Guyana News

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is encouraging persons to visit its Tax Sites or to utilize the ‘Drop Box’ facility to submit their Income, Property, Corporation and Capital Gains Tax Returns which are due on or before April 30.

A man from Cullen, Essequibo was yesterday remanded on  a firearm possession charge when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Timehri Neighbourhood Market stallholders are at loggerheads with government over their relocation, with the vendors demanding compensation while Transport Minister Robeson Benn says they will not be paid and are to move by Monday.

APNU leaders say the coalition was forced to accept the increase of the old age pension to $10,000 as a trade-off during negotiations with government last week.

The PPP/C on Monday called on all “patriotic Guyanese” to reject “purveyors of division” and to support attempts being made to attain political consensus along political lines.

In the wake of budget cuts proposed by the opposition, the Private Sector Commis-sion (PSC) yesterday urged consensus in Parliament over projects that will benefit from the Low Carbon Develop-ment Strategy APNU and the AFC have proposed to effect budget cuts that could total as much as $20 billion and they target government’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), and  the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL), among other sectors.

Malaysia’s largest multifaceted company, the Wee Boon Ping Group of Companies, has signalled its interest in partnering with Guyana on a sustainable operation in the forestry sector and its chairman paid a courtesy call on President Donald Ramotar recently.

Contractors have until May 15 to submit bids for the construction of the specialty hospital planned for Liliendaal, Tarachand Balgobin, an officer attached to the National Procurement and Tender Board-Ministry of Finance announced on Monday.

Two Farmer to Farmer Programme volunteers, through Partners of the Americas, will be producing a video for Guyanese farmers demonstrating the different ways to monitor and control the Carambola Fruit Fly.

A man who allegedly intended to commit passport fraud was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee has said that with mining and oil exploration offering new economic opportunities, there is urgent need for a heightened level of security to ensure public safety.

Latin America and the Caribbean and European Commission Directorate of Development and Coopera-tion Jolita Butkeviciene says Guyana has lived up to expectations and has taken the lead in the Caribbean in implementing aspects of the Economic Partnership Agree-ment (EPA).

The Private Sector Commis-sion (PSC) on Monday met with representatives of Real Development Solutions, which is conducting a labour market assessment aimed at equipping 800 at-risk youth with skills to enter the work force.

(Trinidad Guardian) The award of a TT$.5 billion contract to the China Jiangsu International firm is a “worrying sign” for Government senator David Abdulah.

(Trinidad Guardian) Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh says he intends to take the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) to court concerning the 1,700 unfilled teaching vacancies in schools.

ROSEAU, Dominica,  (Reuters) – Spinner Nathan Lyon bagged three wickets as West Indies slumped to 165 for eight to leave Australia with a lead of 163 at the close of the second day of the third test today.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) are reporting that coming out of talks today held with the President at the Office of the President, Government is unwilling to budge on almost all of the issues that have been proposed and this will likely lead to the prosecution of cuts in the budget tomorrow.

The police say they are investigating an incident that occurred at about 1100h today at Coomacka Mines, Linden, where Linden Johnson of Wisroc Housing Scheme, Wismar, was shot and injured to his left thigh during a confrontation with an armed Bosai Mining Company Security Guard.

Police say that at about 1115h today, ranks responded to a report of a man armed with a cutlass behaving disorderly and using indecent language at No.

Police say that a post-mortem examination was today performed on the body of Merle Jordan by Pathologist Dr.