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Elections 2020, Day 63…Recount to start Wednesday

May 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Elections 2020, Day 63…Recount to start Wednesday

Tabulation of votes will be video streamed but not vote counts – GECOM Chairperson By Kemol King The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has decided that the national recount will commence on...

Lopsided Exxon deal shackles Guyana to flawed Local Content Policy

May 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lopsided Exxon deal shackles Guyana to flawed Local Content Policy

By Kiana Wilburg The very moment before Natural Resources Minister, Raphael Trotman affixed his signature to that Exxon deal; did he really understand the value he would be leaving behind? Did he...

Carter Center observers blocked from flight arriving today

May 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Carter Center observers blocked from flight arriving today

– Despite Govt. disapproval US State Dept. and OAS want observers here The US Embassy has said that the National COVID-19 Task Force, headed by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has refused...

Kind hearted citizens build home for Soesdyke/Linden family

May 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Kind hearted citizens build home for Soesdyke/Linden family

A Soesdyke/Linden family of nine now has a comfortable home, after living for years in a shack made of a torn tarpaulin and sticks. Dalton and Sonia La Rose along with their seven children, aged...

Soldier Bai will get swear-in by Mingo

May 04, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Soldier Bai will get swear-in by Mingo

A man name Bernie Madoff pulled off de biggest Ponzi scheme in de world. He con he investors of more than 65 Billion US dollars. He now spending de next 150 years in de jail. He had a sidekick in de...

ExxonMobil planning for slow market recovery

May 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil planning for slow market recovery

For the time being, there remains a lot of uncertainty on the timing of recovery for the oil industry. But ExxonMobil’s Chairman and Chief Executive officer (CEO), Darren Woods says the American...

GFF President Wayne Forde shares info on a few pertinent questions even in these challenging times

May 04, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF President Wayne Forde shares info on a few pertinent questions even in these challenging times

Question- With Concacaf signaling its intention to establish a Caribbean Professional League, by setting up of a study group, how would this influence the GFF’s work to improve structure and...

World Athletics fund to assist professional athletes

May 04, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on World Athletics fund to assist professional athletes

World Athletics, together with the International Athletics Foundation (IAF), late last month launched a US$500,000 fund to support professional athletes experiencing financial hardship due to the...

With partial lockdown…Many essential workers struggle to commute to and from work

May 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on With partial lockdown…Many essential workers struggle to commute to and from work

Guyanese have been under a partial lockdown and stay at home order for approximately four weeks. That order has been extended by another month. While essential workers are permitted to work 24 hours,...

Camp Stephenson deadly explosion… Did ranks follow safety procedures during disposal operation?

May 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Camp Stephenson deadly explosion… Did ranks follow safety procedures during disposal operation?

For the year thus far, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has lost four of their own in two horrific explosions, with Thursday being the most gruesome occurrence. Lance Corporal Kevon Nicholson, 23;...

Closure in Lethem businesses…Scores of Guyanese seek work in COVID-19 hit Brazil

May 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Closure in Lethem businesses…Scores of Guyanese seek work in COVID-19 hit Brazil

Scores of people have been slipping through the Lethem/Brazil border despite reports of an alarming surge in COVID-19 cases in the neighbouring country. According to reports published by the Business...

GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…Another Visit from a Dead Lover

May 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…Another Visit from a Dead Lover

He couldn’t sleep. His wife was already in dreamland…tables turned on the man who liked to joke about sleeping peacefully, because he had a clear conscience. But I cleared my conscience eighteen...

The Carter Center should be granted permission to return

May 04, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Carter Center should be granted permission to return

The final script has not yet been written in the ongoing saga of Guyana’s 2020 General and Regional Elections. The latest twist in the tale, as at yesterday at 16:00 hours was that the government...

Berbice River boat accident victims suffered multiple injuries – PM report

May 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice River boat accident victims suffered multiple injuries – PM report

Post Mortem examinations which were conducted on the bodies of the four men whose bodies were fished out of the Berbice River last week revealed that they sustained multiple injuries prior to...

Items stolen from Lethem’s quarantine facility returned

May 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Items stolen from Lethem’s quarantine facility returned

– suspect held Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the theft of several items from a building that is to be used as a COVID-19 quarantine facility in Lethem (Region Nine). Region...

The Guyanese people remain hostage because of Mingo’s action

May 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Guyanese people remain hostage because of Mingo’s action

Dear Editor, Democracy is the right of citizen to pick their leaders. Guyana went to the polls on March 2 to pick a President. More than 2 months later, our electoral body, GECOM, after spending more...

Appeal to GECOM, President, and Opposition Leader

May 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Appeal to GECOM, President, and Opposition Leader

DEAR EDITOR, The electoral impasse in Guyana has gone past two months with no officially declared winner so Caricom has stepped forward with a noble effort to bring about a workable resolution to the...

The crisis has sapped the mental energy of the APNU+AFC leadership

May 04, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The crisis has sapped the mental energy of the APNU+AFC leadership

The mind is bottomless. It is capable of genius, mystifying explanations, complex logic, mesmerizing heights of thinking. Sadly, the mental energy of those in control of the APNU+AFC leadership has...

Time and tide wait for no man

May 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time and tide wait for no man

DEAR EDITOR, “A fundamental issue to be resolved, therefore, is how to develop for the post-election situation a system of governance which will enjoy acceptance across political divisions”...

The quicker you concede, the faster you can rebuild the party to return to government

May 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The quicker you concede, the faster you can rebuild the party to return to government

DEAR EDITOR, I voted for the Coalition. But now I have deep regrets given the behaviour of my outgoing President and his colleagues in the caretaker APNU+AFC administration. By their words and...

Call me a pessimist but there is nothing in GECOM recount plan to inspire optimism

May 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Call me a pessimist but there is nothing in GECOM recount plan to inspire optimism

DEAR EDITOR, The wiles of Mingo’s fraudulent Region 4 declaration while GECOM’s Chair hid or was restrained in a room in Ashmin’s building is well documented. Even a court ruling could not get...

Too many cunning and deceitful manoeuvring

May 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Too many cunning and deceitful manoeuvring

DEAR EDITOR, Many Guyanese at home and broad are quite skeptical of the Recount Plan, which is prepared by GECOM and soon to be Gazetted. This Plan again leaves loopholes for fraudulent overtures and...

Does not augur well

May 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Does not augur well

DEAR EDITOR, The process is a work in progress and is incompleted. Therefore all key personnel who were present and observed the process from its inception should be allowed to return to ensure a...

Do not participate in this Recount

May 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do not participate in this Recount

DEAR EDITOR, In my humble opinion, what GECOM is offering is not a credible RECOUNT. It is an opportunity to sow confusion and corrupt the original voting results to make it completely unusable and...

Lincoln Lewis’ credibility is over

May 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lincoln Lewis’ credibility is over

DEAR EDITOR, I am not going to use space to argue with Lincoln Lewis over the rigged election of 2020. Lewis has become one of the most shameless defenders of what has taken place the past two...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more