Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 17:49 by Writer by Retired Rear Admiral Dr Gary Best In a next opinion I will deal with Jagdeo, Ali and the PPP’s lies about the PNC being a racist party – a classical projection of a duo who thinks about race all the time.  As promised, I will now address Jagdeo and ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 17:33 by Writer By GHK Lall So, what really came out of the PPP [C] Congress? Truth be told, plenty. Let’s turn back the clock and see. To spice up things and keep the delegates excited, there was one inspiring leader singing an inspiring song. Down with Marxism! Out with Leninism! Look, I ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 17:18 by Writer At least four low vote-getters at the People’s Progressive Party’s congress held last weekend, who mustered sufficient support to elect them to the broader Central Committee, were Tuesday elevated to that political organisation’s third highest decision-making body, the Executive Committee. The four elected by the Central Committee to sit on ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 May 2024, 21:47 by Writer The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) on Tuesday announced that from Thursday May 9, 2024, teachers would be resuming strike to once again pressure government into negotiating increased salaries from 2019 t0 2023, a position that government has already rejected. “Because of the absence of collective bargaining, on the part of ...

Last Updated on Monday, 6 May 2024, 23:12 by Writer A man, who was previously convicted for physically abusing his wife, allegedly committed suicide on Monday in a cell at the Lethem Police Station where he was being held for a similar accusation after a neighbour called in police, the Guyana Police Force said. Dead is 37-year-old Carl Benedict, a ...

Last Updated on Monday, 6 May 2024, 23:09 by Writer by Peter Richards BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 6, CMC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says “unsuccessful attempts” had been made to impugn the character of the former president of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Dr. Hyginus “Gene “ Leon, whom he described as “a ...

Last Updated on Monday, 6 May 2024, 22:45 by Writer Longtime People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member, Amna Ally on Monday appeared to be recovering from serious heart and kidney complications, well-placed sources said. Ms Ally, a former PNCR General Secretary who was recently embroiled in a public spat over her disappointment with party leader Aubrey Norton’s performance, has been ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 5 May 2024, 23:40 by Writer by GHK Lall I had repeatedly warned Attorney General Anil Nandlall that he was spending too much time in court chasing after Exxon’s interests. Now, look at what happened to him in the PPP Central Executive elections. It is a public humiliation, where he barely managed to get his nose ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 5 May 2024, 23:28 by Writer General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Sunday said Marxism-Leninism and socialism were removed from that political organisation’s constitution because the Cold War had ended, ideologies mean little to party supporters and the time had come to bring the constitution in line with international economic realities. ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 5 May 2024, 16:14 by Writer The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) is Sunday expected to approve a motion, sponsored by Dr Irfaan Ali’s party group at Leonora, to remove all references to Marxism-Leninism and socialism from that party’s constitution. When contacted on Saturday, Dr Ali told Demerara Waves Online News that, “The Leonora group and ...