Last Updated on Thursday, 9 February 2017, 17:56 by Denis Chabrol The New Building Society (NBS) is challenging the legality of the parking meter bylaws that have been approved by Minister of Communities (Local Government), Ronald Bulkan. NBS’ Chief Executive Officer, Anil Kishun said in an affidavit in support of motion that the parking meters has badly affected his financial ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 9 February 2017, 15:18 by Denis Chabrol Region 9 Regional Executive Officer, Carl Parker, was today granted $200,000 bail, when he was presented before city magistrate Judy Latchman to answer to a charge of sexual assault against one of the region’s elected representatives. The matter was held out of the view of the public, in keeping ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 9 February 2017, 6:45 by Denis Chabrol The People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP) Anil Nandlall says Attorney General Basil Williams did not provide his interpretation of the Constitution on who is eligible to be appointed  Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, but Williams says he needs time to study the case laws presented to him before the two ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 20:16 by Denis Chabrol Parking meter fees are to be reduced in the coming days, but authorities are not about to give into calls for the contract between Smart City Solutions (SCS) and the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to be scrapped. Local Government Minister, Ronald Bulkan told Demerara Waves Online News that City ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 16:09 by Denis Chabrol Legal action is being planned  against the parking meters by several persons and groups to scrap the deal between City Hall and Smart City Solutions (SCS), even if government intervenes and lowers the rate, according to representatives of the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM). Attorney-at-Law, Nadia Sagar, who is ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 12:56 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has cleared the way for a number of hinterland airstrips to be exempted from applying the 14 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT). Domestic carriers can now apply to the GRA to effect the exemption for persons living in the identified areas. Commissioner General ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 12:58 by Denis Chabrol Before city magistrate Judy Latchman this morning, wheelchair-bound murder accused, Shelton George, aged 22, was remanded to prison for murder, and attempted murder in two separate matters. On the first matter, George is accused of murdering restaurant cashier, Debra Blackman, aged 48, of Tucville during a robbery at the ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 7:43 by Derwayne Wills A transgender woman, Ronnel Trotman known as Petronella, was yesterday granted entry in the courtroom of city magistrate Dylon Bess, when she presented herself in ‘unisex’ clothing as requested by that magistrate who refused to hear her matter late January as she was dressed in female attire. Petronella was ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 February 2017, 22:23 by Denis Chabrol I immerse myself from a distance in the existentialist environment called Guyana, and I shudder.  As I listen, observe, exchange, and absorb more shuddering comes.  And what follows is sure to introduce even more cringing, especially among the self-congratulating, the self-satisfied, and the self-indulgent. For its entire post-colonial life, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 February 2017, 20:38 by Denis Chabrol Former civil society activist, Phillip Mozart H. Thomas, is wanted by Guyanese police for alleged fraud. Police said he is wanted for questioning in relation to fraud which he allegedly committed between February 4, 2016 and May 20, 2016. Investigators want anyone with information that may lead to his ...