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Economic Development Begins in the Mind of a Nation’s People

Apr 19, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Economic Development Begins in the Mind of a Nation’s People

By Dr. Karen Abrams, MBA AA (Kaieteur News) – Guyana is awash in oil revenue, and the recent Iran vs Israel-US war has driven a drastic spike in oil prices, further driving up the cost of living...

Beyond the Runway: Evolving Into the Next Version of You

Apr 19, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Beyond the Runway: Evolving Into the Next Version of You

By Sonia Noel (Kaieteur News) – I trust that you are having a beautiful and intentional week. Lately, I have been reflecting deeply on growth. Not the kind of growth we speak about casually, but...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a...

Dating For Marriage Part IV

Apr 19, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News 1

By Dr. Telford Layne Jr. PsyD, MSc. Postgrad, BSc. Clinical and Developmental Psychologist – Psychoanalyst Unwrapping Gift – Clinic Dr. Telford Layne Jr. (Kaieteur News) – In the 21st century,...

SUPPORTING MEDICAL LABORATORY PROFESSIONALS AND QUALITY HEALTHCARE DELIVERY

Apr 19, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on SUPPORTING MEDICAL LABORATORY PROFESSIONALS AND QUALITY HEALTHCARE DELIVERY

(Kaieteur News) – Medical laboratory professionals continue to play a critical role in our healthcare system by performing crucial analyses of blood, body fluids, cells and other biological...

Success, Envy, and the Psychology of “Bad Mind”

Apr 19, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Success, Envy, and the Psychology of “Bad Mind”

– Why Progress Is Celebrated Publicly but Resented Quietly By Dr. Eon Andre George, PhD, EdD (Kaieteur News) – Sometimes your biggest problem is not failure. It is progress. This may be a...

Same plantation, new overseers

Apr 19, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Same plantation, new overseers

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time when Guyana was spoken of, not entirely jokingly, as Bookers Guyana. Bookers was not a man. It was the giant foreign-owned sugar concern whose influence...

Ravaged by tyrants

Apr 19, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Ravaged by tyrants

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – What do you think, Guyanese? “The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.” Pope Leo XIV said so in Cameroon. I salute this fine...

Big Job, small chance

Apr 18, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Big Job, small chance

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh lang time story sweet, but some ah dem story does bite yuh same way mosquito in rainy season. Back in de old days, once yuh get a wuk and yuh keep yuh head down, do...

If you can’t respect the dead, you will have nothing but contempt for the living

Apr 18, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

(Kaieteur News) – Years ago, I witnessed a scene that has remained with me ever since. A funeral cortège was making its way slowly along a public road, led by the hearse. Scores of vehicles...

Southport – real inquiry, real results

Apr 18, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Southport – real inquiry, real results

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The Commission of Inquiry chaired by Sir Adrian Fulford and probing for answers into the Southport, England tragedy went live with early conclusions on...

Guyanese got the best acrobats

Apr 17, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyanese got the best acrobats

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh welcome to de Chinese Acrobatic Troupe who coming to Guyana to show we how human body could bend, twist, flip and balance pun one finger without falling down. Is...

From Nixon to Trump

Apr 17, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on From Nixon to Trump

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – It was President Richard Nixon who liked to play at the crazy man routine. For reasons still unfathomable to me, he developed a fondness for the madman...

Exxon not to blame this time!

Apr 16, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Exxon not to blame this time!

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh in Guyana these days, if rain fall too hard — blame Exxon. If sun hot blame Exxon. If yuh curry get too much salt — somewhere, somehow, Exxon got fuh be in de...

Pause the decision!

Apr 16, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Pause the decision!

(Kaieteur News) – What should have been a straightforward decision concerning the renewal of CARICOM’s Secretary General’s term has now developed into a major controversy within the Community....

Audit Office – haze, maze, and who get raze (raised, too)

Apr 16, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Audit Office – haze, maze, and who get raze (raised, too)

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – From public productions, it seems that much is happening within Guyana’s reputable and venerable Audit Office. What is reportedly wrong, some of...

Gas, gaff and greed

Apr 15, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Gas, gaff and greed

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh is one lil gas hiccup and suddenly the whole country behave like is doomsday dress rehearsal. One day—just one day—gas get lil snag, and Guyanese turn to panic...

Where are the coroners?

Apr 15, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Where are the coroners?

(Kaieteur News) – The law in Guyana governing the holding of a Coroner’s Inquest is both clear in its intent and, at the same time, revealing in its limitations. Rooted in the Coroners Act, Cap....

National minimum wage citizens

Apr 15, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column 1

(Kaieteur News) – For several years, senior citizens received an increase in their monthly pensions. Paltry and unlivable, but an extra dollar for cash-stressed elderly. Public servants from...

Guylines are back

Apr 14, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guylines are back

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh when yuh cyan get fuel, yuh suddenly remember all the places yuh didn’t really need to go. Georgetown traffic ease up. Not because government plan good, but...

Mental illness does not always look like “madness”

Apr 14, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Mental illness does not always look like “madness”

(Kaieteur News) – For many people, the idea of mental illness is tied to a very specific image: someone wandering the streets, talking to themselves, behaving in ways that are clearly “not...

PPP’s special talent for partners – local and foreign

Apr 14, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on PPP’s special talent for partners – local and foreign

(Kaieteur News) – Whatever gifts Guyana has, the PPP cohort holding the reins of government has better ones. It is astonishing the people that are engaged to deliver big projects for this...

Wales GTE, Lindsayca, Figueroa

Apr 13, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Wales GTE, Lindsayca, Figueroa

Hard truths by GHK Lall Kaieteur News – If I were to pause by State House, treat myself to an admiring look, Special Branch, CID, and the army could be summoned into action. If so for near...

Parking can be hazardous to yuh pocket

Apr 13, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Parking can be hazardous to yuh pocket

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Parkin is a problem in de city. Sometimes yuh does be late fuh wan appointment nat because yuh nah leff home pon time but because yuh does gat fuh spend a lang time...

A MAN’S OWN TO KEEP

Apr 13, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A MAN’S OWN TO KEEP

Kaieteur News – A man gets up early. He quickly does his sanitary rituals, has his breakfast, kisses his family goodbye and sets off to work. He has his problems but he does not burden the...

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Camptown FC clinch historic Elite League berth with victory over...

Jun 23, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Timehri United’s impressive run in the 2026 Elite League Qualifiers came to a somber end on Sunday after they suffered a 2-0 defeat to Camptown Football Club in the...

(Kaieteur News) – The elections commission did not fall from heaven. It came from the messy compromises of men. The so-called Carter-Price formula, that tired but enduring offspring of the 1990s political crisis, was not meant to enshrine aloof neutrality; it was meant to broker peace between...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

Jun 21, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Guyana Development Bank: Promise, Potential and Peril

Jun 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again,...

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