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High Court Judge, Navendra Singh on Friday ruled that defamation cases by former Deputy Chief Elections Officer of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) against Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and others should go ahead rather than await the outcome of criminal cases against her in the Magistrates Court. The defendants – Mr Jagdeo, Attorney-at-Law Sanjeev Datadin, Deputy Speaker Lenox Shuman,  and ...

Agents of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) are allegedly avoiding service of  private criminal charges instituted by a lawyer who was prevented from leaving the offices because she informed her client to remain silent, her lawyer Nigel Hughes said. With the Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Hack and the Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken both failing to ...

The Guyana government would soon be producing high-tech digital national identification cards with assistance from a Dubai company, G-42, in association with a German government counterpart, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said on Friday. The project is expected to begin in the coming months and, according t0 Mr Jagdeo, the new card would be for nationals and residents and would be ...

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh on Friday ruled out the use of electronic fingerprinting at polling stations, saying it risked disenfranchising electors and would amount to a violation of the country’s Constitution. “With specific reference to the call for the introduction of a biometric identification system at every Polling Station, the decision given by ...

Guyana on Friday announced that after negotiations with the American-owned CH4/ LINDSAYCA, that company has been confirmed to build the natural gas-fired electricity plant and natural gas liquids plant at a reduced cost of US$759 million. The first payment would come from GY$20 billion in the 2022 National Budget and the remainder would be a loan from the United States ...

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Chief Scrutineer , Carol Smith-Joseph was read 14 fraud charges connected to when she had served as a Director of the Mahaica Abary Rice Development Scheme (MARDS) back in 2016, Attorney-at-Law Roysdale Forde said. “There is no clear explanation from the police as to what is the subject matter and what ...

President Irfaan Ali announced the launch of Guyana’s competitive bid round for 14 offshore oil blocks fr0m Friday, December 9. He said the process is expected to close with the submission of bids on April 14, 2023. and contracts awarded by May 31, 2023. “This, of course, will follow negotiations and evaluation of the bids that we receive during this ...

Major Western Nations on the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day, to be observed on December 9, urged the Guyana government to demonstrate that it is serious about fighting corruption by not only holding workshops and passing legislation. In a joint statement, United States Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch;  British High Commissioner, Jane Miller; Canadian High Commissioner, Mark Berman, and Ambassador of the ...

The seven-member Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Thursday effectively decided to push back the holding of Local Government Elections (LGE), commissioners said. Nominations Day was scheduled for December 12 and the elections for the neighbourhood an  town councils were slated for March 13, 2023. However, GECOM Commissioners Vincent Alexander and Sase Gunraj said Nominations Day has been canceled. No new ...

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Retired Justice Claudette Singh said the seven-member commission had decided that only statements of poll were to be used to tally elections results and she had even insisted to Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo that no spreadsheets were to be used. “I understood later that Mingo was using a spreadsheet… It would ...