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OP:ED – Why can’t we come close to this here?

Feb 01, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on OP:ED – Why can’t we come close to this here?

By GHK Lall Kaieteur News – A start is made beyond our borders, then I return home, and ask: Why can’t we ever? What is wrong with us? How do we get to that self-respect and love urged in...

Computers gan soon run de world

Feb 01, 2023 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Computers gan soon run de world

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – It looks like if every home in de country gat a computer. Everybody Googling. Fuh we old people de Google is like magic. Yuh type in a question pun de...

Is the Guyana Government undemocratic?

Feb 01, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Is the Guyana Government undemocratic?

Kaieteur News – We can begin by arguing that if the Guyana Government is undemocratic then the person(s) or group(s) putting forward that polemic need to tell us which government around the...

PPPC accounting-extra $40M per km of road

Feb 01, 2023 KNews Editorial Comments Off on PPPC accounting-extra $40M per km of road

Kaieteur News – This is road engineering taken to another level, and road accounting by some strange convention that is unique to the PPPC Government. Guyanese should take stock of what the...

Being on time most of the time

Feb 01, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Being on time most of the time

Kaieteur News – It is said that the only things that start on time in Guyana are banks and cricket. Not anymore. I have seen quite a few cricket matches of recent where the Umpires went out at...

What the media saw as a loss was actually a major victory

Feb 01, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on What the media saw as a loss was actually a major victory

Dear Editor, I refer to an article published in the Kaieteur News on January 25, 2023 under the caption, ‘Basil Williams loses appeal to be struck out in libel suit’ by Prithima Kissoon. Former...

Bad contractors, poor and absent government oversight continue to plague construction works

Feb 01, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bad contractors, poor and absent government oversight continue to plague construction works

Dear Editor, Contractors’ transgressions from failure to start contracted works to inferior quality construction (e.g., ‘Edghill terminates El Dorado Road contract -after contractor fails to...

Please establish a ‘Lost and Found’ area at CJIA, Timehri

Feb 01, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Please establish a ‘Lost and Found’ area at CJIA, Timehri

Dear Editor, As a citizen of this country and one who was a Beauty Ambassador of Guyana for several years, I wish to express my view on the above caption. I love my country Guyana and I love to see...

Glenn Lall should consider running for President

Feb 01, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Glenn Lall should consider running for President

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter to let you know that it is my whole hearted belief that you are the only person who could put Guyana on a straight path and also bring real unity of the races...

Concerted campaigns with aid from strategic actors to reverse democratic processes

Feb 01, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Concerted campaigns with aid from strategic actors to reverse democratic processes

Dear Editor, The late US politician, diplomat and sociologist, Daniel P. Moynihan popularized the phrase “semantic infiltration”, coined by foreign policy expert, Frank Ikle, to describe the...

A daily word of wisdom corner recommended

Feb 01, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on A daily word of wisdom corner recommended

Dear Editor, This is just a suggestion. The world we live in today is full of greed and violence and Guyana is no exception just as the Bible says “The love of money is the root of all...

Bittersweet justice for Faiyaz Narinedatt

Feb 01, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bittersweet justice for Faiyaz Narinedatt

Dear Editor, The saying. “you do the crime, you must do the time”, is apt, in the sentences handed down to the five involved in the heinous and brutal killing of Faiyaz Narinedatt, a young son,...

Demarcation of Constituency Boundaries

Feb 01, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Demarcation of Constituency Boundaries

Dear Editor, GECOM today, after haggling over the issue of the demarcation of constituency boundaries from November 2022 to January 2023, decided that the report of the CEO met the standard required...

Special team to audit Govt.’s spending of oil money

Jan 31, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Special team to audit Govt.’s spending of oil money

– Auditor General says eight-member committee to be established by March By Davina Bagot Kaieteur News – The Audit Office of Guyana will be boosting its capacity with a new eight-member...

