Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 January 2020, 17:18 by Writer General Secretary of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Joseph Harmon says Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan will be Guyana’s next prime minister if the coalition wins the general elections in March, but President David Granger said there is a process to be followed. “After the ...
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APNU+AFC coalition urges youths to go out and vote
Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 January 2020, 7:00 by Writer The incumbent A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Tuesday night in the East Coast Demerara village of Buxton appealed to youths to go out and vote because there has been an reduction in crime, improved drainage and roads as well as social welfare programmes. Prominent teacher and village ...
Read More »PPP-Civic’s PM candidate, Mark Phillips is Black tokenism -Harmon
Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 January 2020, 6:20 by Writer General Secretary of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Joseph Harmon Tuesday night slammed the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) for attempting to win Afro-Guyanese support by putting up retired Brigadier Mark Phillips as its prime ministerial candidate. “It is really a contemptuous act on the part of the PPP ...
Read More »Change Guyana promises Guyanese shareholding in oil sector, “special funds” for welfare
Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 January 2020, 17:32 by Writer Change Guyana (CG) political party on Tuesday made a number of promises to ensure a “fair share ” of the country’s oil and gas resources are provided to ordinary Guyanese, while at the same time taking back all idle oil blocks and holding annual auctions with significant signing bonuses. “All ...
Read More »One dead, another seriously injured in boat accident
Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 January 2020, 17:15 by Writer An early morning speedboat accident in the Pomeroon River has left a 25-year-old miner dead and another injured. Police identified the dead passenger as Renny France. The captain of the 40-horsepower vessel, 27-year-old Dennon Lyte is hospitalised due to severe injuries. Police said the men were heading home between midnight ...
Read More »Major oil discovery offshore Suriname
Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 January 2020, 17:09 by Writer Reproduced from World Oil HOUSTON – Apache and Total announced a significant oil discovery at the Maka Central-1 well drilled offshore Suriname on Block 58. The well was drilled using the drillship Noble Sam Croft with Apache as operator holding a 50% working interest and Total holding a 50% working ...
Read More »Former PPP lawmaker charged with sexual assault, maintains innocence
Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 January 2020, 6:42 by Writer Former People’s Progressive Party (PPP) parliamentarian, Alister Charlie has been slapped with a sexual assault charge stemming from an alleged incident that occurred last year July in Lethem, Rupununi. Charlie has not yet appeared before a Magistrate, but he said police have informed him that the Director of Public Prosecutions ...
Read More »Venezuela remains one of Guyana’s biggest rice buyers, despite no PetroCaribe deal
Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 January 2020, 6:30 by Writer Venezuela is Guyana’s biggest rice market, accounting for 34 percent or 177,682 tonnes of all that grain exported to several Latin American countries the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) said in a statement. This means that despite Venezuela stopping the rice for oil PetroCaribe agreement with Guyana in 2016, a ...
Read More »Shop owner killed over alleged thieving monkey
Last Updated on Monday, 6 January 2020, 17:11 by Writer Guyanese police say they are investigating the murder of a shopkeeper, identified as 54-year-old Sharon Burnette of 47 Graham Street, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara. The suspected killer has since been arrested. Police said the incident occurred Monday morning at 12:30 allegedly by a 57-year-old male neighbour who has since been ...
Read More »OPINION: Elections 2020: the perfect vision of the usual right down the middle
Last Updated on Monday, 6 January 2020, 17:31 by Writer by GHK Lall On occasion, I am prompted to believe that I am the wisest one around here, and since that is far from accurate, I will settle for the sanest. For in the past few days of this New Year, this pivotal year of 2020, there came confirmation of ...
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