Civil society organisation concerned about govt’s ‘party card’ reason for removing Jadoopat from transparency initiative

Article 13 – a Guyanese, the pro-inclusionary democracy organisation, on Sunday took the Guyana government to task for removing Dr Rudy Jadoopat as the Coordinator  of the Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GYEITI) on the fake grounds that he is a member of the Alliance For Change (AFC). The non-governmental organisation indicated that it was … Read more

‘YOU GOT TO GET A DILDO. THAT IS WHAT YOU NEED.’ – Nigel Dharamlall

A New and United Guyana (ANUG) today called for the removal of Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall over his ‘dildo’ remark in Parliament last week. ANUG, which is one of three parties holding a seat in Parliament, said such behaviour has no place among the leadership of the country.  An abridged … Read more

VICE and the VP

To see our Vice President fumbling for words the other evening in his interview with VICE Media was not pretty. His typical press conference begins with a two-hour monologue touching on every issue, many of which are outside his chief cook and bottle washer portfolio. Local media operators tolerate these because most of them are … Read more

Judge dismisses Irfaan Ali’s challenge to ‘Pradoville’ fraud charges

Former Minister of Housing and presidential hopeful of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Mohamed Irfaan Ali has lost a challenge to the validity of 19 fraud charges levelled against him over the sale of land in the ‘Pradoville 2’ Housing  Scheme, resulting in him now having to go to trial. The decision paving the way … Read more

Irfaan Ali on 19 fraud charges over Pradoville Two

Nineteen charges of conspiracy to defraud by common law, were yesterday instituted against former PPP/C Minister of Housing, Mohammed Irfaan Ali by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), after nearly two years of investigations. The charges, which detail offences alleged to have occurred between the period of September, 2010 to March 30, 2015, are in … Read more