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July 10, 2025

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Voters must choose between “clear, realistic plans” and “empty noise,” People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Dr Bharrat Jagdeo said on Thursday, as he promoted his party’s development record and warned against divisive, recycled politicians ahead of the 2025 general elections. At his weekly press conference, Dr Jagdeo outlined what he described as a “clear […]

July 7, 2025

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Sub-headline: Former APNU member says only serious competition comes from Norton-led APNU With General and Regional Elections set for September 1, several new political parties have joined the race. But political commentator and former A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) member James Bond believes these emerging groups pose no real threat to the governing People’s […]

July 7, 2025

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A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) launched its 2025 general and regional elections campaign on Sunday at the Square of the Revolution, emphasizing a people-centred policy agenda aimed at tackling poverty and boosting quality of life across Guyana. Taking aim at what it described as the current government’s misuse of public resources, the coalition renewed […]

July 5, 2025

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Ronaldo Alphonso, a veteran gold miner and President of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association, has announced his endorsement of President. Dr Irfaan Ali for a second term, citing the administration’s track record in supporting the mining sector over the past five years. Alphonso, who has worked in the industry for more than two […]

July 4, 2025

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General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, on Thursday dismissed claims that the concept for the Ogle-to-Eccles highway originated under the former APNU+AFC administration, revealing documents to support the road was envisioned more than 20 years ago. Speaking at his weekly press briefing at Freedom House, Dr Jagdeo said the initiative […]

July 3, 2025

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Vice President Dr Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday affirmed that the government gave no directive to lobby firm Continental Strategy to establish any formal link between Azruddin Mohamed and Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro. “However, if our lobbyists—leveraging their extensive networks in the United States—have managed to cultivate such an association, and if a US congressman has […]

July 3, 2025

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General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, on Wednesday confirmed that Prime Minister Mark Phillips remains the party’s candidate for the upcoming general elections, dismissing rumours suggesting otherwise as opposition-driven disinformation. At his weekly press briefing at Freedom House, Dr Jagdeo rejected claims that Phillips would be replaced, asserting that the […]

July 2, 2025

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Former People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) executive Jermaine Figuera has cited a deep erosion of the party’s ideals of national unity, a decline in ethics and honour, the absence of visionary leadership, and a failure to uphold national duty as the principal reasons for his resignation. In a statement, Figuera said the leadership of the […]

June 30, 2025

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Former People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Executive Member, Thandi McAllister, has endorsed the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) for a second term, noting that her former party failed Guyana’s youth. Speaking during an interview on the programme Starting Point, McAllister, who also served as a PNCR youth leader and Region Three Party Chairman, left the party […]

June 29, 2025

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Two founding members of A New and United Guyana (ANUG), Senior Counsel Timothy Munro Jonas and Ralph Ramkarran, have resigned from the party with immediate effect. “This serves to inform that today I resigned as a member of A New and United Guyana,” Jonas announced in a Facebook post. Just minutes earlier, Ramkarran also made […]

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Jagdeo: Voters must choose between ‘clear, realistic plans’ and ‘empty noise

“Smaller Parties No Match for PPP” — James Bond

APNU Launches 2025 Campaign, Vows People-Centred Governance

Prominent miner endorses President Ali for second term

Ogle-Eccles Highway planned two decades ago

Jagdeo: Link may exist between Mohamed and Maduro’s regime

Jagdeo confirms Mark Phillips as PPP’s Prime Ministerial candidate

Absence of visionary leadership, racism push Figuera resignation from PNCR

Former PNCR executive says party failed Guyana’s youth

Timothy Jonas and Ralph Ramkarran resign from ANUG

Nephew questions teen's resort to violence in fatal dispute

Police sergeant arrested, SOCU seizes records in Springlands licensing office probe

Justice Anderson: panel-fixing allegations 'wholly untrue', influence claims 'entirely unfounded'

Nephew questions teen’s resort to violence in fatal dispute

Police sergeant arrested, SOCU seizes records in Springlands licensing office probe

Justice Anderson: panel-fixing allegations ‘wholly untrue’, influence claims ‘entirely unfounded’