Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 November 2018, 11:08 by Denis Chabrol Port of Spain, Trinidad. The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruled that a law in Guyana, which makes it a criminal offence for a man or a woman to appear in a public place while dressed in clothing of the opposite sex for an “improper purpose”, is unconstitutional. The ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 November 2018, 14:59 by Denis Chabrol The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has raked in seven seats in Georgetown,  with its closest rival,  A Partnership for National Unity (APNU),winning a total of 21 seats and the Alliance For Change  two seats, the Guyana Elections Commission said. In declaring the results for Georgetown, Returning Officer Duarte ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 November 2018, 7:15 by Denis Chabrol The Alliance For Change (AFC) appeared to have been virtually  wiped out of the local government political landscape, leaving A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) trailing behind the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) overall in many key local authority areas. Unofficial results show the People’s National Congress Reform-backed APNU clinching ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 November 2018, 19:50 by Denis Chabrol Polls in Guyana’s Local Government Elections closed at 6 PM and counting has begun to ascertain who will control the 10 town councils and 70 neighbourhood councils. In an initial reaction, the Alliance For Change (AFC) said the polls in Georgetown and Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) went smoothly except for ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 November 2018, 23:49 by Denis Chabrol Even as the Guyana Elections Commission boasted it was ready to conduct Local Government Elections in villages and towns across the country on Monday, three polling day officials were barred from working because they are related to candidates, a commission spokeswoman said Sunday night. “Based on the feedback that ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 November 2018, 11:39 by Denis Chabrol The incumbent A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has set the tone for the 2020 general elections, saying that oil would be the battleground to determine which party would get its hands on the oil revenue Finance Minister, Winston Jordan appealed to party faithful at the last 2018 Local ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 November 2018, 9:43 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger should have returned on Sunday (today) from Cuba but that has since been pushed back, top government officials said. No new date has been provided. Granger left Guyana on October 30, 2018 for “medical investigations” following the advice of his Trinidad-based doctors’ review of test results ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 November 2018, 23:08 by Denis Chabrol Finance Minister, Winston Jordan  Saturday night accused the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) of paying annual one-month bonus salaries to members of the Disciplined Services to bribe them into taking action against opponents of the their administration. “You know why they were trying to buy off our people in ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 November 2018, 9:55 by Denis Chabrol The Alliance For Change (AFC) hammered its coalition partner’s -A Partnership for National Unity- performance in the Georgetown City Council, while seeking to woo support around big ticket issues. The core group of attentive attendees at a public meeting held at Stabroek Market Square numbered about 120 persons, almost ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 November 2018, 17:20 by Denis Chabrol Port of Spain, Trinidad. The legal challenge alleging that the Law Schools’ admissions process discriminates against holders of non-University of the West Indies (UWI) law degrees was dismissed Friday afternoon in a judgment delivered at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). In July 2018, Mr. Jason Jones filed an ...