Finance Minister, Winston Jordan says the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) will only withhold earnings from persons’ bank accounts to pay income taxes owed if the court grants an order. Acknowledging that no details about the plan were provided in his budget speech, he explained that the provisions of the Value Added Tax (VAT) Act would be extended to the Income ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 December 2016, 11:44 by Derwayne Wills Opposition MP Pauline Sukhai is calling for the David Granger administration to clearly show how much money has been budgeted for youth development in 2017. “After deceiving youths into believing they were the focal point of the elections campaign,” Sukhai told the National Assembly during her budget presentation this ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 December 2016, 11:30 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Education Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine on Thursday denied that he ever benefitted personally from cash or other donations that had passed through a company that had been established to develop D’urban Park for Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary. “In over forty years of political activism, striving to achieve a ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 December 2016, 7:01 by Derwayne Wills Guyana’s rice is no longer purchased by the Venezuelan government, but private buyers in Guyana’s spanish-speaking neighbour have purchased thousands of tonnes of rice directly from Guyanese millers. Agriculture Minister Noel Holder confirmed this yesterday to Demerara Waves Online. “It is not government to government but private to private,” ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 December 2016, 20:22 by Derwayne Wills Minister in the Natural Resources Ministry, Simona Broomes is confident budget 2017 will benefit the mining sector, but the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association as well as the Guyana Women Miners Organisation feel differently. A number of groups have come out in opposition of the proposed 2017 budget ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 December 2016, 18:37 by Denis Chabrol Plans are moving apace to begin mapping Guyana for 40 minerals and conduct a detailed on-the-ground assessment and inventory at all mining districts, Junior Minister of Natural Resources Simona Broomes said Wednesday. She announced that GYD$2 billion have been set aside in the 2017 National Budget to begin the ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 December 2016, 18:07 by Denis Chabrol Government will be accommodating women working in the mining districts in hotels instead of the shanty structures known as ‘kaimoos’, Junior Minister of Natural Resources Simona Broomes announced on Wednesday. “The word ‘kaimoo’ will be a word of the past. We inherited a government who had women in kaimoo. ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 December 2016, 16:53 by Denis Chabrol Guyanese fire fighters in Lethem on Wednesday went into action in northern Brazil, extinguishing a blaze and preventing it from spreading to neighbouring buildings. “The auxiliary in Lethem received a call for help from the Bon Fim area because there is no fire service there,” Fire Chief, Marlon Gentle ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 December 2016, 16:23 by Denis Chabrol Value Added Tax (VAT) on Internet data will be used to help fund the Guyana government’s Information Communication Technology (ICT), Public Telecommunications Minister Cathy Hughes said Wednesday. “The CAT on data has also received harsh criticisms but I want to remind us all that it is a necessary revenue ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 December 2016, 15:36 by Derwayne Wills The Media and members of the public were turned away from City Hall today by City Police who were given orders handed down by a majority of city councillors. It was Councillor Oscar Clarke who moved a motion, during today’s extraordinary statutory meeting of the council, that the session ...