Dear Editor, According to the United States Holocaust Museum, “The legal term “genocide” refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
Dear Editor, Today, the United States Region of the People’s National Congress Reform (USRPNCR), pays special tribute to the former General Secretary and Leader of the PNC/Reform, Hon.
By Dr. Nand C. Bardouille For more than five decades, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states have sought to turn their vulnerability as small states into collective strength.
In a lengthy opening statement on October 7th at a preliminary hearing at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre with the families of the victims of the MV Barima tragedy, the Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry, Godfrey P.
By Harry Husbands Harry Husbands is a man of many parts. He was an educator, trade union leader, business executive, politician, senator, radio talk show host and a newspaper columnist.
Dear Editor, I write to respectfully reject the position advanced by Mr. Clement Rohee in his recent letter, dated October 8, 2026, and captioned “Cheddi Jagan was the central figure in the October 5th story.”
It could be said that the career of Robert Corbin straddled two important eras in Guyana’s post-Independence history.
Dear Editor, Robert Corbin, who passed on October 4th, the day before the anniversary of the return of free and fair elections in Guyana in 1992, played an outsized role as a leader of the PNC in politics before and after that date.
Dear Editor, I said it early, didn’t I? The PPP Government had to prove me and some other Guyanese right, didn’t it?
“I do not trust y’all.” Those words reverberated across the Arthur Chung Conference Centre as families stood, one at a time, to address the Commission of Inquiry into the MV Barima tragedy, Those words exposed the distance between the CoI, offering to establish the truth, and bereaved families struggling to believe another official promise.
Dear Editor, Please allow me, through the good offices of Kiskadee Watch, to congratulate Judge Navi Pillay, former international judge and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – and my friend – on her richly deserved award of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Dear Editor, The daughter of a missing MV Barima passenger told the Commission of Inquiry that she has no confidence in the probe.
Dear Editor, In an article published Friday October 9, 2026 in Kiskadee Watch titled “Meadowbrook Gardens residents demand suspension of GPL’s transmission line work”, this group of residents has expressed a concern which we the residents of Lodge housing scheme, share.
Dear Editor, The President’s response on the debt burden Guyana is currently saddled with reminds me of my boyhood days when we would shake the carbon in a can and then apply some fire for it to explode.
Dear Editor, The recent announcement that the Ministry under embattled Minister Edghill’s responsibility is considering working with the Guyana-Colombian Chamber of Commerce to potentially carry out a number of key infrastructural projects raises significant concerns.
Dear Editor, “One People One Space One Destiny”. This caught my attention as I listened to the address of the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
In a world ravaged by war, growing disregard for fundamental human rights and the undermining of the rule of law internationally, yesterday’s Nobel Peace Prize award to the indefatigable South African judge Navi Pillay sends a powerful message to those leaders engaged in these transgressions.
Dear Editor, It is time for us, as Guyanese, to seriously examine whether the interests and welfare of ordinary citizens remain at the centre of the decisions being made by those entrusted with leadership.
Dear Editor, In response to Clement Rohee’s, “Cheddi Jagan was the central figure in the October 5th story,” (KW, October 8, 2026), I would like to remind Rohee that October 5th was actually the second half of the ‘Cheddi Jagan October story’, and were it not for the first half, there would have been no need for a second half.
Dear Editor, The announcement of Guyana’s billionth barrel of oil produced is being touted as a milestone.