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by Gary Eleazar Investors looking to lease lands for the establishment of industrial sites, agricultural or other domestic purposes will soon have to pay an increased rental fee, as Government is looking to go ahead with a land re-evaluation exercise. This disclosure was made by Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, when he appeared on Wednesday, before the Standing Parliamentary Select ...

The Shipping Association of Guyana (SAG) on Wednesday moved to the High Court to quash a decision by City Hall’s administration to charge GYD$25,000 for the movement of laden shipping containers to and from wharves. In the name of its Secretary, Ian D’Anjou, SAG also wants the High Court to find that efforts to charge a container tax on shipping ...

The two main phone companies say they are now awaiting government’s next move to end the telephone monopoly, with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) saying it wants its contract with the Guyana government honoured. Chief Executive Officer of Digicel (Guyana) Limited, Kevin Kelly said in a brief comment that the passage of the Telecommunications Bill by the National Assembly is the ...

Guyana and other countries that have enacted laws to sentence convicted terrorists to death should take steps to repeal them and also abolish the death penalty altogether, top international advocates against the death penalty said Wednesday. Commissioner with the International Commission against the Death Penalty, Justice Navi Pillay told a news conference ahead of a judicial colloquium with Guyanese judges ...

by Gary Eleazar Social Workers across the country will on Wednesday converge at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre, to formulate a ‘road-map’ on the way forward on the industry’s Standards and Professional Practices. The initiative is spearheaded, in part, by the Ministry of Social Protection and is being done in collaboration with the University of Guyana , the Guyana Association ...

Less than one week after a City Magistrate threw out several charges against businesspersons for failure to pay a GYD$25,000 shipping container tax,  City Hall on Tuesday blocked shipping containers from leaving city wharves unless they pay the same amount of  money to use the roads. Assistant Town Clerk, Sherry Jerrick told reporters outside Muneshwer’s Wharf that the Mayor and ...

Six months after a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) intelligence officer was killed while on a high-speed chase on behalf of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan said the long-awaited protocol for the anti-financial crimes unit has been added to the rules of the Guyana Police Force. Ramjattan told Demerara Waves Online News said the SOCU ...

The International Women Police Association will be awarding a member of the Guyana Police Force for her outstanding work among women and the social crime prevention programme. Senior Superintendent, Maxine Graham will be receiving the award during the International Women Police Conference to be held from October 9 to 13 in Barcelona, Spain.  Twenty  Guyanese policewomen would also be participating ...

Junior Finance Minister, Jaipaul Sharma on Tuesday said government would soon increase the ceiling for contracts for which Cabinet must offer its no-objection if agreement could not be reached on establishing the more transparent Public Procurement Commission. “The law stipulates that Cabinet’s role should be phased out and by government increasing the limit is an indication that we are going ...

by Gary Eleazar Guyana will for the first time in its 50-year history as an independent nation operate with a fully liberalised telecommunications sector, with Monday’s parliamentary passage of a modern telecoms law. “This legislation will allow other companies to ensure the local market offer a variety of services and benefits…including more mobile rates, land lines and a host of ...