Last Updated on Monday, 14 May 2018, 13:10 by Denis Chabrol The State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) is stacked with several known critics and opponents of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), but a top official of that agency on Monday shrugged off suggestions that the agency will be regarded as politically tainted and biased. “I believe that I can have ...

Last Updated on Monday, 14 May 2018, 12:27 by Denis Chabrol The State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) has received a compliant from the Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc. (TIGI) about the US$18 million ExxonMobil signing bonus, but investigations are not expected shortly because the agency is conducting a number of other probes, SARA Director, Professor Clive Thomas said. There is ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 12 May 2018, 20:13 by Denis Chabrol Minister of State, Mr. Joseph Harmon has now entered the arena in defence of his colleague, Attorney General, Mr. Basil Williams. The Attorney General has been the subject of repeated public onslaught in the media for the constant loss and/or settlement of cases, which are costing taxpayers billions of ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 12 May 2018, 8:22 by Denis Chabrol Minister of State, Joseph Harmon Friday night disclosed that Suriname at one stage had decided to abandon the search for 16 fishermen, but only continued after Guyana had said that it would have continued to look for the piracy victims off the eastern coast of that former Dutch colony. ...

Last Updated on Friday, 11 May 2018, 20:45 by Denis Chabrol The National Assembly on Friday approved in excess of $2.5B in supplementary provisions to be expended in addition to previously voted amounts for the Annual Budget. The vote came just about 19:30hrs, following a robust scrutiny of the Financial Paper #2/2018 submitted by Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan and ...

Last Updated on Friday, 11 May 2018, 17:59 by Denis Chabrol A Corentyne fisherman, who was arrested in connection with last month’s deadly piracy attack on 20 fishermen off Suriname’s east coast, was Friday charged in Guyana with offences dating back to 2015 and 2016. The Guyana Police Force said 39-year old Nakool “Fire” Manohar of No. 43 Village Corentyne, Berbice ...

Last Updated on Friday, 11 May 2018, 17:35 by Denis Chabrol Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan on Friday insisted that sedition must be listed as an offence in proposed Cyber Crime legislation to crack down on those who use Facebook and other Internet-based media to threaten the stability of the government. “No, the existing provision does not cover it because ...

Last Updated on Friday, 11 May 2018, 16:34 by Denis Chabrol The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Friday shied away from singling out any particular demand it successfully made from A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) during the past three years that the coalition has been in office. Instead, party Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan opted to say that it collectively contributed ...

Last Updated on Friday, 11 May 2018, 14:20 by Denis Chabrol It was the Cabinet Council of Ministers that approved the several billions in payments—stemming from court matters brought against the State—based on proposals submitted by Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams, a result of the mess left by his predecessor, Anil Nandlall. This was confirmed by ...

Last Updated on Friday, 11 May 2018, 14:54 by Denis Chabrol Constitutional reform, one of the major campaign promises of the governing coalition, is not a priority agenda item for talks between A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change (AFC),  top AFC officials said Friday. AFC Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan said the parliamentary agenda is stacked with “other ...