Last Updated on Thursday, 25 May 2023, 23:38 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Thursday night announced that a Commission of Inquiry would be held into last Sunday night’s fire at the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School that killed 18 schoolgirls and one boy. Addressing a night of remembrance in Lethem,  the southern Guyanese town near the border ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 25 May 2023, 22:13 by Denis Chabrol Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday revived the prospect of using a biometric identification system at polling stations and electronic voting, amid an unrelenting campaign by the opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC). “That is what can help enormously at the polling places; that ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 25 May 2023, 20:40 by Denis Chabrol People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said he told a European Union 2020 Election follow-up observer mission that he was worried that if Guyana adopts a number of international conventions into domestic law, politically motivated civil society organisations could use them to target the government. ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 25 May 2023, 19:29 by Denis Chabrol The incumbent People’s Progressive Party (PPPC) maintains its support for election campaign financing legislation but  feared that full disclosure of donors could lead to them facing a backlash from the opposition, party General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. “We also have another reality that once people’s names go on ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 25 May 2023, 17:53 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Thursday said government would hold separate talks with families of the 19 children who were burnt to death in the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School earlier this week, even as government was expecting foreign psychologists to join their Guyanese counterparts at a time of ...