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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...

Our empty parliament and the world’s silence

Dec 24, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Our empty parliament and the world’s silence

(Kaieteur News) – Christmas is at our doorstep. In Guyana, this is often a time for peace in our parliament. Opposing politicians usually take a moment to wish each other well. It is a brief truce...

Post-Thanksgiving and pre-Xmas for Ex Ali and VP Jagdeo

Dec 24, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Post-Thanksgiving and pre-Xmas for Ex Ali and VP Jagdeo

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Any Guyanese, or anyone else, who believes that I am against the PPP, PNC, AFC, WIN or FGM is in urgent need of a psychiatrist’s couch. Whoever is in...

A Christmas Morning Survival Guide

Dec 23, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A Christmas Morning Survival Guide

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh, Christmas Eve is a special kind of madness. Is licks you taking in the supermarket, is last-minute string-up lights falling down, is kitchen smelling like a...

Guyana’s democratic test

Dec 23, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyana’s democratic test

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana is at a crossroads. It is now a nation of global interest, blessed with newfound oil wealth. But a quiet political crisis is brewing at home. This crisis could invite...

PM Phillips said so, not I

Dec 23, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on PM Phillips said so, not I

(Kaieteur News) – “With sovereignty comes responsibility…the most solemn of these responsibilities is the obligation to safeguard our national sovereignty and preserve, protect and defend our...

Noise nuisance? We can’t hear yuh!

Dec 22, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Noise nuisance? We can’t hear yuh!

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys hear people complaining ‘bout noise nuisance all over de place. But hold on! We love noise so much, we could feel compelled to up de volume. When yuh go to a wedding...

How the government chose private profit over public good

Dec 22, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on How the government chose private profit over public good

(The following column was only partly published yesterday due to the Printer’s Devil. The full column is being published today.) (Kaieteur News) – For many years, the sugar industry in Guyana...

Bharrat Jagdeo, the magnificent seven himself

Dec 22, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Bharrat Jagdeo, the magnificent seven himself

(Kaieteur News) – I read that the PPP Cincinnati Kid is back looking not his usual worse-for-wear self, but better than he ever did. I am humbly referring to the one and only, the master...

Nah believe everything yuh overseas family tell yuh!

Dec 21, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Nah believe everything yuh overseas family tell yuh!

(Kaieteur News) – Dat phone call there was sweeter dan a slice of pepperpot an’ pine tart, but de aftertaste? Pure bitter lime. Lemme set de scene fuh yuh. Is me, yuh boy, just hang up from...

How the government chose private profit over public good

Dec 21, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on How the government chose private profit over public good

(Kaieteur News) – For many years, the sugar industry in Guyana has been in trouble. The company that runs it, GUYSUCO, loses a lot of money. Every year, the government uses billions of dollars...

Guyana almost a one-party state already

Dec 21, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Guyana almost a one-party state already

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – It’s time for congratulations. Warm, glistening. Like beer left in the sun too long. A garland of congratulations to Pres. Ali. His One Guyana...

GNBS URGES SAFE USE OF DECORATIVE LIGHTS THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON

Dec 21, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on GNBS URGES SAFE USE OF DECORATIVE LIGHTS THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON

GNBS IN FOCUS (Kaieteur News) – This week is Christmas, arguably the most exciting holiday of the year and while some have long finished their decorations, there are others awaiting the final...

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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...

(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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