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President David Granger hopes to appoint his Cabinet within a fortnight and have the firsts session of the 11th Parliament “by the early days in June”, after which his Executive will seek to, among other things, devise a budget for the remainder of 2015.   These appointments, however, will have to wait until persons from the A Partnership for National ...

by Zena Henry As the new government begins to take shape with the swearing in of the new President, Retired Brigadier David Granger on Saturday May 16 and the putting together of Cabinet nears, Economist Winston Jordan is now tipped to head the Finance Ministry while the former Finance Minister, Carl Greenidge is expected to lead the Ministry of Foreign ...

Zena Henry Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud will remain head of the police force as newly appointed President David Granger says he is ready to work with the police head. Leading a security force that has been accused of corruption and the violation of the rights of Guyanese, the retention of the police head might come as a surprise to some. ...

by Zena Henry Guyanese on Saturday May 16 witnessed the swearing in of the newly-elected President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, Brigadier (Ret’d) David Granger as his party, less than one hour after he was declared winner of the 2015 general and regional elections. Despite murmurs that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) had planned to scuttle the declaration by ...

Two women were arrested at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Friday afternoon while allegedly attempting to smuggle more than 10 kilogrammes of cocaine to the United States, according to well-placed sources. Investigators said the cocaine was stashed in the false sides of their suitcases. Those arrested are 40-year old Nanda Ally and 30-year old Vanessa Harper.  Ally was arrested ...

President Donald Ramotar late Friday night dubbed as a “lie” reports in sections of the media that he has decided to concede defeat in the May 11, 2015 general and regional elections, even as his political party was unprepared to entertain the idea of challenging the 2015 election results in the High Court “That’s a lie. That’s not true,” he ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) says a check of the Statements of Poll that the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) had claimed were fake has revealed that such claim is inaccurate. But President Donald Ramotar is sticking by his numbers, saying that his were obtained from the Returning Officers that were used to tabulate the Preliminary Results that have been ...

Just hours after the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) detailed several alleged discrepancies in the May 11, 2015 general and regional elections, the American, British and Canadian missions here said the outcome would not change. “Despite investigating, in collaboration with other observer missions, repeated allegations of irregularities, we have found nothing that would materially impact the integrity or credibility of ...

by Zena Henry President Donald Ramotar Friday afternoon questioned the integrity of international observers, suggesting that they might unwelcomed in countries where they certify rigged elections as free and fair. Ramotar  pointed out that more observers help to boost confidence in a country’s electoral process but they must be wary of their image being tarnished by giving a clean bill ...

Guyana’s business community and civil society organisations on Friday piled pressure on the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) to concede defeat in last Monday’s general elections, even as that party insisted that it would not do so until a recount proves it has lost. A PPPC candidate, Dr Peter Ramsaroop has also called on party supporters to take to the ...