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President David Granger and a Government team met this morning with a visiting delegation of US Congressmen and other US officials. The issues of Guyana’s emerging oil and gas sector as well as the border controversy with Venezuela were among the items that were discussed, according to a statement from the Ministry of the Presidency. […]
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo admitted on Thursday that he did not receive any request to meet with the team of US Congressmen who wrapped up a two-day visit to Guyana today, but he wants to know why there was so much “secrecy” surrounding the visit and the meetings with the Government. At a Thursday afternoon […]
Two former Chiefs of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force will now be sitting on the Executive of the People’s National Congress Reform. Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best and Retired Brigadier Edward Collins have both been elected to the party’s Executive Committee. The two are among the new faces on the PNC’s highest decision making […]
A US Congressional team is in Guyana on an official familiarsation visit. The visiting Congressmen held talks yesterday with Natural Resources Minister, Raphael Trotman. Today they will meet with President David Granger and are expected to depart later today. The US Embassy has been tightlipped about the visit, but the Government of Guyana has welcomed […]
Over three hundred teachers in the mining town of Linden turned out at the LICHAS building at Mackenzie today to show their full support of the move by the Guyana Teachers Union to begin a nationwide strike action from next week. GTU President Mark Lyte and a team from the Union traveled to the community […]
Hours after being declared the new Chairperson of the People’s National Congress Reform, Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence, was back at her party’s headquarters to host the Congress of its women’s arm, the National Congress of Women. She spoke to News Source during the lunch break and laid out some of her plans for the […]
Though she is still to decide on whether she will seek her party’s backing to be its next Presidential Candidate for the 2020 elections, Opposition Chief Whip and longtime PPP Executive Member Gail Teixeira, admits that Volda Lawrence’s rise to the Chairmanship of the People’s National Congress, might be a push for her to seek […]
As the countdown begins to the November 12 Local Government Elections, the Opposition, People’s Progressive Party is raising concern with the Guyana Elections Commission about a recent decision by the Minister of Communities to declare Mahdia as a new town and add a number of new Neighbourhood Democratic Councils in several areas. The PPP at […]
Longtime member of the People’s National Congress Reform, Volda Lawrence has been elected as the new Chairperson of the party, the second highest position in Guyana’s second oldest political party. The results of the elections were announced just after midnight. Lawrence replaces fellow party member, Basil Williams, who was hoping to be re-elected to the […]
A motion put forward by the Atlanta Chapter of the People’s National Congress for the name of late President Forbes Burnham to be added to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, has been forwarded to a Special Committee of the party. The suggestion was made during Saturday’s session at the ongoing Biennial Congress of the People’s […]
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