Politics

The building, which housed the People’s National Congress Reform’s (PNCR) office in Lethem, Region Nine for the past 43 years, was early Thursday morning demolished, party official Carl Parker said. He claimed that Claims and Objections reports that should have been submitted to the Guyana Elections Commission on Thursday were destroyed. He also said the history of the PNCR in ...

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) executive member, Coretta Mc Donald on Wednesday said her party was working feverishly to heal divisions dating back to when the coalition was unseated from government but she appealed to party faithful to do much more to bring about party unity. “As it is right now, we are working very, very hard, extremely hard to ...

The A Partnership for National Unity councillors on the Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) Council on Tuesday approved a no-confidence motion against Regional Executive Officer (REO) for Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), Donald Gajraj, citing his alleged maladministration and poor accountability. That motion came in the wake of the physical altercation between him and Regional Chairman Daniel Seeram on 22nd February – the eve ...

The High Court on Monday gave the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly- Guyana (IDPADA-G) and the Guyana government were given more time to discuss proposals concerning the release of more than GY$49 million in subvention for that organisation. Government last year ceased providing the subsidy, saying that there was no evidence that African Guyanese had benefitted from ...

The Terms of Reference for the Independent Administrator to prepare Guyana’s 2020 report to the Norway-headquartered Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was imposed by National Coordinator of the Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GYEITI) in clear violation of the rules of that global watchdog,  the two Civil Society representatives said Sunday. In an open letter to President Irfaan Ali, Civil ...

The opposition People’s National Congress Reform-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), and the Alliance For Change (AFC) have issued separate calls for the carbon credit payout to Amerindian villages to be increased from 15 percent to between 25 percent and 85 percent. Questions are lingering about how exactly government apparently arrived unilaterally at 15 percent. For its part, AFC ...

The Guyana government late Wednesday accused at least two civil society members of the Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) of the Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GYEITI) for contributing to this country’s suspension from the Norway-headquartered anti-corruption. Through the Ministry of Natural Resources, the government named Mike Mc Cormack and Vanda Radzik for not supporting the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the ...

A day after a company withdrew High Court action in its bid to acquire 143.10 acres of privately-owned land at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara after it had been controversially sold, Neighbourhood Councillor Elton Mc Rae said residents now needed help to gain access to their parcels of the land. Mr Mc Rae called on the Neighbourhood Council and Central Government ...

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)- on the 100th birth anniversary of its Founder Leader Forbes Burnham- needs to reach across the political divide in the interest of nation building, his son-in-law Dr Richard Vanwest Charles said on Sunday. “Let us embrace diverse views, let us be courteous and respectful, talk to our comrades across the aisle and don’t be ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Sunday night ruled out supporting acting Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken to be appointed substantively to that post whenever President Irfaan Ali seeks constitutionally required consultations. “The President could possibly go ahead and keep extending him because he meet retirement time. You know when you got a tool that working good for you, you don’t want ...