Guyana News

Three months later, the Tax Review Committee that President Donald Ramotar established is still to meet and start its work of revamping the country’s tax system and reports are rife that one of the persons on it might have expressed reservations in light of the many criticisms of it.

APNU MP Carl Greenidge has served notice of parliamentary motions aimed at securing the independence and autonomy of the Courts, the Office of the Auditor General and the service commissions by ensuring that they are funded by a direct charge on the Consolidated Fund rather than by an allocation from the government.

Matthew’s Ridge and Arakaka residents are opposed to the recently-installed  Interim Management Committee (IMC) at the Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) in Region One, saying that it was set up without consultation with the two communities.

Residents of Coomacka Mines, Region 10 are demanding preference over Lindeners for the extraction and sale of scrap metal from the area but senior officials from the custodial body are accusing them of overstepping their boundaries and vandalizing state property.

A row over a laptop from a non-existent company has pitted Mayor Hamilton Green  and the IT department against Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green and councillor Junior Garret and the treasurer is reportedly to take responsibility for the matter.

APNU MP Carl Greenidge is to move a motion in parliament calling for Hansard (the official record of parliamentary proceedings) for the years 1985 to 1992 to be made available.

Cabinet on Wednesday offered its no objections to a contract of $157 million for the supply and delivery of reagents and diagnostic supplies for HIV/AIDS and related areas, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said at his post cabinet meeting.

A Venezuelan man accused of threatening behaviour  was remanded to prison on Tuesday by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A man told the court yesterday that he would be honest and so he would plead guilty to behaving disorderly but he was not guilty of having any illegal substance in his possession.

US Ambassador Brent Hardt met with two Guyanese women entrepreneurs who recently participated in the Caribbean Women Entrepreneurship Forum in Washington DC.

Births at some private hospitals are not being registered, according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon and government is looking to deal condignly with this unconstitutional practice.

President Donald Ramotar will lead a delegation to Cartagena, Colombia for the Summit of the Americas next week, Head of

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Bells rang from Roman Catholic churches throughout Havana today to remember the death of Jesus Christ as Cubans celebrated a holiday on Good Friday for the first time in more than half a century.

(WICB) BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Feisty West Indies leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo said he was ready for what he believes could be a career-defining battle against Australia’s batsmen in the Digicel three-Test Series.

(WICB) BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Narsingh Deonarine said he has returned to the West Indies team a different man from the one who left two years.

Twelve CARIFORUM (CARICOM plus the Dominican Republic) firms will have the opportunity to pitch their business ideas to prospective investors, distributors and retailers in London during the upcoming Olympics.

In letters in today’s newspaper Help and Shelter joined others calling for the immediate removal of Police Commissioner Henry Greene from office and activist Karen de Souza pointed out that there had been no response to complaints about him to the Police Service Commission and the Police Complaints Authority.

(Reuters) – A New Jersey man who survived accidentally shooting a 4-inch ( 10-cm) n ail into his heart while trying to clear a jammed nail gun said today he feels like he won the lottery.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Five people in southern China have been charged with intentional injury in the case of a Chinese teenager who sold a kidney so he could buy an iPhone and an iPad, the government-run Xinhua News Agency said today.

SANFORD, Fla., (Reuters) – “Shaken Baby Syndrome” was cited today in the defense of George Zimmerman, the Sanford, Florida, man who shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in a case that has sparked a widespread public outcry.