Last Updated on Friday, 7 April 2017, 19:59 by Denis Chabrol by Clifton Ross Jason Mohammed etched his name in cricket history books when he smashed an unbeaten 91 to help the West Indies complete their highest successful chase in ODI cricket after beating Pakistan by four wickets in a thriller played at the Providence National Stadium, Guyana yesterday. In ...

Last Updated on Friday, 7 April 2017, 17:33 by Denis Chabrol In the wake of concerns by the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) that agents of the State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU) swooped down on the Enmore Neighbourhood Development Council and carted off a number of computers, the Ministry of Public Telecommunications said Friday that they foiled an attempt to ...

Last Updated on Friday, 7 April 2017, 17:12 by Denis Chabrol A Guyana Power and Light (GPL) employee was Friday jailed for three years and fined GYD$4.7 million after he pleaded guilty to being in possession of 3 kilogrammes, 143 grammes of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. Quaison Murray, 34, was convicted by Magistrate Leron Daly, two days after ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 12:21 by Denis Chabrol The fraud charge against city businessman, Mikhail Rodrigues, – the man who sledge hammered a parking meter clamp last month- was Friday freed of a fraud charge. He was accused of  fraudulently converting a Canter truck, GJJ 4976, to his own use two years ago. The case was dismissed ...

Last Updated on Friday, 7 April 2017, 16:47 by Denis Chabrol by Ivan Cairo PARAMARIBO, Suriname; For the second day in a row several thousand disgruntled citizens marched in the streets of the capital Paramaribo Friday calling on the Desi Bouterse-administration to revoke the recent price hike for fuel. Initiated by the 30-year old Maisha Neus some 1500 people held ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 12:24 by Denis Chabrol by Gary Eleazar Majority shareholder and principal owner of Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO), Lawrence Duprey has set his sights on billion dollar local housing market and has asked for evidence to back of the claims of debts owed in Guyana—a request that the Central Bank is currently responding ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 12:25 by Denis Chabrol by Gary Eleazar Relocated from Kingston, to the former Customs House Building on Main Street—now rehabilitated at the tune of GYD$160M—the Bureau of Statistics has been called on to evolve from an institution that merely generates information but in fact provides that information in a more readily accessible manner ...

Last Updated on Friday, 7 April 2017, 16:07 by Denis Chabrol Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo indicated Friday afternoon that government was unlikely to roll back the 14 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on private schools this year, but held out hope that action would be taken in 2018. “The 14 percent VAT will be reviewed. I say this- the 14 percent ...