Politics

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the harassment and intimidation of journalists in Guyana through online targeting and disrespect from the administration. It further calls on the Guyanese government to reform its practices to give proper access to public information. Members of the press should be respected and free from scare tactics in their jobs, especially in a signatory country of ...

The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) and IFEX-ALC network condemn in the  strongest possible terms the intimidation of journalists in Guyana and call on the Government to  immediately set the tone for a cessation of such acts that ultimately serve to fertilise the ground  for an escalation of such acts that can ultimately lead to physical harm.  The ACM ...

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) on Monday- May 1- urged parliamentarians to pass several new laws that will force the government and the opposition to work together for the approval of National Budgets by a supermajority, and involve civil society in national decision-making. Addressing the 2023 May Day Rally at the Critchlow Labour College (CLC), GTUC General Secretary Lincoln ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton has back-pedaled on his intention to stop the June 12 Local Government Elections (LGE) over alleged widespread forgery of the names of nominators/backers in the nomination process, and instead said his A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) would use the legal route as recommended by the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). While many persons ...

Retired Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Brigadier Godfrey Bess is tipped to head the Defence Diplomacy Office which is being established at the Office of the President to influence this country’s international partners, according to well-placed government sources. President Irfaan Ali earlier this week told the opening of the Guyana Police Force Annual Officers’ Conference that the new ...

United States Senator Tim Kaine has said that President Irfaan Ali was upset that that country had blocked an Inter-American Development Bank  (IDB) US$180 million loan to Guyana Shore Base Inc (GYSBI) because its operations were dedicated to the oil and gas sector and even cautioned that China could provide financing “with no strings attached.” Recalling a meeting with Dr ...

President Irfaan Ali on Friday night said the increasingly controversial National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) Bill would be sent to parliamentary bipartisan select committee to allow persons to submit their observations. “I am aware of the importance of this Bill, but equally, I am committed to ensuring the fulsome nature of the Bill is understood and that interested stakeholders ...

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) on Friday expressed grave concern that the draft National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) legislation would insulate that body and its agents from legal action if they access information that clients provide to their lawyers. GBA President Pauline Chase told the opening of a Law Week 2023 symposium that lawyers must be prepared to resist ...

The International Republican Institute (IRI) will host former United States (US) Congressional Representatives David Price and Erik Paulsen and former Deputy Chief of Staff and District Director Karen Glaser for a legislative forum with current and potential Guyanese Members of Parliament (MPs). Two half-day sessions will take place at the Guyana Marriott Hotel, Kingston, Georgetown on May 2 and 3, ...

As A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) intensified its claims of irregularities in the nomination process for the June 12, 2023 Local Government Elections, the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Retired Justice Claudette Singh on Wednesday reminded the seven-member commission that contestants should seek redress about the alleged forgery of names of nominators and candidates through an appeal ...