Tag: Opposition
Sherwin Benjamin is new PNC/R General Secretary
The main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNC/R) on Thursday announced the appointment of Sherwin Benjamin as the party’s new General Secretary.
He replaces Dawn...
Speaker walks out of Chambers as Opposition MP refuses to withdraw...
The Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr. Barton Scotland was forced to leave the Chambers this evening (Friday, June 16, 2017), when the Opposition...
Opposition fears reversal of poverty levels
Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira speaking during the May Day rally on Monday (May 1, 2017) said workers regardless of political affiliation are apprehensive and...
Suitable person for GECOM chairmanship exists says Granger amidst Opposition’s concerns
By Stacy Carmichael-James
Despite the Opposition’s difficulty in finding nominees to fit the criteria outlined by President David Granger for the position of Chairperson of...
Taxpayers hit with “double whammy” following $605 M drug procurement scandal-PPP
By Stacy Carmichael-James
Several questions were asked by the Opposition in the National Assembly on Tuesday as it relates to the over 600 million dollars...
PPP raises fresh concerns about the President undermining the Constitution; calls...
By Stacy Carmichael-James
The Opposition People’s Progressive Party is once again raising concerns regarding the President eroding the Constitutional provisions citing the case of him...
New judicial appointments to resolve shortage of judges and backlog of...
By Stacy Carmichael-James
President David Granger has acknowledged that there is a shortage of judges at the Court of Appeal, hence his administration in moving...
Partial privatization in sugar industry and other standards are steps to...
The Government, Finance Minister Winston Jordan recently disclosed has been doing some work in the ailing sugar sector. He revealed too that the Berbice...
PPP puts Gov’t on blast for subverting procurement laws; calls for...
By Stacy Carmichael-James
Executive member and former Cabinet Secretary under the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration, Dr. Roger Luncheon today lashed out at the APNU+AFC...
OPINION: Another Week, another scandal
By: Mohabir Anil Nandlall, MP
Attorney-at-Law
Transparency and accountability in the public procurement process was perhaps the most fundamental issue on the political platform of the...