Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 April 2018, 18:58 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Tuesday ruled out granting an amnesty to Guyana Stores Limited (GSL) and has since asked that company to submit all outstanding tax returns and sign a deal to settle a GY$3.8 billion dollar tax debt after losing a recent appeal at the Caribbean ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 April 2018, 18:29 by Denis Chabrol A vessel, linked to at least one government official, has been held by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) with more than 200,000 gallons of smuggled fuel and would  be released after GY$36 million in taxes have been paid, Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Godfrey Statia said Tuesday. ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 April 2018, 18:10 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is preparing to audit ExxonMobil’s operations, even as it prepares to staff a special Oil and Gas Unit with as much as 100 persons by 2020 when the country is expected to earn at least US$700 million annually from oil production, GRA Commissioner General, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 April 2018, 17:13 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman on Tuesday directed the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) to stop burning gold at its Brickdam-based laboratory, after more than 60 workers of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) recorded high levels of the potentially deadly chemical in their bloodstream. Trotman’s office said ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 April 2018, 22:52 by Denis Chabrol The family members of a Corentyne man are currently stressed over the sudden disappearance of their relative whom they assumed had left for Rosignol Village West Coast Berbice (WCB) on Thursday (April 19, 2018), to conduct business. What has left them more disturbed is that he was last seen ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 1 February 2020, 22:00 by Writer As Oldendorff Carriers, which transships bauxite from RUSAL’s mines in the Upper Berbice River,  prepares to close operations in Guyana in early June if the United States (US) does not soften its sanctions on Russia, the union is preparing to seek compensation for an estimated 200 workers who could be ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 April 2018, 15:59 by Denis Chabrol Former Attorney General, Anil Nandlall on Monday slammed a decision by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Hack to discontinue private criminal charges of misconduct in public office against Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence and former Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton because no complaint was ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 April 2018, 13:19 by Denis Chabrol Private criminal charges of misconduct in public office against Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence and former Minister of Public Health, George Norton have been discontinued by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Hack. The DPP’s Chambers said the allegations should have been first reported to the Guyana ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 April 2018, 16:01 by Denis Chabrol Three government ministers were Monday charged with misconduct in public office in connection with the alleged use of public funds for the construction of D’urban/Jubilee Park in 2016 without public procurement, based on evidence sworn by People’s Progressive Party (PPP) parliamentarian, Juan Edghill. Chief Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan issued ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 April 2018, 14:36 by Denis Chabrol The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Sunday dragged the Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Hack to the centre of an apparent tit-for-tat criminal charges against two serving government ministers, one former minister and a former senior government privatisation official. “Whatever actions the DPP takes, the PPP expects it ...