Politics

A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, Nicolette Henry on Monday resigned from the National Assembly with effect March 31, 2022. She on Monday dispatched her resignation to House Speaker Manzoor Nadir. The resignation letter is dated February 10, 2022 and states “Please accept this letter as formal notification of my resignation from the National Assembly with effect ...

Amid A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change’s (APNU+AFC) Cathy Hughes’ concerns about the end of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph’s (GTT) monopoly, Prime Minister Mark Phillips said that utility company voluntarily gave up its market dominance status as part of the liberalisation process. Ms. Hughes, a former Minister of Public Telecommunications, said her administration had been “close to completing the ...

Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Friday appealed to the new opposition leader whenever he takes office to recognise the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration. “We are ready to work with whoever is appointed or elected Leader of the Opposition in the interest of Guyana. What we ask in return is for the new Leader of the Opposition to accept ...

Almost three years after the then A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) administration had passed the cybercrime legislation despite warnings, now that they are in opposition they are accusing the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led government of using that law to clamp down on freedom of expression. APNU+AFC Shadow Home Affairs Minister Geeta Chandan-Edmond sought to justify the ...

Government says it wants a number of Guyana’s election laws amended in time for the holding of already overdue local government elections. “They will be crucial, we believe, for holding local government elections as a test run because many of the measures that we are putting in place in that Bill could then be implemented in the local government reform,” ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo says that once a new Opposition Leader is in place, the government will be ready to establish several service commissions that constitutionally require consultations. With Mr. Joseph Harmon having resigned from the post of Opposition Leader, the People’s National Congress Reform-led opposition coalition is continuing internal manoeuvres for Mr. Aubrey Norton to become a parliamentarian and ...

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Wednesday castigated the government for heavy investment in the sugar industry whose projected production is 65,000 tonnes this year, but the governing People’s Progressive Party Civic administration cited last year’s devastating flood as the major reason. APNU+AFC Juretha Fernandes highlighted that Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh said the sugar-growing ...

Public Works Minister Deodat Indar on Wednesday rejected claims by the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) that the 2022 national budget is for big business, saying that the aim is to generate revenue and create. He made known his position three days after opposition coalition frontbencher, Amanza Walton-Desir assailed the government for generously giving tax breaks ...

Shadow Education Minister Dr Nicolette Henry this afternoon confirmed that she will no longer be a member of Parliament, possibly paving the way for People’s National Congress Reform Leader Aubrey Norton to emerge as a parliamentarian and Opposition Leader. “This is my final budget presentation in this Honourable House,” she said. She thanked former President David Granger and the people ...

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) frontbencher, Amanza Walton-Desir on Monday slammed the 2022 National Budget, saying that the tax breaks and relief measures would only favour large private sector businesses. “The truth is that by and large those measures are geared towards favouring big business,” she said, adding that the evidence shows that trickle-down economics to ...