Politics

Amid increasing calls for President David Granger to sack Social Services Minister, Volda Lawrence for the selection of an accused sex offender as a candidate in the recently held Local Government Elections (LGE), a loosely-knot group on Tuesday picketed outside Granger’s office in support of the minister. Sister Penda Guyan, a spokeswoman for the persons who picketed on Vlissengen Road ...

Even as President David Granger says he is preparing to hold talks with Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan on the latter’s concerns that APNU has taken the majority of seats, the names of would-be councilors have been already submitted to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) by political parties and groups. Two Political Scientists have since heaped ...

A former Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana, Haslyn Parris died Monday afternoon following an aneurysm Sunday night at his residence in Buxton, East Coast Demerara. He was rushed to a city hospital for emergency surgery, but he succumbed at about 1 PM. Parris was 75 years old. In paying brief tribute to Parris, President David Granger hailed the late politician and ...

Five days after Guyana’s first Local Government Elections in more than 20 years, Guyana’s President David Granger on Thursday announced plans to promote the creation of capital towns in interior regions and he called for all municipalities to generate their own funds and become self-sustainable. “Municipalities must be capable of weaning themselves off of government subvention and earn their keep. ...

  Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo is not too keen on supporting a call for Social Protection Minister Volda Lawrence to be dismissed but says that the Government official should show some contrition and apologize. Calls have been mounted for Lawrence to be dismissed from her post after she commented on an allegation of child molestation saying that it ...

  As the World observed the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has noted his alarm at the sudden surge in racism and hate driven violence in today’s society. Ban in a message delivered to a General Assembly meeting on Friday pointed out that while some strides have been made with ...

Ten months after losing general elections by a slim margin, Guyana’s main opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) on Saturday claimed a significant victory in Local Government Elections held a day earlier. “As a result of this overwhelming electoral support, the PPP/C emerged victorious with over 60% of the votes cast in the seventy (70) Local Authority Areas (LAA) which the ...

A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition has gained clear control of five of Guyana’s nine towns in the country’s Local Government Elections (LGE) held Friday. The party is claiming victory in Georgetown, Linden and New Amsterdam as well as the two new towns of Bartica and Lethem. There were reports of a tie in Mabaruma, another new ...

The APNU+AFC is defending its decision not to name Friday March 18, a National Holiday to facilitate Local Government Elections (LGE) saying that the turnout to Friday’s polls was better than what was expected. Credible sources have told Demerara Waves Online News that GECOM insiders had forecast a 30 percent turnout. At a press conference on Saturday morning, President David ...

With growing concerns over the APNU’s endorsement of an alleged child molester and that person now having been elected in his constituency, the question of whether Winston Harding would actually be heading to the City Council is being constantly asked. Harding, who was contesting in Constituency 13 (East and West Ruimveldt), had posters bearing his photograph with the words “Child ...