Politics

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon says three days of violent protests that resulted in the injury of several people and the destruction of property has nothing to do with racial intolerance. “We stand in solidarity with the people who are peacefully protesting this injustice. What we do not agree with is people injuring people and so on. We do not agree ...

The African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA), Society for African Guyanese Empowerment (SAGE) and International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G) are urging Guyanese leaders, security forces and the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) to help the country grapple with political race relations worsened by the recent killing of three Afro-Guyanese. ACDA said the “callous race-driven” murders of Orlando ...

Soldiers  were Tuesday morning called out to help police clear the West Berbice Public Road, after the civilian law enforcement agency was not entirely successful the night before. Police spokesman, Assistant Commissioner Royston Andries-Junor says while people have tried replacing debris, most of the roadway is cleared. He says debris was removed from 16 villages stretching from Number Three Village ...

Former President David Granger on Monday attributed the killing and mutilation of two youths at the weekend to the People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP) failure to condemn post-election unrest in West Berbice earlier this year, but President Irfaan Ali and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo denied his claims. “It is their attitude! If on the 6th of March, they had condemned what ...

President Irfaan Ali on Monday announced that government would be reversing Value Added Tax on Electricity and water and medicines. Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said the total relief to people and businesses would be more than GYD$40 billion annually. He also said VAT on private education and private health care would be removed as well as corporate tax on private ...

President Irfaan Ali and Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon Sunday night appealed for peace and calm and for them to allow police to probe the brutal slaying of two youths who had trekked from their home village to Cotton Tree Village, West Coast Berbice to pick coconuts to sell. “Whilst we await the swift work of the police to bring those ...

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon says his A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) is interested in sitting on all State boards, even as Minister of Governance Gail Teixeira justified so far picking representatives from small parties on the grounds that they fought against electoral fraud. “Where the law requires Opposition representatives to sit on Boards, the Government is required ...

The Justice For All Party (JFAP) has bailed from the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). In a letter dated September 1, 2020 PNCR Leader, David Granger, the JFAP informed him that the time had come for the party to withdraw from APNU which it described as “the umbrella organisation” for the PNCR and small ...

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand late Friday night denied claims by A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) that an international Online learning initiative was aimed at hoodwinking Guyanese and capturing their personal information. She said the Commonwealth of Learning has related that if  Guyanese do not register through the Ministry of Education they would have to pay for ...

As sugar production plummets to an all-time low this year, Guyana is turning to India to assist with reopening the sugar estates that were closed about four ago by A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC)-led administration. “As a matter of fact, I recently submitted the Terms of Reference and they (the Indian Government) will be sending two specialists ...