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The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Thursday said it has abandoned ethnic rotation as a formula to decide who should be its presidential candidate and has decided to rely on “meritocracy.” “I want to make it quite clear, there was absolutely after 2011 no rotation principle on the basis of ethnicity or otherwise,” AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan told a news ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Thursday  accused the governing People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) of preparing to buy out at least three opposition parliamentarians at GUY$30 million each to ensure that the no-confidence motion is defeated. “We’ve gotten reliable information that the PPP’s answer to the no-confidence motion is not like what is being sent now. It’s answer is ...

(NEW YORK DAILY NEWS).- A Guyanese champion power lifter who has pumped 800 pounds of iron was brought down by 1.4 pounds of cocaine pellets he swallowed before boarding a flight to Kennedy Airport. Colin Chesney, who may not be known by his nickname “Mr. Clean” in his homeland anymore, was sentenced Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court to time served ...

The Australian mining company, Troy Resources Guyana Incorporated (TRGI), is calling on users of the Linden to 72 mile junction road to moderate their speed and use caution. TRGI is currently repairing the road from Linden to 72 mile Junction. The road upgrade has so far led to a reduction in travel time. The upgrading of the road has led ...

Broward County, Florida– Plans have been finalized for an exhibition of Guyanese products and tourist attractions to be held here October 30 to November 1st at the Omni Auditorium of Broward College’s North Campus. The Guyana Trade, Tourism and Investment Expo is being organized by the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) in conjunction with Broward College and the Consulate of ...

The Guyana government on Wednesday ruled out calling an early election to forestall an opposition-sponsored no-confidence motion that would inevitably lead to general elections within three months. “If one were to examine it closely, we are summoned to a trial by the parliamentary opposition, addressing charges that lead to a question of loss of confidence – no-confdence- and I don’t ...

Guyana is dispatching a team to the United States (US) to participate in a hemispheric review of the South American country’s failure to tighten legislation to counter money laundering and terrorism financing. The targeted review by the Americas Regional Review Group (ARRG) is in keeping with the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) recommendation at its last plenary meeting held in ...

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) on Tuesday complained bitterly that contractors and other persons involved in of civil works were repeatedly disrupting telephony and data services across the country, sometimes inadvertently, or because they refuse to call before they commence excavations.  The company said thousands of customers, including other key services, were Tuesday disrupted after B.K. International Inc. allegedly ...

The non-governmental pressure group, Blue CAPS, has signaled to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) its intention to observe either local or general elections and called for the re-establishment of the Media Monitoring Unit (MMU). The organisation, also at a meeting with top officials of GECOM on Monday, September 15, said it was “convinced” that the elections management agency was geared ...

A Constable was Tuesday convicted for shooting at a man in Globe Yard, Waterloo Street, Georgetown with the aim of injuring him as well as illegal possession of ammunition. Twenty-eight year old Ocquana Dawson, who was attached to Tactical Services Unit (TSU), was sentenced to 48 months imprisonment for discharging the firearm at Phillip “Skinny” Small on February 18, 2013. ...