Politics

Antigua and Barbuda Police have charged a man with the murder of well-known politician, Asot Michael, whose body was found at his residence on November 5. The prime suspect has been identified as 26-year-old Alexta Francis of Golden Grove, Antigua. He is expected to make his first court appearance on Monday. Police did not disclose the circumstances that led to ...

President Irfaan Ali has instructed Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha to meet with representatives of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), the workers’ union and other stakeholders to ascertain the cause of the worst sugar production output in history, despite the government pumping billions of dollars in the virtually paralysed industry. Mr Jagdeo indicated that he had learnt that GuySuCo’s position was ...

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo said his party would support the introduction and funding of “enhanced biometrics” if the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) makes such a decision once next year’s general and regional elections are not delayed. “Once it’s not disruptive to the voting and it doesn’t disenfranchise voters and it doesn’t delay the elections ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said the Guyana government would be taking advantage of the new Donald Trump-led administration to dispel a number of opposition-fomented lies against his administration. “We’re looking forward to debunk all of the lies particularly with the new administration when it takes office in January,” he told a news conference at his ruling People’s Progressive ...

The Chief Election Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Vishnu Persaud, has found that electronic fingerprint biometric registration and voting would be more secure and aims to address allegations of voter fraud and voter impersonation, but he has flagged several concerns including the US$20.7 million price tag for equipment and hiccups in several countries it has been used. ...

Guyana’s umbrella Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Tuesday recommended that government enact one anti-corruption legislation to simplify and fast-track investigations and prosecutions, but the Guyana government said the country was not yet ready for such one-stop anti-corruption body. Chairman 0f the PSC’s Economics and Finance Committee, Ramesh Dookhoo lamented that over the years, the lobby for anti-corruption legislation was unsuccessful. He ...

Former Antigua and Barbuda government minister, and independent parliamentarian, Asot Michael, was found in a pool of blood with a “large stab wound” to his chest, Police Commissioner Atlee Rodney said. “There are some injuries to the body which now opens up a homicide investigation as to the circumstances that led to those injuries,” he told reporters outside Michael’s residence. ...

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira on Monday denied social media posts that she was “recently” questioned by United States (US) authorities. She said she travelled in early September to the US but was not questioned. “No, I’ve never been questioned.” “I haven’t been anywhere since early September and ‘no’, I have not been questioned,” she said when ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Monday vowed that it would not return to the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) unless there is democratic and consultative decision-making. “The APNU will have to convince us that it will become a democratic organisation…We made it very clear that the APNU should not become a a substitute ...

Even as the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) on Monday continued its one-week long silence on its unprecedented dismal sugar output, the opposition assailed the government for pumping billions of dollars into the ailing loss-making industry and called for a new Commission of Inquiry aimed at finding a solution. The corporation’s Chief Executive Officer, Paul Cheong, who is an executive ...