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Jiaram and Cumberbatch carrying the Guyana charge at the PANAM Draughts Championship in Suriname

Apr 21, 2026 KNEWS Sports 0

Kaieteur Sports – Guyanese Draught players Jiaram and Floyd Cumberbatch are doing well so far in the 23rd PANAM Draughts Championship being played now in Paramaribo, Suriname. After the third...

CJIA to get digital scanners for self-declaration

Apr 21, 2026 KNEWS News 1

(Kaieteur News) – The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) will soon see the installation of digital scanners at the customs department a move President Irfaan Ali said, will aid with...

Dynastic politics is repulsive to the electorate

Apr 21, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 0

(Kaieteur News) – In 2025, there was a seismic shift in Guyanese politics. For years the established parties assumed voters would remain in their accustomed enclosures, dutifully choosing between...

Wales GTE: Many questions, no answers

Apr 21, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column 1

(Kaieteur News) – The questions came before, are coming again. Former Minister David Patterson pushed questions in and out of parliament relative to the Wales gas-to-energy project and got...

NDC management system should be abolished

Apr 21, 2026 KNEWS Letters 0

Dear Editor, Please allow me space to share my thoughts on Local Government elections. As far as I am concerned, this has been a big waste of time. Billions of taxpayers’ money and energy lost in...

Global summit in Barcelona a step in the correct direction

Apr 21, 2026 KNEWS Letters 0

Dear Editor, The recent global summit in Barcelona that was attended by numerous leaders of the free world was a necessary and important step towards regaining the relevance of the United Nations....

Freddie does better when Chastising Jagan and the PPP/C

Apr 21, 2026 KNEWS Letters 0

Dear Editor, He was at his best when he did it. For he now comes over as most farcical. Thus, I keep asking myself what is the role of the now ‘established’ and ‘confirmed’ addled Freddie...

Didn’t Critchlow oppose Universal Adult Suffrage for East Indians?

Apr 21, 2026 KNEWS Letters 0

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter dated April 18, 2026 in your esteemed newspaper written by Elder Hamilton Green entitled, “Demand a bigger slice of the cake”. While I mostly agree with the...

“First Movers or Vulture Hoverers? Ali’s Haiti-Cuba Pitch Forgets Caribbean Blood”

Apr 21, 2026 KNEWS Letters 0

Dear Editor, President Irfaan Ali’s address to the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce has lit a fuse across the Caribbean, and it should. In pushing Guyana and its neighbours to...

The corruption cancer

Apr 21, 2026 KNEWS Editorial, News 0

(Kaieteur News) – We are no longer flirting with corruption in Guyana; we are living inside it. It is not a blemish on the national character, it is the bloodstream. Like a cancer that has...

Is Guyana’s LCDS facing a reputational threat?

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 0

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) has been internationally praised as an attempt to convert natural capital into financial capital without cutting down forests....

Gas-to-Energy contractor sourcing materials, services at inflated costs from shell companies

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS News 1

Kaieteur News – As project costs continue to balloon through luxurious private flights and multimillion-dollar disputes, Gas-to-Energy (GTE) contractor, Lindsayca has been growing its profit...

Guyana paid US$264.6M in debt servicing for 2025

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS News 0

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s total debt service payments for 2025 amounted to US$264.6 million, with US$176.6 million paid to external creditors and US$88 million to domestic creditors. While...

Iran vows retaliation after U.S. seizes ship near Strait of Hormuz

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS News 1

(AP) Iran has vowed to retaliate after US President Donald Trump said US forces seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz that tried to pass the US naval blockade. The US said it...

Fire leaves family homeless after morning prayer

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS News 1

Kaieteur News – A family of four was left homeless on Sunday after a fire destroyed their two-story wooden and concrete home at David James Scheme, Charity Essequibo Coast, Region two. Reports...

Man kills drinking buddy in scuffle over $1000

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS News 0

Kaieteur News – A man is now on the run after he reportedly stabbed his drinking buddy to death around 22:00 hrs on Saturday during a scuffle for a $1000 he was owed. The dead man has been...

Seven guns, ammo missing from Cove & John Police Station

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS News 1

– sergeant arrested as OPR launches probe Kaieteur News – A police sergeant has been arrested as the Guyana Police Force launches an investigation into the disappearance of seven firearms...

Police destroy $258.7M in ganja in Upper Berbice River

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS News 0

Kaieteur News – Police destroyed large fields of ganja cultivation during a joint eradication exercise at Kimba, Upper Berbice River, on Friday last. In a statement police said during the...

What is de world coming to?

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists 0

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Dem boys seh de world done turn upside down, spin round twice, and park crooked pun de pavement. Imagine hearing dat Guyana airport win award for Best...

Bids opened for rehabilitation of Medical Centre at Base Camp Stephenson

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS News 0

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will soon be rehabilitating its Medical Centre at Base Camp Stephenson, Timehri. The Force was allocated $41.8 billion in this year’s national...

APA president to lead participation at UNPFII in New York

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS News 0

Kaieteur News – President of the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA), Mr. Lemmel Thomas, will lead the APA’s delegation attending the 25th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on...

Armed bandits trail, topple biker in robbery at Melanie

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS News 0

Kaieteur News – Police in Regional Division 4 ‘C’ are investigating an alleged robbery under arms which occurred on Saturday night at Melanie Public Road, East Coast Demerara The victim has...

Nauth and Sons defends $1.6B Coldingen Road Project against “substandard” claims by WIN

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS News 0

Kaieteur News – Local construction firm H. Nauth and Sons has come out in defense of its work on the Coldingen Access Road project, following allegations of substandard work and lack of...

Guyanese to still feel the squeeze despite rise in fuel prices – IMF

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS News 0

(REUTERS) – The war in the Middle East is likely to widen economic differences across Latin America and the Caribbean, giving some countries like Guyana short-term support to oil exporters...

The saga of Elizabeth Shivpersaud

Apr 20, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column 0

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...

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Ebo McNeil delivers 1500m bronze at South American Youth Games

Apr 23, 2026

…Ezekiel Millington to contest 100m finals today Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s Ebo McNeil delivered a strong performance on the track in Panama, claiming bronze in the boys’ 1500m final at the...

Glenn Lall has raised some important concerns

Apr 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something fundamentally incongruent about a country standing atop one of the most promising oil frontiers of the 21st century while simultaneously deepening its reliance on external debt. Guyana today embodies that contradiction. It is hailed as the world’s...

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...

Mohameds Extradition – the latest episode

Apr 23, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – It is obvious that there are two sets of folks who want Messrs. Azruddin Mohamed and Nazar “Shell” Mohamed out of Guyana. Persons of interest in the first set take the form of the Government of Guyana, specifically the hostile PPP leadership...

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