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BREAKING NEWS! Recount would take 156 days – Lowenfield tells GECOM

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on BREAKING NEWS! Recount would take 156 days – Lowenfield tells GECOM

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has been informed by Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, that it would take 156 days to recount all of the ballots cast in the March general and...

Guyana again excluded from additional World Bank COVID-19 funding

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana again excluded from additional World Bank COVID-19 funding

The number of countries now benefiting from the World Bank’s emergency financial aid operations to tackle COVID-19 now stands at 39, according to an April 7 update. Kaieteur News had recently...

ExxonMobil slashes investments, lowers operating expenses by billions in response to COVID-19

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil slashes investments, lowers operating expenses by billions in response to COVID-19

– Says Stabroek Block oil production remains unaffected American oil giant, ExxonMobil announced yesterday that its management has agreed to reduce 2020 capital spending by 30 percent as well...

US Secretary of State calls for transparent, credible recount

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US Secretary of State calls for transparent, credible recount

United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has come out with another statement, this time commending the High Court’s decision that clears the way for the National Recount of ballots from the...

Appeal Court reaffirms position for GECOM-supervised elections recount

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Appeal Court reaffirms position for GECOM-supervised elections recount

By Rehanna Ramsay The Court of Appeal has reaffirmed its decision which effectively clears the way for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to proceed with the nationwide recount of votes cast at...

VAT on water, electricity, domestic air travel removed for 3 months – GRA to expedite refunds for businesses

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on VAT on water, electricity, domestic air travel removed for 3 months – GRA to expedite refunds for businesses

The Government has announced a number of additional measures to bring ease on consumers and businesses as the fallouts of COVID-19 continue to bite. These include the removal, for three months, the...

Health Ministry looking at getting private hospitals involved in COVID-19 fight

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry looking at getting private hospitals involved in COVID-19 fight

Private Hospitals may soon be able to begin testing for COVID-19. This is according to Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence. The Minister explained that her Ministry is currently working on...

COVID-19 claims 6th life – As confirmed cases reach 33

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 claims 6th life – As confirmed cases reach 33

COVID-19 has claimed yet another life bringing the death toll to six. The victim on this occasion is a 77-year-old man, a usually reliable source confirmed last night. This publication will provide...

As COVID-19 emergency measures are enforced… Bar Council urges public to ‘Stay Home’

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on As COVID-19 emergency measures are enforced… Bar Council urges public to ‘Stay Home’

By Shikema Dey It was Prime Minister and Head of the National COVID-19 Task Force, Moses Nagamootoo, who recently urged the police force to come up with “creative” ways to enforce the COVID-19...

Berbice businessman found dead after scuffle with associate

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice businessman found dead after scuffle with associate

Things turned deadly Tuesday when the owner of Mangru’s and Associates of Ankerville, Port Mourant and his associate argued over money. Dead is Mahendra Mangru well known as “Papo”, a...

Yuh can’t lose and win at the same time

Apr 08, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Yuh can’t lose and win at the same time

Dem boys seh is nah only the Prime Minister of Trinidad ‘koffukle’ by the decision of the Ah Peel Court. Even dem boys nah understand it up to now. Dem boys waiting on the final orders because...

The fly in the ointment in Region 4 was the small parties

Apr 08, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The fly in the ointment in Region 4 was the small parties

The statement below appeared on a Facebook page. The page is purported to be connected to either the APNU+AFC or its supporters. The statement reads as follows “A simple comparison of the final...

GPL suspends posting of bills

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GPL suspends posting of bills

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has suspended its postal bill delivery services indefinitely. Yesterday, the state-owned power company advised that consumers pay their bills using a number of...

GPOC suspends regular mail services; to pay pensions on specific days

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GPOC suspends regular mail services; to pay pensions on specific days

The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) has announced the suspension of its regular mail services with special days now designated for the payment of pensions. In a statement yesterday, the GPOC,...

Miner with cough and laboured breathing taken to Mahdia Hospital

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Miner with cough and laboured breathing taken to Mahdia Hospital

A 60-year-old gold miner of Section ‘B’ Turkeyn, East Coast Demerara was yesterday expected to be flown to a city hospital from Mahdia, Region 8 after he began exhibiting symptoms believed to be...

Political battle amidst oil boom

Apr 08, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Political battle amidst oil boom

By now, it is a restatement of the tiring obvious. But when presented by those distant from the ugly fray, it takes on added sharpness, while ramming home our blessing and our curses. From...

“We are stretched” – Region 10 Police Commander tells meeting

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “We are stretched” – Region 10 Police Commander tells meeting

Regional Police Commander for Region 10, Hugh Winter, has openly admitted that his ranks are stretched as it relates to their policing of the region following the implementation of a curfew and other...

GTT staffer in quarantine after displaying “COVID-19 symptom” on the job

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GTT staffer in quarantine after displaying “COVID-19 symptom” on the job

After displaying at least one symptom, consistent with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) staffer has been placed in a quarantine setting. This is according to...

Nagamootoo’s nagatelite versus Ramjattan’s rambouillet

Apr 08, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Nagamootoo’s nagatelite versus Ramjattan’s rambouillet

One of the deep mysteries that the 2020 election result has given rise to is a gargantuan contradiction between the words of Moses Nagamootoo and Khemraj Ramjattan, on Guyanese voters’ attitude to...

Mackenzie Hospital transfers patient with respiratory concerns to GPHC

Apr 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mackenzie Hospital transfers patient with respiratory concerns to GPHC

Manifesting concerning respiratory symptoms, a patient was rushed to the Mackenzie Hospital for medical attention but was on Monday transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)....

GMR&SC remembers Deryck ‘Mad Dog’ Jaisingh

Apr 08, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC remembers Deryck ‘Mad Dog’ Jaisingh

On Monday evening last, the Ministry of Public Health (MoH) confirmed the passing of Deryck ‘Mad Dog’ Jaisingh as the latest fatality of the Covid-19 disease. Jaisingh was very well known...

GCB staff sent on leave due to COVID-19 But staff and Academy players to collect full salary

Apr 08, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB staff sent on leave due to COVID-19 But staff and Academy players to collect full salary

By Sean Devers All Sports Globally have been suspended due to the devastation of the Pandemic COVID-19 and Guyana, with five deaths recorded so far due to the virus is no exception with the Guyana...

In my view, since the NCM, Dr. Hinds has stopped being an independent columnist

Apr 08, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on In my view, since the NCM, Dr. Hinds has stopped being an independent columnist

DEAR EDITOR, Your columnist Dr. David Hinds in my view since the No Confidence Motion (NCM) of 2018, has stopped being an independent columnist and since then has been progressively writing a...

I am lost in contemplation. What do you believe?

Apr 08, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on I am lost in contemplation. What do you believe?

DEAR EDITOR, Social media is full of local cures or medication that is purported to effectively assist in the treatment of COVID-19, but something else got my attention recently. A post saying that...

Violation of privacy?

Apr 08, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Violation of privacy?

Dear Editor, The revelation that lab test results for persons suspected with the dreaded coronavirus go straight to the minister responsible for public health, instead of the attending medical...