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Venezuela says it is responsibility of OAS to ensure democracy

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuela says it is responsibility of OAS to ensure democracy

Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the Organisation of American States, Gustavo Tarre Briceño, told the Permanent Council that it is the responsibility of the OAS to ensure democracy is...

CARICOM, Canada, Brazil, Colombia want declaration of recount results

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM, Canada, Brazil, Colombia want declaration of recount results

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Canada, Brazil and Colombia are appealing for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to make a declaration of the March 2 General and Regional Elections based on...

Guyana’s democracy not being served or respected – Sir Ronald Sanders

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s democracy not being served or respected – Sir Ronald Sanders

According to Sir Ronald Sanders, Guyana’s democracy is not being “served nor respected” as a result of the constant delays by the incumbent APNU+AFC to hamper the declaration of the March 2,...

PPP/C has won a peaceful and orderly elections – PM candidate tells OAS

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C has won a peaceful and orderly elections – PM candidate tells OAS

Prime Ministerial Candidate of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) told the Organisation of American States Permanent Council today that the party won a free and fair election. The results...

Foreign Minister tells OAS Guyana has been patient, to be patient too

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign Minister tells OAS Guyana has been patient, to be patient too

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karen Cummings told the Organisation of American States (OAS) Permanent Council to be patient, since the Guyanese public has been patient too. This, Cummings said in her...

Attorney General falsely states that CCJ nullified recount, in address to OAS

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Attorney General falsely states that CCJ nullified recount, in address to OAS

Attorney General Basil Williams today falsely stated to the Organisation of American States Permanent Council that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) nullified the recount in its judgment on Irfaan...

Guyana has failed the litmus test of democracy – Golding tells OAS Permanent Council

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana has failed the litmus test of democracy – Golding tells OAS Permanent Council

The Head of the Observer Mission of the Organisation of American States (OAS) to Guyana’s 2020 general and regional elections, Bruce Golding told the Permanent Council this afternoon that Guyana...

Coalition moves to Appeal Court over CJ’s ruling

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition moves to Appeal Court over CJ’s ruling

The incumbent APNU+AFC has moved to the Court of Appeal to challenge the ruling handed down yesterday by the Chief Justice Roxane George in the Misenga Jones case. In the court document seen by...

GECOM must use recount to declare result

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM must use recount to declare result

– AG, Jones, Lowenfield submissions “hopelessly flawed” – Lowenfield cannot be a lone ranger, is bound by law and directions of GECOM – Chief Justice(ag) By Rehanna Ramsay Chief...

Oil sale agreements remain shrouded in secrecy

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Oil sale agreements remain shrouded in secrecy

– Despite GY-EITI, Energy Dept.’s commitment to transparency Almost two months ago, global watchdog Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) sought to remind Guyana of the...

APNU+AFC vows to appeal High Court’s ruling in recount case

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC vows to appeal High Court’s ruling in recount case

– PPP/C calls it abuse of court, but sure it will fail The incumbent APNU+AFC Coalition has said that it will seek to take the Misenga Jones application adjudicated by Chief Justice Roxane...

Stop wasting country’s time with court cases- LJP, TCI

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Stop wasting country’s time with court cases- LJP, TCI

The Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) and The Citizenship Initiative (TCI) have called on the governing A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) to stop wasting the nation’s...

Lowenfield tendered ballot papers as evidence in Misenga Jones case

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield tendered ballot papers as evidence in Misenga Jones case

By Shikema Dey Guyana’s Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield had tendered a total of seven actual ballot papers used in the March 2 Elections as supporting evidence in the just concluded...

CH&PA fails to provide details about Lusignan Heliport

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CH&PA fails to provide details about Lusignan Heliport

Government agency, the Central Housing & Planning Authority (CH&PA) has refused for the second time to reveal key details recently announced construction of a heliport at Lusignan, E.C.D,...

Man charged for threatening GECOM chair and family

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man charged for threatening GECOM chair and family

A store clerk was yesterday charged and released on $500,000, bail for allegedly making a post via Facebook threatening to kill the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission, Claudette Singh and her...

Lampy and Pampy giving up dem visas pon Duke Street

Jul 21, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Lampy and Pampy giving up dem visas pon Duke Street

Dem Boys Seh… A man ask another: “How does de Rigadier cut his birthday cake?” De other man answer: “In sanc-tions, of course!” Guyana now in special company. It join Iran, Russia,...

Cricket in the time of election rigging

Jul 21, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Cricket in the time of election rigging

There is something special about tuning in to Test match cricket in England. It matters not whether it the coverage in by radio or television, whether you listening or listening and watching, a Test...

Bruce Golding to present at OAS Permanent Council meeting on Guyana elections today

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bruce Golding to present at OAS Permanent Council meeting on Guyana elections today

Former Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding is set to make a presentation today at the Organization of American States (OAS) Permanent Council virtual meeting on Guyana’s four month long 2020...

COVID-19 hampers ERC’s investigative capacity – Commission

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 hampers ERC’s investigative capacity – Commission

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) of Guyana on Friday, July 17 relayed to the public that they are trying their best to investigate reports of racial discrimination in the country despite having...

Food for the Poor embarks on several projects to provide COVID relief

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Food for the Poor embarks on several projects to provide COVID relief

Food for the Poor (Guyana) has embarked on several projects that aim to provide COVID relief in vulnerable communities. In speaking with Kaieteur News, the non-governmental organization listed a few...

Don’t waste Court’s precious time, resources on issues already decided – CJ tells lawyers

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Don’t waste Court’s precious time, resources on issues already decided – CJ tells lawyers

By Kemol King Chief Justice (CJ) Roxane George-Wiltshire, in handing down her ruling on the Misenga Jones case yesterday, was adamant that persons cannot be allowed to waste the time and resources of...

Man stabbed twice by wife discharged, wife still on the run

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man stabbed twice by wife discharged, wife still on the run

A man who was stabbed by his wife last Saturday evening has been discharged from the Suddie Public Hospital, but his wife is still on the run. The man, who was identified only as Ravindra, was...

One new COVID-19 case emerges from a total of 84 tests done

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on One new COVID-19 case emerges from a total of 84 tests done

Deputy Chief Medical Officer within the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Karen Gordon-Boyle yesterday via press release that there was one new COVID-19 case. The one case emerged out of a total of 84...

Teen fatally stabbed in row over girl

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Teen fatally stabbed in row over girl

A row over a girl ended in tragedy after a teen was stabbed to death on Sunday last at a shop in Marudi Backdam, South Rupununi, Region Nine. The fatal stabbing took place at around 00:20Hrs while...

Investigations reveal alleged perpetrator in Lusignan Prison fire

Jul 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Investigations reveal alleged perpetrator in Lusignan Prison fire

One person has now been singled out as the alleged perpetrator behind the Lusignan Prison fire that displaced at least 284 prisoners on July 12. Director of Prisons, Gladwyn Samuels relayed this...

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Dolphin Secondary, East Ruimveldt seal Round-5 victories in Republic Bank U-18 Football League

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