April 17, 2020 - Kaieteur News

Latest News

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

GECOM Chair to announce details of recount today

GECOM Chair to announce details of recount today

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM Chair to announce details of recount today

By Kemol King Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chair, (ret’d) Justice Claudette Singh SC is set to inform the Commission, today, of her final decisions on the modalities of the recount. Those...

“Clear conflict of interest” by World Bank in relation to certain Exxon-linked contractors here says German Human Rights Agency

“Clear conflict of interest” by World Bank in relation to certain Exxon-linked contractors here says German Human Rights Agency

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “Clear conflict of interest” by World Bank in relation to certain Exxon-linked contractors here says German Human Rights Agency

– a violation of the bank’s procurement and public disclosure rules – directors’ immediate intervention required By Kiana Wilburg Urgewald, a German pro-environment organization, is...

Bandit tell owner, workers to wear face masks, while robbing store

Bandit tell owner, workers to wear face masks, while robbing store

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit tell owner, workers to wear face masks, while robbing store

Two gunmen make good their escape yesterday afternoon around 15:00hrs after robbing a cellular phone store located on Regent Street. At the time of the incident, owner of Cellular Connection Gift and...

Ithaca man stabs wife to death, then tries to kill mother-in-law, self

Ithaca man stabs wife to death, then tries to kill mother-in-law, self

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ithaca man stabs wife to death, then tries to kill mother-in-law, self

The quiet village of Ithaca, West Bank Berbice, was rocked yesterday by the brutal murder of a 23-year-old woman, reportedly at the hands the father of her two children. The man also injured the...

Constitutional crisis looms over new parliament – Bar Association

Constitutional crisis looms over new parliament – Bar Association

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Constitutional crisis looms over new parliament – Bar Association

The pressure is continuing to mount on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to hurry up and start a recount the ballots of the March 2nd General and Regional Elections. Yesterday, the Guyana Bar...

Commonwealth Observer Group urges GECOM to stick to law during recount

Commonwealth Observer Group urges GECOM to stick to law during recount

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Commonwealth Observer Group urges GECOM to stick to law during recount

The Commonwealth Observer Group (COG) yesterday urged the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to follow provisions of the Representation of the People Act, whenever it conducts a recount of ballots...

Gov’t dossier lists Pres Granger as US citizen, Ministry says not so

Gov’t dossier lists Pres Granger as US citizen, Ministry says not so

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t dossier lists Pres Granger as US citizen, Ministry says not so

By Shikema Dey “The President is not a dual citizen!” Ministry of the Presidency’s Communications Director, Mark Archer, stated emphatically yesterday to Kaieteur News. However, a...

“Upset” coalition supporters funding Gov’t-hired USA PR firm -Harmon

“Upset” coalition supporters funding Gov’t-hired USA PR firm -Harmon

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “Upset” coalition supporters funding Gov’t-hired USA PR firm -Harmon

By Shikema Dey Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon, sought to clarify reports that taxpayer dollars were used in the hiring US lobbying firm JJ&B, LLC. A string of...

Greenidge not fired; removal associated with ‘cleaning the slate’ – Harmon

Greenidge not fired; removal associated with ‘cleaning the slate’ – Harmon

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Greenidge not fired; removal associated with ‘cleaning the slate’ – Harmon

Carl Greenidge was not fired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, nor was he terminated. Rather, his removal from the Ministry is part of the President’s endeavour to clean the slate, in...

GECOM people back in de disco

GECOM people back in de disco

Apr 17, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on GECOM people back in de disco

Dem boys did warn y’all that you can’t put cat fuh watch milk. Dem seh that the OAS seh the same thing, but in different words. Bruce de Goldfish, the former Jamaica leader, tell GECOM that the...

The curve which cannot be bent

The curve which cannot be bent

Apr 17, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The curve which cannot be bent

The belated attempt by APNU+AFC to swing official US opinion in Washington is a clear case of the Coalition lacking a proper understanding of international politics. If it had such an understanding,...

Port Mourant vendor shot during attempted robbery

Port Mourant vendor shot during attempted robbery

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Port Mourant vendor shot during attempted robbery

A 45-year-old vendor is currently a patient at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital, nursing a gunshot wound to the arm. Injured is Roshnie Singh called “Coreen” of Lot 88 Free Yard Port...

Oil closes under US$20 a barrel for a second day

Oil closes under US$20 a barrel for a second day

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Oil closes under US$20 a barrel for a second day

(Bloomberg) — Oil closed under US$20 a barrel for a second day, yesterday, as projections that demand will fall to a 30-year low outweighed an agreement by the world’s biggest producers to...

EPA’s report on our compliance unduly delayed -Troy Resources

EPA’s report on our compliance unduly delayed -Troy Resources

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on EPA’s report on our compliance unduly delayed -Troy Resources

– Mining company rejects narrative that safety is not a high priority Following reports of a fuel spill and most recently, a collapsed wall at the Karouni Mining pit, Director of the...

