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Probe and expel compromised faction in GECOM to restore public confidence – ANUG urges in complaint to GECOM Chair

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Probe and expel compromised faction in GECOM to restore public confidence – ANUG urges in complaint to GECOM Chair

By Kemol King A New and United Guyana (ANUG) has written the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), ret’d Justice Claudette Singh, asking for an investigation into the GECOM Secretariat,...

Oil-rich Papua New Guinea gets US$363M from IMF for COVID-19

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Oil-rich Papua New Guinea gets US$363M from IMF for COVID-19

– but loses more annually to corruption Papua New Guinea has made billions of dollars on its oil and gas resources since the 1990s. But instead of saving that money for a rainy or for...

U.S Secretary of State calls for quick, credible conclusion of elections recount

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on U.S Secretary of State calls for quick, credible conclusion of elections recount

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called for a “quick and credible conclusion” to the final recount of the votes cast on March 2 at Guyana’s General and Regional Elections. The...

Protection of State assets among key issues in PPP meeting with Top Cop

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Protection of State assets among key issues in PPP meeting with Top Cop

A high-level team from the Opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday met with Police Commissioner, Leslie James to discuss issues of “national importance”, key among them being the...

Heavy rains wash away Linden/Lethem bypass road

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Heavy rains wash away Linden/Lethem bypass road

─ traffic diverted through Nappi The bypass along the Manari Creek, adjacent to the Linden-Lethem road has been rendered impassable after it was partially washed away as a result of Monday...

Bandit shot dead, accomplice captured after robbing Wismar businessman – gun, cash recovered

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit shot dead, accomplice captured after robbing Wismar businessman – gun, cash recovered

A 22-year-old bandit was shot dead yesterday afternoon, shortly after he and an accomplice had gun-butted and robbed a businessman at One Mile, Wismar. Police said that Kevin Baston, of 161 First...

Man’s body found with plastic bag tied over head

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man’s body found with plastic bag tied over head

Police are trying to ascertain the identity of a man whose body, with a plastic bag tied over his head, was retrieved from a trench at Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara. The discovery was made on...

Ground-breaking CCJ ruling gives more protection to regional manufacturers

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ground-breaking CCJ ruling gives more protection to regional manufacturers

In a judgment released yesterday, the Trinidad-headquartered Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) upheld the decision of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) to raise the tariff on...

Cover up and clean up tekkin place

Jun 11, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cover up and clean up tekkin place

Dem boys like listen to de Market Venda – the Bajan man who does talk he mind pun Capital Media H.D 99.3. De Market Venda confuse as to how de election recount dun and results nah declare yet. Dem...

Schools should not be reopened so soon

Jun 11, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Schools should not be reopened so soon

A woman who has two grandchildren writing the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) next month has made it clear that they will not be attending school when it opens on Monday. She said the students...

GuySuCo land sales proceeds to help cash-strapped entity – Finance Ministry

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo land sales proceeds to help cash-strapped entity – Finance Ministry

Cash-strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) which says it is running out of money and may have to close its three remaining estates unless it receives a cash injection quickly, is likely to get...

CARICOM – time for its scrutineers to step forward

Jun 11, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on CARICOM – time for its scrutineers to step forward

The word and stand from the Coalition leadership represent a high-risk gamble. Notwithstanding the pivotal role of GECOM, all of the Coalition’s eggs relative to the recount have been placed in the...

NBTS mobile unit collects 1000 units of blood

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NBTS mobile unit collects 1000 units of blood

The National Blood Transfusion Services (NBTS) Mobile Connection Unit has collected approximately 1000 units of blood since its first drive on May 13. NBTS’s Director, Dr. Pedro Lewis told Kaieteur...

Tourism Recovery Action Committee established

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Tourism Recovery Action Committee established

The Department of Tourism in the Ministry of Business has collaborated with the Guyana Tourism Authority, the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana and the Small Business Bureau to organise...

UN donates furniture, appliances for coronavirus quarantine facilities

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on UN donates furniture, appliances for coronavirus quarantine facilities

The United Nations (UN) System provided the Ministry of Public Health with items to support the quality of stay of patients in Coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine facilities. Reclining chairs, coffee...

Police remind minibus operators of COVID-19 measures

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Police remind minibus operators of COVID-19 measures

The Education Department of the Traffic Headquarters yesterday visited several minibus parks around downtown Georgetown ensuring drivers and conductors adhere to the COVID-19 emergency measures, in...

Bus driver charged with causing death of Lusignan woman

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bus driver charged with causing death of Lusignan woman

Three weeks after a 20-year-old woman was killed in an accident on the Rupert Craig Highway, East Coast Demerara, an unlicensed minibus driver was on Monday charged with causing her death. The...

Canal Number Two man drowns in conservancy

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Canal Number Two man drowns in conservancy

A 45-year-old man drowned after he went swimming at the Canal #2 Conservancy Dam, West Bank Demerara on Monday last. Police said that Orwin Durga of Polder Canal #2 WBD had reportedly left his home...

Cops seek to secure DNA evidence in Linden double murder

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cops seek to secure DNA evidence in Linden double murder

Police are seeking to obtain DNA evidence in connection with the murder of Imogene Gordon, 49, and carpenter Royston John, 43, who were knifed to death at Wismar, Linden three months ago. A senior...

Remains of children who vanished in 2019 found on Chad Daybell’s property: Prosecutor

Jun 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Remains of children who vanished in 2019 found on Chad Daybell’s property: Prosecutor

(ABC News) Officials announced yesterday that Chad Daybell, the husband of an Idaho mother suspected in her kids’ months-long disappearance, has been charged with two felony counts of...

USC graduate Chance encourages student-athletes to keep striving

Jun 11, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on USC graduate Chance encourages student-athletes to keep striving

By Calvin Chapman National men’s 400m indoor record holder, Arinze Chance, who is one of the few Guyanese student-athletes in the USA, graduated this week with honours from the University of South...

The Chronicle: People’s Power, No Dictator

Jun 11, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Chronicle: People’s Power, No Dictator

This column should have been done for Saturday. That is the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Walter Rodney. I haven’t got a clue why I am publishing it three days before June 13. Maybe it...

With Promises to Keep

Jun 11, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on With Promises to Keep

DEAR EDITOR, More Jobs! 30,000 Jobs on offer!! It is not clear which job market is being proposed. It is a reasonable guess; however, that it would be in the Public Sector, if not specific to the...

The seriousness of the GuySuCo situation

Jun 11, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The seriousness of the GuySuCo situation

DEAR EDITOR, I cannot say I am surprised to learn that the GuySuCo is out of finance and could soon face closure unless something is done to address the lingering matter. My own interactions with...

Counting on Bank of Guyana

Jun 11, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Counting on Bank of Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, The bank, of which I was a member since its establishment in this country, has just peremptorily advised that my cheques would no longer be honoured if the payee is not also a member....

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The GRA is batting out of its crease

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again demonstrated a perplexing propensity... more