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President Ali calls for 100% locally produced bottled water within a year

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on President Ali calls for 100% locally produced bottled water within a year

Kaieteur News – President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali on Saturday announced a bold push to ensure all bottled water consumed locally is produced in Guyana within the next year, as he outlined a...

Suriname to install joint technical team for proposed Berbice Gas-to-Energy project

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Suriname to install joint technical team for proposed Berbice Gas-to-Energy project

Kaieteur News – Suriname’s Minister of Oil, Gas and Environment, Patrick Loys Brunings, says his government is prepared to establish a technical team with Guyana to examine President Dr....

Flying Ace Cycle Club Mashramani Road Race set for today, Mash Day in NA

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Flying Ace Cycle Club Mashramani Road Race set for today, Mash Day in NA

Kaieteur Sports – The Flying Ace Cycle Club (FACC) of New Amsterdam, Berbice has once again organised a feature cycle road race around the town of New Amsterdam in observance of Mashramani. The...

Archery Guyana Supports Inclusive Sport at ‘Epilepsy in Sport’ Workshop

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Archery Guyana Supports Inclusive Sport at ‘Epilepsy in Sport’ Workshop

Kaieteur Sports – Hosted through the combined efforts of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, the National Sports Commission (NSC), the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), and the Epilepsy...

Guyana’s Supreme Court joins International Court Excellence Consortium

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Guyana’s Supreme Court joins International Court Excellence Consortium

Kaieteur News – The Supreme Court of Judicature of Guyana has been formally accepted as an Implementing Member of the International Consortium for Court Excellence (ICCE). In a recent...

Close Relationship with USA and lobbying

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Close Relationship with USA and lobbying

Dear Editor, Reference is drawn to editorial (Jan 23) and letter (Feb 13) questioning Guyana’s close, relationship with Washington and expending over US$1M annually on an American lobbyist firm to...

Golden Ceilings and Hidden Fault Lines: What Guyana Must Weigh Before Embracing Agro Giants

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Golden Ceilings and Hidden Fault Lines: What Guyana Must Weigh Before Embracing Agro Giants

Dear Editor, “In a recent GOINVEST release, CEO Peter Ramsaroop disclosed that global agro‑processing giant Del Monte has submitted an expression of interest in Guyana—an exciting and...

Maha Shivratri and cosmology

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Maha Shivratri and cosmology

Dear Editor, Please permit me to share a bit of information on the festival of Maha Shivratri (great night of Lord Shiva) which was celebrated on Sunday, February 15th by Hindus across the globe....

CARICOM: TO BE OR NOT TO BE….

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters 1

Dear Editor, An article headlined ‘If US Secretary Rubio attends CARICOM Summit – let It mark a reset — not a reckoning’ was published on February 19,2026 on the Caribbean News Global (CNG)...

A rebellious and revelous road revealing a Republic of Guyana

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on A rebellious and revelous road revealing a Republic of Guyana

Dear Editor, The Co-operative Republic of Guyana is celebrating the 56th anniversary since she declared herself as a sovereign nation on the 23rd February, 1970. From the captive days of...

ExxonMobil eyeing new discovery at Goatfish-1 well

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on ExxonMobil eyeing new discovery at Goatfish-1 well

(Kaieteur News) – ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) is currently conducting exploration drilling operations at the Goatfish-1 well site, targeting a new discovery in the prolific Stabroek Block....

$468M Bartica Water Treatment Plant commissioned

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on $468M Bartica Water Treatment Plant commissioned

…Pres. Ali wants all consumed water to be locally produced in 12 months (Kaieteur News) – President Irfaan Ali on Saturday commissioned the $468 million water treatment plant at Five Miles,...

Cuban security forces exit Venezuela as US pressure mounts

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Cuban security forces exit Venezuela as US pressure mounts

CARACAS, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Cuban security advisers and doctors have been leaving Venezuela as Interim President Delcy Rodriguez’s government faces intense pressure from Washington to...

Trio nabbed with 10.9 kg of cocaine at Parika

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Trio nabbed with 10.9 kg of cocaine at Parika

(Kaieteur News) – Three persons were arrested on Friday after they were found with ten brick-like parcels of cocaine. The trio have been identified as Jared and Jahdiel Kellawan and David...

