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GECOM Chair tells Lowenfield her request for recount report stands – Submit by 11am tomorrow

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM Chair tells Lowenfield her request for recount report stands – Submit by 11am tomorrow

Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chair, Justice Claudette Singh has written Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield to inform him that her July 9 request for a report of the results of the...

Lowenfield claims he received death threat, leaves GECOM HQ

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield claims he received death threat, leaves GECOM HQ

Commissioner Bibi Shadick has informed reporters that Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield has left GECOM after claiming he received a death threat. He continues to make excuses to avoid...

Lowenfield fails to submit report

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield fails to submit report

– seeks ‘clarification’ on Chair’s directives Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield has failed to submit his final report to the Guyana Elections Commission. The CEO was instructed by...

GECOM Chair calls on mischief makers to desist from spreading misinformation

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM Chair calls on mischief makers to desist from spreading misinformation

The Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) earlier today urged persons spreading misinformation about the workings of the electoral agency to desist from doing so. One such instance is a...

Claudette Singh orders Lowenfield to submit recount figures by 2pm today

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Claudette Singh orders Lowenfield to submit recount figures by 2pm today

By Kemol King Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chair, Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh yesterday ordered Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield to submit a report of the recount...

K/News publisher files court case to quash land deals

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on K/News publisher files court case to quash land deals

… NICIL’s sale of prime East Coast lands Kaieteur News Publisher, Glenn Lall, has filed an application in the High Court seeking to quash the June 11, sale of 130 acres of prime East Coast...

Respect CCJ’s ruling – CARICOM Chair, Ralph Gonsalves

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Respect CCJ’s ruling – CARICOM Chair, Ralph Gonsalves

The newly appointed Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, has called on stakeholders to respect the verdict of the...

Orinduik Partners to target sweet, light crude in drilling programme

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Orinduik Partners to target sweet, light crude in drilling programme

– remain hopeful about commerciality of heavy oil finds According to S.P Angel, one of the industry’s leading stockbrokers, the partners of the Orinduik Block will be targeting sweet, light...

Put country above party

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Put country above party

– Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Ex Liberia President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Former President of Liberia and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has charged Guyana’s political...

Rapist sent behind bars for 26 years

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Rapist sent behind bars for 26 years

A thirty- one year old man from Tabatinga, Lethem has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for rape. Nick Skeete called ‘Shatta’ or ‘Jason Blair,’ was found guilty of raping a 20-old-year-old...

Lindeners question environmental impact of proposed Wismar Bridge

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lindeners question environmental impact of proposed Wismar Bridge

– Want employment opportunities The Ministry of Public Infrastructure on Tuesday held a virtual public consultation with more than a hundred tuned in, during which it presented the proposed...

Rigadier dem gat one more court to go to

Jul 10, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Rigadier dem gat one more court to go to

Dem Boys Seh… Dem boys hear how de HAP-New+HAY-Eff-See looking fuh a higher court fuh appeal de CCJ decision. Dem boys know wheh dem should go. Is only one court lef fuh dem. It named Palm Court...

Leadership on leave

Jul 10, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Leadership on leave

The title of this column is borrowed aptly from the title of an editorial in yesterday’s edition of the Kaieteur News. It is a statement about the abandonment of leadership in Guyana. During the...

Citizenship Initiative calls for swift end to Guyana’s electoral process

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Citizenship Initiative calls for swift end to Guyana’s electoral process

The Citizenship Initiative (TCI) has called for a swift end to Guyana’s four month long electoral process, citing that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has delivered a timely ruling clearing...

DDL donates generously in wake of COVID-19

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on DDL donates generously in wake of COVID-19

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) on Thursday announced a donation of 4,000 cases of juices to the Civil Defence Commission. This donation is intended to assist communities in providing support to...

COVID-19 cases increase by 2 – recovery now at 46 percent

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 cases increase by 2 – recovery now at 46 percent

The total number of COVID-19 cases Guyana has recorded is now 286 with 125 recoveries. In institutional isolation there are 145 active cases, with 19 persons in institutional quarantine, and six...

Long serving Ptolemy Reid Rehab Officer, Hyacinth Massay, calls it a day

Jul 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Long serving Ptolemy Reid Rehab Officer, Hyacinth Massay, calls it a day

The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), Disability and Rehabilitation Services on Tuesday bid farewell to its long serving Rehabilitation Officer of the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre (PRRC), Ms....

Conversation between Walter Rodney and Desmond Trotman

Jul 10, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Conversation between Walter Rodney and Desmond Trotman

WR: Trotty, I didn’t know that you had invoked my name in defence of election rigging until I read Freddie quoting you. He named the date of your letter in the press. I read it. Trotty, I fought...

Anatomy of a fix

Jul 10, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Anatomy of a fix

The devoted political partisans around must be the only people in the world, who lack the gifts of seeing, analyzing, and coming to a place of levelheaded understanding. That is, of understanding...

Hamilton Green has finally broken his silence

Jul 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hamilton Green has finally broken his silence

Dear Editor, Former PNC strongman, former Prime Minister and former Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green, has finally broken his silence. And as can be expected, he is solidly in the corner of the...

Has David Granger lost touch with reality?

Jul 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Has David Granger lost touch with reality?

Dear Editor, I watched, with absolute dismay, David Granger come out of State House one Wednesday to address a crowd of APNU+AFC supporters who, under the COVID-19 regulations, should have been...

Difficulty lies in the lunacy of senior and some junior members of the incumbent

Jul 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Difficulty lies in the lunacy of senior and some junior members of the incumbent

Dear editor Following the welcomed Caribbean Court of Justice’s decision on the 8th of July, 2020, it is now for GECOM and essentially it’s Chairwoman to act swiftly in concluding the...

Lowenfield has a chance to rehabilitate himself

Jul 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lowenfield has a chance to rehabilitate himself

Dear Editor, The world thinks unkindly of Keith Lowenfield viewing him as the obstacle to the conclusion of the election. His accurate report is holding up the declaration of the election. All that...

When all is said and done, it is clear that the APNU+ AFC is fighting a losing battle.

Jul 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on When all is said and done, it is clear that the APNU+ AFC is fighting a losing battle.

Dear Editor, The week of July 5 broke with news of coup d’etat in the air. Indeed, one paper’s editorial of Sunday July 5 screamed ‘Coup d’etat’ The editorial stated: ‘ In the end,...

Hong Kong affairs are purely China’s internal affairs and external forces have no right to interfere

Jul 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hong Kong affairs are purely China’s internal affairs and external forces have no right to interfere

DEAR EDITOR, On June 30, the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) was passed by China’s top...

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A shameful abdication of leadership

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The PPPC government has reached a new low in its spineless defense of the lopsided Production... more