Year: 2016

State auditor Anand Goolsarran has rubbished the claims made by Kaieteur News on Sunday that the Queens Atlantic Investment Inc (QAII) had acquired Sanata Complex after the Government had spent US$5 million to clean it up. Contacted for a comment on Monday, Goolsarran told Guyana Times International that the report was utterly false, adding “you need to find out from Kaieteur News where they got that from”. The Glenn Lall-owned Kaieteur News on Sunday published a litany of libellous accusations under a front-page banner headline “Govt spent US$5M to rehab…

– return of “Burnhamite” approach – Jagdeo All Guyanese citizens must be tax compliant before they can access simple services offered by the Government, including receiving their driver licences or licences to conduct any form of trade and business. Finance Minister Winston Jordan announced during his Budget 2016 presentation an amendment to the Tax Act to ensure that prior to the issuance of all licences for public use, the applicant must be compliant with obligations to file annual returns and paid, or has made arrangements to pay all taxes due…

Residents of Region One (Barima-Waini) and Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) can expect to receive subsidies from the Government for the construction of houses and the replacement of roofs as a part of a Budget 2016 measure to improve housing in the hinterland communities. Finance Minister Winston Jordan made these disclosures to the National Assembly on Friday, as he presented the coalition Government’s second financial plan since its assumption to executive office. The Finance Minister further disclosed that Government budgeted over Gy$644 million to expand the Hinterland Housing Project. During…

A former national cyclist on Tuesday appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to answer to a drug possession charge. Kwame Cumberbatch, 26, of Lot 54 Durban Street, Lodge, Georgetown, pleaded guilty to the charge which stated that between January 28 and 29, 2016, he had in his possession 194 grams of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. Police Prosecutor Deniro Jones told the Court that on the day in question about 05:30h, the defendant was an outgoing passenger at the Ogle Airport on a Liat…

Vital factory maintenance work in the sugar factories across the country and other field works were severely affected, today (Thursday), as the overwhelming majority of sugar workers struck solidly in support of the Wales sugar workers and those aggrieved residents in on-going efforts to “stay the decision” to close the Estate. Members of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) are engaged in solidarity action which highlights the fact that workers of both Unions will have their livelihoods…

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has pronounced on the charges brought against his Member of Parliament (MP) and former Public Service Minister, Dr Jennifer Westford, stressing that members must face the consequences of their actions. Westford and her then Personnel Officer, Margaret Cummings were on Monday placed on Gy$4.8 million bail each when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to face 24 charges of larceny by a public servant. The charges stated that between August 23, 2011 and April 28, 2015, in Georgetown while being employed as public servants by…