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President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday refused to give a specific reason behind his administration’s decision not to confirm judges Yonette Cummings and Roxane George-Wiltshire as Chancellor of the Judiciary and Chief Justice. He seemingly suggested that he was harbouring concerns about the incumbent office holders. “There’s a process to be followed and, as the President, I would follow the process, ...

Due to the failure of the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the Private Sector Commission (PSC) to nominate representatives to sit on an oversight committee to manage Guyana’s Natural Resources Fund (NRF), also known as the Sovereign Wealth Fund, Finance Minister Winston Jordan says government will be unable to spend the monies until after general elections. He said if ...