By GHK Lall The PNC must speak straight and speak true. The PNC cannot speak like Vice President Jagdeo when a direct question is put to it, with a shave here, a shove there, and a slice somewhere else. Does it owe any taxes to the Municipality of Georgetown? The party gave a loud, unequivocal NO. Thanks for that clarity. ...
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PNCR mum on debt to City Hall; PPP won’t seek rates and taxes cut
The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Friday avoided questions at a news conference about its alleged GY$6.7 billion debt in rates and taxes to the Georgetown City Council for its headquarters at Sophia. Though the news conference’s panelists included the Chairman, Shurwayne Holder and Treasurer, Elson Lowe, questions on Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s claim that the PNCR owes the ...
Read More »PPP not overreacting to Jordan’s non-violent “war” comments; police, ethnic relations watchdog alerted
People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) presidential candidate, Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said his party was not overreacting to Finance Minister Winston Jordan’s assertion that the governing coalition was now in a period of “war” now that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ruled that last December’s no-confidence motion was valid. The Opposition Leader’s office, through Gail Teixeira, has since ...
Read More »No parliamentary sitting on Thursday, no dual citizen MP resignation received
The Guyana Parliament will not convene on Thursday, and so far, on any other day because a required notice of six days has not been received, the Clerk of the 65-seat National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs said Tuesday. Minister of State, Joseph Harmon had said government had been contemplating holding a sitting on April 11 when all dual citizenship Members of ...
Read More »PPP dual-citizenship MPs to resign, Adrian Anamayah will not renounce US nationality
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo said his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) Members of Parliament (MPs), who are holders of dual citizenship, would be resigning and only one of them has informed that he would not be renouncing his American citizenship. Jagdeo said that person is backbencher, Attorney-at-law Adrian Anamayah. “He has explained to me that there are family obligations and ...
Read More »PPP supporters to scrutinise house-to-house registration
Even as the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) and its three Guyana Elections Commissioners (GECOM) continue to object to house-to-house registration on the basis that it is not a legal requirement, PPPC supporters would be overseeing the process when it begins, a top party official said. General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo has said his party would take steps to ensure the ...
Read More »PPP’s Lumumba to give up US citizenship – Jagdeo
Long-serving People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) parliamentarian, Odinga Lumumba, has been added to the list of opposition lawmakers who would be giving up his foreign citizenship, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo said Wednesday. He also accused the coalition administration of being “duplicitous” by failing to remove its dual citizenship members from the House as a matter of political goodwill in accordance ...
Read More »OPINION: The arrogance and hubris of Bharrat Jagdeo are not working for the PPP
By James McAllister Bharrat Jagdeo’s failure to be strategic has hurt the PPP. He placed the entirety of his political fortune into a process over which he had no control and he lost. The Appeal Court has ruled. After the No-Confidence Motion (NCM), Jagdeo had hoped pressure from his cohorts in the Private Sector Commission (PSC), and at the Stabroek ...
Read More »PPP to boycott parliamentary sittings until CCJ ruling on no-confidence case
The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Sunday announced that it would be boycotting parliamentary sittings until the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) rules on whether the no-confidence motion was validly passed by Guyana’s National Assembly. “The General Secretary of the PPP wishes to place on record that the People’ s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C ) will not attend any ...
Read More »Dual citizens should resign – Ramjattan; gov’t should take the lead – Edghill
Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan prefers dual citizens to resign in keeping with decisions by Guyana’s Court of Appeal that they ought not to have been there in the first place, and People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) parliamentarian Juan Edghill hopes the government will first replace its dual citizens. The issue surfaced in December 2018 when ...
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