Politics

As the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) continues to hint at the possibility of legal action to address their concern about a bloated voters list and the Guyana Elections Commission’s failure to ensure electors reside where they are registered, one of their Election Commissioners on Sunday pointed to several possible grounds for returning to court. Opposition ...

After flip-flopping three weeks ago, the Alliance For Change (AFC) on Sunday confirmed that it would be boycotting the March 13, 2023 Local Government Elections (LGE) because the voters list is bloated. “The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Alliance For Change (AFC), after much debate, has arrived at a consensus that the party will not contest the upcoming Local ...

The United Kingdom on Saturday said Guyana’s voters list was being updated and could be used to hold general elections with sufficient safeguards in place and she said based on existing rules Guyanese who are overseas could not be taken off the national database of registrants. “Anywhere in the world you got to make sure your voters list is regularly ...

Even as President Irfaan Ali on Friday bashed the private sector for failing to take advantage of foreign investment opportunities from Saudi Arabia and South Korea, he announced that government was willing to help write business plans and negotiate with commercial banks for low interest loans. “I am ready, as your President, to help to put together a team to ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced that the American-owned energy company, LINDSAYCA in a joint venture with CH4 Guyana, has been selected to forge ahead with negotiations to build an almost US$1 billion natural gas-fired electricity plant and natural gas liquids plant at Wales, West Bank Demerara. He said in a video statement on Facebook that Cabinet on Thursday also ...

In the wake of a fracas between Public Service Minister Sonia Parag and 2nd Vice Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) at Belladrum, West Coast Berbice, President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said his government was determined to ensure that race was not used to mobilise supporters across Guyana. “Your political narrative of using race as a mobilising tool ...

The United States is urging Guyana to be more inclusive at a faster pace and to go beyond cash grants by focussing on long term growth for all nationals of this oil-rich South American nation. “It is an ethnically divided society and s0 they will need to focus on inclusion and there have been many efforts to do so  so ...

The Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) Chief Security Officer Ronald Stuart on Wednesday said after then Deputy Chief Election Officer Roxane Myers failed in her effort to get him to order several persons to vacate the tabulation room to allow Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo to do his work, a bomb hoax was called. “She said they were interfering with ...

Dominica’s opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has decided not to participate in the December 6 general election because of concerns that the voters list is padded. That party says Dominicans cannot be asked at this time to participate in another national election without meeting at least two basic election standards. These are a clean voters list reflecting the persons who can ...

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira on Monday dismissed Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s persistent concerns about a bloated voters list, saying that he is using a 10-year old low national census figure to make a comparison and the opposition has so far failed to propose any amendments to the electoral laws to provide for use of biometrics at ...