Politics

Several elected officials from the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-dominated A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Saturday said they did not endorse offensive remarks about Indo-Guyanese at a Working People’s Alliance (WPA) public meeting. And a former PNCR General Secretary, Geeta Chandan-Edmond distanced herself from statements by WPA Executive Member Tacuma Ogunseye that Afro-Guyanese should expect support from the ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Saturday, in a defiant stance, said the government was planning to arrest its executive member Tacuma Ogunseye for expecting the predominantly Afro-Guyanese security forces would dislodge the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) if there is a wave of protests. “The AG’s implicit and explicit threat to take away Ogunseye’s liberty is in keeping with ...

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday accused the opposition of waging “terrorism” against his mainly Indo-Guyanese backed administration because of a call for sympathetic action by the Afro-Guyanese-domination. “All of that in any modern society can be easily classified as statements and a stage that promoted hate, racism, terrorism against the State and seek to influence people in a direction that ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Friday condemned Working People’s Alliance (WPA) executive member Tacuma Ogunseye for invoking the mainly Afro-Guyanese security forces to help dislodge the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) from office. Mr Nandlall indicated that Mr Ogunseye’s utterances at a public meeting on Thursday,March 8, 2023 should be investigated for a range of offences. “This racist incendiary call ...

In the wake of the Working People’s Alliance’s (WPA) expectation that the Afro-Guyanese dominated police and defence forces would side with the opposition to depose the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration during a mass uprising, the Chairman of the Joint Services, Brigadier Godfrey Bess said they would not take a political side. “Irrespective of its ethnic composition, the Joint ...

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Thursday differed over whether to boycott the June 12, 2023 Local Government Elections (LGE) in its entirety. WPA Executive member Tacuma Ogunseye said polling day should be used as a day to mark the commencement of national resistance rather than contest ...

A lorry driver was Thursday charged with four counts of causing death by dangerous driving in a collision with a minibus on the Greenwich Park Public Road, East Bank Essequibo, police said. Ewart Stewart, 38, of Stewartville, West Coast Demerara was not required to plea to the indictable charge and was remanded to prison. However, he was granted GY$25,000 on ...

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Thursday challenged the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led government to go to court to over possession and ownership of the building that houses that opposition party’s office in Lethem, Rupununi. “If the State needs possession and they claim that they own it, then they need to go through the courts and if the ...

Region 10 Chairman Deron Adams on Thursday said he would be taking the Regional Executive Officer (REO) Dwight John over his alleged refusal to carry out decisions of the elected council. “We’ll be engaging our attorneys to prepare the necessary document to pursue court action,” Mr Adams told Demerara Waves Online News. However, Mr John rejected suggestions that he was ...

Two supporters of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) were Wednesday charged with offences allegedly committed while resisting eviction of their party office from a building that government said is State property. Carl Parker, 59, a former Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Nine (Upper Takatu-Upper Essequibo), was was arrested and charged on Wednesday with threatening behaviour. He allegedly threatened ...