ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Dave Cameron, has apologised for what WICB described as ‘inappropriate’ comments by captain Darren Sammy after West Indies conjured-up a miraculous four-wicket win over England to regain the T20 World Cup.
West Indies captains Stafanie Taylor and Darren Sammy pose with their T20 trophies won in yesterday’s finals in India.
SYDNEY/PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Tax authorities in Australia and New Zealand are probing local clients of a Panama-based law firm at the centre of a massive data leak for possible tax evasion.
The authorities need to do much more about corruption as the entire country is at risk of being marginalised by the international economic community for failure to uphold its own laws, Sunday Stabroek business columnist Rawle Lucas says.
A Linden woman and her boss are hospitalised after they were shot several times by a man with whom she ended a relationship.
The body of a 65-year-old pensioner was yesterday found on the Coldingen Embankment Road, East Coast Demerara with a chop wound to the back of his head.
A construction worker is now dead after he was struck down on Saturday night on the La Jalousie Public Road, West Coast Demerara.
A 10-year-old lad was last evening killed when a reversing vehicle struck him down in front of his home.
Chairman of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Rawle Lucas says the system of granting tax concessions will be reviewed and he believes that granting incentives to large foreign companies as opposed to local firms, would be more beneficial to the country.
Nineteen Community Development Councils (CDCs) in Mahaica-Berbice and East Berbice-Corentyne, yesterday received letters of approval for small grants under the Government of Guyana’s community development project, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.
Guyana does not have the passenger numbers or infrastructure to develop into a regional hub for air traffic in the foreseeable future, according to an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded report done for the Union of South American States (UNASUR).
Local testing for the mosquito-borne Zika virus is expected to begin soon upon the return of two technologists who would have undergone training at the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in Trinidad.
There must be a change in public attitudes towards children suffering from autism and while a number of those with the disorder are receiving held from the Step by Step Foundation there are many more on the waiting list.
Although all technical mechanisms are in place to facilitate transmission from the Region 10 Television Station, wrangling between the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) and the Board of Trustees of Region 10 Broadcasting Inc.
Farms are recovering from the red palm mite infestation which wreaked havoc on coconut plants for months, the Ministry of Agriculture says.
Chairman of the Board of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) Hamilton Green on Thursday said that no official from the agency will be fired but that everyone had pledged to work in harmony for the betterment of the housing sector.
Swift work by the police have led to the arrest of a man who was allegedly involved in the robbery of goldsmith Bramdat Singh Sr at the Rosignol Market on Saturday.
PPP/C chief whip Gail Teixeira says that the present government is fast becoming the least transparent administration Guyana has ever had.
Narine Samsudeen, the welder who was shot twice on Thursday by a gunman during an attempted robbery on Regent Street, is in a stable condition in the hospital.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations’ internal investigations office has uncovered serious lapses and due-diligence failures in the world body’s interaction with organizations tied to an alleged bribery scheme involving a former U.N.
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