Evidence-based decision making
President Irfaan Ali has faced the press twice in recent weeks—once in an interview with Al Jazeera and again before the local press corps in Georgetown.
Editorial
President’s parliamentary overture
At a press conference on September 14, President Ali disclosed that he had invited all members of the parliamentary sectoral committees on Economic Services and Foreign Relations to meet with him on September 15 and 16 respectively.
MV Barima compensation: Victimhood or rights?
On Monday, President Irfaan Ali announced that his Government had disbursed $123 million to some 750 persons affected by the MV Barima tragedy and that twenty turnkey houses would be provided to affected families.
GPL and presidential bluster
At his press conference on Monday, President Ali sought to paint a dire picture about the generating capacity of GPL and how dangerously close it was to peak demand so as to leave the country without a spinning reserve.
Local languages
Amerindian Heritage Month was opened with the usual fanfare by a befeathered President Irfaan Ali, who addressed the Indigenous gathering as he would any coastal group.
Housing and vulnerability
The government’s proposed social housing programme is being presented as an intervention for some of the most vulnerable people in Guyana.
How to run a country
In his column in Kiskadee Watch on September 3rd under the heading `How to run a country’, international civil servant and former University of Guyana Chancellor, Dr Bertrand Ramcharan invoked the philosophy of Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero.
The memory of repression
Guyana is at an uncomfortable intersection in its history. There remains a generation of Guyanese who, whether as children, teenagers or adults during the period stretching from the 1970s into the early 1990s, remember what they still describe as the “Dark Days.”
End this electoral impasse
If this were a mature democracy that respected the constitution and accorded the highest priority to the convening of elections whether local or general and regional then there would have been no impasse at the moment.
Human dignity revisited
On Tuesday, September 8, 2026, Kiskadee Watch reported that Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo had summoned Ministers, Permanent Secretaries (PSs) and Regional Executive Officers (REOs) and other state officials to the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, where he warned them of the need for compliance and accountability in the dispensing of procurement services using the resources of the State.
Mr Jagdeo’s warning
Well, what in the world triggered the warning on September 7 by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo to the crème de la crèmeof senior civil servants functioning in this administration?
What if they choose to stay in Guyana?
Guyana’s newly concluded migration cooperation framework with the United States raises many a question, none of which have so far been answered.
Not ready for school
Every year the date for the reopening of schools is known well in advance. The long July-August holiday is also fixed.
First anniversary of President Ali’s final term
Today marks the first anniversary of President Ali’s second and final term in office. It finds the presidency in a state of upheaval and uncertainty.
A missed opportunity for Indigenous Heritage Education
On September 1, 2026, two significant events occurred simultaneously in Guyana. Thousands of pupils and students returned to their classrooms for the beginning of the 2026–2027 academic year, while Amerindian Heritage Month was formally launched with the customary prayer service at the Umana Yana.
State’s response on salvaging MV Barima has not matched its words
Two headlines this week deserve to be read together. The first was President Irfaan Ali’s update on the MV Barima salvage process: several companies, the President said, have expressed interest and the State has now reached the stage of discussing costs.
President’s address
The extent to which the President feels under pressure was exposed on Tuesday when at the opening of Amerindian Heritage month he launched into an address which veered from biblical admonitions on the one hand to Greek mythology on the other.
Justice for the family of the Henry cousins
Ten days before the catastrophic sinking of the MV Barima there was another signal event that drew a line under a gruesome double murder that frayed the fabric of society and led to riots.
No to an oil refinery
At his press conference on July 18, President Ali once again reiterated his interest in the country having an oil refinery.
Steeped in patriarchy
It is hard to decide what is more troubling about Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Director of Operations Dr Nicole Manning’s declaration that “men are born leaders”: the statement itself or the fact that it came from a senior education professional whose career and academic achievements offer compelling evidence to the contrary.