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Auditor General, Deodat Sharma came in for harsh criticism from Finance Minister Winston Jordan following the release of his 2015 report on how the government spent taxpayers’ dollars for the year 2015. The Finance Minister reminded that the APNU+AFC government was not responsible for all government spending for the 2015 fiscal year, pointing out that […]
Guyana and the United States have formally signed a governmental agreement to combat offshore tax evasion and ensure the implementation of the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). FATCA is a 2010 United States federal law that requires all non-US or foreign financial institutions to report on a US person assets abroad. Guyana’s Finance Minister […]
Public Servants will receive the government announced salary increase at the end of October, Finance Minister Winston Jordan has advised. The increases will be retroactive to January. The Minister made the disclosure on Monday during a press conference at his office. In August the Government announced its offer of a 10% salary increase for public […]
Police on the East Coast of Demerara are probing the murder of a 56-year-old Mahaicony business woman. Her body was found this morning in her Novar, Mahaicony house with her hands and feet tied. The dead woman has been identified as Bibi Shakeela Ali. She operated a small shop just under her house. Neighbours became […]
Minister of Citizenship, Mr. Winston Felix has announced that a full investigation has been launched to determine the circumstances under which convicted drug lord, Barry Dataram and his reputed wife, Ms. Anjanie Boodnarine were issued fake passports. He has indicated that those culpable will face the harshest possible action. Dataram and Boodnaraine were arrested in […]
The reputed wife of drug convict Barry Dataram was also using a false passport when she went on the run with him as their drug possession case neared an end in the Magistrates’ Court. While Dataram was using a passport with a false name that was issued in back in 2013, his reputed wife Anjanie […]
Convicted drug lord and recaptured fugitive Barry Dataram, was found in Suriname with a Guyana Passport that was issued to him in the name of David Persaud. The passport bears the image of Dataram but with the David Persaud name. The passport was issued on April 15, 2013 and appeared to have been issued in […]
The man who went on national tv to declare that he was indeed a drug lord during his cocaine possession court case, was handed over to Guyanese law enforcement on Saturday at Moleson Creek, Corentyne along with his wife, after being on the run for three weeks. Drug convict and self-confessed drug lord, Barry Dataram […]
A Guyanese man who travelled to the US from Guyana to pick up a more than 500 pound cocaine shipment in a container of fish, has been convicted and is now awaiting sentencing. The man, Heeralall Sukdeo who owned a New York based company that imports fish from Guyana was convicted Friday in Brooklyn Federal […]
The National Assembly yesterday, adopted the National Youth Policy. The Motion to have the Policy adopted was brought to the House by Minister within the Ministry of Education, Nicolette Henry. According to Henry, the Policy is a comprehensive roadmap that lays out the Government’s plans for youth across Guyana. Henry said it is in keeping […]
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