Last Updated on Monday, 17 August 2015, 22:34 by GxMedia With 14 days remaning before the tolls of the Berbice Bridge are reduced, government is hurrying to conclude a formal, written agreement with the Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) for its provision of a subsidy toward the reduction of the tolls. This agreement, which government is looking to conclude before ...

Last Updated on Monday, 17 August 2015, 22:16 by GxMedia Guyana is moving to clamp down on the number of foreigners who are receiving work permits for jobs that Guyanese are available and can fill, according to Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Winston Felix. “Contrary to our friends (opposition parliamentarians), we are not averse to visitors or to having investors ...

Last Updated on Monday, 17 August 2015, 21:37 by GxMedia by Zena Henry Vowing not to repeat what he insinuated was the unnecessary cutting of budgetary allocations for national projects during the controversial 10th Parliament, newly appointed Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has promised that his party will not be removing benefits for citizens. In reality, the PPP is the only ...

Last Updated on Monday, 17 August 2015, 21:32 by GxMedia Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) Member of Parliament (MP), Charles Ramson Jr. on Monday hinted that the opposition party may vote against Budget 2015 in total or in part at the very least, even as he assailed the fiscal package for what he termed as lacking a youth-centered approach. This ...

Last Updated on Monday, 17 August 2015, 21:14 by GxMedia Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday said the focus of his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) would be holding government accountable to its election promises. “We’ll be here to expose any attempt to move away from what they have promised the electorate,” he said. The former Guyanese leader said the ...

Last Updated on Monday, 17 August 2015, 19:03 by GxMedia by Zena Henry Former Housing Minister and Opposition member Irfaan Ali kicked off the Budget debates 2015 with a hard slap to the estimates put forward last week by Finance Minister Winston Jordan calling it a “fluff” document with no policy direction. Attacking the various projects and initiatives from the ...

Last Updated on Monday, 17 August 2015, 18:45 by GxMedia As heckling filled the halls of the National Assembly for the first time during the 11th Parliament, National Assembly Speaker, Dr. Barton Scotland, was forced the caution Members of Parliament (MPs) against the use of “unparliamentary language.” Much heckling was directed by government MPs toward Opposition MP, Irfaan Ali, as ...

Last Updated on Monday, 17 August 2015, 18:33 by GxMedia by Zena Henry The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has taken up its opposition seats in the National Assembly Monday August 17 when the House was convened for its seventh sitting. The 32-member opposition team answered to their names following roll call, and took their oath as Members of Parliament (MPs). ...

Last Updated on Monday, 17 August 2015, 18:29 by GxMedia The People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPPC) Shadow Finance Minister, Irfaan Alli on Monday demanded that government pay up a promised GUY$9,000 per bag of paddy to rice farmers or dole out GUY$23 billion from the Consolidated Fund. “I call on this government to deliver immediately nine thousand dollars per bag,” ...

Last Updated on Monday, 17 August 2015, 16:11 by GxMedia The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Monday laid down several conditions for participating in the long-delayed Local Government Elections (LGE) that the David Granger administration intends to call before year-end. The PPP says it is prepared to participate in this election providing that the conditions are conducive for its active ...