Politics

The government’s cost-of-living interventions helped to contain consumer prices throughout 2025, with the 12-month inflation rate estimated at 2.5 per cent at the end of the year, according to Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh. Dr Singh made the disclosure on Monday while presenting the 2026 National Budget to the National Assembly, noting that the […]

Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, says while the UN has served the world well over the past 80 years, it is time for that peace-keeping body to undergo crucial change. Speaking on the Starting Point Podcast, Ambassador Rodrigues-Birkett said, “We’re in the 21st century, and like any organisation…we need

While the 13th Parliament was convened on Monday without the customary feature address by President, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, the Guyanese leader has assured citizens that his presentation is forthcoming and it will outline his government’s “aggressive” and “transformative” agenda for social development. Speaking with career journalist and the host of the Starting Point Podcast,

CHAIRMAN of Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) and former long-time member of the People’s National Congress (PNC), Daniel Seeram has said that his decision to endorse the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) in the upcoming election stems from the PNC’s decline into what he described as an “unattractive” party that repels youth and progressive thinking.Seeram made these comments

–to campaign for his re-election to office IN a move that has stirred national attention, former APNU+AFC Member of Parliament, Jermaine Figueira, has declared his full support for President Irfaan Ali, highlighting leadership, performance, and vision as key reasons behind his endorsement. Figueira, who once served on the opposition benches, described the upcoming September 1

MINISTER within the Ministry of Housing and Water, Susan Rodrigues, has delivered a sharp critique of the opposition’s housing proposals, describing them as jokey and lacking in credibility when compared to the proven track record of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government. Addressing recent housing-related comments made by the opposition on the ‘Starting Point’ podcast,

FORMER People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) executive member, James Bond, did not mince words during a recent appearance on the Starting Point podcast. Addressing the current state of the party, Bond said: “The PNC is at its weakest. It’s at its weakest, and no amount of fluffing, no amount of posturing could change that.” His

YEARS after the controversial 2020 General and Regional Elections were held, former Minister of Business under the then APNU+AFC administration, Dominic Gaskin, has said that both parties continue to deliberately ignore the political crisis that followed and have failed to take meaningful steps to regain the trust of the electorate. Gaskin made this known while