Last Updated on Friday, 12 January 2024, 16:47 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton said Alliance For Change’s (AFC) David Patterson would continue be the opposition coalition’s spokesman on oil and gas. Mr Norton on Thursday told a news conference that Mr Holder, an engineer, would be Shadow Minister of Natural Resources which includes  oil and gas, but Patterson ...

Last Updated on Friday, 12 January 2024, 9:45 by Denis Chabrol People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) executive member, Jermaine Figueira has admitted that Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s assessment of his performance as Shadow Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport is accurate, but he maintains that he was disrespectfully ousted from the Shadow Cabinet. “He is absolutely correct in every regard; ...

Last Updated on Friday, 12 January 2024, 7:17 by Denis Chabrol The warhead that was in stuck in a five-year old girl’s throat was removed successfully and she on Friday remained hospitalised in a stable condition, the Guyana Police Force said. The girl was reportedly shot by her uncle while lying in bed after a bullet protruded a wall between ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 January 2024, 18:34 by Denis Chabrol Embattled People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) executive member and opposition coalition parliamentarian, Jermaine Figueira is not being courted to join the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), that party’s General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. “As General Secretary of the party, we’ve never had any such engagement with Figueira about joining ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 January 2024, 17:54 by Denis Chabrol The long-delayed congress of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is expected to be held in May, 2024, party General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo said  Thursday. “The Executive met last Saturday and they decided that I think it’s the first week in May,” he told a news conference at Freedom House, ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 January 2024, 17:18 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday defended his decision to oust Jermaine Figueira from the Shadow Cabinet and replace him with Nima Flue-Bess because she is qualified and involved in sport. He hinted that Mr Figueira- as Shadow Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport- was neglecting to focus on ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 January 2024, 11:27 by Denis Chabrol Agents of the Guyana Revenue Authority and the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) have seized a motor vessel with quantities of uncustomed beers, foreign chicken and cigarettes worth of an estimated GY$5.5 million, GRA said Thursday. “The uncustomed goods and motor vessel were secured pending the outcome of further investigations ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 January 2024, 7:32 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government has asked the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IACHR) to withdraw its provisional measures for the Indigenous Indian community of Chinese Landing where residents there had alleged severe physical violence and environmental degradation by a number of gold miners, Minister of  Governance Gail Teixeira said Wednesday. Minister ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 22:13 by Denis Chabrol After spending millions of dollars and making representation to the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration for improving the social and economic conditions of people in Linden, opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) parliamentarian Jermaine Figueira is protesting his removal as a shadow minister. In Mr Figueira’s letter to ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 19:37 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall Who let the dogs out?  Well, Bharrat Jagdeo did.  Ministers of the government have been set free to speak to the press.  They have been given carte blanche to roam across the villages and hamlets of Guyana and to spread the good news of the good ...