Politics

The potentially deadly coronavirus, COVID-19, has infected 14 staff members of the Parliament Office and they are being provided the necessary support, House Speaker Manzoor Nadir announced Wednesday. Before debate on the 2020 National Budget began, Mr. Nadir said of the 126 staff members and parliamentarians, 14 workers were tested positive. He said the Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock ...

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Tuesday filed questions again on the visit by United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, hours after House Speaker Manzoor Nadir refused to entertain several questions without notice on the same issue. Mr Nadir told the House that the questions by frontbencher Amanza Walton-Desir to Foreign Affairs Minister ...

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) has accused Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill of misconducting himself in public office by disclosing contents of a human resource personnel file to explain why a senior official of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) was dismissed.  The issue centres on Mr. Edghill disclosing the apparent reasons for the ...

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Monday said he would be tabling a question in the National Assembly about the impending visit of United States (US) Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian Raphael Trotman warned against the “pomp” of a certain foreign signatory leaving Guyana in a “hot mess.” Mr. Harmon said ...

A United States (US) military transport aircraft arrived Sunday in preparation for Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo’s visit to Guyana later this week, according to well-placed sources. The C-17 US Air Force military transport plane landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) at about 5:30 PM bringing with it an advance party of more than two dozen people as ...

Hours before the mutilated bodies of the two slain teenagers were began the long journey from Georgetown to West Coast Berbice for burial, fresh calls were issued for Guyana’s race relations problem to put on the national agenda of political leaders and other stakeholders. Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes, Chairman of the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly – Guyana ...

United States (US) Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo is expected to visit Guyana next week, Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry Ambassador Audrey Jardine-Waddell confirmed Saturday. The details of the visit are not yet available. The visit is tentatively scheduled for September 17 to 18, 2020. Mr. Pompeo had in the past five months threatened to impose stiffer sanctions on ...

In the wake of an eruption of racially motivated physical violence during protests against the killing and mutilation of two youths in the backlands of West Coast Berbice, President Irfaan Ali  on Friday said government has begun taking steps to crack down on hate speech Online. “The use of social media for the promotion of racial hate for political purpose ...

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Thursday condemned President Irfaan Ali’s claims that protesters against the killing of three youths had also raped innocent people. “There are no known police reports of any rape associated with recent protest actions. Yet Mr. Ali, in his statement, among other charges said ‘raping people’s children has nothing to do with justice.’ What rape Mr. ...

Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Volda Lawrence on Wednesday called on her supporters to end more than two days of violent unrest and in exchange she is calling on President Irfaan Ali to take similar action. “As a leader, we have to call a spade a spade and, as I speak, I am calling on President Irfaan ...