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Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Be your own Santa
(Kaieteur News) – It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person without access to a Christmas bonus must be in want of a cash grant. Or so the prevailing wisdom seems to suggest. The recent...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Champions Silver Shattas win first game as FC YMCA, Capital FC, W/Connection and Blueberry Hill gain second victories
UDFA/Banks DIH Year End/Christmas Futsal Day Two… Kaieteur Sports – Silver Shattas humbled Amelia’s Ward Panthers, 11-2, and record their first outright victory, but winning their second...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Taking the bad with the good
Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Read of an explosion or a mass shooting and there’s one early interpretation that encircles then takes over the mind. Terrorism. Sound the word...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on DCC executives congratulate Ashmead Nedd
Kaieteur Sports – The executives and members of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) is extending congratulations to national left arm spinner and clubmate Ashmead Nedd on his nomination for sportsman...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Reminiscing about Guyanese Deportations from USA then and now
Dear Editor, Reference is drawn to your news report about eight violent Guyanese being arrested in USA and set for deportation (KN Dec 15). Deportations today are quite different from fifty years...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Pentecostal Fire Organized basketball rivalry among Linden churches tonight and tomorrow at Retrieve Hard Court
– Georgetown Select side to play tomorrow night…Pastors in shootout matchups Kaieteur Sports – Church basketball rivalry will take centre stage tonight and tomorrow night with four teams...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on CARPHA and Healthy Caribbean coalition reaffirm partnership to strengthen Caribbean response to NDCs
The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC) have reaffirmed their long-standing partnership to advance the regional response to Non-Communicable Diseases...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Part-time workers, CSOs to receive $50,000 in minimum wage
Thousands of Guyanese employed as part-time government workers, Community Service Officers (CSOs) and neighbourhood police will benefit from a minimum wage increase from $40,000 to $50,000. His...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Youngsters face toughest challenge yet, with series locked 2-2
2025 Barbados tour of Guyana U-13 40-Over series Final…. Kaieteur Sports – Despite having the series in their clutches following a pair of opening wins, Guyana have found themselves in a...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Regional cooperation must be matched with local policies that address crime prevention
Dear Editor, As a public analyst, I am deeply disheartened by the growing reports of Guyanese nationals being involved in criminal activity both at home and abroad. Equally troubling is the reality...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Measures for private sector advancement in Govt’s development agenda
Dear Editor, The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is pleased with the keen attention paid to measures geared at improving the development of entrepreneurship and private sector...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on THAG applauds Pres. Ali’s announcement of flat tax on double-cab pick-ups
Dear Editor, The Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) warmly welcomes President Dr.Mohamed Irfaan Ali’s announcement of the introduction of a flat tax on double-cab pick-ups,along...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Cybersecurity maturity improves in Latin America and Caribbean – IDB-OAS Report Finds
Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have made significant progress in strengthening their cybersecurity capacity, but persistent gaps in resources, workforce development, and cross-sector...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Lip-service on good governance
Dear Editor, Without reference or deference to the text of the President`s recent Address to the Nation, I wish to comment on what that address signaled in relation to democracy and governance, in...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on S&P Global affirms CDB strong credit ratings and stable outlook
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB, the Bank) today announced that S&P Global Ratings has affirmed its long-term issuer credit rating of ‘AA+’ and an improved short-term issuer credit rating...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Place your trust not in political promises, but in God
Dear Editor, The conduct of President Irfaan Ali and his administration at recent state-related engagements raises serious concerns about respect for democratic institutions and inclusive governance....Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Upholding Parliamentary Traditions and Democratic Inclusion
Dear Editor, I write with sincere concern about recent developments surrounding the presentation of President Irfaan Ali’s five-year development plan. Traditionally, such important national...Dec 19, 2025 KNEWS Editorial, News Comments Off on Debt service pressures social services
(Kaieteur News) – A short time ago, the question from the media was how well Guyana would do in servicing its US multibillion dollar in a falling oil price environment. In 2022, Guyana’s debt...Dec 18, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Conway 178* and Latham 137 grind West Indies to dust in Mount Maunganui
ESPNcricinfo – The Bay of Plenty lived up to its name but only for New Zealand. Devon Conway and Tom Latham harvested a century each and by that time they were having so much fun they would...Dec 18, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘No cash grant for Christmas’ …Pres. Ali dangles $100K payout for all adults in 2026 budget
(Kaieteur News) – The anticipation of thousands of Guyanese who tuned in to President Irfaan Ali’s more than two-hour national address on Wednesday night ended in disappointment, as it became...Dec 18, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Guyana is not a one-party state’ — opposition warns of democratic drift as Pres. Ali outlines five-year agenda outside of Parliament
(Kaieteur News) – Leader of the Forward Guyana Movement and Member of Parliament, Amanza Walton-Desir and MP Sherod Duncan have issued a stark warning that Guyana’s democratic foundations are...Dec 18, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Fire rips through Parika supermarket, nearby building
Kaieteur News – Fire destroyed a supermarket and a nearby building at Parika, East Bank Essequibo Wednesday night. There were reports of individuals trying to loot stores during the tragedy....Dec 18, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on After electoral drubbing… Norton signals major APNU shake-up
(Kaieteur News) – Former Leader of the Opposition and head of the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Aubrey Norton has announced plans for a major reorganisation of the coalition in the new...Dec 18, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Youth to spend 5 years in jail for killing DJ Viper
(Kaieteur News) – A 23-year-old man is set to serve only five years’ imprisonment for the 2023 killing of father of two and popular local disc jockey Brian Pitam, known as “DJ Viper.” A...Dec 18, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Oil boom heightens corruption awareness in Guyana – AG tells UN, defends free, critical press
(Kaieteur News) – Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall on Tuesday told the Eleventh Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention, that...

Sep 02, 2026
Kaieteur Sports – Round Three of the Pegasus Weekly Chess League, organized by Drayton’s Chess Club in partnership with the Pegasus Chess Club and Guyana Chess Federation, continued on Monday...Sep 02, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – The Ministry of Health’s response to Peeping Tom’s column, “Second-Class Patients,” is a case whereby a medical response is so clinically misplaced that one is tempted to prescribe a second opinion. The Ministry has produced an impressive medical case for something...Aug 30, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...Sep 02, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – There’s a human tragedy. Cotton Tree and two cousins. Across Mandarin Bridge and an 11-year-old-child. Police killings in Linden. And, more lately, a boat that went down and took down over 100 Guyanese lives. Poor ones. The rich ones and big ones don’t sail,...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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