Politics

The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly- Guyana (IDPADA-G) on Thursday said it was mulling whether to take the government to court for refusing to transfer the full amount of money that was approved by the National Assembly in the 2022 National Budget to that organisation. In light of no response from government to requests for disbursements for ...

Guyana has requested Facebook and Twitter to remove maps that depict the mineral and forest-rich Essequibo Region as part of Venezuela, and already one of the Social Media companies has asked for a meeting with Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud to discuss the concerns. Mr Persaud, in his letters of protest to Facebook and Twitter last week, cautioned that the propagation ...

John Fernandes Limited (JFL) on Tuesday refused a GY$20 million refund of payment for 143.10 acres of privately-owned lands in Beterverwagting (BV) that the Neighbourhood Council said in the first place it had no right to sell, the Chairman of the BV-Triumph Council said. He told Demerara Waves Online News that Tuesday was the first time ever that JFL admitted ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton has accused the governing People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration of promoting immoral music among youths, leading to a breakdown in values. “As they try to focus you on dancing, sporting, even dancing with people who have no rhythm you must recognise that they do not set out to ensure ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) has castigated government for reducing the amount of funds to the locally established International Decade for People of African Descent- Guyana (IDPADA-G). “The AFC views this kind of politics as wholly anti-national and its consequences will create only deeper fissures within our ethnic communities which manage by and large,” the AFC said in a statement, ...

The United States (US) late Tuesday night reiterated that it recognises the land boundary between Guyana and Venezuela, on the occasion to mark the 123-year old 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian A. Nichols, under the Democrat administration,  made known his position a day after the anniversary of the decision of the tribunal. ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday said his coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) did not need to collect the names of deceased persons to present to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to prove that the voters list is bloated. “We didn’t have to do claims and objections. It wasn’t tactical. First of all, you have ...

The Guyana Court of Appeal on Monday agreed to urgently appeal of a 19-month old High Court decision of an election petition by the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC). Despite objections by Attorney-at-Law Douglas Mendes, for the People’s Progressive Party Civic’s representative of the list of candidates Bharrat Jagdeo, that lawyers for the appellants took 19 ...

Veteran People’s Progressive Party (PPP) member, Philomena Sahoye-Shury died on Sunday, her party confirmed. General Secretary of the PPP, Bharrat Jagdeo said, “on behalf of myself and the People’s Progressive Party, I wish to extended deepest condolences to the relatives and friends of Cde Philomena Sahoye-Shury following her passing.” Her party issued a similar statement following the death of Ms ...

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Friday accused the government of attempting to silence New York-based Guyanese political activist Rickford Burke with trumped up allegations of extortion. “The PPP (People’s Progressive Party) , therefore, is waging a campaign to silence him through acts of harassment, intimidation, and character assassination,” the APNU+AFC said in a statement. ...