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The Public Servants Staff College which was promised by President David Granger days after being elected, will become operational next month. The President has been lamenting the need for public sector reform to build what he envisions to be a neutral and professional public sector. In an invited comment on Wednesday, President Granger announced that the […]
While most of the country was fast asleep this morning, just after 3 o’ clock, the National Assembly passed the Budget following a marathon consideration of the budget estimates. Some amendments were made to ensure a number of agencies that have been removed from under government ministries, now have their own funding. On August 10, […]
A visiting staff team delegation of the United States Congress is in Guyana and has been meeting with the political leaders. On Wednesday evening, the visiting delegation along with the Chargé d’ Affaires at the US Embassy Bryan Hunt and other embassy officials met with Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo and a PPP parliamentary team. The […]
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo is upset with the front page of today’s edition of the Guyana Chronicle and believes the state-owned newspaper was not objective in its reporting of yesterday’s consideration of the budget estimates. The front page of the Tuesday August 25th edition of the Chronicle screamed “Govt. blunders on budget estimates…violates laws assented […]
A quarrel ensued between the Government and the Opposition on Tuesday over the appointment of two persons from the APNU+AFC’s list of candidates for the 2015 elections as Regional Executive Officers (REOs). The issue came up during the consideration of the 2015 estimates of expenditure in the National Assembly where several opposition Members of Parliament pressed […]
It was just after midnight and the Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo had just led his party in a walk out of the National Assembly, when Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo blasted the former President and his People’s Progressive Party of not having the ability to lecture anyone about security matters. During his 90-minute budget debate presentation, […]
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo lashed out at Minister of Finance Winston Jordan over the $221 Billion 2015 budget which is the first of the three-month old, APNU+AFC coalition government. In a rambling late night presentation, Mr. Jagdeo went over his allotted speaking time of one hour by more than 30 minutes as he warned the […]
Member of Parliament for the People’s Progressive Party and former Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee on Thursday blasted the Government over its decision to tighten up on the country’s immigration policy. Over the past few weeks, Guyana has refused entry to a number of foreign nationals who arrived in the country without a valid […]
Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira slammed the government with accusations of “trickery” as Leader of the House and Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo presented a motion to reduce the number of days for the consideration of the estimates of expenditure to three days from seven. The motion was eventually passed when put to a vote but […]
The Speaker of the National Assembly may be forced to have the final say in what appears to be a growing fall out between the Government and Opposition over the position at which Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo will offer his contribution to the budget debates. The Opposition People’s Progressive Party is pushing for the former […]
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