Politics

Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine and opposition parliamentarian Sherod Duncan were Thursday morning granted GY$200,000 bail each on race-related charges and they were gagged from saying anything publicly about the cases, their defence lawyer Roysdale Forde said. Mr Narine was charged with the offence of obstructing traffic in relation to placing a wooden pallet on New Market Street. Mr Narine and ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton is hoping that the arrest and charge of City Mayor Ubraj Narine and opposition parliamentarian Sherod Duncan will galvanise supporters against what he terms political harassment by the government but the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) said he is stoking racism. The Opposition condemns the actions of the PPP regime and warns them that they ...

Former Staff Sergeant Ubraj Narine was disembodied from the Guyana National Rerserve of the Guyana Defence Force, with effect from Tuesday December 13, 2022 for conduct ‘ Unbecoming of a soldier’ because of his utterances on Monday night in his capacity as Mayor of Georgetown.  “Mr Narine on Monday December 12, 2022, was engaged in a civil protest action during ...

Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine and Alliance For Change General Secretary Sherod Duncan were Wednesday afternoon arrested and ordered to go to Brickdam Police Station, triggering a large converging of supporters including vendors in City Hall’s compound. Present with him were Attorneys-at-Law Roysdale Forde and Darren Wade. Mr Forde confirmed that the arrest of the duo had to do with the ...

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Retired Justice Claudette Singh on Wednesday backed opposition-aligned Election Commissioners and decided that the Local Government Minister could not change constituency boundaries. She said Minister Nigel Dharamlall did not have the legal authority to do so, according to pro-opposotion Commissioner Vincent Alexander. Sources, however, said she left open the possibility for GECOM to ...

As the outcry continues over Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine’s comments about Islam, Deputy Mayor Alfred Mentore on Tuesday said he does not support those offending comments but he is in solidarity with the vendors who operate food caravans and stalls on New Market Street opposite the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). Mr Mentore said the comments made by Mayor Narine do ...

A large section of the Muslim community and the Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Tuesday condemned Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine for seeming religiously and racially divisive remarks Tuesday night on Tuesday night while police and Public Works Ministry workers were attempting to remove food caravans from New Market Street opposite the Georgetown Hospital. Mr Narine questioned whether the President was ...

Vendors, backed by City Mayor Ubraj Narine, blocked Public Works Ministry officials from removing food caravans and stalls from New Market Street outside Georgetown Public Hospital. Despite the presence of several unarmed police, the vendors blocked the workers from taking away the more than 15 caravans and stalls. Mr Narine laid on the road to prevent vehicles from leaving the ...

Vendors, who sell food and beverages in caravans and stalls outside the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), on Tuesday afternoon vowed to remain there in defiance of a final removal order by the Public Works Ministry, even as the Georgetown City Council was preparing to take the matter to court. The more than 20 vendors, who sell food to GPH staff, ...

High Court Judge, Navendra Singh on Friday ruled that defamation cases by former Deputy Chief Elections Officer of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) against Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and others should go ahead rather than await the outcome of criminal cases against her in the Magistrates Court. The defendants – Mr Jagdeo, Attorney-at-Law Sanjeev Datadin, Deputy Speaker Lenox Shuman,  and ...