July 12, 2020

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Update! Fifteen inmates injured in Lusignan fire

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Update! Fifteen inmates injured in Lusignan fire

According to an official police report, some fifteen inmates received minor injuries in the fire that destroyed a section of the Lusignan Prison today. It was noted that around 12:45h at the East...

Fire at Lusignan Prison

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fire at Lusignan Prison

Kaieteur News will bring more details in a later report.

Absent Lowenfield sends in falsified report – Govt. commissioners also a ‘no show’

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Absent Lowenfield sends in falsified report – Govt. commissioners also a ‘no show’

– sends in falsified report – GECOM to meet soon on a way forward By Shikema Dey Guyana’s Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield once again, defied a direct order by the...

Lowenfield acting in bad faith and against democracy – OAS

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield acting in bad faith and against democracy – OAS

In its strongest statement yet, the Organisation of American States (OAS) has condemned Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, for his repeated attempts to frustrate the democratic process,...

Exxon burns over 360 million cubic feet of gas in one month

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon burns over 360 million cubic feet of gas in one month

– will continue to pollute the atmosphere with hundreds of cancer causing toxins well into August By Kiana Wilburg For last month alone, American oil giant, ExxonMobil, burnt over 360 million...

Local courts continue to flout time limit for delivery of judgments

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Local courts continue to flout time limit for delivery of judgments

– As CCJ publishes decisions in minutes In 2009, the Guyana Parliament passed legislation making it compulsory for judges to deliver their written or oral decisions within 120 days after the...

Lowenfield “eyepass” GECOM – Sase Gunraj

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield “eyepass” GECOM – Sase Gunraj

Electoral Commissioner, Sase Gunraj, yesterday said that Chief Elections Officer(CEO), Keith Lowenfield “eyepass” the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), after it was revealed that the official...

Congratulate Irfaan Ali, GCCI tells Pres. Granger

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Congratulate Irfaan Ali, GCCI tells Pres. Granger

Arguing that the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) has won the March 2nd General and Regional Elections by some 15,000 votes, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is...

UWI Chief says world will accept no other option than recount results

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on UWI Chief says world will accept no other option than recount results

Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Sir Hilary Beckles has joined the current and past heads of CARICOM, Ralph Gonsalves and Mia Mottley, as well as the former Prime Minister of...

PPP calls on judiciary to resist abuse of its systems

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PPP calls on judiciary to resist abuse of its systems

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) is now cautioning the judiciary to ensure that its systems are not abused and manipulated by the APNU+AFC coalition, in any potential bid to delay a...

Show them you have backbone Claudette Singh

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Show them you have backbone Claudette Singh

GECOM’s chair, Retired Justice Claudette Singh, must act and do so immediately. She has no other choice. The Commission’s Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Mr. Keith Lowenfield, has repeatedly...

Rigadier is the chief cook and bottle washer

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Rigadier is the chief cook and bottle washer

Dem Boys Seh… Wherever good people go, good things does happen. Wherever evil goes, bad things does occur. Both sides of de political divide gat dem own devils. De J6aggy boy is wan wicked fella....

Decade of Dictatorship

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Decade of Dictatorship

Instead of the much-touted decade of development, Guyana, it seems, is headed for a decade of dictatorship. Unless the naked grab to hold on to power by the ruling APNU+AFC is diffused, Guyana will...

PPP/C calls for Lowenfield’s dismissal

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C calls for Lowenfield’s dismissal

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) yesterday called for the dismissal of Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, after he failed yet again to adhere to instructions of the Chair...

Pensioner found murdered at Kuru Kururu farmhouse

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner found murdered at Kuru Kururu farmhouse

A pensioner’s body was found lying in his yard at Track B, Kuru Kururu, Linden/Soesdyke Highway, East Bank Demerara (EDB) on Friday night with a chop wound to the back of his neck. The body has...

Ex-cop found guilty of dousing lover with corrosive substance

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-cop found guilty of dousing lover with corrosive substance

Ex-cop Cassandra Boucher, 31, of School Street, Albouystown, was on Friday found guilty of dousing her lover with a corrosive substance. Boucher is expected to make another court appearance tomorrow...

Bisram’s mother, accomplice guilty in $4M cop-bribing case

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bisram’s mother, accomplice guilty in $4M cop-bribing case

Sharmilla Inderjali, mother of extradited US-based businessman, Marcus Bisram, and her co-accused, Maryanna Lionel, were on Friday found guilty of offering a police officer $4M to suppress evidence....

Dalip Trading owner robbed at gun point

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Dalip Trading owner robbed at gun point

Gun-toting bandits yesterday morning robbed Angad Dalip, owner of Dalip Trading’s at his Industrial Site location at Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD). According to information received by Kaieteur...

The Palms is now COVID-19 free

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on The Palms is now COVID-19 free

The Palms Elderly Care Facility is now COVID-19 free as its final three patients have made full recoveries from the virus. The Palms reported its first case of the disease in April and within a...

Two arrested after gun tossed from car that eluded police patrol

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two arrested after gun tossed from car that eluded police patrol

Two men were on Thursday last apprehended by police ranks patrolling along Crown Dam, Industry, East Coast Demerara (ECD) for the possession of an unlicensed semi-automatic pistol loaded with nine...

IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON SMALL BUSINESSES – A WTO PERSPECTIVE

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON SMALL BUSINESSES – A WTO PERSPECTIVE

STANDARDS IN FOCUS The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) as the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Enquiry Point for Guyana has been playing a meaningful role in ensuring that businesses...

EXERCISE CARE WHEN BUYING COSMETICS

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on EXERCISE CARE WHEN BUYING COSMETICS

CONSUMER CONCERNS Most people are unaware of the importance of the human skin. The skin is one of the most important organs of the human body and provides covering for the other organs and protects...

Amitabh Bachchan, son Abhishek positive for Covid-19

Jul 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Amitabh Bachchan, son Abhishek positive for Covid-19

India (Outlookindia.com)- Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan said on Saturday he has tested positive for coronavirus and has been shifted to a hospital. In a Twitter post, he said his family and...

Invaluable sources of information which ought to be preserved for posterity

Jul 12, 2020 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Invaluable sources of information which ought to be preserved for posterity

(A heritage of service. A review of David Granger’s The British Guiana Volunteer Force, 1948-1966, ISBN 978-976-8178-27-5; The Guyana People’s Militia, 1976-1997, ISBN 978-976-8178-29-9; and The...

Principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Jul 12, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on Principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Book Review… Book: Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies – Psychology and Chinese Medicine Author: Leon Hammer, M.D. Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Dr. Leon Hammer’s ‘Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies...

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West Indies, New Zealand meet in Sobers’ country to celebrate...

Jul 19, 2026

(Cricinfo) – The statue of Sir Garry Sobers at Kensington Oval stands 12 feet tall. His memory casts a much longer shadow, especially now that he is gone. Tributes have flown in from all over...

A critique of an argument never made

Jul 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Terence Yhip is perfectly entitled to disagree with my understanding of the Resource Curse. Serious questions of political economy have never advanced through unanimity. What he is not entitled to do, however, is attribute arguments to me that I never made and then proceed to...

Transparency, sovereignty, and the challenge of power

Jul 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Few issues test the sovereignty of small states more severely than requests made by powerful friends. How should a country respond when cooperation is expected, but the proposed terms exceed its legal, financial and institutional capacity? That question...

Earthquakes after earthquakes

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall… (Kaieteur News) – Venezuela had one earthquake, then more. Death and destruction on a wide scale. I shrink from forces larger than life, bigger than man. Guyanese were in the middle of one earthquake, when another crashed down on their heads. Seems like...

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