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Politics

Striking Berbice sugar workers take protest for money to Georgetown; GAWU, AFC differ on interpretation of court ruling

At least 100 striking sugar workers early Wednesday morning descended in front of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), demanding that they be paid severance after the Rose Hall Estate had been closed, but the union maintained that the workers were merely transferred and never severed. “Because both Albion and Blairmont are within a 10-mile radius of Rose ...

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British NGO-funded UG-affiliated biodiversity research centre isn’t about exporting science- co-founder

The University of Guyana (UG) on Tuesday formally announced the establishment of a not-for-profit biodiversity research centre in the Essequibo River near the Mazaruni and Cuyuni rivers with an assurance by the British non-governmental organisation that the aim is not to export scientific information from the area. Co-founder of the Sophia Point Rainforest Research Institute, British parliamentarian David Lammy said ...

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Norton not needed to forge ahead with One Guyana mission- Pres Ali

President Irfaan Ali on Monday virtually ruled out any possibility of engaging Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on the ‘One Guyana’ initiative, instead suggesting that he was taking his mission to ordinary Guyanese and eventually the opposition leadership would be forced to follow. “My work with the opposition is my work in every area conceived or perceived to be an opposition ...

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Govt, opposition wary of possible infiltration by Venezuelan security agents

President Irfaan Ali and Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton are concerned that Venezuelan state security personnel might be infiltrating Guyana under the guise of being migrants fleeing harsh economic and political conditions in their homeland. Mr Norton, at the weekend, told supporters of his People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) in Maryland, United States (US) that he was unsure that government was ...

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PNCR says risky to depend on donations from “a few” big businesses

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Saturday said his party was wary of taking donations from big businesses to stave off pressure to award contracts to them should his party win the 2025 general and regional elections. “I’m very much interested in us getting small contributions across so that we remove the vulnerability that comes ...

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PNCR to hire international public relations company

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), the major party in the opposition coalition, plans to recruit an international public relations company for the next general and regional elections scheduled in 2025, party leader Aubrey Norton said on Saturday. “We have to recognise that there is a a strong PR machinery out there which we will have to challenge with, I ...

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UG insisted on hosting descendants of British slave owner’s descendants’ apology for slavery, indentureship on campus

The descendants of a British slave owner on Friday came to Guyana and offered their “sincerest apologies” for the role he played in enslaving Africans on sugar and coffee plantations in Demerara, but this significant national event failed to attract top cabinet officials in person. “Slavery was a crime against humanity and its damaging impact continues to be felt across ...

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Norton warns 2025 election results will be rejected if no biometrics; gives reason for meeting in Queens, New York

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday night said he was fairly optimistic that the government would give in to demands for biometric screening of voters to avoid electoral fraud but signaled that if not was not done the results could be rejected. “I’m saying this to you: once there is a clean voters list, once there is biometrics, the outcome ...

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No disclosures on those who provided info to govt after army, police leadership sanitised intel reports- Jagdeo

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday ruled out disclosing the names of persons he said knew alleged attempts to mislead his government about a six-year long “insurgency” whose aim had been to “dislodge” his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration. He said they included villagers in “those communities” and soldiers who helped to expose the sterilise versions of the documents ...

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WPA accuses Muslim organisations of using observations to stoke racial divisions with Indo-Guyanese

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Thursday defended the right of a woman at the recently held Cuffy250 forum to characterise the role and status of Muslim women at home and at mosques,and accused two Muslim organisations of creating divisions between the party and Indo-Guyanese. In a joint statement, the Central Islamic Organisation (CIOG) and the Guyana Islamic Trust (GIT) ...

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