Last Updated on Wednesday, 3 April 2019, 22:35 by Writer Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday raised concerns about what he said were duplicate publications of photographs with different names and addresses of persons seeking Guyanese citizenship. He flayed the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of Citizenship and Immigration Services for what he believed were the registration of hundreds or ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 3 April 2019, 18:17 by Writer Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Raphael Trotman on Wednesday confirmed that Donna Mathoo is being considered to replace Dominic Gaskin in the National Assembly. “There are a number of persons, who are eligible; Ms. Mathoo being one of them and so, yes, there is active consideration of appointing ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 3 April 2019, 17:26 by Writer The Alliance For Change (AFC) wants Guyana’s constitutional reform process to make a place for dual citizenship holders to allow the country to tap into the huge human resource reservoir of Guyanese who are also nationals of other countries, party leader Raphael Trotman said Wednesday. Optimistic that the AFC would ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 19:14 by Writer The Guyana government on Tuesday said other ministers would act for the four dual citizenship Members of Parliament (MPs) who resigned Monday in keeping with decisions by the Guyana High Court and Court of Appeal. “For the ensuing period, as is the usual practice, these portfolios would now be held ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 18:51 by Writer Guyana is to receive a US$20 million World Bank loan for its Petroleum Resources Governance and Management Project to prepare the country to deal with several oil and gas risks. The loan was approved on Friday, March 29. “This Project will enhance the transparency, governance, legal, regulatory and institutional frameworks ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 18:04 by Writer Guyana is among four sugar-producing Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member nations that will be the focus of a regional study on the prospects of substituting imported refined sugar with plantation white, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) said Tuesday. The Barbados-headquartered financial institution says it is collaborating with CARICOM to gather evidence ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 16:23 by Writer Fire was Tuesday afternoon raging at the Region 7 bond/garage in Bartica, residents confirmed. Regional Chairman, Gordon Bradford, who was at the scene of the fire at First Avenue, said firefighters were trying desperately to save nearby buildings. A number of vehicles and the bond were destroyed. Bradford said the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 16:28 by Writer Opposition-nominated elections commissioner, Robeson Benn has threatened to take Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield to court to block the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from conducting house-to-house registration. Through his Attorney-at-law, Anil Nandlall, Benn said house-to-house registration would introduce residency status as a new condition to be registered and that would ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 9:09 by Writer Guyana’s President David Granger on Monday received and accepted the resignation of all APNU+AFC coalition Members of Parliament (MPs) who are holders of dual citizenship. The MPs are Guyanese-American Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, and Guyanese-Britons Rupert Roopnaraine, Carl Greenidge and Dominic Gaskin. These members will not be returning to ...

Last Updated on Monday, 15 April 2019, 21:45 by Writer Even as six more sickened persons were flown from Guyana’s North West District to Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for emergency treatment, the Public Health Ministry Monday night said two of the 13 who have fallen ill so far were tested positive for leptospirosis. “While the specialists continue to work ...