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When will we get some sense?

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on When will we get some sense?

The Sunday edition of the country’s newspapers carried headlines of the former Coalition government spending G$50M or US$250,000 on legal challenges to the no-confidence motion and elections. These...

$1.6B Ocean View Hospital…“Deal smacks of illegality and conspiracy”

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $1.6B Ocean View Hospital…“Deal smacks of illegality and conspiracy”

…Forensic auditors will have a field day with investigations – Anil Nandlall By Shikema Dey The $1.6 billion Ocean View Infectious Diseases Hospital deal entered into by the previous...

ExxonMobil has to comply with fines imposed by EPA – Vice Pres. Jagdeo

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil has to comply with fines imposed by EPA – Vice Pres. Jagdeo

If there are clear cases of environmental breaches and the laws regarding fines are enforced in a fair way then ExxonMobil or any other oil major has to comply. Making this state ment during a brief...

Mastermind in Canadian citizen’s murder denies involvement in the crime

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mastermind in Canadian citizen’s murder denies involvement in the crime

– brother of suspect also implicates the businessman The rice farmer accused of concocting the plan to murder Canadian citizen Nicholas Jaipaul is reportedly denying that he played a part in...

Jail time for people who keep oil money a secret

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Jail time for people who keep oil money a secret

What happened with Exxon signing bonus should never happen again – Jagdeo Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo is forging ahead with a promise he made in opposition last year to legislate criminal...

Persons failing to wear facemasks in public to face fines, jail time – Minister Anthony

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Persons failing to wear facemasks in public to face fines, jail time – Minister Anthony

Persons found failing to wear facemasks in public are now liable to fines and can face time in prison. This is according to the Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, who was at the time providing a...

Thirteen out of sixteen beds at GPHC’s COVID-19 ICU occupied

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Thirteen out of sixteen beds at GPHC’s COVID-19 ICU occupied

Thirteen out of sixteen beds at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) are now occupied. The increase in occupancy at the GPHC’S COVID-19 ICU...

Govt. to regularise lands

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to regularise lands

…Kingelly residents, Lincoln Lewis dispute The Government is moving to regularise the occupation of lands by residents of Kingelly, West Coast Berbice in the face of a dispute raised by veteran...

GECOM gazettes elections results and seating allocations

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM gazettes elections results and seating allocations

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chair, retired Justice Claudette Singh has finally gazetted the results of the March 2 General and Regional Elections, three weeks after the final declaration...

WPA MP resigns from party

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on WPA MP resigns from party

Executive Member of the Working People’s Alliance, Tabitha Sarabo-Halley has reportedly tendered her resignation party with immediate effect just mere days after it parted ways with the A...

Dem new advisors wukkin pro bono

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dem new advisors wukkin pro bono

Dem politician does promise you all kinds of things when dem want yuh vote. De PPP/C did promise fuh review dem oil contract. But it was only because de Waterfall paper bin deh pon dem case fuh...

Lone gunman enters wash bay, robs owner

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lone gunman enters wash bay, robs owner

A lone gunman, on Saturday last, walked into Stone Wall Wash Bay at Prosville Squatting Area Wismar Linden, Region Ten and robbed its owner of cash and a cell phone. The robbery took place at around...

Labourer jumps over boss’s fence and dies

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Labourer jumps over boss’s fence and dies

Minutes after being sent home for feeling unwell, a labourer yesterday jumped his boss’ fence, collapsed and died. According to reports the dead man, Phillip Etwaru also known as Ricky, 56, of 34...

Outdated Public Health Ordinance Act to be updated – Attorney General

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Outdated Public Health Ordinance Act to be updated – Attorney General

The need for an updated Public Health legislation is to be addressed during the next sitting of the National Assembly, according to Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall....

30 new COVID-19 cases as Guyana nears 1000 mark

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 30 new COVID-19 cases as Guyana nears 1000 mark

As Guyana’s total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases approach the 1,000 mark, 30 new cases were recorded yesterday August 23. Along with that, there were 64 recoveries recorded bringing the total...

NDIA installs mobile pump in No. 52 outfall channel to assist with draining

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NDIA installs mobile pump in No. 52 outfall channel to assist with draining

– Sees an estimated $2.3 million operational cost The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) installed a mobile pump at the No. 52 outfall channel on the coast of...

The demise of petty bourgeois politics in Guyana: A class analysis

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The demise of petty bourgeois politics in Guyana: A class analysis

There have been four major, third parties in Guyana – the National Democratic Party (NDP), United Force (UF), Working People’s Alliance (WPA) and Alliance for Change (AFC). Two other small...

Chase too much for Guyana

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chase too much for Guyana

CPL – Another excellent St Lucia Zouks bowling performance ensured Roston Chase’s backs-to-the-wall fifty was not in vain, as Chemar Holder bowled a brilliant last over to deny th e Guyana...

RHTYSC 30th Anniversary Celebration 1990-2020 Fudadin, Crandon, Williams named in RHTYSC all time X1 after thirty years

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC 30th Anniversary Celebration 1990-2020 Fudadin, Crandon, Williams named in RHTYSC all time X1 after thirty years

Campbelle leads all time female team The Management of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS has unveiled the club’s all time cricket team as the celebration continues for its 30th...

Change Guyana dissolved by majority vote

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Change Guyana dissolved by majority vote

Change Guyana, a political that was formed just months before the March 2 General and Regional Elections, published a statement last night noting the dissolution of the party. Of the 460,352 valid...

The Coming COVID-19 Storm

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Coming COVID-19 Storm

When, back at the beginning of April, the PAHO-WHO Resident Representative in Guyana, Dr. William Adu Krow stated that Guyana’s COVID-19 cases were going to reach 20,000 by the May 5, the number...

Mr. Jagdeo, it’s OK to use the “r” word; PPP must “renegotiate” the Exxon contract now!

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Jagdeo, it’s OK to use the “r” word; PPP must “renegotiate” the Exxon contract now!

DEAR EDITOR, Our national hero, Bharrat Jagdeo, who just broke the back of the PNC dictatorship trying to rig an election in front of the whole world, and who is now our illustrious Vice President...

Jagdeo should not be the point person in the oil renegotiations

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Jagdeo should not be the point person in the oil renegotiations

Yesterday, two women approached the publisher of Kaieteur News as he was about to enter his office. They said they could not afford to buy the newspapers everyday but they have been following the...

Change Guyana – Courage to the Finish Line

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Change Guyana – Courage to the Finish Line

DEAR EDITOR, Change Guyana Political Party has achieved outsized accomplishments in pre and post March 2020 General and Regional Elections of Guyana. Now in this August month of 2020, the month where...

Basil Williams responds to the Attorney General

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Basil Williams responds to the Attorney General

DEAR EDITOR, I write with reference to your articles on the ‘Establishment of the Law Reform Commission’ published in Sunday’s edition of the Kaieteur News and The Guyana Chronicle at pages 1...

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The GRA is batting out of its crease

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again demonstrated a perplexing propensity... more