Guyana News

Today is the final day to file returns for Value Added Tax (VAT) and Excise Tax (ET) for February and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) said in a press release that it was concerned over the “slow rate of returns.”

Guyanese are reminded that there is an urgent need to conserve on water, in view of the low level of the Lamaha Canal owing to the prolonged dry season, as the world marks World Water Day today.

Work on the surfacing of the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) has not yet begun as a suitable “binder” has not yet been found.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) recorded a 51% increase in profit after tax for 2006, which was $506 million, compared to $334.2 million in 2005.

It seems as if the 2008 Presidential race has the face of a changing America and there is history in the making.

Education Minister Shaik Baksh’s announced plan to ban all cellular phones in schools across the country has raised the concerns of some parents and some students are also unsettled.

A report on the services sector released on Monday, revealed that computer-related and environmental services have high export potential, while communication, road transportation and tourism-related services are best reserved for domestic supply.

Drug indicted businessman Peter Morgan was further remanded yesterday, when he made another appearance in a Trinidad Magistrate’s court.

The six former Republic Bank employees who were dismissed on Tuesday, following the disappearance of $8 million from an ATM even though no evidence implicated them, feel that their human rights have been violated.

The Chinese restaurateur who was shot on Tuesday night during a foiled robbery attempt succumbed yesterday afternoon in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital.

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday granted bail in the sum of $450,000 to a mother of five, the fifth person to appear in court to answer charges in connection with the Clico insurance fraud.

A man who admitted to robbing another man and then escaping from the police because he wanted to go to Mashramani was on Monday sentenced to two years in prison by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Georgetown outplayed Upper Demerara to lift the Guyana Football Federation’s Guyflag Inter-Association Football title on Sunday evening at the GFC ground.

Clive Lloyd is the new West Indies team manager, but he’s one with a difference.

Three days after the death of Pakistan World Cup team cricket coach Bob Woolmer here, the cause of his demise is still unknown.

The recent, semi-comical contretemps involving elements of the Guyana Revenue Authority and the Guyana Police Force was a departure from the long-standing and usually discreet contraband trade along this country’s unguarded coastland.

A man who allegedly forced his way into a woman’s home and robbed, raped and sodomised her was yesterday refused bail by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle at the Georgetown Magistrate’s court.

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday remanded a taxi driver to prison when he yesterday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charges of carnal knowledge of a 15-year-old girl.

A porkknocker who allegedly murdered another man over three months ago at North West District was yesterday refused bail by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

A bus conductor who allegedly had carnal knowledge of a teenaged girl was yesterday refused bail by Magistrate Melissa Robertson Ogle.