Last Updated on Thursday, 27 December 2018, 19:22 by Writer The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) Wednesday night urged Guyanese to ignore Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes’ calculation that 34 of the 65 votes in the National Assembly are needed to pass a no-confidence motion, even as checks in other countries show that an absolute majority is more than 50 percent after rounding ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 27 December 2018, 20:01 by Writer A youth died in an early Wednesday-Boxing Day-morning road accident on the Corentyne Public Road when the car in which he and a young woman were travelling slammed into a refrigerator and rolled over several times, police said. Dead is the car driver Reoul Drepal-Saul, 20, while the occupant 18-year ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 December 2018, 11:22 by Denis Chabrol A Brazilian farmer was killed, hours after he had been at a house at Moco Moco village, Rupununi drinking at a house on Tuesday, Christmas day, police said. He has been identified as 44-year old Elvis Aulicio, 44, a farmer of Bon Fin, Brazil. Investigators are treating the incident as ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 December 2018, 10:57 by Denis Chabrol by Frantz Bollers The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is at a historic period of picking a presidential candidate who will be his ‘own man’ and not be a puppet of its maximum leader, Bharrat Jagdeo. That process begins on Thursday, 27-December-2018. Yes, Mr. Jagdeo is the PPP’s princeps maximam. ...

Last Updated on Friday, 28 December 2018, 16:13 by Writer Even as Venezuela scolded the United States (US) not to push its mouth in the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy whose latest spat are over allegations of a maritime incursion by ExxonMobil contracted seismic data collection ships, Britain and the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) backed Guyana. “The rule of law must be ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 December 2018, 16:16 by Denis Chabrol The architects of the just-formed New and United Guyana (NUG) political party have identified “inclusive governance” and constitutional reform as their priority, while vowing that they would not coalesce with either of the two major political parties to take up seats in government. At the helm of the party ...

Last Updated on Monday, 24 December 2018, 17:57 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government on Monday announced that it has sought legal opinions on the implications of the defeat its suffered in the National Assembly in the opposition-sponsored no-confidence motion. In a statement issued by the Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, he said a special Cabinet meeting “examined all of ...

Last Updated on Monday, 24 December 2018, 17:21 by Denis Chabrol General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo says he would be a member of the government if his party wins the next general elections, and if the President does not carry out an agreed programme for the benefit of all Guyanese, he would publicly criticise him. ...

Last Updated on Monday, 24 December 2018, 16:06 by Denis Chabrol Even as the Guyana government examines the legal implications of last Friday’s no-confidence motion, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo said “anything could happen in the future” when it comes to the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the People’s National Congress Reform running the country. “We have a receptive ear ...

Last Updated on Monday, 24 December 2018, 14:51 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Bharrat  Jagdeo on Monday announced that President David Granger has agreed with him early next month after the Guyanese leader returns from Cuba from another round of cancer treatment. Jagdeo said Minister of State, Joseph Harmon has since written him, stating that the President would be willing ...