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Edinburgh home flattened by early morning fire

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Edinburgh home flattened by early morning fire

(Kaieteur News) – Zalema Ally, a 55-year-old housewife of Lot 1, Edinburgh Village, East Bank Berbice, was fortunate enough to escape unharmed from an early morning fire which quickly demolished...

Development Bank Bill rushed through Parliament without debate

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Development Bank Bill rushed through Parliament without debate

(Kaieteur News) – Exactly 52 days after it was first tabled in the National Assembly, the Guyana Development Bank Bill was passed in the National Assembly on Friday afternoon without any debate or...

Non-nationals on MV Barima COI does not mean independent process – TIGI

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Non-nationals on MV Barima COI does not mean independent process – TIGI

…calls for suspension of commission, consultation with opposition, agreement on scope and COI members (Kaieteur News) – Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) has cast aside the assurances by...

$371M estimated for brand new Kingston Secondary School building

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on $371M estimated for brand new Kingston Secondary School building

(Kaieteur News) – The Ministry of Education says the new Kingston Secondary School building is estimated to cost some $371 million. During a recent opening of bids at the National Procurement and...

Oil price dives as US and Iran pause attacks

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Oil price dives as US and Iran pause attacks

(BBC News) The price of oil has fallen sharply on hopes that a pause in attacks between the US and Iran could help to de-escalate the conflict. Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, sank more...

Rodrigues-Birkett faces tougher race for UN chief

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Rodrigues-Birkett faces tougher race for UN chief

…as former UN under- secretary enters contest Guyana’s hopes of producing the next Secretary-General of the United Nations have become more challenging after Uganda officially nominated...

Ram says Ali’s COI dodges key issues

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Ram says Ali’s COI dodges key issues

…questions why 87-year-old MV Barima was still sailing (Kaieteur News) – Chartered Accountant and attorney Christopher Ram has questioned the government’s Commission of Inquiry (COI)...

Theatrics overshadow substance

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Theatrics overshadow substance

(Kaieteur News) – Parliament has never been a silent chamber. Around the world, legislatures have always been places where members interrupt, heckle, applaud loudly, exchange sharp remarks and use...

The COI must not take the place of immediate reforms

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on The COI must not take the place of immediate reforms

Dear Editor, Here we go again. Subservience and intellectual concession to others. Asking others for solutions for problems we already have the answers to lying right before our eyes. Let’s not...

An open letter to His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS Letters 1

Dear Mr. President, On 21 July in an open letter, I asked two things of you. You granted the first, a period of national mourning. That is appreciated. The second was that you establish an...

Barges and the tide could lift the MV Barima

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Barges and the tide could lift the MV Barima

Dear Editor, I am forced to write this letter because lack of answers and the inability of the team to bring the MV Barima to shore. At the end of this letter I have suggested how this can be done in...

Like the Rastaman, Ian espoused positive vibrations

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Like the Rastaman, Ian espoused positive vibrations

Dear Editor, Ian was one of my best friends. This may surprise many. For many reasons except one, humanitarianism, we were poles apart. He was neither a temperamental and pompous man, he had...

The MV Barima Tragedy: Accountability Must Not End with the Little People

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on The MV Barima Tragedy: Accountability Must Not End with the Little People

Dear Editor, The loss of life aboard the MV Barima is one of the darkest chapters in Guyana’s modern history. More than seventy people lost their lives in a tragedy that has devastated families...

Ram accused of double standard on US forced labour policy

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Ram accused of double standard on US forced labour policy

Dear Editor, Christopher Ram’s letter, published in your editor of 26th July, 2026, is a remarkable exercise in selective indignation. It accepts, almost without question, the moral authority of...

The debt burden

Jul 28, 2026 KNEWS Editorial, News Comments Off on The debt burden

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana should be celebrating one of the greatest economic transformations in modern history. Instead, it is confronting one of its greatest contradictions. The world sees a...

