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President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday night said he would be inviting Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton to constitutionally required consultations on the appointment of a number of service commissions and a substantive Police Commissioner. Speak9ing with reporters at Pegasus Hotel on the sidelines 0f the launch of the 2022 Building Expo, he said the letter of invitation would be dispatched to ...

Suriname’s opposition National Democratic Party (NDP) is calling on the government there to disclose all agreements with Guyana to the Parliament. Starnieuws reports that NDP faction leader, Rabin Parmessar issued the call amid the Guyana government’s persistent concerns about promises that have been made by Suriname’s President Chandrikapersad Santokhi. The Surinamese leader had promised that 150 Surinamese fishing licences would ...

A policewoman has filed a private criminal charge under Guyana’s Racial Hostility Law. Woman Constable Shawnette Bollers, who is an Afro-Guyanese, filed the charge against Indo-Guyanese lawyer, Nirvan Singh. Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan granted the lawyer $100,000 bail and ordered that he return to court next month. Particulars of the charge state that on March 20, he excited or ...

Long-serving United Kingdom parliamentarian, David Lammy, has been selected by Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali to sit on the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Board which will be chaired by former military chief, Retired Major General Joseph Singh, the Office of the President announced on Wednesday. Lammy, who is currently Shadow Foreign Secretary, is the son of a Guyanese mother who migrated ...

A civil engineer is expected to be charged with causing death by dangerous driving on Easter Monday night, police said on Tuesday. Police say 34-year old Randolph Hunte of Fort Ordinance Housing Scheme, East Canje Berbice has been already served with a notice of prosecution. Dead is 41-year old Rada Panday of Third Street, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara. Police ...

The civil society pro-participatory governance organisation, Article 13, said the acting Chancellor of the Judiciary, Yonette Cummings and acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire should be confirmed because they have performed creditably. “They have obviously been in the system for years and years. Over the time, they would have given some excellent decisions. They would have given some decisions that were ...

The President of the Amateur Athletics Association of Guyana, Aubrey Hutson on Tuesday said talk that the Guyanese team at the CARIFTA Games in Jamaica was short of cash for COVID tests an extra night’s food was due to  a wrong calculation by the Team Manager but at all times money was available to send to the team. He explained ...

A countrywide face-to-face opinion poll conducted earlier this year for the International Republican Institute (IRI) has found that more than 80 percent of Guyanese see the need for electoral reforms, and although the vast majority of eligible persons voted in the 2020 general elections many of them do not trust the declared results. Of the sample of 1,500 persons 18 ...

A poll commissioned by the United States (US) pro-democracy organisation, International Republican Institute (IRI) finds that Guyanese believe that race relations in this South American nation second to transparency and accountability in government, but they are happy with efforts to empower women and indigenous people’s rights. In the poll conducted among 1,500 respondents during January 2022,  29 percent of the ...

A United States (US)-funded opinion poll conducted earlier this year shows that cost of living, unemployment and the coronavirus are the biggest problems among Guyanese but elected representatives are not doing sufficient to address them. The poll, which was conducted for the International Republican Institute (IRI) between January 4 and 24 through face-to-face interviews in the homes of 1,500 Guyanese ...