Although Smart City Solutions (SCS) has agreed to reduce the parking meter fees and the life of the contract from 49 to 20 years, a divided Georgetown’s City Council ended a meeting Wednesday with a decision to hold further negotiations with the company based on the deliberations. The proposed amendments would see the parking rate being reduced from GYD$125 per ...
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PNCR didn’t decide on greater engagement with PPP; members urged to stay away from rancor
The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), the major player in the coalition-led government, has not decided on greater engagement with the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), but the administration says it remains open to talks. PNCR Leader, David Granger said the opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) is not interested in inter-party dialogue. He said the just concluded 19th Biennial ...
Read More »Youths “did extremely well” but Bond not anxious to sit on PNCR Central Executive
James Bond, who campaigned on a youth platform and mustered 148 votes at the People’s National Congress Reform’s (PNCR) 19th Biennial Congress, Sunday downplayed his low three-digit showing and said he was not anxious to sit on the Central Executive of his party. “The work is not Central Exec for me right now. The work is in the fields so ...
Read More »There must be no secret vote on parking meters- AFC’s Ramjattan
As Georgetown’s Mayor and City Council prepares to this week discuss the controversial parking meter contract that Central Government has ordered be revoked, the Alliance For Change (AFC) said if the matter comes down to a vote, there must be no secret balloting. AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan insisted that there must be open voting when the parking meter contract comes ...
Read More »Harmon won’t contest PNCR Chairmanship ; says ministerial duties require “my full time and attention”
At least two nominees for two top People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) leadership positions say they are not interested in the Chairmanship and Vice Chairmanship. Joseph Harmon said, as Minister of State, he prefers to concentrate his energy and time on governmental functions rather than having to straddle them with party duties as Vice Chairman. “I believe , at this ...
Read More »PNCR inches closer to openly endorsing socialism
President David Granger on Friday appeared to have shifted closer to declaring that the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) is again openly endorsing socialism. “We are an ideological party and our ideology is inspired largely by the ideas of Forbes Burnham, our Founder-Leader,” the PNCR Leader told the opening of his party’s 19th Biennial Delegates Conference at Congress Place. After ...
Read More »Public Health Minister did not deliver apology to House Speaker; appeals for support from PNCR congress delegates
Embattled Public Health Minister, Dr. George Norton admitted that he did not actually deliver an apology to House Speaker, Dr. Barton Scotland for misleading the National Assembly about the rental of a building to house a pharmaceutical bond. He later told Demerara Waves Online News that he delivered the apology. Following is a transcript of that segment of the news ...
Read More »Jagdeo claims Noel Blackman donated dirty money to PNCR; Oscar Clarke denies
Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo has claimed that the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) has received campaign financing from former Health Minister, Dr. Noel Blackman’s illegal distribution of painkillers in the United States (US), but a top party official has bluntly denied the accusation. “How much of the drug money that Mr. Blackman was involved in…went into the APNU (A Partnership for ...
Read More »AFC bent on removing jail terms for small amounts of marijuana possession
The Alliance For Change (AFC) is insisting that Guyana’s narcotics law be amended to scrap jail terms for the possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use, and the opposition People’s Progressive Party-Civic’s (PPPC) parliamentarians are expected to vote with their conscience instead of along strictly party line. AFC Leader and Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan told reporters ...
Read More »Mixed reaction to Granger’s proposed National Indigenous People’s Authority
Guyana’s President David Granger on Monday recommended the formation of an authority oversee and fast-track the implementation of decisions by the National Toshaos Council (NTC) and other decision-making bodies; an announcement that has drawn sharp criticism from shadow Indigenous People’s Affairs Minister, Pauline Sukhai but welcomed by the NTC Chairman. Granger envisaged that a five person National Indigenous People’s Authority ...
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