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President Irfaan Ali while admitting that he has not seen a copy of the certificate of renunciation of US Citizenship for his Tourism Minister, indicated today that he is comfortable with her explanation on the issue. “She is an honourable woman”, the President told reporters on Monday morning as he explained that he believes she […]
Despite her claims that she renounced her American citizenship before taking the oath as a Member of Parliament, the APNU+AFC Coalition has issued a call for the Minister of Tourism, Oneidge Waldron to resign over her dual citizenship. In a statement on Saturday, the Minister admitted that she was still a dual citizen when she […]
The APNU+AFC Coalition has issued a call for the Guyana Elections Commission to put itself in a state of readiness to begin a house to house registration process that would ensure a clean and credible voters list. During the coalition’s weekly press conference today, Executive Member Aubrey Norton said with the election petition cases moving […]
PPP Member of Parliament Sanjeev Datadin has been appointed as a Special Prosecutor in the Police criminal charges filed against the Chief Election Officer and the Deputy Chief Election Officer and the Attorneys representing the two officials have objected to the move. Attorney Nigel Hughes today told the Court that Mr. Datadin is a sitting […]
Days before Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield was set to go on trial to face private criminal charges filed by the PPP and New Movement party, in relation to allegations of electoral fraud, the Director of Public Prosecutions has informed the Court of a decision to withdraw the private charges. However, the charges which were […]
A group of supporters of PNC Chairperson Volda Lawrence picketed outside the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions over the charges being faced by Ms. Lawrence in relation to allegations of electoral fraud. The protesters were loud in their call for the charges to be dropped in wake of the decision by the same […]
The Attorneys representing PPP General Secretary, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, in the election petition cases have signaled their intention to file applications in the matter over the service of the petitions to their client. Senior Counsel Douglas Mendes during the case management conference for the election petition cases this afternoon raised questions about the serving […]
Describing one of the election petition cases as a full-blown trial, Chief Justice (ag) Roxanne George intends to hear the two cases together despite concerns by the Attorneys for the two petitioners. Attorneys Mayo Robertson and Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde who are representing the petitioners in the two cases told the Chief Justice that while […]
In its effort to support online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has announced that it will be allowing students to visit a number of educational websites without an internet data plan. The decision follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Education (MOE) […]
Two of the three prisoners who escaped from the Lusignan jail on Tuesday night have been recaptured. Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels confirmed this morning that the two prisoners, Alex Matthias and Arnold Kennedy were recaptured late Wednesday along the Zeelugt Public Road, East Bank Essequibo. The two who are already before the Court on […]
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