Politics

A company that was awarded a GY$717 million contract to build a pump station at A-Line, Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara now has to pay liquidated damages because the 12-month project has been stalled beyond its original completion date by 10 months, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) said Friday evening. “In the case of the A-Line Pump station, ...

Despite reassurances by top officials of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) that there was no need to worry about the removal of a computer processing unit (CPU) from the party’s membership department, its Central Executive Committee (CEC) decided that the device must be checked by an expert. “To provide further reassurance on the matter, the Party’s CEC decided that ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said High Court Judge, Sandil Kissoon was “presumptuous” to say in his recent decision in favour of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) that President Irfaan Ali’s meeting with teachers did not amount to collective bargaining. “In this case, he wasn’t doing anything illegal for the court to… but it’s presumptuousness to criticise the President, ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Sunday promised Amerindians more political autonomy and benefits should the opposition coalition that includes his party win next year’s general and regional elections. “There is no sense in talking about you like the Indigenous People, you support them but there is no programme to empower them economically,” he told ...

Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton on Saturday disagreed with the Guyana government’s intention to appeal a High Court decision that deemed the recent 29-day strike by teachers “lawful and legitimate” because the administration had rebuffed every effort by the union to negotiate increased salaries. “We note that the government has announced its intention to appeal the High Court’s ruling “to the ...

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall on Friday said the Guyana government would be appealing a High Court decision that declared that a teachers strike earlier this year was “lawful and legitimate” because government denied them their right to constitutional right to collective bargaining. “These are vacuous conclusions and that is why it has to be appealed,” ...

-Jagdeo weighs in on issue Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Shurwayne Holder said the issue of the removal of a Computer Processing Unit (CPU), with the membership register, from that party’s Membership Department is linked to the upcoming internal party elections. “I believe that because we are in the season of congress, that is why you are ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday assured Guyanese that they would not be paying more for electricity, although government is leasing a 36 megawatt electricity generation ship. “There will be no increase in the price for electricity because of this rental,” he told a news conference. Mr Jagdeo explained that under the deal with Urbacon Concessions Investment (UCI), the state-owned ...

Opposition parliamentarian, Shurwayne Holder on Thursday refused to attend a meeting with government to discuss the state of the electricity sector, instead saying that the bipartisan parliamentary Economic Services Committee (ESC) is the proper place for an update. “I will not be attending that meeting. I believe that if they want to give an update, they can hold a press ...

The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPAD-G) has complained to the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent that the Guyana government has been deliberately refusing to fund the organisation and giving mere lip service to the well-being of Afro-Guyanese. Speaking at the Forum, Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes told hundreds of delegates from around the world ...