Now former Commissio-ner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur was let go after he admitted to having breached his oath of office by releasing private taxpayer data, according to Chairman of the GRA Board Rawle Lucas, who said it was among several discoveries that were made.
In the wake of deepening worldwide concerns about the effect of the mosquito-borne Zika virus on the brain development of unborn babies, the US Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday added Guyana and several other Caribbean countries to its travel advisory.
A Better Hope goldsmith, whose jewellery was seized at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Tuesday because it was valued over US$10,000, has filed a $10M lawsuit against the government on the claim that his fundamental rights and freedoms were breached In a constitutional motion filed by attorney Anil Nandlall on Thursday on behalf of Richard Ramjit, it was stated that the man was questioned by numerous officers and held for four hours before his gold and silver necklace and wrist band were seized by ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU).
Police are currently trying to locate a Stewartville man who allegedly killed his common-law wife in a trench during the course of a domestic dispute on Thursday.
Declaring that “our menfolk are going berserk,” acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Justice Carl Singh yesterday said while he believes that perpetrators of domestic abuse should be prosecuted, there is need for a shift in focus from punishment to education.
Consultations on the contents of a draft State Assets Recovery Agency Bill will be held soon, according to Attorney-General (AG) Basil Williams, who met with representatives of a joint World Bank/United Nations mission on the proposed legislation yesterday.
Bandits yesterday staged a daring robbery of the Bank of Baroda branch located at the bottom flat of a Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara mall, carting off an undisclosed amount of cash and a gun belonging to the security guard.
A Belizean University of Guyana (UG) law student remains in a critical condition in a city hospital after he was shot twice on Thursday evening outside his Cumming’s Lodge, East Coast Demerara (ECD) residence.
Despite a recent legal opinion that government holding company NICIL is under no obligation to deposit monies it gathered into the Consolidated Fund, former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran found that there was no basis in the constitution or law that permitted the retention of massive amounts by it over a number of years.
A member of the Guyana Police Force was remanded to prison on charges that he was found with a range of ammunition.
A man who attempted to traffic cocaine in two bottles of crème liqueur was on Thursday found guilty and sentenced to four years in jail.
A truck driver was yesterday granted $400,000 bail after being charged in a city court with causing death by dangerous driving.
A prisoner will be spending three more years in the Camp Street jail after he was caught with ganja just days before he was due to be released.
A father and his two sons, said to have been found with the carcass of a bull they stole, were granted $25,000 bail each after they denied a larceny charge in a city court yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuers) – Venezuela’s opposition refused yesterday to approve President Nicolas Maduro’s “economic emergency” decree in Congress, saying it offered no solutions for the OPEC member-nation’s increasingly disastrous recession.
A man yesterday appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer to a charge of stealing from his brother.
The first component of the Sophia ‘Ring Road’ Project is nearing completion and the Ministry of Public Infrastructure’s Community Coordinator Neilson McKenzie says community input would be s a necessity for the project’s success.
PARIS, (Reuters) – The top U.S. military officer said yesterday urgent and decisive military action was needed to halt the spread of Islamic State in Libya, warning the jihadist group wanted to use the country as a regional base.
A man will be spending the next three weeks in jail after he admitted to assaulting his wife following a heated argument over how she was scolding their son.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, (Reuters) – Four people were killed and others injured in a school shooting in a remote part of Saskatchewan yesterday and a male suspect is in custody, Canadian police said.
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