The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Friday said it wants Guyana’s constitution to be amended to increase the make-up of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to 10 members and for political parties to join forces after general and regional elections. AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan, however, feared that a return to the first-past-the post electoral system would remove it from the ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Friday warned  of “consequences” if the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) does not support its nominee for the post of Vice Chairman for Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice). AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan named Ms Coretta Braithwaite as his party’s choice that APNU councillors would be asked to support ...

Attorney-at-Law Roysdale Forde on Thursday night  said he would be appealing Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire’s “regrettable” ruling that President Irfaan Ali’s appointment of Mr Clifton Hicken as acting Police Commissioner was constitutional. “The impact of this Judgment is too grave for it to be left standing. In the circumstances, an Appeal will be filed to set aside this decision,” he ...

United Kingdom (UK) High Commissioner to Guyana Jane Miller said the British government was considering an assessment that could lead to the removal of visa restrictions on Guyanese travelling to that European country. “We are looking into it at the moment. I can’t make any promises but it’s obviously something we constantly look at,” she told Demerara Waves Online News, ...

Guyana’s Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony on Wednesday recommended that Caribbean pharmacists join their counterparts in other parts of the world in patient management rather than merely dispensing prescriptions. He told the formal opening of the Caribbean Association of Pharmacists (CAP) CAP2022 Convention that the time has come for pharmacists in the region to be involved in patient management. ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Thursday ruled that President Irfaan Ali’s appointment of Mr Clifton Hicken to act as Police Commissioner out of necessity and his “own deliberate judgement” was constitutional because there was no Opposition Leader and Police Service Commission (PSC) at the time. “There could be no disregard of and thereby a breach of the requirement for meaningful ...

President Irfaan Ali has announced plans to develop a Land Surveying Institution in Guyana which will serve the entire Caribbean as well as countries in Latin America. “Our vision is to create a land surveying institute in this country that will provide services for the entire Caribbean and Latin America. We must be in a position in three years to ...

Guyana would not have to pay for vacant seats on British Airways flights to Guyana to keep the United Kingdom-headquartered carrier on the Georgetown-Gatwick route, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said Wednesday. “We don’t have to do that with British Airways. I can tell you that upfront. That is not part of our negotiations. We don’t have to do that ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday said he did not believe that Local Government Elections (LGE) would be held this year, but vowed to intensify pressure for a clean voters list. “I don’t believe that the government’s intention is to have Local Government Election. The government has never shown an interest in Local Government Election,” he told a news conference, ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has announced that government has begun taking steps to repossess about 5,000 acres of former sugar estate land at Wales, West Bank Demerara and allocate the land for housing. He told a large meeting at Patentia, West Bank Demerara that the land includes several acres that had been leased to a private concern for the cultivation ...