August 2026

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Australian firm begins maiden exploration at newly acquired gold project

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Australian firm begins maiden exploration at newly acquired gold project

… Director says “ wasted no time” (Kaieteur News) – Australian company Liberty Metals Ltd has wasted no time in commencing its maiden exploration at its recently acquired gold projects...

Omai to use HFO generators

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Omai to use HFO generators

…as Amaila Falls, GTE projects may miss timeline (Kaieteur News) – Canada-based Omai Gold Mines will have to use heavy fuel oil (HFO) generators to power its gold mining operations in Region...

Woman found dead, naked along Philipai trail; reputed husband questioned

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Woman found dead, naked along Philipai trail; reputed husband questioned

(Kaieteur News) – Police are questioning a 23-year-old man after his reputed wife was found dead along a trail at Philipai Village, Region Seven. She was identified as 25-year-old Marinda Ernest,...

U.S. strikes Iranian rocket launchers on Strait of Hormuz in first military action in weeks

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on U.S. strikes Iranian rocket launchers on Strait of Hormuz in first military action in weeks

(AP) — U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz in their first military action in a month on Sunday, breaking a lull in fighting during an intermittent war that has...

NA Vendor chopped to head, robbed $250,000

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on NA Vendor chopped to head, robbed $250,000

(Kaieteur News) – Fifty-two-year-old Steve King, of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, Berbice, is nursing a chop wound to his head after he was allegedly attacked by three men known to him while he...

Venezuela’s Rodriguez says U.S. energy deal will last 25 years

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Venezuela’s Rodriguez says U.S. energy deal will last 25 years

(Reuters) – Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez said on Saturday that an energy agreement with the U.S. would remain in force for 25 years, target an increase in crude output to 1.5...

GGMC targets mining districts to boost gold declaration

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on GGMC targets mining districts to boost gold declaration

(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) is urging miners to declare their gold through authorised channels, as efforts continue to make declaration services more...

Work? Me? I can’t afford that!

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Work? Me? I can’t afford that!

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh Guyana got a new class of people who never work a day in dem life. And dem ain’t ashamed either. In fact, dem happier than the man who wake up at 5:30 every...

Rodrigues-Birkett deserves our support

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Rodrigues-Birkett deserves our support

Dear Editor, Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Guyana’s candidate, the Caribbean’s candidate, and a compelling voice for the global south is who the United Nations need at this time. Most...

Region Eight’s Tiger Hill a ‘disaster waiting to happen’ – Duncan

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Region Eight’s Tiger Hill a ‘disaster waiting to happen’ – Duncan

(Kaieteur News) – Opposition Member of Parliament Sherod Duncan, has issued a warning to national authorities regarding the alarming state of the Tiger Hill roadway and bridge, describing the...

Proposal: Establishing state-run supermarkets and hardware stores

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS Letters 1

Dear Editor, My name is Vishul Ishwaridin. This is my proposal that outlines a plan for the Government of Guyana to build and operate state-managed supermarkets and hardware stores across all...

Kingsmen claim back-to-back wins

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Kingsmen claim back-to-back wins

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 absence of the Public Procurement Commission

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on The absence of the Public Procurement Commission

Dear Editor, It is with profound disappointment that I address the continuing failure to reconstitute the Public Procurement Commission (PPC), an integral cog in the machinery of governance. The...

The danger of renting another country’s power

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The danger of renting another country’s power

(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...

Puran Bros Top Mix Long Drive Challenge delivers new level of Golf Fun at Westside Golf Course

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Puran Bros Top Mix Long Drive Challenge delivers new level of Golf Fun at Westside Golf Course

Kaieteur Sports – The Puran Bros Top Mix Long Drive Challenge at the Westside Golf Course produced an exciting display of power and skill as golfers battled to record the longest drives in their...

‘Singh misses the point’ — Bacchus defends Green on Barima charges

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on ‘Singh misses the point’ — Bacchus defends Green on Barima charges

Dear Editor, On my return today, I read the amazing letter published in Kaieteur News 28th August, 2026 edition, by one Hargesh B. Singh, titled “Green’s Poppycock”, this writer, Mr. Singh,...

Barima victims urged not to rush into compensation deals by Govt.

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Barima victims urged not to rush into compensation deals by Govt.

(Kaieteur News) – Families affected by the MV Barima disaster are being advised to seek independent legal advice before accepting any money being offered by the government. Attorney Nigel Hughes,...

Was Jaundoo case the reason Guyana left the Privy Council?

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Was Jaundoo case the reason Guyana left the Privy Council?

Dear Editor, I recently stumbled across an extract from a podcast which appeared on the Guyana Business Journal and Magazine Facebook page. In the extract, the learned attorney Timothy Jonas...

Development Bank to provide financing opportunities for businesses in model villages

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Development Bank to provide financing opportunities for businesses in model villages

As government moves to transform 23 communities into model villages, residents are set to gain not only improved infrastructure, but greater access to financing to expand businesses, create jobs and...

DCC Annual Cricket Summer Camp wraps up fruitful 2026 edition

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on DCC Annual Cricket Summer Camp wraps up fruitful 2026 edition

– Minister Jacobs delivers feature address to young cricketers Kaieteur Sports – Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) brought down the curtain on their annual summer camp this past Friday, with the...

Praising President Ali, PPP for thinking of Guyanese

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Praising President Ali, PPP for thinking of Guyanese

(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...

The New Doctor’s Clinic joins Lotto/Let’sBet T10 to provide physiotherapy support

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on The New Doctor’s Clinic joins Lotto/Let’sBet T10 to provide physiotherapy support

Kaieteur Sports – The fourth edition of the Lotto/Let’sBet T10 tournament has secured a boost off the field, with The New Doctor’s Clinic coming on board as the official medical partner. The...

Free movement cannot mean free movement on an unsafe vessel

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Free movement cannot mean free movement on an unsafe vessel

Dear Editor, The contention, by Neville Bissember jnr – as published as a Guest Column in Kiskadee Watch of 25th August, 2026 – that Suriname’s unilateral suspension of the M.V. Canawaima ferry...

Ram is right

Aug 31, 2026 KNEWS Editorial, News Comments Off on Ram is right

(Kaieteur News) – We agree with Chartered Accountant, Chris Ram, that Guyana receiving more money as its share of Profit Oil does not make the 2016 ExxonMobil oil contract a fair deal. ...

Guyana was ‘conned’ out of billions by failure to ring-fence Exxon’s projects – Glenn Lall

Aug 30, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Guyana was ‘conned’ out of billions by failure to ring-fence Exxon’s projects – Glenn Lall

(Kaieteur News) – Businessman and Kaieteur News Publisher, Glenn Lall has accused successive governments of failing to protect Guyana’s oil wealth by refusing to ring-fence individual petroleum...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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