Last Updated on Monday, 19 November 2018, 20:37 by Denis Chabrol The opposition People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP) efforts to have the National Assembly approve the Parliament Office’s request for GYD$1,845, 416 instead of the Finance Minister’s cut to GY$1,700,271 was defeated. Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo failed to persuade House Speaker, Dr. Barton Scotland to reject the motion for approval of ...

Last Updated on Monday, 19 November 2018, 15:30 by Denis Chabrol The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) objected strenuously to efforts by House Speaker, Dr. Barton Scotland to cut the number of hours allocated for consideration of 2019 budget estimates for constitutional agencies and the Parliament Office’s failure to provide details of the proposed expenses for those entities.l Before calling ...

Last Updated on Monday, 19 November 2018, 14:36 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger is expected to return to Guyana on Tuesday after receiving treatment in Cuba for cancer, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo announced Monday. Nagamootoo said Granger’s condition would be monitored by his physicians. The Cuban embassy in Guyana said Granger has “received the first round of chemotherapy treatment ...

Last Updated on Monday, 19 November 2018, 14:21 by Denis Chabrol Finance Minister, Winston Jordan announced that Monday, November 26, 2018 is the date on which the 2019 National Budget would be presented. He made the announcement at the commencement of Monday’s sitting of the National Assembly. Jordan’s announcement came one day after he indicated in a letter to the ...

Last Updated on Monday, 19 November 2018, 12:44 by Denis Chabrol Guyana on Monday filed documents at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) outlining why it believes that Netherlands-based body has a right to hear its case to settle the controversy with Venezuela over the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award. “Guyana has no doubt that the Court has jurisdiction to resolve ...

Last Updated on Monday, 19 November 2018, 12:05 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday announced that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) would be complaining to the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) about Minister of State, Joseph Harmon’s threat against opposition supporters and councillors who sabotage government operations. Jagdeo told a news conference that he was not taking lightly ...