Politics

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday has accused the military and police hierarchy during the 2002-2008 crime spree of giving the Guyana government wrong intelligence reports. “I sat with Roger, and the leadership of the army and police would bring a report to us about the situation that was taking place on the ground when ordinary people were being slaughtered, ...

Veteran People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Member, Neend ‘Neil’ Kumar on Tuesday suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), a senior health sector official said. The official said Mr Kumar’s condition was listed as “stable” and he was due to have an angiogram. Mr Kumar was not seen at the service for late Dr ...

New York-based Guyanese opposition political activist Rickford Burke has fired back at Guyana’s Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s plan to go after participants at a conference on alleged racial and political discrimination against Afro-Guyanese that is expected to be headlined Democratic Leader in the United States House of Representatives, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries Mr Jagdeo clearly expressed his disgust at plans by ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has dismissed any chance of Guyana’s National Assembly passing laws by a supermajority to force consensus between the government and opposition, suggesting that neighbouring Suriname’s super-majority decision-making process causes gridlock. “Just imagine people talk about power-sharing and the two sides sitting at the cabinet and they can’t reach agreement on anything. Like there is a country ...

As part of the University of Guyana’s launch of its International Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, family members of John Gladstone, who had owned enslaved Africans in Guyana, will be here next week to apologise for their ancestor’s role in that most dehumanising period of world history. John Gladstone was the father of four-time British Prime Minister William Gladstone. ...

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday night hailed the significant contribution of late high-level government and party loyalist, Dr Roger Luncheon, to the security stability of Guyana at a time when the government could not have relied on the leadership of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF). Addressing a ‘Night of Reflections’ on the life ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Friday called for Guyanese authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into allegations that a major city business was allegedly involved in gold smuggling, money laundering and other transnational crimes. Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohamed and his son Azruddin Mohamed are on record as denying such allegations and calling on the United Kingdom-headquartered Reuters news agency to ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday condemned the Guyana government for turning a blind eye to the plight of residents of Vreed-en-Hoop Jetty/Plastic City whose houses were being demolished to make way for a nearby shore-base that is being constructed, but Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said generally at times hard decisions have to made. “It was pointed out that long-standing ...

Permanent Secretary Mae Toussaint Jr. Thomas-Meerabux has been moved from the Ministry of Home Affairs to the Ministry of Labour, according to a statement by the Office of the President. She is among six Permanent Secretaries who have been reassigned. Notably, Mr Dereck Cummings has not been mentioned, but the Office of the President said Mr Alfred Roland King is now ...

A recommendation that Guyana’s National Assembly make decisions by a supermajority to force national consensus is an effort to grab power from the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) conveniently whenever it is in government, according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall. “It’s a veneer only so that it sounds intelligent, and it sounds profound. It’s a nasty, shameless grab for power ...