President Ali announces measures to strengthen Guyana’s financial system

Dr Irfaan Ali on Wednesday unveiled a package of reforms aimed at tightening oversight of Guyana’s financial and banking sector, with a particular focus on stabilizing the foreign currency market and curbing capital flight. - Advertisement - The...

Bank of Nova Scotia, now Scotiabank Guyana Inc

Guyana goes high-tech to uncover mineral wealth

Oct 02, 2025 News …as Govt. launches $4B mineral mapping project The aircraft to be used in the aerial mapping project Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission on Wednesday launched a new...

Brazil and Bahamas to join expanded KFC International School Football tournament in Guyana

The KFC International Secondary School Football tournament is set for its largest edition after youth teams from Brazil and The Bahamas were confirmed to join the sixth annual Under-18 event in Guyana. The expanded competition, announced at the...

Some Guyanese may be the world’s most ignorant people

LAST week, I was in the picket line, outside CARICOM, for the denunciation of genocide being committed in Gaza by the Nazi regime in Israel. I was deeply engrossed in a conversation with long-standing Caribbean Pan-Africanist, Guyanese, Gerald...

Guyana begins high-tech mineral mapping

Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 October 2025, 17:24 by Denis Chabrol Jared Abraham, Geologist/ geophysicist at the United States-based Aqua Geo Frameworks briefing Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat near one of the mineral mapping planes...

Foreign exchange directives will inhibit legitimate businesses through delayed transactions by commercial banks

Dear Editor, Thank you for allowing me space in your most valuable column and as a follow up to the previous ForEx issue I raised. In tonight’s (9/30/2025) Facebook meeting with President Ali and the Central Bank, GRA’s Commissioner-General and...

Scotiabank Guyana Inc. to replace The Bank of Nova Scotia from November 1

EFFECTIVE November 1, 2025, The Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) will officially transfer its Guyana operations to Scotiabank Guyana Inc. (SGI), a newly incorporated, locally registered company that is a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank of...

Guyanese sentenced in US for supplying fake HIV testing kits

Oct 01, 2025 News …also ordered to pay a US$84,000 fine Kaieteur News – The United States Department of Justice on Wednesday said that it has concluded a long-term investigation with the unsealing of an indictment in the District of South Carolina...

The Underground Economy (Part Two)

Business and Economic Commentary by Christopher Ram Introduction This is the second and concluding part of a two-part commentary on the underground economy. Part I, published on August 18, 2025, was prompted by the revelations of Azeem ‘Junior’...

Bank of Nova Scotia in Guyana is now Scotiabank Guyana Incorporated

The Bank of Nova Scotia will now be Scotiabank Guyana Incorporated, the company has announced. In a statement, the bank announced that with effect from November 1, 2025, The Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) will transfer its Guyana banking operations to...

Bank of Nova Scotia will now be Scotiabank Guyana Inc

See below the full release from Scotiabank: Effective November 1, 2025, The Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) will transfer its Guyana banking operations to Scotiabank Guyana Inc. (SGI), a locally registered company which is a direct, wholly-owned...

Guyanese man sentenced after guilty plea in multi-million dollar USAID HIV test kits fraud case

The United States Department of Justice has announced that it has concluded a long-term investigation with the unsealing of an indictment in the District of South Carolina charging two foreign nationals, including a Guyanese man, with conspiring...

USA Cricket files for bankruptcy,becomes first ICC member Board to do so: Report

USA Cricket (USAC) has reportedly filed for bankruptcy just minutes before its scheduled hearing in its dispute with American Cricket Enterprises (ACE). According to Cricbuzz, the declaration paused the hearings. It is the first known incident of...

The Bank of Nova Scotia will now be Scotiabank Guyana Inc.

Oct 02, 2025 News Kaieteur News – Effective November 1, 2025, the Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) will transfer its Guyana banking operations to Scotiabank Guyana Inc. (SGI), a locally registered company which is a direct, wholly- owned subsidiary of...

Young entrepreneurs launch Guyana’s 1st business review platform

Confronting Guyana’s alcohol culture

A new study published online on September 23 in “BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine” has confirmed what many have long suspected but resisted acknowledging: there is no safe level of alcohol consumption. Even light or moderate drinking, long believed to...

Japanese company gets full EPCI for Hammerhead FPSO

Oct 02, 2025 News Kaieteur News – Japanese shipbuilder MODEC has been put in charge of the full engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for ExxonMobil’s seventh oil...

Election in Guyana: Changing Voters Dynamics & The Decline of Racialism

Oct 02, 2025 Letters Dear Editor, The recently concluded 2025 General and Regional election in Guyana has marked a historic milestone in our country’s political evolution. The People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) unsurprisingly secured a...

Guyana maintains Tier 1 ranking in U.S. State Department annual TIP Report

The provision of over $76 million in victim assistance, the conviction of a sex trafficker that was made to pay restitution to the victims, increase in prosecutions, and collaborations with foreign governments to investigate trafficking cases,...