Politics

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) on Tuesday recommended that the procedure for appointing a Chancellor and Chief Justice be changed after decades-old failure by the opposition and the government to reach consensus on appointing substantive office holders since 2005. GBA President, Attorney-at-Law Pauline Chase said the time has come to find better approach to appoint those two top judicial officers. ...

The opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) has officially asked the Chief Election Officer, Vishnu Persaud to select Aubrey Norton and Volda Lawrence to replace two now resigned parliamentarians. Chief Election Officer, Vishnu Persaud confirmed receiving a correspondence concerning the replacements for Dr. Nicolette Henry, who resigned from March 31, 2022 and ...

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change Chief Whip, Christopher Jones and trade unionist Norris Witter are challenging the constitutionality of the Natural Resource Fund legislation since they believe it was not properly passed by the National Assembly due to the absence of the mace and a lack of consultation. The High Court is being asked to order that ...

Even as the Ministry of Labour continued to boast of an increase in the number of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) officers, the trade union movement on Friday urged the involvement of the employers organisation and urged inspectors to enforce the laws. The General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Lincoln Lewis noted that the Consultative Association of ...

Representative of the List of Candidates for A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), David Granger has urged the leaders of those two coalition partners to hold “meaningful consultations” on who should replace two recently resigned parliamentarians, he said Friday. “The Representative of the List has since written to Mr. Aubrey Norton, Chairman of A Partnership of National Unity ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, Aubrey Norton on Thursday said he wanted the removal of the casting vote of the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). “What we have to probably do is to have some mechanism that we should not give a casting vote to the Chair because when you give a casting vote to the ...

Even as the Alliance For Change (AFC) on Wednesday called on President Irfaan Ali to order an independent probe into Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall’s alleged disrespect for women, the Guyanese leader said the offended should go to the police. “There is a procedure in dealing with these matters so those procedures have to be utilised and followed,” he told ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday said President Irfaan Ali did not breach Guyana’s Constitution by selecting Assistant Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken to act as Police Commissioner, and added that he was not obliged to pick the most senior police officer. In clear reference to concerns raised by the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) that Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Williams ...

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Monday said it would be challenging the constitutionality of the appointment of Assistant Police Commissioner as acting Police Commissioner because Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Williams has been bypassed. Prior to his appointment as Acting Police Commissioner, he had been styled Acting Deputy Police Commissioner.  “To promote Mr. Hicken to the rank of Deputy ...

The Ministry of Health has removed the Director of Mental Health, Dr Util Richmond-Thomas, first terminating her services and then rescinding it and then assigning her as a Government Medical Officer, according to correspondence seen. The termination of her contract as Director of Mental Health was originally dated January 27, 2022 and should have taken effect on 23rd March, 20222, ...