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National Youth Week begins! Several virtual activities to be hosted

May 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on National Youth Week begins! Several virtual activities to be hosted

National Youth Week 2020 commenced yesterday, and will run until May 30, 2020. Due to the global COVID 19 pandemic, the Ministry of the Presidency, Department of Social Cohesion, Culture, Youth and...

WBD murder suspect who escaped from police custody in 2016 arrested in Berbice

May 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on WBD murder suspect who escaped from police custody in 2016 arrested in Berbice

After nearly four years on the run, Anthony Jhagroo was finally arrested yesterday for the murder of West Bank Demerara resident Yogeshwar Shivcharran. Jhagroo of Lot 35 Goed Intent, West Bank...

GHRA urges mining to be removed from ‘Essential Services’

May 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GHRA urges mining to be removed from ‘Essential Services’

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) is warning authorities of the dangers of COVID-19 with calls made yesterday for a halt on mining activities. Below is the GHRA statement yesterday: As...

Woman dies after struck by car on Chateau Margot Public Road

May 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Woman dies after struck by car on Chateau Margot Public Road

Police are seeking to identify a woman of East Indian ancestry who was struck down by a speeding car last evening near Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara. Police said that the woman, estimated to be...

Minister Norton extends condolences on passing of Derry Etkins

May 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Norton extends condolences on passing of Derry Etkins

Minister of Social Cohesion, Dr. George Norton has extended condolences on the passing of Guyanese musician and music educator, Mr. Derry Etkins. According to local media reports, Etkins passed away...

GPOC announces early pension payment for June

May 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GPOC announces early pension payment for June

The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) has announced that the payment of Old Age Pension for June 2020 will begin on Thursday, May 28, 2020, at all Post Offices countrywide. The GPOC disclosed...

We need an inclusive think-tank to chart a course for the future

May 25, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need an inclusive think-tank to chart a course for the future

After the dust is settled and we have a government, whether legitimate or not, as only half the people in our country will agree that the results would have been fair, we need to ask ourselves, what...

‘My Bones and My Flute’ to be aired on VOG

May 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘My Bones and My Flute’ to be aired on VOG

– as part of 54th Independence Anniversary Celebrations As part of our Calendar of Activities for Guyana’s 54th Independence Anniversary celebrations, the Government of Guyana will be hosting...

The APNU+AFC losing the battle because of their insults

May 25, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The APNU+AFC losing the battle because of their insults

In one of my columns (Saturday, May 16, 2020, “Someone has to advise APNU+AFC leadership not to talk”), I opined that APNU+AFC leaders should just shut up and hope that their surrogates in...

Any provision of evidence to GECOM should be time-bond

May 25, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Any provision of evidence to GECOM should be time-bond

Dear Editor The invitation to present evidence in keeping with ‘who asserts must prove’ has to be time bound. It cannot be open ended. But with the twenty five days timeline running out and the...

Bartica buckles down as first COVID-19 case hits home

May 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica buckles down as first COVID-19 case hits home

Mayor of Bartica, Gifford Marshall confirmed on Friday that the mining town has recorded its first novel coronavirus (COVID-19) case. Despite five cases recently recorded in Cuyuni-Mazaruni (Region...

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The coalition is creating a false narrative to discredit the 2020 election Histories are narratives that people construct in order to decipher the meaning of past events. The extent to which those...

GECOM has a responsibility to inform Guyanese as events unfold

May 25, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM has a responsibility to inform Guyanese as events unfold

Dear Editor: Having observed the varying perspectives put forward by the political parties as to what the National Recount exercise entails, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has the...

GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…Her eyes are red, her face as pale as the full moon

May 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…Her eyes are red, her face as pale as the full moon

BY Michael Jordan HE WAS in bed, staring at the moonlit window, when he saw the face. It came floating up like a full moon rising above the horizon; the face of a red-eyed, ancient woman who was...

Our nation is going through challenging times and God is watching

May 25, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our nation is going through challenging times and God is watching

Dear Editor, I write this letter hoping that it will get the attention of our President, members of his party, the opposition, GECOM officials and all others who have an input in the solution to our...

The silence of the Christian community is conspicuous

May 25, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The silence of the Christian community is conspicuous

Dear Editor, I commend the courage of a handful of Christians in Guyana who have taken a stand to call out Mr. Granger’s transgressions regarding the attempts to scuttle the electoral process....

Harry Hergash’ response to Dr. Hinds contains its own inaccuracies

May 25, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Harry Hergash’ response to Dr. Hinds contains its own inaccuracies

Dear Editor Editor, reference is made to a letter by one Harry Hergash, “David Hinds presents a skewed perspective on electoral rigging” (Kaieteurs News, May 24, 2020). In this letter, the author...

I apologise for the sole error in my letter, but stand by what I said about David Granger

May 25, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on I apologise for the sole error in my letter, but stand by what I said about David Granger

Dear Editor, David Granger’s “ Ministry of the Presidency” has demanded of me and the media that has published my letter of May 22nd, an apology for what they claim are “several untruths and...

Resist, rethink, and rebuild these deals with foreign exploiters

May 25, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Resist, rethink, and rebuild these deals with foreign exploiters

The latest blast to strike Guyanese was last week’s news that Guyana Goldfields is scheduled to terminate 160 of its workers. This could not have come at a worse time with businesses shuttered and...

EXPOSÉ… US firm revising Guyana’s oil laws registered as ExxonMobil’s lobbyist

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on EXPOSÉ… US firm revising Guyana’s oil laws registered as ExxonMobil’s lobbyist

By Kiana Wilburg The company that was chosen by the Energy Department to revise Guyana’s outdated oil laws is no ordinary creature. In the USA, Hunton, Andrews, Kurth LLP is a goliath which...

Recounted Grove, Providence Boxes expose more of Mingo’s manipulation

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Recounted Grove, Providence Boxes expose more of Mingo’s manipulation

By Kemol King The National Recount has unearthed more evidence of manipulation of Region Four numbers by Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo. Yesterday’s Grove and Providence, East Bank boxes takes...

It’s court’s jurisdiction to probe election irregularities, not GECOM- Nandlall

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on It’s court’s jurisdiction to probe election irregularities, not GECOM- Nandlall

Former Attorney General and executive of the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C), Anil Nandlall, believes that it is out of the jurisdiction of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to...

Coalition’s claim about “dead voter” debunked

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition’s claim about “dead voter” debunked

By Shikema Dey Chitnandani Ramdass, a Region Two woman who died on June 6, 2015 and whom the APNU+AFC Coalition alleged to have been ticked off as having voted at the March 2, 2020 polls has in fact...

Mob beats worker, loots and destroys shop of murder-accused businessman

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mob beats worker, loots and destroys shop of murder-accused businessman

A group of angry persons from Puruni Landing, Mazaruni River, Region Seven reportedly stormed into the shop of murder accused businessman, Junior France, assaulted his worker, looted his goods before...

Guyana to benefit from UK’s US$3.8M for COVID-19

May 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to benefit from UK’s US$3.8M for COVID-19

The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) is contributing $796.4 million (US$3.8M) to the Pan American Health Organization to help eight countries in the region contain...

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