Politics

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said the Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force and other military chiefs across the Caribbean were assessing the worsening Haitian political crisis which is also on the agenda of regional leaders at their mid-term summit scheduled for next week in The Bahamas. “I’m sure the Chief-of-Staff and other Chiefs-of-Staff in the region are already engaged ...

Former Region Four Police Divisional Commander, Assistant Commissioner Edgar Thomas on Wednesday told the 2020 Elections Commission of Inquiry (COI) that at the height of a bomb scare at the District Four Returning Office that informed an Election Commissioner that he could no longer protect him because the heavily armed riot squad had entered that Office. Under cross-examination by Attorney-at-Law ...

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh on Tuesday cancelled the temporary position of ‘Operations Coordinator’, amid a firm stance by the opposition-aligned Elections Commissioners who believed that they managed to convince her that she had no power to do so unilaterally. Her decision effectively means that  Information Technology Manager Aneal Giddings would no longer be ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Tuesday signaled that the country was once again moving closer towards the holding of Local Government Elections (LGE) after the March 13, 2023 date was aborted, but the opposition abstained from voting on the workplan. A highly placed source said LGE could be held during the second quarter – April to June- of this ...

The opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) wants government to prove that monies being allocated to the gas-to-energy project are properly spent. In a motion sponsored by coalition parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul and Jermaine Figueira, they are asking Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat to provide the National Assembly with all ...

The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly- Guyana (IDPADA-G) on Monday formally asked government to hold talks on the withdrawal of a multi-million dollar annual  subsidy which was scrapped last year. Chairman of IDPADA-G, Vincent Alexander said his organisation dispatched a letter to Attorney General Anil Nandlall, as the government representative, asking for dialogue with the aim of ...

Despite repeated efforts by the opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) for a specific date by which government would release the final investment plan and other documents about the gas-to-energy project to parliamentarians, Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Thursday would only say “in due course”. APNU+AFC parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul asked whether Mr Phillips would be ...

Qatar is expected to send two experts to Guyana to assist with the development of gas leak and gas monetization plans which are being crafted by ExxonMobil, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat said. In response to A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian David Patterson, the minister told the National Assembly’s consideration of 2023 budget estimates of ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Tuesday, by a majority vote, approved the constituency boundaries for Local Government Elections that are slated for this year, but opposition election commissioners claimed that the demarcations amount to those that had been announced by Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall. “The report represents exactly what the Minister had illicitly sought to foist on GECOM. ...

The Guyana government intends to spend GY$43.3 billion on the construction of the gas to energy power plant, natural gas liquids plant and the transmission lines, Prime Minister Mark Phillips said Monday. During consideration of the estimates of the 2023 National Budget, Mr Phillips, in response to APNU+AFC parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul’s request for a breakdown, said GY$33.672 billion would be ...