IDPADA-G sees recently announced money for Afro-organisations as separate from its subvention

Chairman of the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly – Guyana (IDPADA-G) Coordinating Council, Vincent Alexander today said the recently announced money that will be given to 55 Afro Guyanese organisations by the Government does not relate to the subvention that should be paid over to IDPADA-G. Hours after the High Court took […]

Afro-Guyanese being excluded from Guyana’s oil wealth -MP Walton-Desir tells US National Action Network Conference

Opposition Member of Parliament, Amanza Walton- Desir has called for a collective approach to deal with the issues faced by people of African descent in different parts of the world, especially in countries like Guyana. Speaking at the 2023 National Action Network Convention in New York which had the US Vice President Kamala Harris and […]

LGE-2023: Independent Candidates hope for breakthrough in race for City Council

Leader of the recently formed Independent Citizens for Progress (ICP), Bobby Vieira believes that once elected to the municipality of Georgetown, his group will be able to advance much needed change for the country’s capital city, Georgetown. Vieria stated that while Guyana has been independent for more than fifty years, Georgetown has seen little to […]

Jagdeo welcomes PPP newcomers as party eyes clean sweep at LGE

With a large band of supporters during the nomination day proceedings today, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is hoping to make a clean sweep across the 80 Local Authorities Areas come June 12 when the Local Government Elections are held. Moments before the PPP submitted its List of Candidates for the Municipality of Georgetown, General […]

LGE-2023: Patricia Chase-Green and Malcolm Ferrier among PPP Georgetown Candidates for Local Elections

Former Mayor of Georgetown and APNU Councillor Patricia Chase-Green has gone red for the upcoming local government elections. Chase-Green who was last elected to the Georgetown City Council under the APNU banner in 2018 has emerged as one of the new faces for the governing People’s Progressive Party in the upcoming elections. The former Mayor […]

Off-duty Presidential Guard dies in East Bank Demerara crash

An off-duty Police Corporal who was attached to the Presidential Guard Unit, lost his life early this morning after losing control of the Toyota Land Cruiser vehicle that he was driving at the time. A Police statement said 24-year-old Kevin Narine was driving at a fast rate along the East Bank Demerara public road at […]