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GECOM discovers another soaked ballot box

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM discovers another soaked ballot box

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) while in Day 23 of the National Recount ongoing at the Arthur Chung Conference Center found another ballot box where the contents were soaked. Kaieteur News...

Shareholders lambaste ExxonMobil for inadequate response to climate change

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Shareholders lambaste ExxonMobil for inadequate response to climate change

By Kiana Wilburg ExxonMobil’s poor response to the risks of climate change was one of the top issues raised yesterday at its Annual Meeting of Shareholders. During the conference call, one of the...

Coalition does not intend to provide actual evidence to support majority of its fraud claims

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition does not intend to provide actual evidence to support majority of its fraud claims

– Expects GECOM to investigate whether allegations are factual – The APNU+AFC Coalition has no intention of proving a majority of its claims of elections irregularities, as it relates to...

After five years, Granger returns to shared governance and constitutional reform rhetoric

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on After five years, Granger returns to shared governance and constitutional reform rhetoric

For the second time in two weeks, incumbent President David Granger has returned, if tangentially, to the rhetoric on shared governance and constitutional reform, central pillars of his presidential...

Thanks to ExxonMobil… Guyana among world’s top ten oil producing countries realeasing toxic chemicals into the atmosphere

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Thanks to ExxonMobil… Guyana among world’s top ten oil producing countries realeasing toxic chemicals into the atmosphere

– Int’l Law Firm By Kiana Wilburg Pull quote: CIEL said that the carbon dioxide emissions from that flaring are approximately equivalent to the amount generated by Guyana’s entire...

Three days left for recount and no decision on extension

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Three days left for recount and no decision on extension

– 46 percent of boxes still remain With only three days left for the recount of the March 2 polls, and 46% of the 2,339 ballot boxes to be completed, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is...

Burial Ground murder… Second suspect charged as slain female guard laid to rest

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Burial Ground murder… Second suspect charged as slain female guard laid to rest

Police have charged a second suspect for the murder of 68-year-old security guard Margaret Dawson. Twenty-two-year-old Jermaine DeJonge was remanded to prison yesterday following his appearance in...

Stranded returning Guyanese must be quarantined

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Stranded returning Guyanese must be quarantined

– have option of staying at state facilities or hotel Authorities have toughened up conditions for Guyanese stranded abroad and who are intending to seek permission to return in a COVID-19...

Bartica prisoner isolated, others quarantined over suspected COVID-19 case

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica prisoner isolated, others quarantined over suspected COVID-19 case

Seven prisoners from the Bartica Police Station lock-ups have been placed in quarantine after it was suspected that one of them might have contracted Covid-19. According to Commander of Region Seven,...

Bouters looking fuh a Mingo

May 28, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Bouters looking fuh a Mingo

Suriname had election dis week and de situation nah looking good fuh Bouters. Dem boys seh de only ting fuh save Bouters is fuh find a man wha gon mek magic. You know who de man is; all ah we know...

The political opportunists are making a pitch for leadership

May 28, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The political opportunists are making a pitch for leadership

Whenever a political party loses an election, there are always implications for the leaders of that party. The APNU and the AFC have lost not only the general and regional elections of 2020 but they...

Miner beaten to death following row

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Miner beaten to death following row

Police are trying to locate a prime suspect who allegedly beat a miner to death at around 18:30 hrs on Tuesday at Aranguy Backdam, Cuyuni River, Region Seven. Police said David James of Port Kaituma,...

Scotiabank to limit transactions for non-account holders

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Scotiabank to limit transactions for non-account holders

Canadian-owned Scotibank has announced the limiting of transactions for non-account holders as part of its measures to tackle COVID-19. According to the bank yesterday, it is continuing to take...

Former Comptroller of Customs, Clarence Chue, dies

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Former Comptroller of Customs, Clarence Chue, dies

Former Comptroller of Customs, Clarence Chue, who famously marched into Customs House and took back his job, has died. Chue, said to be about 70, died at a city hospital after being rushed there...

Cooper vs. Cooper

May 28, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Cooper vs. Cooper

There it is in the full glow of the starkest of black and white tableaux, a collision of random circumstances with random passersby in the most routine of encounters. In many respects, in the black...

As Brazil becomes epicenter for COVID-19… CMO lambasts Guyanese who brazenly continue to flout health guidelines

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on As Brazil becomes epicenter for COVID-19… CMO lambasts Guyanese who brazenly continue to flout health guidelines

– CMO Dr. Shamdeo Persaud As Brazil becomes the epicenter for COVID-19 cases, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Shamdeo Persaud has expressed concern at what this poses for Guyana’s Indigenous...

Sattaur made sterling contributions in tax administration – GRA

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Sattaur made sterling contributions in tax administration – GRA

The country’s premier tax collection agency has paid tribute to its former head, Khurshid Sattaur. According to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), its management and staffers remain deeply...

Uitvlugt factory employees protest working hours, outstanding leave

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Uitvlugt factory employees protest working hours, outstanding leave

The majority of workers from the Uitvlugt factory yesterday downed tools to express their dismay regarding their hours of work and certain outstanding payments to them. According to their...

Hydromet office warns of heavy rainfall, flash flooding over next few days

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Hydromet office warns of heavy rainfall, flash flooding over next few days

A flood warning had been issued for flood-prone areas over the next few days. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Hydro meteorological Service, rainfall accumulation is expected to range from...

Kitchen garden initiative being pushed in Region 10 amid COVID-19

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Kitchen garden initiative being pushed in Region 10 amid COVID-19

A kitchen garden initiative is being pushed by Region 10 officials even as the country battles the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19. In fact, according to reports, coming out of the Region, the...

NGO partners with World Literacy Foundation to provide

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NGO partners with World Literacy Foundation to provide

literacy tablets to Sophia Primary students Kupanda Sisters Inc. has partnered with Sun Books of the World Literacy Foundation to launch a pilot programme to provide literacy tablets to 20 students...

Johnson is most successful regional First-Class Captain

May 28, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Johnson is most successful regional First-Class Captain

Says managerial, analytical & listening skills key to Captaincy By Sean Devers Guyana and West Indies cricketer Leon Johnson hails from the Amerindian Village of Aratac in Santa Mission, a...

Fifty-one vendors fined for not wearing masks – M&CC

May 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fifty-one vendors fined for not wearing masks – M&CC

City vendors are discovering how much more costly it is to not wear a mask than to shell out a mere $300 for one. Fifty-one vendors were found operating without masks have been fined $5,000 each for...

Foster earns USTFCCCA all-American honours

May 28, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Foster earns USTFCCCA all-American honours

By Calvin Chapman Guyana’s middle-distance ace, Andrea Foster, who is a student-athlete at the Clemson University in South Carolina, USA, continues to excel and fly the Golden Arrowhead high and...

We strongly urge our Canadian Government to stay the course

May 28, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We strongly urge our Canadian Government to stay the course

DEAR EDITOR, The Canadian High Commission in Georgetown, Guyana is the primary channel for communications between the Government of Canada and a legitimate Government of Guyana. It supports many...

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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