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Granger nixes Williams, Forde claim that recount is illegal

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Granger nixes Williams, Forde claim that recount is illegal

Incumbent President David Granger today says that he will accept the declaration of the results of the March 2, 2020 elections using the final figures of the ongoing national recount exercise. The...

Our oil has been hijacked

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Our oil has been hijacked

Our responsibility is to share, with our readers, oil-related developments that impact on the country. To our chagrin, many of these reports have been negative and with far-reaching implications for...

National election recount ‘illegal’ – AG Williams, Forde

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on National election recount ‘illegal’ – AG Williams, Forde

…party will accept result – Anna Ally Attorney General, Basil Williams, has claimed that the national recount exercise currently ongoing at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre is in fact...

Guyana should have say in all oil companies’ spending – TT expert, Anthony Paul

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana should have say in all oil companies’ spending – TT expert, Anthony Paul

By Kiana Wilburg When the Stabroek Block deal was released in 2017, several international experts cringed upon noting the alarming loopholes the Coalition Government left unaddressed. Two years...

Suriname arrest 9 Guyanese fishermen, seize boats

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname arrest 9 Guyanese fishermen, seize boats

Surinamese authorities have reportedly arrested nine Guyanese fishermen who they said were in the waters of that neighbouring country illegally. According to a report of the Dagblad Suriname...

Carter Center protest quelled as one arrested

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Carter Center protest quelled as one arrested

An early morning protest that was staged yesterday by members of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) saw one being arrested. PPP/C supporters turned up with placards in front of the...

Commissioners split on handling of recount observations

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Commissioners split on handling of recount observations

By Kemol King The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has not yet discussed and decided on how it will treat with the observations being made during the National Recount, particularly claims that...

Lawrence, Ally signal rejection of additional recount stations

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lawrence, Ally signal rejection of additional recount stations

Executives of the governing coalition, APNU+AFC, met with the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and signaled the rejection by the National COVID-19 Task Force of a proposition by the commission to...

Woman’s body found in abandoned mining pit; camp ransacked

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Woman’s body found in abandoned mining pit; camp ransacked

Police are trying to ascertain whether they are dealing with a case of murder after the body of a woman was found in a water-filled mining pit at Karrau Backdam, Mazaruni, last Friday. The victim has...

Alleged wife-killer nabbed at Parika – less than a month after escape from Lusignan Holding Centre

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged wife-killer nabbed at Parika – less than a month after escape from Lusignan Holding Centre

Police have recaptured alleged wife killer Ganesh Dhanraj, who had escaped with other inmates on April 20 last from the Lusignan Holding Centre. Ranks, acting on information, went to the Parika Bus...

GECOM deh pun sheer count

May 17, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on GECOM deh pun sheer count

A teacher de having problem with one child. No matter how hard she try, he test scores always low. Sometimes he got 5/100 and one time 2/100. One day she tun to him and seh: “Sonny, ah wan give you...

DISHONESTY IS NOT THE BEST POLICY

May 17, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on DISHONESTY IS NOT THE BEST POLICY

This whole system of government will be discredited unless there are free and fair elections. But the real danger is that without the acceptance of the will of the people, the population will be...

STANDARDS IN FOCUS WORLD METROLOGY DAY 2020

May 17, 2020 KNews News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS WORLD METROLOGY DAY 2020

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, will join other National Measurement Institutes globally to commemorate World Metrology Day. The theme for this year’s...

Coronavirus spoil-sport to birthday celebrations of Buxton woman, 108

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coronavirus spoil-sport to birthday celebrations of Buxton woman, 108

All decked out in one of her favourite outfit, Evadney Eldeca Talbot of Buxton, East Coast Demerara, eagerly posed for a photo in celebration of her 108th birthday. With her voice fill with...

COVID-19 pandemic fight… Rupununi communities up pressure to close mining in Region 9 -15 illegal crossings blocked

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 pandemic fight… Rupununi communities up pressure to close mining in Region 9 -15 illegal crossings blocked

The South Rupununi District Council (SRDC), the representative institution of the 21 communities, has expressed deep concerns over what it says is undermining of its Village Councils’ efforts to...

Cane harvester injured after lorry topples on muddy dam

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cane harvester injured after lorry topples on muddy dam

A cane harvester is counting his lucky stars to be alive after the estate lorry he was in with six others toppled on the muddy Tain dam, on the Corentyne, East Berbice.Injured is Muktar Ali, 49 of...

Palms resident admitted to ICU with COVID-19 complications

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Palms resident admitted to ICU with COVID-19 complications

An elderly male resident of the Palms is now a patient of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for respiratory complications he developed as a result of...

MYO distributes 500 food hampers

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on MYO distributes 500 food hampers

The Muslim Youth Organization (MYO) of Guyana, of Woolford Avenue, Thomas Lands, has embarked in distributing 500 food hampers to the less fortunate in Guyana. The initiative came from the need to...

CXC says amicable resolution likely with Jamaica over exams

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CXC says amicable resolution likely with Jamaica over exams

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) on Friday, subsequent to the decision of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) – Education of 8 May2020, convened the second in a series of...

Unyielding Coalition calculation and position

May 17, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Unyielding Coalition calculation and position

The Coalition has given every indication that it is ready to contest every centimeter of elections territory that it will not yield a single millimeter in this slow and tortured elections recount...

Family offers to pay for Komal Chand’s remains to return from Cuba

May 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Family offers to pay for Komal Chand’s remains to return from Cuba

– meets with Foreign Affairs Ministry In a few days’ time, it will be three months since an ailing Komal Chand, President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), left the...

The sooner the Coalition starts to reveal the extent of systematic cheating the better

May 17, 2020 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The sooner the Coalition starts to reveal the extent of systematic cheating the better

The sooner the Coalition decides to start letting the public know about the extent of systematic cheating by the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) in the March 2 General and Regional...

The link between democracy and development

May 17, 2020 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The link between democracy and development

(A Review of David Granger’s Local democracy and regional development. Stronger communities for a stronger country.) Guyana’s President, David Granger, is reviving his country’s system of local...

In Pursuit of Excellence

May 17, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on In Pursuit of Excellence

Book: Thinking Boys – Teachers understanding the problem-solving skills of adolescent schoolboys- A Jamaican Study Author: Canute White Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Canute White presents a...

Azure Jay (Cyanocorax caeruleus)

May 17, 2020 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on Azure Jay (Cyanocorax caeruleus)

The azure jay (Cyanocorax caeruleus) (Brazilian Portuguese: Gralha-azul – blue jay) is a passeriform bird of the crow family, Corvidae. It is found in the Atlantic Forest, especially with...

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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