As heckling filled the halls of the National Assembly for the first time during the 11th Parliament, National Assembly Speaker, Dr. Barton Scotland, was forced the caution Members of Parliament (MPs) against the use of “unparliamentary language.” Much heckling was directed by government MPs toward Opposition MP, Irfaan Ali, as he made the first presentation during beginning of the 2015 ...

by Zena Henry The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has taken up its opposition seats in the National Assembly Monday August 17 when the House was convened for its seventh sitting. The 32-member opposition team answered to their names following roll call, and took their oath as Members of Parliament (MPs). The first to take the oath was Opposition Leader Bharrat ...

The People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPPC) Shadow Finance Minister, Irfaan Alli on Monday demanded that government pay up a promised GUY$9,000 per bag of paddy to rice farmers or dole out GUY$23 billion from the Consolidated Fund. “I call on this government to deliver immediately nine thousand dollars per bag,” he told the National Assembly in kicking off debate on ...

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Monday laid down several conditions for participating in the long-delayed Local Government Elections (LGE) that the David Granger administration intends to call before year-end. The PPP says it is prepared to participate in this election providing that the conditions are conducive for its active participation. Local Government Elections have not been held since 1994. ...

by Zena Henry The Ministry of Social Protection has embarked on bringing media entities in line with labour laws. The scope of work pertaining to media operations is usually characterized by long hours, tremendous research and sometimes dangerous situations. But this is hardly taken into consideration and addressed within the ambit of labour laws. Minister within the Ministry of Social ...

University of Guyana (UG) students will benefit from new classrooms, sports facilities and upgraded science and technology facilities once the 2015/2016 academic-year commences, says UG Vice Chancellor (VC) Jacob Opadeyi. Among these developments are enhancements to the university’s Natural Sciences and Technology Faculties which are being funded by the US$10 million loan made available by the World Bank in 2011. ...

by Zena Henry In what seemed almost unimaginable just months ago, the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) and Central government have pledged stronger ties in restoring the city. The then Local Government Ministry had been at odds with the Council for years under the People’s Progressive Party (PPP). Now under the Communities Ministry, the entities have rekindled an almost ...

The Indian Action (formerly Arrival) Committee (IAC) on Sunday called on the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to push for a Commission of Inquiry into claims that mostly East Indians are being fired, in the wake of last week’s firing of the Chirf Executive Officer of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), Bharrat Dindyal. “The IAC respectfully opines that the Opposition ...

Exactly one day before Bharrat Jagdeo is expected to kick off the 2015 budget debate, a non-governmental organisation on Sunday said it has lobbied House Speaker Dr. Barton Scotland to put in place water-tight code of conduct that could see the former Guyanese leader being disqualified as a parliamentarian. “We put forward to him that in the formulation of the ...

The mother of prominent Attorney-at-Law and Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes died Sunday as a result of a road accident Saturday night, according to a party spokesman She is Christobel Hughes, said to be in her early 80s. AFC Spokesman Imran Khan said the accident occurred on Middleton Street as she was returning to her Subryanville ...