By News Source Guyana on July 3, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
The opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic has gone to High Court seeking to prevent APNU+AFC Ministers Winston Felix and Keith Scott from serving as Members of Parliament. The Party’s contention is that the two Ministers cannot sit in the National Assembly because their names were not extracted from the coalition’s list of candidates. The Court action was filed […]
By News Source Guyana on July 2, 2015
News, Politics
by Gordon Moseley in Bridgetown, Barbados In what may probably be his strongest statement on the ongoing threats to Guyana’s territory by Venezuela, President of Guyana, retired Brigadier David Granger blasted Venezuela’s continuing claims to Guyana’s territory and said it is time for CARICOM to let its commitment to Guyana be known when it comes […]
By News Source Guyana on July 2, 2015
News, Politics
There is a push for youths of the CARICOM region to be given more attention and for systems to be put in place to ensure their development and their involvement in decision-making. Outgoing Chairman of CARICOM, Prime Minister of the Bahamas Perry Christie told the opening of the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in Barbados […]
By News Source Guyana on July 2, 2015
Caribbean & International, News, Politics
As the 36th Meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government opens at the Hilton Hotel in Barbados, the regional body is still to offer a definitive statement on the latest decree by Venezuela which claims Guyana’s oil rich territorial waters. While The Commonwealth, the Organisation of American States and the United States government have all […]
By News Source Guyana on July 2, 2015
News, Politics
Former Minister of Tourism Irfaan Ali is clearing his name in the over $1M ‘free fuel’ scam involving unnamed former government officials, their families and friends. On Wednesday, Minister of State Joseph Harmon disclosed that the Ministry Tourism along with the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Home affairs were under the radar […]
By News Source Guyana on July 2, 2015
News
Dynamic Airways has declared that the “hard and challenging days” which plagued the airlines in its early days of operations are over, as it celebrates its first anniversary in Guyana. Airline officials have disclosed that the carrier is now transporting hundreds of Guyanese between Georgetown and New York on a weekly basis with little or no […]
By News Source Guyana on July 2, 2015
News, Politics
President David Granger has confirmed that he has been invited to meet with his Venezuelan counterpart, President Nicolas Maduro on the outskirts of the CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting in Barbados. Speaking to News Source in Bridgetown, President Granger said “I am prepared to meet” but he made it clear that the recent decree by […]
By News Source Guyana on July 2, 2015
News, Politics
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban-Ki-Moon on Thursday encouraged CARICOM Heads of Government to remain focused and fully engaged in strengthening the partnership for global sustainable development. The UN Secretary General told the opening of a Conference for Sustainable Development for Small Island States that the year 2015 is a year of global […]
By News Source Guyana on July 2, 2015
News
The Guyana Police Force has issued a wanted bulletin for 39-year-old promoter FREEMAN FORDYCE whose last known address has been given as Lot 271 South Ruimveldt Gardens. Fordyce is wanted in connection with the probe into the abduction and attempted murder of wash bay owner, Devon Chung. Chung was snatched from just outside his Durban Street […]
By News Source Guyana on July 1, 2015
News, Politics
by Gordon Moseley in Bridgetown, Barbados President David Granger arrived in Barbados on Wednesday afternoon for the CARICOM Heads of Government Meetings and immediately made it clear that he intends to press CARICOM to strongly condemn Venezuela’s decree claiming Guyanese territory and he wants the regional body to do so in more than just one paragraph. […]