NGOs call for removal of gold mining as “essential service”
Several non-governmental organisations are calling on authorities to remove gold mining operations as an essential service and closely monitor the...
GECOM’s detailed scrutiny of voting will be illegal but “nothing to hide”- PPP
Attorney-at-Law, Anil Nandlall The opposition People's Progressive Party (PPP) and the incumbent A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC)...
Opposition parties ask GECOM for ‘region-by-region’ recount, release of Statements of Poll
GECOM Commissioners and other officials inspect the Arthur Chung Conference Centre where the national vote recount is expected to be...
Canada pays for CARICOM’s team of scrutineers for Guyana’s vote recount
(from left) Ambassador Colin Granderson, Mr. Sylvester King; Ms. Cynthia Barrow-Giles; and Mr. John Jarvis. (Caricom Secretariat picture) Canada is...
Caricom recount team arrives; Caricom Chairman reiterates link between credible recount, legitimate govt
Team will be led by Ms. Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the...
CARICOM vote recount scrutineers arrive on Friday
GECOM Commissioners and Secretariat Staff inspect the Arthur Chung Conference Centre. The three-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) team that would be...
Dusk-to-dawn COVID-19 curfew extended until June; stranded Guyanese overseas asked to submit travel requests
Stabroek Market Square at 6 PM on 20th April, 2020. The Public Health Ministry has extended the 6 PM to...
18 vulnerable organisations to benefit from CDC social relief efforts
Ganesh Singh, programme coordinator of the Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities (GCOPD). Eighteen organizations, which cater to...
PPP threatens to declare Irfaan Ali as Guyana’s President
PPP General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo (left) and PPP Presidential Candidate, Irfaan Ali. The People's Progressive Party (PPP) will declare Irfaan...
“Greater care” was not taken in handling GDF’s fireworks- Jagdeo
Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday expressed concern that "greater care" was not taken in handling the "unstable" pyrotechnics that...
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