Last Updated on Monday, 9 December 2019, 20:29 by Writer Four employees of the Guyana Lands and Survey Commission (GLSC) were dismissed this year for corrupt practices, a senior official of that semi-autonomous state agency said Monday. GLSC Human Resources Manager, Shonda James-Williams says the employees were fired because they had privately collected monies and promised to issue lands to ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 December 2019, 20:20 by Writer Civil Society is being encouraged to formulate its own oil and gas manifesto for the upcoming general elections and give to the political parties to implement. This idea is being floated by the Policy Forum Guyana, an organisation that focuses on accountability and transparency issues related to natural resources, climate ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 December 2019, 22:03 by Writer The United States (US) will have to ensure that the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) sticks to its promises to keep a lid on corruption, with the likelihood of that party winning next year’s general elections, a senior advisor at the US State Department asserts in a recent assessment of ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 December 2019, 18:48 by Writer (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation) Ambassador Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti, from Angola, is named the new Secretary General Designate of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States. Ambassador Pinto — who was picked from among three candidates: an Angolan, a Zimbabwean and a Mozambican — is succeeding Mr. Patrick I. ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 December 2019, 11:36 by Writer By GHK Lall For me, it is more than the silly season. I look in passing, in passing only, at the national elections landscape and it is at once comic, pathetic, and tragic. And when I lump all of those together, there are those elements from limited politicians, who think ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 December 2019, 11:25 by Writer Leader of Dominica’s opposition United Workers Party (UWP), Lennox Linton says he does not recognise the administration of Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit because last Friday’s general elections were rigged as a result of the importation of thousands of overseas-based Dominicans to vote. The UWP Leader indicates that it is now ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 December 2019, 10:36 by Writer A Guyanese man of Norton Street in Georgetown on Sunday remained in the custody of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) after he was arrested Friday shortly after he arrived from Suriname with a quantity of ecstasy and crystal meth, the anti-drug agency said. CANU identified him as Collis Steve Burrowes. ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 December 2019, 22:18 by Writer Incumbent Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit Friday night claimed victory for his Dominica Labour Party (DLP) and he immediately announced that an electoral reform commission would be appointed within the first 100 days of his new five-year term. “The people of the Commonwealth of Dominica have spoken and I want to ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 December 2019, 18:38 by Writer The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) on Friday offered a GYD$5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone involved in the vandalisation of its fibre optic cables on the Linden Highway recently. The illegal act resulted in widespread service disruptions, the company said. On November 30, ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 December 2019, 18:34 by Writer The March 2020 general and regional council elections are unlikely to be postponed as preparations are on track, according to two election commissioners. “I have no reason to think we can’t,” governing coalition-backed elections commissioner, Vincent Alexander said when asked whether the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) would meet the March ...