Guyana News

Caricom Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has noted that some provisions of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) have implications for the banks and financial institutions in the region.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday said that the restoration of the long withheld subvention to the Critchlow Labour College could be a step towards healing wounds.

The two parliamentary opposition parties yesterday said they are prepared for early general and regional elections, amid concerns in some quarters that government is becoming increasingly frustrated at APNU and AFC’s exercising control in the National Assembly.

Kaneville, East Bank Demerara residents want relief from their potholed roads, which they say leave them stranded in their homes whenever it rains.

The National Assembly last evening passed the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill  2012 which puts the legal framework for the announced increase from the Income Tax threshold from $40,000  to $50,000 per month.

An Agricola man was yesterday accused of using threatening language to his mother when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry who placed him on $25,000 bail as well as a bond to keep the peace.

Stabroek News in its Wednesday edition in a news item headlined `Ex–soldier charged over murder of miner at Puruni’ incorrectly stated that the accused Ayedeli Woolford pleaded guilty to four of five charges read to him.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday expressed deep concern  at what it said was the obvious breakdown in communication between the government and the Opposition on the 2012 budget.

Guyana’s new Apostolic Nuncio Holy See, Italian Archbishop Nicola Girasoli has pledged to do his best for the greater good of the country, when he presented his credentials to President Donald Ramotar at a brief swearing in ceremony hosted at the Office of the President on Monday.

Guyana was yesterday elected to the Executive Board of the United Nations Children’s fund (UNICEF) and to the Programme Coordination Board for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A Brazilian man was remanded to prison on Tuesday by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a charge of illegal possession of a firearm.

(Trinidad Express) Unlawful, unworkable, impractical. These were some of the terms used yesterday to describe the decision of the Government to withdraw on a phased basis from the Privy Council.

The 2012 budget was finally passed tonight after the joint opposition excised $20B of its original $192.8B.

The combined opposition this evening voted in Parliament against $224.4 million in allocations for the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit, the Ethnic Relations Commission and the State Planning Secretariat.

ROSEAU, Dominica, (Reuters) – Shivnarine Chanderpaul became the 10th batsman to reach 10,000 test runs as he headed West Indies’ attempt to avoid defeat in the third and final test against Australia today.

The two parliamentary opposition parties today said they are prepared for early general and regional elections, amid concerns in some quarters that government is becoming increasingly frustrated at APNU and AFC’s exercising control in the National Assembly.

With Guyana still to tap major funding under its forest services deal with Norway, the AFC has questioned the legality of including just over $18 billion of the funds in the National Budget and has signalled that it intends to cut the entire allocation.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona, has issued an advisory to students warning that they will not be allowed to sit their final exams this semester, unless they have cleared their tuition balances.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – While Iamgold is negotiating with the government about expansion of the Rosebel Goldmines (RGM) in Brokopondo, it has caused much speculation on international stock markets by mentioning more expansion plans in the Americas.

A Partnership for National Unity today defended cuts it helped engineer in the budget provisions for GINA and NCN saying that non-political management of these two media outfits was needed.