Politics

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said the major opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) would be given two opportunities to examine a draft revision of a key election law. He announced that the draft amended Representation of the People Act would by the end of June, 2021 would be circulated to the International community, APNU+AFC, civil society and ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday announced that government has reached settlements with three City businessmen concerning land sales under the previous APNU+AFC government. He said agreements have been struck with Car Care, Cevon’s Waste Management and Courtney Benn Construction. “We don’t want to penalise unsuspecting businessmen,” he told a news conference. He indicated that government would drop those cases ...

Former Police Commissioner Leslie James has been asked to give investigators an account of how two members of the Police Service Commission (PSC) and several other retired senior police officers had been hired for more than GYD$10 million to review the Guyana Police Force’s internal rules, police said. Police Force spokesman, Mark Ramotar told reporters that the Head of the ...

As the Guyana High Court prepares to next Monday rule on whether the Police Service Commission (PSC) had unfairly bypassed a number of officers for promotion, two  PSC  Commissioners and several retired police officers are being investigated for several alleged offences. The Guyana Police Force confirmed that a number of ex police officers have been charged, released on bail and ...

Veteran Guyanese politician and academic, Aubrey Norton on Tuesday night announced that he would  be contesting for the position of leader of his People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and he hopes to rebuild his party and revive the coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC). “The direct answer to that is once the Congress of the People’s ...

The governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says the main opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) will be consulted about Guyana’s electoral reform but government will drive the process with help from organisations like the International Republican Institute (IRI). “It is downright naïve for anyone to think that such a process can be undertaken without the input of ...

The Caribbean Federation of Police Welfare Associations (CFPWA) has refused to recognise Guyana’s newly-elected Police Association, charging that the legitimately elected executive was toppled before its term was completed and a new one elected in violation of the local association’s rules. “It is on this basis the Caribbean Federation of Police Welfare Association refuse to acknowledge the illegal and illegitimate ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Saturday called for the International Republican Institute (IRI) electoral reform project to be discarded because the United States (US) does not have any credibility to do so. “We think it is an insult to Guyanese political intelligence that an organization so closely linked to the USA establishment and to one of its major political ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), David Granger has said the laws should be amended to reduce the role of the  Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in Guyana’s elections. “I am of the view that in internal electoral matters, we need to strengthen the role of our own Court of Appeal and my own interpretation before the CCJ’s ...

The African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) on Friday became the second civil society organisation to reject the role of the United States-headquartered International Republican Institute (IRI) to reform Guyana’s elections laws and the governance system. Restating its position on the need for a government of national unity, ACDA said the 18-month reform project was part of a United States- ...