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AFC Party Leader and Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan

GUYANA | AFC’s Ramjattan as prime ministerial candidate a non-negotiable with APNU

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 15, 2019 - The Alliance For Change’s (AFC) endorsement of party leader, Khemraj Ramjattan, as its prime ministerial candidate for the governing coalition, will not be changed.

June 16, 2019
Published in Politics

GUYANA | AG asks Caribbean Court to consider new evidence from Charrandass Persaud implicating Ramjattan

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 6, 2019 - Attorney General, Basil Williams has asked the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to take new evidence showing that then government parliamentarian, Charrandass Persaud, had known since 2015 that he ought not to have been a candidate because he holds dual citizenship.

June 7, 2019
Published in Politics

Minister of Agriculture, Lands and Fisheries Clarence Rambharat

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO | TT places ban on poultry products from Guyana

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, June 2, 20019 - THE Ministry of Agriculture, Lands and Fisheries has placed a ban on all poultry products from Guyana after a duck virus has been discovered in that country.

June 2, 2019
Published in Agriculture

Head of LIAT’s operations in Guyana, Orin Walton; Marketing Consultant at the Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority, Charmaine Browne-Spencer, and LIAT’s Corporate Communications Manager, Shamar Maloney.

GUYANA | Georgetown will remain on LIAT's schedule after restructuring

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 21, 2019 - Guyana is not expected to pay a huge guaranteed subsidy to the Antigua-headquartered regional airline, LIAT (1974) Limited because a significant number of travellers continue to fly to and from this destination, an airline spokesman said Monday.

May 23, 2019
Published in Tourism

GUYANA | GYD$3.4 billion parliamentary approval for electoral polls not connected to CCJ decisions – Finance Minister

GEORGETOWN, Guyanas, May 23, 20129 - Guyana’s National Assembly on Thursday approved GYD$3.4 billion for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to conduct general elections, but Finance Minister Winston Jordan said that has nothing to do with decisions the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) might hand down concerning several election-related cases.

May 23, 2019
Published in Politics

GUYANA | APNU+AFC wants Facebook to block PPP political ads calculated to rig elections

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (Demerara Waves) - May 13, 2019 - Fearing that the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has hired an American firm to post customised messages to Guyanese Facebook users’ accounts, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan has announced that the governing APNU+AFC coalition would ask that social media giant to block such messages that are calculated to rig Guyana’s next general election.

May 13, 2019
Published in Politics

President of the Caribbean Court of Justice, Adrian Saunders.

GUYANA | CCJ reserves judgment in challenge to Appeal Court decision

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, May 10, 2018 - The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday reserved judgment in the appeal brought by Guyana's Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, who challenged an appeal court ruling that invalidated a no confidence motion passed in the National Assembly on the 21st of December last year.

May 11, 2019
Published in Justice

Caribbean Court of Justice building in Port of Spasin Trinidad and Tobago

GUYANA | CCJ deliberating matters involving Dec. 21 No-confidence Vote

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Thursday, May 9, 2019 - The Trinidad based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), this morning, began hearing three cases stemming from the December 21, 2018 no-confidence motion by the Opposition People's Progressive party (PPP), resulting in a vote against the government, which was overturned by the Guyana Court of Appeals..

May 9, 2019
Published in Justice

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