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Britain’s Prince Harry today visited the world famous Kaieteur Falls.(GINA photo)  

The Office of the Leader of the Opposition today said that it is estimated that proposed changes to the VAT regime will yield a further $25b in taxes to the government.

With the 2017 budget coming under withering criticism, the government is continuing to mount a defence of it, contending today that new tax measures will pump $9.5b into the economy.

Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday called on President David Granger to convene his Cabinet and withdraw the proposed 2017 budget or examine the concerns of society and remove some of the most oppressive measures, which he said would devastate the lives of many poor people and will cause the productive sector to regress.

Britain’s Prince Henry arrived yesterday for a three-day visit that began with a hectic schedule of events, which included laying a wreath at the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Kingston to pay homage to those who died in World Wars I and II.

In the early 2000s, it cost US$500,000 for 10 patients to receive cardiac treatment overseas.

Guyana has been granted a US$9 million Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loan to help strengthen the economy and stimulate exports and investments.

More than six month after skeletal remains were unearthed at the Campbellville residence of Babita Sarjou’s estranged husband, DNA tests have confirmed that they are indeed hers.

Two men, known to the police as serial robbers, were caught early yesterday morning after they robbed the Wild Caught Fresh Fish Depot at the Meadow Bank Wharf, Ruimveldt, East Bank Demerara.

Licensed guns belonging to Siddique Rasul, owner of RSS Security Services, have undergone ballistic testing that have cleared them of any link to the fatal shooting outside the Rio Inn nightclub, according to his attorney Nigel Hughes.

Even as he called the blaming of magistrates for the overcrowding in the prison system unfair, acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Justice Carl Singh yesterday urged judicial officers to take into consideration all circumstances before making a decision on bail.

Local sculptor Winslow Craig and social activist Dr Christopher Arif Bulkan are among four people in the region who will receive the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence (ANSCAFE) in 2017 for their stellar contributions in the arts and civil society.

As it increases its visibility, the Epilepsy Foundation of Guyana (EFG) has started a support group and it has also been able to procure a donation of epilepsy drugs for the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

The Guyana Creative Business Society, an umbrella organisation established as a representative body of all art forms in Guyana, was launched last evening at the Umana Yana.

Government plans to inject $31.2 billion into the health sector next year in hopes of furthering its plans to achieve universal coverage.

The two major mining groups, the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) and the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO), are calling on the government to reexamine proposed budgetary measures that they say will lead to further decline of local mining.

A guard was shot yesterday during an attempt by a bandit to steal the payroll for E.C.

A man is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was shot to his back late Thursday night after being robbed by three men.

BANJUL, (Reuters) – Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who once vowed to rule the tiny West African nation for “a billion years”, said he had accepted his shock election defeat yesterday, 22 years after seizing power in a coup.

A Brazilian national has been arrested after his workmate was found dead in a pit on Wednesday morning.