Politics

A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Friday condemned efforts by the government to amend the rules governing the bipartisan parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Currently, the PAC’s rules , officially called “Standing Orders” provide for a quorum of any three members including the Chairman.  But now, the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration is next Wednesday expected ...

President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has decided on the financing and operational model for a regional passenger and cargo ferry service aimed at solving the decades-long sea transportation constraint that has dogged regional agriculture. Addressing the launch of the Agri-Investment Forum and Expo, he said a Request for Proposals for the regional ferry ...

Insisting that Guyana does not support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Irfaan Ali on Friday defended Guyana’s decision to abstain on a vote for the suspension of Moscow’s suspension from the United Nations Human Rights Council. “Let me very clear about this, we are strongly in support of every action to bring this war to an an end and we ...

Guyana is among seven Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member-states that abstained from a vote at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday for the suspension of Russia from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The other independent member states of the bloc that opted to abstain were Barbados, Belize, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and ...

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Skyvan on Thursday suffered an engine failure but landed safely at the Cheddi JaganInternational Airport, high-level government sources said. According to one of the sources, 10 soldiers were returning from Mabaruma, North West District when the right engine failed due to a “power surge” while the aircraft was flying over the Essequibo River. Another source ...

The Guyana Election Commission (GECOM) has informed the Speaker of the National Assembly that the names of Aubrey Norton and Volda Lawrence have been extracted from the APNU+AFC’s list of candidates and they are now parliamentarians.  They are each expected to take an oath as a new member when the National Assembly meets on April 13, 2022. Chief Election Officer, ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall is backing calls by the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) for a change in the constitutional method for the appointment of a substantive Chancellor and Chief Justice due to years of refusal by successive Opposition Leaders to approve the President’s choices. Noting that the constitutional reform process has started, he stayed clear of suggesting what the new ...

A Guyanese man named as an investor in a start-up Surinamese airline has been cleared of cybercrime allegations, the Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Wendell Blanhum said. Mr. Jayson Aaron had been the subject of a probe into the alleged falsification of WhatsApp messages  in a conversation that he had purportedly had with the then ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday said Article 13 of Guyana’s constitution, whose objective is for Guyanese to participate in making decisions that directly affect their well-being , cannot be enforced and there is no law compelling the government to consult anyone. “In my view, and perhaps now we will have it determined, in my view Article 13 is not ...

Ahead of his expected emergence as Opposition Leader, Mr. Aubrey Norton said the coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) plans to file requests for information under the Access to Information (ATI) legislation. “I do believe that we need to make more use of the Freedom of Information Act and begin to, through the Parliament, demand more ...