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Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday revived the prospect of using a biometric identification system at polling stations and electronic voting, amid an unrelenting campaign by the opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC). “That is what can help enormously at the polling places; that is what we’ve advocated for,” he told a news conference at ...

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said he told a European Union 2020 Election follow-up observer mission that he was worried that if Guyana adopts a number of international conventions into domestic law, politically motivated civil society organisations could use them to target the government. “I pointed out to the EU mission that when you sign ...

The incumbent People’s Progressive Party (PPPC) maintains its support for election campaign financing legislation but  feared that full disclosure of donors could lead to them facing a backlash from the opposition, party General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. “We also have another reality that once people’s names go on a register next thing- and we raised this with the EU- ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday said government would hold separate talks with families of the 19 children who were burnt to death in the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School earlier this week, even as government was expecting foreign psychologists to join their Guyanese counterparts at a time of severe mental stress. “We have made a commitment that when we ...

Guyana’s political parties first have to decide on the method of cleaning the voters list before deciding on the use of biometric verification of voters at polling stations , a three-member European Union (EU) follow-up 2020 Election Observer Mission said Wednesday. “First, what needs to be agreed upon by the stakeholders is how to see which of the two options ...

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Wednesday said fighting the fire at the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School was not hampered by water shortage but firefighters received the report late from someone who drove to the fire station there. He said the late notification of the fire department was compounded by the fact that the fire quickly ripped through ...

Guyana’s constitutional body, Rights of the Child Commission (RCC), on Wednesday indicated that it was on standby to participate in efforts to ensure that another fire similar to the one that burnt to death 19 children at the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School. “As more information becomes available, we shall endeavour to do our part in the assessment of ...

The European Union Election Observation follow-up mission on Wednesday stressed the need for Guyana to adopt two international anti-corruption conventions as part of local laws to help combat corruption in the oil sector and election campaign financing. Chief of Mission Javier Nart said there was urgent need to entrench the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). “Very much important is ...

Police on Tuesday said a schoolgirl allegedly set fire to the female dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School on Sunday night, resulting in the death of 19 persons. Investigators said they would Wednesday seek advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). “A  female student is suspected of having set the devastating fire because her cellular phone was taken away ...

President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday announced that Cuba, the Caribbean and the United States (US) have offered to assist Guyana with treatment of a number of schoolgirls who were severely burnt by fire in the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School, even as horrific details about the reason for the inferno emerge. “We cannot also not remember the generous offer ...