Race and Politics

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton agrees that there should be a diverse racial make-up of the police and defence forces, but believes that the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) is implementing the policy badly. “I have no problem with objective criteria being used to create a level playing field. I have a problem with the PPP approach where it says if ...

Assistant Commissioner of Police Calvin Brutus, who is on administrative leave pending the hearing and determination of more than 200 fraud charges, on Thursday filed a GY$1.6 billion lawsuit claiming that he was racially discriminated against in favour of an East Indian under the Government Diversity Policy of the Guyana Police Force (GPF). Through one his lawyers, Darren Wade, Mr ...

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall on Wednesday said his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration has a proven track record of regularising Afro-Guyanese lands, even as the opposition demanded that the administration pass legislation governing African ancestral lands. He said his administration has given land titles to more people in Linden in one year than the ...

City businessman and Natural Resources Fund (NRF) Investment Committee member, Dr Terrence Campbell on Tuesday lodged a formal complaint with the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) against Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo for allegedly exciting racial hostility by interpreting his words to mean an attack on East Indians. At the centre of the complaint is the city businessman’s contention in a letter ...

The Guyana Interreligious Harmony Initiative (GIHI) on Monday said it successfully concluded a series of events designed to promote interfaith dialogue, understanding, and cooperation among religious leaders and youths in East Berbice. The initiative, implemented by the Guyana Center for Civic Engagement (GyCCE) in partnership with the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha, and sponsored by the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Sunday continued to maintain that street protests against the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration, fearing that it would backfire racially on his largely Afro-Guyanese supported party. “Street protest is not best option,” Mr Norton, who is also Guyana’s Opposition Leader, told a townhall meeting in Toronto, Canada. “Let ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday indicated that he had strong words for Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson for the manner in which he dealt with a complaint by a member of the public against renowned Guyanese sculptor, Ivor Thom, who is the Administrator of the Burrowes School of Art. “This was not a government official who ...

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) have dismissed the likelihood that they could split the Afro-Guyanese voting block which would result in the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) retaining power at next year’s general and regional elections. “I’m not worried at splitting of votes. Once all the votes add up to more than the ...

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) on Friday told Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes that that constitutional body has begun discussing his request for the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to be directed to stop using the word “negro”. Describing his letter to the ERC Chief Executive Officer, Gomin Camacho as a “complaint”, she told Mr Hughes that his concerns were being treated with ...

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) on Friday told Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes that the constitutional body has begun discussing his request for the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to be directed to stop using the word “negro”. Describing his letter to the ERC Chief Executive Officer, Gomin Camacho as a “complaint”, she told Mr Hughes that his concerns were being treated with ...