Daily Brief – February 14, 2026
February 14, 2026 • 6 min readDaily Brief
Happy Valentine’s Day, Guyana. Love is in the air. And so is the smell of flooding, budget drama, and the slow death of print journalism. Romantic.
📰 STABROEK NEWS IS SHUTTING DOWN
The biggest news today isn’t in any newspaper. It IS a newspaper. Stabroek News will cease print publication on March 15, 2026, after nearly 40 years. Parent company Guyana Publications Inc. (GPI) is entering voluntary liquidation. Chairman Brendan de Caires blamed global digital disruption — print advertising dropped 75% worldwide since 2004, and apparently even Guyana isn’t immune to people getting their news from WhatsApp forwards and TikTok videos of people falling off things.
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