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Leader of the Opposition and former President Bharrat Jagdeo has denied that the People’s Progressive Party received any money from the BaiShanLin Chinese company as funding for its 2016 elections campaign. Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the PPP had received over $100 Million from the BaiShanLin group as a campaign donation. Mr. Jagdeo said […]
Just hours after a new Mayor and Deputy were sworn in for the Town of Mabaruma, High Court Judge, Diana Insanally, quashed the appointments along with appointments of the Chairmen and Vice chair for five Neighbourhood Democractic Councils. The appointments were challenged by the PPP on the grounds that in the Mabaruma municipality and in […]
Newly elected Councillor of the City of Georgetown, Winston Harding, who won his constituency by a landslide has declared that he has no intentions to resign from the City Council, although allegations of child molestation were lobbied against him over a decade ago. Harding who was a candidate for the APNU+AFC saw the APNU pulling […]
Former Deputy Mayor and longstanding Councillor for the Georgetown municipality Ms. Patricia Chase Green has been elected the new Mayor of the Capital City. Chase – Green’s nomination was unchallenged after being put forward by Councillor Oscar Clarke and seconded by Alfred Mentore. Fighting back tears, Chase-Green thanked God, her team and the citizens of […]
The opposition People’s Progressive Party on Thursday called out the coalition government over what it said was a growing habit of secrecy. Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira was very critical of the government on the issue of the appointment of Presidential and other Government Advisors without full disclosure in the National Assembly and to the […]
by Kurt Campbell The Guyana Elections Commission is being criticized for its apparent sloth and alleged inaccuracy with the declarations of the just concluded local government elections. The issue was called into question by Opposition Leader Bharrat during a press conference on Thursday afternoon. Mr. Jagdeo insisted that the People’s Progressive Party’s victory was “massive” […]
The Guyana Elections Commission has updated voter turnout percentage and according to a statement from GECOM on Monday afternoon, 47.1% of the eligible voters took part in the elections. Of the 507,584 persons who were on the list of electors, 236,323 valid votes were cast. Just over 2000 votes were rejected. The municipality of Linden […]
The American, British and Canadian Diplomats in Guyana met at the Canadian High Commission in Georgetown on Monday afternoon to reinforce their joint statement that Friday’s Local Government Elections were transparent, free and fair. United States Ambassador Perry Holloway, British High Commissioner Greg Quinn and Canadian High Commissioner Pierre Giroux, all agreed that nothing was […]
The People’s Progressive Party has declared that the results of the just concluded Local Government Elections ought to be seen as a referendum on the nine-month old APNU+AFC government, although the APNU+AFC has held on to all of its bases and the PPP has done the same. The party believes it has been able to […]
The Opposition People’s Progressive Party wants a full investigation into the alleged “abuse” of state resources by the APNU+AFC government during the campaign for the just concluded local government elections. Although claiming that it was victorious at the Local Government Elections, the PPP in a statement said it intends to take the issue of abuse of […]
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