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Billions from oil, no safe passage for hinterland residents – MP Hastings on MV Barima tragedy

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Billions from oil, no safe passage for hinterland residents – MP Hastings on MV Barima tragedy

Kaieteur Sports – Member of Parliament for We Invest in Nationhood (WIN), Dawn Hastings-Williams, on Wednesday lamented the risky river travel conditions that residents of hinterland communities...

Oil settles up more than 3% to six-week high as Mideast conflict threatens oil transit routes

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Oil settles up more than 3% to six-week high as Mideast conflict threatens oil transit routes

(Reuters) – Oil prices settled at their highest since 11th June on Wednesday on mounting supply concerns as hostilities continued to escalate between the U.S. and Iran, while threats to by...

Opposition unites in call for Edghill to go

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Opposition unites in call for Edghill to go

…mulls parliamentary action (Kaieteur News) – The joint opposition has demanded the immediate resignation of Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill in the wake of the MV Barima tragedy, which...

Everybody got a secret source

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Everybody got a secret source

Dem Boys Seh… (Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh if Guyanese ever start exporting “inside information,” the oil money gon look like pocket change. Dem boys remember one day a fella...

Guyana boxers ruled out of Commonwealth Games after delayed Gender Test results

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Guyana boxers ruled out of Commonwealth Games after delayed Gender Test results

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s boxing campaign at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, has been dealt a devastating blow after the country’s boxers were rendered ineligible...

Belgrave, Moore to carry Guyana’s flag at Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Belgrave, Moore to carry Guyana’s flag at Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony

Kaieteur Sports – History will be made on Friday evening in Glasgow, Scotland, when 3×3 basketball standout Travis Belgrave and national 800-metre runner Aaliyah Moore proudly carry...

Berbice families’ hopes end in grief… One waited for a phone call, another searched through bodies

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Berbice families’ hopes end in grief… One waited for a phone call, another searched through bodies

(Kaieteur News) – The last time Mark Abrams spoke to his wife, she reminded him to eat before the MV Barima entered rough waters. He promised to call again when he reached Port Kaituma. That call...

Incomplete $1.4B Port Kaituma Wharf a “Clear Example of Mismanagement” – Patterson

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Incomplete $1.4B Port Kaituma Wharf a “Clear Example of Mismanagement” – Patterson

…as AFC demands immediate fleet and terminal modernisation (Kaieteur News) – Acting Leader of the Alliance for Change (AFC), David Patterson, said Wednesday that the incomplete $1.4 billion Port...

2026 CWI Rising Stars Under-19 Championship… Guyana beat Windward by 53 runs as curtains come down on mixed season

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on 2026 CWI Rising Stars Under-19 Championship… Guyana beat Windward by 53 runs as curtains come down on mixed season

– Barbados claim title Kaieteur Sports – A composed half-century from Dhanesh Persaud steered Guyana to a consolation win yesterday over the Windward Islands as curtains came down on this...

Guyana chess youths off to Colombia

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Guyana chess youths off to Colombia

Kaieteur Sports – A 17-member youth chess team will represent Guyana at the XXXVI Pan American Youth Chess Festival in Medellín, Colombia, from July 26 to August 2, 2026. Hosted by the Colombian...

2026 Teach Them Young Swim Programme… Swimming classes resume July 27 due to National Day(s) of Mourning

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on 2026 Teach Them Young Swim Programme… Swimming classes resume July 27 due to National Day(s) of Mourning

Kaieteur Sports – The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, in collaboration with the National Sports Commission (NSC), has announced the temporary suspension of all activities under its...

Captain, THD loading superintendent detained as police intensify boat incident investigation

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Captain, THD loading superintendent detained as police intensify boat incident investigation

(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has detained the captain and a senior Transport and Harbours Department (THD) official as part of an ongoing criminal probe into the recent maritime...

