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GPL’s $63M truck can be picked up for less than $25M

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GPL’s $63M truck can be picked up for less than $25M

News that the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) paid $587M for eight bucket trucks, with the bulk of the money transferred this week to the supplier, has raised deep concerns. These concerns were not...

Ramjattan privately concedes loss in meeting with unit heads

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ramjattan privately concedes loss in meeting with unit heads

– but next day publicly maintains elections not credible By Mikaila Prince De facto Minister of Public Security and Prime Ministerial hopeful, Khemraj Ramjattan, conceded the loss of the...

“I can no longer wait quietly and politely while our country gets hijacked, ridiculed and torn apart.”

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “I can no longer wait quietly and politely while our country gets hijacked, ridiculed and torn apart.”

– calls Lowenfield’s report ‘devious’ The Alliance for Change (AFC)’s Hans Dominic Gaskin made an extensive Facebook post yesterday, in which he condemned attempts by the...

Justice For All Party concedes, swear in Irfaan Ali

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Justice For All Party concedes, swear in Irfaan Ali

Pull quote: “It has been an exhausting 108 days for all the sons and daughters of this Nation. Enough is enough I say! It is time for Guyana to move on!” Leader of the Justice For All Party...

Court case to block Lowenfield’s report adjourned to today – PPP, other parties join action

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Court case to block Lowenfield’s report adjourned to today – PPP, other parties join action

The Court of Appeal yesterday handed down an order which effectively added the names of several political parties to the action filed by Eslyn David to block Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM)’s...

GECOM Chair asks Court to throw out case against Lowenfield’s report

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM Chair asks Court to throw out case against Lowenfield’s report

By Shikema Dey “The court should not be asked to act in vain. Even if the court grants the orders sought, what is the next position? Can this court direct GECOM what to decide? Can this court order...

Int’l Lawyer writes World Bank over ExxonMobil’s flaring

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Int’l Lawyer writes World Bank over ExxonMobil’s flaring

By Kiana Wilburg International lawyer, Melinda Janki, along with transparency advocate Ramon Gaskin and chartered Accountants Anand Goolsarran and Nigel Hinds, have written the World Bank over...

Elderly woman jumps from burning building to save life – Arson suspected

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Elderly woman jumps from burning building to save life – Arson suspected

A 61-year-old female resident of the St. Vivient Woman’s Home jumped from the top flat of the building in an attempt to save herself from a fire that started in a section of the building. The...

Four-day ban on drone use over city

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Four-day ban on drone use over city

GCCA’s Field cites national security, while Ramjattan says also for political reasons The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has ordered a four-day ban on the operation of Unmanned Aerial...

Some big ones buy time to clean up

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Some big ones buy time to clean up

Dem Boys Seh.. Dem boys thinking about selling trucks. Based pun wha dem boys see in de Waterfalls paper yesterday, selling trucks to de government is both easy and fast money. The Guyana Power...

Judging a gift horse

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Judging a gift horse

The departure time was nearing. The waiting area leading to our departure gate was already filled up with passengers. I had been here for sometime but had not spoken a word to the gentleman sitting...

IMF’s 53 % growth rate for Guyana “overly ambitious” – Local Analyst

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on IMF’s 53 % growth rate for Guyana “overly ambitious” – Local Analyst

By: Shivanie Rampersaud June 19, 2020 The International Monetary FUND (IMF) in its 2019 Article IV Report on Guyana had projected that the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for 2020...

The coalition is recklessly playing with fire

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The coalition is recklessly playing with fire

The coalition is recklessly playing with fire and it is going to get Guyana severely burnt, which means the ordinary citizen feeling most of the scorching heat. Its leader, care taker President David...

Lowenfield’s conduct demonstrates prejudice in favour of coalition – GCCI President

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield’s conduct demonstrates prejudice in favour of coalition – GCCI President

The President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Nicholas Deygoo-Boyer has written the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Justice Claudette Singh to inform her of...

Fire leaves six homeless

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fire leaves six homeless

A fire of unknown origin gutted this house late yesterday afternoon at Lot 328 Sachibazaar and Rohinital Streets, Prashad Nagar, Georgetown. Firefighters responded quickly and were able to contain...

Religious bodies urge Granger to concede with “grace and dignity”

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Religious bodies urge Granger to concede with “grace and dignity”

The members of the Centre for Inter-Religious Dialogue, in a press release yesterday, are calling on President David Granger to concede these elections with grace and dignity. This release came after...

Theorizing on the putsch in Guyana

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Theorizing on the putsch in Guyana

In two previous columns, I argued that the rigging of the 2020 election could be interpreted as a putsch. In my piece of Wednesday, March 18, 2020, titled, “Deadly power struggle inside the PNC,”...

BOI still to be completed for Camp Stephenson explosion

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on BOI still to be completed for Camp Stephenson explosion

One month after the death of three members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) during a massive pyrotechnics explosion at Camp Stephenson, Timehri, the Board of Inquiry (BOI) into the circumstances...

ICJ to decide on jurisdiction of the Guyana/Venezuela Border dispute

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ICJ to decide on jurisdiction of the Guyana/Venezuela Border dispute

– Venezuela refuses to submit arguments to court – says Court has no jurisdiction On June 30th 2020 the International Court of Justice ICJ will begin its public hearings on the question...

Boyfriend in custody after teen’s disfigured body fished out of Berbice River

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Boyfriend in custody after teen’s disfigured body fished out of Berbice River

The lifeless and unrecognizable body of teenager Melissa “Lisa” Soman of Lot 58 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, Berbice was fished out of the Berbice River on Thursday June 18th around 15:00 hrs....

The beauty of Guyanese politics

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The beauty of Guyanese politics

DEAR EDITOR, If this was many moons ago the masses would tell a tale of Guyanese politics that was very ugly indeed. Armed conflict, lack of patience and anger on both sides of the aisle. Today the...

Murdered Tain Grandma died from strangulation, blunt trauma to the head

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Murdered Tain Grandma died from strangulation, blunt trauma to the head

– two more arrested Investigators working on the alleged murder of 83-year-old pensioner Chandradai Bhudu of Lot 83 Tain Settlement have managed to arrest two more persons in connection with...

Vatican appoints Guyanese priest as bishop in Jamaica

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Vatican appoints Guyanese priest as bishop in Jamaica

The Vatican yesterday announced that Pope Francis has appointed Father John Derek Persaud, a Diocesan Priest of the Diocese of Georgetown, Guyana, as the Bishop of Mandeville, Jamaica. “Fr. John is...

NIS encourages more employers to take advantage of amnesty offer

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on NIS encourages more employers to take advantage of amnesty offer

DEAR EDITOR, On May 14, 2020 the National Insurance Scheme issued a Press Release offering amnesty on contribution payment owing at January 15, 2020 to May 15, 2020. The amnesty was one of the...

GTT rolls out Blaze service in East Bank Demerara areas

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on GTT rolls out Blaze service in East Bank Demerara areas

DEAR EDITOR, Residents and businesses within the Green Acres Providence, East Bank Demerara area can now apply for GTT’s Blaze service. According to GTT’s Product Lead of Fixed Broadband...

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A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more