Politics

by Samuel Sukhnandan Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Mr. Nigel Dharamlall said since assuming office earlier this month, he has found that there were 56 contract workers hired by the previous government as advisors and paid hefty sums totalling over $800 million in the past five years. In his first official engagement with the local media at the ...

Guyana’s President Dr. Irfaan Ali and the President of Suriname on Sunday announced the agreed to set up an action-oriented mechanism to push infrastructural development and private sector-led  investments in both neighbouring South American countries. Mr. Santokhi said he and his Guyanese counterpart are confident and committed that “we can do it jointly” and “guide it personally” President Ali said ...

Guyana’s co-agent in the Guyana-Venezuela border case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been retained by the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration, Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd said Sunday. Mr. Todd, however, could not immediately say whether Mr. Greenidge would still be the co-agent in the case that has been referred to the ICJ to determine the ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Saturday did not rule out a criminal probe into the administrative operations of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) concerning the 2020 general elections, but said other options might include a commission of inquiry or a forensic audit. He said a “deep probing police investigation” is among the options being considered to move ahead “very shortly” ...

President Dr. Irfaan Ali on Saturday announced a GYD$4.5 billion COVID-19 household relief programme and high-tech laboratory equipment to increase testing of people for the coronavirus that has already killed more 20 people in Guyana. “We have commenced work on securing immediately an initial sum of $4.5 billion as emergency response to help at the household level,” he told a ...

President Dr. Irfaan Ali on Saturday hinted that his administration would hold a commission of  inquiry into the problems associated with the 2020 general and regional elections. Addressing his inauguration as the 9th Executive President of Guyana, he said a forensic probe would be conducted into the circumstances surrounding the recent polls. The President said those found culpable would be ...

A four-man team of financial and accounting specialists that was appointed to conduct a rapid assessment of 19 named government agencies is working free of cost. “To help us do some of the assessments of how bad or how good things are in this country, we have established a rapid assessment team who are working pro bono (without charge),” said ...

Attorney General, Anil Nandlall on Friday said land leases issued since the passage of the no-confidence motion on December, 2018 would be reviewed. Mr. Nandlall explained that with immediate effect a review of all leases, licenses and permissions to occupy Public Lands,granted since December 21,  2018, will be conducted.  The  AG said this is in the context of that the ...

Minister of  Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira on Friday said political appointees of the former A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) would be fired if they do not resign within one week. “We are asking them to resign and if they do not, they will be getting letters of termination. We are not going to be bullied. ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, David Granger this morning warned the Irfan Ali-led administration that it would have to bear full responsibility for virtually evicting former ministers from government quarters, locking out public servants threatening contracted workers with dismissal. “The People’s National Congress warns the People’s Progressive Party to desist from pursuing this dangerous pattern of aggression against ...