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For too long have we endured PNC bullyism

Jul 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on For too long have we endured PNC bullyism

Dear Editor, Please allow me space in your paper to express my concern about March 2, 2020 election. For too long I have sat aside and not expressed my views. Leading up to the Guyana election on...

President Granger should accept the will of the people and concede

Jul 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Granger should accept the will of the people and concede

Dear Editor, I had, in a previous letter, posited the view that the APNU+AFC is doing a great disservice to its members and supporters by promoting a narrative that it has won the March 2, 2020...

The time has come to bring the electoral impasse to an end

Jul 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The time has come to bring the electoral impasse to an end

Dear Editor, As we stand face to face with the new reality of the world, COVID-19, world leaders are perplexed and baffled on the way forward as they watched helplessly at world economies reeling in...

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...

After this court ruling, the PNC and AFC still will not concede defeat

Jul 21, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on After this court ruling, the PNC and AFC still will not concede defeat

For a large number of persons, Guyanese and non-Guyanese who have been following the post 2020 election Frankenstein vaudeville show, they believe that GECOM with Claudette Singh’s vote will make a...

Recovering or reconciling – which comes first?

Jul 21, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Recovering or reconciling – which comes first?

Whichever way Chairwoman Claudette Singh proceeds, it will be one more bus stop in Guyana’s elections catastrophe. That is guaranteed and will intensify our divisions. It will confirm that this has...

Guyana requires a new and inclusive national response to COVID-19

Jul 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana requires a new and inclusive national response to COVID-19

DEAR EDITOR, What more evidence does the National COVID-19 Task Force need to conclude that COVID-19 outbreaks are linked to mining activity? Gazetting of lockdowns in hotspots like Aranka (Region 7)...

Circumstances change; values shouldn’t

Jul 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Circumstances change; values shouldn’t

DEAR EDITOR, Life is a funny thing and politics particularly so. At the end of WWII and at the dawn of internal self-government in the West Indies, the region was rather taken with the idea of a...

Remarks by incoming Caricom Chair must be taken seriously

Jul 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Remarks by incoming Caricom Chair must be taken seriously

DEAR EDITOR, I am writing this letter after considering statements made by the incoming chair of Caricom, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, in a broadcast on July...

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2026 GGA National Junior Open Golf Championships… Ministry of...

Jun 05, 2026

– Hussain says government support a big part of growth across schools Kaieteur Sports – The Guyana Golf Association (GGA) yesterday announced that the 4th Annual National Open Junior Golf...

Enough is enough

Jun 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Violence in our schools has reached a point where society can no longer afford to look the other way. Every few weeks, another video surfaces showing students kicking, punching, slapping, dragging, or attacking one another while their schoolmates watch. The scenes are shocking,...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

Parliament – Guyana’s tricky, treacherous crossroad

Jun 05, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The doors of Guyana’s Parliament are about to be flung wide open. To a point, really. Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. Azruddin Mohamed could contribute to the ambience by staying away. The Speaker, the PPP Govt, maybe even the PNC would be...

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