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Feb 15, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on We are all indicted by the closure of Stabroek News
(Kaieteur News) – The impending closure of Stabroek News marks a sad chapter in the history of Guyana. For decades, this newspaper stood as a symbol of press freedom and independent journalism in...Feb 15, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Hamilton Green Cup shifted to Plaisance ground
Kaieteur Sports – Former national coach, Lennox Arthur has announced the new dates and venue for the annual Hamilton Green Cup, which is schedule for March 1–21 at the Plaisance Ground on the...Feb 15, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Lessons from the Speaker, the president – unwanted ones
Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – It’s sad day to be a Guyanese, to watch this country go to the dogs. Then, worse still, note how the dogs sniff and then lift their hind legs to...Feb 15, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on CARICOM: Stand Up and Be Counted
Dear Editor, In another week or so, Heads of government of CARICOM will meet in St. Kitts. This meeting will take place at a time when one of the Caribbean islands, Cuba is facing grave dangers, not...Feb 15, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on The Island of Long Shadows: When Geopolitics Becomes a Human Hunger
Dear Editor, In the golden hour of a Cuban sunset, the city of Havana no longer glows; it fades. As the sun dips below the Malecón, a heavy, velvet darkness settles over the capital—not the...Feb 15, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Banana Pseudostem Fiber and the Industrial Future of Guyana
Dear Editor, A quiet industrial transformation is underway in parts of Brazil that should command serious attention in Guyana. What was once considered agricultural waste, the banana pseudostem left...Feb 15, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on The growing popularity of vaping and smoking
Dear Editor, As a public communications analyst and advocate for public health and safety, it is increasingly alarming to witness the growing popularity of vaping and smoking, particularly as these...Feb 15, 2026 KNEWS Editorial, News Comments Off on Guyana’s Corruption Perception Index
(Kaieteur News) – Guyana has improved by a point on Transparency International’s (TI) 2025 Corruption Perception Index (CPI). Within the PPPC Government that single point movement may be...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on House approves $1.5 trillion National Budget
(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s largest budget ever, $1.558 trillion, was on Friday evening passed, following five days of debates and another five days of considerations in the Committee of Supply....Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Guyanese protest ‘anti-poor’ budget, flag multimillion allocation to “dormant” Commission of Information
(Kaieteur News) – A group of Guyanese on Friday protested against the allocation of resources in this year’s budget, a plan which they believe will not ease the struggles of ordinary Guyanese,...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Trump says he will visit Venezuela after ‘very good’ relationship with interim president
(Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States relationship with Venezuela is “very good” and that he plans to visit the country. Trump’s praise for...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on 4 nabbed for armed robbery of Herstelling businesswoman
(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Police Force has arrested four persons in connection with the armed robbery of a 59-year-old Herstelling, East Bank Demerara (EBD) businessman on Thursday. According...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Re-migrant wins tax exemption case against GRA
…high court rules authority acted unlawfully (Kaieteur News) – Justice Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus on Friday ruled that the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) acted when it denied tax exemptions to...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on 400 of 600 men test positive for prostate cancer – Health Minister
(Kaieteur News) – Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony on Friday urged citizens to take advantage of routine screening programmes for prostate cancer, stressing that early diagnosis is key to...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Labourer on $200K bail for felonious wounding
(Kaieteur News) – A labourer of South Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara, was on Thursday granted $200,00 bail after he appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court to answer a felonious...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Man charged with robbery under arms on $150k bail
(Kaieteur News) – A 53-year-old man was granted bail in the sum of $150,000 for a robbery under arms charge, after he appeared in court on Thursday. The accused, Joseph George of Brush Dam,...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Sir Ronald Sanders installed as UG’s 11th Chancellor
(Kaieteur News) – Sir Ronald Sanders was officially installed as the 11th Chancellor of the University of Guyana during a ceremony held on Friday at the George Walcott Lecture Theatre on the...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Mohameds seek stay of extradition hearing pending appeal of Authority to Proceed
(Kaieteur News) – The defence team representing Opposition Leader, Azruddin Mohamed and his father, Nazar Mohamed, has filed an application in the Court of Appeal, seeking to stay the extradition...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on House approves $8.4M more for Kariako Primary as $21M project yet to start
(Kaieteur News) – The Committee of Supply on Thursday approved an additional $8.4 million in the 2026 budget for the reconstruction of Kariako Primary School in Region One, a $21 million project...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Timing is everything
(Kaieteur News) – Today is Valentine Day and when dem boys read about some of dem prices what dem eating houses charging, dem boys decide fuh play sick. One man seh he nearly faint when he see a...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Georgetown cannot be redeemed
(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has always possessed the air of a place living on memory. Not history in the grand sense, not the kind that builds monuments and sustains civic pride, but memory that...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on PAHO and CARPHA sign landmark pact to strengthen regional health collaboration
The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) formalised their continued partnership with the signing of the 2026–2030 Framework Agreement,...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Online portal launched to fast-track local content certification
(Kaieteur News) – The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) on Friday launched a new online service to process local content certificates in a more timely manner. Through the new portal, businesses...Feb 14, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Zimbabwe stun Australia to stay unbeaten in T20 World Cup
(Reuters) – Australia were dealt an early blow in their quest to reach the Super Eight stage of the Twenty20 World Cup after the depleted former champions crashed to a 23-run defeat by Zimbabwe...
Sep 30, 2026
By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – Six months after etching his name into Guyana’s boxing history, Elton Dharry is ready to embark on another chapter of his career, and he has already accepted a...Sep 30, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – The call for renewal within the PPP is essentially a call for the removal of the oligarchy which now controls that party and dominates state policy. But to posit, in the same breadth that a political party exists principally to win elections is a different proposition...Sep 20, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer only a matter for the police. It is weakening societies, draining economies and obstructing development. It is also testing public confidence in courts, governments and democratic institutions. The...Sep 30, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – CNN, MS Now, and Politico enraged. A broadside was their presidential; gift. Banned from the White House pool. In Moscow, Pyongyang, Beijing, that’s normal. Not in America’s Washington. To the courts this has gone. A test to determine the substance and resilience...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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