By News Source Guyana on October 20, 2022
Elections, News
The Guyana government has announced that it will be convening a national stakeholders’ consultation on the draft amendments to Guyana’s electoral laws next Tuesday. The process will be led by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance. The Ministry said the consultation is an integral element of the Government’s commitment to implement a consultative, inclusive […]
By News Source Guyana on October 20, 2022
News, Politics
The Attorneys representing the State and Ramps Logistics (Guyana) are gearing up for a legal battle over the non-issuance of a Local Content Certificate to the company, months after its application was filed. The Ramps Logistics’ case against the Minister of Natural Resources, the Director of the Local Content Secretariat and others, came up in […]
By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2022
Crime, News
Despite attempts by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack to have Magistrate Leron Daly removed from hearing the Detective Dion Bascom Cyber Crime Case, the City magistrate will be presiding over the trial early next year. Last month, the DPP wrote Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Yonette Cummings requesting that Senior Magistrate Leron […]
By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2022
News, Politics
The mother of one of the two Berbice teens who were found murdered two years ago, has died suddenly. The woman Patricia Henry, was holding out for justice for her son Isaiah Henry and his cousin Joel Henry. Their mutilated bodies were found in West Coast Berbice backdam. Family members said the mother never got […]
By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2022
News, Politics
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) hauled an absent Attorney General Anil Nandlall over the coals this morning over the premature release of the embargoed decision of the Court in the election petition case, several hours before the decision was scheduled to be handed down. On the Facebook Page of the Attorney General on Tuesday, […]
By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2022
Caribbean & International, News, Politics
The Caribbean Court of Justice today ruled that the Guyana Court of Appeal had no jurisdiction to entertain the appeal in Elections Petition No.99 which was dismissed by Acting Chief Justice, Roxanne George last year on the grounds of technicality. The ruling effectively means that Petition 99, which the Coalition saw as the base of […]
By News Source Guyana on October 18, 2022
News, Politics
A new Board of Directors has been appointed at the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) as the Government remains hopeful that the cash-strapped, ailing Sugar Industry could be resurrected. Director General in the Ministry of Agriculture, Madanlall Ramraj has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors. The other Directors include Mohamed Rafeek, Roy Hanoman, Shaleeza […]
By News Source Guyana on October 18, 2022
Elections, News, Politics
With the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the 2020 General and Regional Elections set to commence public hearing in early November, the Secretariat is encouraging witnesses to come forward. In a pre-recorded interview released by the Department of Public Information (DPI), the Commission’s Secretary, Javed Shadick and Administrator, Colonel Ronald Hercules pleaded with ‘witnesses’ […]
By News Source Guyana on October 18, 2022
News, Politics
As the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the 2020 General and Regional Elections is set to commence in just over two weeks, Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton today said his party has no interest in the Commission which he believes is already marred by partisanship. He said his party will be focused on the election petition […]
By News Source Guyana on October 18, 2022
Elections, News, Politics
The Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired Justice Claudette Singh has written to the Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall informing him of a possible period for the conduct of Local Government Elections, GECOM’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Yolanda Ward has confirmed. According to Ward, the letter was dispatched to the Local Government […]
