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Presidential Candidate of the Liberty and Justice Party, Lenox Shuman is convinced that the Government and Opposition nominated members of the Elections Commission were deliberately trying to squeeze him out of the Presidential race. After the Commissioners initially announced that Shuman and two other Presidential Candidates would be barred from the elections because they might […]
PPP General Secretary and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has distanced his party from the recent report by the non-governmental group, Global Witness on the oil contract between the Government and ExxonMobil. Globa Witness chided the APNU+AFC administration for negotiating what it considered a bad contract and estimated that Guyana could lose up to US$55 Billion […]
The debate around the growing plantain chip industry and its potential has once again resurfaced and this time, the PPP’s Presidential Candidate, Irfaan Ali, believes that the product is one which his party understands better than the government. Ali made the assertion on Tuesday while addressing residents of Wakenaam – a small island which sits […]
The three Presidential Candidates who came under scrutiny over their dual citizenship and were almost removed from contesting the elections, will now be able to remain on their respective party lists and contest the elections. The Public Relations Officer at GECOM, Yolanda Ward told News Source this afternoon that the Elections Commission has made a […]
A Guyanese medical student who returned from China via Suriname last evening created mayhem at the Diamond Hospital after she was taken there from the Cheddi Jagan Airport to undergo an evaluation and additional screening as part of the protocol to deal with the coronavirus. News Source understands that the medical student and her relatives […]
The Government of Guyana has broken its silence on the highly controversial report on Guyana’s oil agreement with ExxonMobil and the government has pointed out that the report failed to identify any incidence of corruption and or malpractice. In a statement this evening, the coalition government said it believes the report was seemingly released to […]
One day after the Global Witness organisation released a report on Guyana’s oil industry, claiming that the country could possibly lose up to US$55 billion because of a “bad” contract with Exxon, the International Energy research group, Rystad Energy is looking at the actual benefits that Guyana will get, based on its own studies and […]
Barbadian Prime Minister and Chairman of CARICOM, Mia Mottley believes the region needs to move with the same alacrity to address violence as it is using to take on the global threat of the coronavirus. Ms. Mottley was in Guyana on Monday for a series of meetings with officials of the CARICOM Secretariat. She also […]
A large group of sugar workers from the Albion, Blairmont and Uitvlugt estates picketed the President’s office this morning, demanding that he gets Guysuco to increase their salaries. Armed with placards carrying slogans about the cost of living and the need for a salary increase, the workers and their union representatives said they want the […]
The Elections Observer Mission from the European Union has started its work with the first group of observers arriving in Guyana. The EU Observer Mission is here at the invitation of President David Granger. The teams from the mission will be dispatched to the various regions across Guyana in the run-up to and during the […]
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