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Budget 2026: A trillion dollars, a million words

Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Budget 2026: A trillion dollars, a million words

(Kaieteur News) – Day One of the 2026 budget debate in parliament produced the regular ho-hum, humdrum, and the hums from politicians having a good time pretending to be for the people. Three...

Guyana National Rifle Association meets with NSC

Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Guyana National Rifle Association meets with NSC

(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) met with the National Sports Commission (NSC) on Thursday as part of the Commission’s ongoing consultations with national...

Mohamed vs Jagdeo

Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Mohamed vs Jagdeo

Dear Editor, Without being prejudicial, or expressing a view, on the Magistrate`s decision not to adjourn the Azruddin Mohamed extradition matter to accommodate his attendance in Parliament, on the...

When Lawlessness Becomes the Law

Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on When Lawlessness Becomes the Law

Dear Editor, The video now circulating from Guyana — showing a man being brutally beaten by a mob — should disturb every person who believes in justice, humanity, and the rule of law. Let me be...

Parliament is a disgrace

Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Parliament is a disgrace

Dear Editor, What transpired in the National Assembly this week and previously on November 3, during the swearing-in of Opposition Members before the nation and before their God, was not politics by...

Urgent attention on foreign companies

Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Urgent attention on foreign companies

Dear Editor, I write to place on the public record a matter concerning process, professionalism, and the treatment of local stakeholders within foreign-linked commercial arrangements operating in...

Thoughts on the Penalizing Poor People Budget 2026

Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Thoughts on the Penalizing Poor People Budget 2026

Dear Editor, The $1.558 trillion 2026 National Budget, presented last week and now being debated in Parliament, has been described by President Irfaan Ali and his administration as “pro-poor.”...

Human development is Guyana is rising by any measure

Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Human development is Guyana is rising by any measure

Dear Editor, In his call for a data-driven analysis of the human development condition in Guyana, Dr. Ramesh Gampat states that meaningful discussion must be rooted in objective evidence rather than...

Pres. Irfaan Ali in Belize

Feb 07, 2026 KNEWS Editorial, News 1

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali has a reputation for inconsistency, hypocrisy, and inadequacy. He has cultivated the art of saying the right things before the right audiences...

‘GDF must move beyond the battlefield’ – Pres. Ali

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘GDF must move beyond the battlefield’ – Pres. Ali

…announces expanded role for military (Kaieteur News) – President Irfaan Ali on Thursday signalled a decisive shift in Guyana’s defence posture, charging the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to...

Govt. says GDF copter crash report off limits

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS News 1

…opposition raises transparency concerns (Kaieteur News) – Minister of Public Utilities and Aviation, Deodat Indar has refuted comments made by Opposition Member of Parliament and Leader...

As treaty expires, Russia says it’s still ready to talk to US on nuclear limits

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on As treaty expires, Russia says it’s still ready to talk to US on nuclear limits

MOSCOW, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday it regretted the expiry of its last remaining nuclear arms treaty with the United States but was still ready to talk, raising the possibility...

Man shot dead during shootout with police

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Man shot dead during shootout with police

(Kaieteur News) – Police in Regional Division #7 are probing a fatal shooting that unfolded during a high-risk joint service operation at Quartzstone Backdam, Region Seven, on Thursday, leaving...

Hinds highlights gaps in budget

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Hinds highlights gaps in budget

…urges govt to slash GOAL funding in half, hike public servants pay (Kaieteur News) – Member of Parliament Dr. David Hinds on Wednesday during his budget debate presentation highlighted the...

Buried at last, but justice still missing for Walleta Rigby

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Buried at last, but justice still missing for Walleta Rigby

(Kaieteur News) – Nearly five years after her disappearance, the family of 38-year-old Walleta Rigby was finally able to lay her to rest on Thursday, bringing a measure of closure to a case still...

Cops hunt juveniles after schoolgirl found unconscious in Sophia

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Cops hunt juveniles after schoolgirl found unconscious in Sophia

(Kaieteur News) – Police have launched an investigation into an incident involving a 14-year-old female student from the East Bank Demerara, who was found unconscious on Wednesday evening and...

‘Defending Guyana’s borders ‘non-negotiable’ – GDF chief tells officers

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Defending Guyana’s borders ‘non-negotiable’ – GDF chief tells officers

(Kaieteur News) – Chief of Defence Staff Brigadier Omar Khan on Thursday delivered a firm message to senior officers of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), declaring that the defence of Guyana’s...

Todd slams budget for ignoring electoral, forensic and justice reform

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Todd slams budget for ignoring electoral, forensic and justice reform

(Kaieteur News) – A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament Dexter Todd has criticised the government for failing to allocate funds toward key legislative reforms in the 2026...

Primus tears into budget

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Primus tears into budget

– says not a single policy for culture, youth and sport in spending plan (Kaieteur News) – First-time Member of Parliament and General Secretary of the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) Party,...

Fire flattens Essequibo woman’s home

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Fire flattens Essequibo woman’s home

(Kaieteur News) – Twenty-eight-year-old Vanlisha Warrick, a mother of one, lost her Queenstown Village, Essequibo Coast, Region Two home to a fire on Thursday. Warrick, a hairdresser and makeup...

Famine conditions spread to more towns in Sudan’s Darfur, experts warn

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Famine conditions spread to more towns in Sudan’s Darfur, experts warn

(ALJAZEERA) Acute malnutrition has reached famine levels in two more areas of western Sudan’s Darfur region, United Nations-backed experts warn, as a civil war between the paramilitary Rapid...

More road, more traffic

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on More road, more traffic

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh Guyana discover a new scientific law: the more road yuh build, the more traffic yuh get. Is like hunger—de more yuh cook, de more people turn up with spoon....

Police burn $344M worth of ganja

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Police burn $344M worth of ganja

(Kaieteur News) – Ranks of the Guyana Police Force on Thursday carried out a large-scale cannabis eradication exercise at Yaruni Bend, Linden, along the Upper Demerara River, uncovering extensive...

Mandhana stars as RCB beat Capitals to win WPL

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Mandhana stars as RCB beat Capitals to win WPL

BBC Sport – Royal Challengers Bengaluru completed a stunning record Women’s Premier League chase to lift their second title and inflict a fourth successive final defeat on Delhi Capitals....

Govt. boasts of US$32M signing bonus from small oil blocks

Feb 06, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Govt. boasts of US$32M signing bonus from small oil blocks

– slams lopsided Stabroek block deal (Kaieteur News) – Guyana has secured nearly twice the signing bonus from two relatively small offshore oil blocks than it received for the massive...

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2026 IMC Over-40’s World Cup… Akmal/Ghani fifties push...

Oct 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Adnan Akmal and Sheharyar Ghani punched fifties to help Pakistan rally to a 7-wicket win over India when World Cup action continued yesterday at the Guyana National Stadium,...

Either way Rodrigues-Birkett cannot lose

Oct 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett was thrust unexpectedly and suddenly into the contest for the position of United Nations Secretary-General. A woman presently occupies an important diplomatic post – Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations – was nominated belatedly...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

Jagdeo’s funeral march symphony Part II

Oct 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s number one political detector of danger, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, attended an evening of reflection for Mr. Robert Corbin, one-time deputy prime minister and opposition leader. In trademark fashion, he came armed with his own classical composition: the Jagdeo...

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