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Almost three years after the then A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) administration had passed the cybercrime legislation despite warnings, now that they are in opposition they are accusing the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led government of using that law to clamp down on freedom of expression. APNU+AFC Shadow Home Affairs Minister Geeta Chandan-Edmond sought to justify the ...

The construction of the first link of the Linden-Lethem highway has moved one step closer to commencement with the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) clearing the way for negotiations to start with a Brazilian company, the Finance Ministry said late Thursday night. Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh said the Barbados-headquartered CDB on Thursday issued its no objection for negotiations to commence ...

Government says it wants a number of Guyana’s election laws amended in time for the holding of already overdue local government elections. “They will be crucial, we believe, for holding local government elections as a test run because many of the measures that we are putting in place in that Bill could then be implemented in the local government reform,” ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo says that once a new Opposition Leader is in place, the government will be ready to establish several service commissions that constitutionally require consultations. With Mr. Joseph Harmon having resigned from the post of Opposition Leader, the People’s National Congress Reform-led opposition coalition is continuing internal manoeuvres for Mr. Aubrey Norton to become a parliamentarian and ...

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Wednesday castigated the government for heavy investment in the sugar industry whose projected production is 65,000 tonnes this year, but the governing People’s Progressive Party Civic administration cited last year’s devastating flood as the major reason. APNU+AFC Juretha Fernandes highlighted that Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh said the sugar-growing ...

Public Works Minister Deodat Indar on Wednesday rejected claims by the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) that the 2022 national budget is for big business, saying that the aim is to generate revenue and create. He made known his position three days after opposition coalition frontbencher, Amanza Walton-Desir assailed the government for generously giving tax breaks ...

Shadow Education Minister Dr Nicolette Henry this afternoon confirmed that she will no longer be a member of Parliament, possibly paving the way for People’s National Congress Reform Leader Aubrey Norton to emerge as a parliamentarian and Opposition Leader. “This is my final budget presentation in this Honourable House,” she said. She thanked former President David Granger and the people ...

A Surinamese man was Wednesday in police custody after he was arrested allegedly with two shotguns and ammunition at the ‘back track’ area at Springlands, Berbice, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. CANU said that 38-year old Benjamin Juda Ibrahim Koningferander was arrested during an operation by the Joint Support Team. The items that were allegedly found in possession of ...

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a gold miner in the Middle Mazaruni River, amid claims that the canoe went down with him and a co-worker. Dead is gold miner, 19-year old Renaldo Rampersaud. The Guyana Police Force said he drowned at about 4 PM Tuesday when the vessel sank between ‘Luw Luw’ Island Point and Banana ...

An illegal Cessna plane has been found in a canopy of forest near an illegal airstrip in Kuruduni, about 20 kilometres from the Kurupukari crossing, the Ministry of Home Affairs said Tuesday. The Home Affairs Ministry strongly suggested that there was no trace of narcotics. “A search was conducted in and around the aircraft but no illegal substance was found ...