Politics

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Friday ruled out allowing the entry into Guyana of 34 Haitians who have been stranded in Barbados since February, having paid thousands of United States dollars to an agency to come here or Brazil. Mr. Benn said the Guyana government has determined that several of them have fake identities. “We will not (grant them ...

A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Shadow Finance Minister Volda Lawrence on Thursday promised to salvage the cash-strapped National Insurance Scheme (NIS) with 1 percent of current oil revenues, even as she and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo traded words about which administration was responsible for the state of that social security entity. Ms. Lawrence, in a statement issued ...

  Former Finance Minister Winston Jordan was Thursday detained for questioning in connection with the sale of land at Ogle, East Coast Demerara. Attorney-at-Law, Roysdale Forde says his client was released on self-bail and asked to return to police on May 3, Mr. Forde says the former Finance Minister was contacted by police and asked to report to the police ...

The premier of the British Virgin Islands and the director of the small Caribbean territory’s ports were arrested Thursday at a Miami-area airport by federal agents on charges of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and money laundering. Premier Andrew Fahie  and manager director of the port authority, Oleanvine Maynard  were taken into custody by Drug Enforcement Administration ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton are taking different positions on an opinion poll on Guyana’s socio-economic and political conditions. While Mr. Norton declined to go into details about the poll which was conducted for the United States-headquartered International Republican Institute (IRI), he said the findings would be used by his People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR). “As ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Tuesday lashed out at his political advisor, Dr. Richard Van-West Charles’ claims of poor communication, instead accusing him of having a hidden agenda of trying to broker talks with the incumbent People’s Progressive Party. “Mr. Van-West Charles has been pushing for me to engage the People’s Progressive Party through ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Sunday urged the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration to award most contracts to residents of Linden, even as he promised to open a university in that once thriving bauxite town should the coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) regain power at the next general and regional elections. Mr. Norton, ...

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira said ‘findings’ from the national public opinion poll conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI) on Guyana’s electoral reform, lacks integrity and does not reflect the views of Guyanese. Minister Teixeira made it clear that any poll conducted in Guyana that involves humans, must go before the Ministry of Health’s Ethics Committee. ...

A mere four months after Dr. Richard Van West-Charles was appointed advisor to the Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton, he on Friday appeared set to pull out from that post over concerns about his leader’s poor communication and lack of consultation. “I have therefore concluded that until the role of, and the process by which ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton wants his meeting with President Irfaan Ali to discuss several matters affecting Guyanese rather than only the appointment of several service commissions. “As I understand it, the opposition is to represent the cause of the people of Guyana and, in representing them, there will be constitutional matters and there will be matters that are not stated ...