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The Alliance For Change (AFC) has given up its quest for the presidency to A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), possibly in exchange for several top posts and several strategic ministries should the coalition win the upcoming general and regional elections. Three sources familiar with the talks confirmed that it is now up to the leaderships of the two parties ...

Indecisiveness on the part of government lends to the proliferation of acts of torture by police officers, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) says. Last month two police officers, Narine Lall and Mohanram Dulai, who, in 2008, critics say tortured a Leonora teen, Twyon Thomas, by pouring mentholated spirits on and around his genitals and setting it alight during a ...

University of Guyana (UG) staffers have shunned the Ministry of Labour’s back-to-work call and resumption of pay negotiations and have instead vowed to emain on strike until the university’s administration  makes them a favourable offer.  Earlier this week, Charles Ogle, the Ministry of Labour’s Chief Labour Officer (CLO), in a letter to the unions, said the unions’ decision to strike while ...

As negotiators for A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) enter the final hours of negotiating a pre-election coalition, APNU Chairman David Granger on Friday said both parties would have to give up some of their demands. “It is impossible for the two sides to get everything that they ask for so I will not ...

A small airplane that was heading to the interior Friday morning swiftly returned to the Ogle International  Airport after the pilot saw smoke in the cockpit, according to usually reliable sources. The Cessna U206G, bearing registration number 8R-GHB, departed Ogle at 11:42 AM for Eteringbang. However, by 11:45 AM the plane returned to the airport with fire fighters on standby. ...

Well-known musician and sculptor, Ras Campton “Camo” Williams, his wife and daughter were Friday morning rendered homeless when fire gutted their two-flat apartment at Shopping Plaza, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown. Williams said he and his family lost most of their possessions in the fire that began shortly before 11 AM. Williams has been living at the property, owned by Continental Group ...

In the wake of legal and political maneuvers for Former President Bharrat Jagdeo to play a leading role on the People’s Progressive Party’s slate for the May 11 general and regional elections, that incumbent organization Thursday night announced its full endorsement of Donald Ramotar as presidential candidate. “The meeting unanimously endorsed the President Donald Ramotar as the Party’s Presidential Candidate,” ...

REPRODUCED FROM SCIENCE 2.0 (http://www.science20.com)  The gender stereotype is that women want commitment and men want sex – but a study of the Makushi people in Guyana upends that, finding that men more likely to seek long-term relationships. Why? Because women are in short supply so a lack of commitment is a romantic negative. Some villages in Guyana are the opposite ...

The Ministry of Labour says the unions representing University of Guyana (UG) workers cannot treat a three-year old promise to resolve a pay dispute as still valid, and staff have  been told to first call off the strike and return to the bargaining table. “I wish to emphasize that those Terms of Resumption are not unending or indefinite. I do ...

The main opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU has raised a number of concerns related to electioneering with a United Nations Electoral Mission. “The APNU team outlined several matters of concern, including the lack of access to state media, the need for more voter education; the timely declaration of election results, the inadequacy in the allocation of resources to ...