Politics

Auditor General Deodat Sharma says procurement procedures were not followed by the then A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) administration to hire local and foreign lawyers to fight a series of political court cases from December, 2018 to July, 2020. Other cases for a number of government agencies were also cited in the total bill of GYD$170,828,203. The ...

The University of Guyana (UG) has rejected persistent claims that its Vice Chancellor Professor Paloma Mohammed-Martin’s appointment was not above board and that two of her deputies were elevated to professors. In clear reference to a letter published in the pro-government Guyana Times, the university chided the media for failing to check information as they may be enjoined in actions ...

President Irfaan Ali and Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon have cited the need to include all in Guyana’s development as the country enters 2021. The Guyanese leader, in apparent reference to Guyana’s expected increase in revenues as more oil wells are exploited, said the “bounty of our nation” must be shared with all Guyanese.  He said 2021 would be the springboard ...

Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh said the GYD$2 billion cash-grant for the estimated 60,000 government employees is aimed at triggering greater economic activity. “The one-off grant not only forms part of Government’s many other initiatives designed to bring relief to frontline workers and to households across Guyana, but is also a mechanism to stimulate economic activity in the country ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced a GYD$25,000 “cash grant” for 60,000 government employees including public servants, members of the joint services, teachers and healthcare workers. Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said the total package is expected to cost the National Treasury about GYD$2 billion. In the announcement that was made on the Office of the President’s Facebook page, the Guyanese ...

The High Court on Thursday extended its temporary order, effectively blocking the Police Service Commission (PSC) from promoting several officers to the rank of Assistant Commissioner until a challenge by Senior Superintendent Calvin Brutus that he is being bypassed due to a perceived frivolous complaint of indiscipline is resolved. Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire gave  Attorney General Anil Nandlall, who is ...

House Speaker Manzoor Nadir on Tuesday said he and three members of his family have been tested positive for the coronavirus, COVID-19. His disclosure came one day after he presided over a parliamentary sitting virtually because he was not feeling well and had hoped that it was not COVID-19. Mr. Nadir told News-Talk radio Guyana that he started feeling unwell, ...

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has said it is paying keen attention to what’s going on at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). “The Union has taken a keen interest in this matter due to its potential for unconstitutional prejudices to be meted out to its members at GECOM, given that the said Union members, are also charged with the ...

Thirty-five prominent Guyanese– a number of them in their individual right, or associated with a number of rights and civil society organisations–on Wednesday called on police and the government to accept high-tech forensic assistance from Argentina tin the hope of solving the killing of three West Coast Berbice youths in September. “We call on the President of Guyana, the Commissioner ...

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Wednesday justified its decision to attend sitting of the National Assembly virtually from  a room at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown because several government parliamentarians have been violating COVID-19 measures. Lawmaker, Ganesh Mahipaul said he and his colleagues feared being in the Centre’s dome with the ...