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Former A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament (MP) Africo Selman has formally joined up with the Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) and came out swinging against her old party during the party’s Kitty rally on Sunday. Selman, whose resignation from APNU took effect on February 26th, expressed her “sincere gratitude” to the leaders and members of the ...

The opposition coalition of A Partnership for a National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Sunday night promised an increase in Old Age Pensions, an end to piracy of fishermen in Berbice and ensure that the sugar industry remains open. Addressing about 5,000 persons at his home-village of Whim, Corentyne Prime Ministerial Candidate Moses Nagamootoo said in the first 100 ...

The two men who were arrested by the police on Friday March 27, 2015, in a house at Diamond, East Bank Demerara. A firearm and ammunition and narcotics were found. The men have been identified as being two of the men who posed as police and conducted an illegal roadblock at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, on March 18, 2015, and ...

Former Finance Minister in the People’s National Congress (PNC)-led administration, Carl Greenidge has defended his purchase of a house from a state-owned corporation in the 1990s, saying that it was above-board. That’s quite in contrast to Former President Bharrat Jagdeo’s suggestion that Greenidge acquired the property at Bel Air Gardens in 1993, four months after leaving office when the PNC ...

President Donald Ramotar should be asked to hold the “mother-of-all-inquiries” into the deaths of hundreds of persons including Agriculture Minister Satyadeow Sawh over the last several decades, according to his predecessor Bharrat Jagdeo. “Let’s do one comprehensive inquiry into everything…Let’s look at any case of violence in an inquiry, let’s bring in some foreigners,” he said, adding that he was ...

Hoping to garner votes from its traditional stronghold in the sugar belt and particularly in East Berbice, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Saturday assured that every effort is being made to fix the problem-plagued multi-million dollar Skeldon Sugar Factory and invest in other projects to rescue the industry. “Clearly, we still have to fix some of them because the ...

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo on Saturday suggested that Former Finance Minister, Carl Greenidge of acquired a house from a then state-owned Guyana Stores Limited (GSL) in a less than transparent manner. However, Jagdeo brushed off questions about how he amassed wealth to purchase two houses, one of which he sold and then built a sprawling residential complex at Sparendaam, East ...

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo on Saturday ruled out being a candidate for his governing People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) but confirmed that he would be on the campaign trail. “I am not on the ticket. I’m not interested in any constitutional post,” he told a news conference. Nomination Day is April 7. The PPPC’s campaign would be officially launched on ...

Even as the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) continues to improve transmission and distribution of electricity, Giftland Mall being constructed at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara is installing its own power station. President of Giftland, Roy Beepat said his company was willing to sell excess power to the University of Guyana (UG) and surrounding areas. Beepat said the decision to construct ...

Former senior member of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Ralph Ramkarran is currently not interested in returning to active politics, in the wake of expectations that he might endorse the opposition coalition. “I can’t predict that now. It will be a sea-change for me to have to change my mind to do something that I have not planned to do,” ...