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The Speaker’s undeclared war on parliamentary democracy

Feb 05, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on The Speaker’s undeclared war on parliamentary democracy

(Kaieteur News) – From all indications, Speaker Nadir is waging a relentless undeclared war against democracy in Guyana. Undeclared, but still unnerving, undermining of wat’s held sacred. ...

Bail is not a fine

Feb 04, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Bail is not a fine

Dem Boys Seh… (Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh dem bin listening carefully—well, as carefully as dem boys ever listen—to all the noise lately ‘bout bail. Everywhere you turn, people vex....

The PPPC’s big blunder

Feb 04, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The PPPC’s big blunder

(Kaieteur News) – Politics in Guyana is becoming a romantic comedy. It is increasingly looking like a sideshow in which everyone behaves badly, nobody learns anything, and the audience keeps...

Oil Fund expected 2026 intake

Feb 04, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Oil Fund expected 2026 intake

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The much-watched Guyana Natural Resource Fund (Oil Fund) is expected to be boosted by US$2.8 billion in 2026. The Oil Fund needs every penn7 that it can...

Smiling fuh de camera

Feb 03, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Smiling fuh de camera

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys see a video floating round pon social media where a gang of young fellas trying to relieve a man of he cellular phone, and one of dem brandishing a knife so long it look...

What is your bottom line?

Feb 03, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on What is your bottom line?

(Kaieteur News) – It is a rude question, almost an impertinent one, and that is why it unsettles. In Guyana, at this time of the year, it is drowned out by louder, more theatrical questions: Who...

Mohamed carving his own path

Feb 03, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Mohamed carving his own path

(Kaieteur News) – Stranger things have happened, that’s for sure. I just can’t recall when. But there he is, the We Invest In Nationhood leader, Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, operating in a new...

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...

Higher production, lower prices, less money, still bigger budgets

Feb 02, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Higher production, lower prices, less money, still bigger budgets

Hard truths… Kaieteur News – Neither oilman nor math man did one have to be. Simple arithmetic and commonsense suffice. When leaders are principled, keen insights are theirs. They...

Wah yuh think about de Budget?

Feb 01, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Wah yuh think about de Budget?

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh is Budget season again, and like mosquito after rain, everybody suddenly turn economist. So dem boys stop one gentleman on the road—shirt half-tuck, tie swinging...

AI Agents Are Changing Business, Even for Small Firms

Feb 01, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on AI Agents Are Changing Business, Even for Small Firms

By Karen Abrams, MBA, AA, Doctoral Candidate (Kaieteur News) – Artificial intelligence agents are quickly becoming part of everyday business conversations, and for good reason. Unlike basic chat...

Education as Economic Policy: Remedying the Mismatch

Feb 01, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Education as Economic Policy: Remedying the Mismatch

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When the door to migration narrows, the long-standing mismatch between education and economic absorption is no longer abstract; a country’s true...

Overcoming shame Part II

Feb 01, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Overcoming shame Part II

By Dr. Telford Layne Jr. PsyD, MSc. Postgrad, BSc. Clinical and Developmental Psychologist – Psychoanalyst Unwrapping Gift -Clinic (Kaieteur News) – Shame is a feeling that can make you believe...

UPDATED LPG SAFETY STANDARD STRENGTHENS PROTECTION FOR CONSUMERS AND INDUSTRY

Feb 01, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on UPDATED LPG SAFETY STANDARD STRENGTHENS PROTECTION FOR CONSUMERS AND INDUSTRY

GNBS IN FOCUS (Kaieteur News) – The use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) continues to grow across Guyana for domestic, commercial, and industrial purposes, driven by expanding economic activity...

Hard questions requiring hard truths from Pres. Ali

Feb 01, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Hard questions requiring hard truths from Pres. Ali

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Pres. Irfaan Ali and his PPP Govt. are looking worse by the day, development. On many issues of national importance, the president and his group of...

A test case for the GMSA

Feb 01, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A test case for the GMSA

(Kaieteur News) – In 2023, when the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) urged the removal of VAT on a range of locally produced goods, such as data services, chowmein, guava...

Smells of Progress

Jan 31, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Smells of Progress

(Kaieteur News) – Long ago, dem boys seh, you ain’t need no GPS when you passing through Diamond. Your nose does alert you long before your eyes catch the sign. One whiff and you know: “Aye,...

Budget 2026 and the problems people actually face

Jan 31, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Budget 2026 and the problems people actually face

(Kaieteur News) – Leader of the Opposition, Azruddin Mohamed, has argued that Budget 2026 fails to address the fundamental problems confronting the Guyanese people. That claim is not difficult to...

First Pres. Reagan, time for Pres. Ali

Jan 31, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on First Pres. Reagan, time for Pres. Ali

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – When President Reagan went to the White House, Bedtime for Bonzo, gained a new home and renewed fame. The forgettable B-grade film, featured a...

Maths gone wild on the Public Road

Jan 30, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Maths gone wild on the Public Road

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh traffic is no longer a matter for drivers alone — is now a full-blown mathematics problem, and sadly, the answer always wrong. Take a simple example. One hundred...

AZMO cannot be sent to the Privileges Committee for words and actions outside of and unrelated to the work of the National Assembly

Jan 30, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on AZMO cannot be sent to the Privileges Committee for words and actions outside of and unrelated to the work of the National Assembly

(Kaieteur News) – Words made within the hallowed halls of a legislature carry weight. These words can alter the course of governance. In Westminster systems this has always been understood: the...

Budget 2026 – Part 111 – built-in bias

Jan 30, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Budget 2026 – Part 111 – built-in bias

(Kaieteur News) – If there’s a group of Guyanese that’s happy with Dr. Ashni Singh’s 2026 Budget, it’s the One Guyana crowd. Dr. Ali has lovingly cared it. Those Guyanese smiling from...

Cash or Kind?

Jan 29, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Cash or Kind?

(Kaieteur News) – In policy debates, especially in developing and small open economies, it has become fashionable to argue that in-kind grants are preferable to cash grants because they supposedly...

Time fuh slowdown

Jan 29, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Time fuh slowdown

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys hear a man call in pun one road safety programme and drop one memory like is old-time calypso record. He say long, long ago—under Commissioner of Police Laurie...

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Millington lads Guyana’s historic 1-2 finish in 100m at South...

Apr 24, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s sprinting future announced itself in emphatic fashion on the track in South American Youth Games 2026, as Ezekiel Millington powered to gold in the boys’ 100m final...

Do the right thing!

Apr 24, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – For years, we have called May 5, “Arrival Day.” It is a name that sounds inclusive but, in reality, obscures more than it reveals. It is time to end the confusion and call the day what it was always intended to be: Indian Arrival Day. In 2003, during the tenure of the...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

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 lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

Never has any single company

Apr 24, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – “Never has any single company…” in a single country beaten almost every single citizen into a state of paralysis. Frankly, I’m disappointed in Chartered Accountant, Attorney-at-Law (and civil society advocate), Chris Ram. Aside: does this chap ever sleep? Mr....

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