August 24, 2026

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Grief, protests, and a G$1.4B abandoned wharf

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Grief, protests, and a G$1.4B abandoned wharf

…Duncan demands Edghill’s resignation (Kaieteur News) – More than a month after the fatal MV Barima disaster, grieving families across Guyana are still weeping daily for lost loved ones,...

‘Guyana is the place to be, world class mining area’ – new Australian gold firm

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Guyana is the place to be, world class mining area’ – new Australian gold firm

(Kaieteur News) – The newest foreign company to enter Guyana’s gold sector, Australian-based Liberty Metals, has touted Guyana as a jurisdiction of choice for mineral exploration, citing its...

Exxon shuts down operations on Liza Unity after small fire in laundry room

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Exxon shuts down operations on Liza Unity after small fire in laundry room

…activates emergency measures (Kaieteur News) – A small fire in the laundry room of Exxon’s second FPSO- Liza Unity has forced to suspension of operations at the offshore facility, the company...

‘I know he’s dead’ – mother accepts loss of missing MV Barima crewman

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘I know he’s dead’ – mother accepts loss of missing MV Barima crewman

(Kaieteur News) – After weeks of holding on to the faintest hope that her missing son would walk through the gate, 77-year-old Rebecca Somra has accepted that he is likely dead. For weeks, Somra...

Chinese Landing residents hold firm in Tassawini standoff

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Chinese Landing residents hold firm in Tassawini standoff

…as govt. fails to enforce IACHR directives By Khadidja Ba (Kaieteur News) – Three years after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued urgent precautionary measures to...

Iran says new sanctions threatened by ‘desperate’ U.S. will fail

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Iran says new sanctions threatened by ‘desperate’ U.S. will fail

(Reuters) – Iran’s foreign minister dismissed the threat of new U.S. sanctions as a sign of desperation on Sunday and said the expected new measures would fail to defeat Tehran. U.S....

IDB notes increase in Guyana’s debt ratio

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on IDB notes increase in Guyana’s debt ratio

…but hails “highly sustainable” debt levels (Kaieteur News) – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has stated that Guyana’s overall debt levels remain “highly sustainable” despite...

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

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Jumbo Jet’s new horse, Sand Pipes wins Guyana Cup

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...

Warriors turn up the heat to sink Falcons

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Warriors turn up the heat to sink Falcons

Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League 2026… Kaieteur Sports – Guyana Amazon Warriors made a statement to the rest of the tournament, winning their third consecutive game with a commanding...

Cultural activist, Pan-Africanist William “Tom” Dalgety dies

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Cultural activist, Pan-Africanist William “Tom” Dalgety dies

(Kaieteur News) – Pan Africanist, industrialist, author, scientist, entrepreneur and educator, William “Tom” Dalgety died on Saturday. The prominent Guyanese, who made significant...

Guyana Boy’s U14 crowned CFU Tier II Champions

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Guyana Boy’s U14 crowned CFU Tier II Champions

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s Under-14 Boys have been crowned the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Tier II Champions, completing an outstanding campaign at the CFU U14 Challenge Series in Punta...

OPED – CTEC and the question of standards: setting the record straight

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on OPED – CTEC and the question of standards: setting the record straight

By Wayne Wesley, PhD, CMgr (Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of CXC) (Kaieteur News) – Recent public commentary on the Caribbean Targeted Education Certificate (CTEC), CXC’s new modular...

The opposition leader is the gatekeeper of the poor and powerless

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS Letters 1

Dear Editor, For the past six years, the government has been traversing on a very dangerous path not only in covering up its failures and blatant lies but also trying to silence its opponents and the...

Ten schools on one street

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Ten schools on one street

(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...

MV BARIMA: The test of our government’s credibility

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on MV BARIMA: The test of our government’s credibility

Dear Editor, August 18 marked one month since the MV Barima tragedy. The state-owned, reportedly uninsured, 87-year-old vessel was travelling from Georgetown to Port Kaituma when it sank. Seventy-six...

Bail is not a fine

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Bail is not a fine

(Kaieteur News) – Dem Boys seh dem bin listening carefully—well, as carefully as dem boys ever listen—to all the noise lately ‘bout bail. Everywhere you turn, people vex. “How dem let he...

Sensational Shadab lifts Falcons to Stunning Win

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Sensational Shadab lifts Falcons to Stunning Win

Kaieteur Sports – Antigua & Barbuda Falcons maintained their one hundred percent home record as they beat the Trinbago Knight Riders by six wickets at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in the...

British corporation continued trafficking of enslaved Africans to Guyana 40 years after abolition

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on British corporation continued trafficking of enslaved Africans to Guyana 40 years after abolition

– Letter written in 1847 to Sandbach, Tinne and Company’s Liverpool office reveals it engaged in practice after receiving taxpayer-funded compensation, book says By Chris Osuh, Community...

Procurement master composer Ali on stage

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Procurement master composer Ali on stage

(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...

DoS Ninvalle congratulates Young Golden Jaguars on CFU U14 Challenge victory

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on DoS Ninvalle congratulates Young Golden Jaguars on CFU U14 Challenge victory

Kaieteur Sports – Director of Sport Steve Ninvalle has congratulated Guyana’s young Golden Jaguars on winning the Tier Two Championship of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) U14 Challenge...

The President was disrespectful to the very people he was elected to serve

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS Letters 1

Dear Editor, The recent comments by President Irfaan Ali suggesting that Guyanese need to change their eating habits, shop differently and eat out less because of the rising cost-of-living deserve a...

Berbice River communities receive machinery to expand production

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Berbice River communities receive machinery to expand production

Farmers across eight Berbice River communities are set to expand their agricultural operations with the support of new machinery handed over by Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha. Eight...

Agri. Minister calls for greater collaboration to position Berbice as agricultural powerhouse

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Agri. Minister calls for greater collaboration to position Berbice as agricultural powerhouse

(Kaieteur News) – Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, is calling on farmers, entrepreneurs, private-sector stakeholders and other partners to work alongside the Government to transform...

Guyana secures Winfield Braithwaite Caribbean Schoolboys C’ship crown

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Guyana secures Winfield Braithwaite Caribbean Schoolboys C’ship crown

…sweeps U13, U17 and U19 divisions Kaieteur Sports – Guyana delivered another commanding performance at the ninth Annual Winfield Braithwaite Schoolboys and Junior Boxing Championship, securing...

We have got to move beyond this garrison politics

Aug 24, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on We have got to move beyond this garrison politics

Dear Editor, Leader of the Opposition Azruddin Mohamed is expected to meet tomorrow with Aubrey Norton, Chairman of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and Leader of that partnership’s List of...

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Brathwaite fifty, Claxton three-for seal series win for West Indies

Oct 06, 2026

(Cricinfo) – Jahzara Claxton’s three-for, followed by Eboni Brathwaite’s rapid half-century, sealed a dominant eight-wicket win for West Indies in Harare, which gave them an...

An accusation is not a conviction

Oct 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something ominous about a rape allegation. The word itself can become a verdict long before it reaches a courtroom. The letter “R” is sometimes enough to transform suspicion into certainty. It can turn an accusation into guilt; it can overnight cast a human being...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

Ministers Persaud, Nandlall

Oct 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – One’s from the priestly caste. The other claims warrior caste status. Both are commended for high-mindedness. Both Hon Minister of Women’s Safety, Dr. Vindya Persaud, and Hon Minister of Justice, SC Anil Nandlall have programmes that they placed in the public space. ...

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