By GHK Lall So, what really came out of the PPP [C] Congress? Truth be told, plenty. Let’s turn back the clock and see. To spice up things and keep the delegates excited, there was one inspiring leader singing an inspiring song. Down with Marxism! Out with Leninism! Look, I know it is not the Mighty Sparrow of the Mighty ...

At least four low vote-getters at the People’s Progressive Party’s congress held last weekend, who mustered sufficient support to elect them to the broader Central Committee, were Tuesday elevated to that political organisation’s third highest decision-making body, the Executive Committee. The four elected by the Central Committee to sit on the 15-member Executive Committee are Dr Vindhya Persaud, ranked 21st, ...

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) on Tuesday announced that from Thursday May 9, 2024, teachers would be resuming strike to once again pressure government into negotiating increased salaries from 2019 t0 2023, a position that government has already rejected. “Because of the absence of collective bargaining, on the part of the government, the Ministry of Education to address the conditions under ...

A man, who was previously convicted for physically abusing his wife, allegedly committed suicide on Monday in a cell at the Lethem Police Station where he was being held for a similar accusation after a neighbour called in police, the Guyana Police Force said. Dead is 37-year-old Carl Benedict, a driver who resided at St Ignatius Village, Rupununi, Region Nine ...

by Peter Richards BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 6, CMC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says “unsuccessful attempts” had been made to impugn the character of the former president of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Dr. Hyginus “Gene “ Leon, whom he described as “a distinguished son of our Caribbean civilisation from St. Lucia”. Last ...

Longtime People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member, Amna Ally on Monday appeared to be recovering from serious heart and kidney complications, well-placed sources said. Ms Ally, a former PNCR General Secretary who was recently embroiled in a public spat over her disappointment with party leader Aubrey Norton’s performance, has been hospitalised for the past two weeks. Sources said Ms Ally ...

by GHK Lall I had repeatedly warned Attorney General Anil Nandlall that he was spending too much time in court chasing after Exxon’s interests. Now, look at what happened to him in the PPP Central Executive elections. It is a public humiliation, where he barely managed to get his nose inside the top ten. It was not just where he ...

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Sunday said Marxism-Leninism and socialism were removed from that political organisation’s constitution because the Cold War had ended, ideologies mean little to party supporters and the time had come to bring the constitution in line with international economic realities. Describing the erasure of those ideological and theoretical references as ...

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) is Sunday expected to approve a motion, sponsored by Dr Irfaan Ali’s party group at Leonora, to remove all references to Marxism-Leninism and socialism from that party’s constitution. When contacted on Saturday, Dr Ali told Demerara Waves Online News that, “The Leonora group and all other resolutions will be considered at the appropriate time ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Saturday condemned the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) for placing its party flag inside and outside the government-owned building that is also being used to hold sittings of the National Assembly, but a top party official vowed that nothing would stop that. Mr Norton highlighted that the Laws of Guyana explicitly prohibit the flying of ...