Tag Archives: People’s Progressive Party (PPP)

Well-known political activist and associate of the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Ramon ‘Rambo’ Gaskin died on Saturday after a prolonged illness, well-placed sources said. He succumbed at the privately-owned Woodlands Hospital at 82 years old. Gaskin first rose to national prominence shortly after the PPP won the 1992 general and regional elections and he was appointed the Chairman of ...

The Guyana government 0n Tuesday sent Permanent Secretary Mae Thomas on leave, hours after the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) linked her to several alleged crimes with the Mohameds, regarded as super wealthy Guyanese businessmen. “The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Ms. Mae Thomas has been sent on leave with immediate effect,” the ...

By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus This is the final of my three-part series on why the PPP is the only national political party in Guyana. Always Keep your Promises The PPP is a promise-keeping machine. The following promises were made in 2020 and to date all have been kept or on track to be fulfilled by 2025: Reversal of ...

By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC In Part I of “Why the PPP is the only national party in Guyana,” I presented four elements that qualify the PPP as a national party. These were (1) it must cover the entire territory of a country and have a nation-wide political infrastructure to have ongoing dialogue with communities ...

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Sunday said Marxism-Leninism and socialism were removed from that political organisation’s constitution because the Cold War had ended, ideologies mean little to party supporters and the time had come to bring the constitution in line with international economic realities. Describing the erasure of those ideological and theoretical references as ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Saturday condemned the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) for placing its party flag inside and outside the government-owned building that is also being used to hold sittings of the National Assembly, but a top party official vowed that nothing would stop that. Mr Norton highlighted that the Laws of Guyana explicitly prohibit the flying of ...

General Secretary of Guyana’s governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Saturday reiterated that there could be no power-sharing unless the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led opposition sticks to several ground rules. “You have to have willing partners and there must be some attributes to those partners; trustworthiness is a key one,” Mr Jagdeo told delegates and observers at ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is the only national party in Guyana. But what does it mean when we say the PPP is a national political party, and the only national political party in Guyana. A truly national political party must have, by my reckoning, nine elements. In Part I, ...

Guyana’s Court of Appeal on Monday dismissed efforts by the opposition to reinstate an election petition, agreeing with the High Court that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) had a constitutional right to order a recount of the votes cast in the March, 2020 general and regional elections. Justices of Appeal Rishi Persaud and Dawn Gregory said Section 22 of the ...

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul on Friday said his then governing coalition and ExxonMobil never agreed that the US$160 million that would be spent on building a new headquarters building at Ogle, East Coast Demerara would be recovered from oil revenues. “I’m guided that there were discussions and there was no agreement with ...