Last Updated on Thursday, 11 June 2020, 11:00 by Denis Chabrol The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is assuring that Police Commissioner and other top officers would not be fired should that party be officially declared winner of the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections. PPP presidential candidate, Dr. Irfaan Ali, speaking with reporters, assured that government employees would not ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 June 2020, 0:19 by Denis Chabrol In the face of virtually no concerns about Guyana’s election machinery and actual casting of votes on March 2, 2020, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves said the controversy over the polls was settled at the accurate recount of the the ballots and those results ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 June 2020, 20:59 by Denis Chabrol The Ministry of Finance Wednesday night said Guyana’s Treasury does not have any cash to bail out the financially saddled state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO). The Finance Ministry, in a carefully worded statement, suggested that monies would be facilitated from another source. The Ministry of Finance notes Guysuco’s request ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 June 2020, 13:12 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday said Guyana’s constitution clearly provides for the People’s Progressive Party’s presidential candidate, Dr. Irfaan Ali to be declared President. “It has already been established now that the PPP’s list has the most votes and, therefore, Irfaan Ali is already deemed the President of ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 June 2020, 16:55 by Denis Chabrol Ramlal Piroo, 32, has been sentenced to spend four and a half years in jail for having sex with a 12 year-old girl in 2019, the Antigua Newsroom reported. The Guyana-native who asked the child to be his girlfriend had several intimate encounters with her in 2018 before having ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 June 2020, 15:29 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger’s indecisive style rather than a bloated list appeared to have cost his incumbent  A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) the recent general elections, if the recount results are anything to go by, according to Political Scientist and Caribbean pollster, Peter Wickham. Wickham, who heads ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 June 2020, 15:07 by Writer The Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards should be asked by the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh to head an interim power-sharing administration to fix the electoral machinery and hold fresh elections in 18 months, political scientist Dr. Henry Jeffrey recommended. He believed ...

Last Updated on Monday, 8 June 2020, 22:48 by Denis Chabrol The National Recount of Votes cast in the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections ended on Monday, 8th June, 2o20. As we recall, President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo agreed to a total national recount after raging controversy over claims of electoral fraud during the tabulation ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 7 June 2020, 23:46 by Denis Chabrol The national recount of votes cast in  Guyana’s March 2, 2020 general elections wrapped up on Sunday with A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) calling for thousands of ballots countrywide to be invalidated and prompting the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to insist that only a successful High ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 7 June 2020, 21:42 by Denis Chabrol The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Sunday night shunned the idea of executive power-sharing but pledged its commitment to inclusive governance and no discrimination against political opponents, shortly after the national recount unofficially gave that party  a 13,069‬ vote lead ahead of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC). ...