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Carter Center seeks government clarity on Observer Team’s return

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Carter Center seeks government clarity on Observer Team’s return

– Government maintains official silence on reason for refusal By Shikema Dey The Carter Center Elections Observation Mission has expressed continued commitment to its role in Guyana’s 2020...

Unsure if corrupt history disqualifies companies from marketing Guyana’s crude – Energy Department Head, Mark Bynoe

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Unsure if corrupt history disqualifies companies from marketing Guyana’s crude – Energy Department Head, Mark Bynoe

By Kiana Wilburg When the Energy Department had advertised a few months ago for Expressions of Interest (EOI) to market Guyana’s crude oil, it had asked all applicants to provide details of any...

All COVID-19 spending to be audited …Ocean View is of particular concern – Auditor General

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on All COVID-19 spending to be audited …Ocean View is of particular concern – Auditor General

Auditor-General Deodat Sharma has informed Kaieteur News that his office intends to conduct a special audit of all COVID-19 expenditure, with special focus to be placed on government’s flagship...

Emergency Bridge repairs causes hour-long traffic chaos from GT park to Providence, EBD

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Emergency Bridge repairs causes hour-long traffic chaos from GT park to Providence, EBD

A two-hour scheduled closure at the Demerara Harbour Bridge yesterday afternoon sparked a back-up in traffic that extended all the way to the Stabroek area and even onto Sheriff Street. Some...

GECOM gazettes order for recount

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM gazettes order for recount

President welcomes recount; PPP blasts his statement as ‘hollow’ and ‘placatory’ The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) finally gazetted an order for the national recount of votes cast in...

Embankment between UG Road, Conversation Tree to close for recount from today

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Embankment between UG Road, Conversation Tree to close for recount from today

The Guyana Police Force Traffic Department has announced that it will close the roads around the Arthur Chung Convention Centre at Liliendaal as part of the security measures to facilitate the...

Four charged for delivery truck robbery

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Four charged for delivery truck robbery

Four men were yesterday charged for the delivery truck robbery that happened last Thursday at Rasville, Roxanne Burnham Gardens, Georgetown. The men were arrested on Saturday and a motorcycle that...

$25,000 for illegal vending, $5,000 for not wearing mask – City Mayor

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $25,000 for illegal vending, $5,000 for not wearing mask – City Mayor

Beginning tomorrow, the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (GM&CC) will be fining city vendors for not wearing masks and penalizing illegal vendors with stiff fines as well, says Mayor Ubraj...

Kranicle gat wan new hatchet man

May 05, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Kranicle gat wan new hatchet man

Imagine Uncle Adam climbin police step fuh report threat. He shud be the last wan fuh do suh. Dem boys seh he tun wan hatchet man since he gone over to the Kranicle. He operating like wan hired pen...

Put your house in order before criticizing your neighbour’s home

May 05, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Put your house in order before criticizing your neighbour’s home

Trade unionism is not a political vocation. As far back as 1952, the International Labour Organization (ILO) recognized the convergence of objectives between trade unions and political parties. Trade...

Wife of dead Pomeroon farmer seeking justice – recalls harrowing incident involving Coast Guard vessel

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Wife of dead Pomeroon farmer seeking justice – recalls harrowing incident involving Coast Guard vessel

It has been more than two weeks since thirty-two year old Ryan Khayum lost his life in the Pomeroon River, following a tragic boat accident which involved a Coast Guard vessel. Chandanie Khayum,...

GTT reopening stores

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GTT reopening stores

Weeks after the closure of its retail stores in a bid to support the global call for physical distancing during this pandemic, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has decided to reopen...

Energy Dept. instructs ExxonMobil to improve Payara Field Development Plan

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Energy Dept. instructs ExxonMobil to improve Payara Field Development Plan

Energy Department Director, Dr. Mark Bynoe disclosed yesterday that approval of ExxonMobil’s Payara Field Development Plan (FDP) has been delayed as it has asked the American oil giant to make a...

COVID-19 postpones Inaugural Mr. India Guyana

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 postpones Inaugural Mr. India Guyana

Pageant-industry veteran and promoter, Hashim Alli has unfortunately had to postpone the inaugural Mr. India Guyana pageant originally slated for today. A release from Mr. Alli expressed...

Guyana’s COVID-19 cases move to 92; 27 recover

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s COVID-19 cases move to 92; 27 recover

After failing to report the updated status of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Guyana for two days, the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) yesterday recorded ten new cases of the disease, carrying the...

PPP Arrival Day 2020 Message

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PPP Arrival Day 2020 Message

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) extends greetings to all Guyanese on the occasion of Arrival Day. This occasion is of great significance in commemorating the arrival of our ancestors who came...

Long live Midwives!

May 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Long live Midwives!

Today, May 5, 2020, Guyana joins the rest of the world to observe International Day of the Midwife under the theme: “Midwives with women: celebrate, demonstrate, mobilize, unite – our time is...

“Orlando Cup 3 can still play,” Sadeo

May 05, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on “Orlando Cup 3 can still play,” Sadeo

Chairman of the Board of Directors for Orlando Softball Cricket League (OSCL) Rajendra Sadeo is very optimistic the Orlando Cup 3 can still be played at a reschedule date once things get back to...

On Indian Arrival Day, African Guyanese must denounce injustice

May 05, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on On Indian Arrival Day, African Guyanese must denounce injustice

I have been viciously attacked for my activism against an Indian government – the PPP (1992 -2015) during which my family suffered. Twice my life was endangered. I lost my job at UG. I spent three...

Granger stands to leave personal legacy of electoral fraud

May 05, 2020 KNews Letters, News Comments Off on Granger stands to leave personal legacy of electoral fraud

Dear Editor, It was reported shortly after the political parties met with GECOM that the APNU+AFC is the only political party which is not in favour of the recount to be live-streamed. Transparency...

St. Margaret’s Scout Group/Hand in Hand Group make donation during COVID-19

May 05, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on St. Margaret’s Scout Group/Hand in Hand Group make donation during COVID-19

A scout is a friend to all and one of their mandates is service to the community. Given the current COVID-19 pandemic, the need to assist our communities has never been greater. In April 2020, the...

Our workers deserve better!

May 05, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our workers deserve better!

DEAR EDITOR, During this crisis we must all continue to celebrate the importance of our workers and acknowledge the difficulties that they face in today’s environment. Our unions must continue...

Sudesh Dhaniram scored the last Shell Shield ton Says Marshall fastest bowler he faced

May 05, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sudesh Dhaniram scored the last Shell Shield ton Says Marshall fastest bowler he faced

By Sean Devers Born on January 14, 1967 in Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice, 53 year-old right-handed Guyana and West Indies ‘B’ team opener Sudesh Dhaniram played the first of 46 First-Class...

Arrival after other arrivals

May 05, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Arrival after other arrivals

After almost two centuries of sometimes subservient existing, the hope that springs in the breast of the watching and expecting faithful is that this could be the grand moment of true arriving. It is...

It serves feminism no good promoting weakness or openly encouraging wrongdoings

May 05, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on It serves feminism no good promoting weakness or openly encouraging wrongdoings

DEAR EDITOR, I must start off by saying I generally do not read the state newspaper unless someone sends me a news item. Such was the case yesterday, May 04, 2020, when I was forwarded an article...