Announcing that his administration would soon set up what he called a Public Service Staff College to ensure that public servants can “read, spell and count,” President David Granger yesterday warned that they would be promoted based only on merit and not because of who they might be related to or affiliated with.
The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) last night released results for 78% of polling stations, showing the incumbent PPP/C and the opposition alliance APNU+AFC neck and neck but angering the opposition alliance as many of the uncounted stations represented its stronghold.
As both of the major political campaigns announced results favouring them at Monday’s polls, the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) yesterday came under growing pressure to release official results but both Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally and Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield maintained that they were bound to follow the process stipulated by law.
Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) Dr Steve Surujbally last evening appealed to all political parties and citizenry to let peace and tranquility prevail as Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield reported that apart from a few glitches the country’s national and regional elections went smoothly yesterday.
Today marks 180 years of the arrival of the Portuguese in Guyana.
Buckling under pressure, President Donald Ramotar yesterday fired Dr Bheri Ramsaran as Minister of Health more than a week after a recording emerged of him verbally abusing activist Sherlina Nageer who yesterday labelled the sacking an “elections time gimmick”.
The issues that push activist Sherlina Nageer into action can vary from a boy’s genitals burnt by the police, protestors shot and killed, a woman dying after an illegal abortion, a child being raped or just a woman suffering a mental health breakdown.
Scores of persons yesterday expressed their outrage at Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran’s abuse of activist Sherlina Nageer and called for his resignation even as the PPP/C’s prime ministerial candidate Elisabeth Harper described his remarks as “unacceptable and an affront to women”.
The opposition alliance has now evolved into a movement that will break the “Berlin Wall of ethnic preference,” according to APNU+AFC prime ministerial candidate Moses Nagamootoo, who says Guyanese, particularly young people, are bringing real issues to the fore.
Head of the Child Care & Protection Agency (CC&PA) Ann Greene has described the case of the 14-year-old who was allegedly prostituted by her mother, and was then sent to the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) after she had escaped from the agency’s care as reflecting a certain “uniqueness.”
Sandra Granger is still getting used to being a politician’s wife but she firmly believes that her husband is the man to take the country forward, as he cares for the ordinary; she points out that there is so much wrong with the country and that those bearing the brunt of it are the young and the elderly.
By Oluatoyin Alleyne Photos by Arian Browne Describing his years in office as “very trying”, President Donald Ramotar last evening promised to focus on education, the sugar and rice industries, the housing sector and to improve security should the PPP/C be returned to power come May 11th.
The 14-year-old who was allegedly prostituted by her mother is now serving two years in the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) after being sentenced by a magistrate for escaping from the Child Care & Protection Agency, shortly after she was removed from her mother’s home.
As a ten-year-old growing up in a segregated United States of America, Rev Ken Steigler remembered being taught to treat everyone with respect and it was there that the seed of equality and justice for all was planted, which later saw him actively participating in the struggle led by the late civil rights leader Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jnr.
Eleven years ago, a young woman journeyed from Mexico to Guyana to determine the feasibility of opening an office for the business process outsourcing company with which she worked.
– says PPP/C has taken Guyana to a higher level Defending the policies of the PPP/C administration, the party’s prime ministerial candidate for the May 11 polls, Elisabeth Harper says that she would contribute her expertise should the party be returned to power while brushing aside corruption allegations against the government.
When Elisabeth Harper was announced as the PPP/C’s Prime Ministerial candidate recently the question many Guyanese asked was: “Who is she?”
She was sitting in her parked car one day when she suddenly realised that she could not move.
One woman related how she watched her sister suffer at the hands of a cruel fiancé, another spoke of how she endured years of abuse by a narcissistic husband who took her children in the end and another about how she watched her mother being tormented in the most horrifying ways for 14 years.
Even after repeated recommendations were made for the Ministry of Youth to launch an investigation into the operations of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) the status quo remains and young girls and boys continue to suffer in an institution that is supposed to rehabilitate them, APNU member Christopher Jones has said.
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