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Politics

Guyana govt silent before UN Human Rights Committee on US detention of Permanent Secretary

American Human Rights advocate, Laurence Helfer’s questions to the Guyana government before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) about last year’s detention of Permanent Secretary Mae Toussaint Jr. Thomas-Meerabux by United States Customs and Border Protection Agents. He pointed to her arrest as an example of alleged corruption and wanted to know what the Guyana government had been doing ...

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Guyana grilled at UN Human Rights Committee about witness protection, State Assets Recovery, corruption allegations against Jagdeo

The Guyana government has told the United Nations Committee on Human Rights that it could not implement Public Disclosure and Whistleblowers laws because the country was not prepared to do so. “We are unable to, at this point, to activate the Public Disclosure and Whistleblower Act because there are genuine problems of implementation,” Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail ...

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Norton promises all public servants yearly bonus

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Sunday promised public servants across Guyana an annual one-month bonus if his coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) wins next year’s general and regional elections Departing from the APNU+AFC administration’s scrapping of the one-month bonus for members of the Disciplined Services, Mr Norton said if the coalition is returned to office, ...

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CARICOM nations discriminating against Haitians- Ramjattan

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan has accused Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member-nations, including Guyana,  of discriminating against Haitians by blocking their free movement across the region. “It is in my opinion, looking at the demeanour and even the expressed words of some of the CARICOM leaders; they always give the impression that Haitians are second class in ...

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Juan Edghill wins defamation case against Anthony Vieira, CN Sharma

The High Court has ordered well-known public commentator, Anthony Vieira to pay Public Works Minister Juan Edghill GY$15 million for defamation that occurred 13 years ago on CNS TV6. Chandra Narine Sharma, owner of CNSTV6, has also been ordered to pay Mr Edghill GY$250,000 for broadcasting the commentary on May 4, 2011.  The court said that amount was for nominal ...

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PNCR Leader confident he’ll win party elections again; denies being corrupt

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Friday said he was confident that he would win a second term as party leader, and that his integrity was a major advantage in confronting the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration. “I’m convinced that when the congress comes, I would be re-elected leader to be a thorn ...

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Haiti’s political leaders reject CARICOM brokered deal

By Joseph Guyler C. Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Mar 13, CMC -Several political leaders in Haiti have rejected a proposal submitted by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to end the current unstable situation in the French-speaking country and have instead reiterated their position of imposing their own three-member presidential council to govern the troubled country until general elections. Leader of the ‘Pitit ...

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Eteringbang supermarketeer killed, wife injured

The owner of a Chinese supermarket at Eteringbang, Region 7 (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) was killed and his wife injured during a robbery, and two suspects have been arrested, multiple sources confirmed. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Guyana Police Force, Assistant Police Commissioner, Wendell Blanhum on Thursday said a Chinese man was killed in the furtherance of a robbery at ...

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University of Guyana to become major regional leader on security, defence training

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday announced that the publicly-owned University of Guyana (UG) would be the seat of the National Defence Institute (NDI) to play a major role in Caribbean security, even as he urged that the Caribbean Examinations Council be asked to offer a security subject. “This partnership is about positioning us, as a country, as a university and ...

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Guyana-chaired CARICOM says Haiti’s Prime Minister agrees to resign; transitional council framework announced

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), under the chairmanship of Guyana, early Tuesday announced that Haiti’s Prime Minister Dr Ariel Henry has agreed to resign after an already brokered transitional presidential council, with no ties to criminal activity, has been established. “The transitional presidential council will hold the relevant and possible powers of the Haitian presidency during the transition period until an ...

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