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The opposition coalition initially failed to meet the legal requirement for the number of women on its list of candidates for next month’s general and regional elections, according to a senior official of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). According to the source, A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) submitted a list of 75 candidates of which ...

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) Wednesday night warned supporters not to vote the opposition coalition into office or they would again endure food shortages that had led to malnutrition. Addressing a public meeting in that party’s traditional stronghold of Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, General Secretary of the PPP’s Women’s Progressive Organisation (WPO), Sheila Veerasammy told the group of ...

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo has been summoned to appear in an East Berbice court to answer a private criminal charge that he uttered racially divisive remarks in violation of one of Guyana’s electoral laws. If found guilty by Magistrate Charlyn Artiga at the Whim Magistrates’ Court, he could be fined GUY$100,000 and jailed for two years. The Representation of the ...

People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) Prime Ministerial Candidate, Elisabeth Harper Thursday dubbed revelations about her son’s indebtedness to two foreign investors as “blackmail” and heaped scorn on efforts to muscle a resolution through her political selection. “I strongly reject any attempt to use my political appointment to resolve this matter extra judicially or to influence the legal direction of the ...

A former police detective ‎is among three persons injured in an accident on the Mahaicony Public Road. He is 46 year old Vincent Blair. He sustained injuries to his head and chest. Blair is conscious. A source said a car stopped to allow Blair to disembark when a minibus slammed into the rear of the car. An unidentified woman was ...

The son of the People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPPC) Prime Ministerial candidate, Elisabeth Harper, is facing a lawsuit for at least US$3 million that had been provided to him for his company to invest in the mining sector. Harper toldDemerara Waves Online News that the matter is before a Guyanese Court several months ago. She is the guarantor for the ...

Hours after police recovered a gun stolen from a policeman during a multi-million dollar robbery outside the Bourda Post Office last week, a man was arraigned on Wednesday in connection with the heist. Stravo Evans of Kaneville, East Bank Demerara and Curtis Street, Albouystown, Georgetown was slapped with six charges and remanded to prison until April 13. Appearing before City ...

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and the Permanent Representative of Guyana to the Organization, Bayney Karran, today signed the agreement by which the institution will send an Electoral Observation Mission to the general elections of May 11 in the Caribbean country. The ceremony took place in Panama City in the context of ...

The United States is funding local and hemispheric observers to the tune of US$300,000 to help boost confidence in the electoral process and acceptance of the results of the May 11, 2015 general and regional elections, the American embassy said. “It is our hope that international and domestic observation will increase public and stakeholder confidence in the electoral process, culminating ...

(BDNEWS24).-South America’s one of the poorest economies, Guyana is keen to work closely with Bangladesh. It’s newly appointed non-resident High Commissioner to Bangladesh Jairam Ronald Gajraj called on Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Wednesday. He told the foreign minister that a joint commission could be formed to identify the areas where the two countries could work together. Gajraj, based ...