2018 National Budget “disastrous”; tax amnesty smacks of a deal- Jagdeo
Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo flanked by People's Progressive Party parliamentarians Juan Edghill and Gail Teixeira Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo Monday...
Tax return amnesty for companies, individuals; small businesses to get provisional licences
Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Godfrey Statia. In background is Finance Minister, Winston Jordan. Companies and individuals...
VAT on education scrapped; tributors tax on miners slashed by 50 percent
FLASH BACK: Parents, teachers and students of several private schools picketing the Ministry of Education. The 14 percent Value Added...
Teachers in outlying areas to get increased incentive
Finance Minister, Winston Jordan delivering a National Budget speech Teachers working in far-flung areas of Guyana will get an 80...
GRA targeting more fuel smuggling locations
Stamped Alochol from the Launch of the Excise Stamp Programme The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) will next year be establishing...
Countrywide ‘rates and taxes’ may increase next year
Finance Minister, Winston Jordan on Monday signaled that rates and taxes in towns and villages countrywide will possibly increase next...
Guyana’s sugar production slumps again
Aerial view of the Skeldon Sugar Factory. Sugar production by the ailing state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation is expected to further...
Suspected cocaine-trafficking semi-submersible seized; Guyanese, Venezuelan arrested
Guyanese authorities seized a semi-submersible vessel believed to be used in the smuggling of large quantities of South American cocaine...
GPL blamed for fire at La Jalousie house that left several homeless
Five persons, including several children, were Sunday morning left homeless after a fire widely believed to be of electrical origin...
Canadian dies in Rupununi accident
The pickup in which the Canadian man died after the vehicle plunged overboard and landed in a waterway about 30...
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