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‘Get it over with’ – says EU Observer Mission

Jun 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Get it over with’ – says EU Observer Mission

The Electoral Observer Mission of the European Union (EU EOM) said yesterday that it trusts the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to expeditiously conclude the electoral process using the data from...

Exxon’s flaring reduced, production up at Liza 1 – EPA Head

Jun 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon’s flaring reduced, production up at Liza 1 – EPA Head

Head of the Environmental Production Agency (EPA), Dr. Vincent Adams, confirmed yesterday that ExxonMobil has been able to significantly cut back on the gas it has been burning since last Christmas...

Tain grandma found bound and strangled in home – two held

Jun 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Tain grandma found bound and strangled in home – two held

By Malisa Playter Harry Eighty-three year old Chandradai Bhudu, called ‘Aunty Deyo’ was yesterday morning found bound, gagged and strangled in the two story home at Tain Settlement, Corentyne,...

Security firm’s gate keeper arrested for threatening video – Company weapons seized

Jun 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Security firm’s gate keeper arrested for threatening video – Company weapons seized

Police yesterday arrested a former security guard who had posed with a cache of firearms in a widely circulated video on social media, in which he appeared to incite violence. Police said that they...

Next Steps towards Swearing in

Jun 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Next Steps towards Swearing in

By Ruel Johnson On Tuesday, GECOM Chair Claudette Singh directed Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield to prepare and submit a report “pursuant to article 177(2)(b) of the Constitution and...

Curfew remains except for Region 5,8 only

Jun 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Curfew remains except for Region 5,8 only

– Citizens allowed 90 minutes exercise in open spaces – NCTF With no new COVID-19 cases recorded yesterday and 102 recoveries, the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) announced the...

Sir Shridath Ramphal reminds Granger of Caricom’s legitimacy

Jun 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Sir Shridath Ramphal reminds Granger of Caricom’s legitimacy

Sir Shridath Ramphal has reminded President Granger about how he emphatically regarded CARICOM as “the most legitimate interlocutor on the Guyana situation”, following the pronouncement of its...

PSC calls on Granger to concede

Jun 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PSC calls on Granger to concede

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) issued a call on de facto President and Leader of the A Partnership For National Unity (APNU+AFC) David Granger to “concede” to the results of the March 2,...

Two confess to killing victim with a hammer

Jun 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two confess to killing victim with a hammer

Body with plastic bag over head… Lured by an offer of a drink, construction worker Andy Williams went to a house at De Willem Squatting Area, West Coast Demerara on June 6, where he was beaten to...

HAP-New gat man leffin woman

Jun 18, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on HAP-New gat man leffin woman

Dem Boys Seh… During de partial lockdown, de wife of a man named David call he and put he fuh sit down. She tell he dat life short and is time is tun to de Lord. She ask he fuh get baptized since...

Blow her mind!

Jun 18, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Blow her mind!

I met a friend a few days ago. He looked all stressed out. I asked him what was the problem, and he replied that he just could not decide what to give his partner as a gift. Here was a guy who was...

Several Region Nine communities on evacuation watch list due to severe flooding

Jun 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Several Region Nine communities on evacuation watch list due to severe flooding

Several Region Nine communities have been severely hit by severe flooding due to heavy rainfall and are currently being prepared for a possible evacuation. Town Clerk of Lethem, Keisha Vincent said...

Returning to normalcy

Jun 18, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Returning to normalcy

Returning to some state of normalcy here is going to be a severe challenge. Though we wish for it, some level of normalcy returning quickly suffers from more than the usual post-elections fears and...

“Dive and shoot” remanded for allegedly trafficking $110M worth narcotics

Jun 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “Dive and shoot” remanded for allegedly trafficking $110M worth narcotics

After evading the police for almost two years, 44-year-old boat captain, Farook Baksh, called ‘Dive and Shoot’ of Mon Repos North, East Coast Demerara, was on Monday remanded to prison for...

Teen killed after struck by car

Jun 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Teen killed after struck by car

A teenage boy was on Tuesday afternoon killed in an accident on Delph Avenue, Campbellville, after being struck by a car while riding a motorcycle. The teen has been identified as 18-year-old Elijah...

Palms celebrates as three elderly residents beat COVID -19

Jun 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Palms celebrates as three elderly residents beat COVID -19

The elderly are known to be among the most vulnerable in the fight against COVID 19. However, yesterday three residents of the Palms Geriatric Home celebrated their incredible journey of recovering...

GFF President Forde donates blood to observe World Blood Donor Day 2020

Jun 18, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF President Forde donates blood to observe World Blood Donor Day 2020

Georgetown: President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Wayne Forde, donated one unit of blood to the National Blood Transfusion Service as part of World Blood Donor Day observance. The day...

Seven miners from Aranka District among twelve new cases of COVID -19

Jun 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Seven miners from Aranka District among twelve new cases of COVID -19

Miners from Aranka District, Cuyuni Mazaruni are among the twelve persons who tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday last. Kaieteur News confirmed that a team from the Health Emergency Operations...

Seon Glasgow aims to become 3rd Test player from Blairmont Joining Fredericks & Bess

Jun 18, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Seon Glasgow aims to become 3rd Test player from Blairmont Joining Fredericks & Bess

By Sean Devers Eighteen-year-old batting all-rounder Seon Glasgow has played for Berbice and Guyana at Under-15, 17 and 19 level and has been playing for West Berbice the Guyana Cricket Board...

KMPA Foundation launches Radio Station

Jun 18, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on KMPA Foundation launches Radio Station

The KMPA Foundation through its founder Andy Medas-King has indicated that they launched a radio station over the weekend. The KMPA radio station can be accessed by visiting their website...

Had David Hinds become psychotically racist?

Jun 18, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Had David Hinds become psychotically racist?

Did you listen to the words of David Hinds in the midst of a raging continuation of white paranoia against non-White in which born Americans, who are not white, are being told to go back to their...

A nation still waits for justice to be served!

Jun 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A nation still waits for justice to be served!

DEAR EDITOR, Forty years may have elapsed since the sorrowful departure of a great son of Guyana’s soil. But his memory lives on in the struggle for real freedom, justice and equality. During this...

Archer receives Academic All-American award

Jun 18, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Archer receives Academic All-American award

Following a successful 2019 season when the Monroe College Mustangs made history by landing five of just 14 total student-athletes on the first-ever College Sports Information Directors of America...

Dialogue is the way forward

Jun 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dialogue is the way forward

DEAR EDITOR, I had the opportunity of listening and watching politicians on the election 2020 campaign trail. The world’s number one citizen, the late Nelson Mandela, said in three of his Quotes....

A government for all is needed

Jun 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A government for all is needed

DEAR EDITOR, As a young Guyanese having observed the 2020 electoral process, which took over approximately 100 days, this nation still awaits the official declaration from GECOM to conclude. Many...

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Sammy to be appointed as West Indies Senior Men’s Head Coach for all formats

The oil industry is a casino of cash, power and corruption

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in her book, Blowout: “The oil and gas industry... more