June 2020

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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...

New $160 Million Manari Bridge awaits test results for opening

Jun 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New $160 Million Manari Bridge awaits test results for opening

The new GYD$160 Million concrete bridge constructed at Manari Creek along the Linden-Lethem Trail is now awaiting test results before it could be used. This information was released by Regional...

Gabriel calls for pace by any means necessary

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gabriel calls for pace by any means necessary

West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel believes the West Indies should play to their strength and replicate the plans which brought them overwhelming success against England last year. The...

The nation hopes for a quick result from the Appeal Court

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The nation hopes for a quick result from the Appeal Court

DEAR EDITOR, It is commendable that the General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has elucidated in his earlier comments that the PPP/C has disenfranchised...

Do Not Support A Return To Dictatorship Under the Coalition

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do Not Support A Return To Dictatorship Under the Coalition

DEAR EDITOR, Traditional coalition supporters are encouraged to resist efforts by the coalition to make them feel that the March 2020 elections were not free, fair and the recount not credible....

DISCLAIMER

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on DISCLAIMER

DEAR EDITOR, I, Frederick J. G. Singh, wish to categorically state that I am NOT the author of the Letter to the Editor published in the Kaieteur News edition of Friday, June 19, 2020, page 5,...

Please increase the testing for COVID-19

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Please increase the testing for COVID-19

DEAR EDITOR, The surprising increase in COVID-19 cases raises concern of an under detection of the virus. The level of testing in the 10 administrative Regions should be increased to a level where it...

A nation waits to exhale

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A nation waits to exhale

DEAR EDITOR, It was the prestigious ‘legitimate interlocutor ‘. Now it seems it too has been banished with others. Not even its scrutineers report or the eloquent pronouncements from its...

Do not hinder development and national unity

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do not hinder development and national unity

DEAR EDITOR, The inevitable is around the corner, PPP/C will soon take office as the new government of Guyana, as was reflected by the results of the March 2nd election and the recent concluded...

The 72nd Anniversary of the Enmore Massacre

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The 72nd Anniversary of the Enmore Massacre

DEAR EDITOR, On June 16, 2020, we observed the 72nd Anniversary of the Enmore Massacre which resulted in the gunning down of Harry, Lallabajie, Pooran, Dookie and Surujballi. The five who have become...

NY Guyanese applauded for distributing hampers

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on NY Guyanese applauded for distributing hampers

DEAR EDITOR, I write to applaud the work of religious leaders of Federation of Hindu Mandirs in New York for distributing some 400 food hampers over the last week to help bring relief to families in...

We must now hope that our Courts, at least, are ready to recognize the will of the people

Jun 20, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must now hope that our Courts, at least, are ready to recognize the will of the people

DEAR EDITOR, It is clear as daylight on a bright sunny day, that David Granger, in power as a de facto President, with the full support of the police and army under his command, if not in absolute...

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(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) has been internationally praised as an attempt to convert natural capital into financial capital without cutting down forests. The country’s vast tropical rainforest, covering more than 85% of national territory, functions as...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

The saga of Elizabeth Shivpersaud

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Kaieteur News – It’s one of those situations crying out for help. The best I can do, other than offering professional help, is to raise an alarm about a case that is worrying in all of its elements. It’s the Saga of Elizabth Shivpersaud. If this distressed, shorthanded, hollow-eyed,...

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