-majority of equipment not in use up to last September
A special investigation by the Office of the Auditor General of GECOM’s purchase of 50 radio sets for the 2015 general elections has revealed procurement breaches among a host of other problems and a recommendation was made for the police to be called in for an in-depth probe and criminal charges if necessary.
Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said that ranks from the Guyana Police Force would have to bear some of the blame for the disappearance of a quantity of cocaine from Police Headquarters, Eve Leary on Tuesday.
Two Ministry of Public Security data entry clerks and a Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) employee were yesterday among four persons charged over a forged tint permit.
Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Godfrey Statia yesterday lamented the failure by local businesses to remit deducted taxes on time, saying that their non-compliance results in needless penalties.
Local businesses are continuing to band together in solidarity to donate millions in relief supplies to those islands affected by hurricanes in the past weeks.
Lloyd Lyte, the former policeman who was charged with the attempted murder of a man who was shot last November, was yesterday committed to stand trial for the crime.
A former employee is being treated as a suspect in the death of the Brazilian dredge operator who was shot dead at his Akaiwanna, Cuyuni mining camp, which was attacked by a gang.
A Linden man is being accused of forging the signature of the Com-missioner of Police on a letter for a firearm licence that he needed to uplift an air gun he bought online.
At a community meeting at Tipperary Hall, Buxton, East Coast Demerara, on Sunday, Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) announced that it will be installing 3,000 meters in Buxton and neighbouring communities from October, which will significantly help to reduce customers’ service charges.
V G Siddhartha, the owner of Vaitarna Holdings Private Inc (VPHI), which controls local forest concessions amounting to 737,814 hectares, is currently facing a tax evasion investigation in India.
Jermaine Flavius, who was reportedly injured by a prison warden last year after he allegedly refused to have a body cavity search conducted on him, found himself in hot water once more yesterday when he refused to be searched by police at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
A video editor attached to the Evening News is hoping to be compensated by the Demerara Harbour Bridge Company (DHBC) for damage caused to his motorcycle during Tuesday’s collapse of the connecting posts on the bridge.
The Ministry of Communities as part of its Green Generation of Guyana (3G) initiative, on Monday distributed seventy-four waste receptacles to North West Secondary and Hosororo, Mabaruma Baramita Primary schools.
Janelle Walters, a vendor, and Oswald Brummell, a tattoo artist, on Monday received a lucky break after the man they were charged with wounding in an attack opted to drop his complaint against them.
A teenage miner of Yarakita Village, in the North West District, was yesterday sentenced to six months in jail for breaking into a fellow villager’s shop and stealing almost $200,000 in goods.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, (Reuters) – The Pentagon appointed a senior general to oversee military relief operations in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, even as President Donald Trump’s administration faced calls from lawmakers for a far more robust response to the disaster.
UNITED NATIONS/ YANGON, (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley yesterday called on countries to suspend providing weapons to Myanmar over violence against Rohingya Muslims until the military puts sufficient accountability measures in place.
KARANGASEM, Indonesia, (Reuters) – Nearly 135,000 people on the Indonesian island of Bali have left their homes and taken shelter in makeshift evacuation centres after warnings the Mount Agung volcano could erupt at any time, officials said late yesterday.