Health Ministry confirms two new cases of COVID-19 – total moves to 57

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry confirms two new cases of COVID-19 – total moves to 57

As of yesterday, April 15, two more individuals have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Guyana, increasing the total number of confirmed cases to 57. This was disclosed by...

Local millers under pressure from $1.4B owed by Panama for two years

Local millers under pressure from $1.4B owed by Panama for two years

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Local millers under pressure from $1.4B owed by Panama for two years

Local rice millers are upping the pressure for the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) to find an urgent resolution to an outstanding matter of more than a billion dollars owed to them from Panama....

Another flight leaves with US citizens, permanent residents

Another flight leaves with US citizens, permanent residents

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Another flight leaves with US citizens, permanent residents

A US Marine guard was among 200 persons who left Guyana earlier this week on board an Eastern Airlines flight to the United States. The special charter was coordinated by the US Embassy in...

Oil, virus and politics

Oil, virus and politics

Apr 17, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Oil, virus and politics

Hard, desperate men take gambles that often turn up results which are the opposite of what was calculated. Recently, in international combat chambers, this was what unfolded relative to oil, even a...

Blood bank experiences severe shortage due to COVID-19 fears

Blood bank experiences severe shortage due to COVID-19 fears

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Blood bank experiences severe shortage due to COVID-19 fears

The National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) is experiencing a severe shortage of blood as a result of growing concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 infectious disease. Kaieteur News understands...

New measures introduced for E’bo ferry services

New measures introduced for E’bo ferry services

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New measures introduced for E’bo ferry services

Relative to the recent outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Guyana, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, under the direction of the Government of Guyana, said it is continuing to...

Guyana among countries recognised for commitment to CCJ as final appellate Court

Guyana among countries recognised for commitment to CCJ as final appellate Court

Apr 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana among countries recognised for commitment to CCJ as final appellate Court

Guyana is among four CARICOM States being recognised for commitment to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as a final court of appeal. In a statement issued to mark the Court’s 15th Anniversary,...

Adams is focused on personal fitness during Covid-19 lockdown Wants to see more cricket in Essequibo

Adams is focused on personal fitness during Covid-19 lockdown Wants to see more cricket in Essequibo

Apr 17, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Adams is focused on personal fitness during Covid-19 lockdown Wants to see more cricket in Essequibo

By Zaheer Mohamed Even though talented Essequibo all-rounder Ricardo Adams is not on the cricket field, he is working hard to ensure that his body remains fit by working out and performing his...

GMR&SC executive and Team CAMS continue fight against covid-19

GMR&SC executive and Team CAMS continue fight against covid-19

Apr 17, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC executive and Team CAMS continue fight against covid-19

The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) with support from Team CAMS in the United States of America, has come good on its promises to help flatten the curve in the fight against...

JJ&B’s jalebi task

JJ&B’s jalebi task

Apr 17, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on JJ&B’s jalebi task

The traditional saying that you give someone a basket to fetch water hardly applies to what APNU+AFC is asking the American lobbying firm, JJ&B, to do. I would more liken the task to the nature...

Minister Norton expresses condolences on passing of literary icons

Minister Norton expresses condolences on passing of literary icons

Apr 17, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Norton expresses condolences on passing of literary icons

DEAR EDITOR, The Hon. Minister of Social Cohesion, Dr. George Norton wishes to express his sincerest condolences on the passing of Guyanese literary icons, Dr. Michael Gilkes and Mr. Samuel Rudolph...

Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy...

Feb 01, 2025

2025 CWI Regional 4-Day Championships Round 1… Kaieteur Sports-A resilient century from middle-order Kevlon Anderson coupled with 9 wickets from off-spinner Richie Looknauth saw the Guyana Harpy...

Romaine Brackenridge joins Slingerz FC from Harbour View FC

Romaine Brackenridge joins Slingerz FC from...

Feb 01, 2025

Mashramani Street Football Championship kicks off tonight in Mocha

Mashramani Street Football Championship kicks off...

Feb 01, 2025

Savory falls for 99, joins the heartbreaking ‘99 Club’ in West Indies Championship

Savory falls for 99, joins the heartbreaking...

Feb 01, 2025

Martin Massiah elected president of Fruta Conquerors Football Club

Martin Massiah elected president of Fruta...

Feb 01, 2025

CANOC Executive Committee members visits President Irfaan Ali

CANOC Executive Committee members visits...

Feb 01, 2025

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... 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

Renegotiation – one big Guyana laff story

Hard Truths… By GHK Lall Kaieteur News-I had to laugh. Poor Minister Vickram Bharrat: he always seems to end up with... more