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Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira on Monday dismissed Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s persistent concerns about a bloated voters list, saying that he is using a 10-year old low national census figure to make a comparison and the opposition has so far failed to propose any amendments to the electoral laws to provide for use of biometrics at ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Monday sought to assure Guyanese that government would not control the 20-member broad-based Constitutional Reform Commission and process geared at modifying the already amended supreme law of this country. “Government will not attempt, in any form or fashion, to influence the work of the Commission. The Bill, which becomes law, however, mandates the Commission to ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s effort to seek parliamentary approval a motion for constitutional and legal amendments to allow for a clean voters list was Monday turned down by House Speaker Manzoor Nadir. “For a matter to qualify under this particular item, the issue of definite, urgent public importance are necessary and it’s an issue that also that’s upcoming and I ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton Sunday night urged residents aback Mocha not to remove from an area where government is building the Eccles to Great Diamond Highway, one day after government issued them final notices of removal. Addressing a public meeting in the predominantly Afro-Guyanese stronghold of his People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led opposition coalition, Mr Norton accused the mainly Indo-Guyanese ...

The Guyana Rastafari Council on Saturday assailed government’s rejection of a proposal to decriminalise the possession of marijuana rather than merely removing imprisonment as a penalty but Attorney General Anil Nandlall has already said that changes to the narcotics law are aimed at finding a “delicate balance” between competing interests. Mr Nandlall said, at the bipartisan parliamentary select committee, there ...

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) on Saturday expressed disappointment at Attorney General Anil Nandlall’s claim that an “aggressive agenda” was being pursued although he swiftly instructed police to release a lawyer who had been arrested because she had advised her client to remain silent. “The arrest of an Attorney-at-Law in Guyana in the execution of her professional duties is unprecedented ...

Attorney-at-Law Tamieka Clarke on Friday asked the High Court to declare as unconstitutional the arrest and detention by police of any lawyer for advising a client to remain silent during questioning. Ms Clarke moved to the High Court after she was arrested on October 28, 2022 by agents of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) for informing ...

Former ‘A’ Division Commander Assistant Police Commissioner Edgar Thomas on Friday confessed to disobeying orders by then Police Commissioner Leslie James for him and others to leave the District Four Returning Office at Ashmin’s Building on the basis that Statements of Poll needed to be protected. Mr Thomas said he received several calls from Mr James who was insisting that ...

The Chief Election Officer of the Guyana Election Commission (GECOM) cannot alter information in the collation of results and other information, according to the incumbent Chief Vishnu Persaud. “No whatsoever to my knowledge and I must confess, I went back, I reviewed that section before I came to this hearing and there is no such provision,” he said in response ...

Retired Justice of  Appeal Stanley John, the Chairman of the three-man Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the circumstances surrounding the highly controversial March 2020 general and regional elections on Wednesday said only “credible” evidence would be considered in determining the findings of the probe that is expected to wrap up early next year. “In making our findings, we will have ...