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Aubrey Norton
“The PNCR wishes to make it clear that as your government-in-waiting, as part of the coalition, we will remove the burden of personal income tax from our people,” he said. Mr. Norton said the scrapping of the income tax was an “enduring obligation” to Guyanese “given the current favourable economic circumstances from oil and gas.”
In the 2022 National Budget, the government increased the income tax threshold to GY$75,000. (app $375US/month). Continue reading
May 26, 2021 Kaieteur News – Today we at Kaieteur News join with the rest of the Nation to celebrate our 55th Independence Anniversary. In doing so we recognise that it was because of our resilience that we still stand as a Nation today. May we continue to embrace the words of our Motto – One People, One Nation and one Destiny – as we move forward.
PEOPLE’S NATIONAL CONGRESS REFORM
Aug 01, 2020
On the first of August 1838, descendants of Africans in Guyana regained their freedom after two centuries of enslavement. Every August, therefore, it is fitting that the entire Guyanese nation should participate in the public celebration to commemorate not only the bloody sacrifices of the Africans who struggled, suffered and were slaughtered for the sake of the freedom we all enjoy today but also the birth of the nation itself which was the consequence of Emancipation.
Scenes from yesterday’s protests Georgetown
Scenes from yesterday’s protests Lethem
The protests were staged in Georgetown, Linden, Lethem, Port Kaituma, Anna Regina, Coldingen, Corriverton, New Amsterdam, La Grange, and Bartica.
Opposition member and former Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, who was on the frontline of the Georgetown protests. Continue reading
— By Winston McGowan – Stabroek News – October 4, 2002
(Left to Right): Jainarine Singh, Sidney King (Eusi Kwayana), Forbes Burnham. Janet Jagan, Cheddi Jagan, Joseph Latchmansingh and Ashton Chase – 1953
British perceptions of Guyanese politicians in 1953: Cheddi Jagan
1953 was one of the most momentous years in the history of British Guiana- now Guyana. It witnessed two striking but contrasting events. Firstly, in April the country had a general election under a new constitution distinguished by universal adult suffrage and the grant of a measure of ministerial responsibility to the winning political history. The election resulted in a convincing victory for the People’s Progressive Party, led by Cheddi Jagan with Forbes Burnham as his chairman. The PPP won 51 per cent of the votes cast and 18 of the 24 seats in the new House of Assembly. Continue reading
Stabroek News – 03 January 2019
Bharrat Jagdeo
The presidential candidate for the People’s Progressive Party to contest the upcoming general elections will be named before the month ends and not by the end of this week.
Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo told Stabroek News that according to the timeline “around the third week in January” the Central Committee of the party should vote for the candidate. Continue reading
Ralph Ramkarran
There, he acknowledged that Ramson recently announced publicly that he would seek the PPP’s nomination to be its presidential candidate for the 2020 general elections. But, Jagdeo chided Ramson and said that he deviated from party principles. Continue reading
Jagdeo predicts 4 or 5 seat PPP election victory
Bharrat Jagdeo at Babu John, Port Mourant 2018
Demerara Waves – March 11, 2018
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo forecasts a 50,000 vote defeat of the governing coalition if more of his People’s Progressive Party supporters are registered and go out to cast their ballots at the next general elections.
Under the proportional representation electoral system, a seat is equivalent to about 5,000 votes. The A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change barely clinched a one-seat majority in the 65-seat National Assembly at the May, 2015 general and regional elections. Continue reading
The 50th independence anniversary was a show to remember
I was in the United States in 1994 when the ice hockey team, the New York Rangers, won the Stanley Cup. It was the first time in 54 years. One spectator threw his head back and proclaimed, “Now I can die happy.” The year was the same when O.J. Simpson led the police on a slow speed chase, because they wanted to arrest him for the murders of Ronald Goldman and Simpson’s wife, Nicole Brown-Simpson.
I felt the same way as that fan when the land of my birth celebrated its 50th independence anniversary. I saw the greatest influx of overseas-based Guyanese. They kept coming with every flight that landed at the Cheddi Jagan and Ogle International Airports.
I happened to be coming home from Trinidad when some of them were arriving. The welcome was out of this world, something that none of them could have got anywhere else in the world. That set the tone. Continue reading
HAPPY ARRIVAL DAY – 2019
HAPPY ARRIVAL DAY
PEOPLE’S PROGRESSIVE PARTY
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) takes this opportunity to extend greetings to all Guyanese, home and abroad, on the occasion of Arrival Day. May 5th, the designated day, is of much significance in commemorating the arrival of our ancestors who came to these shores from various parts of the world.
They braved the dark seas during their grueling journey here, at different points of our history, and laboured to make this land their home. Despite the hardships faced, they were resolute in their endeavours to preserve their cultural traditions and values which have shaped our lives. Continue reading →
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