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Bring back de tandem… but more modern

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Bring back de tandem… but more modern

Kaieteur News – Dem boys seh sometimes the solution staring we in we face. But we too busy watching traffic jam to see it. Every morning is the same ole story. From Parika to Georgetown. From...

The NIS and Burnham

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Peeping Tom Comments Off on The NIS and Burnham

Kaieteur News – For a political party that erupts in indignation whenever the failures and excesses of Forbes Burnham are dragged into the limelight, the People’s National Congress (PNC)...

Mash 2026

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Mash 2026

Kaieteur News – I see the colorful floats with sounds thundering through oversized speakers on flatbed trucks during the day. I hear the revelries deep into the dark night for many a night. ...

Wales GtE: tragedy or comedy

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Editorial Comments Off on Wales GtE: tragedy or comedy

Kaieteur News – The Wales Gas-to-Energy (GtE) could do so much for Guyanese. Be easier on the pockets, enhance their confidence, help them to trust leaders. Trust based on decisions make,...

Essequibo carpenter fined $200k for DUI

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Essequibo carpenter fined $200k for DUI

Kaieteur News – A forty-one-year-old carpenter of Huis T’ Dieren, Essequibo Coast, Region Two, has been fined $200,000 for a driving under the influence (DUI). Totaram Narine appeared...

E’bo construction worker fined $180k for traffic offences

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on E’bo construction worker fined $180k for traffic offences

Kaieteur News – Dwayne Stoby, a 38-year-old construction worker of Riverstown, Essequibo Coast was on Friday slapped with several traffic offences and was fined a total of $180,000. Stoby...

President Ali calls for 100% locally produced bottled water within a year

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on President Ali calls for 100% locally produced bottled water within a year

Kaieteur News – President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali on Saturday announced a bold push to ensure all bottled water consumed locally is produced in Guyana within the next year, as he outlined a...

Suriname to install joint technical team for proposed Berbice Gas-to-Energy project

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Suriname to install joint technical team for proposed Berbice Gas-to-Energy project

Kaieteur News – Suriname’s Minister of Oil, Gas and Environment, Patrick Loys Brunings, says his government is prepared to establish a technical team with Guyana to examine President Dr....

Flying Ace Cycle Club Mashramani Road Race set for today, Mash Day in NA

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Flying Ace Cycle Club Mashramani Road Race set for today, Mash Day in NA

Kaieteur Sports – The Flying Ace Cycle Club (FACC) of New Amsterdam, Berbice has once again organised a feature cycle road race around the town of New Amsterdam in observance of Mashramani. The...

Archery Guyana Supports Inclusive Sport at ‘Epilepsy in Sport’ Workshop

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Archery Guyana Supports Inclusive Sport at ‘Epilepsy in Sport’ Workshop

Kaieteur Sports – Hosted through the combined efforts of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, the National Sports Commission (NSC), the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), and the Epilepsy...

Guyana’s Supreme Court joins International Court Excellence Consortium

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Guyana’s Supreme Court joins International Court Excellence Consortium

Kaieteur News – The Supreme Court of Judicature of Guyana has been formally accepted as an Implementing Member of the International Consortium for Court Excellence (ICCE). In a recent...

Close Relationship with USA and lobbying

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Close Relationship with USA and lobbying

Dear Editor, Reference is drawn to editorial (Jan 23) and letter (Feb 13) questioning Guyana’s close, relationship with Washington and expending over US$1M annually on an American lobbyist firm to...

Golden Ceilings and Hidden Fault Lines: What Guyana Must Weigh Before Embracing Agro Giants

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Golden Ceilings and Hidden Fault Lines: What Guyana Must Weigh Before Embracing Agro Giants

Dear Editor, “In a recent GOINVEST release, CEO Peter Ramsaroop disclosed that global agro‑processing giant Del Monte has submitted an expression of interest in Guyana—an exciting and...

