By News Source Guyana on May 17, 2016
News, Politics
More than one month after the Guyana Revenue Authority seized two luxury vehicles belonging to the Chinese logging company, BaiShanLin, for taxes owed, the company is seeking the release of the vehicles without paying the millions of dollars in owed taxes. In a letter to the Guyana Revenue Authority’s Commissioner General, the Satram and Satram […]
By News Source Guyana on May 16, 2016
News, Politics
The reduction in free spending across Guyana is partly due to the role that illicit drugs and other illegal activities played in creating a parallel economy, Finance Minister Winston Jordan has said. With the support of the coalition government Guyana’s security agencies, particularly the Customs Anti – Narcotic Unit (CANU), have upped the fight against […]
By News Source Guyana on May 16, 2016
News, Politics
Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources, Simona Broomes, on Monday maintained that she has relinquished all her mining interests even as she continues to wrestle against allegations of conflict of interest. The Minister’s involvement in mining has again come under the microscope following reports that she was granted permission by the Guyana Geology and […]
By News Source Guyana on May 16, 2016
News, Politics
The leadership of the opposition People’s Progressive Party is defending what appears to be its boycott of Guyana’s largest Trade Fair and Exposition, GuyExpo. The event started on Thursday and ended on Sunday night at the Sophia Exhibition site. It focused on promoting Guyanese businesses and creating links for international trade. The PPP has been […]
By News Source Guyana on May 14, 2016
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State Minister Joseph Harmon has sent a Lawyer’s Letter to the Kaieteur News, threatening legal action should the Publication refuse to correct a series of articles that the Minister has deemed libelous. Minister Harmon confirmed on Thursday that his Attorney, Mr. Roysdale Forde, has sent Kaieteur News’ Publisher Glen Lall the letter. Harmon confirmed too […]
By News Source Guyana on May 13, 2016
News, Politics
The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) is reporting a shortfall of the First Crop for 2016. The Corporation said it experienced a shortfall of 29.3% with actual production of 56, 825 tonnes compared with a budget of 80,270 tonnes. The audit of the production, which takes place at the end of each crop, is underway, […]
By News Source Guyana on May 12, 2016
News, Politics
The report of the Commission of Inquiry into the death of Guyanese historian, political activist and scholar, Dr. Walter Rodney, was officially laid in the National Assembly on Thursday and made available to the media and public. The report concludes that Dr. Rodney’s assassination was state organised. According to the findings, former President and then […]
By News Source Guyana on May 12, 2016
News, Politics
by Kurt Campbell President David Granger delivered yet another address to the Parliament on Thursday in which he called on Parliamentarians, both on the Government and Opposition side, to do what must be done to rid Guyana of the disunity and racial rivalry that still plagues the land. The President said he believed that as […]
By News Source Guyana on May 12, 2016
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Professor Eon Nigel Harris, a Guyanese who recently retired as the Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, has accepted the offer to head the University of Guyana and was installed as the 9th Chancellor of the institution on Wednesday. Professor Harris received glowing tributes at his installation ceremony, where he was regarded […]
By News Source Guyana on May 11, 2016
Elections, News, Politics
by Kurt Campbell President David Granger has expressed satisfaction with the performance of his coalition government as it observes its first year in office. Today, May 11, 2016, marked exactly one year after Guyanese voted in General Elections which ended the 22 year rule of the People’s Progressive Party and resulted in the election of the […]