Politics

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Monday said his party is pro-private sector but he said from many accounts the Private Sector Commission (PSC) as politically biased. He sought to assure Guyanese that his party is pro-business but said he has been asked by business persons to draw a distinction between the private sector and ...

Newly-elected leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Monday hinted that a number of parliamentarians might be recalled, even as he declined to comment on Mr. Joseph Harmon’s position that he would remain the Opposition Leader. “I could say to you, however, that one thing that is evident is that the party comrades who would have ...

The People’s National Congress Reform’s (PNCR) Chief Election Officer, Vincent Alexander on Sunday afternoon officially announced that Aubrey Norton is “poised to be installed” as the next elected leader of that party and that three other persons from Team Norton have been elected to top executive positions. He rejected suggestions that the prolonged delay in announcing the results had anything ...

Mr. Joseph Harmon on Sunday said he would remain Guyana’s Opposition Leader, although he was defeated by Aubrey Norton for the post of leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) which controls the opposition coalition. He noted that he would remain as an “ordinary member” of the PNCR but would still be Leader of the Opposition, a national constitutional ...

Mr. Joseph Harmon on Sunday publicly conceded that Aubrey Norton defeated him in Saturday’s internal elections for the post of leader for the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR). “Over the coming weeks I am sure matters related to the new leadership will arise and I stand committed to the unity of the party as an ordinary member,” Mr. Harmon said. ...

Mr. Aubrey Norton delivered a crushing defeat to Joseph Harmon and Dr Richard Vanwest Charles for the post of leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, highly-placed sources said Sunday. No actual figures were immediately available  from Saturday’s elections that marked the culmination of weeks of intense campaigning. But sources said Mr. Norton raked in three-digit votes at most polling ...

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) agents seized GYD$113 million worth of cocaine and arrested a man of Tuschen , East bank Essequibo, in one of that unit’s largest cocaine bust in recent times. Ryan Da Silva of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo was arrested in connection with the 15 brick-like objects that CANU said  weighed 17.4  kilogrammes or 38.3 pounds and ...

Counting of votes cast in Saturday’s elections for the Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and other positions has been finished but a preliminary declaration would be made early Sunday, the party’s Chief Election Officer Vincent Alexander said on Sunday. “We are at the point where we have the results of various counts as opposed to results of ...

Outgoing leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), David Granger on Saturday slammed those who have been fomenting division in the party, even as he issued a stirring appeal for party unity and discipline. “Congress should teach the lessons of the Party’s past rifts and the excruciating experiences of its leaders. Congress’s task, in this decade, is to sustain ...

Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall says security has been beefed up at all government buildings in Guyana’s 10 administrative regions because of political threats by the opposition. In clear reference to the severe damage by fire of the Mabaruma Secondary School earlier this year due to reported arson, he said that many more guards have been hired due to utterances ...