Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia The European Union (EU) on Monday promised to provide assistance to the Office of the Ombudsman during a meeting with the first such office holder in eight years, Justice Winston Moore. Moore held talks with Head of Delegation of the European Union [EU] to Guyana Ambassador Robert Kopecký, Political Officer, ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia World Bank Economist Laurence Clarke died in Mozambique after a battle with pancreatic cancer, the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) said on Monday. He was 63 years old. “Laurence had a long and distinguished banking career both locally and internationally,” the part with which he had an association said in ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Ganga Persaud, who recently resigned as Local Government Minister, has refused to attend sittings of the National Assembly and could soon be replaced, a top Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) official said Monday.  “The comrade has taken positions on a voluntary basis,” PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee told a news conference ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia The Peoples Progressive Party’s (PPP) General Secertary , Clement Rohee on Monday saId that while his party was ready for Local Government elections, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) was not ready to hold the polls. Rohee would not be drawn into saying whether President Donald Ramotar would sign into law ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia United States Ambassador, Brent Hardt on Sunday rejected government’s claim that the US$1.2 million Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project was aimed at pushing constitutional reform. “Let me make clear what LEAD is not: LEAD will not provide any funding to political parties. It does not seek to promote any changes ...