Politics

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton on Thursday announced that Ms Dawn Hastings-Williams is their party’s new General Secretary. He described her as “eminently qualified” for the post which she takes over from Ms Geeta Singh-Edmond who resigned in mid-December, 2022. “She has the academic qualifications, she has the integrity. In my opinion, she has been ...

President Irfaan Ali said Guyana has named its representatives members of a high-level Joint Working Group with India that would discuss that Asian nation’s interest in being a long-term buyer of this South American nation’s crude oil, upgrading Guyana’s police and military and investing in agriculture. In the area of hydrocarbons, Dr Ali said he invited the Indian government to ...

Town Clerk of the City of Georgetown Candace Nelson has withdrawn City constables from Mayor Ubraj Narine’s current residence at Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara, saying that they are not allowed to operate outside Georgetown. “The Council has no jurisdiction outside of the City and if anything happens to the staff while they are in Pigeon Island, their lives are ...

A suspect has been identified in the burning down of the Christ Church Secondary School on Camp and Middle Street, a senior police officer said Tuesday. “Investigators are pursuing a male suspect who was seen at the school prior to the building being burnt,” the high ranking police officer told Demerara Waves Online News. The suspect, according police, was not ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton Monday night criticised the 2023 National Budget for failing to include measures that would slow down inflation and already steep cost of living, but Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh forecasts that inflation would be reduced this year. “There are absolutely no measures in this budget to deal with inflation. While I agree that there is need ...

The High Court on Monday refused to overturn the suspension of eight opposition parliamentarians for their role in an unrest in the Chamber in December 2021 while Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh was outlining the benefits of the new Natural Resources Fund legislation. Justice Damon Younge said the Court not intervene in the work of the Parliament as the Standing ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has told the High Court that he did not defame the Chairman of the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly- Guyana (IDPADA-G), Vincent Alexander while dealing with the financial management of that government-funded entity. Through his lawyers C.V. Satram and Ron Motilall, Mr Jagdeo denies that the publications of 19th or 20th August, 2022 ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton said his party did not respond militantly to the recent  demolition of houses at Mocha, East Bank Demerara because of that idea was not floated, the layout of that village and fear that persons could have been injured by police. “No one approached me to say we need to be ...

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn and Minister of Education Priya Manickchand on Thursday evening stopped short of casting blame on anyone for the fire that destroyed the Christ Church Secondary School in Georgetown, opting instead to urge Guyanese to be vigilant against those who might be targeting schools. “Primarily, it requires the communities, the parents, each and everyone and the ...

The People’s National Congress Reform-led opposition coalition on Thursday announced that legal action would be taken against the government for crushing the homes of several persons as part of the construction of a new East Bank Demerara road from Eccles to Great Diamond. Asked what the opposition expected legal action after the demolition to yield, PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton said ...