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Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on 2026 ExxonMobil GSL T20 tournament… Shepherd, Nabi lead Warriors to come-from-behind win
Kaieteur Sports – All-rounder Romario Shepherd bludgeoned a fifty while the veteran Mohammad Nabi played his role nicely to help the Guyana Amazon Warriors come from way behind to steal an...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Slingerz FC march into CFU Caribbean Shield quarter-finals with dramatic victory in T&T
Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s premier football club, Slingerz FC, continued its impressive debut campaign in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Caribbean Shield by securing a thrilling 4-3...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Guyana’s Mixed Archery Team start the Central American and Caribbean Games
Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s Target Archery athletes Devin Permaul and Roshini Boodhoo completed their qualification rounds at the XXV Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo on...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Pakistan Tour of the West Indies 2026… Hodge’s half century highlights opening day of first Test
Kaieteur Sports – Kavem Hodge’s fourth Test half-century kept Pakistan at bay through an extended middle session. A two-hour rain delay that forced an early lunch and a delayed restart...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Raja Pooran slams 106* for Essequibo Coast Cricket Club in OSCL T20
Kaieteur Sports – Former Guyana youth player Raja Pooran struck a pugnacious, unbeaten 106 to inspire Essequibo Coast Cricket Club to a comprehensive, 10-wicket win against Expendables in the...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on 2026/27 Concacaf Nations League Groups Confirmed
…League B Guyana drawn in Group A Kaieteur Sports – Concacaf recently conducted the official draw for the 2026/27 Concacaf Nations League Group Stage. The made-for-TV draw event, live from...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Permaul and Peterson lead Team Guyana as Flag Bearers at CAC Games Opening Ceremony
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Archery’s Devin Permaul and Taekwondo’s Ceili Peterson proudly carried the Golden Arrowhead during the Opening Ceremony of the XXV Central American...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on ‘One Guyana’ put to the test as Parliament yet to meet on MV Barima tragedy
Dear Editor, Your editorial in Kaieteur News of 21 July noted inter alia: ‘This country and its citizens are in urgent need of a few miracles. To vanquish the darkness that hangs over Guyana...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Robert Persaud seeks to reassure us, but about the wrong risk
Dear Editor, Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud’s statement on the United States’ 12.5 percent tariff, quoted in Demerara Waves, answers a charge the Americans did not make. The action taken by...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Lack of safety standards enforcement
Dear Editor, (Kaieteur News) – As a public communications analyst, I am increasingly confronted with conversations about the lack of safety regulations, enforcement, and modern standards across...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on ‘Fire Edghill!’ – letter writer blames Minister for MV Barima disaster
Dear Editor, “Rivah nah get front door; rivah nah get backdoor.” The words of my late maternal grandfather [Cap’n Mackenzie] is an appropriate reminder of the dangers of travel on the high...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on MYO extends condolences and support following the sinking of the MV Barima
Dear Editor, The Muslim Youth Organisation of Guyana (MYO) extends its deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of those who tragically lost their lives following the sinking of the MV...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Resource curse debate misses key distinction on institutions
Dear Editor, I have been following with great interest the ongoing debate in your newspaper regarding the resource curse and its relationship with institutions. It is an important discussion,...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Other nations’ ministers stepped down following deadly ferry disasters
…calls grow for Edghill to do the same (Kaieteur News) – In the wake of what is being described as Guyana’s deadliest maritime disaster, calls have intensified for Minister of Public Works...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Grieving mother calls on Govt. to subsidise airfares after ferry tragedy claims son
By Khadidja Ba (Kaieteur News) – Sitting opposite her home’s mirror, where her 16-year-old son, Andriel Bautista, used to stand fixing his curly hair before and after school, Anndyar Deally is...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on GHRA demands Parliament-led COI into MV Barima sinking
(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) on Saturday raised concerns over President Irfaan Ali’s plan to unilaterally name the membership of the Commission of Inquiry (COI)...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Opposition parties cite lack of consultation in President’s COI of MV Barima tragedy
…want IMO investigation conducted alongside COI (Kaieteur News) – Opposition parties, We Invest in Nationhood (WIN), A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), the Forward Guyana Movement (FGM),...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Some people just unreliable
Dem Boys Seh… (Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh some people résumé got more decorations than a Christmas tree. If credentials was medals, dem would need a wheelbarrow to carry them around....Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Born Into a Story: How Family, Culture, and Society Begin Shaping Us Before We Can Speak
By Dr. Eon Andre George, PhD, EdD Series: Behind the Behaviour (Kaieteur News) – Long before we learn our first word, someone has already begun writing our story. Before we decide what we believe,...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Blackman-Waddell Summer Math Institute will offer gifted Guyanese students free access to world-class mathematics training
…Rejected by QC Board, Elite Mathematics Camp Re-emerges as Independent Institute (Kaieteur News) – After a decade of challenging some of Guyana’s brightest young mathematical minds, the...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on APNU questions safety of sunken MV Barima amidst tender documents for sweeping rehabilitation
(Kaieteur News) – The A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has raised serious questions concerning the safety of the sunken MV Barima vessel in light of tender documents dated March 2026...Jul 26, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on We Are Living the Consequences
By Dr. Karen Abrams, MBA AA (Kaieteur News) – There is a woman in Guyana who has lost seven children on the ill-fated MV Barima vessel. A family of 17 people began the journey, only 7 survived. I...

Aug 31, 2026
CPL – The Jamaica Kingsmen recorded their fourth win of the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) with a 7-run win via DLS over the Trinbago Knight Riders, as the rain halted play just...Aug 31, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – There is an old temptation among small countries, particularly those situated beside larger and more troublesome neighbours. They often mistake the friendship of a great power for an insurance policy. The illusion is comforting. It permits governments to spend less time...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...Aug 31, 2026
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