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IMMAF Holds First European Elective General Assembly, Elects New Leadership

Feb 18, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on IMMAF Holds First European Elective General Assembly, Elects New Leadership

On the 14th of February 2026, European members of the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) gathered in Belgrade for the first European Elective General Assembly, marking a milestone...

Mashramani and the national identity crisis

Feb 18, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Mashramani and the national identity crisis

(Kaieteur News) – In exactly one week we will once again host Mash Day, that annual exercise in patriotic perspiration where we celebrate becoming a Republic by borrowing someone else’s party...

Guyana – What kind of country, society, is this?

Feb 18, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Guyana – What kind of country, society, is this?

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – What kind of country is this? What does it say of the quality of the society that the best that can be produced and hailed as success stories, are so...

The Data Predator: Why Minister Parag’s Privacy Breach Is a Warning to Every Guyanese

Feb 18, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on The Data Predator: Why Minister Parag’s Privacy Breach Is a Warning to Every Guyanese

Dear Editor, The hallowed halls of the National Assembly are meant for the articulation of policy, not the weaponisation of personal data. Yet, in a jarring display of administrative overreach,...

The closure of Stabroek News

Feb 18, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on The closure of Stabroek News

Dear Editor, For almost four decades, Stabroek News (SN) has been an important part of Guyanese life, culturally, socially, politically, and intellectually. It was indeed sad to learn that the...

Economic growth is meaningless if not buttressed by a viable Fourth Estate

Feb 18, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Economic growth is meaningless if not buttressed by a viable Fourth Estate

Dear Editor, Over the past few days, I had confirmed that one of our prestigious newspapers, Stabroek News, would in a few weeks time, be closed. I recall in 1986 when, with courage and a sense of...

Rev. Veron Hussey: a liberation theologian

Feb 18, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Rev. Veron Hussey: a liberation theologian

Dear Editor, I recently visited Guyana after a lengthy absence and witnessed significant progress, new buildings, improved roads, and in some parts, a much better-looking Georgetown. Development is...

The Housing Ministry and the residents of Schoonard

Feb 18, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on The Housing Ministry and the residents of Schoonard

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News has reported on 16 February, 2026 that the Ministry of Housing has given notice to residents of Schoonard, West Bank Demerara to relocate for construction of a community...

Lack of punctuality, lack of respect

Feb 18, 2026 KNEWS Editorial, News Comments Off on Lack of punctuality, lack of respect

(Kaieteur News) – Lateness is a chronic sickness in Guyana. It interferes with the smooth flow of business, when appointments and schedules are not diligently honored. Some accidents on the...

Mohamed arrested over late court arrival

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS News 2

…Accuses Govt., police of slashing car tires causing delay …Magistrate threatens to forfeit bail (Kaieteur News) – Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed on Monday accused the...

Six years into oil boom… GRA still short of auditors to scrutinise Exxon’s billions

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS News 1

(Kaieteur News) – Six years after Guyana began oil production, the Government of Guyana (GoG) has yet to fully equip the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) with the personnel needed to rigorously...

U.S. build-up of warships and fighter jets tracked near Iran

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on U.S. build-up of warships and fighter jets tracked near Iran

(BBC NEWS) BBC Verify has confirmed the location of US aircraft carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln near Iran using satellite imagery, as Washington continues to put pressure on the country over its...

Biker killed in high-speed crash in Corentyne

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS News 2

(Kaieteur News) – A 21-year-old motorcyclist lost his life Monday afternoon following a collision on the No. 64 Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice. Dead is Jadheo Bhimsingh of No. 63 Village,...

Republic Bank removes cap on residential mortgage

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Republic Bank removes cap on residential mortgage

…offering up to $60M at 5% interest (Kaieteur News) – Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited on Monday announced a change to its residential mortgage offerings, of up to $60 million at a competitive...

NCN cameraman arrested at court after suspected firearm found

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS News 1

(Kaieteur News) – An employee attached to the National Communications Network (NCN) was arrested on Monday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court after he was allegedly found in possession of a...

