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Former Deputy Chief Elections Officer, Roxanne Myers has been awarded $2 Million by the High Court in compensatory damages for wrongful arrest and detention. She filed the matter more than three years ago. Myers was arrested on October 6, 2020, after she turned herself in at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters in the company […]
Four years after the highly controversial 2020 Elections which were dogged with claims of fraud, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has assured that there are “safeguards in place to prevent multiple voting and other forms of skullduggery on Elections Day,” as the country prepares for national elections in 2025. In a direct response to calls […]
The Alliance For Change (AFC) is demanding a “comprehensive” update from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on measures being implemented to improve the country’s electoral system. The 2020 elections spanned a period of five months from polling day to the final results being released, with the major parties claiming electoral fraud. At a recent press […]
Three days into the trial of 9 persons for their alleged involvement in conspiring to defraud the electorate during the 2020 Elections, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo wants the presence of the International Community in the local Court to observe the trial. At his press conference this afternoon, Mr Jagdeo said that given the Diplomatic Community’s […]
By Svetlana Marshall The electoral fraud trial entered its second day today with State Prosecutor Darshan Ramdhani clashing with Defense Attorney, Eusi Anderson, over the repeated objections by the Defense, and a move by the Court to bar the Prosecution’s witness from mentioning one agent of the APNU+AFC, who is not a party to the […]
Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton today declared that the country is in crisis, as it faces high levels of corruption under the current Government. Citing a number of alleged cases of corruption, the Opposition Leader said corruption is now creeping into a number of institutions across the country. He accused the Government of fueling […]
Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat, has denied that he was questioned or interrogated by US Authorities upon arrival in New York on Thursday evening. However, he has stated that courtesies were extended to him when he arrived in New York and he chatted with the agents “about Guyana’s development”. Contacted via WhatsApp, the Minister […]
The first meeting of the new Constitutional Reform Commission took place today at the Commission of Inquiry Secretariat on Middle Street in Georgetown. At the meeting, Minister of Governance Gail Teixeira was voted in as the Vice Chairperson of the Commission, which has retired Chancellor, Justice Carl Singh as its Chairman. Teixeira was nominated by […]
Newly elected Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC), David Patterson and Executive Member, Dr Vincent Adams, have been appointed to head the party’s Oil and Gas Advisory Committee, while AFC Leader, Nigel Hughes will recuse himself from the Committee amid concern that there is a conflict of interest over his law firm, Hughes, Fields […]
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo today hinted at a possible investigation into what he considers a historical conflict of interest relationship between ExxonMobil Guyana and recently elected Leader of the Alliance For Change, Nigel Hughes. The Hughes, Fields and Stoby Law Firm, of which the recently elected AFC Leader serves as a senior partner, is one […]
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