Politics

President Irfaan Ali announced that he and his Brazilian counterpart, Luis Inacio ‘Lula’ Da Silva on Thursday agreed to establish a working group to search for money to build transportation links between their two South American countries. “We want to put together a technical working group that will commence working immediately to develop a mechanism through which we can have ...

Guyana’s President, Irfaan Ali and other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders on Wednesday agreed that the regional bloc would lead a team alongside international partners to Haiti to determine what that strife-wracked country needs to prepare for elections no later than August, 2025. The Bahamas’ Prime Minister, Phillip Davis said the gap assessment team, which would include CARICOM and United Nations ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo was Wednesday selected to chair a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) working group to search for more money for the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) to cushion impacts on member nations and promote growth, Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley said. She told a news conference to wrap up the three-day summit of CARICOM leaders in Georgetown that Mr Jagdeo ...

A small group of Haitians living in Guyana on Tuesday picketed outside the Marriott Hotel, venue of the summit of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders, calling for Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign and pave the way for elections. The group said that Haitians had been promised elections three months after President Jovenel Moise was assassinated on July 7, 2021 at ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday openly backed the now 22-day old strike by teachers, saying it has virtually crippled several businesses and warned that the industrial unrest could spread to the public service. “It is now obvious that this impasse will continue and as such we have chosen to make this statement both to underscore our support for the ...

Guyana has pledged to provide additional financial support to the United Nations (UN)-led peacekeeping mission to Haiti, according to United States (US) Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. “Guyana has committed to additional funding. I don’t know what the amount is but the President has committed to providing additional funding, in addition to supporting the security needs, supporting humanitarian ...

Chairman of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali on Monday begged stakeholders in Haiti to work together to pave the way for long-lasting solutions to the political and security crises facing that country. “This requires all stakeholders in Haiti, especially, to give a bit, to compromise a bit and to express a collective willingness to achieve the ...

President Irfaan Ali Thursday night said election rigging as a means to political power would not be allowed to return to Guyana. “Guyana’s harrowing experience with dictatorship stands as a stark reminder of the perils of rigged elections. That era is a closed chapter in our history,” he said in his address to usher in Guyana’s 54th Republic anniversary at ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Thursday said veteran Guyanese politician Hamilton Green’s recent remark about election rigging was taken out of context, but Attorney General Anil Nandlall said the former Prime Minister’s remarks Mr Norton said “if” was omitted in quoting Mr Green. “When it was carried by the press, they would have left ...

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Thursday said the High Court issued orders that for the time prevents government from cutting the salaries of striking teachers and and stopping the automatic deduction of union membership dues. “Teachers, who have been threatened that your salaries will be cut; the judge has issued a ruling,” GTU President, Dr Mark Lyte said on ...