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Coalition beats PPP 250-3 at Belladrum, still complains 24 votes were fraudulent

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition beats PPP 250-3 at Belladrum, still complains 24 votes were fraudulent

A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) today claimed that 24 votes appear to be fraudulent as the coalition claims those persons were out of the jurisdiction, and still...

Berbice couple in coalition’s foreign voters claim, was home on E-Day

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice couple in coalition’s foreign voters claim, was home on E-Day

By Shikema Dey A married couple that the APNU+AFC coalition claims was out of the jurisdiction on election day are denying those claims. Kaieteur News spoke to Shirley Nicholson who confirmed that...

Kaieteur News analysis Mingo’s widespread manipulation of Region Four figures in 17 ballot boxes

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Kaieteur News analysis Mingo’s widespread manipulation of Region Four figures in 17 ballot boxes

… Adds 778 votes to APNU+AFC, takes 331 votes from PPP/C … Recount vindicates statements of poll By Kemol King A Kaieteur News analysis of information covering 17 Region Four ballot boxes has...

Floodgates will be open to corruption, poor governance if laws not rooted in policy –TT Petroleum Expert

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Floodgates will be open to corruption, poor governance if laws not rooted in policy –TT Petroleum Expert

By Kiana Wilburg If Guyana does not ensure that its laws are rooted in good policy, then it would only be opening the floodgates to corruption says Trinidadian Petroleum Expert, Anthony Paul. His...

Region Two recount completed – Controversial IT Technician Promoted to Recount Supervisor

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region Two recount completed – Controversial IT Technician Promoted to Recount Supervisor

Yesterday, on the 13th day of the National Recount exercise, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) managed to complete the recount of 54 ballot boxes, raising the total to 642 ballot boxes. The...

“Cross-Eye” shot dead while escaping on stolen bike

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “Cross-Eye” shot dead while escaping on stolen bike

Nineteen-year-old Kevin Thomas better known as “Cross-Eye” was shot and killed in an early morning confrontation with police while escaping with an accomplice on a stolen motorcycle at Victoria...

GECOM to investigate ‘strange’ mix up of voters list in ballot boxes

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM to investigate ‘strange’ mix up of voters list in ballot boxes

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has launched an investigation to ascertain how the Official List of Electors (OLE) for two polling stations on the East Bank of Demerara got switched on...

Man arrested for the alleged rape, murder of a 68-year old woman

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man arrested for the alleged rape, murder of a 68-year old woman

Police have detained a suspect in connection with the suspected rape and brutal murder of a 68-year-old female security guard whose body was found battered, half-naked and sprawled in a clump of...

A woman carry home wrong husband

May 19, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A woman carry home wrong husband

Deh had a girl who was tekkin’ a driving test. The instructor asked her: “You are driving and suddenly an old man and a young kid appear in your path. Who yuh gun hit?” The girl thought long...

The New Reality

May 19, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The New Reality

The world will not be the same again. Not for a long time at least. The COVID-19 coronavirus has changed it permanently. The new reality which we will face when the virus subsides – if it ever does...

Auchlyne couple charged with ganja find

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Auchlyne couple charged with ganja find

A man and a woman who were among three persons who were arrested on Thursday during a police drug bust on the Corentyne have been jointly charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of...

Task Force approves return of law students, cruise ship workers

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Task Force approves return of law students, cruise ship workers

– greenlights Komal Chand’s body to be flown in – Courts stores to reopen for payments The National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) yesterday held its weekly statutory virtual meeting. There...

Diamond Hospital denies poor conditions at COVID-19 facilities

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond Hospital denies poor conditions at COVID-19 facilities

– holding more than 75% of country’s patients The Diamond Diagnostic Hospital administration has denied that the situation is out-of-hand there. Responding to a story published in another...

Task Force approves ‘not more than two’ additional workstations for National Recount

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Task Force approves ‘not more than two’ additional workstations for National Recount

– Recount may still exceed deadline says Vincent Alexander The National COVID-19 Task Force (NTCF) has given the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) the go ahead to establish ‘not more than...

Doctor placed on $400,000 bail for Bushlot accident that killed teen

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Doctor placed on $400,000 bail for Bushlot accident that killed teen

Four months after ploughing through three young girls with his SUV and killing one, the doctor who was arrested and sent on station bail shortly after was charged yesterday. Dr. Giresh Sadeo, the...

Digicel files for bankruptcy in Bermuda

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel files for bankruptcy in Bermuda

Regional telecommunications giant, Digicel has filed for bankruptcy in Bermuda, but says its day-to-day operations will not be affected by the move.Digicel said it announced a proposed scheme of...

National Songs remix competition to be hosted

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on National Songs remix competition to be hosted

The Department of Social Cohesion, Culture Youth and Sport has launched a National Songs Remix Competition, one of the many activities being hosted in observance of the country’s 54th Independence...

More awareness can help eliminate COVID -19 stigmatization – Neaz Subhan

May 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on More awareness can help eliminate COVID -19 stigmatization – Neaz Subhan

Former Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) member, Neaz Subhan is calling for a public education campaign to help end the stigma attached to COVID-19 after surviving infection. Subhan was discharged...

Mercury and the Russians rigged the election for the PPP

May 19, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mercury and the Russians rigged the election for the PPP

Over the weekend, I was given highly confidential material about how the PPP rigged the March 2020 general poll in Guyana. Based on the material I had, I picked up my two friends; one who writes the...

Time for GECOM to remove fraud from its agenda

May 19, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time for GECOM to remove fraud from its agenda

DEAR EDITOR, On Election Day, after the close of poll, the officials at each polling station, together, count all votes cast and prepare a statement of poll showing votes received for each contesting...

ERC – call for national harmony

May 19, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on ERC – call for national harmony

There are a few patriotic Guyanese for whom national harmony is something worthwhile to work for, something to be achieved. Regrettably, there are many in our midst who pay lip service to that vision...

Bartica continues to lead the way in recognising Sports Personalities – DoS Jones

May 19, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bartica continues to lead the way in recognising Sports Personalities – DoS Jones

By Franklin Wilson As felicitations continue to flow following the Bartica Mayor and Town Council (M&TC) commissioning of a Sports Wall of Fame in recognition of the sterling contributions that...

The actual election outcome is in those Statement of Polls

May 19, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The actual election outcome is in those Statement of Polls

DEAR EDITOR, President Granger must be highly commended for taking the nation’s physical, mental and emotional health seriously. What is confusing, however, is that President Granger does not see...

Something must be rotten

May 19, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Something must be rotten

DEAR EDITOR, On a day when I was willing to say David Granger acquitted himself with honour, a picture, and information surfaces of an inappropriate meeting between Granger, his party members, the...

Guyanese on every side of the divide must not tolerate this eye-pass

May 19, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese on every side of the divide must not tolerate this eye-pass

DEAR EDITOR, What a fascinating place to belong to. What a stressful environment for us Guyanese to live in. What with the global pandemic Covid-19. We must cope with the 2020 Elections virus –...

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Traditional media is still king

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News-Election campaigns are a battle for attention, persuasion, and votes. In this digital age,... more