Maha Shivratri and cosmology

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Maha Shivratri and cosmology

Dear Editor, Please permit me to share a bit of information on the festival of Maha Shivratri (great night of Lord Shiva) which was celebrated on Sunday, February 15th by Hindus across the globe....

CARICOM: TO BE OR NOT TO BE….

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters 1

Dear Editor, An article headlined ‘If US Secretary Rubio attends CARICOM Summit – let It mark a reset — not a reckoning’ was published on February 19,2026 on the Caribbean News Global (CNG)...

A rebellious and revelous road revealing a Republic of Guyana

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on A rebellious and revelous road revealing a Republic of Guyana

Dear Editor, The Co-operative Republic of Guyana is celebrating the 56th anniversary since she declared herself as a sovereign nation on the 23rd February, 1970. From the captive days of...

US$2.8B to flow into oil account this year

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on US$2.8B to flow into oil account this year

…Guyana to receive 40M barrels while Exxon gets 269M Kaieteur News – Guyana is expected to receive about US$2.8B in oil revenue in 2026, as oil prices continue to suffer further declines....

Gold, bauxite power non-oil expert boom

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Gold, bauxite power non-oil expert boom

…as earnings top US$1.7 billion in 2026 Kaieteur News – Guyana’s non-oil export earnings surged in 2025, driven largely by strong performances in the gold and bauxite sectors, with...

Iran warns of regional conflict if US attacks, designates EU armies ‘terrorists’

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Iran warns of regional conflict if US attacks, designates EU armies ‘terrorists’

(Reuters) – Iran’s leadership warned of a regional conflict on Sunday if the U.S. were to attack it, stoking the tension between Washington and Tehran, and it designated EU armies as...

Guyana-China trade soars past US$2.9B

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Guyana-China trade soars past US$2.9B

– as ambassador pushes for Spring Festival to be national holiday Kaieteur News – With bilateral trade surging to nearly US$2.9 billion in 2025, more than doubling within a year and...

PNCR GECOM commissioners reject call to discuss status

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on PNCR GECOM commissioners reject call to discuss status

Kaieteur News – Responding to a request by opposition leader Azruddin Mohamed to meet, Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) opposition commissioners Vincent Alexander, Desmond Trotman and...

Ann’s Grove man killed as bike slams into car

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Ann’s Grove man killed as bike slams into car

Kaieteur News – Thirty-two-year-old electric-biker and bus conductor Kendel Lewis of Ann’s Grove Village has died after sustaining injuries in an accident along the Ann’s Grove Public Road,...

CANU warns: Cartoon drug packaging is illegal, dangerous

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on CANU warns: Cartoon drug packaging is illegal, dangerous

Kaieteur News – The Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) said it has observed online advertisements offering cartoon-themed “1-gram” zip-lock bags commonly used for the packaging,...

Paper don’t steer; people do

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Paper don’t steer; people do

Kaieteur News – Dem boys seh is a funny country we living in, bai. Here, once yuh nah gat a licence, everybody quick to decide yuh can’t drive—especially if is a big lorry involved. But dem...

A life deferred

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

Peeping tom… Kaieteur News – There is a particular sadness in a life postponed indefinitely in the name of duty. It happens not suddenly but via the quieter erosion of years, years...

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GBF secures certified Hardwood Court in major boost for basketball...

Jun 17, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – As Guyana prepares to host the FIBA AmeriCup 2029 Caribbean Pre-Qualifiers from July 8-12 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, the Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) has made a...

No right to a firearm permit exists

Jun 17, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Years ago, there was a man who contended, “I need a firearm licence because I have a lot of money.” The then relevant officer replied, “Then you can afford security—next application, please.” The man had been so confident he would get a firearm licence...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

Jun 14, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

Carolyn Rodrigues – Birkett for UN Sec Gen. – I endorse

Jun 17, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Way to go, Excellency Ali. Excellency Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett is Guyana’s nominee for the prestigious and demanding role of United Nations Secretary General. Why not? Since everybody globally have their eyes on a wedge of Guyana’s riches,...

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