Government MP Juan Edghill Thursday night sought to debunk opposition claims that the administration was not doing enough to combat corruption. In his contribution to the budget debate the Minister within the Ministry of Finance said the government had put measures in place to counter corruption. “Among our Members of Parliament and Cabinet we have a Code of Conduct and ...

The Guyana government has again lambasted sections of the media that it has perceived as reporting to unfavourable on the Linden crisis.  

As a people, we have a choice to make. And to this end the GTUC will be dispatching messages to the South Africa government and the trade union community, reminding them of the workers’ commitment and contributions to the apartheid struggle, making known our support for the O.R.Tambo award to Forbes Burnham, and expressing our concern that they have allowed ...

The recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) Report on the Caribbean titled Caribbean Small States: Challenges of High Debt and Low Growth (February 20, 2013) deserves particular attention for some of the things it says, and for some of the things it did not say. As is well known, Caribbean states, to varying degrees, are finding it extremely difficult to make ...

  Swami Aksharananda Principal of the Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) High School, Swami Aksharananda says he respects the rights of homosexuals but he will not promote or judge a lifestyle. “It is not an abomination for us,” he said on Christopher Ram’s weekly interview programme “Plain Talk.”

Alliance For Change (AFC) presidential candidate Khemraj Ramjattan says his party would rather remain in opposition than join another to create a parliamentary majority following the November 28 general and regional elections. His comment was in response to a question from the audience at Wednesday’s Merundoi-organised Presidential Forum which was also attended by APNU’s David Granger. To listen to a ...

 Demerara Waves Internet Radio presents a Podcast of the Staurday, February 4,2012 edition of  ‘Periscope’. That programme focussed on Prospects for a Tripartite Approach to Governance in Guyana.

{mp3remote}http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/176652096/podcast/%5Btindeck.com%5D%20-%20periscope-2012-02-12.mp3{/mp3remote} HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean was the subject of this week’s programme – Periscope.  On this programme, United Nations Special Envoy on HIV in the Caribbean, Professor Edward Greene talks about, among other things, steps being taken by Caricom to decriminalize buggery and prostitution.

{mp3remote}http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/176652096/podcast/apnu.mp3{/mp3remote} On this edtion of Periscope, long-serving member of the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton and veteran Working Peoples Alliance member, Tacuma Ogunseye examine a range of issues from the opposition’s perspective.