Amazon Warriors go top with 53-Run win over Lahore Qalandars

Jul 27, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Amazon Warriors go top with 53-Run win over Lahore Qalandars

The Guyana Amazon Warriors maintained their unbeaten start to the ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League, securing a decisive 53-run victory over the Lahore Qalandars at the Guyana National Stadium on...

Pres. Ali names 5-member COI to investigate MV Barima disaster

Jul 27, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Pres. Ali names 5-member COI to investigate MV Barima disaster

…sidesteps calls for opposition, Parliament oversight (Kaieteur News) – One week after the MV Barima capsized en route to Region One leaving 73 dead and at least 30 still missing, President...

Pressure mounts on Edghill as Indigenous leaders demand his resignation over ferry tragedy

Jul 27, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Pressure mounts on Edghill as Indigenous leaders demand his resignation over ferry tragedy

(Kaieteur News) – As criticisms continue to mount over the MV Barima tragedy, two hinterland leaders are now openly calling on Public Works Minister Juan Edghill to resign, pointing out that the...

Guyana among hardest-hit in the Americas for brain disorders

Jul 27, 2026 KNEWS News 1

– two in five affected, as stroke, dementia, epilepsy surge (Kaieteur News) – Guyana has been identified as one of the countries carrying the heaviest burden of neurological disorders in the...

Guyana’s Commonwealth Games 3×3 campaign ends in heartbreaking defeat to Nigeria

Jul 27, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Guyana’s Commonwealth Games 3×3 campaign ends in heartbreaking defeat to Nigeria

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s historic debut at the Commonwealth Games 3×3 Basketball competition came to a heartbreaking end on Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland, as the national team suffered...

Canadian firm eyes acquisition of company controlling Quartzstone Gold Project

Jul 27, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Canadian firm eyes acquisition of company controlling Quartzstone Gold Project

…weeks after another company inks US$5M deal with Guyanese subsidiary (Kaieteur News) – Weeks after Canadian mining company Fortuna Mining Corp. entered into a more than US$5 million...

Guyanese want independent COI, but dem want to pick de independence too

Jul 27, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyanese want independent COI, but dem want to pick de independence too

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh Guyana got a special kind of talent. We does ask fuh one thing, get exactly what we ask fuh, and then spend de next three weeks explaining why it ain’t right. Is...

Peterson bags Guyana’s first medal at CAC Games

Jul 27, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Peterson bags Guyana’s first medal at CAC Games

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana celebrated its first medal at the Centennial Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games after Ceili Peterson captured a bronze medal in the Women’s Under-49kg...

Pakistan Tour of the West Indies… Masood, Imam and Ali make it Pakistan’s day

Jul 27, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Pakistan Tour of the West Indies… Masood, Imam and Ali make it Pakistan’s day

(Cricinfo) – Shan Masood rode his luck, and then showed his grit in an unbeaten innings that has left him 12 runs shy of three figures overnight, and put his side slightly ahead at the close of...

U.S. and Iran hit pause on strikes for second day

Jul 27, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on U.S. and Iran hit pause on strikes for second day

(AL-JAZEERA) The United States and Iran have pressed pause for a second day on what had been an escalating conflict. Reports on Sunday said neither the U.S. nor Iran had launched strikes for a second...

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Jumbo Jet’s new horse, Sand Pipes wins Guyana Cup

Aug 24, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Newly imported horse from the Jumbo Jet Racing Stables, Sand Pipes stormed to a comprehensive victory in the prestigious Guyana Cup horse race at Rising Sun Turf Club on a cool...

Ten schools on one street

Aug 24, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana never ceases to amaze me. There are moments when a government announces an achievement and it is done in such a manner that one is expected to feel grateful for the evidence of progress. Some of these announcements are about routine things. Yet, the announcement is made...

Facts, Due Process and Fairness: The CCJ’s Test

Aug 23, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...

Procurement master composer Ali on stage

Aug 24, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Those visits by Pres. Ali into places of worship may be paying off. He sees the light. He may insist that he sees god (meaning himself); I settle for light. Light is late in coming. Its speed slowed down by GPL wires and thick political darkness. But light has arrived...

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