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…Granger says ‘negotiations will not be marred by threats’ Leader of the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), President David Granger on Wednesday said that ongoing negotiations to revise the Cummingsburg Accord should not be marred by deadlines or threats. The Accord— the deal which the APNU signed with the Alliance for Change (AFC) to contest the 2015 General and Regional Elections— will expire next year. Hence, the two coalition partners have been in discussions for several weeks now to negotiate a revised agreement but have hit several snags along…

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The Opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has threatened to resume protest actions if President David Granger does not dissolve Parliament come next month. Having already set March 2, 2020 as the date for the much anticipated General and Regional Elections and issuing the election proclamation, pressure has been mounting on the caretaker President to also dissolve the 11th Parliament. But according to Article 61 of the Constitution, “An election of members of the National Assembly under Article 60 (2) shall be held on such day within three months after every…

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– Harmon says US citizenship officially relinquished Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency Joseph Harmon has confirmed that his United States citizenship has been officially relinquished by the United States Government and he is now ready to serve his country again as a member of the National Assembly post 2020 elections. During a post-Cabinet media briefing on Thursday, the former Minister of State said that he received a response from the US Embassy on October 8th that his application had been approved and the revocation took effect from July…

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GECOM Chair likely to change position on uncollected IDs Following mounting pressure from the Political Opposition, business community and civil society, Chairman the Guyana Election Commission (GECOM), Justice (rtd) Claudette Singh is likely to change her position on a controversial decision to strike off persons from the voters’ list who have not collected their National Identification Cards since 2008. A source told this newspaper that GECOM will have to put systems in place to allow persons who have not collected their ID cards to vote on elections day provided they…

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Instead of closing sugar estates and creating an economic and social vacuum, a fact-based approach that included impact studies should have been pursued by the Government. This is according to the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo, on the campaign trail in Canada. Jagdeo was at the time addressing members of the Association of Concerned Guyanese at a dinner in Toronto, Canada. He acknowledged that sugar needed transitional help but indicated that the Government’s approach was anything but transitional. General elections are due on March 2, 2020. While…

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…as Granger insists ‘I will choose PM candidate’ Leader of the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) – the majority party in the coalition government, David Granger, has stated that he will be deciding on a Prime Ministerial (PM) candidate who can deliver the best results at March 2, 2020, General and Regional Elections. Over the past weeks, APNU and AFC have been reviewing the Cummingsburg Accord – the agreement they signed to coalesce for the 2015 elections, which eventually got them into office. However, those talks have hit a…

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A 51-year-old man who admitted to United States Drug Enforcement Agents that he carried cocaine-laden suitcases as debt repayment has been slapped with drug trafficking charges and remanded to a US prison. Orwin Harry was busted at John F Kennedy (JFK) International Airport on October 27, 2019, with drugs just after he arrived on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Guyana. Reports are the 51-year-old man was carrying two pieces of luggage upon arrival in New York. A search was conducted and the cocaine was found concealed in false walls of…

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…over planned removal of names from voters list The latest manifestation of the desperation within the APNU/AFC coalition camp is the effort by the Government-nominated Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Commissioners to either disenfranchise eligible Guyanese voters or prepare the ground to invalidate the March 2020 General and Regional Elections. This is according to Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, during a news conference on Wednesday (October 30, 2019), where he referred to the recent decisions made by GECOM. At a prior meeting of GECOM, the Government-nominated Commissioners pushed to have some 28,000…

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