Guyana News

The Guyana Revenue Author-ity (GRA) said Project Design and Construction Company was the first of five companies or individuals to submit VAT tax returns yesterday.

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The woman who allegedly stole the newborn baby of a 13-year-old girl last December was yesterday released on $100,000 bail by Magistrate Oneidge Waldron-Allicock.

A 26-year-old miner was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge of possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A minibus driver was fined and his licence suspended when he appeared before Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday after his speeding vehicle plunged into a rice field at Harlem, West Coast Demerara on January 12 after the right rear wheel came off.

Introduction It was the year of the Bandung Conference in Africa.

Guyana attained their first outright win of the 2007 Carib Beer Series cricket competition when they defeated the Leeward Is-lands by three wickets in the fourth round encounter at the Albion Community Development Centre ground yesterday.

ONCE again, the final hurdle proved too intimidating and the West Indies took another terrible tumble with the winning post in the far distance here yesterday.

In an increasingly competitive world, the demand for learning is growing exponentially.

The Richard Ishmael student who is accused of stabbing a 34-year-old woman to death in the school compound in December 2005 will soon known her fate.

Dear Editor, It is rather interesting that we have not heard from either the government or the Ethnic Relations Commission on an important issue contained in the CWC 2007 Brochure.

Dear Editor, In response to the comments/explanation offered by the clerks of the markets and reported in SN 28/01/07, regarding the “removal time” for vendors at the Stabroek Market, I would like to say that the explanation given is both contradictory and inconsistent.

Dear Editor, The organizations listed below have developed this statement on VAT over the past three weeks.

Dear Editor, Then Prime Minister of Guyana, Mr LFS Burnham, appointed Pt.

Dear Editor, There are so many topics that should have compelled me to write over the past months, that have either saddened the soul, vexed the spirit or gladdened the heart.

Dear Editor, Not too long ago I attended my child’s school PTA meeting and listened carefully as two hostile parents declared that teachers at the school should not listen to the Ministry but they should “bust in my child’s tail”, in the words of one.

Dear Editor, Over the past two years, the Rupununi Region, especially Lethem (the commercial and admimistrative hub), has slowly been undergoing a social and economic transformation, aimed at developing Lethem into one of Guyana’s major border towns.

It has only been two weeks since the formation of a new track and field club here and already the potential of the club has influenced overseas-based coach Clifford Wong in playing an active part in the club’s development.

The founder and technical director of the Kokoro Ki Karada (KKK) mind-spirit-body International Organiz-ation of Martial Arts and Massotherapy, Dr.

Players on the ‘Golden Jaguars’ team treated young footballers in Linden with motivational talks last Sunday at a forum organised by the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) at the McKenzie Sports Club ground.