February 2, 2026

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US$2.8B to flow into oil account this year

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on US$2.8B to flow into oil account this year

…Guyana to receive 40M barrels while Exxon gets 269M Kaieteur News – Guyana is expected to receive about US$2.8B in oil revenue in 2026, as oil prices continue to suffer further declines....

Gold, bauxite power non-oil expert boom

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Gold, bauxite power non-oil expert boom

…as earnings top US$1.7 billion in 2026 Kaieteur News – Guyana’s non-oil export earnings surged in 2025, driven largely by strong performances in the gold and bauxite sectors, with...

Iran warns of regional conflict if US attacks, designates EU armies ‘terrorists’

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Iran warns of regional conflict if US attacks, designates EU armies ‘terrorists’

(Reuters) – Iran’s leadership warned of a regional conflict on Sunday if the U.S. were to attack it, stoking the tension between Washington and Tehran, and it designated EU armies as...

Guyana-China trade soars past US$2.9B

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Guyana-China trade soars past US$2.9B

– as ambassador pushes for Spring Festival to be national holiday Kaieteur News – With bilateral trade surging to nearly US$2.9 billion in 2025, more than doubling within a year and...

PNCR GECOM commissioners reject call to discuss status

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on PNCR GECOM commissioners reject call to discuss status

Kaieteur News – Responding to a request by opposition leader Azruddin Mohamed to meet, Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) opposition commissioners Vincent Alexander, Desmond Trotman and...

Ann’s Grove man killed as bike slams into car

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Ann’s Grove man killed as bike slams into car

Kaieteur News – Thirty-two-year-old electric-biker and bus conductor Kendel Lewis of Ann’s Grove Village has died after sustaining injuries in an accident along the Ann’s Grove Public Road,...

CANU warns: Cartoon drug packaging is illegal, dangerous

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on CANU warns: Cartoon drug packaging is illegal, dangerous

Kaieteur News – The Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) said it has observed online advertisements offering cartoon-themed “1-gram” zip-lock bags commonly used for the packaging,...

Paper don’t steer; people do

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Paper don’t steer; people do

Kaieteur News – Dem boys seh is a funny country we living in, bai. Here, once yuh nah gat a licence, everybody quick to decide yuh can’t drive—especially if is a big lorry involved. But dem...

A life deferred

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

Peeping tom… Kaieteur News – There is a particular sadness in a life postponed indefinitely in the name of duty. It happens not suddenly but via the quieter erosion of years, years...

Govt not serious about GuySuCo’s return to profitability – Vinceroy Jordan

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News 1

Kaieteur News – A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament, Vinceroy Jordan said the PPP/C Administration is not serious about seeing the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo)...

Jordan warns against using inflated growth from oil to increase country’s debt

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Jordan warns against using inflated growth from oil to increase country’s debt

Kaieteur News – The Government of Guyana (GoG) will be increasing the country’s debt by the end of 2026 to a troubling US$10.3 billion, all while assuring citizens that its borrowing stands...

Exxon beats Wall Street Q4 target as Permian, Guyana fields take output to 40-year high

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Exxon beats Wall Street Q4 target as Permian, Guyana fields take output to 40-year high

HOUSTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil beat Wall Street targets in fourth-quarter earnings reported on Friday, with higher oil production in profitable Permian Basin and Guyana assets helping...

Edghill assures Harbour Bridge staff jobs secure

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Edghill assures Harbour Bridge staff jobs secure

Kaieteur News – Minister of Public Works Bishop Juan Edghill has assured employees of the old Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB), that their jobs are secure, amid ongoing preparations to transition...

Higher production, lower prices, less money, still bigger budgets

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Higher production, lower prices, less money, still bigger budgets

Hard truths… Kaieteur News – Neither oilman nor math man did one have to be. Simple arithmetic and commonsense suffice. When leaders are principled, keen insights are theirs. They...

