August 2025

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Police seek help identifying man killed in Montrose accident

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Police seek help identifying man killed in Montrose accident

Kaieteur News – A man whose identity was still unknown up to press time, died on Monday in an accident along the Montrose Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD). According to the police, the...

Berbice 20/20 Rapid Chess tournament set for Sunday, August 24th

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Berbice 20/20 Rapid Chess tournament set for Sunday, August 24th

Kaieteur Sports – Competitive chess, hosted by the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF), is returning to Berbice on Sunday, August 24th, 2025. The GCF has organized a One-Day 20/20 Rapid Chess...

Farmers remanded for attempted murder

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Farmers remanded for attempted murder

Kaieteur News – Two farmers were remanded on Friday for attempted murder. The defendants, 20-year-old Shamsundar Khamo called ‘Nest’ and 23-year-old Vijay Khamo called ‘Guru’, both of...

2025 CWI Rising Stars Men’s U17 2-Day Championships Day 2…Guy vs. T&T… Match ends in draw

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on 2025 CWI Rising Stars Men’s U17 2-Day Championships Day 2…Guy vs. T&T… Match ends in draw

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana managed to ward off another unwanted outcome as they drew their battle against the Trinidadians when action in the second round wrapped up Sunday evening at the...

BYD announces sponsorship of CPL

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on BYD announces sponsorship of CPL

CPL – The Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) yesterday announced BYD, the world’s No. 1 new energy vehicle brand by sales, as an official sponsor for the tournament. This landmark...

Nigel Deodath slams 207 not out in Canada

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Nigel Deodath slams 207 not out in Canada

Kaieteur Sports – Former Guyana youth player Nigel Deodath slammed a brilliant, unbeaten 207 to help Fusion Sport Club beat Aces Cricket Club by 143 runs in a semi-final match of the 2025...

Demonstrators protest Trump-backed redistricting plans at over 200 events across the country

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Demonstrators protest Trump-backed redistricting plans at over 200 events across the country

(CNN) At parks, coffee shops, churches and government buildings around the country, hundreds of groups are gathering today with a simple message: “Stop the Trump takeover.” The rallies are a bid...

Slingerz Racing Stable extends condolences on the passing of jockey Kishan Pereira

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Slingerz Racing Stable extends condolences on the passing of jockey Kishan Pereira

Kaieteur Sports – Slingerz Racing Stable joins the entire horse racing fraternity in mourning the tragic passing of jockey Kishan Pereira, who lost his life on Sunday at the Rising Sun Turf...

APNU takes rally to Belladrum, WCB, vows to end political discrimination and victimisation

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on APNU takes rally to Belladrum, WCB, vows to end political discrimination and victimisation

Kaieteur News – The A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Sunday night outlined their commitment to ending political discrimination and victimization in Guyana, when that party took its...

1972 Shell Shield team to Jamaica was captained by Lance Gibbs

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on 1972 Shell Shield team to Jamaica was captained by Lance Gibbs

…Statistician Charwayne Walker corrects Colin Croft’s debut account Kaieteur Sports – Renowned cricket statistician Charwayne Walker has issued a respectful correction to a recent...

GECOM tight-lipped on lawyer retained to handle legal matters

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on GECOM tight-lipped on lawyer retained to handle legal matters

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) revealed on Monday, that in the absence of a legal officer, an external lawyer has been retained to handle its legal matters during the...

3 new police stations, computer centre commissioned in Reg. 9

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on 3 new police stations, computer centre commissioned in Reg. 9

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Home Affairs, over the weekend, commissioned over $405 million in police infrastructures in Region Nine. The facilities were commissioned by Minister of...

Making the private sector the scapegoat

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Making the private sector the scapegoat

Kaieteur News – If you want to know why the APNU+AFC coalition government of 2015-2020 collapsed in on itself, don’t look to the private sector. The private sector was too busy trying to...

Dear Jagdeo, where is the Euro166.67M given by European Union to GUYSUCO?

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Dear Jagdeo, where is the Euro166.67M given by European Union to GUYSUCO?

