Daily Archive: Thursday, October 27, 2016

Articles published on Thursday, October 27, 2016

GRA Head reads riot act to staff

A press release from the GRA follows: In wake of discoveries about malpractice committed recently by officers of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), the Commissioner-General, Godfrey Statia summoned a general meeting with staff at the Authority’s Camp Street Headquarters on Wednesday, October 26.

PI into grenade attack on KN continues

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the charges against Alfie Garraway, Janiel Howard and Leroy Williams, the three men accused of throwing a grenade at the Kaieteur News (KN) Office, continued yesterday with testimony from two of the news agency’s staff.

Human Resource, Executive Director of GPL, Bal Parsaud presenting cheque of $100,000 to Representative for Edussential Company, Mark Stevens (right)

GPL donates to youth NGOs

Six Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOS) benefitted from donations for youth programmes and initiatives from the Guyana Power and Light Incorporation (GPL) in observance of the company’s seventeenth anniversary, GINA said.

Michel Aoun

In Lebanon deal, Iran wins and Saudi retreats

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – A veteran Christian leader is set to fill Lebanon’s long-vacant presidency in a deal that underlines the ascendancy of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement and the diminished role of Saudi Arabia in the country.

Islamic State holds up Iraqi army south of Mosul

QAYYARA/BAGHDAD, Iraq, (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters kept up yesterday their fierce defence of the southern approaches to Mosul, which has held up Iraqi troops there and forced an elite army unit east of the city to put a more rapid advance on hold.

Of Mice and Men

Guyana initially welcomed the Barbados Government’s commitment to “a vigorous investigation” of the “act of terrorism” in the Cubana Airliner bombing and to ensuring “that this evil would be wiped off the face of the earth,” but days later slammed the island’s defiant decision to refuse jurisdiction for the crime.

Oil and a green Guyana

At a consultation held on Monday last on Guyana’s preparedness for oil extraction, where several pertinent questions were raised, Chris Pateman Jones of the Oil and Gas Sector of consultant firm EY Global outlined what he referred to as the positives and negatives of oil production.