The United States is urging Guyana to be more inclusive at a faster pace and to go beyond cash grants by focussing on long term growth for all nationals of this oil-rich South American nation. “It is an ethnically divided society and s0 they will need to focus on inclusion and there have been many efforts to do so  so ...

The Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) Chief Security Officer Ronald Stuart on Wednesday said after then Deputy Chief Election Officer Roxane Myers failed in her effort to get him to order several persons to vacate the tabulation room to allow Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo to do his work, a bomb hoax was called. “She said they were interfering with ...

By GHK Lall Some things are so beyond the pale that they can never be acceptable.  What Exxon’s Country Head stated at Leonora about the “right government” (KN November 9) is off the wall and out of bounds.  Mr. Routledge is not only out of line; I will make the case that he is out of his mind.  He is ...

Dominica’s opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has decided not to participate in the December 6 general election because of concerns that the voters list is padded. That party says Dominicans cannot be asked at this time to participate in another national election without meeting at least two basic election standards. These are a clean voters list reflecting the persons who can ...

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira on Monday dismissed Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s persistent concerns about a bloated voters list, saying that he is using a 10-year old low national census figure to make a comparison and the opposition has so far failed to propose any amendments to the electoral laws to provide for use of biometrics at ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Monday sought to assure Guyanese that government would not control the 20-member broad-based Constitutional Reform Commission and process geared at modifying the already amended supreme law of this country. “Government will not attempt, in any form or fashion, to influence the work of the Commission. The Bill, which becomes law, however, mandates the Commission to ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s effort to seek parliamentary approval a motion for constitutional and legal amendments to allow for a clean voters list was Monday turned down by House Speaker Manzoor Nadir. “For a matter to qualify under this particular item, the issue of definite, urgent public importance are necessary and it’s an issue that also that’s upcoming and I ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton Sunday night urged residents aback Mocha not to remove from an area where government is building the Eccles to Great Diamond Highway, one day after government issued them final notices of removal. Addressing a public meeting in the predominantly Afro-Guyanese stronghold of his People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led opposition coalition, Mr Norton accused the mainly Indo-Guyanese ...

The Guyana Rastafari Council on Saturday assailed government’s rejection of a proposal to decriminalise the possession of marijuana rather than merely removing imprisonment as a penalty but Attorney General Anil Nandlall has already said that changes to the narcotics law are aimed at finding a “delicate balance” between competing interests. Mr Nandlall said, at the bipartisan parliamentary select committee, there ...

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) on Saturday expressed disappointment at Attorney General Anil Nandlall’s claim that an “aggressive agenda” was being pursued although he swiftly instructed police to release a lawyer who had been arrested because she had advised her client to remain silent. “The arrest of an Attorney-at-Law in Guyana in the execution of her professional duties is unprecedented ...