By News Source Guyana on March 12, 2014
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The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has launched the pilot of its on-line tax payment system and its Automated Driver’s Licence Card at a press conference held at its headquarters, Camp Street, Georgetown. Officials of the GRA explained that the technological move is with the intention to avoid the upcoming congestion which is expected with the […]
By News Source Guyana on March 11, 2014
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There appears to be a resolution towards the issue of accommodating Guyanese law students at the Hugh Wooding Law Faculty for the upcoming academic year, Legal Affairs Minister and Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall said today. The AG was part of the Guyana delegation participating in the 25th Inter-Sessional CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in St […]
By News Source Guyana on March 11, 2014
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(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Detectives from the Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division (TCND) arrested four men and a woman for breaches under the Dangerous Drugs Act on February 27 and March 3. Forty-eight-year-old Gilbert Cousins of Hamstead in St Catherine was arrested on February 27 after he attempted to leave the Norman Manley International […]
By News Source Guyana on March 11, 2014
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Chief Justice Ian Chang on Tuesday granted bail to 35-year-old Alana Taylor after Magistrate Judy Latchman refused bail for the woman for a third time in as many court appearances on a robbery charge that the police initially admitted was mistakenly filed against the woman. Attorney Mark Waldron moved to the High Court and got […]
By News Source Guyana on March 11, 2014
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Relatives of a 62-year-old Guyanese woman are keeping their fingers crossed and are praying for her safe return after the woman went missing last Wednesday, March 5th in Queens, New York. Her name is Shirley Caesar and she was last seen leaving her Brooklyn apartment to visit a bank in the Queens area to transact […]
By News Source Guyana on March 11, 2014
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The Guyana Police Force announced on Tuesday morning that it had launched an investigation into a fatal accident that occurred at about 4 o’ clock on Tuesday morning on the Goed Fortuin Public Road, West Bank Demerara. 16-year-old Jomal Archer of Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara was killed in the accident and at least three other […]
By News Source Guyana on March 10, 2014
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The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority has indicated that three persons attached to the Air Traffic Control department at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport have been sent on leave pending the outcome of the investigation into the Saturday morning incident at the airport when an air traffic controller left the post unmanned even as a Caribbean […]
By News Source Guyana on March 10, 2014
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(CARICOM) Immediate Past Chair of the Caribbean Community, the Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Monday underscored the critical importance of deepened integration and security to the sustainable development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). In her address to the opening session of the 25th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM, underway in […]
By News Source Guyana on March 10, 2014
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General Secretary of the Peoples Progressive Party, Clement Rohee, used the 17th death anniversary memorial for late President and Party Leader Dr. Cheddi Jagan to complain about the Opposition’s majority in the National Assembly and the impact the majority has been having on the Government. Mr. Rohee told the party faithful who gathered at Babu […]
By News Source Guyana on March 9, 2014
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Court documents and the complaint released by the District Attorney for Queens County in New York reveal that Guyanese Michael Williams aka Mike Bigz may have been the ringleader and the brainchild behind the baggage scam at New York’s JFK airport which resulted in five persons including Williams and another Guyanese man being charged for […]