Politics

Weeks after Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Executive Member Tacuma Ogunseye made controversial remarks expecting support from the Afro-Guyanese dominated police and army should there be mass protests by Afro-Guyanese against alleged discrimination, police on Thursday issued a wanted bulletin. Police said is wanted for “several serious offences” and attempting to excite racial hostility or ill-will in violation of Guyana’s Racial ...

Though Guyanese police were yet to question executives of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) about controversial remarks that appear to encourage police and soldiers not to clamp down on anti-government street protests, Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday interpreted  them as a plot to topple the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration. “Tacuma Ogunseye went to Buxton Line-top and made ...

The United Kingdom’s (UK) trade with Guyana last year reached its highest value of more than 1 billion pounds sterling, largely due to the South American nation’s sale of crude oil to that European country, latest figures show. Britain’s Department for Business and Trade’s latest fact sheet dated March 28, 2023, exports and imports of goods and services between the ...

As the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Tuesday pushed ahead with its call for a boycott of the June 12, 2023 Local Government Elections (LGE) and instead to use that day as one of Afro-Guyanese resistance against alleged racial discrimination, that party’s executive member Tacuma Ogunseye said he was ready to face a treason charge. “When we look at the ...

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Bharrat Jagdeo on Sunday urged supporters to aggressively represent their party and position themselves on Social Media to counter opposition views as part of efforts to stave off defeat at the next general and regional elections. He appealed for more “gratitude and understanding” f0r what the PPP has done for Guyana. “People ...

Punctuated by references to improve infrastructure, social sector, employment, business support, housing and farming lands ownership, a high-level ministerial team on Saturday sought to assure residents of the predominantly Afro-Guyanese East Coast Demerara village of Victoria that government was not discriminating against them and that they should ignore those making such claims. Prime Minister Mark Phillips, who led a 11-member ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Friday said the State would appeal a High Court ruling that President Irfaan Ali flouted Guyana’s constitution when he suspended Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) Paul Slowe almost two years ago although there was no mechanism for him to be given a fair hearing. “A president has a duty to act in those ...

Lawyers for the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G) and the State on Friday informed the High Court that they are on the brink of deal that could see the release of millions of dollars in a budgeted government subvention to the organisation that aims to improve the conditions of Afro-Guyanese. Attorney-at-Law Dr Vivian Williams told the ...

High Court Judge Gino Persaud on Friday ruled that President Irfaan Ali violated Guyana’s Constitution by suspending the then Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Retired Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Slowe because there was no mechanism to give him a fair hearing. “In summary, therefore, the decision of His Excellency the President to suspend the chairman and other members ...

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday again effectively ruled out executive power sharing with the main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) in the near term because of a lack of trust or shared principles. “There is no building trust. In fact, we are going farther apart because everyday APNU (A Partnership for National ...