Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 19:02 by Writer Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said that then Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mae Thomas was last year asked by United States law enforcers about wealthy Guyanese businessmen Nazar Mohammed and his son, Azruddin, who were slapped with sanctions for alleged corruption in Guyana. Ms Thomas’ ...
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Mohamed’s cambio licence to be cancelled following U.S. sanctions; Mae Thomas resigns from PPP executive
Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 19:04 by Writer In the wake of the United States (US) sanctions on wealthy Guyanese Nazar Mohamed and his son, Azruddin, as well as their businesses for alleged corruption, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said Mohamed’s foreign exchange dealer’s (cambio) licence would be cancelled. Mr Jagdeo said the Bank of Guyana has already informed ...
Read More »OPINION:Another futile attempt in defence of election fraud in Guyana’s 2020 elections
Last Updated on Thursday, 13 June 2024, 21:50 by Writer By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus “…[T]here were, in fact, shockingly brazen attempts…to derail and corrupt the statutorily prescribed procedure for the counting, ascertaining and tabulation of votes of the March 2nd election…” (COI Report on the 2020 Guyana Elections). “[W]e must ask – on what grounds and by what ...
Read More »Nigel Hughes lays down conditions for accepting nomination for AFC Leader, consensus opposition presidential candidacy
Last Updated on Thursday, 13 June 2024, 21:20 by Writer Former Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC) and well-known Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes on Wednesday stopped short of saying he would accept nomination to become his party’s leader, and said much would depend on getting key commitments “on a set of principles” at his party’s conference slated for June 29. ...
Read More »No shortage of Guyana’s rice in St Vincent -Mustapha
Last Updated on Thursday, 13 June 2024, 21:00 by Writer Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha says there is no shortage of Guyana’s rice in St Vincent and the Grenadines. He was reacting to recent claims by Vincentian Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves that there is a shortage of that grain from Guyana due to transportation issues and reported fungus. While Dr ...
Read More »PNCR’s Congress Administrator, Team Forde tussle over bias, pre-nomination irregularities
Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 19:35 by Writer The Roysdale Forde campaign team for the post of leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Tuesday claimed that there were a number of procedural irregularities leading up to the submission of nominations ahead of that party’s congress scheduled for June 28 to 30. However, Congress Administrator Sherwin ...
Read More »Guyana objects to Venezuela’s request for 12 months to submit more pleadings to World Court
Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 19:25 by Writer Guyana on Tuesday objected to Venezuela’s request to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for 12 months to submit additional pleadings in the border dispute case over the Essequibo Region, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said. “Guyana noted that Venezuela’s request for a 12-month period was excessive given that the case ...
Read More »OPINION: The US has moved, dropped the hammer
Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 18:44 by Writer by GHK Lall Like a new generation champion lion, the United States of America has marked out its territory. There are no physical barriers, but an infrared light flashes at high intensity: venture at own risk. The People’s Progressive Party tells itself that it is a power answerable to no ...
Read More »Gov’t sends Permanent Secretary Mae Thomas on leave; asks U.S. to hand over info about Mohameds
Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 19:04 by Writer The Guyana government 0n Tuesday sent Permanent Secretary Mae Thomas on leave, hours after the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) linked her to several alleged crimes with the Mohameds, regarded as super wealthy Guyanese businessmen. “The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Ms. Mae ...
Read More »US Treasury sanctions Mohammeds, Permanent Secretary Mae Thomas
Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 18:21 by Writer WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned members of one of Guyana’s wealthiest families, Nazar Mohamed (Nazar) and his son, Azruddin Mohamed (Azruddin), their company, Mohamed’s Enterprise, and a Guyanese government official, Mae Thomas (Thomas), for their roles in alleged public corruption ...
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