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Bourda Market needs more than cleaning

Dec 03, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Bourda Market needs more than cleaning

Kaieteur News – Bourda Market is dying. Not slowly. Not quietly. It is dying in full view of the city. The drains are fetid. The smell rises and clings to everything. The filth so fills the...

Trump watching Guyanese

Dec 03, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists 1

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh, yuh know Trump ah watchin’ we from over deh, and now he tinkin’ he need check out yuh medical history before you tek a flight to Uncle Sam. And yuh know wah?...

Presidential talking up

Dec 03, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Presidential talking up

(Kaieteur News) – Stabroek News can be nuanced. A white glove smoothing the cheek. “Ali talks up logistics consortiums” (SN, Nov 30, 2025). Talks up is to sell, to market; no p-word in...

Wake up and smell de insults

Dec 02, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Wake up and smell de insults

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh, dis 16-days of activism against gender-based violence should awaken us to another form of violence that occurs every morning in some households across Guyana. Some...

The Puppet’s Reward

Dec 02, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Puppet’s Reward

(Kaieteur News) – America is preparing to invade Venezuela. And you can bet, like it did in Grenada in 1983, it will find a puppet or two within the Region to support its plans. And this time too,...

UNDP elections report: mind muddled, feet strayed

Dec 02, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on UNDP elections report: mind muddled, feet strayed

(Kaieteur News) – A team from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) came, helped, and observed Guyana’s 2025 elections. Many thanks. The UNDP has now shared its conclusions with the...

De meaning of ‘vending’ change

Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De meaning of ‘vending’ change

(Kaieteur News) – Dem Boys seh long, long ago when yuh talk ’bout a vendor, yuh mind used to picture a lil tray pon two sticks, or a rice bag spread neat-neat on de ground. Deh man or woman deh...

No new taxes, just bigger budgets and maybe bigger headaches

Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on No new taxes, just bigger budgets and maybe bigger headaches

(Kaieteur News) – If governments had theme songs, the PPPC would long have released two platinum hits on heavy rotation: “No New Taxes” (remix featuring selective amnesia) and “The Largest...

The Mohameds – what’s going on, really going on

Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on The Mohameds – what’s going on, really going on

(Kaieteur News) – I begin with the factual. When the US government wants someone, they don’t stay wanted for long. The US usually gets them, by a variety of means. Some on the table,...

Dem overseas Guyanese more anxious than we…

Nov 30, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dem overseas Guyanese more anxious than we…

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh long, long ago December had a rhythm. Yuh didn’t start buy one single bulb or a ting till Uncle Joe in Brooklyn collect he bonus and Auntie Mabel get she lil’...

FROM WHERE I STAND: Development must be done with us, not to us

Nov 30, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on FROM WHERE I STAND: Development must be done with us, not to us

By Janelle A.N Persaud (Kaieteur News) – Some of you might recall my encounter with a homeless man I later came to know as Uncle Andrew. I met him while walking one morning on the seawall. He told...

Democracy on stilts

Nov 30, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

(Kaieteur News) – In Guyana, democracy has lately been standing on stilts. It has been tottering, wavering, and looking altogether unsafe, as though one sudden breeze might send it toppling. A...

Transformational leadership

Nov 30, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Transformational leadership

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Transformational leadership, what is it? What does it look and feel like? Transformation occurs when subtle deceptions fade, when outright falsehoods...

Building a Resilient AI Data Centre Strategy for Guyana

Nov 30, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Building a Resilient AI Data Centre Strategy for Guyana

By Karen Abrams, MBA, AA, Doctoral Candidate (Kaieteur News) – During my years in operations risk management for a major US internet service provider, one principle guided our every decision;...

The cost of less than a cup of coffee could end world hunger in five years

Nov 30, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The cost of less than a cup of coffee could end world hunger in five years

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Author’s Note: This commentary is dedicated to Patrick Cozier of Barbados, whose probing occasioned its writing.) (Kaieteur News) – In my article last week, “Hunger and...

Cheating is a not the problem, it may be a symptom of…

Nov 30, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cheating is a not the problem, it may be a symptom of…

By Dr. Telford Layne Jr. PsyD, MSc. Postgrad, BSc. Clinical and Developmental Psychologist – Psychoanalyst Unwrapping Gift – Clinic (Kaieteur News) – For decades, we have been fed incorrect...

Christmas and de cost-of-living mekkin’ things rough

Nov 29, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Christmas and de cost-of-living mekkin’ things rough

(Kaieteur News) – Christmas time in Guyana is like trying to string up fairy lights in a blackout! De prices shootin’ up higher than Santa’s sleigh on Christmas Eve,...

The long sunset of Ralph Gonsalves

Nov 29, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The long sunset of Ralph Gonsalves

(Kaieteur News) – The writing, as they say in the easy idiom of politics, was on the wall. It had been there for some time—faint at first, then steadily darkening until it acquired the heavy...

Elections and media coverage

Nov 29, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Elections and media coverage

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Thanks to SN’s Nov 26, 2025, semi-centerfold labeled, “EU observers report underlining vast PPP/C advantage in media coverage”, Guyanese are able to...

A poor man Christmas might save we soul

Nov 28, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A poor man Christmas might save we soul

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh if Jesus had to come back fuh one quick anniversary check-in this December, is pure vexation he would guh back with. Imagine the man born in a manger—yes, a cow...

Georgetown has long been disfigured

Nov 28, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Georgetown has long been disfigured

(Kaieteur News) – I was recently scrolling social media when I encountered a young lady who had achieved the rare Guyanese feat of turning victimhood into performance art. With great passion and...

Gold, drug smugglers, tax evaders – who knew them, now don’t

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

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese are eyewitnesses to an astonishing spectacle. The main performers are a former president, and a current one. Both are doctors. Both stand...

Start yuh Christmas early before the traffic tek yuh soul

Nov 27, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists 1

(Kaieteur News) – Dem Boys Seh if you ain’t start your Christmas preparation yet, you better lef’ this column right now and go find a broom, a mop, or at least a piece of cloth to start wiping...

In the wake of loss

Nov 27, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on In the wake of loss

(Kaieteur News) – There is a tremor that passes through a household when death enters by way of illness. It is not the loud commotion of catastrophe but the quieter, disorienting sense of an...

Thanksgiving for oil, cursing a tragic diamond

Nov 27, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Thanksgiving for oil, cursing a tragic diamond

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – There is thanksgiving for this national oil inheritance, all 11 billion barrels of it. Thanksgiving to divine providence and Exxon for the many other...

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Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ kicks off Georgetown Leg...

Apr 14, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Street football excitement is set to return to the capital city as the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Championship resumes with its highly anticipated Georgetown leg,...

Mental illness does not always look like “madness”

Apr 14, 2026

(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 normal.” Because of this, it can be difficult to accept that a person who looks calm, speaks clearly,...

The Cost of Netanyahu’s Wars

Apr 12, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was announced on 7th April, 2026, the immediate reaction across much of the world was relief. By 8th April, that relief was reflected in a sharp fall in oil prices after weeks in which conflict...

PPP’s special talent for partners – local and foreign

Apr 14, 2026

(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 country. One poor performing group, or a shorthanded one, I could understand. But rich, steady streams...

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