Johann Earle

Shadow Finance Minister Carl Greenidge will not be attending a proposed meeting between the government and opposition tomorrow to discuss this year’s budget, since he is yet to be convinced that the administration is interested in anything more than a public relations show.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has filed a Constitu-tional Motion in the High Court seeking to overturn a parliamentary vote on the composition of the Commit-tee of Selection, maintaining that the make-up of several key committees must be based on the proportionality of seats that parties won at last November’s election.

China and Guyana yesterday signed two agreements that would see the former providing more than US$7.2 million ($1.4 billion) in grant aid to further technical and economic cooperation and provide fire fighting equipment.

The combined opposition further asserted itself in Parliament last evening, as it forced the deferral of financial papers for extra-budgetary sums, citing a lack of transparency.

The Opposition yesterday defeated the Government on a vote to determine the composition of the key Committee of Selection as the new dispensation in Parliament manifested itself.

Executives of Sithe Global, the developer of the Amaila Falls Hydro Project, are counting on the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to provide critical financing for the project.

The Alliance For Change’s (AFC) leader Raphael Trotman, a former member of the PNCR, is the new Speaker of the National Assembly, an historic first for the opposition in Guyana’s parliamentary history that also saw the position of Deputy Speaker going to APNU’s Deborah Backer.

Alliance For Change Leader (AFC) Raphael Trotman has confirmed that he has been selected by the opposition parties as the consensus candidate for the post of Speaker of the National Assembly following the withdrawal of previous AFC nominee Moses Nagamootoo.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) will soon occupy the multi-storeyed CLICO building on Camp Street as the asset that was sold to the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is put to economic use as part of the effort at recovering its investment in the failed financial company.

Opposition parties APNU and AFC are still deadlocked over who should be the Speaker of the National Assembly, while the government yesterday voiced its concern over the ongoing negotiations between the two parties outside of the agreed tripartite engagement.

The German government has come to the aid of Guyana’s Protected Areas Systems (GPAS) with an injection of US$6.5 million for Phase 2 of the project, which was initiated 15 years ago to protect some of the country’s richest biodiversity sites.

With the seeming loss of credibility of the Kimberley Certification Scheme nine years after its coming into being, there is less confidence in the market that diamonds are ‘clean’ but a former head of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) believes Guyana still has strong mechanisms for trading in the gem.

With the seeming loss of credibility of the Kimberley Certification Scheme nine years after its coming into being, there is less confidence in the market that diamonds are ‘clean’ but a former head of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) believes Guyana still has strong mechanisms for trading in the gem.

Brian Tiwari, Managing Director of BK International, blames the delays in the granting of tax and other concessions for hindering the start of some sea defence projects and he reiterated his company’s ability to manage the large European Union-funded contracts and to complete them by the contract date.

The Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT) yesterday continued its call for Commissioner of Police Henry Greene to resign amidst recent allegations of assault that a female has made against him and the shooting of protesters with rubber bullets earlier this month.

The Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT), a group of young activists affiliated to A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), said that it had nothing to do with a list of businesses slated for boycott as reported in an article published in Sunday’s edition of the Guyana Times.

Santa Rosa, North West District villagers say that many of them still don’t have a full understanding of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), which they will need to make a fully-informed decision on whether they should opt-in.

The political will to fight corruption, a demanding public wanting action and prosecutions of guilty public officials are key for a country to improve its ranking on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), a visiting official of international watchdog Transparency International says.