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On the heels of the recent state visit to Guyana by the President of Ghana, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Guyana-Ghana Chamber of Commerce. The agreement seeks to provide the platform for cooperation between the two chambers in the area of trade and business development […]
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is making it clear that the ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice on the issue of the Elections Commission Chairman has not changed the Guyana Constitution. The CCJ in its ruling found that the President’s unilateral appointment of a GECOM Chairman was flawed and not in keeping with the Constitution. […]
The meeting between representatives of the President and the Leader of the Opposition in the GECOM Chairman selection process continued on Tuesday with the Government side rejecting five of the eleven resubmitted nominees put forward by the Leader of the Opposition. Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency Joe Harmon told reporters after the meeting […]
On the same day that the Attorney General moved to the Appeal Court over a judgment that could see the Finance Minister facing jail time for not honouring a Court order to pay over US$2million in a judgment against the state, the President has stepped in and granted the Finance Minister a respite of the […]
Having failed to get the Full Court to put a stay on a High Court Judge’s order for the Finance Minister to pay up a judgment against the Government or face jail time, the Attorney General has now taken the matter to the Court of Appeal. The case is related to the awarding of judgment […]
Representatives of President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo are scheduled to meet this afternoon to begin “hammering” out the process for the official submission of nominees for the position of GECOM Chairman. Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan and Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency Joe Harmon […]
One day after the Opposition Leader had what he described as a “fruitful” meeting with the President, he was out with his party’s Presidential Candidate and scores of supporters in the pouring rain outside the President’s office calling for “early elections”. The PPP brought several of its supporters to the city on Friday to join […]
The largest party in the APNU+AFC Coalition, the People’s National Congress Reform is fully behind the President’s position that there must be a clean voters list to ensure credible elections. President David Granger is the Leader of the PNC/Reform, while his Public Health Minister, Volda Lawrence, is the party’s Chairperson. It was Lawrence who hosted […]
A meeting between President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo was described as “fruitful” as the two sides start the process for the appointment of a new Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission. The two leaders were accompanied by other representatives of the Government and Opposition at the Ministry of the Presidency meeting this […]
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo this afternoon tore into African Rights Activist and Executive of the African Cultural Development Association Eric Phillips. At his weekly press conference, Mr. Jagdeo, who has fired off at Phillips over his lease of state lands, stated that he has been doing more for the Afro-Guyanese community than Phillips ever will. […]
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