Politics

David Granger, Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)- the biggest party in the governing coalition- has raised concerns about sections of the media, triggering a warning of a government crackdown on media that report critically of the now three-year old administration. The Editors-in-Chief of the privately-owned Stabroek News and Kaieteur News newspapers have also expressed some concern about ...

Former Finance Minister, Saisnarine Kowlessar was Monday arrested by agents of the Special Organised Crime Unit after he failed to turn up at that law enforcement arm of the Guyana Police Force. He arrived shortly after 9 AM and was released from custody after 2 PM on GY$200,000 station bail. Sources said he might be required to return at a ...

President David Granger and First Lady, Ms. Sandra Granger on Monday completed their first round of medical examinations under a Caribbean medical insurance scheme they have been part of for more than a decade. The Ministry of the Presidency also said the results from the at the Good Health Medical Centre in Trinidad and Tobago show they are in good health. ...

High Court Judge, Franklin Holder Monday morning blocked the Magistrates’ Court from hearing criminal charges of misconduct in public office against former Finance Minister, Ashni Singh and former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited, Winston Brassington. Defence Lawyer, Anil Nandlal told reporters what the judge decided in the in-chamber proceedings away from the glare of the media ...

Executive member of the People’s National Congress (PNC), Joseph Harmon on Monday announced his candidature for the position of Chair of the party. He will come up against long-serving party member and Chairman, Basil Williams. Elections for Central Executive members are due to be held for at the PNC’s Congress to be held in August 2018. Below is Mr. Harmon’s ...

President David Granger early Sunday morning left Guyana for Trinidad and Tobago for medical reasons. “It is believed that he travelled for routine checks and personal matters,” one source added. Granger left at about 5:45 AM on a Caribbean Airlines flight, but it was not until a Demerara Waves Online News report at 11 AM that the Ministry of the ...

Guyana is not eager for ExxonMobil to relinquish any of the 60 blocks on the offshore concession that extends to the borders with Venezuela and Suriname, Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman. He said the ExxonMobil block should “remain intact” as it had been granted in 1999 because “we believe that the circumstances have not diminished”. Contradicting critics that the handing ...

As 47-year old Derrick Patterson remained on remand in a Grenadian prison pending trial for alleged cocaine trafficking, his brother- Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson- Thursday night said he and his family believed that Derrick must bear “full responsibility” for the alleged crime. “Our position is that Derrick is a matured adult of 47 years and he must bear ...

Former Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh and former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington have asked the High Court to throw out charges of misconduct in public office because there is no legal basis. “The common law offence of misconduct in public office cannot be committed where the servant in question is specifically excluded from ...

Former political prisoner, Mark Benschop on Friday said he would be taking steps to ask the Lindo Commission of Inquiry to summon a number of former government officials and a treason co-accused to testify. Benschop and then politician, Philip Bynoe were subsequently charged with treason, but Bynoe was never caught and arraigned. After a trial ended in a hung jury ...