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Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) frontbencher, Amanza Walton-Desir on Monday slammed the 2022 National Budget, saying that the tax breaks and relief measures would only favour large private sector businesses. “The truth is that by and large those measures are geared towards favouring big business,” she said, adding that the evidence shows that trickle-down economics to ...

After a more than 20-year search for oil offshore Guyana, the Canadian oil exploration company, CGX Energy, has finally found crude in commercial quantities, the company confirmed Monday night’ Drilling was being done by the semi-submersible drilling rig Maersk Discoverer. The joint venture partners had projected last month that the cost of drilling had been projected to rise as much ...

Police  on Monday said the captain of the MV Malali Ferry was piloting the vessel under the influence of alcohol. The Guyana Police Force says that the Transport and Harbours Department asked for help to conduct a breathalyser test on the boat captain, Jermaine Blackman. At the time of the test, the MV Malali was en route to Leguan.  Police ...

A Guyanese man, who has had brushes with the law over the years, has been named as an investor in a start-up Surinamese airline, according to reports from that neighbouring South American nation. The company named Angel Airways, said it recently partnered with Guyanese businessman and Chief Executive Officer of Aaron Royalty, Jayson Aaron, giving him a 40 percent stake ...

Local Government  Minister Anand Persaud on Monday urged Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine to pull the trigger on improving the conditions of City, even as government put local government councils that they need to give value for money. “I’m calling on the Mayor to end his playing of politics at the Council in Georgetown,” he said, adding that over the years ...

A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, Ganesh Mahipaul on Monday flayed government’s record on local democracy, highlighting that that there was no reference to local government elections in the 2022 National Budget. “Was there any mention of local Government Elections in the budget presentation? To my recollection, the answer is a resounding NO! This regime is not ...

House Speaker Manzoor Nadir on Monday scuttled a plan by the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) to send 22 government parliamentarians to a parliamentary disciplinary committee for the raucous behavior in the National Assembly’s chamber. “The motion will not proceed because a prima facie case was not established ,” he told the Assembly moments before day ...

The People’s National Congress Reform’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) on Sunday, by a majority, refused to consider a motion for the removal of Mr. Joseph Harmon from the National Assembly to make way for party leader Aubrey Norton to become Guyana’s Opposition Leader, despite a stout official denial by that party. The sources said 31 of the 35 CEC members ...

Police say they have detained several persons in connection with the social media character, ‘Mudwata’. Guyana Police Force Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum says that Keron Bruce, suspected to be Mudwata, was arrested. Mr. Blanhum says several pieces of electronic equipment were seized. The Police Force did not respond to questions about whether a search warrant was obtained. He adds that ...

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) stayed clear of saying whether it believed it could secure the Alliance For Change’s (AFC) support to back PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton to enter the National Assembly and be elected opposition leader. Ahead of a meeting Friday afternoon with the AFC on parliamentary matters, PNCR General Secretary Geeta Chandan-Edmond declined to commit herself when ...