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Guyana’s Foreign Minister, Dr. Karen Cummings has told the Organisation of American States (OAS) that her country’s laws and court decisions would “alone” be used to determine the outcome of the general and regional elections. In apparent reference to calls by the OAS for President David Granger to concede defeat and peacefully hand over power to the People’s Progressive Party ...

A supporter of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), who allegedly threatened to kill the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh has been charged for committing a cybercrime. Mr. Ryan Williams pleaded not guilty to issuing the threat on a fake Facebook account against Ms. Singh if she declares the People’s Progressive Party ...

Antigua and Barbuda looks set to surge ahead with plans to restructure Liat after the governments of St Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados Monday night agreed to sell their shareholdings for $1. Prime Minister Gaston Browne made that disclosure on OBSERVER  Tuesday morning after revealing that his regional counterparts have backed his plans to reorganise the ailing carrier. In ...

Two small parties that contested the March 2020 elections have joined calls for the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) to abide by Monday’s  High Court ruling that the national vote recount figures must be used to declare general election results, and advised them against appealing the matter. The Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) and the Citizenship Initiative ...

by Samuel Sukhnandan As A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) prepares to head to the Guyana Court of Appeal to challenge a High Court decision that the recounted votes must be used to declare the results of the March 2, 2020 elections, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) said the coalition was about to waste its time on a ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Monday ruled that the votes from the national recount must be used to declare the results of the March, 2020 general and regional elections, even as she dismissed the application by a supporter of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC). Senior Counsel, Roysdale Forde immediately said he and his team would be filing ...

Samuel Sukhnandan With scores of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 19 deaths already recorded in Guyana, the government is being urged to ramp up testing and create a robust contact tracing strategy that will lend towards controlling the spread of the deadly pandemic. Former Health Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy told News Talk Radio 103.1 FM/Demerara Waves Online in an exclusive ...

As Guyana moves closer to reopening its international airports following months of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) earlier Monday issued a raft of safety and public health guidelines for all airport and aircraft operators, as well as passengers ahead of that reopening. The Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri and the Eugene F. Correia ...

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) says it continues to receive a plethora of ‘racially inciting complaints’ which are now being investigated. According to the commission, many of these complaints which emanate from social media postings are directed at several individuals, politicians and political parties. Although its staffing capacity has been reduced due to COVID-19 restrictions, the ERC notes that it is ...

The United Kingdom’s High Commissioner to Guyana, Greg Quinn on Sunday sought to rubbish claims that his country has been interfering in this country’s political affairs, saying that his country had spoken out similarly before the 2015 general and regional elections. “There appears to be a perception that the UK has only recently become interested in what is happening in ...