Guyana News

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain agreed today to order its overseas territories such as the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands to make secretive company ownership information public by the end of 2020 to try to tackle corruption and tax avoidance.

While making it clear that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is strongly opposed to the inclusion of a sedition clause in the proposed Cybercrime Bill, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that lapses by the party’s Members of Parliament (MPs) may have allowed the government to include it.

Crime Chief Paul Williams yesterday said he was convinced that they have a strong case against the accused, Davendra Ramdial.

Accounting officers who testify before the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will soon be required to swear an oath before offering testimony, PAC Chairman Irfaan Ali announced yesterday.

Anthony Carmichael, a DJ who is out on bail on a ganja trafficking charge, yesterday found himself back before a court for the same offence after the recent discovery of 150 pounds of marijuana in an abandoned car on Sheriff St.

Maurice Fernandes is now awaiting sentencing after a jury convicted him yesterday of sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl.

Nearly 350 potential victims of sexual exploitation and forced labour have been rescued in an INTERPOL-coordinated operation targeting human trafficking in the Caribbean, Central and South America.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) would have to reconsider filing more private criminal charges against sitting ministers and is yet to decide if reports will be made to police in the two previous cases.

A 45-year-old Yarrowkabra, Linden-Soesdyke man died after he was knocked down at Pearl, East Bank Demerara yesterday afternoon.

After leading his defence yesterday in the death of fisherman Envil Pollard, whom he shot and killed on January 29th, 2015, murder accused ex-security guard Marlon Callender is likely to know his fate tomorrow when a jury is expected to deliberate on the case against him.

Sixteen fishermen are missing and feared dead after pirates raided their boats off the coast of Suriname and forced them to jump overboard, the authorities Paramaribo said yesterday, according to the Associated Press (AP).

The Region 10 administration was yesterday accused of leaving the government “exposed” through its financial practices, after the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) found that it had continued paying a contractor although the performance bond had expired.

Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has introduced a “Book a Car” option on its website.

After admitting to breaching the protection order that his 85-year-old grandmother had been granted against him, a man was yesterday sentenced to 14 days in jail for the crime.

An argument over the use of a toilet landed a teen before a city court on an attempted murder charge yesterday.

Investigators yesterday placed one person in custody in relation to last Saturday night’s robbery at a business located at Charles Place, New Amsterdam.

A Waterloo Street woman is now nursing a wound to her hand after she was accidentally shot yesterday morning in Albouystown.

Saeed Hamid, also known as `Saho’, 65, who went missing on April 19 was last seen entering a vehicle at the entrance to the Berbice Bridge, according to a taxi driver who said he dropped him there.

Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) President Sir Dennis Byron on Wednesday reiterated the importance of having substantive judicial appointments and called for the impasse between President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to be resolved soonest.

A Crabwood Creek pensioner yesterday afternoon lost his two-storey wooden house in a fire.