Guyana News

Saying that the local economy is not performing optimally, the Private Sector Commission today called for sweeping budget measures and urged lower corporation tax and an income tax threshold of $100,000 per month.

One day after four men were charged with the murder of carpenter, Faiyaz Narinedatt, the Guyana Police Force yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for US based-Guyanese, Marcus Brian Bisram, who is said to be the mastermind and is wanted for questioning in connection with the crime.

President David Granger has had a list of judicial nominees from the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) for several months and has not acted upon it.

The Government of Guyana yesterday signed a framework agreement with the People’s Republic of China for a US$45.5 million concessional loan for the completion of the widening and improvement of the East Coast Demerara Highway.

Sueria Manufacturing, along with as many as ten other importers took to the Ministry of Public Health yesterday to protest regulations instituted by Director of the Government Analyst Food and Drug Department Marlan Cole.

The minimum rate of pay for Private Sector employees is to be increased from two hundred and two dollars ($202) per hour to two hundred and fifty-five dollars ($255) per hour following a recommendation by the National Tripartite Committee.

A security guard attached to Hand-in-Hand Trust Corpora-tion, Middle Street, Georgetown branch was yesterday afternoon shot during a foiled robbery attempt on the financial institution and the police during a roadblock shortly after, managed to detain a man suspected to be the driver of the getaway car.

A father of three was shot in his abdomen yesterday morning in an apparent robbery in  D’Urban Backlands  just after 6 am.

As investigations continue into the shooting to death of West Ruimveldt resident, Paul Rodney which occurred earlier this week, a man who is nursing a gunshot injury to his leg along with a female staffer from a city pharmacy were yesterday arrested for questioning.

The Guyana Analyst Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) has launched an investigation into the improper labeling and use of the chemical Antinfek to treat water at a local bottling company.

Steve Allicock one of the men accused of the murder of Albouystown resident Wendell Tappin, was yesterday committed to stand trial for the crime.

A boat operator was yesterday brought before a city court where he was charged with the murder of Venezuelan Henry Mendonca.

The Mayor and City and Council (M&CC) has paid approximately $20 million, a fraction of what it owes, to the city’s two garbage disposal contractors after they threatened to suspend their collection services.

Police are said to be investigating an incident at the Camp Street Prison which resulted in an inmate being admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) nursing chops to his upper body.

The wife of the Number 70 Village, Corentyne carpenter, whose lifeless body was discovered on the public road on November 1, is now scared for her life after receiving death threats to stop the investigation into her husband’s murder.

With Deputy Regional Executive Officer of Region 3 Ameena Marlyne Hinds behind bars in the US for allegedly attempting to smuggle 3 lbs of cocaine into that country, a vacancy for her position has now been created and the Ministry Communities is expected to make that appointment as the long awaited Local Government Commission (LGC) is yet to be established.

The fourth South Rupununi Safari is scheduled to start today and continues up to the 29th.

Following a meeting with incoming Secretary General (SG) of the United Nations, António Guterres, Guyana was told that he was satisfied with the process the incumbent Ban Ki-moon is undertaking pertaining to the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.

A city magistrate on Tuesday set dates for the commencement of trials in relation to Anjanie Boodnarine, the reputed wife of convicted drug  trafficker Barry Dataram, who is facing charges of forgery, fleeing the jurisdiction and leaving the country illegally.

The Parliamentary opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) views the implementation of parking meters in the city as an indirect tax and as an added burden to the consumers.