Politics
Sugar workers sacking politically, racially motivated- Jagdeo; President’s Office: race-baiting is PPP’s “essential plank”
Urging sacked sugar workers to get registered in the right districts to vote for the People's Progressive Party (PPP) at...
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Top PPP elected regional officials “breaking ranks”- Bulkan; Regions 8,9 Chairmen justify participation in Local Govt conference
Chairman of Region Nine (Upper Takatu-Upper Essequibo), Brian Allicock. Central government would go ahead and implement projects and programmes in...
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1,600 sugar workers eligible for full severance pay this month-end
Government on Friday announced that sacked sugar workers, who are eligible to GY$500,000 or less in severance pay, would be...
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PPP ready to fund legal challenge to sugar workers severance pay
PPP back-bencher, Attorney-at-Law, Adrian Annamayah and Oppostion Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo. Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday said the People's Progressive...
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Whistle-blower legislation covers complaints over 10 years old; prohibits malicious reporting- Ramjattan
Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan Thursday night assured that the whistle blower legislation, which...
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PPP worried about “malicious reporting”, protection of party faithful in whistle blower law
The opposition People's Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) on Thursday urged government to deal with "malicious reporting" in the whistle blower...
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AFC’s position on Cummingsburg Accord hinges on decision on Local Govt elections; political future hangs in balance
Left to right: AFC Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan; party leader, Raphael Trotman; General Secretary, Marlon Williams and Youths For Change leader,...
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AFC laying groundwork for tough negotiations with APNU on new political accord- Henry Jeffrey
After the signing of the Cummingsburg Accord on February 14, 2015: David Granger of APNU and the AFC's Moses Nagamootoo....
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Five-party APNU to contest local government elections as “united team”
Hours after the Alliance For Change (AFC) signaled that it might contest this year's Local Government Elections (LGE) alone, A...
Read moreDetailsGuysuco severance pay: Prison unrest helped drain coffers of monies
FLASH BACK: Now laid off Guysuco workers gathered outside the Wales Estate sugar factory Leader of the Alliance For Change...
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