BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union officials have proposed removing eight jurisdictions from the blacklist of tax havens the bloc adopted in December, in what critics may see as a blow to its campaign against tax avoidance.
(Trinidad Guardian) Robbers shot dead a security guard at a Church’s Chicken outlet at the newly opened O’Meara Plaza in Arima on Saturday night after they became enraged that they were unable to open the cash register.
Police detectives have been sent to the Pomeroon River area after two men were shot dead yesterday afternoon.
A mentally-challenged vendor was yesterday fatally shot in his back by a city lance corporal as he allegedly attempted to flee custody, a day after he was in a scuffle with a city constable during which both men suffered injuries and a shot was fired.
A Lance Corporal from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is in police custody and has confessed to robbing a Kitty resident of over $5.5M in cash and other valuables, the police said.
The parting between the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) and its recently hired Trinidadian Chief Executive Officer, Larry Nath came through a mutual understanding and following questions that had been raised here over the appointment, sources close to the process says.
Guyana needs a new political party which will seek the support of the groups that the Alliance for Change (AFC) has disappointed, according to commentator Ralph Ramkarran.
A hire car driver was last night around 8.30 placed under arrest after he fatally struck a cyclist along the Number 71 Village Public Road.
A Guyanese of “Brazilian heritage with strong connections”, Jeanne Disarz, is seeking to establish an Integrated Agriculture Venture which would see among other things the cultivation of corn and soybean in the North Rupununi, Region 9.
Following a protest by BK International to the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) on the award of the $3.5B Mazaruni Prison contract to a joint venture, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan says that he will be looking into the concerns raised to determine if there were any breaches in the process.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge says that complaints by Director of Public Information, Imran Khan on his Facebook page about an Indian conference for MPs of Indian origin do not augur well for diplomatic relations between Georgetown and New Delhi.
Following several requests, City Hall has been able to secure a meeting tomorrow at ExxonMobil’s country headquarters.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump insisted yesterday “I’m not a racist” in response to reports that he had described immigrants from Haiti and African countries as coming from “shithole countries.”
Issues with the output of X-ray images at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) have resulted in patients having to seek X-ray services at private facilities.
(Reuters) – Hawaii apparently did not have adequate safeguards in place to prevent a false emergency alert about a missile attack that panicked residents for more than a half-hour before it was withdrawn, a federal official said yesterday.
The Woodlands Hospital Pathology Laboratory and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Medical Laboratory were both certified last Wednesday by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) under its Laboratory Certification Programme.
Construction worker Lloyd Sadloo was remanded to prison yesterday on a charge that he robbed five persons of a little over $2.4 million in an armed robbery attack on New Year’s Eve.
(Trinidad Express) Three men were killed in Manzanilla, and Fyzabad and Arima on Saturday night.
SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – Members of Venezuela’s leftist government and opposition leaders concluded a round of talks in the Dominican Republic on Saturday, failing to reach a deal to address the country’s political and economic crisis.
The trial of former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Private Abiola Jacobs, who is charged with the murder of her ex-boyfriend’s mother, has commenced before Justice James Bovell-Drakes at the High Court in Georgetown.
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