Last Updated on Monday, 1 July 2024, 22:21 by Writer The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) was late Sunday night expected to declare the results of its internal elections for at least four top posts including leader for which incumbent leader Aubrey Norton is expected to be declared winner, Congress Administrator Sherwyn Benjamin said. PNCR member, Mervyn Williams said the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 30 June 2024, 17:17 by Writer by GHK Lall Nigel Hughes has cleared the first hurdle. He has got some others coming his way, and they promise to test him in so many ways. His maneuvering skills, backroom strengths, broad-based appeal, and starting to deliver on some of what he has made his heartfelt positions will ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 30 June 2024, 17:26 by Writer Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes on Sunday said he would not break ties from his law firm – Hughes, Fields and Stoby – which represents ExxonMobil unless he is elected to the government. “No, no! This issue really only arises if and when I become President ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 30 June 2024, 17:02 by Writer Newly-elected Alliance For Change (AFC) leader, Nigel Hughes on Saturday said his party wants a law passed for all Guyanese to get direct cash transfers from oil revenues rather than cash grants that appear to be political handouts. “I’m proposing that we abolish immediately the liberty of giving government ministers ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 29 June 2024, 15:25 by Writer The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Saturday voted in well-known Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes as its new leader and Quantity Surveyor David Patterson as its new Chairman in landslide victories against their rivals. Mr Hughes won 149 votes to crush Sherod Duncan’s 62 for the leadership of that party, while Mr ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 29 June 2024, 14:34 by Writer By GHK Lall The man of the moment is Mr. Aubrey C. Norton. His mantle is to be the man for the times ahead. On a surge of support from his comrades, an almost unanimous verdict is his to run with, in the course that he charts. I say almost ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 29 June 2024, 14:22 by Writer The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Friday promised that 50,000 youths would receive GY$50,000 monthly while they are being trained to create employment if that party is elected to office in next year’s general and regional elections. “We intend, in government, to execute our 50/50 youth programme, in which ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 29 June 2024, 14:15 by Writer Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Friday dismissed applications for injunctions to block the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) from holding its internal elections for leader and members of the Central Executive Committee (CEC). “I am not satisfied that there is enough evidence to suspend or to injunct the holding of the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 29 June 2024, 14:03 by Writer Attorneys-at-Law Roysdale Forde and Amanza Walton-Desir, who accepted nominations for the position of leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) suspended their campaign citing massive irregularities, on the eve of the start of their party’s three-day congress slated for June 28 to 30. Their announcement came hours before the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 29 June 2024, 13:52 by Writer The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Thursday ruled that only Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, now known as ExxonMobil Guyana, needed a permit for the Liza 1 project rather than also its co-venturers, Hess and CNOOC Guyana. The applicant, Ramon Gaskin, had contended that each of the three ...