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Just one day after the Alliance For Change’s leadership met and later issued a strong statement calling for the stripping of some of the powers of the Minister of State Joe Harmon, the Chairman of the Alliance For Change, Nigel Hughes has tendered his resignation. While the AFC has not confirmed the resignation, in a […]
The Alliance For Change, which is the smaller party in the APNU+AFC coalition, is expressing concern over the centralized power that has been entrusted in the Minister of State, Joe Harmon. The AFC hosted a leadership retreat today and discussed the fallout over Harmon’s appointment of Contractor, Brian Tiwarie as a Ministerial Advisor. The appointment […]
President David Granger has rejected a call from local corruption monitoring body – Transparency Institute Guyana – for him to release the names of donors, both pre and post elections. Transparency Institute Guyana had made the call following recent revelations regarding the appointment of advisors, particularly that of Brian Tiwarie by State Minister Joseph Harmon. […]
Government on Thursday said it is prepared to defend the authority and actions of Community Minister Ronald Bulkan in selecting Council Heads in areas where there was an equality of seats in the recently concluded local government elections. The government’s statement follows a decision by High Court Judge, Diana Insanally to quash the appointments of […]
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” […]
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