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The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Monday said it was keen on nominating an expert to be a member of the Board of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) to scrutinise spending of the oil money, while maintaining that the new NRF Act was badly structured and rammed through the House. “Good politicians that like good governance then realise that, although ...

A Democracy and Governance Assessment prepared for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) says Guyana’s two major political parties need to engage in power-sharing in order to manage the country’s oil wealth efficiently. Dated August 2021, the assessment cited the for the two major political parties to abandon the current majoritarian political model in which the party with ...

Article 13- a Guyanese, the  pro-inclusionary democracy organisation, on Sunday took the Guyana government to task for removing Dr Rudy Jadoopat as the Coordinator  of the Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GYEITI) on the fake grounds that he is a member of the Alliance For Change (AFC). The non-governmental organisation indicated that it was perplexed at the Ministry Natural Resources ...

A former Indigenous Peoples Ministerial Advisor, Mervyn Williams has dismissed claims by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo that Amerindian people enjoy the rights to minerals. In an interview with the United States-based Vice News, Mr. Jagdeo had said that the Amerindian Act provides for Amerindians to have subsurface rights. “We are one of the few countries in the world that gave ...

Although the COVID-19 curfew has been discontinued with immediate effect, the Official Gazette continues to prohibit a range of activities including parties but allows certain activities for a maximum of 10 persons. The new order made under the Public Health Ordinance, like the previous orders, states that no person shall, host, attend or visit a private party, banquet, ball or ...

IRVING, Texas – ExxonMobil today said it started production at Guyana’s second offshore oil development on the Stabroek Block, Liza Phase 2, bringing total production capacity to more than 340,000 barrels per day in only seven years since the country’s first discovery. Production at the Liza Unity floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is expected to reach its target ...

As expected, the COVID-19 curfew was Friday lifted by the National Task Force,  less than one day after President Irfaan Ali indicated that that would have been done. “The national curfew has been  lifted with immediate effect,” the Task Force said. The Task Force, which has for several months been struggling to enforce the measures adequately across Guyana, said that ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday asked the Guyana  Defence Force  (GDF) to devise a plan to secure the more than 120-mile long proposed natural gas pipeline from the Liza 1 field to Wales, West Bank Demerara. “There will be a gas pipeline that’s coming into Guyana. You’ve looked around the world, you’ve seen how gas pipelines can become an instrument ...

President Irfaan Ali late Thursday signaled the end of the COVID-19 curfew, a virus-control mechanism that has been mostly violated by businesses or seldom enforced by police. Addressing the launch of the latest edition of ‘Guyana Explore’ magazine, he said that government was seriously considering lifting the curfew that has been instituted since Marc, 2020 when Guyana had recorded its ...

Opposition Chief Whip, Christopher Jones on Thursday scolded House Speaker Manzoor Nadir for failing to punish Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall for his “dildo” comment to a female opposition parliamentarian but suspended her colleague, Sherod Duncan, who came to her defence. “We also note your decision to suspend Member of Parliament Sherod Duncan but find it interesting that the same ...