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The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) Sunday competed with the opposition coalition for space over the future of the ailing sugar industry and credibility surrounding the Jaganite brand of politics. Against the backdrop of A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) promising that it would not close the sugar industry but it would be revived and the ...

The People’s Progressive Party Civic’s Prime Ministerial candidate, Elisabeth Harper would not be participating in a debate with her counterpart from the opposition coalition, Moses Nagamootoo because he has allegedly attacked and disrespected her on the campaign trail. “It is for this reason that we view a public debate with Moses Nagamootoo as inappropriate, as he himself has been disrespectful ...

A prominent city businessman, disgruntled by the way Guyana is being run, announced in Canada that he and other entrepreneurs planned to pack up and leave if the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) wins again. Owner of Action Tyre, Ron Persaud told a breakfast meeting in Canada between the opposition coalition’s two top candidates and Guyanese there that the ...

A fire of electrical origin Saturday night destroyed a mechanical workshop at Pritipaul Singh Investments (PSI), Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara, sources said. The workshop and contained boat-building tools and other items. Investigators believed that the facility’s electrical wiring was faulty. That blaze occurred at about 11 PM. Back in June , 2010 an electrical fire aboard the trawler, Captain ...

A man, who slept away with a lighted cigarette in his hand, narrowly cheated death after the house he was living in was engulfed in flames  Saturday night, according to well-placed sources. The fire occurred at 214 Bladen Hall, East Coast Demerara around 11:15 PM. The house is owned by Radesh Singh who lives in the United States. The lone ...

Residents of Windsor Forest and neighbouring villages on the West Coast Demerara  were Saturday afternoon bracing for flood after problems developed with a recently built koker (drainage sluice). Residents said the GUY$148 million dollar koker buckled under pressure from the high tide at about 5 PM. A resident explained that creases or spaces have developed between the boards that are ...

Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo Saturday afternoon warned supporters of his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) that if they do not turn out and vote resounding next month, the opposition would cause unrest. Addressing thousands of supporters at a rally at Damon Square, Essequibo Coast, he said already the opposition was setting the stage for disturbances by already objecting to the ...

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr. Steve Surujbally has ditched calls by government for the seven-member commission to consider and approve reports by the Media Monitoring Unit (MMU). Addressing prospective election observers of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), he insisted that the commission would remain an autonomous unit of the Commission to “name, blame and shame” errant ...

Reeling from a spike in vandalism especially during this month, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) on Friday issued a stirring appeal to Guyanese to report anyone seen cutting telephone cables to 0908. The company announced that anyone who reports vandalism in progress and leads to the capture and prosecution of perpetrators would be rewarded. Against the background of ...

Printing of ballots in Canada for next month’s general and regional elections has begun and is being overseen by two Guyana Elections Commissioners, according to Commission Chairman, Dr. Steve Surujbally. “We have two commissioners in Canada right now overseeing the printing of ballots,” he told Demerara Waves Online News.   Printing, he said, is expected to be completed by next week ...