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Following yet another meeting on Tuesday, Opposition-nominated Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Commissioners contended that their time was spent on further fruitless discussions, with no decision as to the way forward being made. Immediately after Tuesday’s statutory meeting, Opposition-nominated Commissioner Sase Gunraj gave some insight into what was discussed. According to Gunraj, the production of identification (ID) cards was placed on the agenda. However, he said that these proposals could delay elections by months. “Wasted day… we are nowhere closer to the decisions of holding elections. We sat down and dealt…

A Dundee, Mahaicony woman, who suffered a massive stroke, died in a fire at her Queens, New York home late Tuesday, the ABC New York news has reported. Firefighters were called to the building on 219th Street in Queens Village as the flames quickly spread, and cell phone video showed the intense flames shortly after 11 p.m. Authorities say 63-year-old Azmin Jaomin, a former security guard who recently suffered a stroke and lived in the home with the help of a home health aid, was found dead after the fire…

On August 29, 2019, Guyana’s Ambassador to the United States Dr. Riyad Insanally and President of the United Guyanese Diaspora Global Network, Corp. (UGDGN) Mr. Wayne Forde, signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the Embassy of Guyana in Washington, DC. According to a release from the Embassy, the primary aim of this MoU is to enhance cooperation between the Embassy and UGDGN, an umbrella body for Guyanese Diaspora organisations in the USA, aimed at strengthening engagement between the Government of Guyana and the Guyanese Diaspora. In his remarks, Ambassador Insanally…

…as Liza Destiny arrives in Guyana Director of the Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe has announced that Guyana’s first oil production vessel, the Liza Destiny, has arrived in the Stabroek Block. “This is a historic and momentous occasion for the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and all Guyanese. The FPSO’s arrival means that we are no more just talking about first oil. First oil is on the horizon. The Liza Destiny’s arrival means that our timetable has moved forward and, as a policy-related body, we are also called upon to…

Former US congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in her column for the Orlando Sentinel said on Tuesday that following the series of appeals and months of legal battles following the passage of the No-Confidence Motion in December 2018, setting the stage for future elections, hopefully, a date will be set soon. Ros-Lehtinen, a politician and lobbyist from Miami, Florida, in her column said that Guyana has roughly the population of her former congressional district, but noted that the size of the country’s population should not fool anyone. “Today it (Guyana) is on…

…as H2H set come to a halt On the heels of a decision by Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairperson, retired Justice Claudette Singh, to halt House-to-House Registration by Saturday, the Secretariat has decided to increase working hours for its staff in the fields. According to a statement from the Commission, staff will now have to work from 10:00h to 19:30h. Previously, enumerators worked varying hours based on which geographical region they were based and whether they worked on weekdays or weekends and holidays. For instance, enumerators working in Regions Two…

…after Ghana Exec touts job opportunities for countrymen in Guyana Tullow recently found oil in Guyana, but it was the Managing Director at Tullow Ghana Ltd, Ghanaian Kweku Awotwi, who was quoted touting the job opportunities that would open up for his fellow Ghanaians in Guyana. The British oil company is, however, affirming that efforts will be made to hire as much Guyanese as possible for its local operations. In an interview with this publication, Tullow’s Head of Communications, George Cazenove, when asked directly about Awotwi’s claims that half of…