Politics

Attorney-at-Law Roysdale Forde on Thursday night  said he would be appealing Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire’s “regrettable” ruling that President Irfaan Ali’s appointment of Mr Clifton Hicken as acting Police Commissioner was constitutional. “The impact of this Judgment is too grave for it to be left standing. In the circumstances, an Appeal will be filed to set aside this decision,” he ...

United Kingdom (UK) High Commissioner to Guyana Jane Miller said the British government was considering an assessment that could lead to the removal of visa restrictions on Guyanese travelling to that European country. “We are looking into it at the moment. I can’t make any promises but it’s obviously something we constantly look at,” she told Demerara Waves Online News, ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Thursday ruled that President Irfaan Ali’s appointment of Mr Clifton Hicken to act as Police Commissioner out of necessity and his “own deliberate judgement” was constitutional because there was no Opposition Leader and Police Service Commission (PSC) at the time. “There could be no disregard of and thereby a breach of the requirement for meaningful ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday said he did not believe that Local Government Elections (LGE) would be held this year, but vowed to intensify pressure for a clean voters list. “I don’t believe that the government’s intention is to have Local Government Election. The government has never shown an interest in Local Government Election,” he told a news conference, ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has announced that government has begun taking steps to repossess about 5,000 acres of former sugar estate land at Wales, West Bank Demerara and allocate the land for housing. He told a large meeting at Patentia, West Bank Demerara that the land includes several acres that had been leased to a private concern for the cultivation ...

Guyanese in towns and neighbourhood councils could vote in Local Government Elections before the end of 2022 (LGE) to elect new representatives , according to Chief Elections Officer of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Vishnu Persaud and opposition Election Commissioner Vincent Alexander. Mr. Persaud declined to disclose the proposed date but Mr. Alexander told Demerara Waves Online News that before ...

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday dismissed Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s threats that everything would be done to block the holding of general ands regional elections with a list that his coalition regards as padded with the names of deceased persons and migrants. “The list is no the problem. His integrity is the problem. His inability to recognise democracy and his ...

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday announced that a Guyanese, who works with the global online marketplace, Amazon, is working with government to set up a special platform on which youths would be able to sell their products. Addressing the 4th anniversary of the Buxton-Friendship Museum, Archives and Culture Centre, Dr Ali said he was working with an Afro-Guyanese “who did ...

The parliamentary opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Tuesday night threw down the gauntlet at the two-year-old Irfaan Ali-led administration, signaling that they would block the holding of future elections with what they regard as a padded voters list and pressure the government to address 0ther concerns. “We are organising to ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday night vowed to continue refusing to shake President Irfaan Ali’s hands, alleging that his administration was responsible for discriminatory access to lands, extra judicial killings and unequal access to Guyana’s wealth. A day after he ignored Dr Ali’s outstretched hand at the Emancipation Day celebration in New Amsterdam, Mr Norton defended his decision. “I ...