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From Where I Stand: History Will Not Forgive Our Limited Imagination

Jan 04, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on From Where I Stand: History Will Not Forgive Our Limited Imagination

By Janelle A. N. Persaud Lately, Guyana feels trapped in a constant spectacle. Ministers trading accusations with opposition figures who are posting exposés on social media. Videos of houses, cars,...

GNBS RECORDS MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2025 AND UNVEILS EXPANDED VISION FOR 2026

Jan 04, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on GNBS RECORDS MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2025 AND UNVEILS EXPANDED VISION FOR 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has concluded a successful 2025 with notable achievements across its certification, compliance, standardisation, metrology and...

For Children, Falling Behind Starts Early. Getting Back on Track Can Start Tonight

Jan 04, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on For Children, Falling Behind Starts Early. Getting Back on Track Can Start Tonight

By Karen Abrams, MBA, AA, Education Technology Doctoral Candidate (Kaieteur News) – In working on my dissertation, I am immersed in research that answers difficult questions: why children fall...

One-sided, one-sided in every way imaginable

Jan 04, 2026 KNEWS Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on One-sided, one-sided in every way imaginable

(Kaieteur News) – Guyanese, with few exceptions, have known for about 10 years that the ExxonMobil 2016 oil contract was so one-sided in the company’s favor that Guyana would come out on the...

When the dead text back

Jan 03, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on When the dead text back

(Kaieteur News) – From the very stroke of midnight on Old Year’s Night, my phone turn into Philharmonic Hall. Ping! Ping! Ping! WhatsApp ringing like tassa drum, steel pan and church bell all...

Is the Integrity Commission a rubber stamp?

Jan 03, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Is the Integrity Commission a rubber stamp?

(Kaieteur News) – Whenever allegations of corruption swirl around officials of the PPP/C government, a familiar defence is rolled out with almost ritual precision: all officials declare their...

New Year, Same Old Promises (But We Wish Y’all Well Anyway)

Jan 01, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on New Year, Same Old Promises (But We Wish Y’all Well Anyway)

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh when New Year come, everybody does turn philosopher, preacher, fitness coach and financial expert all in one. From midnight reach cockcrow, yuh hearing, “Dis is...

Power, the press, and the silence at year’s end

Jan 01, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Power, the press, and the silence at year’s end

(Kaieteur News) – There is a small but telling ritual in democratic politics that rarely makes the textbooks but looms large in practice: the end-of-year press conference. It is not ceremonial in...

Time fuh students measure rain

Dec 31, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Time fuh students measure rain

(Kaieteur News) – Every time flood lick Guyana, one miracle does happen. Everybody turn meteorologist overnight. Soon as water touch yuh socks, some official jump up pon TV and holler, “Is de...

Drainage is Mathematics

Dec 31, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Drainage is Mathematics

(Kaieteur News) – Flooding in Guyana is often discussed in emotional terms. People are angry. People are frustrated. People want quick fixes. But drainage does not respond to anger. It responds...

Govt. and corruption

Dec 31, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Govt. and corruption

(Kaieteur News) – The reaction from the PPP Government was immediate and sharp. Objection! Objection to the 2025 US International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) on Guyana. ...

Old Year’s Night is a good time fuh stay home

Dec 30, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Old Year’s Night is a good time fuh stay home

(Kaieteur News) – Tomorrow is Old Year’s Day and dat mean dat plenty people gan be preparing fuh greet de New Year. Some people like fuh go to Church and some people does go to Church and den...

Every Guyanese should have plenty

Dec 30, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Every Guyanese should have plenty

(Kaieteur News) – Happy holidays still to all Guyanese, no exceptions. Happy holidays also to those who have made Guyana their home, some temporarily due to commerce, others because of the...

The eternal optimism of the human spirit

Dec 30, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The eternal optimism of the human spirit

(Kaieteur News) – Every New Year’s Eve, like clockwork, we engage in a ritual that is predictable as day following night. It’s the same story every December 31st. We drink, we toast, we make...

Yuh does hear and see all kinds of things in hire cars

Dec 29, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Yuh does hear and see all kinds of things in hire cars

Dem Boys Seh… (Kaieteur News) – A man jump in a hire car one afternoon, late-late and sweating. The driver take off like fire in dry grass. Next thing you know, the hire car blast straight...

Why no one expects an investigation

Dec 29, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Why no one expects an investigation

(Kaieteur News) – When the subject is whether any government, particularly the current one, would ever investigate allegations of corruption involving high officialdom, the public has little...

Luxury car competition

Dec 28, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Luxury car competition

Dem Boys Seh… (Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh Georgetown traffic does bring out all kinda comparison, especially when the red light catch yuh by Regent and Camp Street and yuh ego decide to...

Daylight robbery

Dec 28, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Daylight robbery

(Kaieteur News) – Every time minibus operators or speedboat operators try to raise fares, the government reacts swiftly. There are warnings. There are threats. There is talk of arrests and court...

Land of plenty, land of anxiety, the hungry

Dec 28, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column 1

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Thanks to a friend or two, a few social media snippets came down the chimney, tumbled out of Santa’s sack. The senders didn’t have to overload; the...

Holidays vs Mental Health

Dec 28, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Holidays vs Mental Health

By Dr. Telford Layne Jr. PsyD, MSc. Postgrad, BSc. Clinical and Developmental Psychologist – Psychoanalyst Unwrapping Gift -Clinic (Kaieteur News) – Christmas is one of the most celebrated...

From Where I Stand: Guyana has outgrown the “growth” argument

Dec 28, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on From Where I Stand: Guyana has outgrown the “growth” argument

By Janelle A. N Persaud (Kaieteur News) – I had already begun working on a column about inequality; prompted by the release of the latest World Inequality Report, when the President addressed the...

Dis is what all the fuss was about

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dis is what all the fuss was about

(Kaieteur News) – Christmas Day does remind dem boys of dem times when dem does try fuh sneak out of dem boring office meetings. Dis day is one of de quietest day of de year. Yuh could literally...

Merry Christmas!

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Merry Christmas!

(Kaieteur News) – Ah, Christmas—the season of goodwill, good cheer, and, let’s not forget, good riddance! It’s that magical time when even the most hardened scoundrel can decorate a tree,...

Six years of richness

Dec 25, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Six years of richness

(Kaieteur News) – Merry Christmas, fellow citizens. Similar wishes are extended to strangers, visitors, partners, and others in Guyana’s new and widening commercial family. Six years of...

Dem ole people did know betta!

Dec 24, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dem ole people did know betta!

(Kaieteur News) – Look at dis place nuh! Is one day to Christmas and de atmosphere is fast becoming one of frayed nerves and last-minute madness. People running up and down like fowl wid dey head...

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David, Glasgow hattricks help sink St Joseph in huge quarterfinal win

Apr 20, 2026

…West Ruimveldt, Charlestown and Santa Rosa keep title in sight Kaieteur Sports – The road to schoolboy football glory is heating up, and the Petra Organisation made sure Sunday was nothing...

Same plantation, new overseers

Apr 19, 2026

(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 stretched so wide that if you sneezed in Georgetown, someone in a London boardroom probably approved 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...

The saga of Elizabeth Shivpersaud

Apr 20, 2026

Kaieteur News – It’s one of those situations crying out for help. The best I can do, other than offering professional help, is to raise an alarm about a case that is worrying in all of its elements. It’s the Saga of Elizabth Shivpersaud. If this distressed, shorthanded, hollow-eyed,...

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