Businessman Roshan Khan, on Tuesday (February 28) spearheaded a picketing exercise, in protest of the new Value Added Tax (VAT) regime imposed recently, by the coalition A Partnership for National Unity, Alliance for Change (APNU-AFC) Government, outside of the Guyana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) Camp Street Headquarters and called on the administration to immediately revert to the status quo that had ...

Guyana’s two major parties are seeking to install someone of their choice Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) ahead of “historic” general elections in 2020, outgoing Chairman of the country’s elections management authority, Dr. Steve Surujbally said Tuesday. Surujbally, who had since August 2016 told President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo that he was preparing to leave the ...

Outgoing Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Dr. Steve Surujbally on Tuesday believed that future Chairpersons should be a judge or eligible to be judge because the Constitution appears to be prefer such a legal luminary. “The issue for me, the crucial words for me would be fit and proper. If you can get fit and proper together with judge ...

(The Daily Mail).-The U.S. Coast Guard seized 4.2 tons of cocaine in the largest maritime bust of the drug in the Atlantic for nearly 20 years. Four unnamed Guyanese were arrested aboard the fishing vessel, Lady Michelle, and taken to the United States Virgin Islands. Authorities seized the drugs from a boat off South America’s northeastern coast, the U.S. Coast ...

UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday appointed a Norwegian diplomat who dealt with the Colombian peace process to try to settle the longstanding border controversy between Venezuela and Guyana by the end of the year, the Associated Press reported. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric announced the appointment of Dag Halvor Nylander as Guterres’ personal representative “with a strengthened mandate ...

President David Granger may soon name a new Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). Major developments have emerged in less than 24 hours that the seven-member elections management body could in the near future have a new Chairman. Outgoing Chairman, Dr. Steve Surujbally will hold a farewell news conference Tuesday morning. Although he had resigned with effect November 30, ...

…Minister promises full liberalization by May by Gary Eleazar   Minister with responsibility for Telecommunications in Guyana, Catherine Hughes, promises that the sector will be fully liberalized by the end of May, complete with the accompanying regulations and the establishment of the Telecommunications Agency. Hughes was at the time responding to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Telephone and ...

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday accused the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)- the single largest party in the governing coalition- of sticking with the controversial parking meter deal to fund its operations. “This is a corrupt deal and it leads all the way to Congress Place. This has very little to do with the City Council officials; it has ...

General Secretary of the Opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday refused to say whether he would be interested in running again as his party’s presidential candidate, but he identified several qualities the candidate should possess. “I don’t have to give yes or no answers. I just told you what is preoccupying my mind now. Whether that time ...

by Gary Eleazar The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) Monday (February 27, 2017) rolled out its fixed Long Term Evolution (LTE) ‘lightening fast’  internet service on the Essequibo Coast—four months ahead of schedule—with a promise to revolutionize the way business is conducted between Charity and Supenaam. GTT’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Justin Nedd, in launching the high speed internet access ...