Newcomer WIN says prepared for budget debates

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Newcomer WIN says prepared for budget debates

Kaieteur News – The We Invest in Nationhood party said that its Members of Parliament are prepared for this year’s budget debates, with Dr. Andre Lewis- Shadow Minister of Natural Resources...

22 femicide cases recorded in 2025

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on 22 femicide cases recorded in 2025

Kaieteur News – Twenty-two femicide cases were recorded in Guyana in 2025, representing a sharp increase from the 13 cases in 2024, according to the 2026 National Budget document. Femicide is...

GAPLF welcomes $6B budgetary allocation to Sports

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on GAPLF welcomes $6B budgetary allocation to Sports

Kaieteur Sports – The Guyana Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF) joins fellow sporting bodies in applauding the Government of Guyana for the significant monetary provisions made in the 2026...

Junior Lady Jags play final Group match today

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Junior Lady Jags play final Group match today

2026 Concacaf Women’s u17 Qualifiers… Kaieteur Sports – Guyana Women’s under-17 football team are scheduled to play their final Group D match of the 2026 Concacaf Women’s Under-17...

Guyana down French Guiana in Nations Cup

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Guyana down French Guiana in Nations Cup

…sets up title showdown with Suriname Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s men’s national basketball team opened their Nations Cup campaign in commanding fashion on Saturday evening, defeating...

‘We will be stronger, bigger and better’ — Broomes says as ALP marks one-year anniversary

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘We will be stronger, bigger and better’ — Broomes says as ALP marks one-year anniversary

Kaieteur News – The Assembly for Liberty and Prosperity (ALP) on Sunday marked its one-year anniversary; with party leader and women’s rights activist Simona Broomes declaring that the party...

Dataman conquers Qlympic Kremlin in feature showdown

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Dataman conquers Qlympic Kremlin in feature showdown

Banks Classic 2026… Kaieteur Sports – Master Z dynamic horse Dataman displayed class of the highest order to clinch a massive victory at the Banks Classic at Port Mourant Turf Club. Watched...

Local hatching egg programme is good for Guyana

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Local hatching egg programme is good for Guyana

Dear Editor, As per Budget 2026 details, I note that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic Government “… has set its sights on producing up to 20 million hatching eggs annually as part of a...

Civic Education and the Pursuit of Justice: Beyond Azruddin’s “Nothing for You” Narrative

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Civic Education and the Pursuit of Justice: Beyond Azruddin’s “Nothing for You” Narrative

Dear Editor The recent column by Nazim Baksh, “Azruddin’s‘nothing for you’ budget lie” (Feb 1, GC), is a masterclass in connecting the dots between political rhetoric and social...

A Reality Check on Guyana’s “Household Income Transformation” Narrative

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on A Reality Check on Guyana’s “Household Income Transformation” Narrative

Dear Editor After carefully reading the article titled “ Guyana’s Households Income Model has shifted, from remittance dependence to domestic earnings and state-led social support (Feb 1, 2026,...

The opposition must work together

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS Letters 1

Dear Editor, Results from the 2025 General and Regional Elections have been declared by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). While some may be happy with the results, many are unhappy. The We...

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‘Need For Speed’ meet and greet set for West Central Mall this...

Jun 04, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Karting action returns this month with bigger and better prizes, following the announcement that Jumbo Jet Events is staging the Need for Speed event, where over GYD $17 million...

The law of numbers is catching up with us

Jun 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Every day you pick up the newspaper and you are greeted by another tragedy on our roads. It has become so routine that we scarcely have time to absorb one horrific accident before another takes its place. Just two days ago, three persons lost their lives in a devastating road...

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...

God’s gift to Guyanese

Jun 04, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – No! It’s not oil. It’s bigger. It’s neither mountains nor minerals, seas and forests. Grand, indeed; but wrong again. None of those even come close to God’s greatest gift to Guyanese. All of them. Whoever is such a Gulliverian figure...

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