Politics

President Irfaan Ali on Friday night announced free ‘steel and cement’ packages as well as no down-payment and reduced interest rates to persons who would like to build their own homes. He told the opening of the 2022 International Building Expo that persons who would like to construct a house for GY$6 million and lower, the government “will support home ...

The eight opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarians were early Friday morning suspended for allegedly participating in unrest in the National Assembly, despite pending High Court action to block consideration of the Privileges Committee Report. The opposition legislators want the court to find that their constitutional right to a fair hearing has been violated because they ...

The governing People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPPC) boast that it has been working to resolve issues in Afro-Guyanese communities has been greeted by a sharp reaction from the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC). Public Service Minister Sonia Parag told the National Assembly that her administration’s outreach to communities in all 10 administrative regions appeared to be ...

Eight opposition parliamentarians on Wednesday moved to the High Court to challenge the constitutionality of their impending suspension from sittings of the National Assembly because they allegedly participated in an unrest in the National Assembly last December. The lawsuit was filed jointly one day before Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly at which the Report could be brought up for ...

Eight opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarians could be suspended from four to six sittings for their alleged role in disorderly behaviour late last year in an effort to block debate and passage of the Natural Resource Fund law. But already, one of the lawmakers, Ganesh Mahipaul, said he and his colleagues were not given a ...

The Guyana government is worried that Venezuelan secret agent operatives might be among migrants who are fleeing the harsh socio-economic and political conditions in that neighbouring South American nation. “You could understand the security dilemma we face that in the migrants could be embedded Venezuelan agents and so this is not something that we don’t appreciate, that we are looking ...

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn has told the High Court that President Irfaan Ali swiftly appointed Mr Clifton Hicken as acting Police Commissioner in the absence of an Opposition Leader and Police Service Commission because of ongoing threats from Venezuela, the need to enforce a raft a laws and manage the more than 7,000 strong police force which can exercise ...

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity, the Alliance For Change and a number of small parties on Monday held talks to begin mapping a strategy to deal with Guyana’s “political crisis”. PNCR General Secretary Geeta Chandan believed that the participation of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) in Monday’s talks signaled its eventual return to APNU ...

Several Amerindian villages on Monday received two absolute grants and several certificates of land titles as part of government’s efforts to resolve decades-long land demarcation problems Toshao Ralph Hendricks received an absolute grant for the extension of Capoey in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), and Toshao Arifa Shabeer received an absolute grant for the extension of Mashabo in Region Two, Receiving certificates ...

President Irfaan Ali on Monday scoffed at claims that his administration has hijacked the agenda of the National Toshaos Council which is meeting in Georgetown. In clear  reaction to claims that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP)-led government has opted to control the agenda and prevent the outgoing NTC Chairman from addressing the opening session, the Guyanese leader instead sought to ...