Elderly woman dies following bee attack at Success

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Elderly woman dies following bee attack at Success

(Kaieteur News) – A 77-year-old woman lost her life on Friday evening after being viciously attacked by a swarm of bees at Success, East Coast Demerara (ECD). Dead is Mohadai Sankar, known as...

First Scleral Buckle Surgeries performed at GPHC

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on First Scleral Buckle Surgeries performed at GPHC

(Kaieteur News) – The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Saturday said it recently performed for the first time, Scleral Buckle Surgeries, a primary method used in retinal detachment...

Massy Gas Products among 10 vying to construct and operate cooking gas bottling company in Guyana

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Massy Gas Products among 10 vying to construct and operate cooking gas bottling company in Guyana

(Kaieteur News) – Massy Gas Products, along with nine other companies have expressed an interest in partnering with the Government of Guyana (GoG) on the construction and operation of a cooking...

Man beats brother to death with garden hoe at Capoey

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Man beats brother to death with garden hoe at Capoey

(Kaieteur News) – A 57-year-old labourer was allegedly beaten to death by his brother with a garden hoe, on Friday afternoon at Capoey Mission, Essequibo Coast. Dead is Leslie Edwards, called...

When the Pipeline Is Ready but Development Is Not: Guyana’s Gas Moment Between Opportunity and Drift

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on When the Pipeline Is Ready but Development Is Not: Guyana’s Gas Moment Between Opportunity and Drift

By Anthony Paul, Senior Energy and Strategy Advisor and former Director of Geology and Geophysics at the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Energy. (Kaieteur News) – For much of the past year,...

$144.9M road project at Rupertee Village completed

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on $144.9M road project at Rupertee Village completed

(Kaieteur News) – The Ministry of Public Works on Saturday announced that the $144.9 million road network project that was being executed at Rupertee Village, Region Nine is now completed. “This...

Gold miner robbed of $1.1M in jewellery

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Gold miner robbed of $1.1M in jewellery

(Kaieteur News) – Police are investigating an alleged armed robbery committed on a 22-year-old gold miner, who was reportedly robbed of approximately $1,196,000 worth in jewellery on Sunday....

Trump says he will increase his new global tariffs to 15%

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Trump says he will increase his new global tariffs to 15%

BBC – US President Donald Trump has said that he will impose global tariffs of 15%, as he continued to rail against a Supreme Court ruling that struck down his previous import taxes. Trump said...

Govt. allocates house lots to families evicted from Joe Vieira Park

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Govt. allocates house lots to families evicted from Joe Vieira Park

(Kaieteur News) – The Ministry of Housing and Water, through the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), has allocated house lots to seven of the thirteen persons who were occupying...

Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis hold “fruitful” discussions ahead of 50th CARICOM heads meeting

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis hold “fruitful” discussions ahead of 50th CARICOM heads meeting

(Kaieteur News) – President Irfaan Ali and Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis and current Chair of CARICOM, the Honourable Dr. Terrance Drew met at State House on Saturday. The two leaders...

A state of emergency fuh traffic

Feb 22, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A state of emergency fuh traffic

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh dem hate fuh sound like a ol’ vinyl record weh get scratch and keep jumping back to de same line. But wha fuh do? When yuh driving pon de East Coast Public Road,...

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GFF President Forde announces Guyana Junior Jaguars’...

Jun 18, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Wayne Forde, has announced that Guyana’s Junior Jaguars will participate in the inaugural FIFA Global U-15 Boys...

(Kaieteur News) – The government has done it again. It has indicated that workers can look forward to an increased income tax threshold of $200,000 by the end of the decade. One Facebook comment hit the nail on the head. It urged the government to file for intellectual bankruptcy. Increasing the...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

Jun 14, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

Churches as moral compass

Jun 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – President Ali got that one right. Institutions such as churches have a duty to function as “society’s moral compass.” I couldn’t agree more with the president. Commend him. More commendations for Excellency Ali: “together let us find the soul of this...

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