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Alliance For Change (AFC) Leader, Nigel Hughes on Tuesday reiterated his party’s recommendation for an immigration policy to protect the rights of migrants, ensure Guyanese get a fair opportunity for jobs and guard against the country being overrun by foreigners. “It does bring to the fore perhaps one of the most important issues that Guyana has to face and needs ...

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes said his party has rescued 50 Warrau Indigenous Indians, including very young children, from outside a city supermarket, sparking off a controversy between his party and the government over whether President Irfaan Ali had told them to travel to Georgetown for assistance. Mr Hughes posted a video of a segment of ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Saturday profiled himself as the best person to be the opposition coalition’s presidential candidate but at the same time he said criteria needed to be developed to pick the right person. “This whole attack started by suggesting that I wasn’t qualified. Now that the evidence is out there that ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) has roasted government for having pit latrines at the Phillipai Primary School, Upper Mazaruni, Region 7 (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), for the more 200 students there, but Education Minister Priya Manickchand on Monday said that construction plans for new facilities were set to start. AFC Leader Nigel Hughes described the primary and nursery school building as “modern” but ...

Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus I couldn’t help but notice how the WPA literally inserted itself between the PNC and AFC at the Buxton line-top on Emancipation Day. While the photographer who took the shot of Norton and Hughes with the WPA must be given credit, one must wonder why these parties have to rely on the weakest chain in ...

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 ...

In the wake of a disclosure by the Alliance For Change (AFC) about the virtual collapse of the almost GY$400 million rehabilitated Paruima airstrip in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), the Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) on Friday night said the contractor was ordered to remedy the defects, and preparations were being made for an inspection. “To date, these defects have since ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus Good writers always have an exit. By this I mean that when you back yourself into a corner, you have a full repertoire of strategic or tactical moves that can bail you out. This is normal when you write regularly about politics, and especially important when you situate yourself in the upper echelons of ...

by GHK Lall The new AFC Leader, Mr. Nigel Hughes, is hitting some sweet notes. As much as I give him a hand, there is still that sour one hanging. Mr. Hughes has spoken of plans, of what he would do in his first 100 days if elected to Guyana’s highest national political office. Good, so far, and though only ...

The Alliance for Change (AFC) has set up a two-man internal party oil and gas sectoral committee to insulate its leader, Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes from dealing with such matters, but People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo discarded that as insufficient. “Until we attain government I will have no input in or involvement with the AFC Oil and Gas ...