NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s capital city has banned the world’s largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev, from selling its products in the key New Delhi market for 3 years for allegedly evading local taxes, government orders seen by Reuters showed.
(Jamaica Observer) Paul Burke, the outspoken former general secretary of the People’s National Party (PNP), has reacted with disbelief at the decision of his wife, Dr Angela Brown Burke, to endorse Peter Bunting over Dr Peter Phillips in the Opposition party’s presidential race.
(Trinidad Newsday) A Businessman told a High Court judge yesterday how he had to sell off his business and migrate because of a robbery in which his family was terrorised.
The country’s first drug treatment court, aimed at providing alternative sentencing and reducing the rate of incarceration for non-violent drug offenders, is expected to be established before the end of the year.
Retired Justice of Appeal Claudette Singh was sworn in as the first female chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday and signalled that the constitution would be her guide.
A father of six was shot and killed early yesterday morning during a scuffle at a city bar and the police force has since issued a wanted bulletin for the suspect, who has been identified as an ex-policeman.
The final draft of the Local Content Policy for Guyana’s oil and gas sector has been completed and is expected to be presented to the private sector and other relevant stakeholders in two weeks, head of the Department of Energy Dr Mark Bynoe said yesterday.
Over the last week, the national house-to-house registration exercise that is being undertaken by the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) has been able to register over 50,000 persons but challenges still plague the process, according to Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield.
Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams has filed an application challenging the action brought by chartered accountant and attorney Christopher Ram, who has asked the High Court to declare the current house-to-house registration exercise being conducted by the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) to be unlawful.
Government will go to tender either during the current quarter or the next for “a fee-based marketing service” to market its share of crude oil from expected oil production, according to Department of Energy Director Dr Mark Bynoe.
A grouping comprising virtually all the major Indigenous Peoples organisations in Guyana has been formed, and it aims to be a common platform for representation of the issues and rights of Amerindians.
Claiming a likelihood of bias, Senior Counsel Stanley Marcus on behalf of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has asked that Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire recuse herself from hearing the challenge filed by chartered accountant Christopher Ram to the current house-to-house registration.
The Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP) has flayed commentator Ralph Ramkarran for his column in the last Sunday Stabroek where he criticised President David Granger over his handling of nominees for the chairmanship of GECOM and for not accepting that he must fix a date for general election since article 106(6) and (7) of the constitution have been activated.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Tom Barrack, a billionaire friend of U.S. President Donald Trump, pursued a plan to buy Westinghouse Electric Corp even as he lobbied Trump to become a special envoy to promote the building by the firm of nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia, said a congressional report released yesterday.
ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Paraguay’s foreign minister and three other officials resigned yesteday amid a growing scandal over the signing of an energy deal with Brazil, a blow to President Mario Abdo who has forged close ties with Brazil, South America’s No.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is the “last hope” for Africa’s most advanced economy, but his government must turn incentive policies into laws to secure more Chinese investment, a senior Chinese diplomat told Reuters.