66 years each for 5 men who killed Corentyne carpenter, Faiyaz Narinedatt

Jan 31, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on 66 years each for 5 men who killed Corentyne carpenter, Faiyaz Narinedatt

Kaieteur News – The five men found guilty of the 2016 murder of Berbice carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt last year, were on Monday sentenced to 66 years imprisonment each by Justice Navindra Singh....

IDB warns region about ‘excessive’ borrowing

Jan 31, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on IDB warns region about ‘excessive’ borrowing

– as Guyana’s public debt increases by 16% last year Kaieteur News – Amid growing concerns here about the country’s ballooning public debt, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)...

Two men jailed for multi-million KN robbery

Jan 31, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Two men jailed for multi-million KN robbery

Kaieteur News – Former Kaieteur News employee, 33-year-old Ryan Wharton and 36-year-old Harry Stongster of Hyde Park, Timehri, East Bank Demerara (EBD) last week changed their pleas and have...

$1 billion earmarked to ‘fix-up’ two hinterland airstrips

Jan 31, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on $1 billion earmarked to ‘fix-up’ two hinterland airstrips

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Public Works is planning to spend almost $1 billion to have the Matthews Ridge Airstrip in Region One and the Paruima Airstrip in Region Seven rehabilitated....

ExxonMobil paid EPA $US9M for one year of flaring

Jan 31, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil paid EPA $US9M for one year of flaring

Kaieteur News – American oil giant ExxonMobil last year paid US$9 million to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to flare excess gas at its offshore operations in the Stabroek Block. This...

Black Panther Star preaches ‘love’ and ‘peace’ to MPs

Jan 31, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Black Panther Star preaches ‘love’ and ‘peace’ to MPs

Kaieteur News – Letitia Wright, the star of Black Panther, on Monday visited the National Assembly, on invitation of the Speaker, Manzoor Nadir where she encouraged the politicians to work...

$771M estimated to rehabilitate 13 bridges

Jan 31, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on $771M estimated to rehabilitate 13 bridges

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Public Works will be spending some $700 million to facilitate the continued rehabilitation and construction of a number of bridges in the country. This is...

Parliament approves Constitutional Agencies’ Budgets

Jan 31, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament approves Constitutional Agencies’ Budgets

Kaieteur News – The Budgets for all Constitutional Agencies were on Monday approved in the National Assembly after an examination of the Estimates of Expenditure and queries by Opposition...

$40M budgeted to re-equip, rebuild sections of DPP chambers

Jan 31, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on $40M budgeted to re-equip, rebuild sections of DPP chambers

Kaieteur News – Government will be spending some $40M out of the $63.5M budgeted for the chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to reequip the office that was severely damaged by...

High interest rates on loans ‘killing’ small businesses

Jan 31, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on High interest rates on loans ‘killing’ small businesses

– IDB says as it pours $147M to train 300 micro business owners Kaieteur News – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is expected to provide Guyana with US$700,000 ($147M) to help...

Digicel to give away $16M for anniversary promotion

Jan 31, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel to give away $16M for anniversary promotion

Kaieteur News – Digicel Guyana yesterday launched its 16th Anniversary promotion whereby it will award a million dollars each to 16 customers in 16 days. Both prepaid and postpaid customers can...

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Hridoy ensures draw in Sylhet; WI beat Bangladesh 1-0 in series

Nov 09, 2026

Cricinfo – With an 82 in the fourth innings, Towhid Hridoy ensured Bangladesh completed a hard-fought draw against West Indies in the Sylhet Test. The visitors clinched the series 1-0 on...

What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong

Nov 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There are moments in the political life of every nation when the character of its people is tested by whether they have the courage to condemn wrongdoing when it is committed against those with whom they disagree. It is easy to champion justice when the victim belongs to your...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

Light and darkness, lips to life

Nov 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The light that shines over Guyana must be at its dazzling purest. Not a speck of darkness on the horizon. Not a stray dark spot in the cupboard or under the carpet. When light is at its brightest, what chance for darkness to show its face, to linger? On the occasion of...

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