Guyana News

Guyana and the United States yesterday signed an agreement for greater cooperation in tackling offshore tax evasion by allowing for reporting on the local holdings of US citizens to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

A 56-year-old businesswoman was yesterday morning found bound and gagged in her Mahaicony home following a suspected robbery and the police have since arrested a teenager for questioning in connection with the discovery.

A taxi driver is being questioned by the police after a businessman whom he chauffeuring was robbed of millions on the Georgetown seawall yesterday.

Two men pulled off a daring daylight robbery early yesterday morning at the Woodlands Hospital and escaped with in excess of $3 million.

The twin-engine Cessna plane found at the Yupukari Airstrip, in Region Nine, originated from Colombia and residents had found it almost a month before an official report was made to authorities last month, according to the preliminary findings of Brigadier (Ret’d) Edward Collins.

The Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) will be closed from December 1 until mid-2018 to facilitate US$6.7 million (approximately $1.4 billion) in repairs to its interior and immediate surroundings.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan yesterday took issue with criticisms by the Auditor General of government’s spending last year, while stressing that the public debt payments are mostly up to date and defending the administration’s resort to the Contingencies Fund.

The government has spent over $40 million to purchase shares held by a Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) subsidiary in the Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI), Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has confirmed.

The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) last evening said that Antinfek has not replaced chlorine to treat water in Guyana, but that it is being researched by the utility, although documents have indicated that the chemical is being used in wells at Bartica, Diamond and Hillfoot, Linden-Soesdyke Highway and that $3.6 million have already being paid to the local subsidiary of the Thailand-based company Dove Biotech in a single source process.

Vendors due to take up spots at the reconstructed Kitty Market are concerned about the apparent lack of ventilation at the facility, which is scheduled to open on November 1.

A lack of statistics on poverty here is a fundamental problem in addressing the country’s human rights situation and its challenges.

The sunken dredge that had blocked the Mazaruni River for months has finally been completely removed.

The knowledge generation and sharing capabilities of the Coordinating Unit of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV&AIDS (PANCAP) relating to the new World Health Organization (WHO) ‘test and start’ guideline is expected to be enhanced with the help of the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project.

The son of Nichola Joseph, who is accused of killing her common-law husband, yesterday testified that on the day of the alleged crime he heard what sounded like a scuffle between the arguing couple and later saw the deceased bleeding from the chest.

High Commissioner of Canada to Guyana Pierre Giroux gave up his seat temporarily on Friday last to allow Guyanese teenager Kendra Warner to be High Commissioner for a day.

Workers and customers of the Hua Supermarket located at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, were yesterday robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash during a mid-morning attack by gunmen.

A route 40 (Kitty/ Campbellville) bus driver and his conductor, who were charged with unlawfully wounding passengers, had the charges against them dismissed last week.

A teenager, accused of two gun-point hold ups in the South Ruimveldt and East La Penitence areas, was yesterday remanded to prison by a city magistrate.

The supply of drugs to Region One (Barima/Waini) by Minister within the Ministry of Public Health Dr Karen Cummings was not enough and the region is once again left to deal with a shortage.

A man who was charged with having illegal firearm and ammunition in his possession and stealing a little over $1 million in items, was remanded to prison last week when he appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman.