Politics

People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) Councillor, Jainarine ‘Don’ Singh on Sunday scolded City Mayor Alfred Mentore for prematurely calling for an emergency council meeting and threatening legal action against Local Government Minister Anand Persaud for blocking an amnesty for rates and taxes until the council proves that it can do so legally. Mr Singh said Mr Mentore’s call for an ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton said Saturday’s meeting with a delegation from the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly was aimed at sensitising them on a range of aspects of bad governance and discrimination in Guyana, but he said they did not provide any commitment on whether they would exert pressure in the United States (US) to ...

Georgetown Mayor, Alfred Mentore on Saturday threatened to take Central government to court for blocking an amnesty that the municipality had hoped to use to raise funds to pay off income tax debts to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). He said the City Council would first discuss the matter before deciding whether to challenge Local Government Minister, Anand Persaud’s decision ...

President Irfaan Ali on Friday night travelled to the Guyanese county of Essequibo and sent a clear message to Venezuela that his country w0uld not surrender a “square inch” of territory to neighbouring Venezuela and said he was confident the security forces would defend the country. “The government and the opposition recently issued a joint statement in which we made ...

The 65 parliamentarians were Friday informed that the National Assembly would be meeting in another seven days to consider a motion on Venezuela’s increasingly aggressive claim to Guyana’s Essequibo County. Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs dispatched a letter to lawmakers informing them that the House would be meeting on November 3,2023 at 10 AM “to consider a motion ...

Venezuela has urged the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to arrange talks with Guyana on settling the territorial controversy over the Essequibo Region peacefully outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ). “The position of the Caribbean Community must be to promote and facilitate a direct dialogue between the parties, which will return Guyana to the path of respect for Public International ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Thursday called on the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to condemn Venezuela’s moves to annex Essequibo through a referendum on December 3 Addressing the 147th meeting of the IPU General Assembly in Luanda, Angola under the theme “Parliamentary Action for Peace, Justice and Strongs Institutions” pursuant to Sustainable Development Goal 16 of the United Nations., he demanded ...

The Ministry of Natural Resources has deducted 15 days’ pay from the salary of Senior Petroleum Coordinator, Gopnauth ‘Bobby’ Gossai after internal probe found that he engaged ExxonMobil without authorisation in the reduction of US$214 million in the cost bank of an audit of Stabroek Block expenses from 1999-2017. The Natural Resources Ministry said he was not only fined but ...

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, David Patterson is demanding that the State pays him GY$25 million as compensation for breach of his constitutional rights because he was blocked by the immigration department from leaving Guyana to travel to the United States (US). Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes told Attorney General Anil Nandlall on October 10, 2023 that ...

The National Assembly’s bipartisan committee on foreign relations on Wednesday agreed to the framework for a motion on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy to be tabled at a House sitting and to accelerate a public awareness campaign on the issue, representatives from both sides said. Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd said the priority right now was for the 65-seat National Assembly ...