Tag Archives: Alliance For Change (AFC)

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) would be writing the Board of the Natural Resources Fund (NRF) to get answers about government’s failure to say specifically how oil revenues would be spent by the government, party leader Nigel Hughes said Sunday. “The Citizens of Guyana demand to know how their patrimony is being managed and disposed of,” he said. No date ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Sunday said it would hold consultations on whether to boycott next year’s general elections if Retired Justice Claudette Singh remains the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairman, saying that she presided over the illegal occupation of a joinder parliamentary seat. “The AFC will commence by engaging national stakeholders on the issue and its potential impact ...

The opposition Alliance For Change (AFC) on Thursday insisted on the need for legislation to govern the distribution of cash grants, despite resistance by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo. AFC Leader Nigel Hughes said the legislation should, among other things, allow for a mechanism for people to complain if they do not receive monies. Referring to Mr Jagdeo’s concern about the ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Saturday said the High Court could soon be asked to rule on the credibility of the voters list and draft legislation would be tabled in the National Assembly to empower the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to clean up that list. “There’s an argument being explored that your right to vote and the significance of ...

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes on Sunday said if the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) loses next year’s general and regional elections, his party would push for independent forensic auditors to investigate suspected corruption and charge suspects if necessary. He told an AFC ‘bottom house’ meeting at Liverpool, East Berbice, Corentyne, in response to a question ...

Less than 10 percent of students in Region Nine (Upper Takatu-Upper Essequibo) passed the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations in 2024, pointing to the urgent need to rescue the education sector in that southern Guyana region, the Alliance For Change (AFC) said Friday. “This is a national crisis. It’s not a political crisis because we cannot have any part ...

President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday accused the Alliance For Change (AFC) of setting the stage to scuttle the construction of a new high-span bridge across the Berbice River, a day after that party called on government to produce a feasibility study and Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA). Dr Ali did not say whether the study or assessment would be ...