June 2020

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South America U-23 Championships doubtful this year

Jun 24, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on South America U-23 Championships doubtful this year

In January this year, the head of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Aubrey Hutson, had confirmed with Kaieteur Sport that Guyana will be hosting the ninth edition of the biennial South...

Elections traumas and nightmares continue

Jun 24, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Elections traumas and nightmares continue

What is going on here? Why is it that when Guyanese expect the Solomonic they end up with more of the hypnotic? When will the national coma end? Will it ever end, this political vegetative state? As...

Roger Harper has shown anti-Guyanese prejudice in the non-selection of Verasammy Permaul

Jun 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Roger Harper has shown anti-Guyanese prejudice in the non-selection of Verasammy Permaul

Dear Sir, Kindly allow me some space in your newspaper for this letter. After the uproar caused by the omission of Verasammy Permaul from the West Indies team to tour England for a three test series,...

The Coalition has abused the courts for superfluous cases

Jun 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Coalition has abused the courts for superfluous cases

Dear Editor, Ever since the quest to find a legally acceptable chairman for GECOM, Guyanese who have followed the happenings in and out of courts would have either been edified or confused by the...

Reforming GECOM should be the top priority of the next government

Jun 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Reforming GECOM should be the top priority of the next government

Dear Editor It was good for many of us to read the Caricom Observers’ recent recommendation about reforming the structure of the Guyana Elections Commission. It is in fact quite supportive of the...

Despite what was brought before the court, some words still have their basic meaning

Jun 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Despite what was brought before the court, some words still have their basic meaning

Dear editor, There are still a number of Guyanese professionals with excellent legal brains despite the brain drain and the passing of a number of legal luminaries. Resorting to the Caribbean Court...

Lowenfield submits report giving APNU+AFC one seat majority -Dumped 115,000 votes

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield submits report giving APNU+AFC one seat majority -Dumped 115,000 votes

Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield has submitted a report to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) which would hand the victory in the March 2 polls to the APNU+AFC coalition, giving it a...

BREAKING NEWS!!! PPP asks CCJ to strike down Appeal Court’s ruling

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on BREAKING NEWS!!! PPP asks CCJ to strike down Appeal Court’s ruling

Following a ruling of the Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday which would allow the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to calculate the results of the elections based on “valid votes”, the...

Appeal Court rules Lowenfield must calculate election results based on valid votes

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Appeal Court rules Lowenfield must calculate election results based on valid votes

In a majority decision, the Court of Appeal yesterday ruled that the Chief Elections Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Elections Commission Keith Lowenfield must determine the results of the election based...

GPL says no money paid to contractor; purchase order says otherwise

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GPL says no money paid to contractor; purchase order says otherwise

$587M bucket trucks… State- owned company, the Guyana Power & Light Incorporated (GPL), in response to an article published last week by Kaieteur News, says that it has not yet made any...

Understaffed and underfunded EPA will always be at ExxonMobil’s mercy-Conservationist

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Understaffed and underfunded EPA will always be at ExxonMobil’s mercy-Conservationist

By Kiana Wilburg Guyana has been an oil-producing state for over six months yet the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which is tasked with ensuring ExxonMobil’s operations are not a clear and...

Cop among two arrested for Friendship robbery

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cop among two arrested for Friendship robbery

A police rank is among two persons detained in connection with a robbery that took place on June 19 at Friendship, East Coast Demerara (ECD). The robbery took place at around 20:00 hrs at a snackette...

Nothing stopping GECOM from making declaration now – Jagdeo

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Nothing stopping GECOM from making declaration now – Jagdeo

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo is of the view that, following yesterday’s Court of Appeal ruling, there is nothing preventing the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from moving ahead and...

Task Force announces mining halt in specific areas

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Task Force announces mining halt in specific areas

Region 1 records 18 new COVID-19 cases… – more checkpoints, increased screening in hinterland Guyana yesterday recorded 21 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours taking the total amount to...

De court try to confuse de whole Guyana

Jun 23, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De court try to confuse de whole Guyana

Dem boys seh… Yesterday’s Court of Appeal session on elections nah change nuttin. At least dat is wha dem boys believe after dem listen to dem three judges. De David gal who file de motion to de...

The valid votes have already been determined

Jun 23, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The valid votes have already been determined

The Court of Appeal has ruled by a 2-1 majority that it has the jurisdiction to interpret the Constitution in relation to the election of a President, under Article 177(4) of the Constitution. This...

Enmore teen killed, cousin critical in hit-and-run

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Enmore teen killed, cousin critical in hit-and-run

A 16-year-old lad was killed and his cousin, 14, hospitalised after they were reportedly struck down on the Enmore Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD). The dead teen was identified as Sheldon...

IDB donates US$750,000 to support CARPHA’s COVID-19 response in the Caribbean

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on IDB donates US$750,000 to support CARPHA’s COVID-19 response in the Caribbean

The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) received a grant of US$750,000 from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to support the agency’s COVID-19 response in the Caribbean region. The...

“Be a true leader, concede and let our country move forward”

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “Be a true leader, concede and let our country move forward”

– Arya Samaj Community to President Granger Yet another entity is calling for President David Granger to concede and admit the APNU+AFC coalition was defeated in the March 2 polls. The Arya Samaj...

We need a reset

Jun 23, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on We need a reset

Guyana needs to restart right away. We, all of us, need to start living again. After a long season of the most devastating storms, the hope is that the needed calm comes and comforts us in this...

Ship “arrested” in Trini’s waters after Guyana’s court warrant

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ship “arrested” in Trini’s waters after Guyana’s court warrant

Trinidad (newsday.co.tt) -A HIGH Court judge has set $1.8 million bail for the release of a ship that was arrested in TT waters. Justice Frank Seepersad on Monday granted an order, setting bail for...

Two hospitalized in Corentyne shooting incident

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two hospitalized in Corentyne shooting incident

– one suspect in custody The Guyana Police Force in Berbice is investigating the alleged shooting of two males that resulted in them being hospitalised at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital with...

Parika smash-up… Bikers were seen riding recklessly

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Parika smash-up… Bikers were seen riding recklessly

New evidence reach this paper indicates that the bikers involved in the horrific Father’s Day smash-up at Parika, East Bank Essequibo were riding recklessly shortly before the accident. Based on a...

Pregnant teen fished out of Berbice River died from drowning, blunt trauma to head

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pregnant teen fished out of Berbice River died from drowning, blunt trauma to head

Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh has determined that Berbice teen, Melissa Soman, died from drowning compounded by blunt trauma to the head. The post mortem examination carried out on the body...

Man stabbed to death parting fight

Jun 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man stabbed to death parting fight

A man was stabbed to death on Sunday after he intervened in a fight between a Brazilian miner and his reputed wife. The man whose, only name was given as ‘Rakesh’ of Mahaicony, East Coast...

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Kaieteur Sports – President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Wayne Forde, has announced that Guyana’s Junior Jaguars will participate in the inaugural FIFA Global U-15 Boys...

Income tax thresholds

Jun 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The government has done it again. It has indicated that workers can look forward to an increased income tax threshold of $200,000 by the end of the decade. One Facebook comment hit the nail on the head. It urged the government to file for intellectual bankruptcy. Increasing the...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

Jun 14, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

Churches as moral compass

Jun 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – President Ali got that one right. Institutions such as churches have a duty to function as “society’s moral compass.” I couldn’t agree more with the president. Commend him. More commendations for Excellency Ali: “together let us find the soul of this...

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