Last Updated on Sunday, 3 February 2019, 20:46 by Writer Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan on Sunday said he would accept the nomination for the prime ministerial candidate for the incumbent APNU+AFC coalition to contest the next general elections. “I would certainly accept the nomination,” he told reporters briefly at the official opening of the People’s National ...
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No plan to resign, will exhaust appeals – Granger; Harmon deems UN official’s position against gov’t “premature”
Last Updated on Sunday, 3 February 2019, 21:46 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger on Sunday vowed not to resign and that government would remain in office while the controversial no-confidence motion case is appealed right up to the Caribbean Court of Justice and after the next general elections are held. Addressing the official commissioning of his People’s National Congress’ ...
Read More »“Significant reduction” in gas prices from Monday – Finance Ministry
Last Updated on Sunday, 3 February 2019, 20:09 by Denis Chabrol The Ministry of Finance and The Guyana Oil Company Limited on Sunday announced a “significant reduction” in prices for gasoline and diesel fuel because they are being purchased cheaper. Starting tomorrow February 4th, Super 95 gasoline will be wholesaled at $208.00 per litre or 4% less, and gasoil (diesel ...
Read More »APNU+AFC on election campaign trail in Linden
Last Updated on Sunday, 3 February 2019, 9:44 by Writer Several government ministers were on a fan-out exercise in several communities across Linden, making promises and highlighting achievements as the three-year-old coalition gears up to seek a second straight term in what could very well be early general elections. Decked out in their parties’ political colours of gold for the ...
Read More »OPINION: Age of the Guyanese antihero
Last Updated on Sunday, 3 February 2019, 9:46 by Writer by GHK Lall This is increasingly seeming to be the Age of the Antihero. The many who thought it died in the late 1970s are due another contemplation. That was the era of drugs, sex, and rock ‘n’ roll in mainly decadent America. Today, comes the arrival, fifty years later, ...
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