Politics

President Irfaan Ali has refuted claims by the Guyana Teachers Union, Guyana Public Service Union and the opposition that his meeting with teachers last Monday amounted to negotiations. “This was not a meeting to negotiate anything. This was a meeting to meet directly with teachers to listen to them, to listen to their concerns, to hear from them how they ...

In clear reference to a newspaper report quoting former President Donald Ramotar as saying he would have renegotiated the ExxonMobil oil contract, President Irfaan Ali on Friday lashed back saying that such an approach would have dire consequences for investor confidence in Guyana. “How will you build confidence in the system when you have the sophisticated investor looking on from ...

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU have separately castigated President Irfaan Ali for holding talks directly with teachers and warned that settling for allowances now would cheat them of larger retirement pensions and gratuities. The GPSU accused President Ali of violating the Constitution, Laws of Guyana, Parliament-ratified International Labour Organization (ILO) ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Friday assailed government for punishing a public servant while the political policymakers refused to take blame for negotiating the reduction of US$214 million in audit costs to US$3 million with Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), the local subsidiary of ExxonMobil. Mr Norton disagreed with Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat’s announcement that Senior ...

Amid concerns about the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board’s (NPTAB) award of a GY$865.5 million contract to build a pump station, former President Donald Ramotar on Thursday recommended that government establish its own construction arm to force contractors to bid with realistic rather than inflated prices. “I believe that government should develop some capacity; some of its own capacity ...

Several Congressional Democrats have promised to lobby governments in the Caribbean to push the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) and the opposition to join hands in ensuring no Guyanese is discriminated against in the delivery of the country’s wealth. “We will continue to engage with our Guyanese counterparts and other regional neighbors and encourage the government and the opposition to ...

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) on Wednesday defended its decision to award a GY$865,543,500 contract to construct a pump station at Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara, in the wake of a formal request by Alliance For Change (AFC) executive member and opposition parliamentarian David Patterson for Guyana’s Public Procurement Commission (PPC) to conduct a probe. NPTAB, in ...

An unspecified number of Guyanese police are to be deployed to Haiti to assist with the training of Haitian police as part of a United Nations-backed mission to take back the country from violent gangs and pave the way for long-overdue elections, according to well-placed sources. The number of Guyanese police has not yet been finalised, the United Nations Security ...

Ten months into the year, City Hall is this Thursday slated to present its GY$2.6 billion budget for 2023 budget with a deficit of GY$77.2 million, but there is no clear plan for how the Council would account for monies already spent for the year. The total bill for salaries, wages and allowances totals GY$1,340,648,272. According to figures seen by ...

A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU) parliamentarian, Ganesh Mahipaul on Sunday demanded that the opposition have a say in the processing and award of multimillion dollar contracts by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB). “We need to amend the Procurement Act of 2003 and revisit the composition of the evaluation committee and tender board. The body ...