbery under arms. The men Ravindra Samaroo,...

NBTS ‘Ambassador’, Rabindra Chan, makes 100th blood donation

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NBTS ‘Ambassador’, Rabindra Chan, makes 100th blood donation

For Rabindra Chan donating blood is “an act of love” for humanity. And Chan loves humanity regardless of the superficial markers imposed to identify and separate one from the other. His...

Catholic Church urges completion of verification process

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Catholic Church urges completion of verification process

“People are dying; people are being wounded, children are being traumatized, property is being destroyed, the nation is gripped in fear. This is much too high a cost for a national election and for...

Teen accidentally shot at during Berbice protests was left stranded

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Teen accidentally shot at during Berbice protests was left stranded

A teenager who was mistaken for a protestor on Friday was admitted at the Fort Wellington Hospital with injuries to her head and stomach. She was shot by police on West Coast Berbice. Anurada Sukra,...

NGO reaches out to bedridden couple

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NGO reaches out to bedridden couple

The Centre for Guyanese Progress a recently formed NGO reached out to a young couple who has been bedridden as a result of an accident. Founders of the NFO, brothers Gavin and Gary Alleyne, said that...

Leaders and supporters must do more

Mar 08, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Leaders and supporters must do more

Our political leaders and our political parties need to do much more than what they have limited themselves and contented themselves to doing at present. The calls for calm and to stay off the...

GUYANA MUST TRANSFORM ITS INSTITUTIONS FOR SUCCESS IN OIL ERA

Mar 08, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, News Comments Off on GUYANA MUST TRANSFORM ITS INSTITUTIONS FOR SUCCESS IN OIL ERA

By PAT DIAL Since Guyana became an “Oil Country”, there have been a great number of prescriptions put forward mostly by persons involved in politics as to what to do with the oil...

NEW STANDARD FOR CONSUMER WARRANTIES KEEPS EVERYONE IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN ON THE SAME PAGE

Mar 08, 2020 KNews News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on NEW STANDARD FOR CONSUMER WARRANTIES KEEPS EVERYONE IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN ON THE SAME PAGE

STANDARDS IN FOCUS As we prepare to commemorate Word Consumer Rights on March 15, under the Theme: ‘The Sustainable Consumer’, we must underscore the importance of Consumer warranties, which...

Int’l Observers are not arbiters to the electoral process in Guyana

Mar 08, 2020 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Int’l Observers are not arbiters to the electoral process in Guyana

The invited presence of the international community to observe and report their findings in our General and Regional Elections is not an invitation for them to become embroiled in or dictate our...

Our Racial Hypocrisy: Those post-election protests

Mar 08, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Our Racial Hypocrisy: Those post-election protests

Today’s column comes from a place of despair about my country. There is a sense of helplessness that one feels as one looks at Guyana unravelling right before your eyes. To say that I am surprised...

TELL ME LIES, TELL ME SWEET LITTLE LIES!

Mar 08, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on TELL ME LIES, TELL ME SWEET LITTLE LIES!

I have a girlfriend. She supports one of the country’s two main political parties. She is not a member or an activist; she simply votes for that party and supports its policies. I wish she could...

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