Last Updated on Sunday, 22 March 2020, 8:25 by Writer The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Saturday night called for a Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-supervised national recount of votes if it is constitutional, but said the winner should set the groundwork for power-sharing within a set timeframe. “We reiterate our demand that following the examination of the ballot boxes which reveal the ...
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OPINION: Guyana 2020: Can we all get along?
Last Updated on Saturday, 21 March 2020, 22:20 by Writer By Paul Sanders Guyana 2020: Can we all get along? Two people. Two narratives. Same agenda. So you’d think they should be okay, right? Wrong. These people are long time adversaries. And, again, as usual, they are at cross purposes. This rendezvous is a festival of Indo and Afro Guyanese ...
Read More »OPINION: I am not interested in who should win, but in all that is lost
Last Updated on Saturday, 21 March 2020, 22:10 by Writer by GHK Lall I look back this first time at Elections 2020 and cringe that some of the things that I had identified have come to pass. I would have preferred to be embarrassingly wrong on all counts; it turns out that I was closer to the reality than I ...
Read More »PPP accuses APNU+AFC of double standards in national recount of votes
Last Updated on Saturday, 21 March 2020, 10:49 by Writer The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says strong evidence has surfaced that A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) is displaying double standards about its desire to settle the political impasse over the results of the March 2, 2020 general elections. The PPP points to the fact that APNU+AFC candidate, ...
Read More »Kenny Rogers: Country music legend dies aged 81
Last Updated on Saturday, 21 March 2020, 8:45 by Writer American country music legend Kenny Rogers has died aged 81, the BBC reported. A family representative said he “passed away peacefully at home from natural causes”. Rogers topped pop and country charts during the 1970s and 1980s, and won three Grammy awards. Known for his husky voice and ballads including ...
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