Ahead of his expected emergence as Opposition Leader, Mr. Aubrey Norton said the coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) plans to file requests for information under the Access to Information (ATI) legislation. “I do believe that we need to make more use of the Freedom of Information Act and begin to, through the Parliament, demand more ...

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) on Tuesday recommended that the procedure for appointing a Chancellor and Chief Justice be changed after decades-old failure by the opposition and the government to reach consensus on appointing substantive office holders since 2005. GBA President, Attorney-at-Law Pauline Chase said the time has come to find better approach to appoint those two top judicial officers. ...

The opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) has officially asked the Chief Election Officer, Vishnu Persaud to select Aubrey Norton and Volda Lawrence to replace two now resigned parliamentarians. Chief Election Officer, Vishnu Persaud confirmed receiving a correspondence concerning the replacements for Dr. Nicolette Henry, who resigned from March 31, 2022 and ...

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change Chief Whip, Christopher Jones and trade unionist Norris Witter are challenging the constitutionality of the Natural Resource Fund legislation since they believe it was not properly passed by the National Assembly due to the absence of the mace and a lack of consultation. The High Court is being asked to order that ...

As the cost of living continues to increase, the General Workers Union (GWU) is continuing to press government to implement a two-year old decision by the Tripartite Committee to increase the minimum wage but Labour Minister Joseph Hamilton says the recommendation was still at Cabinet. GWU members and the General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Lincoln Lewis ...

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Saturday said it was satisfied that the environmental authorisation of the Yellowtail oil production project requires the ExxonMobil-led consortium to have emergency equipment in Guyana to cap a well should there be a blowout at the offshore project. “The PSC is pleased with the Oil Spill Response and Financial Assurance provision in the permit ...

Even as the Ministry of Labour continued to boast of an increase in the number of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) officers, the trade union movement on Friday urged the involvement of the employers organisation and urged inspectors to enforce the laws. The General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Lincoln Lewis noted that the Consultative Association of ...

Representative of the List of Candidates for A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), David Granger has urged the leaders of those two coalition partners to hold “meaningful consultations” on who should replace two recently resigned parliamentarians, he said Friday. “The Representative of the List has since written to Mr. Aubrey Norton, Chairman of A Partnership of National Unity ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, Aubrey Norton on Thursday said he wanted the removal of the casting vote of the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). “What we have to probably do is to have some mechanism that we should not give a casting vote to the Chair because when you give a casting vote to the ...

The first World Trade Center (WTC) to be set up in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be in Guyana. This follows the culmination of several months of negotiations between Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) and the New York headquartered World Trade Center Association (WTCA). DDL said it recently secured a license to establish a World Trade Center in Guyana and will ...