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Foreign Minister tests positive for COVID-19

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign Minister tests positive for COVID-19

– All cabinet members to be tested Guyana’s Foreign Minister, Hugh Todd has tested positive for the novel Coronavirus. The revelation was made by President Irfaan Ali moments ago. The...

No nonsensical excuse is worth US$55B for Payara permit – Dr. Mangal

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on No nonsensical excuse is worth US$55B for Payara permit – Dr. Mangal

“If we want a fair deal, and a chance to get back some of the US$55 billion left on Exxon’s table, then we have to play hardball. We have to impact the company’s operations. But this takes...

UN wants answers for 2016 Exxon deal and SARA corruption probes

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on UN wants answers for 2016 Exxon deal and SARA corruption probes

The United Nations Human Rights Committee earlier this month wrote to the government of Guyana requesting explanations for a series of issues, including several reports of corruption including but...

Domestic dispute ends in shooting death of Cotton Tree, WCB man

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Domestic dispute ends in shooting death of Cotton Tree, WCB man

Police in Region Five are on the hunt for a man wanted in connection with the shooting to death of a 30-year-old man from West Coast Berbice. According to reports, the victim died yesterday morning...

Guyanese Critic’s building riddled with bullets

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese Critic’s building riddled with bullets

A Lusignan, East Coast Demerara building, owned by Mikail Rodrigues aka Guyanese Critic, was last night riddled with bullets. The perpetrator(s) up to press time were unknown. Based on information...

COVID-19 cases jump to over 600

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 cases jump to over 600

Guyana’s COVID -19 cases have surpassed 600. According to new information disseminated by the Ministry of Health, 34 new cases were discovered from tests within the last 24 hours. The new cases...

Car stolen in broad daylight at Meadow Bank Public Road

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Car stolen in broad daylight at Meadow Bank Public Road

The car of a Banks DIH salesman, Anil Singh, was on Monday stolen, in broad daylight. The car was parked on the Meadow Bank Public Road just outside of Thirst Park. Singh’s red Toyota Allion, PMM...

German authorities seize over US$300M in cocaine stashed in rice shipment from Guyana

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on German authorities seize over US$300M in cocaine stashed in rice shipment from Guyana

German authorities yesterday seized over US$300M worth in cocaine stashed in a shipment of rice originating from Guyana. Reports suggest that Custom Officers discovered more than 1.5 tons of cocaine...

Ex-magistrates, lawyer, Deputy Mayor, businessmen dragged to court for breaching COVID-19 regulations

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-magistrates, lawyer, Deputy Mayor, businessmen dragged to court for breaching COVID-19 regulations

No one is above the law and ranks of the Guyana Police Force in Region Six have been making this pellucid when dealing with those opting to flout the COVID-19 regulations. In light of this, a number...

Suriname issues arrest warrant for former Finance Minister on corruption charges

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname issues arrest warrant for former Finance Minister on corruption charges

The police in Suriname have issued an arrest warrant for former Finance Minister, Gillmore Hoefdraad. He is suspected of 11 criminal offences, including violations of the banking and anti-corruption...

Soulja Bai gat fuh choose between Presidential pension and parliamentary pay

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Soulja Bai gat fuh choose between Presidential pension and parliamentary pay

Dem Boys Seh… Dem boys realize why de Hap-New+Hay-Eff-See government bin under strain. Dem was like some of dem mini-bus during peak hour. De government bin overload. Was more than just...

The word for today is nepotism

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The word for today is nepotism

The programme, “From Word to Word, is aired Mondays to Fridays on state-owned radio. It is narrated by Dr. Rovin Deodat, and is an educational programme that explains the origins, meaning and uses...

The Breadbasket of the Caribbean

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Breadbasket of the Caribbean

In a detailed report to Richard Nolte, then Executive Director of the Washington, DC-based Institute of Current World Affairs, writer Frank McDonald, introduced the newly independent nation of Guyana...

Granger sets out ‘Ten Commandments’ for parliamentary participation

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Granger sets out ‘Ten Commandments’ for parliamentary participation

– says he wants no “cardboard” political party Former President and Leader of the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), David Granger, last evening shared his party’s version of the...

Lincoln Lewis in land dispute with Kingelly residents

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lincoln Lewis in land dispute with Kingelly residents

Veteran trade unionist, Lincoln Lewis, is locked in a bitter land dispute with residents of Kingelly Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB), Region Five. Over 30 residents travelled to Georgetown from the...

MotP assistant researcher paid super salary of $300k

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on MotP assistant researcher paid super salary of $300k

– contract renewed one month before elections According to new details, a research assistant attached to the Ministry of the Presidency (MotP) had secured a salary of over $300,000 a month,...

NIS still to honour court’s ruling on late payment

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NIS still to honour court’s ruling on late payment

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is yet to implement a Court decision months after a ruling was made on how the state-owned entity handles late payments from self-employed and other categories of...

UN asks Guyana to explain polarization, misinformation and insufficiencies of 2020 elections

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on UN asks Guyana to explain polarization, misinformation and insufficiencies of 2020 elections

The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) has asked Guyana to explain a series of issues stemming from its contentious 2020 General and Regional Elections. The Committee raised concerns that...

Rapid assessment of 19 state entities completed

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Rapid assessment of 19 state entities completed

– Report to be submitted today The four-member ‘special technical’ team hired by President Irfaan Ali to conduct a rapid assessment of 19 key state-owned entities has completed its work....

Region Two REO, six others given marching orders

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region Two REO, six others given marching orders

The Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Two, Denis Jaikaran, was yesterday issued with a letter of Termination of Contract Service from the Ministry of Local Government and Regional...

Are Vincent Alexander and others letting down African Guyanese?

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Are Vincent Alexander and others letting down African Guyanese?

If you belong to another planet, and you descended upon Guyana on Monday, August 10, 2020 and you read a letter by Vincent Alexander in the Kaieteur News and Stabroek News on the recent election...

Ex-WI batsman Sarwan pulls out 2020 CPL

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ex-WI batsman Sarwan pulls out 2020 CPL

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday – FORMER West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan will not be the assistant coach of the Jamaica Tallawahs for the 2020 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20...

May all of Guyana enjoy the Ashirvad of Shri Krishna and remain protected under His umbrella

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on May all of Guyana enjoy the Ashirvad of Shri Krishna and remain protected under His umbrella

DEAR EDITOR, In Guyana and throughout the world, Shri Krishna Janmashtmi or Gokulashtmi is being celebrated today and spilling over to tomorrow as it is a midnight celebration, the time when the Lord...

Belle Vue Pilot Scheme Co-op congratulates Dr. Irfaan Ali and PPP/C Govt.

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Belle Vue Pilot Scheme Co-op congratulates Dr. Irfaan Ali and PPP/C Govt.

DEAR EDITOR, We, the people from Belle Vue Pilot Scheme, West Bank Demerara, Toevult-Patentia –NDC, Region # 3, that are made up of Cane Farmers Co-op Members, sugar workers and our families, feel...

Sell the four closed sugar estates to DDL for a symbolic $1

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sell the four closed sugar estates to DDL for a symbolic $1

Dear Editor, I note the sugar union GAWU is calling for reopening of the closed sugar estates. One must recall that the government-owned GuySuCo had dominated the news when the Coalition took power...