Politics

Canada has received a request from Guyana to lift tourist visa requirements for Guyanese, even as vigorous efforts are being made to have a Canadian airline provide direct flights to this oil-rich South American nation, Canada’s High Commissioner to Guyana Mark Berman said Monday. “The Government of Guyana has indicated their interest in having that discussion and we have advised ...

The opposition Alliance For Change has accused the Irfaan Ali-led administration of refusing to summon meetings of parliamentary sectoral committee on natural resources to subject ministers and officials to scrutiny. “We wanted to get the natural resources parliamentary sectoral committee to start functioning. What we understand is that the PPP does not want that parliamentary sector committee to function because ...

Minister of Local Government Nigel Dharamlall on Friday said government has decided to revert to the 2016 local district boundaries and widen others to ensure  greater representation of Guyanese at the March 13, 2023 Local Government Elections. He said 14 local authorities had been changed by the then A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) administration for the 2018 ...

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) on Thursday begged government for an increase in salaries, even as it welcomed an increase in the minimum salaries for police, fire fighters and soldiers. Reacting to President Irfaan Ali’s announced upward adjustment of salary scales for those Disciplined Services, the GTU said the police and fire service officers have every right to be elated ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton and Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan are among several prominent politicians, trade unionists and community activists in Guyana and the Diaspora who are calling for an international mediation to address alleged discrimination against African Guyanese and opponents of the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP). “We, the undersigned, hereby call on the United ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Wednesday claimed that Mr Charandass Persaud was still functioning as Guyana’s High Commissioner to India although he was recalled earlier this month when a video surfaced of him verbally abusing a prominent Indian animal rights activist at his official residence in India, but a Foreign Ministry official denied that he was still performing the ...

Just days after the World Bank announced that it has debarred a Spanish consultant because of corrupt practice, the Guyana government on Wednesday said the man was hired by the then A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition-led administration in early 2020 and was effectively fired eight months later. The Ministry of Natural Resources said Mr. Carlos Barberán ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Wednesday declined to comment on the fate of the nine Alliance For Change (AFC) parliamentarians after that party withdraws from the coalition with his People’s National Congress Reform-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). “When we are formally communicated with , we will then make the decisions as to what we will do. There are ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall says the Chief Immigration Officer and the Commissioner of Registration of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) cannot collaborate to remove the names of non-resident Guyanese from the national database of registrants. “He fails to appreciate that insofar as that Regulation authorises the removal of names from the National Register of Registrants (NRR) on the basis of ...

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan on Friday said it was going ahead with its decision to walk away from the coalition of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) at the end of 2022. Mr Ramjattan said the exit would take place at the end of December 31, 2022  and he would “at the appropriate time write” ...