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The arithmetic of representation

Sep 04, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The arithmetic of representation

Kaieteur News – There is a peculiar comfort in numbers. They lie before us arranged neatly, each one solid, hard, irrefutable. Yet in politics, as in life, numbers are rarely as final as they...

What a difference a day makes

Sep 04, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on What a difference a day makes

Kaieteur News – What a difference a day makes. In the instance of Guyana and its 2025 elections, it wasn’t even 24 little hours, but less. Literally. Guyanese got up with all manner of...

When yuh get haircut yuh used to get ‘tap’

Sep 03, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on When yuh get haircut yuh used to get ‘tap’

Kaieteur News – Dem boys rememba small boy days. Yuh fada use to carry yuh by de barba fuh get a nice sharp trim. Line up neat neat, spick and span, ready fuh school. But soon as yuh reach, de...

The consolations of defeat

Sep 03, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The consolations of defeat

Kaieteur News – It is one thing to lose an election, and quite another to lose it badly. The distinction, though seemingly semantic, is political to its marrow. A narrow loss allows a leader to...

Low turnout -the fruits of deception, distrust

Sep 03, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Low turnout -the fruits of deception, distrust

Kaieteur News – Whatever the manner I try to frame Elections Day, September 1, 2025, I sense some falling short of the mark. Still, the mind and circumstances dictate effort. In Churchillian...

De older de better

Sep 02, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De older de better

Kaieteur News – Dem does call ole age de golden age. Is true. Nuff ah dem ole people mekking money like if is gold. De older yuh get, de bigger de job yuh getting. Ole people nailing dem big...

The gift that keeps on accumulating

Sep 02, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The gift that keeps on accumulating

Kaieteur News – There are two kinds of parents in this world. The first kind, spend months debating the type of wrist band or bangle to have the goldsmith make, whether it should have embedded...

September 2 – the morning after

Sep 02, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on September 2 – the morning after

Kaieteur News – Rather than call this the morning after September 1, I think that it is better to title it Elections 2025 -the first postmortem. So how did Guyanese do? Again, it may be...

People gan be scrolling social media all day today!

Sep 01, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on People gan be scrolling social media all day today!

Kaieteur News – Today yuh gon see Guyanese with dem necks bend down whole day, like de phone screen got gold hiding inside. Every lil second, swipe, scroll, refresh, scroll again. Is like dem...

Could be the day of the have nots

Sep 01, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Could be the day of the have nots

Kaieteur News – The verbal pyrotechnics should be over by now. On this day of hope, and the days to follow, may that be the only kind; and not foreshadow anything else. There has been no other...

Where is my receipt?

Sep 01, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Where is my receipt?

Kaieteur News – Believe it or leave it! There are some Guyanese who leave their homes with only the exact money needed for the day—bus fare calculated to the last dollar, lunch accounted for,...

Elections is not Christmas Eve

Aug 31, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Elections is not Christmas Eve

Kaieteur News – Dem boys seh every election time in Guyana, people does behave like is Christmas Eve. Yuh see them rushing into the supermarket, trolley full to the brim, like Santa coming by...

What to do while waiting for the results

Aug 31, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on What to do while waiting for the results

Kaieteur News – Elections in Guyana are a peculiar thing. On Election Day itself, everything is calm, peaceful, tranquil—almost suspiciously so. People line up, they dip their fingers in ink,...

Guyana’s Golden Age – the one that never was

Aug 31, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Guyana’s Golden Age – the one that never was

Kaieteur News – No, it is not oil, though it should have been. No, it is not about quiet times, the ones that never were; those soft, satisfying ones that touched, stirred, endured, for those...

Why States should isolate Netanyahu – not anti-Semitism, world peace

Aug 31, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Why States should isolate Netanyahu – not anti-Semitism, world peace

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – I am a diplomat with over 40 years of experience. My first instinct is always dialogue: bringing adversaries to a table and building mechanisms that find...

The test for insanity

Aug 30, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The test for insanity

Kaieteur News – Georgetown was always a fascinating city. In de old days, it used to shock a lot ‘country’ folks when dem come to de big city and see how many destitute people dem gat...

The last refuge of the electoral charlatan

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

Kaieteur News – There was a man I knew, a domino player, who possessed the most extraordinary talent. He always lost. He did not lose nobly. No, he lost noisily, extravagantly, like a man...

Bright new words, postures, same grim biases and prejudices

Aug 30, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Bright new words, postures, same grim biases and prejudices

Kaieteur News – Interesting and repelling the lengths to which men, who think that they are Solomonic in substance, go to conceal their true objectives. Frightening and fascinating how words...

Know de system before applying fuh de wuk

Aug 29, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Know de system before applying fuh de wuk

Kaieteur News – Dem boys hear something that mek dem almost choke pon dem morning bush tea. One man, who suppose to be contesting de upcoming elections, boldly seh that Guyana using...

Nip it in the bud!

Aug 29, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Nip it in the bud!

Kaieteur News – The eve of national elections should be a moment when democracy asserts itself through peaceful campaigning, respectful debate, and the free expression of political opinion....

Waking up and promising

Aug 29, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Waking up and promising

Kaieteur News – It’s miracle that it took the mighty PPP leaders so long to admit that they did so badly; they now spend so much effort to say that they will do so much good. Waking up and...

Dem gyal end up being shown the door

Aug 28, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dem gyal end up being shown the door

Kaieteur News – Sometimes people only realize how sweet de mango was after dem done throw way de seed. Dem boys seh, is like when yuh wife cooking lil saltfish every day and yuh belly start...

The colour of your clothing

Aug 28, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The colour of your clothing

Kaieteur News – During the recent Disciplined Services vote, an incident occurred that was both humorous and telling. One of the Commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission, while...

Pres. Ali: broken promises, discarded commitments

Aug 28, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Pres. Ali: broken promises, discarded commitments

Kaieteur News – Five years later. There is Irfaan Ali. How has he been? What has he done? Where is Guyana? Are Guyanese better today than yesterday, five moons ago? How to begin, and where? I...

Actions gat consequences

Aug 27, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Actions gat consequences

Kaieteur News – When yuh gat sweetman, yuh does sleep pon de couch. When yuh gat bad belly, yuh does sleep pon de toilet bowl. But when yuh try fuh thief election, yuh does sleep pon yuh own...

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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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