Guyana News

Almost one month after he “partially appealed” the August 14th judgment by acting Chief Justice Roxane George on the removal of registrants from the Guyana Elections Commission’s national register, the Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams has filed for a stay of execution of the order issued with the ruling as he maintains that residency is a requirement for registration.

A little more than four years after it promised to restore collective bargaining for all the relevant elements of the public service, the APNU+AFC government is receiving mixed to negative reviews on its progress.

Four members of the Guyana Police Force, including the Commander of ‘F’ Division Kevin Adonis and the recently reinstated Simon McBean, were promoted on Wednesday by the Police Service Commission (PSC).

In the face of a warning by the police force that it would seek to prevent a recurrence of the disorder caused by the People’s Progressive Partys (PPP) protest against President David Granger last Thursday, the opposition party yesterday maintained that it did no wrong and would continue to stage such demonstrations countrywide until a date for elections is fixed.

The Board of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) is divided on the apology sent by the organisation to President David Granger over the behaviour of the opposition PPP members who disrupted his speech at its luncheon last Thursday.

Six Guyanese are now ISO certified hydraulic excavator operators after completing a three-week ISO course in Suriname.

A new full service freight forwarder, logistics and consolidation company, Cargo Consolidators Agency Guyana Inc. (CCA Guyana Inc.) was launched on Friday evening.

Following the Bar Council of the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) declaring that APNU+AFC government is operating outside the rule of law, the Office of the Attorney General (AG) yesterday rejected the assertion and suggested that the body has become “minion” to a political party.

A new, fast growing variety of cassava will soon be cultivated by farmers in Region Nine, says Chairman of the Regional Agricultural Committee Rodger King.

The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G) will be hosting its second annual conference today when participants will discuss a number of issues that Afro-Guyanese are facing, in addition to finalising a strategic plan for the remaining years of the decade.

In hopes of regaining outstanding licence fees, the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) has filed lawsuits against two broadcasters who it says have refused to pay.

Since becoming operational last year, the investigative department of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has dealt with nearly 50 complaints and the single largest number concerned alleged racial discrimination in the workplace.

The Opposition PPP today chided the police force for a statement it issued yesterday warning against a repeat of the disorder stemming from a protest outside the Pegasus Hotel on Thursday against President David Granger.

The Attorney General’s Chambers today rejected a contention by the Bar Council that it is presently operating outside of the rule of law.

After serving 10 years in a United States prison for drug trafficking, Roger Khan returned to Guyana last night and was kept in custody by police pending investigations of his alleged involvement in the murders of political activist Ronald Waddell and boxing coach Donald Allison.

While maintaining that government has not breached the constitution, coalition members the Alliance for Change (AFC) and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) yesterday voiced their hope that a date for elections will now be swiftly identified.

The Ministry of the Presidency yesterday denounced the behaviour of opposition party leaders and their supporters during a protest on Thursday as “hooliganism and thuggery” that would not be tolerated, even as they maintained that they were acting within their legal rights.

By failing to abide by the Constitution, the APNU+AFC government is operating outside of the rule of law, according to the Bar Council of the Bar Association of Guyana.

Workers at the Charlestown Health Centre yesterday staged a “sit-in” to protest the lack of armed guards at the medical facility.

Seventy-nine residents of Matthews Ridge, in Region One, on Thursday received leases for their lands from Minister of State Dawn Hastings-Williams and Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission Trevor Benn, the Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP) has said.