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Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall on Wednesday said his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration has a proven track record of regularising Afro-Guyanese lands, even as the opposition demanded that the administration pass legislation governing African ancestral lands. He said his administration has given land titles to more people in Linden in one year than the ...

Guyana’s National Assembly Wednesday night approved an amendment to the Acquisition of Lands for Public Purposes Act to allow for the State to immediately possess privately-owned lands after the issuance of the order and payment of 80 percent of the compensation. Attorney General, Anil Nandlall said the owners enjoy a “right of law” to be compensated at market value. He ...

In a new partnership aimed at enhancing customer convenience, Digicel Guyana is pleased to announce that Digicel top-up is now available through Mobile Money Guyana (MMG), Digicel announced on Wednesday. This collaboration between the telecommunications and financial services companies marks a significant step in improving the ease of mobile recharges for Digicel customers across the country, Digicel added. That telecommunications ...

President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Dr Mark Lyte and Second Vice President Julian Cambridge were Tuesday suspended by the union’s General Council, apparently over their signing of the salaries and benefits agreement with government earlier this year. GTU General Secretary, Coretta McDonald declined to comment on the General Council’s decision and said a statement would be issued later Wednesday. ...

The seven-member Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is now grappling with a call by opposition-nominated election commissioner, Charles Corbin for a judicial review of whether leader of The New Movement (TNM) Dr Asha Kissoon is properly a parliamentarian, another opposition commissioner Vincent Alexander said Tuesday night. Mr Alexander said himself and the third opposition-backed election commissioner, Desmond Trotman would join Mr ...

Alliance For Change (AFC) Leader, Nigel Hughes on Tuesday reiterated his party’s recommendation for an immigration policy to protect the rights of migrants, ensure Guyanese get a fair opportunity for jobs and guard against the country being overrun by foreigners. “It does bring to the fore perhaps one of the most important issues that Guyana has to face and needs ...

City businessman and Natural Resources Fund (NRF) Investment Committee member, Dr Terrence Campbell on Tuesday lodged a formal complaint with the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) against Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo for allegedly exciting racial hostility by interpreting his words to mean an attack on East Indians. At the centre of the complaint is the city businessman’s contention in a letter ...

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes said his party has rescued 50 Warrau Indigenous Indians, including very young children, from outside a city supermarket, sparking off a controversy between his party and the government over whether President Irfaan Ali had told them to travel to Georgetown for assistance. Mr Hughes posted a video of a segment of ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Monday said it was keen on preserving its identity in a coalition with the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) or its A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and it was leery about the state of uncertainty that has beset that coalition body. “The WPA is committed to maintaining its identity in any coalition that ...

Toshao of the village of Tasserene, Middle Mazaruni, Ridley Joseph, was stabbed to death and his body was found early Monday morning in his hotel room, police said. “The body was examined and a total of nineteen stab wounds were observed — eleven stab wounds to the right side back, four to the centre of the back, two to the ...