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The Guyana Elections Commission today announced that members of the Joint Services will be casting their ballots on the 21st of February, one week before the rest of the country heads to the polls for the regional and national elections. Speaking to media operatives this morning during the offloading of the ballot at GECOM, the […]
Presidential Candidate of the Liberty and Justice Party, Lenox Shuman is convinced that the Government and Opposition nominated members of the Elections Commission were deliberately trying to squeeze him out of the Presidential race. After the Commissioners initially announced that Shuman and two other Presidential Candidates would be barred from the elections because they might […]
The International Court of Justice today announced that it will be moving ahead with public hearings in the Guyana vs Venezuela case concerning the 1899 Arbitral Award. The Public Hearings will take place from the 23rd to the 27th March at the Court in the Hague. In a statement this afternoon, the ICJ said the […]
PPP General Secretary and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has distanced his party from the recent report by the non-governmental group, Global Witness on the oil contract between the Government and ExxonMobil. Globa Witness chided the APNU+AFC administration for negotiating what it considered a bad contract and estimated that Guyana could lose up to US$55 Billion […]
The European Union officially launched its elections observer mission in Guyana today. The full-fledged mission is the first of its kind to be deployed to Guyana by the EU during the general and regional elections. The Chief Observer and EU Foreign Minister, Urmas Paet noted that the European Union (EU) is not concerned with the […]
The debate around the growing plantain chip industry and its potential has once again resurfaced and this time, the PPP’s Presidential Candidate, Irfaan Ali, believes that the product is one which his party understands better than the government. Ali made the assertion on Tuesday while addressing residents of Wakenaam – a small island which sits […]
The three Presidential Candidates who came under scrutiny over their dual citizenship and were almost removed from contesting the elections, will now be able to remain on their respective party lists and contest the elections. The Public Relations Officer at GECOM, Yolanda Ward told News Source this afternoon that the Elections Commission has made a […]
The RUSAL Bauxite company is expected to consider rehiring the 326 workers who were terminated earlier this week following an undertaking by the union to facilitate the unblocking of the Berbice River. But the union is adding conditions to any move to have the river unblocked. The bauxite company has been blaming that blockage for […]
A Guyanese medical student who returned from China via Suriname last evening created mayhem at the Diamond Hospital after she was taken there from the Cheddi Jagan Airport to undergo an evaluation and additional screening as part of the protocol to deal with the coronavirus. News Source understands that the medical student and her relatives […]
The Government of Guyana has broken its silence on the highly controversial report on Guyana’s oil agreement with ExxonMobil and the government has pointed out that the report failed to identify any incidence of corruption and or malpractice. In a statement this evening, the coalition government said it believes the report was seemingly released to […]
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