Politics

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Tuesday argued against government building a more than US$1 billion natural gas pipeline, and instead suggested that the gas be shipped to shore or other markets. PNCR Central Executive Member, Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best declined to provide details to justify his party’s preference for shipping, instead saying that would be done before ...

A Democracy and Governance Assessment prepared for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) says Guyana’s two major political parties need to engage in power-sharing in order to manage the country’s oil wealth efficiently. Dated August 2021, the assessment cited the for the two major political parties to abandon the current majoritarian political model in which the party with ...

Article 13- a Guyanese, the  pro-inclusionary democracy organisation, on Sunday took the Guyana government to task for removing Dr Rudy Jadoopat as the Coordinator  of the Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GYEITI) on the fake grounds that he is a member of the Alliance For Change (AFC). The non-governmental organisation indicated that it was perplexed at the Ministry Natural Resources ...

A former Indigenous Peoples Ministerial Advisor, Mervyn Williams has dismissed claims by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo that Amerindian people enjoy the rights to minerals. In an interview with the United States-based Vice News, Mr. Jagdeo had said that the Amerindian Act provides for Amerindians to have subsurface rights. “We are one of the few countries in the world that gave ...

Although the COVID-19 curfew has been discontinued with immediate effect, the Official Gazette continues to prohibit a range of activities including parties but allows certain activities for a maximum of 10 persons. The new order made under the Public Health Ordinance, like the previous orders, states that no person shall, host, attend or visit a private party, banquet, ball or ...

President Irfaan Ali late Thursday signaled the end of the COVID-19 curfew, a virus-control mechanism that has been mostly violated by businesses or seldom enforced by police. Addressing the launch of the latest edition of ‘Guyana Explore’ magazine, he said that government was seriously considering lifting the curfew that has been instituted since Marc, 2020 when Guyana had recorded its ...

Opposition Chief Whip, Christopher Jones on Thursday scolded House Speaker Manzoor Nadir for failing to punish Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall for his “dildo” comment to a female opposition parliamentarian but suspended her colleague, Sherod Duncan, who came to her defence. “We also note your decision to suspend Member of Parliament Sherod Duncan but find it interesting that the same ...

A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) frontbencher, Khemraj Ramjattan on Thursday sought to assure the National Assembly that the conditions would not again deteriorate into disorder and disrespect and expected the same effort by the government side. “We on this side of the House would like to share our concerns with what we regard as a deterioration of ...

Local Government Minister  Nigel Dharamlall early Thursday morning said he was provoked by repeated insults from several opposition parliamentarians, including Sherod Duncan, into making the “dildo” comment, but said he was sorry for those who took umbrage. The Minister Wednesday night publicly apologised inside and outside the House to those who felt offended. “I’d like to indicate to you that ...

United Kingdom (UK) High Commissioner to Guyana, Jane Miller on Wednesday said Guyana’s procurement system needed to be strengthened, amid observations that the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) is made up largely of political appointees. “Something I have discussed with the Finance Minister and I know it’s an area of capability that they are still growing in this ...