Accountability

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Monday said its Immigration Department obeyed the court order that allowed Assistant Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus’ wife, who is charged with money laundering, to leave the country. “The Force recognizes and respects the ruling of the court, which permitted Ms. Aulder to travel overseas for medical reasons. In keeping with this directive, due process ...

Opposition-nominated member of the Investment Committee of the Natural Resources Fund (NRF), Dr Terrence Campbell on Sunday said he would be formally asking the Board to explain why transfers of oil revenues to the Consolidated Fund are done without specific information from government about how the monies would be spent. “It’s not off the table,” when asked whether legal action ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) would be writing the Board of the Natural Resources Fund (NRF) to get answers about government’s failure to say specifically how oil revenues would be spent by the government, party leader Nigel Hughes said Sunday. “The Citizens of Guyana demand to know how their patrimony is being managed and disposed of,” he said. No date ...

A member of the Natural Resources Fund (NRF) Investment Committee believes that government should list how it intends to spend oil revenues before the money can be transferred to the consolidated fund, but Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday resisted the idea and said accountability rests with the National Assembly. “What sense does it make?…So next year, should we start ...

by GHK Lall The political opposition in Guyana found itself on the receiving end of a favor from the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC). It needs to be militant. No question about that around here. I think that this applies at the collective opposition level, or that of the individual parties. The visibility, level of energy, and degree of potency ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday categorically ruled out political opposition representation on the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) which decides on the award of contracts. He said the Executive would not allow its work to be frustrated by a “negative and obstruction” opposition because government has to be accountable to the electorate. “It is something we will ...

Two former employees of the Ministry of Health’s Material Management Unit (MMU) Bond were Friday charged with three counts of money laundering that police said was linked to their alleged theft and sale of COVID-19 test kits. Chief Magistrate, Faith McGusty granted GY$100,000 bail to 29-year-old Kerron Webster of 344 Middle Street, North Cummingsburg after he was arraigned on one ...

Guyana’s umbrella Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Tuesday recommended that government enact one anti-corruption legislation to simplify and fast-track investigations and prosecutions, but the Guyana government said the country was not yet ready for such one-stop anti-corruption body. Chairman 0f the PSC’s Economics and Finance Committee, Ramesh Dookhoo lamented that over the years, the lobby for anti-corruption legislation was unsuccessful. He ...

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Saturday called on several government agencies to take action against retailers and supermarkets for selling poor quality goods and ensure that all tax laws and labour standards are applied equally. “There has been an alarming increase in the presence of counterfeit, expired, and inappropriately labelled goods in the market, which are ...

Former finance minister, Winston Jordan on Sunday recommended that government abolish plans to distribute the GY$200,000 cash grant per household because of concerns about the definition of a household. “To avoid this problem that is inherent about this issue about households, they (government) should step back and say ‘we’re listening’ they are indeed problems about this question about household,” he ...