Dear Editor, We, the cane cutters of Adelphi village, East Canje will not be fooled by the PPP hacks who are coming to the sugar workers in East Canje to tell us that the PNC destroyed GUYSUCO and...

Vice President Jagdeo says that Azruddin Mohamed benefits from biased press coverage. What do the facts say?

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Vice President Jagdeo says that Azruddin Mohamed benefits from biased press coverage. What do the facts say?

Kaieteur News – Fact One: Mr. Mohamed has not held one elected office to date. Dr. Jagdeo has been president. finance minister, oil minister, and minister with a universal portfolio. ...

Corruption in Guyana is not merely a political problem—it’s a business model

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Corruption in Guyana is not merely a political problem—it’s a business model

Dear Editor, This is the real face of corruption in Guyana: not random theft, but a structured alliance, it is the PPP’s business model unfortunately. Politicians steer the contracts; elites get...

Ten years later

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Ten years later

Dear Editor, In 2015, at the resumption of local government elections, our group, Linden 2025, participated as an independent entity. This decision was based on the assessment that the prevailing...

Congratulations to Dr. Bulkan

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Congratulations to Dr. Bulkan

Dear Editor, I wish to offer my sincere congratulations to Dr. Arif Bulkan on his appointment as a judge to the Caribbean Court of Justice. This is the same Dr. Bulkan who, I am told, couldn’t find...

Management failed in safety aspect of horse race meet

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Management failed in safety aspect of horse race meet

Dear Editor, It is alleged the fatal fall of the young jockey at the horse race meet may be as a result of poor track and lighting conditions (SN August 18). This, it would be posited, is a clear...

No concern for safety, enjoyment of races at Guyana Cup event

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on No concern for safety, enjoyment of races at Guyana Cup event

Dear Editor, I am not shocked at the headline, “Jockey dies after fall at Guyana Cup” (SN, Aug 18, 2025). Another headline could have been poorly kept stand collapsed after too many people were...

The PPP and corruption

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on The PPP and corruption

Dear Editor, When the PPP/C entered government in 1992, after 28 years in the political wilderness, one of the first acts of the Cheddi Jagan administration was to publicise the details of the bank...

The politics of illusion

Aug 19, 2025 KNEWS Editorial, News Comments Off on The politics of illusion

Kaieteur News – Every day, media houses have to brace themselves for a press invite by the government to a commissioning of a half-complete project or a facility already in use, sometimes for...

Rupununi family wiped out in accident

Aug 18, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Rupununi family wiped out in accident

Kaieteur News – In less than 24 hours six persons have been killed in separate road accidents, among them two children. The most recent accident took place on Sunday along the Rupununi...

‘Restore accounts of our candidates’ – WIN tells banks after OFAC’s clarification

Aug 18, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Restore accounts of our candidates’ – WIN tells banks after OFAC’s clarification

…says actions of banks unjustified, politically-motivated Kaieteur News – We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) is calling for the immediate reinstatement of its candidates’ accounts that were...

57 killed on Sunday

Aug 18, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on 57 killed on Sunday

…as Israel intensifies Gaza City attacks, forcing starving Palestinians to flee (AL-JAZEERA) Israel’s military has stepped up attacks on Gaza City as part of its expanded operations...

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May 14, 2026

2026/27 West Indies 4-Day Championship…GHE vs. WIA Day 4 By Clifton Ross Kaieteur Sports – Arguably one of the more intense, mountainous come-from-behind wins in contemporary Regional 4-Day...

An insult to our intelligence

May 14, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – We are told that the reason regular government press conferences have disappeared is because the administration has moved from “campaign mode” into “implementation mode.” In other words, governing has apparently become too demanding an occupation to permit the...

The Caribbean’s Limits in Absorbing Other States’ Deportees

May 10, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws. The United States has that right, as does every sovereign state. All Caribbean governments...

Sanctity of contract

May 14, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Sanctity of contract has a resonant ring. In isolation. Sanctity of contract placed next to sanctity of sovereignty doesn’t have a leg on which to stand. It pales. It must fade. For what does sanctity of contract do to sanctity of...

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