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US Senate Foreign Relations Committee calls on Granger to concede

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US Senate Foreign Relations Committee calls on Granger to concede

– Says recount results should be declared and transition begun The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee is calling on President David Granger to concede, since his party, the APNU+AFC...

Energy Dep’t selects everal tainted oil traders to market Guyana’s oil

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Energy Dep’t selects everal tainted oil traders to market Guyana’s oil

By Mikaila Prince The Department of Energy (DoE) has shortlisted 19 oil traders out of 35 applicants to market Guyana’s share of its light sweet crude from the Liza Destiny Floating Production...

Lowenfield says I acted in conformity with the law but cites no provisions

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield says I acted in conformity with the law but cites no provisions

Submission of third report on elections results… In attempt to defend his actions as it relates to the submitting an elections results report to the commission, Chief Elections Officer (CEO) of the...

$74M added to $278M bid was for additional works- Public Infrastructure

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $74M added to $278M bid was for additional works- Public Infrastructure

BK’s $352M sea defence project… By Mikaila Prince The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MoPI) has defended a decision to pay Brian Tiwari’s BK International Incorporated an additional $74M to...

Interest on Natural Resource Fund suffers blow due to COVID-19

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Interest on Natural Resource Fund suffers blow due to COVID-19

Quarterly report reveals… In an effort to temper the economic blows of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York which holds Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund (NRF) has lowered its...

Prime lands development behind Houston; residents kept in dark

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Prime lands development behind Houston; residents kept in dark

Residents of Plantation Houston Estates/Houston Gardens say that it appears as if key details of re-development plans for acres of prime lands behind them are deliberately being withheld. These...

Coalition backs Lowenfield’s alternate numbers

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition backs Lowenfield’s alternate numbers

– Says he answers to no one but Constitution The David Granger-led A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Coalition has thrown their support behind the alternative...

The Gamesmanship must end

Jun 27, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Gamesmanship must end

The Guyanese people are being held to ransom because of the palpable failure of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). This is particularly true in respect to the failure of GECOM’s Secretariat...

Reopening – cautiously, gradually, wisely

Jun 27, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Reopening – cautiously, gradually, wisely

We think that, other than the hotspots of Regions 1 and 7, implementation of a phased reopen should be readied now. It is not premature to think of reopening slowly, gradually, cautiously. A...

Declaration should be made on recount without delay – Mandela founded group

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Declaration should be made on recount without delay – Mandela founded group

The Elders, an international organization of public figures, has said that an electoral declaration based on the recount should be made without delay. This it tweeted yesterday, noting that nearly...

Guyana records another 15 COVID-19 cases, total now at 230

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana records another 15 COVID-19 cases, total now at 230

Guyana now has a total of 230 recorded COVID-19 cases; the country yesterday saw an increase of 15 new cases from a total of 68 tests. According to the Ministry of Public Health’s daily update, a...

Brutally assaulted Cummings Lodge woman rescued by neighbours

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Brutally assaulted Cummings Lodge woman rescued by neighbours

By Sueann Wickham A 56-year-old Cummings Lodge woman who was last Saturday brutally assaulted by a female relative has been rescued by neighbours. According to Madonna Ghanie, President of Mommy’s...

Hindu Dharmic Sabha urges respect for democracy, declaration that respects will of the people

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Hindu Dharmic Sabha urges respect for democracy, declaration that respects will of the people

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha has joined calls for the Government of Guyana to respect democracy and allow declaration of the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections that respects the will of...

City Mayor introduces rates and taxes amnesty for rest of year

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on City Mayor introduces rates and taxes amnesty for rest of year

City Mayor, Ubraj Narine, announced that individuals and businesses will not be required to pay rates and taxes for the rest of the year. The Mayor explained that the Mayor and City Council...

Teen charged with murder of pregnant girlfriend who drowned in Berbice River

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Teen charged with murder of pregnant girlfriend who drowned in Berbice River

The 19-year-old man of DeVeldt Village, Upper Berbice River and of Smithfield New Amsterdam was yesterday remanded to prison for the murder of his 17-year-old girlfriend. Dequan Abrams was charged...

Suriname coalition partners say they will examine a pardon for Bouterse

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname coalition partners say they will examine a pardon for Bouterse

Suriname (CMC) –The leader of the Progressive Reform Party (VHP), Chandrikapersad Santokhi, says if a petition for a pardon for President Desi Bouterse comes before the planned coalition...

Suspect confesses to gunning down construction worker during Agricola vendetta

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Suspect confesses to gunning down construction worker during Agricola vendetta

– slain man’s girlfriend, others also in custody An Agricola resident who was charged last year for shooting off a piece of another man’s ear has reportedly confessed to gunning down Kitty...

Cops detain driver, impound car believed to be involved in Enmore hit and run

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cops detain driver, impound car believed to be involved in Enmore hit and run

Police have impounded a car and arrested its driver for the alleged involvement in a hit and run accident at Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD), which claimed the life of one teen and left another...

Farmer remanded on gun, ammo charges

Jun 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Farmer remanded on gun, ammo charges

A Berbice man was on Thursday remanded to prison for allegedly having in his possession an illegal firearm and ammunition. The defendant, Cloyd Davis, 59, a farmer of Limlair Village, Corentyne,...

Vieira continues to impress in Canada

Jun 27, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Vieira continues to impress in Canada

Guyanese Elliot Vieira stormed the front row of the SOAR (Southern Ontario Association of Racing) championships and snagged his second chequered flag in as many weekends as superbike action continued...

CWI head Skerritt reported to CWI Ethics Committee

Jun 27, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on CWI head Skerritt reported to CWI Ethics Committee

President of Cricket West Indies (CWI) Ricky Skerritt could find himself before the CWI Ethics Committee after a report was submitted to the body accusing him of breaches of the CWI Code of Ethics as...

Lo Lo has become a pathetic sight

Jun 27, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Lo Lo has become a pathetic sight

GECOM CEO Keith Lowenfield, after months of lying low while he does his nonsense, has issued a statement saying he is not bound to accept the instruction of the Commission. It is obvious, Lo Lo has...

The hypocrisy that has unravelled in the past days

Jun 27, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The hypocrisy that has unravelled in the past days

DEAR EDITOR, Since the General and Regional Elections began, we have seen all sorts of dramas unfold by the various stakeholders contesting the elections. Not only have dramas unfolded but the...

Solidarity Within

Jun 27, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Solidarity Within

DEAR EDITOR, It was refreshing to read of His Excellency’s recent speech to the new Military Officers. He emphasized the importance of solidarity and the protection of our country. The current...

Dismissal for good and sufficient cause

Jun 27, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dismissal for good and sufficient cause

DEAR EDITOR, Guyana’s labour laws provide for summary dismissal from employment by the employer for good and sufficient cause relating to an employee’s conduct and performance on the job. Good...

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Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more