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GUYANA: Politics: Oil Fund: Opposition to ramp up protests against new NRF law

12/31/2021 – 12:06 am

 …  threatens court action against ‘wholesale thievery of oil money’

Scenes from the protest outside Arthur Chung Convention Center yesterday as Opposition MPs join in

December 30, 2021- Kaieteur News – Scores of Guyanese on Wednesday picketed in front of the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC)—where a sitting of the National Assembly was being held to protest their opposition to the Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) Government’s rush to pass a new Natural Resources Bill, which many have since condemned as a move to legalise wholesale thievery of Guyana’s oil revenues.

The Bill aimed at replacing the NRF Act in place already in order to give sweeping powers and control over the oil fund and its use by the sitting President.          Continue reading →

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GUYANA: Politics: Sweeping changes on PNCR’s Central Executive – Elections December 18, 2021

12/21/2021 – 12:03 am

By December 20, 2021.
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Only three members from the PNCR’s last Central Executive were returned at the election held on Saturday December 18, 2021.
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The trio are former GDF Chief of Staff Gary Best who secured the highest number of votes: 618, Parliamentary Chief Whip, Christopher Jones who garnered 586 votes and another former GDF Chief of Staff Edward Collins who notched up 521 votes.

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