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 ...
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Home Affairs minister mum on investigators for Brutus probe; AFC Leader calls for Caribbean police investigators
Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Friday refused to say who would be investigating alleged financial improprieties by head of Special Branch and Deputy Police Commissioner (ag) Calvin Brutus, but the Alliance for Change (AFC) recommended that Caribbean police be called in to do the job. “You will be advised when we do a release,” said Mr Benn when asked ...
Read More »AFC sets up oil and gas committee to keep Hughes at arms length from sector; Jagdeo points to loopholes
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 ...
Read More »AFC not in a hurry to coalesce, focus is on rebuilding party -Hughes
The Alliance For Change (AFC) is not in a rush to coalesce with other political parties, but its main priority is to first boost its support base, according to party leader, Nigel Hughes. “We are going to be working assiduously over the next few months to build the AFC and reimage the AFC so our focus is going to be ...
Read More »BREAKING: Nigel Hughes elected new AFC leader; Patterson new Chairman; Trotman returns
The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Saturday voted in well-known Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes as its new leader and Quantity Surveyor David Patterson as its new Chairman in landslide victories against their rivals. Mr Hughes won 149 votes to crush Sherod Duncan’s 62 for the leadership of that party, while Mr Patterson secured 150 votes against Juretha Fernandes’ 69 to take ...
Read More »David Patterson steps aside for Nigel Hughes to contest as Leader
Mr David Patterson has agreed to step aside and make way for Nigel Hughes to contest for the position of Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), the party said Wednesday night. Mr Sherod Duncan, who received the highest nominations – 15 – for the post of party leader, still in the race for the top post, is expected to ...
Read More »Nigel Hughes lays down conditions for accepting nomination for AFC Leader, consensus opposition presidential candidacy
Former Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC) and well-known Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes on Wednesday stopped short of saying he would accept nomination to become his party’s leader, and said much would depend on getting key commitments “on a set of principles” at his party’s conference slated for June 29. Hughes and former AFC General Secretary David Patterson were each ...
Read More »AFC calls for international audit probe into procurement of contracts
The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Sunday urged the Guyana g0vernment to hire international auditors to investigate the award of large-scale contracts, in the wake of an American news feature that cast the spotlight on alleged underhand dealings mainly with Chinese investors. The AFC’s call was triggered after news circulated earlier Sunday based on a Vice News report in which ...
Read More »David Patterson, Khemraj Ramjattan in race for AFC leader
Co-founder of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Raphael Trotman will for the first time not be contesting any position at the upcoming National Conference, but incumbent General Secretary David Patterson is vying for only one position – Leader.| When the National Conference is held on June 11, Mr. Paterson will be coming up against co-founder Khemraj Ramjattan for the position ...
Read More »Ramjattan admits to staff that APNU+AFC lost elections, the PPP “has beaten us”
Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan has admitted to staff of the Ministry of Public Security that the coalition of his party and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU+AFC) lost the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections. “It is with a little sadness…I rather suspect that tomorrow there will be a declaration that the numbers were ...
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