Politics

Longtime People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member, Amna Ally on Monday appeared to be recovering from serious heart and kidney complications, well-placed sources said. Ms Ally, a former PNCR General Secretary who was recently embroiled in a public spat over her disappointment with party leader Aubrey Norton’s performance, has been hospitalised for the past two weeks. Sources said Ms Ally ...

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Sunday said Marxism-Leninism and socialism were removed from that political organisation’s constitution because the Cold War had ended, ideologies mean little to party supporters and the time had come to bring the constitution in line with international economic realities. Describing the erasure of those ideological and theoretical references as ...

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) is Sunday expected to approve a motion, sponsored by Dr Irfaan Ali’s party group at Leonora, to remove all references to Marxism-Leninism and socialism from that party’s constitution. When contacted on Saturday, Dr Ali told Demerara Waves Online News that, “The Leonora group and all other resolutions will be considered at the appropriate time ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Saturday condemned the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) for placing its party flag inside and outside the government-owned building that is also being used to hold sittings of the National Assembly, but a top party official vowed that nothing would stop that. Mr Norton highlighted that the Laws of Guyana explicitly prohibit the flying of ...

General Secretary of Guyana’s governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Saturday reiterated that there could be no power-sharing unless the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led opposition sticks to several ground rules. “You have to have willing partners and there must be some attributes to those partners; trustworthiness is a key one,” Mr Jagdeo told delegates and observers at ...

Guyana has appointed ambassadors to three of the world’s major countries—Brazil, Switzerland and the European Union (EU)—ending years of absence of top diplomatic representation there. They are Professor Compton Bourne who has been tipped to be appointed as Ambassador to Brazil; Dr Leslie Ramsammy as Ambassador to Switzerland and Mr Sasenarine Singh as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium. The ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Thursday backed calls by two United States-based anti-government activists to boycott businesses in New York and Guyana whose owners support the People’s Progressive Party Civic administration. “If it necessitates bringing it to local businesses, I see no problem,” he told a news conference, adding that the Irfaan Ali-led government ...

President of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU), Dr Mark Lyte on Wednesday—Labour Day—said the union had decided to resume a strike to press for collective bargaining on a proposal for 2019-2023 but no date has been set. “What we are contemplating right now is about announcing a date f0r resumption of the strike action…We are not only contemplating it; a ...

Lawyers associated with the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), who won a High Court case for the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), on May 1—Labour Day—called on workers to use that decision as the plank for street protests. GTU’s lawyer Darren Wade believed that workers could use Justice Sandil Kissoon’s decision that the 29-day ...

The House bipartisan Public Accounts Committee (PAC) could soon be empowered to summon persons to account for public funds if PAC Chairman, Jermaine Figueira gets sufficient support from the government. He asked that the PAC be deemed a legislative body, as defined in Legislative Bodies (Evidence) Act, Chapter 2 of 2012, with the power to summon persons to appear before ...