by GHK Lall It took a development that came out of the belly of Guyana’s Opposition to open my eyes, help connect the dots.  Numerous things were wrong, suspect, flawed with the management of this great oil endowment, but somehow, I didn’t strike the nail square.  It has nothing to do with numbers, charts, graphs, or footnotes.  It had everything ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus I read Tony Vieira’s letter calling for a Third Force several times. I give Mr. Vieira full credit for not reducing Guyana’s politics, and especially its voting behavior, to that most predictable of the lazy scholar’s last resort, namely race. That said, Vieira’s call for a Third Force is deeply problematic. Allow me to ...

Attention was on Saturday, 13th January, 2024 drawn to the posting of an utterance titled “Setting the record straight: I was caught off guard in Denis Chabrol’s scheming tactics” in the name of opposition APNU+AFC parliamentarian, Jermaine Figueira on Village Voice. The fact of the matter is as follows: Following the PNCR and Opposition Leader, Mr Aubrey Norton’s explanation for ...

Guyana has saved just over US$800 million from more than US$3 billion in oil revenues since production began in 2020, even as the country is set to sell 27 entitled lifts this year now that production has begun at the Payara project, officials said. After government’s total withdrawals of US$1.002 billion in 2023 from the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) based ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Friday said it proposed a motion for the bipartisan parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to be empowered to summon former officials to appear before that body that questions the spending of monies from the coffers based on observations from the Auditor General’s reports. “The PAC does not have the power to summon persons to ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton said Alliance For Change’s (AFC) David Patterson would continue be the opposition coalition’s spokesman on oil and gas. Mr Norton on Thursday told a news conference that Mr Holder, an engineer, would be Shadow Minister of Natural Resources which includes  oil and gas, but Patterson would continue to speak on the subject in the National Assembly. ...

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) executive member, Jermaine Figueira has admitted that Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s assessment of his performance as Shadow Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport is accurate, but he maintains that he was disrespectfully ousted from the Shadow Cabinet. “He is absolutely correct in every regard; no one has ever been this astute and pointed in their ...

The warhead that was in stuck in a five-year old girl’s throat was removed successfully and she on Friday remained hospitalised in a stable condition, the Guyana Police Force said. The girl was reportedly shot by her uncle while lying in bed after a bullet protruded a wall between the two apartments. Investigators said the prime suspect in the incident, ...

Embattled People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) executive member and opposition coalition parliamentarian, Jermaine Figueira is not being courted to join the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), that party’s General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. “As General Secretary of the party, we’ve never had any such engagement with Figueira about joining the PPP,” he said when asked by Demerara Waves Online News. ...

The long-delayed congress of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is expected to be held in May, 2024, party General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo said  Thursday. “The Executive met last Saturday and they decided that I think it’s the first week in May,” he told a news conference at Freedom House, the PPP’s headquarters. The 32nd Congress should have been held in ...