Government used its majority on Friday evening to pass the Tax (Amendment) Bill 2016 and Travel Voucher Tax (Amendment) Bill 2016 saying that they will ensure hassle-free travel and other benefits even as a disgruntled PPP/C argued strongly against it.
The Cheddi Jagan International Airport Timehri (CJIA) processed a record 572,439 passengers last year, according to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ramesh Ghir.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla (Reuters) – Police in Alaska last year took a handgun from the man accused of killing five people at Fort Lauderdale’s airport on Friday, but returned it to him last month after a medical evaluation found he was not mentally ill, authorities said.
The exhumation of Surujpaul Dindyal has been delayed because the Good Hope Cemetery is flooded from the recent heavy rainfall, however, his family senses a ‘cover up’ in the matter and will keep pressing to have it done.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Telecommunications company Digicel has said it has expedited a process to come up with a solution for the installation of mobile phone-jamming equipment in prisons, confirming a report that it was reprimanded by National Security Minister Robert Montague for taking too long to complete the process.
The Executive Manage-ment of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) on Thursday visited the relatives of Brian Clifford, the Network Technician who fell to his death two days prior while working on an electrical pole at Belvedere Village, Corentyne.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – An American consular official was shot in Guadalajara, Mexico’s second largest city in the restive western state of Jalisco, but is now in stable condition, Mexican authorities said yesterday.
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National footballer, Delon Lanferman who was stabbed minutes into the break of the New Year following an argument over the throwing of a firecracker has been discharged from the hospital.
Former President Bharrat Jagdeo was today elected General Secretary (GS) of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) positioning him to determine the path of the party and opening the way for him to run again as President.
(Trinidad Guardian) The woman accused of beating a four-year-old girl to death has pleaded for protection in jail.
Miners were yesterday in an uproar over demands by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to show their financial records as they argued that the logistics in the hinterland do not easily allow for “receipts with revenue stamps, bills and books” that are required.
Scores of livestock farmers at Cane Grove, Mahaica have been left counting their losses after heavy rain flooded their pasture, killing more than 30 head of cattle in the past three weeks.
The Guyana Police Force yesterday said that up to the end of December last year, there was a 16% decrease in serious crime compared with the statistics for the previous year, including a 6% decrease in reports of murders.
By way of Executive Notices issued yesterday by President David Granger, January 12th has been designated Chinese Arrival Day, while March 13th has been named Rose Hall Martyrs’ Day.
With support from international organisations, a sub-committee comprising ministers of government and input from the diaspora itself, the formulation of a Diaspora Engagement Policy is near, government announced yesterday.
Cabinet has agreed to the creation of an inter-agency task force to manage and improve the drainage of the capital city, State Minister Joseph Harmon announced yesterday.
Maryanna Lionel, one of the two women charged with offering a detective $4 million in cash to release the men accused in the murder of Number 70 Village carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt, admitted to the crime, a police witness testified yesterday.
A truck driver was yesterday found guilty by a city magistrate of causing the death of a youth, who was killed in a hit-and-run along the Flour Mill Public Road, Eat Eccles, East Bank Demerara, in July, 2015.
A continuing prohibition on joint requests for land title has led to the fragmentation of collective lands and a weakening of joint decision-making on land use among Guyana’s indigenous peoples, according to the findings of a recent study conducted by the Amerindian People’s Association (APA) in 42 Indigenous settlements across regions 1 and 2.
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