The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has expressed dissatisfaction with the government’s treatment of civic bodies as business entities and has proposed that changes be made to the legal structure to address this issue.
In a release yesterday, the GHRA referenced an eight-page Notice of Default published on Saturday, March 9, in the daily newspapers which threatened over 100 named organisations with being ‘Struck Off’ the Register of Companies unless they provided a range of information to the Registry within 28 days. The authority for this demand was stated to be Section 153 of the Companies Act of 1991 and the Anti-Money Laundering/ Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Act of 2023.
The release related that the ‘companies’ listed comprised a wide range of organisations in Guyana – religious, sporting, cultural, and business, and included the likes of Jesus Rescue Mission, Mercy Hospital, the Guyana Muslim Mission Limited, and the GHRA. It noted that the information required from 2012 includes audited accounts, profit & loss statements and a range of information on Beneficial Ownership.
