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GECOM stops giving SORs to observers

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM stops giving SORs to observers

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has halted a practice it had taken up to give statements of recount to observers. Commissioner Vincent Alexander said that it is not provided in the order for...

Alexander says advice from AG’s Chambers stopped CARICOM-supervised recount

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Alexander says advice from AG’s Chambers stopped CARICOM-supervised recount

– Not Ulita Moore’s injunctions Commissioner Vincent Alexander said it is his understanding that it was not the Court that stopped the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from conducting the...

Six small parties commend GECOM for smooth, well organized recount

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Six small parties commend GECOM for smooth, well organized recount

– Police commended for service as well – Commissioner The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is running a smooth, well organized recount process, and police are serving well. That is the...

GECOM Chair asks coalition to submit list of concerns

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM Chair asks coalition to submit list of concerns

The A Partnership For National Unity + Alliance For Change Coalition had written to the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Ret’d Justice Claudette Singh to address what they term as...

GECOM to revise 25-day recount timeline tomorrow

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM to revise 25-day recount timeline tomorrow

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will be meeting tomorrow to deliberate on several issues emerging from the ongoing National Recount including a revision of the 25-day timeline period. It has...

APNU+AFC refusing to call elections ‘not credible’

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC refusing to call elections ‘not credible’

-despite detailed critique of ‘flaws’ in the process APNU+AFC floor supervisor, Leonard Craig, today stated that the Coalition is not going to label the election as “not...

BREAKING NEWS!!! President opposed Carter Center’s re-entry to Guyana

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on BREAKING NEWS!!! President opposed Carter Center’s re-entry to Guyana

After a week of shifting narratives on who in government was responsible for blocking approval of the Carter Center observer team’s return, a document has emerged indicating that it was the...

T&T dropped out of recount due to ‘serious accusations against CARICOM’

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on T&T dropped out of recount due to ‘serious accusations against CARICOM’

Prime Minister of neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Keith Rowley has said that ‘serious accusations’ against the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) as the reason for his country’s Chief...

Weak public service systems could leave Guyana’s oil money open for abuse – Energy Strategist, Anthony Paul

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Weak public service systems could leave Guyana’s oil money open for abuse – Energy Strategist, Anthony Paul

One of the knee-jerk reactions of many new oil producing countries like Guyana, is that governments tend to opt for raising the salaries of the public servants. But while there is a change in the...

Hess Corp. expresses hope for transparent election results in weeks ahead

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Hess Corp. expresses hope for transparent election results in weeks ahead

The transparent and credible conclusion to the recount of the votes cast in the 2020 General and Regional Elections is a hope that most international actors are clinging to. Even the top Executives...

GECOM reconsidering rejected ballots

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM reconsidering rejected ballots

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is actively reconsidering the validity of spoilt and rejected ballots during the recount, according to Public Relations Officer, Yolanda Ward. This was...

Guard 57, hacked to death by man who allegedly stole his bike

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guard 57, hacked to death by man who allegedly stole his bike

A 57-year-old watchman was hacked to death at around 13.00 hrs yesterday after confronting a Skull City, West Bank Demerara resident who had allegedly stolen his bicycle. Police said that Sahadeo...

Coalition wants urgent meeting with GECOM

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition wants urgent meeting with GECOM

The governing coalition, A Partnership with National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) has requested an urgent meeting with the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) over what it considers issues...

Region Nine officials clear trucks to bring essential items from Brazil once a week

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region Nine officials clear trucks to bring essential items from Brazil once a week

– every effort made to have vehicles and goods sanitized at border Region nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) officials have agreed to allow trucks to bring essential items from Brazil once per...

GUYANA’S COVID-19 CASES REACH 107

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GUYANA’S COVID-19 CASES REACH 107

The Ministry of Public Health has recorded seven new COVID-19 cases, taking Guyana’s total to 104. This is inclusive of 10 deaths and 35 recoveries. So far, 914 persons have been tested with 810 of...

De day of reckoning coming!

May 11, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De day of reckoning coming!

Dem boys done warn everybody: “Be careful what yuh wish fuh others; it might just get yuh.” Some people wishing bad pun Tim de Jonas. Dem boys know is nah good fuh wish bad pun anybody period.dah...

Change Guyana Executive calls for shared governance

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Change Guyana Executive calls for shared governance

Executive Member of the Change Guyana Party, Everton Morrison, is calling on incumbent President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to devise a plan for a government of national...

Day Five of recounts sees GECOM completing 208 ballot boxes

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Day Five of recounts sees GECOM completing 208 ballot boxes

By Shikema Dey It was a fairly smooth day five of the National Recount which saw the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) completing 208 ballot boxes of votes cast in the March 2, 2020 General and...

PPP wants DCEO Myers removed from recount

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PPP wants DCEO Myers removed from recount

– To officially write GECOM Chair The Opposition People’s Progressive Party will be writing to the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Ret’d Justice Claudette Singh, seeking...

Rugby a good fit for fly-half Barrow

May 11, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rugby a good fit for fly-half Barrow

By Calvin Chapman Police Falcons fly-half, Michael Barrow, believes that it was a step in the right direction getting involved in rugby and he has big aspirations to help the once celebrated Green...

Ramdulars, only sisters to play together for Guyana at senior level

May 11, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ramdulars, only sisters to play together for Guyana at senior level

By Sean Devers Maylene Ramdular, who will celebrate her 69 birthday on May 21 and her 67-year-old sister Phylles Ramdular are the only Guyanese siblings to play cricket together for Guyana Women’s...

Kaieteur Sport raps the Rupununi Football Association on the impact of Covid-19

May 11, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kaieteur Sport raps the Rupununi Football Association on the impact of Covid-19

President Ryan Farias and his Executive of the Rupununi Football Association (RFA) have been trying their utmost to keep members of the association as focused as possible during these trying times...

Multi-talented Karen Rogers has passionate love affair with plants

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Multi-talented Karen Rogers has passionate love affair with plants

While many are wondering how to remain busy and productive during the restrictions imposed for the Covid-10 pandemic, Karen Rogers has no such problem. This Lindener is an indefatigable gardener,...

A drowning man will clutch at any straw

May 11, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A drowning man will clutch at any straw

The President of Guyana, David Granger, described the elections as free, fair and orderly. If the elections were rigged then they cannot be considered as free and fair. International and local...

GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…What Vibert Sealey saw on the stairs

May 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…What Vibert Sealey saw on the stairs

“She was twisting against him in a sinuous, boneless way that set Sealey’s stomach churning. She was speaking to the boy, and she was trying to press a small bottle to his lips, when she turned...