Politics

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Friday avoided questions at a news conference about its alleged GY$6.7 billion debt in rates and taxes to the Georgetown City Council for its headquarters at Sophia. Though the news conference’s panelists included the Chairman, Shurwayne Holder and Treasurer, Elson Lowe, questions on Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s claim that the PNCR owes the ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced that crossing of the new US$260 million Demerara Harbour Bridge would be free of cost, and he said that eventually there would be no cost for crossing of the Berbice River Bridge and the Mackenzie-Wismar Bridge. He made the announcements at the commissioning of the Schoonord to Crane Highway, West Demerara, saying that the ...

Retired Assistant Police Commissioner, Paul Slowe on Thursday deemed as a “smear campaign” the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF’s) claim that he again allegedly violated the Sexual Offences Act against a woman with whom he has a court case. “It’s all part of their smear campaign,” he told Demerara Waves Online News. Mr Slowe has been highly and openly critical of ...

As part of the United States and Guyana’s strong ongoing military-to-military partnership, the U.S. Southern Command conducted a Joint Combined Exercise and Training (JCET), the American Embassy in Guyana said Thursday. “During their time here, the U.S. Southern Command team trained with their Guyana Defence Force counterparts in jungle operations, with a focus on tactics, techniques, and procedures,” the US ...

There is growing uncertainty about People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo’s claim that the main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) owes the Georgetown City Council GY$6.7 billion in rates and taxes. City Mayor, Alfred Mentore said, at his request, the City Treasurer did not find any record showing that the PNCR owes GY$6.7 billion to the municipality ...

There is growing uncertainty about People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo’s claim that the main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) owes the Georgetown City Council GY$6.7 billion in rates and taxes. City Mayor, Alfred Mentore said, at his request, the City Treasurer did not find any record showing that the PNCR owes GY$6.7 billion to the municipality ...

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)-controlled Georgetown City Council has approved the reduction of rates and taxes to a mere 25 percent of the valuated rate, at a time when the cash-strapped municipality could not provide many of its core services, officials said Tuesday. Several People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) councillors on Tuesday publicly decried the decision, but City Mayor, ...

President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday accused the Alliance For Change (AFC) of setting the stage to scuttle the construction of a new high-span bridge across the Berbice River, a day after that party called on government to produce a feasibility study and Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA). Dr Ali did not say whether the study or assessment would be ...

Three men charged on Monday with robbery under arms of three gas stations on the East Coast Demerara were refused bail and remanded to prison, the Guyana Police Force said. The trio – Joel Joshua Williams, 21, Akeem Marques, 27, and Tyron Peters, 19 – from Bachelor’s Adventure pleaded not guilty. They are accused of committing robberies on the GUYOIL ...

At least one Guyana Police Force officer was seen assisting in the distribution of People’s Progressive Party (PPP)-branded backpacks at a party event in Lethem, Region Nine (Upper Takatu-Upper Essequibo). The PPP Region Nine Facebook page states that the activity was done by members of the PPP’s youth arm, the Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO), “in collaboration” with police in Region ...