Long-term trauma counselling pledged for MV Barima survivors, families

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Long-term trauma counselling pledged for MV Barima survivors, families

…Human Services Minister outlines hotline plans, support for first responders (Kaieteur News) – Survivors and families affected by the MV Barima tragedy will receive psychosocial support and...

GPA slams police over repeated media blackouts in MV Barima tragedy

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on GPA slams police over repeated media blackouts in MV Barima tragedy

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana Press Association’s (GPA) President Iva Wharton has sharply criticised what she says is a pattern of journalists being blocked from properly covering the aftermath of...

New Amsterdam waives burial plot fees for families of MV Barima victims

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on New Amsterdam waives burial plot fees for families of MV Barima victims

(Kaieteur News) – The Mayor and Town Council (M&TC) of New Amsterdam has announced that families of those who lost their lives in the MV Barima tragedy will not be required to pay for burial...

The experts among us

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

(Kaieteur News) – There is an old Guyanese tradition that comes alive whenever the nation is struck by tragedy. Before the investigators arrive, before the experts examine the evidence, before the...

Let Edghill stay, those above him must go

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Let Edghill stay, those above him must go

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The clamor is thunderous: EDGHILL MUST GO! I say NO! The people who put Minister Juan Edghill where he is must go. The people who kept Minister...

Every possible causal factor must be examined

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Every possible causal factor must be examined

Dear Editor, Christopher Ram’s letter, published in your newspaper on 22nd July 2026, asks the right questions—but only some of them. More importantly, the questions it omits reveal as much...

MV Barima tragedy exposes Guyana’s deep governance failures

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on MV Barima tragedy exposes Guyana’s deep governance failures

Dear Editor, I am writing to submit the attached opinion piece for consideration in Kaieteur News. The article examines the recent MV Barima tragedy not as an isolated accident, but as part of a...

THE MV BARIMA TRAGEDY COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on THE MV BARIMA TRAGEDY COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED

Dear Editor, The horrific loss of nearly 80 lives lies squarely in the hands of the authorities entrusted with public transportation. How else can anyone explain an 87-year-old boat ferrying some 130...

A Pastor’s word to a grieving nation

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on A Pastor’s word to a grieving nation

Dear Editor, I write to you not as a commentator, but as a pastor, because Guyana is hurting and a pastor’s place is beside the hurting. The waters off Essequibo have taken sons and daughters,...

Lincoln Kewus: Oil Wealth Enriching the Connected While Majority Left Behind

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Lincoln Kewus: Oil Wealth Enriching the Connected While Majority Left Behind

Dear Editor, Guyana stands at a dangerous crossroads. As unprecedented oil wealth flows into the Treasury, growing numbers of citizens are being systematically excluded from the nation’s prosperity...

National mourning

Jul 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on National mourning

Editorial… (Kaieteur News) – All Guyanese who still have some level of humanity in them, some feeling, join in this period of national mourning. A country gathers itself to mourn its...

MV Barima Disaster… Death toll now pegged at 103

Jul 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on MV Barima Disaster… Death toll now pegged at 103

…as 22 more bodies recovered on Day Three …Govt. says 76 survivors accounted for By Khadidja Ba (Kaieteur News) – The death toll following the capsising of the MV Barima is now pegged...

Another boat calamity… Several injured, captain critical after boat collision in Canje River

Jul 22, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Another boat calamity… Several injured, captain critical after boat collision in Canje River

(Kaieteur News) – Several persons, including a team of healthcare workers and four children, were injured on Tuesday afternoon after two boats collided in the Canje River, leaving eight persons...

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Kingsmen claim back-to-back wins

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...

The danger of renting another country’s power

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...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

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...

Praising President Ali, PPP for thinking of Guyanese

Aug 31, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I wish to thank publicly President Ali and the PPP Govt for keeping Guyanese in mind, caring for them. This should have been done before, but circumstances kept getting in the way. The president helped to get priorities in order, so here I am with gratitude in my heart,...

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