Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Executive Member Tacuma Ogunseye was Monday morning granted GY$100,000 bail on one count of attempting to  excite racial hostility. Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes said Mr Ogunseye pleaded not guilty and was admitted to bail. The prosecution opposed bail on the grounds of the seriousness of the offence, the penalty is significant and there are ongoing investigations. But ...

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira on Saturday indicated that the work of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was stuck because information for 2017-2018 was unavailable and former top accounting officers fail to show up at meetings of that bipartisan parliamentary body. “Although a lot of work has been done with regards to the 2017/2018 combined report;  due ...

The Leader of The New Movement (TNM) political party Dr Asha Kissoon on Friday sought to solidly guarantee that she would be truly an independent voice in the National Assembly as she prepares to take up her stint as she aims to see her see her party emerge as Guyana’s genuine third force. “The truth is only time will show ...

President Irfaan Ali on Friday said the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) would be appointed “soon”, although Attorney General Anil Nandlall sought to assure a gravely concerned judiciary that would have been done early in the first quarter of 2023. He explained that the JSC requires a fully constituted Public Service Commission. “We are finalising the work. There are outstanding issues ...

Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Executive Member Tacuma Ogunseye on Friday surrendered to police and was immediately cited for breaching Guyana’s Racial Hostility Act. Except for a few WPA executive members, no members of the public,  known People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) members or civil society activists were present outside the police department when he surrendered. The PNCR has not said ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said the United States embassy’s security alert to Americans  in Guyana as a result of a threat to US interests is “serious” but he declined to divulge details. “I don’t want to speak about it but it is a serious matter. It is a serious matter and we are giving it all of our ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Thursday stopped short of saying outright that its executive member Tacuma Ogunseye would surrender to police who want him in connection with several offences including exciting racial hostility earlier this month. “He is not going to go into hiding and he is not going to roll over and die… He is ready to go ...

Weeks after Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Executive Member Tacuma Ogunseye made controversial remarks expecting support from the Afro-Guyanese dominated police and army should there be mass protests by Afro-Guyanese against alleged discrimination, police on Thursday issued a wanted bulletin. Police said is wanted for “several serious offences” and attempting to excite racial hostility or ill-will in violation of Guyana’s Racial ...

Though Guyanese police were yet to question executives of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) about controversial remarks that appear to encourage police and soldiers not to clamp down on anti-government street protests, Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday interpreted  them as a plot to topple the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration. “Tacuma Ogunseye went to Buxton Line-top and made ...

The United Kingdom’s (UK) trade with Guyana last year reached its highest value of more than 1 billion pounds sterling, largely due to the South American nation’s sale of crude oil to that European country, latest figures show. Britain’s Department for Business and Trade’s latest fact sheet dated March 28, 2023, exports and imports of goods and services between the ...