Linden man dies after car and bike crash

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Linden man dies after car and bike crash

(Kaieteur News) – Police in Linden are investigating a fatal accident which occurred on Saturday about 22:40hrs on the Amelia’s Ward Public Road, Linden. The collision involved motorcar PXX 5812...

$375M in contracts awarded for canal in Reg. 3

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on $375M in contracts awarded for canal in Reg. 3

(Kaieteur News) – The ‘Hope-like’ canal the Ministry of Agriculture will be constructing at B-Line, Canal Polder, West Bank of Demerara, Region Three will cost approximately $375 million. The...

Miners seeking Govt. incentives for mercury-free gold push

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Miners seeking Govt. incentives for mercury-free gold push

(Kaieteur News) – With Guyana committed under the Minamata Convention to cut mercury use in mining by 55% by 2027, a leading mining advocacy group is calling for urgent government incentives to...

225 small-scale miners to receive 50-acre land each

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on 225 small-scale miners to receive 50-acre land each

(Kaieteur News) – The Ministry of Natural Resources on Sunday announced that 225 small scale miners will receive mining lands as government rollout of a new “Troy-like” land allocation model...

2020 elections fraud trial resumes; fifth witness continues testimony

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS News 1

(Kaieteur News) – After nearly two months of adjournment, the 2020 General and Regional Elections fraud trial resumed on Monday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Acting Chief...

Major Hawaiian property developers to build luxury village, hotel at Ogle

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Major Hawaiian property developers to build luxury village, hotel at Ogle

(Kaieteur News) – Major Hawaiian property developers, Giovanni and Nicola Mola of Coastal Rim Properties (CRP) have launched TAJ Dream Ogle in partnership with NBA Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon....

The law is not blind

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The law is not blind

(Kaieteur News) – Apparently, justice now comes with a receipt. Here’s how it works. If you provide a service for someone and they don’t pay you, the police adjust their spectacles, clear...

Pitamber, Sam dominate Kitty Square Mall U-16 Chess Championships

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Pitamber, Sam dominate Kitty Square Mall U-16 Chess Championships

Kaieteur Sports – The Kitty Square Mall National U-16 Rapid Chess Championships hosted by the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF), held on Sunday, February 15th, 2026, at the Christ Church Secondary...

Guyana set for crucial Regional test as GBF hosts Grenada in three-match series

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Guyana set for crucial Regional test as GBF hosts Grenada in three-match series

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s senior men’s basketball team will host their counterparts from Grenada in a three-match series from March 6–8 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, as preparations...

Nissanka guides Sri Lanka into Super Eights as Australia face early exit

Feb 17, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Nissanka guides Sri Lanka into Super Eights as Australia face early exit

(Reuters) – Pathum Nissanka made an unbeaten century as Sri Lanka chased down a target of 182 to beat Australia by eight wickets and reach the Twenty20 World Cup’s Super Eight stage on...

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Guyana gets FIBA AmeriCup lifeline

Oct 15, 2026

…Guyana replaces Antigua and Barbuda for Nicaragua tournament (Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s senior men’s national basketball team has been handed a major opportunity to advance its...

The square peg legacy

Oct 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Burnham’s dream of ‘Guyanization’—a euphemism for replacing the colonial administrative class with locals loyal to the new order was, at its core, a nationalist ideal. But ideals without discipline often lead to farce. The result was a bureaucracy filled with...

Haiti: When the Promise of a Haitian-Led Solution Begins to Fade

Oct 11, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Who speaks for Haiti? It is a question the international community can no longer avoid. For years, governments and international organisations have insisted that the country’s deepening crisis must have a “Haitian-led solution”. The principle is...

Seeram: Did the Commies takeover

Oct 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – On the next occasion that Guyana’s Hon Attorney General, Mohabir Anil Nandlall, SC, MP, OE, CCH, opens his book of wisdom and expounds on the rule of law and respect for the law (and of laws, not men), I have a humble addition for inclusion in his encyclopedia. There is...

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