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Acting Chief Justice Roxane George, has ordered the Guyana Revenue Authority to take the excise rate on vehicles for re-migrants with engines larger than 3000cc back to 10% after declaring the implementation of a new 30% rate as illegal. The Chief Justice also ordered the GRA to pay refunds to all those re-migrants who might […]
By Svetlana Marshall The Electoral Fraud trial opened today with State Prosecutor, Darshan Ramdhani, telling the Court that the Prosecution will prove that former Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield; former Deputy Chief Elections Officer (DCEO), Roxanne Myers and Region 4 Returning Officer (RO), Clairmont Mingo conspired with others, in an attempt to defraud the […]
President Irfaan Ali has made a call on his fellow CARICOM colleagues to step up their investment in border security, in order to reduce and root out drug trafficking, gun running and other forms of transnational crimes that continue to plague the region. Speaking during the Opening of the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting on […]
Declaring CARICOM as the longest thriving integration movement in the developing world, new Chairman of CARICOM, Prime Minister of Grenada, Dickon Mitchell, told other Heads of Government that the movement is still relevant today, as it was when it was founded. Speaking during the opening of the 47th Regular Meeting of CARICOM on Sunday in […]
Ghanaian Company, CONTRACTA, on Friday presented a feasibility study to the Georgetown Mayor and City Council on a project that could see the iconic Stabroek Market being transformed into a state-of-the-art facility featuring more than 1000 additional stalls, a fish market, a food court, more than 300 parking spaces for visitors and two docks to […]
With the construction of the Bamia Primary School, and the extension of Cemetery Road dragging pass their completion dates by more than a year, Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC), David Patterson today said the contractors for the two multi-million projects should have been fired by now. One year after its deadline, the Bamia […]
The Opposition has scoffed at Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s plan to crack down on Government officials using their influence to land Government contracts for their friends and families. Yesterday, Mr. Jagdeo stated that the Government has observed that public officials, especially at the Regional level have been influencing the award of contracts for their families […]
The Government of Guyana has made an initial proposal of a 7% salary increase for teachers for this year with a further 6% increase for 2025 and another 6% increase for 2026, according to sources familiar with the proposal. The counter proposal by the Government follows the submitted proposal of the Guyana Teachers’ Union, which […]
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo today responded to questions raised by Alliance for Change Leader, Nigel Hughes, about the large sums of money Guyana is earning from oil production and the use of that money. In a social media post earlier this week, the AFC Leader noted that Guyana is earning over $1.5 Billion per day […]
Senior Officials at the Credit Union of the Guyana Police Force are livid over the leakage of information concerning the accounts of senior officers of the Guyana Police Force, and are moving to implement new systems for the custody of the accounting ledger of the Credit Union. Assistant Police Commissioner, Calvin Brutus is currently under […]
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