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US Embassy to inform election riggers that they are facing sanctions

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US Embassy to inform election riggers that they are facing sanctions

The US Embassy will be notifying persons who are undermining Guyana’s democracy, or those complicit in such undermining, that they are facing sanctions. US Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch had...

US Govt. tells Granger ‘get out’ – as sanctions hit top officials, financiers

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US Govt. tells Granger ‘get out’ – as sanctions hit top officials, financiers

By Shikema Dey Top officials from the de facto Granger government and their financiers will no longer possess their United States of America (US) visas after State Secretary; Mike Pompeo made good on...

Brazil throws weight behind CARICOM and recount results

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Brazil throws weight behind CARICOM and recount results

The Brazilian Government yesterday announced that it has been closely following the developments in Guyana’s General and Regional Elections and is ready to see a declaration made on the basis of...

Granger in charge of conspiracy to rig elections, and int’l community knows it – PPP/C

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Granger in charge of conspiracy to rig elections, and int’l community knows it – PPP/C

The Opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) is of the view that incumbent President, David Granger, is at the helm of the conspiracy to rig the 2020 Elections, and that the Guyanese...

Demonic clique engaged in vile attempts to hijack the Guyana country – CARICOM Chair

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Demonic clique engaged in vile attempts to hijack the Guyana country – CARICOM Chair

By Kemol King Chair of the Caribbean Community and Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves penned a scathing editorial yesterday on the Guyana situation, in which he...

Completion of US$5M Covid-19 Hospital postponed

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Completion of US$5M Covid-19 Hospital postponed

The US five million dollar (G$1B) project to turn Ocean View International Hotel into a state-of-the-art hospital for the incubation, isolation and quarantine of persons infected with the novel...

Every tool will be used to hold accountable those who undermine democracy – Canada

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Every tool will be used to hold accountable those who undermine democracy – Canada

Just after the Secretary of State for the US, Mike Pompeo hit top officials yesterday in the de facto Granger government with visa sanctions; Global Affairs Canada announced that they too would be...

UK also working to sanction top Coalition officials

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Kaieteur News understands that the United Kingdom is preparing to join its American counterpart, and impose sanctions on top Government officials, leaders of the APNU+AFC coalition and election...

Rigadier bird-day get sanction

Jul 16, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Rigadier bird-day get sanction

Dem Boys Seh Yesterday small bully meet he match. He come face-to-face with de big bully. De big bully tell he, de Rigadier, to “Step aside. Is time yuh respect democracy!” Yesterday was de...

The devil is in his lair

Jul 16, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The devil is in his lair

Following the 1997 elections, there were political protests for months in the streets of Georgetown. The protests descended in character assassination. The PNCR protestors targeted the then President...

Miner found dead, slumped over his ATV

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Miner found dead, slumped over his ATV

A miner was found dead slumped over his all-terrain vehicle (ATV) by colleagues in a trail one mile away from Kumung Kumung landing, Mazaruni River, Region Seven. The discovery of the dead miner,...

Victim was beaten to death

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Victim was beaten to death

Kuru Kururu farm house murder… An autopsy report has revealed that Terrence Alstrom, age 66, who was found dead in the yard of his farm house at Track B, Kuru Kururu, East Bank Demerara (EBD), was...

Drunk man gets beaten for rapping on wrong door

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Drunk man gets beaten for rapping on wrong door

A man said to be intoxicated was reportedly beaten, stripped, tied up and dragged after he rapped on the wrong door at 02:00hrs yesterday. Police said that occupants took the man for a burglar and...

GMSA calls for declaration of recount figures

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– warns of disastrous consequences of delay on Guyana The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) has joined calls for a declaration to be made on the figures emanating from the...

Eastern Airline aircraft slides off CJIA runway

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Eastern Airline aircraft slides off CJIA runway

A Boeing 767 aircraft yesterday slid off the Cheddi Jagan International Airport’s (CJIA) runway. The aircraft was said to be carrying repatriated Guyanese from the United States. The flight arrived...

GAP leader condemns US sanctions, links it to oil discovery

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GAP leader condemns US sanctions, links it to oil discovery

Leader of the Guyana Action Party (GAP), Second Vice President and Minister of Indigenous Peoples Affairs Sydney Allicock, believes that the recent US sanctions have stemmed from a quest to control...

Girl, 7, found sleeping on city bench rescued

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Girl, 7, found sleeping on city bench rescued

A public-spirited citizen on Tuesday alerted authorities to a girl, 7, he found sleeping on a bench on Waterloo Street, Georgetown. She was guarding her belongings in a black bag. The concerned man...

Argument over evening greeting leaves teen stabbed to death

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Argument over evening greeting leaves teen stabbed to death

A dispute that went on for two days among three young men ended in tragedy on Tuesday night after one of them was stabbed to death at Dazzel Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara (ECD). The dead teen,...

Leading artist and anthropologist George Simon, dies

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One of Guyana’s most renowned artists and anthropologists, George Simon died. Simon was known for his paintings that were notable for their depiction and explorations of Indigenous culture and the...

GGDMA issues regulations for small and medium scale operations

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GGDMA issues regulations for small and medium scale operations

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), yesterday announced the released guidelines for the operation of small and medium...

PSC reiterates validity of recount results, support for CARICOM

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PSC reiterates validity of recount results, support for CARICOM

The Private Sector Commission (PSC), a duly accredited observer of the March 2 General and Regional Elections, as well as the National Recount, yesterday reiterated that its scrutiny of the process...

Bisram’s mother, co-accused sentencing set for tomorrow

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bisram’s mother, co-accused sentencing set for tomorrow

Following her ruling that Sharmilla Inderjali, the mother of extradited US-based businessman, Marcus Bisram, and her co-accused, Maryanna Lionel, are guilty of offering a police officer $4M to...

32-year-old charged for attempted murder over bar stool

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Thirty-two-year-old Kevin France of East Ruimveldt, Housing Scheme, Georgetown, was charged for attempting to kill a man over a bar stool. The charge was read to the accused via zoom by Chief...

Guyana records 18th COVID-19 death, cases move to 313

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana records 18th COVID-19 death, cases move to 313

The Ministry of Public Health yesterday confirmed the country’s 18th COVID-19 related fatality. The victim has been identified as 74-year-old Milton Paul, a resident of Campbellville Housing...

CJ to hear case filed to set aside recount figures on Friday

Jul 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CJ to hear case filed to set aside recount figures on Friday

– AG’s request for Order to stay GECOM’s proceedings denied Chief Justice (Ag) Roxane George –Wiltshire is scheduled to hear on Friday, oral arguments in a case filed to compel the Guyana...

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A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more