Guyana News

(Jamaica Gleaner) Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) is not backing down despite threats of legal action by telecommunications giant Digicel following a raid at the company’s New Kingston head office on Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Yohan Blake brought the curtains down on the individual events at the JN Jamaica International Invitational World Challenge meet in Kingston with a blistering world-leading 19.91 seconds in the 200m race last evening.

(Trinidad Express) Central Bank governor Ewart Williams is more concerned that the industrial relations climate rather than the current political situation could have more of an impact on investors’ desire to get into the local economy.

(Trinidad Express) Police from the Southern Division Task Force yesterday formed a human shield to block the podium at a public consultation on the highway to Point Fortin held by the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure at the Debe High School after it turned into a shouting match.

(Trinidad Express) Former Caribbean Airlines (CAL) chairman George Nicholas has lashed out at Finance Minister Winston Dookeran, saying he has “failed his people”.

Slow movements on projects have resulted in the US$70 million deposited by Norway into the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) remaining in the World Bank-controlled account over two years after Oslo agreed to pay for Guyana to protect its forests.

Photos by Shabna Ullah   Most of the residents of No 29/Trafalgar Village, West Coast Berbice, located about 48 miles from Georgetown are engaged farming.

A teenaged boy who was unconscious up to press time last evening after the taxi he was in plunged into the Sussex Street Canal in the vicinity of Cemetery Road has passed away, police said this morning.

A 42-year-old boat captain of Number 28 Village, West Coast Berbice lost his life at DeVeldt, Berbice River when a tug crashed into a boat he was in around 4 am yesterday and a man is in custody assisting police with investigations into the death.

A 69-year-old US citizen who was beaten in the head with a galvanized pipe by a mentally challenged man on Wednesday last, yesterday succumbed at the Woodlands Hospital while receiving treatment.

The police are on the hunt for the driver who struck down and killed a La Grange, West Bank Demerara, fish vendor early yesterday morning.

Since the Henry Greene matter generated such public interest, we present below a view of Chief Justice (ag) Chang’s ruling in the case.

Since the Henry Greene matter generated such public interest, we present below a view of Chief Justice (ag) Chang’s ruling in the case.

Rennis Morian – APNU Pastor Rennis Morian’s mission in the National Assembly is to be one of the driving forces behind the development of Region 10 and to “clear up some of the misconceptions” about the region.

Attorney Gino Persaud was last month elected as the new president of the anti-corruption non-governmental organisation (NGO) Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI).

Leader of the Opposition David Granger says he has agreed in principle to meet the Private Sector Commission (PSC) over its concerns about the $21 billion budget cuts but intends to take its request to the executives of the APNU before confirming.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon on Thursday refuted Ralph Ramkarran’s claim that the PPP had opposed the cut-off of state advertisements to Stabroek News in 2006, saying that while there was disagreement among executive members, they ultimately backed the decision.

Coming off the “phenomenal success“ of the concert by Bollywood singer, Sonu Nigam, the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha is now closer to making a shelter for abused children a reality by the end of the year, Dr Vindhya Persaud of the Sabha has said.

Alliance for Change MP Moses Nagamootoo last Friday called allegations by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) that the party was trying to divide sugar workers and spark protest action, “malicious and reckless”.

Caricom foreign ministers who convened in Suriname on May 3-4 have described Venezuela’s objection to Guyana’s application for an extended continental shelf as regrettable.