House Speaker Manzoor Nadir on Tuesday said he and three members of his family have been tested positive for the coronavirus, COVID-19. His disclosure came one day after he presided over a parliamentary sitting virtually because he was not feeling well and had hoped that it was not COVID-19. Mr. Nadir told News-Talk radio Guyana that he started feeling unwell, ...
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GPSU watching GECOM amid calls for several criminally charged officers to be removed
The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has said it is paying keen attention to what’s going on at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). “The Union has taken a keen interest in this matter due to its potential for unconstitutional prejudices to be meted out to its members at GECOM, given that the said Union members, are also charged with the ...
Read More »35 prominent Guyanese pressure govt to accept Argentine forensic help for probe of West Berbice killings
Thirty-five prominent Guyanese– a number of them in their individual right, or associated with a number of rights and civil society organisations–on Wednesday called on police and the government to accept high-tech forensic assistance from Argentina tin the hope of solving the killing of three West Coast Berbice youths in September. “We call on the President of Guyana, the Commissioner ...
Read More »Opposition refuses to sit in dome with potentially COVID-positive govt MPs- Mahipaul
The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Wednesday justified its decision to attend sitting of the National Assembly virtually from a room at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown because several government parliamentarians have been violating COVID-19 measures. Lawmaker, Ganesh Mahipaul said he and his colleagues feared being in the Centre’s dome with the ...
Read More »Parliamentarians at Arthur Chung Centre but not in dome will be blocked from virtual participation
House Speaker Manzoor Nadir on Wednesday ruled that parliamentarians, who are at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, will not be allowed to participate in the sittings virtually. “I trust that the Honourable Members, who are observing and participating from rooms within the Arthur Chung Convention Centre, will see it fit to enter the dome. After today, if you are here ...
Read More »Granger casts doubt on participating in meetings of former Presidents
Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform , David Granger has cast doubt on his participation in any of the meetings of former Presidents, saying that there is no constitutional role for him in such talks. Mr. Granger instead said the Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon should be the representative in such talks with President Irfaan Ali. He said there was ...
Read More »Venezuela bound by World Court’s decision even without participating
The International Court of Justice has said that Venezuela is bound by its decisions even if it does not recognise the jurisdiction of that United Nations juridical body. “A judgment on jurisdiction, as on the merits, is final and binding on the parties under Articles 59 and 60 of the Statute,” the World Court said last Friday in deciding that ...
Read More »Let the law take its course and stop being a PPP mouthpiece- Harmon tells Private Sector Commission about removing GECOM officials
Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Monday condemned the Private Sector Commission’s call for several election commission officials, who have been charged with election-related offences, saying that business organisation must stop being a mouthpiece for the People’s Progressive Party. “This is wicked and unacceptable. The APNU (A Partnership for National Unity) condemns this kind of political posturing by the Private Sector ...
Read More »Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield on more than 100 days vacation leave
Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield continues to be on more than 100 days vacation leave for more than two months now, spokeswoman for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Yolanda Ward said Monday. “That accumulation was there and he applied for that leave,” she told News-Talk Radio Guyana 103.1 FM/ Demerara Waves Online News. Private criminal charges, which had been instituted ...
Read More »Venezuela rejects World Court’s jurisdiction to hear border controversy with Guyana
Venezuela has rejected the decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to accept jurisdiction to hear the controversy over the 1899 settlement of the land boundary with Guyana. “The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela repudiates the ruling issued by the ICJ in the aforementioned terms, while claiming, once again, the validity of the 1966 Geneva Agreement and ratifying that it ...
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