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The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has reacted sharply to Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton’s position that his party’s polling agents would block foreigners from voting in next year’s general elections. “Elections are managed by the Guyana Elections Commission and political party agents will have no authority to determine who votes or not. Once, a person’s ...

Opposition parliamentarian, Jermaine Figueira, who was seen in social media pictures with President Irfaan Ali and former People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) members at the Providence Cricket Stadium on Tuesday, said he remained a member of that party but did not mean that he could not mingle with politicians from across the divide. “I’m a PNC man,” he told Demerara ...

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 ...

The main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) does not owe the Georgetown City Council any rates and taxes, the party’s General Secretary Sherwin Benjamin said Friday but he declined to say whether the property is vested in a company named Maikwak Limited. “What we know is that the PNC doesn’t owe… I know that the PNCR doesn’t owe the ...

The main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) promises a 35% increase in salaries on a sliding scale for all government employees plus an increase in the income tax threshold to GY$150,000 if it wins the 2025 general and regional elections. “The PNCR/APNU is guaranteeing all public service workers that they will receive a 35% increase in wages and salaries ...

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Leader, Aubrey Norton on Tuesday said he did not tell supporters in its stronghold of Linden to boycott the Alliance For Change’s (AFC’s) public meeting. “No, I don’t have to. Why would I? I’ve made it clear that the AFC was part of the coalition. We still have a good relationship with them, he said ...

Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton on Sunday said Afro-Guyanese need a vision or they would be unable to fully take advantage of government assistance. He told the 2024 Cuffy250 Annual Forum on the State of African Guyanese that the focus should not be on the government because that would give that already powerful State institution more power than it has. He ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is not ruling out coalescing with other political parties to contest the 2025 general and regional elections, but will insist on a tight agreement that must include poverty eradication, rebalancing of wealth distribution and constitutionally entrenched power sharing, co-leader Dr David Hinds said at the weekend. “Unlike the last time, when we just went in ...

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Tuesday – at separate events to mark the 39th death anniversary of its founder-leader, Forbes Burnham – indicated a willingness to patch up pre-congress differences to unitedly campaign and contest next year’s general and regional elections. Chairman of the PNCR’s Council of Elders, Hamilton Green told a wreath-laying ceremony at Burnham’s mausoleum in ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton is recommending that Guyanese earning less than estimated GY$200,000 (estimated US$938) monthly should not pay income tax and he promised that if elected next year policies would be put in place to combat poverty rather than merely delivering cash grants. He said “with all the money they got” people earning ...