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Murder of female guard in cemetery… Prime suspect Lil Grumbs shot and captured after attacking cops – police seek advice about murder charges for teens, taxi driver to be released

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Murder of female guard in cemetery… Prime suspect Lil Grumbs shot and captured after attacking cops – police seek advice about murder charges for teens, taxi driver to be released

In what may be a major breakthrough in the heinous killing of security guard Margaret Dawson, police have shot and arrested an Albouyston man who was allegedly seen attacking Dawson in Le Repentir...

Mingo altered Grove Primary School votes in favour of coalition – SOR, SOP reveal

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mingo altered Grove Primary School votes in favour of coalition – SOR, SOP reveal

By Kemol King As the National Recount continues, yet another ballot box has been completed and verified to carry figures different from the tabulation of Region Four Returning Officer, Clairmont...

Eight Presidential Guards test positive for Covid-19

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Eight Presidential Guards test positive for Covid-19

Eight ranks from the Presidential Guard Unit are now in quarantine after they recently tested positive for Covid-19. According to a statement from the Police Public Relations Department,...

Deep worry at Brazilian border… More than 30 Region 9 residents in home quarantine

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Deep worry at Brazilian border… More than 30 Region 9 residents in home quarantine

– Marudi mining poses major challenges Region Nine, which borders with Brazil, is facing major challenges with its COVID-19 pandemic fight. More than 30 persons from Guyana’s biggest region...

Guyana’s poor systems spell disaster for oil money

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s poor systems spell disaster for oil money

By Kiana Wilburg Guyana ushers in its newfound oil wealth in an era of poor systems for governance, procurement and management that has existed for decades. The reports from the Audit Office, the...

Teen said he fled scene before friend killed female guard in cemetery

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Teen said he fled scene before friend killed female guard in cemetery

In a chilling statement to investigators, a 17-year-old boy has said that he heard security guard Margaret Dawson pleading that she had “no money”, as an acquaintance of his attacked the elderly...

Justice Singh doesn’t think it’s GECOM’s role to probe claims of anomalies – Commissioner Gunraj

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Justice Singh doesn’t think it’s GECOM’s role to probe claims of anomalies – Commissioner Gunraj

Commissioner Gunraj yesterday said that Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Justice Claudette Singh has expressed the view that it is not the role of GECOM to investigate the veracity of...

Coalition refuses to sign off Region 2 recount results – Protests labelling total votes as “valid”

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition refuses to sign off Region 2 recount results – Protests labelling total votes as “valid”

Tabulation agent for the APNU/AFC Coalition, Daniel Seeram yesterday refused to place his signature on the final recount certificate for District Two over the use of the word “valid” to describe...

Group highlights dire situation of over 200 Guyanese stranded in the US, Caribbean

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Group highlights dire situation of over 200 Guyanese stranded in the US, Caribbean

– appeals made to National Covid-19 Taskforce The recent green light by the National Covid-19 Taskforce (NCTF) to allow several Guyanese stuck overseas to travel home is stirring optimism among...

Soulja Bai fixing dog pen

May 21, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Soulja Bai fixing dog pen

Dem boys seh… Dem boys want to know wha Soulja Bai deh pun really. Nobody hear from him a lang, lang time. Dem boys start to fuget what he face look like and some of dem even start wondering if...

Losing is part of the winning formula

May 21, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Losing is part of the winning formula

Success in life, in great measure depends upon winning. Whether it is in education, sport, business or politics. One thing which is common to all successful persons, however, is losing. The road to...

$2M High Court bail for former GRDB accountant, pending appeal against conviction

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $2M High Court bail for former GRDB accountant, pending appeal against conviction

Former accountant of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Peter Ramcharran has been granted $2M High Court bail pending his appeal against his three- year conviction for fraud. Ramcharran was...

ExxonMobil Guyana Names New President

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil Guyana Names New President

ExxonMobil Guyana disclosed yesterday via a statement to the media that its current President, Rod Henson, will be leaving Guyana in the coming months to take up a new position as Vice President of...

Irfaan Ali shies away from commitment to inclusive executive governance – Focused for now on recount

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Irfaan Ali shies away from commitment to inclusive executive governance – Focused for now on recount

Presidential Candidate of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Dr. Irfaan Ali yesterday refused to define his party’s position on inclusive governance. PPP Presidential Candidate, Irfaan Ali Ali...

Police separate thief from Cow

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Police separate thief from Cow

Ranks from the Diamond Outpost cornered an Agricola, East Bank Demerara man on Tuesday night at the Little Diamond Cemetery with a cow he had stolen from cattle farmer, Bertie Murray. Police were...

Citizens can now apply to Govt. for COVID-19 public assistance

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Citizens can now apply to Govt. for COVID-19 public assistance

The Government of Guyana yesterday launched a data collection mechanism, which is aimed at identifying and providing tangible support for vulnerable households affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and...

Tuesday, May 19 was a sad day for the Guyanese nationality

May 21, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Tuesday, May 19 was a sad day for the Guyanese nationality

When I typed my satirical, funny, comical, fictional piece last Tuesday, I never would have believed the reaction I received that made me sad. It was a sad day for the nationality that goes by the...

Twenty persons arrested in Bartica for flouting partial curfew

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Twenty persons arrested in Bartica for flouting partial curfew

– Region mulls total lockdown over non-adherence The authorities at Bartica (Region Seven) have been proactive in their bid to prevent the spread of COVID -19 in Bartica and its surrounding...

GECOM to pay Elections Day workers in two weeks

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM to pay Elections Day workers in two weeks

Persons who were contracted to provide meals and transportation for Guyana Elections Commission staffers on elections day will receive their payments in two weeks’ time. This assurance was given by...

Ethnic Relations probes Facebook rant, complaint against furniture store

May 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ethnic Relations probes Facebook rant, complaint against furniture store

The Ethnic Relations Commission, (ERC), has launched a probe into a Facebook video posted over the weekend that it says is laced with racially insensitive remarks towards another ethnicity. “The...

Stranded family pleads for help

May 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stranded family pleads for help

Dear Editor, I’m writing on behalf of 18 family members who have been stranded in Aruba for almost 3 months consisting of 5 children below the age of 10, among them are 12 adults awaiting to...

West Indies beat Zimbabwe, lose to India&N/Z

May 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Indies beat Zimbabwe, lose to India&N/Z

West Indies beat Zimbabwe at home in both games in their first series in 2013 before losing to India 2-nil and 2-nil to New Zealand in away series to finish a year which had begun promisingly for the...

Recount timetable – looks out of reach

May 21, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Recount timetable – looks out of reach

The timetable originally finalized and decided upon as what was required to complete the elections recount process underway at GECOM now looks way underestimated and woefully inadequate. Twenty-five...

Smith aiming for national team return

May 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Smith aiming for national team return

By Zaheer Mohamed Following a three-year hiatus from the Guyana senior female team, all-rounder Latoya Tamicka Smith is working hard for a recall to the side. Smith, who bats right-handed and bowls...

“Inclusive governance” has become a code-phrase for window-dressing

May 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on “Inclusive governance” has become a code-phrase for window-dressing

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to Havelock Brewster’s letter calling for “inclusive democratic governance”. I wish to comment as follows: Declaration of results of an election must accord with the law....

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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