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The long-delayed congress of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is expected to be held in May, 2024, party General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo said  Thursday. “The Executive met last Saturday and they decided that I think it’s the first week in May,” he told a news conference at Freedom House, the PPP’s headquarters. The 32nd Congress should have been held in ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday defended his decision to oust Jermaine Figueira from the Shadow Cabinet and replace him with Nima Flue-Bess because she is qualified and involved in sport. He hinted that Mr Figueira- as Shadow Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport- was neglecting to focus on sport countrywide. “You have Youth, Sport and Culture where there are ...

Agents of the Guyana Revenue Authority and the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) have seized a motor vessel with quantities of uncustomed beers, foreign chicken and cigarettes worth of an estimated GY$5.5 million, GRA said Thursday. “The uncustomed goods and motor vessel were secured pending the outcome of further investigations which have commenced,” GRA said. GRA said its Law Enforcement and ...

The Guyana government has asked the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IACHR) to withdraw its provisional measures for the Indigenous Indian community of Chinese Landing where residents there had alleged severe physical violence and environmental degradation by a number of gold miners, Minister of  Governance Gail Teixeira said Wednesday. Minister Teixeira said government last December wrote to the IACHR asking for ...

After spending millions of dollars and making representation to the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration for improving the social and economic conditions of people in Linden, opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) parliamentarian Jermaine Figueira is protesting his removal as a shadow minister. In Mr Figueira’s letter to the PNCR’s Central Executive, which was seen by Demerara Waves Online ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Tuesday said Guyana’s court system is expanding its first ever e-filing platform for the filing and management of cases in the magistrate and High Courts. She said the E-Litigation System for the Court of Appeal and the High Court would be ready for a soft-launch of phase one for the Court of Appeal in the ...

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall on Monday expressed concern that magistrates have found reasons not to set trial dates for several then officials of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) who were accused of fraud in the 2020 general and regional elections. “Magistrates after magistrates have found reasons that can’t withstand scrutiny for not proceeding to try ...

The Ghana-headquartered Africa Prosperity Network (APN) has picked President, Dr Irfaan Ali to receive the Global Africa Leadership Award later this month, the Guyanese leader was informed on Tuesday. “On behalf of the Africa Prosperity Network and its partners, I am happy to inform Your Excellency that you have been selected to receive the Global Africa Leadership Award,” APN Executive ...

Legislation to allow for judge-only trials for specified cases is being drafted, even as Guyana prepares to abolish preliminary inquiries for indictable cases in the magistrate court, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said Monday. “There are certain cases where it is now accepted that the interest of justice is not best served where judges must sit with a jury and we ...

The Guyana government has so far spent more than US$2 million on fighting an international arbitration case concerning the previous administration’s decision to halt the implementation of a parking meter system in the capital city, Georgetown, Attorney General  Anil Nandlall said Monday. The then A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC)-led coalition administration had suspended the parking meter system, ...