Mark McGowan

Sharing one platform last evening, several groups called on President Bharrat Jagdeo to revoke the four-month suspension handed out to CNS Channel 6 owner CN Sharma before the elections date is announced.

The government yesterday failed to deliver on its promise to liberalise the telecommunications sector during the life of the Ninth Parliament, with the deferral of two bills it said was critical to the process.

The National Assembly has voted against a controversial motion which sought to institute legislation to hold persons criminally responsible for wilfully infecting others with HIV.

PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar does not believe that the contents of the recently released Wikileaks cables will negatively impact on his presidential bid, since nothing “earth-shattering” has been revealed.

As the lone female candidate so far to have tossed her hat into the presidential race, the United Force’s Valerie Garrido-Lowe feels she has an advantage because she brings different qualities to the table simply by being a woman.

Ambassador Irwin LaRocque yesterday morning became CARICOM’s seventh Secretary-General and identified the reformation of “the architecture and governance of our integration arrangements” as key if the Secretariat is to be more effective in its mandate.

The new Telecommunications bill proposes the establishment of a Telecom-munications Agency which will receive and review applications for licences, but GT&T, Digicel, E-Networks Inc, Quark Communications Inc. 

When residents of North Timehri heard the sound of a plane landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) early Saturday morning, many thought it was just a routine touchdown. 

“I born and grow here. My great-great-grandfather is the founder of this place,” Samuel Bernard says with some amount of pride. 

In front of several hundreds gathered last evening at the Square of the Revolution for an APNU campaign rally, WPA co-leader Dr Rupert Roopnaraine made an overture to the “good” members of the ruling PPP to join the coalition as its gears up to contest the 2011 regional and general elections.

The long-delayed Broadcasting Bill was yesterday passed in the National Assembly, where it was condemned by the main opposition PNCR-1G as a travesty of justice, but received support from the AFC.

The National Assembly yesterday passed legislation to facilitate the reopening of a new round of Claims and Objections to the preliminary voters list, but without the support of the AFC.

Residents of St Cuthbert’s Mission are plagued by an inadequate water supply, and the Village Toshao Earnest Dundas is appealing for the installation of a “bigger water system” to benefit the expanding community.

Following a 3-2 vote by commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally yesterday announced that a new round of Claims and Objections will be held to facilitate the registration of persons who were previously unable to register.

‘We are sounding the death knell of winner-take-all politics. Never again must 51percent behave like 100 percent and 49 percent  be treated as zero.’

The National Assembly yesterday unanimously passed an amendment that will see free movement in the region for more categories of skilled labour, even as government members tried to defend the PPP/C’s record in office after criticism over the migration of skills.

A fisherman is feared dead after his boat capsized yesterday afternoon in the Demerara River, some distance off the Herstelling foreshore.

The setting sun, chirping insects and rough water as it flowed over the rocks all fused to contribute to the picturesque setting that greeted us as we arrived at Tumatumari – a small village tucked away in the Potaro River in Region 8.

Moments after two men approached her Robb Street home asking for “auntie”, a 72-year-old woman last evening had six bullets pumped into her by one of the men.

Government yesterday staunchly defended the evaluation process for the first tender for the supply of computers for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project and said that Giftland OfficeMax was disqualified because it submitted a “counterfeit” Lenovo computer sample.