Daily Archive: Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Our entity supplies services to a company that has an agreement with the Government of Guyana under which it is exempted from all taxes.

Two men who appeared at the Whim Magistrate’s Court on Monday to answer a charge of robbery under arms were granted their pre-trial liberty in the sum of $100,000 by Magistrate Chandra Sohan.

A vendor who denied robbing a woman of $22,000, but willingly gave her back a part of the money was on Monday ordered to do three weeks community service in the compound of the Whim Magistrate’s Court.

The world grew a little colder, and larger, last July when the BBC revealed that “‘six degrees of separation’ may be the academic equivalent of an urban myth.”

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan 16, CMC – Nigel Codrington hit a hattrick to spur Guyana to a 4-3 win over Guadeloupe and put them on the brink of a semifinal spot in the Digicel Caribbean Cup last night.

The East Bank Football Association (EBFA) has short-listed a 22-member senior squad to train for the GFF Guyflag senior Inter Association Football Tourna-ment which kicks off on February 3 in Essequibo.

Davertate Anandjit was re-elected president of the East Coast Umpires Association (ECUA) which held its annual general meeting and elections Sunday at the Lusignan Community Centre ground.

Minister responsible for Sport and chairman of the Local Organising Committee Dr.

Dear Editor, In February 2006, the Guyana Forestry Commission and the Forest Products Association issued a glossy brochure which claimed “Guyana is probably the only country in the world with a complete national log tracking system.

Dear Editor, I was attracted to the caption given to the letter addressed to you by the Public Relations Officer, M&CC in Stabroek News of January 08, 2007 namely “Mayor Green’s advertisement was not seen by the Town Clerk or the Council”.

Dear Editor, Your news item on Tuesday explaining the government’s decision to curtail awarding commercial advertisements to Stabroek News does not come as a surprise to many, including me.

Dear Editor, It is not the Guyana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) intention to get involved in any political debate.

Dear Editor, It is possible to remain silent while governments blunder or act as though lacking in simple commonsense.

Dear Editor, Kidnapping is big business in Trinidad. That is right, it is organized as a business with various criminal gangs involved in different aspects of the operation – planning, actual kidnapping, transporting, holding and protecting the victim, contacting the family’s victim, negotiating the ransom, collecting the fee, and releasing the victim.

Dear Editor, I am seriously troubled by the perceived direction of this country’s foreign policy in relation to Guyana’s dealings with India.

Cellular operators in Guyana can from February 16 fix rates as low as $7 per minute and as high as $32 per minute, according to their various plans, an order from the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) said.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) and the France-based Reporters Without Borders (Reporters San Frontieres) have condemned the Guyana government’s withdrawal of state advertisements from the Stabroek News.

A US court judge yesterday ruled that drug-indicted businessman Roger Khan must be held without bail and turned down yet another bail application when he appeared in court in New York.

The body of a nine-year-old girl was yesterday morning pulled from a pile of logs on a beach at Parika, East Bank Essequibo after she never returned home the day before.

The owners of a rice mill at Number 19 Village Corentyne, Berbice suffered tremendous losses on Monday when the roof collapsed during heavy winds around 11.10 am.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday called on the Guyana government to withdraw the Casino Gambling Bill, declaring that the assertion that Guyana’s nascent tourist industry, aimed at eco-tourists, stands to benefit from casinos is nonsense.

In a two-day session which ended on Sunday 350 more local volunteers were trained to provide service assistance for Cricket World Cup in March.

Secondary school students of forms one to three who are members of the Litchfield Library on the West Coast of Berbice recently participated in a ‘spelling bee’ competition sponsored by the library.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues on Wednesday handed over the title to land in Region One in keeping with the government’s survey and demarcation exercise.

The Beacon Foundation says numerous entities and countless individuals have contributed to it being able to embark on its 22nd year of continuous social welfare service but more work is still to be done.

Digicel, which recently acquired Cel*Star/U Mobile, plans to introduce prepaid roaming when it rolls out the full range of its cellular service here and will also offer per second billing.

In an effort to boost activities in the local mining sector the governments of Guyana and China on Monday signed an agreement to facilitate Chinese geologists working here.

Following months of delay, the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) has written Vreed-en-Hoop primary school head teacher Alvin Johnson stating that it has found no valid reason to vary its decision not to grant his application to be promoted to head Leonora Primary School.

As the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Private Sector Commission (PSC) continue to trade barbs over the implementation of the Value Added Tax (VAT), Commissioner General Khurshid Sattaur has rejected the claims of the business community over who is to blame for the VAT hiccups.

An 11-year-old girl is still a patient at the Skeldon Hospital after she was brutally raped last Saturday by a man who has since been placed in police custody.

The Region Seven administration has planned a series of exercises to make Bartica more visible and attractive for the influx of visitors expected for the Cricket World Cup (CWC).

Significant emphasis will be placed this year on revitalizing in excess of 1000 co-operative societies countrywide as the first step toward ensuring that they operate in conformity with the Co-operatives Act, Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir has said.

With piracy a recurrent problem, the Ministry of Agriculture announced on Monday that plans are in place to eliminate the incidence of hijackings, in the long term, by further increasing security arrangements with fishermen and the Ministries of Agricul-ture and Home Affairs and the coast guard of the Guyana Defence Force.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says that its Compliance and Arrears Collection Unit is in the process of issuing warning letters to several businesses that have not taken corrective action in spite of the advice of the VAT and Excise Tax Department.

A 31-year-old man yesterday collapsed and died in his yard at 64 Sixth Street, Alberttown and relatives believe he ingested a poisonous substance.

Fertilizers and pesticides are zero-rated according to the Value Added Tax Act and as such do not attract VAT, the Ministry of Agriculture reiterated yesterday in a press release.

Up to press time last night the remaining five Mazaruni Prison escapees were still at large but members of the Joint Services are confident that they will be caught by the end of today.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday refused bail to two men who allegedly carried out a brazen robbery at a doctor’s Camp Street clinic just over a week ago and another man who was charged with them on another robbery charge.