Politics

Leader hopeful for the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton is promising to train party members how to manage money, amid a raging controversy over government minister Charles Ramson saying that Black Guyanese do not have proper role models especially in the area of wealth creation. “Most importantly, we intend to train them in financial literacy and small business ...

At least 87 percent of Guyanese do not believe that votes in general and regional elections are “never” counted correctly and fairly, according to the latest Latin American Public Opinion (LAPOP) poll conducted this year. Titled “Pulse of Democracy”, the report states that “there is wide variation across countries in terms of beliefs about election integrity”. While 75 percent of ...

The Alliance For  Change (AFC) on Tuesday urged the Guyana government to restart the election reform process by opening it up to all stakeholders and involving the Law Reform Commission (LRC). “It urges a restart of the process with all participants and stakeholders playing their roles and having their say from a drafting stage to completion stage with the help ...

The non-governmental Electoral Reform Group (ERG) has refused to comment on the proposed amendments to the Representation of the People Act (RoPA) but has instead publicly called for more time to for consultations and generate inclusive consensus. “We would really call on the government to give serious consideration to extending this process and to widening the spaces for us to ...

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh on Thursday announced a 7 percent increase in salaries for all government workers, plus a $400 million “special payout” to frontline workers. He also announced that government would next year seek to close the gap in public salary scales. He made the following announcements in address to the nation. First, your Government has recognised the ...

Guyana’s Agent in the World Court case concerning the border controversy with Venezuela, Carl Greenidge on Thursday disputed claims by the Foreign Affairs Ministry that representatives of the Legal and Frontiers Departments were “not fully involved in the matter.” He was reacting to the Foreign Ministry’s claim in a statement that the then Head of the Legal and Treaties Division, ...

Incumbent Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, David Granger has not been nominated by any party group for any position. This is the first time in that party’s 60-odd year history that a sitting leader has not been nominated. The PNCR’S Congress is scheduled to be held on December 11. The PNCR did not release the number of nominations ...

In the wake of a leaked letter by Guyana’s Agent for the border case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Carl Greenidge, the Foreign Affairs Ministry  late Tuesday night sought to explain its decision to include two border experts in the process. In a letter dated April 7, 2021, Mr. Greenidge objected to  Head of the Frontiers Section, Donnette ...

The opposition Alliance For Change (AFC) and A New and United Guyana (ANUG) disagree with the GY$10 million fines and life imprisonment for a number of election offences but the government said attempts to cheat an election amount to toppling an elected government. ANUG Chairman, Attorney-at-Law Timothy Jonas said the way the proposed amendments to the Representation of the People ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Friday dismissed claims by People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton that the proposed break-up of Region Four into four electoral sub-districts is aimed at rigging future elections by creating additional seats. “Region Four remains the same number of seats. We didn’t create more than one district. We kept the district as one and we ...