The Chief Elections Officer has not made an official declaration.
The Chief Elections Officer has not made an official declaration.
This strategy must have two aims: (i) to ensure a free and fair elections based on a new voters list of residents, tighter polling station procedures, and other such systemic measures on registration, voting, counting, and recounting
The crisis for PPP rapidly worsened with other parallel and subsequent developments. These include its mishandling of the EPA, the EIAs and other environmental matters; its resistance to conducting a full feasibility study for the gas-to-shore pipeline project; the unilateral imposition of a paltry 7% salary increase for public servants after offering nothing in the previous two budgets; and the lack of a confidence-building and consistent strategy to deal with the on-going COVID threat.
The Guyanese public is fully aware that Minister Juan Edghill’s revelations about gifts received by former Ministers Patterson and Ferguson are more about personal and political grudges rather than about public accountability. The PPP ministers have themselves benefitted from this practice. No one is therefore fooled by the hypocrisy and self-righteousness of Edghill and his…
CONPOV is watching developments surrounding the invitation for a meeting by President Irfaan Ali to former Presidents of Guyana. The former Presidents alive today are Presidents Granger, Ramotar, Jagdeo, and Hinds. What is the purpose of this invitation? Optics or genuine motives? It is known that Ramotar and Hinds hold no sway or influence in…
CONPOV is closely watching at developments surrounding the proposed Corentyne River Bridge. A few days ago, the PPP announced plans to invite investors to build the Corentyne River Bridge. It said it will be a public-private partnership (PPP), just like the Berbice River Bridge. A similar PPP arrangement was used for the Berbice River Bridge,…
This September, the 12th Parliament established fourteen committees. CONPOV views these committees as a crucial collective force in any real effort to prevent, expose and penalize government corruption, lawlessness, and bungling. The more the government feels it is beyond scrutiny and penalty, the more it will ride roughshod over the rights and endowment of Guyanese….
On 3rd December, Chief Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire SC blocked a government move to deport 26 Haitians from Guyana pending a full hearing. Let us accept upfront that immigration policy must consider several weighty issues, such as border and national security, refugee settlement, social integration of immigrants, trafficking in persons, and international agreements. Which foreigner gets…
The COVID pandemic continues to sweep relentlessly throughout most of the world. In the US, it has spiraled out of control. Many European countries are bracing for a second wave and have reimposed lockdowns. And in Guyana? Our numbers continue to rise daily. We currently have a death rate of 17 in every 100,000. Only…
The PPP has so far not made overt moves to touch the oil revenue that the coalition government has securely banked away in the Natural Resources Fund. No doubt, many Guyanese remain deeply skeptical about the PPPs self-claims of honesty, and what will happen when it eventually puts its hands on hundreds of millions of…