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Finance Ministry denies GHRA’s claim that high-tech ID card deal is unlawful

Guyana’s Ministry of Finance on Wednesday rubbished claims by the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) that the US$34.5 million contract awarded to a German company to implement high-tech Residency and Work Permit cards flouted this country’s procurement laws. In a statement that questioned overwhelmingly the GHRA’s credibility, the Finance Ministry said the contract to VERIDOS was in keeping with Guyana’s ...

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WPA scolds PNCR members for publicly criticising Ogunseye, Layne

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Tuesday scolded four People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) members for publicly criticising Tacuma Ogunseye and Rhonda Layne, effectively encouraging the governing People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) to prosecute them for crimes. “What our sister and brothers on the other side did was to deliver two prisoners to the PPP,” WPA Executive Member David Hinds ...

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Fresh laws to govern new Guyana ID card system, protect personal information- Nandlall

Government will pass new legislation over the next eight months to protect personal data and govern the registration of Guyanese and foreign workers before they are issued Guyana Resident and Work Permit cards, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said Tuesday. He also said that in addition to Data Protection legislation that has been already drafted, the US$34 million contract between government ...

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Transport and General Coop Credit Union’s GY$40 million unseen “leased” land, among “glaring irregularities”

The Amalgamated Transport & General Cooperative Credit Union (AT&GC) appeared to have invested GY$40 million in 50 acres of land for housing but Labour Minister Joseph Hamilton said the purportedly leased land could not be found. The leased land, he said, is presumably located somewhere in Diamond but the coordinates are “blind”. “Long and short of it! No one knows ...

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BREAKING: Body of bulldozer operator found in BOSAI pit

Three days after a bulldozer toppled into a bauxite mining pit at BOSAI’s East Montgomery Mine in Linden, the body of the operator was Tuesday afternoon retrieved, Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton said. Missing was 59-year old Neptrid Hercules. The Minister told Demerara Waves Online News that the bulldozer was first located and then Hercules’ body was found. “At least, ...

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Fort Wellington Secondary School teachers protest attack on colleague; several persons arrested

Numerous teachers of Fort Wellington Secondary School, backed by the Guyana Teachers Union, on Tuesday protested the assault of one of their colleagues by several students and a guardian,  union President Mark Lyte said. “We need justice”, “We need justice”, “I need justice”, Enough is enough” were among the chants by the incensed teachers. They also held placards that read, ...

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APNU elected officials distance themselves from remarks at WPA meeting; Private Sector slams WPA

Several elected officials from the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-dominated A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Saturday said they did not endorse offensive remarks about Indo-Guyanese at a Working People’s Alliance (WPA) public meeting. And a former PNCR General Secretary, Geeta Chandan-Edmond distanced herself from statements by WPA Executive Member Tacuma Ogunseye that Afro-Guyanese should expect support from the ...

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Defiant WPA believes plans afoot to arrest Ogunseye

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Saturday, in a defiant stance, said the government was planning to arrest its executive member Tacuma Ogunseye for expecting the predominantly Afro-Guyanese security forces would dislodge the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) if there is a wave of protests. “The AG’s implicit and explicit threat to take away Ogunseye’s liberty is in keeping with ...

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Pres Ali accuses WPA’s Ogunseye of terrorism, other offences

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday accused the opposition of waging “terrorism” against his mainly Indo-Guyanese backed administration because of a call for sympathetic action by the Afro-Guyanese-domination. “All of that in any modern society can be easily classified as statements and a stage that promoted hate, racism, terrorism against the State and seek to influence people in a direction that ...

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Attorney General condemns WPA’s Ogunseye’s race-baiting of Afro-Guyanese dominated security forces

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Friday condemned Working People’s Alliance (WPA) executive member Tacuma Ogunseye for invoking the mainly Afro-Guyanese security forces to help dislodge the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) from office. Mr Nandlall indicated that Mr Ogunseye’s utterances at a public meeting on Thursday,March 8, 2023 should be investigated for a range of offences. “This racist incendiary call ...

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