Guyana News

The need to have better metrics to measure development in the country was highlighted and emphasised at the most recent symposium.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has procured the services of Alnoor Kassam, the former head of the Canada Revenue Authority’s oil and gas operations to help develop its administrative capacity for taxation in the sector.

A multi-stakeholder team was last week deployed to Eteringbang, Region Seven, to assess a number of undocumented Guyanese who are returning from Venezuela.

As is customary when a notable person of the region passes on, the horns of the Linden Bauxite Company on Wednesday blared, signalling that former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Horace James had died.

First Lady, Sandra Granger, on Monday encouraged 40 youths drawn from several communities across Linden, Upper Demerara-Berbice to capitalise on the chance to learn Information and Communication Technology (ICT) so that they can take advantage of the employment opportunities in that sector.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan last month appointed the Director of Juvenile Justice,  William Orrin Boston, who will now head the Juvenile Justice Department at the Ministry.

Five days a week, Kameela Doodnauth dons a long-sleeve shirt, gloves, long pants, socks, sneakers and a cap, jumps on her bicycle and rides around sections of Georgetown selling hot and spicy snacks to provide for her family.

Opposition-appointed GECOM commissioner Sase Gunraj today warned about dilatory behaviour at GECOM in relation to the preparation of timelines for the holding of general elections.

(Reuters) – West Indies clinched a decisive home series victory against England when they beat the visitors by 10 wickets in the second test in Antigua today.

Insisting that elections have to be held by March 21st, PPP general Secre-tary Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday called on the government to comply with the constitution in keeping with the ruling by the Chief Justice upholding the validity of the no-confidence vote passed against it.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has collected in excess of $198 billion in tax revenue for the year 2018.

Amid unease due to threats made to injure students of the School of the Nations and the subsequent shooting of its principal outside his home on Sunday, a security plan was yesterday presented to parents but some remain concerned that the planned measures are not enough.

Since a Prime Ministerial (PM) candidate is expected to come from the Civic component of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) alliance, executive members of the PPP will meet next week for discussions with senior Civic members on potential picks.

In light of Thursday’s ruling that it is unconstitutional for persons holding dual citizenship to be Members of Parliament (MPs), PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday announced that the PPP/C’s Chief Whip Gail Teixeira has indicated that she will give up her Canadian citizenship.

(Trinidad Newsday) Six years of living on a Nigerian boat off Claxton Bay has ended for five Guyanese seamen.

In the event that the National Assembly is reconvened to consider extending the deadline for the holding of general elections, those members who have dual citizenship will have to be replaced in light of the recent ruling by Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire, according to attorneys who were involved in the litigation.

In a sign that early general elections are imminent, governing coalition A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) officially launched its campaign committee yesterday at Congress Place, Sophia.

The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) yesterday blamed water supply problems currently being experienced in Berbice on low voltage and appealed to Berbicians to be patient as the company works with the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

The New Amsterdam Public Hospital’s Accident and Emergency (A&E) Care Unit is to be separated from the Outpatient Unit after it was discovered that those patients who were not deemed emergency cases have been made to wait long hours for treatment.

A family is seeking over $2 million in compensation from the police for medical expenses incurred by a Strathspey, East Coast Demerara man, who had to undergo emergency surgery and hospitalisation due to injuries they say he suffered while in police custody.