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Feb 08, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on “Let us acknowledge teachers. Let us elevate them to the levels they deserve. Let us invest in teachers so that they can effectively invest in our children”
By Karen Abrams, MBA, AA, Doctoral Candidate (Kaieteur News) – Last week, our team had the distinct honor of engaging with more than 700 teachers. I personally spent time in deep conversation with...Feb 08, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on From Silence to Thunder: WIN’s Rising Voices Rekindle Democracy’s Flame
Dear Editor, In the hallowed halls of Guyana’s National Assembly, as the 2026 Budget debates thundered to life on February 2, the air cracked with something rare—truth unvarnished. Three WIN MPs,...Feb 08, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Oversight, deal-making and cross-border expansion
Dear Editor, Guyana’s rapid infrastructure expansion has rightly drawn attention to the role of large local quarry operators and their partnerships with multinational construction firms,...Feb 08, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Our heroes are not being recognised
Dear Editor, The maiden delivery by the opposition MP asked the pertinent question: where are our cultural heroes? Nowhere to be seen or had! No statue erected for them; no recognition given. Just...Feb 08, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on New form of squatting must be addressed
Dear Editor, There is a massive infrastructural programme on in Guyana, and it is the transformation of our country into a modern state. However, while these developments are taking place, there is...Feb 08, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Wealth and corruption in Guyana
Dear Editor, The corruption and abuse of power in Guyana is not much different from what takes place in Burma or Myanmar. Guyana has not reached the level of closing down the independent media or...Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Suicide bomber kills 31 in Shi’ite mosque in Pakistan’s capital
(Reuters) – An attacker opened fire at the gates of a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Islamabad on Friday before setting off a suicide bomb and killing at least 31 people in the deadliest attack...Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Pres. Ali presses for formation of small miners’ consortium
…promises support for basic testing, technology, and mining education (Kaieteur News) – As part of government’s efforts to formalise the small and medium-scale mining sector, improve...Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Police Corporal stabbed during response to Mahdia unrest
(Kaieteur News) – A police corporal attached to the Mahdia Police Station sustained stab wounds to his lower abdomen and right arm in the line of duty, while responding to an unrest in the...Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Five contractors shortlisted for Phase Two of Gas-to-Energy project
(Kaieteur News) – As Phase One of the Gas-to-Energy (GTE) project continues to drag to the finish line, government is pressing ahead with Phase Two of the development at Wales, West Bank Demerara....Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Opposition Chief Whip writes speaker over alleged sexual harassment, threats to MPs by Min. McKoy
(Kaieteur News) – Opposition Chief Whip Tabitha Sarabo-Halley, on Friday submitted a letter to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir reporting allegations of sexual harassment and...Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on ICJ to begin oral hearings on Guyana–Venezuela border case on May 4
(Kaieteur News) – Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, SC, has announced that oral arguments in the Guyana–Venezuela border controversy before the International Court...Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Entry-level ain’t breadwinner level
Dem Boys Seh… (Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh if yuh taking home $91,000 a month and four hungry eyes watching yuh walk through the door like yuh is a delivery truck, something wrong somewhere....Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Mohameds’ court case heats up… PS reveals another extradition request; new lawyer joins defence, maintains political motive
By Shania Williams (Kaieteur News) – The extradition case involving Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed and his father businessman, Nazir Mohamed continued on Friday at the Georgetown...Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Don’t believe everything you hear
(Kaieteur News) – A man convicted for murder was making a plea for a pardon from the governor of the state. Word of his plea got around to the family of the person the convict had murdered. This...Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Over 40 bills to be tabled as Govt. advances sweeping legislative agenda – AG Nandlall
(Kaieteur News) – More than 40 bills and regulations are expected to be introduced in the National Assembly as the government moves to modernise Guyana’s legal and regulatory framework, Attorney...Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Linden celebrates Grand Opening of long-awaited track and field stadium
By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – After nearly a decade of anticipation, Linden today proudly unveils its state-of-the-art Track and Field Stadium, a facility being hailed as the town’s newest...Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Manickchand rolls out detailed spending plan for Local Govt.
… focuses on solid waste management, NDC’s, public spaces and recreation (Kaieteur News) – Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Priya Manickchand, on Thursday rolled out a...Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on 2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup… Windies aiming to win games says Hope ahead of opener
By Clifton Ross (Kaieteur News) – On the eve of their T20 World Cup opener, a poised West Indies skipper Shai Hope said among the items on the team’s to-do list, winning games and making...Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Swing, Style and Spritz: ANSA McAL Aperol Spritz Tournament tees off Sunday
– Registration closes today (Kaieteur News) – Golfers and fans can expect a lively blend of competition and flair this Sunday as Lusignan Golf Club hosts the ANSA McAL Aperol Spritz Golf...Your children are starving, and you giving away their food to an already fat pussycat.
Jun 01, 2026
Kaieteur Sports – West Ruimveldt Primary, a consistent face in the Future Warriors Tapeball for Primary Schools tournament, powered by ExxonMobil Guyana, overcame their final-round jitters from...Jun 01, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – There are a great many children each day who are not attending school. When some are asked why they are not at school, they lie by claiming that their parents do not have money to send them to school. The blame is rightly placed on the parents, but for the wrong reasons. It...May 31, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...Jun 01, 2026
Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – First, it was a sacred emblem, the National Flag during the Diamond Jubilee Independence celebrations, which showed its opposition to being pushed around and treated like a yoyo. From there things went from a national embarrassment to a national...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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