By News Source Guyana on February 23, 2016
News, Politics
Former President Donald Ramotar in a lengthy Republic Day note has slammed sections of the media who he claimed manipulated reality to bring down the former People’s Progressive Party government with allegations of corruption. Mr. Ramotar, who could not convince his party to make him Opposition Leader after they were defeated at the elections, reflected […]
By News Source Guyana on February 22, 2016
News
Residents in the small Amerindian village of Kartabo in the Cuyuni/Mazaruni region have been left shocked by a brutal murder/suicide. Police investigators are heading in to the area after receiving reports that 22-year-old Kartabo resident, Terry Alexander shot his 19-year-old girlfriend dead, injured her mother with gunshots, then turned the gun on himself and committed […]
By News Source Guyana on February 22, 2016
News, Politics
A total of $350 million was approved by Members of Parliament (MPs) on Monday to feed prisoners across Guyana during this year. The sum was approved as MPs considered the estimates of expenditure for the Public Security Ministry, inclusive of the Guyana Prison and Fire Service and the Police Force. Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan […]
By News Source Guyana on February 22, 2016
News
U.S President Barack Obama has written to President David Granger expressing best wishes as Guyana observes its 46th Republic Anniversary and praising the return of local government elections in Guyana. Local Government Elections will take place on March 18, 2015. The last time local government elections took place was back in 1994. In a letter […]
By News Source Guyana on February 22, 2016
News, Politics
Speaker of the National Assembly Dr. Barton Scotland has upheld a decision by outgoing Chief Justice Ian Chang, who ruled on Friday that Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix and Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Keith Scott, ought not to sit in the National Assembly as technocrats. The Chief Justice, who was on retirement […]
By News Source Guyana on February 22, 2016
News, Politics
Newspaper Columnist and Political Activist Freddie Kissoon is not totally satisfied with the arrest and charging of three men who assaulted him six years ago. On Monday, he called on police investigators to do much more to ensure historic justice for other cases involving political violence. “The police need to go beyond me,” said Kissoon […]
By News Source Guyana on February 22, 2016
News, Politics
Former Presidential Spokesman under the PPP, Kwame McKoy, former Office of the President staffer, Jason Abdulla and self-confessed death squad member, Sean Hinds, were all granted bail in the sum of $100,000 each when they appeared in court this morning and were charged with the unlawful assault of newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon. The charges stemmed […]
By News Source Guyana on February 20, 2016
News
The Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry believes that the politician was assassinated as part of a state sponsored operation. The founder of the Working People’s Alliance was killed back in 1980 when a bomb exploded as he sat in a car in Georgetown. Although there was always suspicion that the then PNC government had knowledge […]
By News Source Guyana on February 20, 2016
Elections, News, Politics
Guyana’s Attorney General Basil Williams is disturbed by the recent judgment of outgoing Chief Justice (ag.) Ian Chang and the manner in which it was made. Justice Chang who proceeded on retirement leave earlier this year, came off of that leave to rule that two Government Ministers, Winston Felix and Keith Scott could not sit as technocrat […]
By News Source Guyana on February 19, 2016
News, Politics
Outgoing Chief Justice Ian Chang has ruled that Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix and Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Keith Scott, ought not to sit in the National Assembly as technocrats because their names were on the list of candidates for a political party. The two were selected as Technocrat Ministers and became […]